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Cry Me A Loser
There is absolutely no excuse for this.Yummy Yummy Yummy by the Ohio Express is one of the most diabolical bubblegum hits ever inflicted on the world – a truly wretched record (although, to be fair,...
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Blather About Bladder
I’m massively indebted to David Noades and WFMU for rediscovering this curio back in 2007, and to eBay and Discogs for helping me land a copy of my own!It’s not often that you get to listen to the...
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Welcome To My Life Tattoo
The diminutive actor best known for his roles as Nick-Nack in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) and as Tattoo in the hit TV series Fantasy Island, Herve Villechaize was born on...
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Dead Letter Office
Welcome to the 345th WWR post - and the last this year before we begin our annual Christmas cavalcade.Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (September 2, 1923) Victor Lundberg was an American radio...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2015 Part One
Ho ho ho! Yes, it’s that time of year again, time to look at some of the worst Christmas-themed records ever released. And what a doozy I have for you today.Released in several countries as the B-side...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2015 Part Two
'On Heavy Metal Christmas my true love gave to me - a tattoo of Ozzy!"There are certain things that should never happen, no matter what time of year it is. Good will to all men? bah! Humbug! I'm...
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Christmas Cavalcade 2015 Part Three
Ho! Ho! Ho! Here’s another trio of terrible tinselly tragedies for you, in the shape of the late actor Dan Blocker, former Iron Maiden vocalist Paul Di’Anno and our old friend ‘little’ Marcy Tigner.Dan...
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Crappy Christmas!
A little something extra for all of you, a huge thank you for following the blog, joining the Facebook group, reading the books and generally making me feel all smushy inside. 20 terrible Christmas...
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Dear God!
A huge, happy and healthy New Year to you all!I love XTC, with a passion bordering on mania. Since the very early 80s I have followed their every move and, after they finally called it a day in 2005, I...
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The short, unhappy life of Rick Grossman
There I was, innocently searching the interwebs for more music by Vinny Roma, when I stumbled across this: Hot Romance, the debut (and only) album from the delightfully coiffured Rick Grossman.Not to...
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Gardening at Knight
Roddy: nasty synth plinkings, typically unpleasant TV variety show backing vocals, orchestra seemingly arranged by a man with a CSE in woodwork, evil disco-lite versions of standards and a lead...
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Pay Your Tax, Man
Taking their name from the 1947 John Steinbeck novel, or more likely the cheesy 1957 Jayne Mansfield/Joan Collins film adaptation of the same, The Wayward Bus was one of several studio projects from...
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More From Mark Fox
I’ve written about Mark Fox and the creepy ‘child’ Lil’ Markie before, but I’ve just found a copy of his third album Little Bits for Children Everywhere and felt compelled to share it with you.This...
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More Marty
We've visited the career of Ellen Marty on several occasions in the past, but adding a new 45 from her to my collection is always something worth celebrating. She has become something of an...
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Just For Fun
This record is like nothing you’ve ever heard before – unless of course you’ve heard it, in which case it is exactly like something you’ve heard before…An absolute classic in the world of bad music,...
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Floral Dunce
2016 hasn’t been a good year so far, has it? Far too many great entertainers have gone, and the world is a much poorer place without them. One of those - the late, great Terry Wogan - left us on...
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Put a 'Wur' After 'W'
I don’t really know what to make of this – it smacks of novelty release, yet I can’t really see the market it was aiming for. What it actually is is a desperate stab at chart success from a singer and...
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Supernatural Perhaps; Baloney, Perhaps Not
Some time in the not-too-distant past, an anonymous record collector stumbled upon what is reported to be the only copy of this tosh. Sharing it around the net, it was (unsurprisingly) picked up,...
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No-so-funky Chicken
We had a couple of friends down last week, always a good excuse to go trawling around Bristol’s many secondhand stores and charity shops in search of vinyl bargains. I picked up a few handfuls of...
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Because he was Nailed There
Poached from fellow blogger Bob Purse, this seemed an appropriate post for Easter weekend, a brace of crucifixion-themed cuts from the Halmark song poem stable.I’ve written about Halmark before, but...
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