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What Shall We Do?
Hailing from Kansas the Concrete Rubber Band produced just one original album – but what a record it is: Risen Savior is- by far - the best badly produced and performed psychedelic gospel record you...
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Bye Bye Batman
Unlike a number of my friends I’ve never really been a fan of comics (apart from The Beano), superheroes and the like. I’ve never been a Doctor Who fan either, but I’ve always thought of Jon Pertwee as...
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By Request: Gleneil
It was way back in January 2008 when I first featured Gleneil Roseman on this blog; as all of the old links are dead – and as one reader has asked for a re-up – I thought now would be an appropriate...
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The Singing Psychic
Born on March 2 1944, the daughter of Frances and William C. Swift, Frances Swift, a.k.a. Frances Tanner (otherwise known as Frances Baskerville or Frances Cannon) is notorious among bad music...
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Won't Somebody Think of the Children?
There are a multitude of reasons for this week’s post. Partly it has been inspired by Pride taking place in both London and Bristol this weekend, and partly it has come out of a number of interviews I...
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No Business
A couple of days late... but here we go!I can’t believe that it has taken me almost a decade of writing about rubbish to finally get around to blogging about TheEthel Merman Disco Album.The veteran...
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Steamed or Creamed?
With their roots in the early 60s folk scene, and best known for their sunshine pop hits Windy,Cherish, Never My Love and Along Comes Mary, The Association are beloved by fans for their close...
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Never Mind This Bollocks
A stopgap of sorts, as the disc I had intended to bring you today has yet to arrive on the mail. Here’s 60’s pop icon Paul Jones, the former vocalist with Manfred Mann, performing a pair of punk hits,...
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I 'Ave My Rights!
This is probably the most jaw-droppingly disturbing record I have ever presented at the World’s Worst Records, so those of a nervous disposition may wish to leave now. I originally discovered this...
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Rocbuafro and Roll
Often written about in revered tones, and just as often compared to the atonal outsider music of Jerry Solomon, New York-based Jerry Rayson’s Taking Over (more popularly known as The Weird Thing In...
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Sing It Again, Sue!
There can be no doubt that whichever anonymous person (or people) put together the post-mortem compilation Songs By Sue did it out of love. There can also be no doubt that they were less that au fait...
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The Sound of Muzak
Although I have a had a copy (well, an MP3 rip) for a number of years now I had always assumed that Beatle Songs by Joah Valley was a send up. Apparently not.Issued in 1980, this album – which features...
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A Shameless Plug (and some awful music)
A bit of a two-pronged post this week: obviously it will end with some truly rotten music, but I have an ulterior motive for the theme.My new book, David Bowie Made Me Gay: 100 Years of LGBT Music,...
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Leave It!
There have been plenty of naff TV spin-off singles, and although Don’t Cha Cry by Jerry ‘Beaver’ Mathers is hardy among the absolute worst, methinks it is still worthy of inclusion here.Released in...
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The Trials of Hercules
I’ve just spent a couple of days in the wonderful city of Edinburgh, ostensibly promoting the new book, but also taking advantage of the city’s numerous charity shops for a spot of obscure record...
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It Took Two
Seriously. Footballers cannot sing. We’ve proved the point on numerous occasions in the past but here is yet more irrefutable evidence that no footballer should ever be let loose in a recording...
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Burt's a Singer
Burt Reynolds: 70s sex god, all-round macho man and seemingly, aware of his shortcomings. ‘I was an asshole,’ he once told the Mirror’s Rod McPhee. ‘I made some stupid mistakes and I haven’t been the...
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Now She's in Purple, Now She's a Turtle
Now, as you know, I seldom post novelty records here but the story behind this one is just too good to ignore. Here’s Crazy Little Men by the world’s best-known trans woman, Christine Jorgensen.Born in...
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Acid Raine
Now this is an unusual post: I don’t think I’ve ever blogged about a record that I didn’t have before, or at least didn’t have access to a copy of. But I need your help, so here goes.I had no idea of...
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I Lost 200lb Instantly!
This is one of those albums that regularly turns up in worst records lists, but I’ll bet very few of you out there have ever actually heard it. Well you’re in luck, for here’s the whole album, just for...
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