Maybe mine is Dominus' "View to the dim". I found it at a library sale for 10 Kroner (approx. $1.33) and heard that it should be great viking death/black shit, but when I turned it on it was more or less instantly fastforwarding. It was pretty horrible! The only black I could find in it was their lyrics (which I didn't even bother to read), as their music was braindead death smashing!
Another candidate is Mid Autumn Nights' "And I entitled it a dirge...". I saw it get 8 out of 10 in Metalized, but it pretty much sucked, so that's how much reviews are worth! Okay, after a couple of listens there are a couple of good riffs, but basically it sounds to "demo" in a way. Bad singing, bad playing, mediocre production and just seem so quickly done by people who were like "Hey let's play some dark metal. I used to listen to U2 and Pet Shop Boys, but let's try this!".
That's metal! I mostly buy non-metal records from the 60's & 70's and I've encountered some really, really bad shit;
Jacques Coursil "Black suite" psychedelic french jazz from '69. No structure what so ever. Just crazy blowing in a horn and seems like it's just weird because it's cool to be like that! I paid 60 Kroner (approx. $8) for it, but sold it for 200 Kroner (approx $26.6), so that was alright. I've also bought another copy as I found it for 30 Kroner and plan on selling it for the same amount!
Miles Davis "Bitches brew" (double). I bought it for 150 Kroner (approx. $20), heard it once, said "yeah, that's probably alright" and put it on the shelf for a year. I then started a massive clean-out in my record collection and heard it again. 100% crap I tell you!!!!! Some people consider it a classic, which is fine by me, as long as I don't have to listen to it, as it's one of worst records I've had in my collection. I didn't even have the Jacues Coursil in my collection, I immediatly put it in my "sell" pile after I listened to it. At least I could sell the Miles Davis record for the same amount as I paid for it!
I've also bought terrible crap like;
Big Ben Banjo Band "Happy banjos play the Beatles" (though it might be interesting for a Beatles fan, but I guess I was wrong)
Russ Conway "Party time" (50's/early 60's saloon piano music!)
Papa John Creach "S/T"
"Dansing and singing syrtaki in Greece" (Greek folk music!)
Debarge "Rhythm of the night" (released in 1985. Do I have to say more?)
Dawn "Tie a yellow ribbon"
"Gesänge der Taiga" (Russian chorus music. Has "Kalinka" though. Also has a decent cover, but still crap!)
Bobby Goldsbore "Come back home"
Juliette Greco "Mon fils chante"
"Hammond on the rocks" (bought it for the terrible version of "Greensleeves")
"Hammond at midnight" (bought it for the terrible version of "Greensleeves")
Debbie Jacobs "Undercover lover" (gross disco!)
"Los tres Paraguayos" (folk music from Latin America)
Gabi Lunca "S/T" (Roman shit!)
Mireille Mathieu "Und der wind wird ewig singen" (At a time I had 10 of her records in my collection. It was the time I listened to hip hop and made beats stolen from old records. Her music was superb for this, but it more or less had to be on Barclay, but this was when she had gone to Ariola and had started singing in German!
uke:
Gilbert O' Sullivan "Back to front"
I have more shit that I've bought that weren't good. I usually go into a second hand store, look at a record and say "hey, that looks cool" and buy it for 20 Kroner (approx. $1.50). When I was doing hip hop beats I bought all kinds of weird shit, just to make rip-offs, so when I stopped doing that I had loads of records that was useless. There was some of the records that had some good stuff on it, but all those Greek, Italian & Romanian records were useless. I've also bought loads of records I bought just to hear (which I do now all the time), but it didn't have anything good on it. I've also bought records just to sell them and make a little money off them. I now have 2-300 records I want to sell!
