Worst recording you own?

Pass The Corn Syrup, Sugar

It's just horrible on every level.

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My copy of Earthbound is MINT MINT MINT.  I cannot make it through the record.  

Now an alternative answer might have rightly been Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed.  I cannot tell if the recording was bad or great.  I cannot listen to it.  Rumor has it that the 4th side has no lead out groove so that the cacophony just continues forever.  

Its amazing what drugs can do for the creative process.  This is evidence.  

mmmmm...wondering whether the 2 track was tracking straight even then.

Sounding like there was something in the background as well.

I think the poorest recording I have is of the Space Ritual Tour by Hawkwind, the version was called Bring Me The Head of Yuri Gagarin...peaky peaky peaky

Then again..I also have The Village People.

We even tried to have the record run over by some cars..but no one would run over it!!!!   

I've heard it, Spacey. As bad as you make it sound--I think it's worse.

I have a bootleg Neil Young concert LP called "Young Man's Fancy".
The crowd noise is louder than the music on most of it.
Looking at it now. It says 'recorded live in LA Feb 1, 1971'.
The label is Zerocks Spacematic and at the bottom says 'quality guaranteed'. Produced by Art, live from Stanley Steamer, Big Red and Chandler Pavillion. Neil must have been moving at the speed of light that night, playing in 3 different places.
Owned by someone named Quinn before I bought it.

I had a Greatful Dead LP that's right up there with Earthbound. I can't think of the name right now. I try to remember it.

Rain


Metallica's St.Anger has to be mentioned. 

And while we're at it, their latest effort w/ Lou Reed seems pretty awful judging from the first 30 seconds snippets that came out.



 

You had to mention that disasterous pairing...I'm NOT looking forward to that albums release.

Close call between Eurythmics 'Touch Dance' - (what was I thinking...what were they thinking?) and 'Vapor Trails' by Rush, the worst mastered CD I've heard so far.

Hi,

I suppose that the "worst" recordings would always be any of the bootlegs I used to have and heard ... the quality was bad, but the energy was off the wall and metering ... and way better. In the first 3 years of Led Zeppelin fame, their bootlegs were way better than the albums and you know the albums were good. The energy and the concert flow and work was too good and not to be missed ... Jimmy was always best live, with mistakes included than he was on record in the studio ... that simple!

PF boots were mostly good, because all the material up to the day that DSOTM was released was slightly different or they allowed for some fingering around and having fun. When their shows became mechanical and computerized, they lost the ability to free lance and do more on stage, and while they became a perfect example of the ultimate commercial selldown, in the end, they were not as fun and neat as they were in the earlier days ... you can hear 10 to 12 different versions of "Setting the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" and never get bored, or hear "Green is the Colour" some 10 different times ... and of course, hearing that massive greatest gig in the sky with Syd sermonizing all over it with hundreds of other voices and priests was actually a lot more fun than what was eventually recorded, but it's hard to say that it was not good ... it was also magnificent.

I have too much stuff that is too good on energy and sux in the studio ... and just as much stuff that is excellent in the studio and total **** on the stage to be able to make a call on this thread.

 
The Clash - Cut The Crap
 

 
 
Which is rather ironic, - considering it is, in fact, total and utter crap.

Here's the Greatful Dead album I was talking about: http://www.dead.net/archi...twork/historic-dead-lp I think it was a bootleg that they put to vinyl.

jamesg1213


Close call between Eurythmics 'Touch Dance' - (what was I thinking...what were they thinking?) and 'Vapor Trails' by Rush, the worst mastered CD I've heard so far.

I love-love-love Rush, but you're right.  Vapor Trails is a mess.