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Post by ganews on Mar 17, 2023 10:57:37 GMT -5
It's that special time of year again!
For the annual April Fools edition of Record Club you are invited to nominate a stinker, but it has to be a record you legitimately enjoy. (This is to avoid a repeat of the Len disaster.) You are also expected to show up in the final review thread and defend your selection. "Why are you doing this to us?" we will cry out. And you will answer.
Of course, you don't want to nominate something too awful, otherwise no one will vote for it. Aim for a record that may or may not have been popular but at least made enough of a splash to face a fair bit of derision today. You should probably provide some evidence that this album is rather a joke these days, unless it's completely obvious. Past April Fools selections include such luminaries as Korn, Spin Doctors, Spice Girls, and more. Maybe you will win someone over to the dark side?
You get two selections. The poll goes up around the 26th.
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Post by ganews on Mar 17, 2023 11:05:32 GMT -5
Okay, I recently heard the Duran Duran cover of "White Lines". Which led me to this nomination: Duran Duran, "Thank You" (1995). A covers album? By the 90s version of Duran Duran?
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 17, 2023 11:42:36 GMT -5
Comus - First Utterance ( 1971) Pagan psych-folk with vocals and lyrics that, from experience, drive people mad. But I love it. |
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Mar 17, 2023 13:20:46 GMT -5
I’m going to nominate Bananarama again, but this time their 1991 acid house-inflected, quasi-Madonna-aping Pop Life because I unexplainably heard “Only your love” in a coffee shop that normally plays the likes of Röyskopp
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 17, 2023 14:18:55 GMT -5
Okay, I recently heard the Duran Duran cover of "White Lines". Which led me to this nomination: Duran Duran, "Thank You" (1995). A covers album? By the 90s version of Duran Duran? You monster. Not only do they cover "White Lines" but also "911 Is a Joke" on that one. |
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Post by ganews on Mar 17, 2023 15:14:47 GMT -5
Okay, I recently heard the Duran Duran cover of "White Lines". Which led me to this nomination: Duran Duran, "Thank You" (1995). A covers album? By the 90s version of Duran Duran? You monster. Not only do they cover "White Lines" but also "911 Is a Joke" on that one. Yeah. This isn't a close-to-heart beloved April Fools nomination for me like Spin Doctors, but I put this one on and was interested enough. |
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Post by Prole Hole on Mar 21, 2023 12:33:04 GMT -5
Ah fuck it, Chumbawamba, Tubthumper. God that record suuuucks, yet there are a few legitimately great moments.
Did I nominate REM's Around the Sun before? Too lazy to check, but anyway, that.
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Post by pantsgoblin on Mar 21, 2023 13:17:00 GMT -5
Ah fuck it, Chumbawamba, Tubthumper. God that record suuuucks, yet there are a few legitimately great moments. Did I nominate REM's Around the Sun before? Too lazy to check, but anyway, that. Well, you've at least provided the mental soundtrack for its performance in the poll. Thanks for that, asshole. |
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Post by LazBro on Mar 21, 2023 14:07:08 GMT -5
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
I won't even pretend I can recommend the thing front to back, but I have heard it more than 10 times, and there are some legitimate bangers on there.
Metallica - Death Magnetic
I won't even pretend I can recommend the thing front to back, but I have heard it more than 10 times, and there are some legitimate bangers on there.
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Post by ganews on Mar 21, 2023 15:39:30 GMT -5
Because I can't just nominate UB40 every year, I decided to peruse some worst-of lists. And one of the consistent entries is OutKast, "Idlewild" ? ? ? Sure, I only listened to it once when it was new and never actually watched the movie, but "worst OutKast album" is still an incredibly high bar and this isn't fair. So that's my second nomination.
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Post by monodrone on Mar 21, 2023 16:19:20 GMT -5
If there's a less well respected genre than nu metal in our culture it's 1990s ska punk so in that spirit I'm putting forward one of my all time favourites for you all to talk about derisively while I tell you all why it rules:
Less Than Jake - Hello Rockview (1998)
My second nomination was in the poll last year on One Hit Wonders but it's almost certainly better off here:
The Darkness - Permission To Land (2003)
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 22, 2023 9:24:13 GMT -5
Guns N' Roses - Chinese DemocracyI won't even pretend I can recommend the thing front to back, but I have heard it more than 10 times, and there are some legitimate bangers on there. Metallica - Death MagneticI won't even pretend I can recommend the thing front to back, but I have heard it more than 10 times, and there are some legitimate bangers on there. You should have nominated St. Anger, coward. |
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Post by Roy Batty's Pet Dove on Mar 22, 2023 9:55:40 GMT -5
Black Sabbath - Never Say Die! (1978)
The last two Sabbath albums before Dio replaces Ozzy are usually derided. I think their previous album Technical Ecstasy sucks, but this one is pretty good, IMO.
Bob Dylan - Shot of Love (1981)
Definitely not a universally panned album, but still a divisive one, the last of Dylan’s “Christian trilogy”. I think there are a couple of genuinely brilliant songs on here despite not being religious myself. He also has a song about how Lenny Bruce has died, bafflingly written well over a decade after Lenny Bruce’s death. You can really feel Dylan scrambling to shoehorn in religious subject matter. It’s almost aggressively shitty in how low effort it is, but it’s a fascinating aggressive shiftiness in a way only Bob Dylan is capable of. Honestly, kind of obsessed with that song.
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Post by Prole Hole on Mar 22, 2023 10:50:45 GMT -5
Ah fuck it, Chumbawamba, Tubthumper. God that record suuuucks, yet there are a few legitimately great moments. Did I nominate REM's Around the Sun before? Too lazy to check, but anyway, that. Well, you've at least provided the mental soundtrack for its performance in the poll. Thanks for that, asshole. My pleasure! |
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Post by King Charles’s Butterfly on Mar 22, 2023 14:34:22 GMT -5
Bob Dylan - Shot of Love (1981) Definitely not a universally panned album, but still a divisive one, the last of Dylan’s “Christian trilogy”. I think there are a couple of genuinely brilliant songs on here despite not being religious myself. He also has a song about how Lenny Bruce has died, bafflingly written well over a decade after Lenny Bruce’s death. You can really feel Dylan scrambling to shoehorn in religious subject matter. It’s almost aggressively shitty in how low effort it is, but it’s a fascinating aggressive shiftiness in a way only Bob Dylan is capable of. Honestly, kind of obsessed with that song.
I actually saw Tim Heidecker do a routine on this (complete with singing at the piano) and it was great
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Post by Nudeviking on Mar 23, 2023 3:47:03 GMT -5
Guess I'll nominate Dave Bowie/Tin Machine's 1989 album Tin Machine. Everyone hates it. I think it's pretty good and probably would have been better received by the Critic Class had it come out in the post-Nirvana Nevermind angry guitar pop afterglow then it was coming out two years before that record.
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Post by Prole Hole on Mar 23, 2023 4:08:34 GMT -5
Guess I'll nominate Dave Bowie/Tin Machine's 1989 album Tin Machine. Everyone hates it. I think it's pretty good and probably would have been better received by the Critic Class had it come out in the post-Nirvana Nevermind angry guitar pop afterglow then it was coming out two years before that record. As you know, not everyone hates it - I agree! |
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