Worst Compilation Ever?

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:22 pm

OPTION 1:

Legends of Rock: '70s Classic Rockers
1. 21st Century Schizoid Man - Greg Lake
2. Dust In The Wind - Kansas
3. Sister Golden Hair - America
4. Roundabout - GTR
5. Almost Cut My Hair - David Crosby
6. Romeo's Tune - Steve Forbert
7. Boris The Spider - John Entwistle
8. Gamblin' Woman - Canned Heat
9. Lucky Man - Emerson, Lake & Palmer
10. Honky Tonk Woman - Humble Pie

OPTION 2:

Natural Mike · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:25 pm

That's a very tough call. Buzz Ballads may be worse just due to the greater number of (crappy) songs.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:38 pm

shit, option 2 is pretty fucking horrible.

Elvis Fu · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:40 pm

It does have "Easy" on it, though.

DHRjericho · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:44 pm

At least Buzz has a few good songs.

Senator LooGAR · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 8:57 pm

DHRjericho Wrote:

At least Buzz has a few good songs.

If #1 was on at a party/bar I would have to leave. If #2 was on Iwould alternately rock out / make fun.

#1 in a LANDSLIDE.

pollysix · **Joined:** Tue Oct 26, 2004 2:56 am **Posts:** 5174

Sorry but neither...something an ex once gave me:

And don't go trying me "Oh but the Cardigans did great Sabbath covers". I love the Cardigans... trust me, this is very, very different.

edit: this review--from my hometown no less--puts it into words perfectly:

Quote:

Any brilliant standard is only as strong as its interpretation, and the "standards," if you will, of Ozzy Osbourne can just as easily be covered with aplomb or not. This album's cutesy swing-less take on the great songs of Black Sabbath is an interesting experiment, maybe, but their music sucks, straight up. This is a joke, but no joke is funny for 41 minutes. This album will make you want to puke everywhere. The Lounge Brigade sound like a wedding band that couldn't afford to hire a horn section: Their barely passable, garage surfer rock in argyle with drunken group karaoke vocals is recorded badly. Who wouldn't rather lounge with Ozzy himself? (Josh Dolgin)

The Mayor of Simpleton · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:05 pm

#1 easily is the worst - "Schizoid Man" by Greg Lake and "Roundabout" by GTR says everything you need to know. They couldn't afford the originals so they had the "shadows of" recreate them. It's too bad they couldn't get an Emerson, Lake, & Powell tune instead, then it would have been a real shitfest.

But Buzz Ballads almost wins just by being two discs. Yikes.

DumpJack · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:12 pm

The Mayor of Simpleton Wrote:

But Buzz Ballads almost wins just by being two discs. Yikes.

That was why I threw my vote there. The other one seems horribly funny.

alongwaltz. · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:16 pm

#2 reads like a grade seven mixtape of mine. I could easily put that on at a party and continually have people go "oh man, I forgot about this song."

That said, I'm a decade or so younger than a lot of the people on the board so I'm sure those songs stir up entirely different memories.

As for disc one, I only recognize maybe two or three tracks on there.

Finch Platte · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 9:36 pm

Sen. LooGAR (D - Hip D) Wrote:

DHRjericho Wrote:

At least Buzz has a few good songs.

If #1 was on at a party/bar I would have to leave. If #2 was on Iwould alternately make out / rock fun.

#1 in a LANDSLIDE.

I'm with this guy.

Cotton · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 6:12 pm **Posts:** 17155

all of those sound TERRIBLE.

you'd think there'd be room fro Bread on all three.

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:29 pm

There are at least some crappily good songs on the Buzz comp. I voted for the other one.

HideousLump · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 10:43 pm

They tried to give me advice
Down at the record shop
I said sit down boys
This may come as a shock
What's all I listen to
It's all...

rogneeb · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 1:07 pm **Posts:** 12618

number 1 is way worse - at least i could sing along and make fun of the number 2

thisotherkingdom · **Posted:** Sat Jul 15, 2006 11:31 pm

HideousLump Wrote:

:notes: They tried to give me advice
Down at the record shop
I said sit down boys
This may come as a shock
What's all I listen to
It's all...

When I was like 13 years old at summer camp, I stole this from someone. Disc 1 AND disc 2. :shock:

Radcliffe · **Posted:** Sun Jul 16, 2006 12:24 am

Sen. LooGAR (D - Hip D) Wrote:

#1 in a LANDSLIDE.

(And even though the Stones once considered Steve Marriot as a replacement for Brian Jones - a notion reportedly vetoed by Jagger because he was threatened by Marriot's voice...) Humble Pie's version of "Honky Tonk Woman" is irredeemably godawful.

south pacific · **Posted:** Sun Jul 16, 2006 1:45 am

Option One.

No redeemable songs that I'd ever want to hear ever except for maybe "Dust In The Wind" at like, a funeral or something.

Kit · **Joined:** Mon Oct 25, 2004 2:47 pm **Posts:** 3052

Option 2 has too many songs I like...Toad, Marcy, Oasis....going with #1.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

Wasnt there a truly awful tribute album that was in the "10 worst of all time" things in Q Magazine or something? I cant remember anything about it at the moment, but boy was it awful.

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

ptrck · **Joined:** Wed Oct 27, 2004 10:55 pm **Posts:** 5568

why again?

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:05 am

#2, just for the sheer audacity of making it 2 discs of suck.

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:06 am

#2, just for the sheer audacity of making it 2 discs of suck.

shiv · **Posted:** Mon Jul 17, 2006 12:06 am

#2, just for the sheer audacity of making it 2 discs of suck.

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