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Welcome to the utterly deluded world of Melvin G Fromm Jr, the singer-songwriter who, for the last 15 years or so, has quietly been beavering away at the coalface of country-lounge music. Hailing from...
View ArticleCursing Matilda
Recommended to me by WWR follower Graham Clayton, today’s disc, the peculiarly-named Shadow Valley and Iron Triangles, is three minutes of turgid Australian jingoistic nonsense masquerading as a call...
View ArticleDante's Dragons
Today’s post was inspired, once again, by WWR follower Graham Clayton who, by bringing one of these discs to my attention, reminded me that I had not posted the other. The first disc, one I had never...
View ArticleCalypso to Collapso
Today’s bad record (well, bad download) appears here by request. The fact that the track – UKIP Calypso by The Independents - has now been ‘withdrawn’ and so (in theory) will soon become harder to find...
View ArticleCrud From the Heart
Every once in a while I come across a record so diabolically awful that It makes me consider the possibility that I may have finally come to the end of my quest: that I have finally found the World’s...
View ArticleDolly Wow!
Here’s a fine example of how the world – even the part of the world we cherish for our children – has been ‘dumbed down’ over the years.Pedigree Dolls & Toys created Sindy in 1963. A rival to...
View ArticleOh Mother!
I've featured several Spanish acts here previously - including Los Punk Rockers, the pseudo-punk group who covered the entire Sex Pistols album Never Mind the Bollocks note for note, and the...
View ArticleWacko Jacko
Welcome to the final ‘proper’ WWR post of 2014: next week we will commence our annual Christmas Cavalcade (and I’ve got some real horrors lined up for you) but for now we’re going to visit the career...
View ArticleChristmas Cavalcade 2014 (Part One)
Ho! Ho! Ho! It’s December which, of course, means it’s time for things to get a little Christmassy here at the World’s Worst Records. Today I bring you a trio of terrible tracks: as In previous years...
View Article(Non) Christmas Greetings from Canada
It’s never happened before but I guess it was inevitable that, one day, someone would approach me and ask for their record to be included on The World’s Worst Records blog.Such an occurrence took place...
View ArticleMetal Knight
For the last three years Christopher Lee – yes, that Christopher Lee – has been issuing an annual, heavy metal Christmas single. His latest – Darkest Carols, Faithful Sing(a death metal take on Hark,...
View ArticleChristmas Cavalcade 2014 (Part Three)
There’s less than a week to go to the big day and, as we’re speeding towards Christmas, I thought I’d better give you a few more nativity nasties to listen to.The first track today continues the...
View ArticleApologies
Happy New Year everybody! Welcome to 2015, and to the ninth year of the World’s Worst Records. My, doesn’t time fly when you’re having fun?To kick off this year I bring you Apology at Bedtime - the...
View ArticleSpace (I Believe in)
It’s another Friday, which naturally means more bad music, although I think some of you will actually enjoy today’s choice – an album with a sweet, ethereal charm of its own.Like the debut albums from...
View ArticleA Load of Old Cox
The avant-garde is, at best, a peculiar beast.Today’s selection comes courtesy of WWR regular Ross Hamilton, who found this virtually unlistenable nonsense hidden away as an extra track on the third...
View ArticleStar Crust
Stephen F Singer established the song-poem label Star-Crest in the late 50s. Stephen was the son of Mortimer Singer, who founded the Nordyke song-poem factory in 1943. Laughingly referred to as...
View ArticleI've Got The Power
Today we’re revisiting the career of one of the perpetrators of one of the earliest posts on this blog, actor Tony Randall.Way back in September 2007 I featured The Odd Couple Sing, the dismal tie-in...
View ArticleThe Almost Complete Jimmy Cross
***update: better versions of Hey Little Girl (Do You Want to Get Married) and Super Duper Man now uploaded, as well as the missing instrumental Chicken Track. Thanks Ross!***When I started this blog...
View ArticleMargaret Raven
A short post today - sorry. I had written something much longer only to discover, as I checked through my previous posts, that I had already featured that particular track. Well, 301 posts down the...
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