Okay, enough of those lists of our favorite things. Q Magazine lists the 50 worst albums ever.
Confession time: I actually kind of like one or two of the versions on their pick for #15. Various – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band – OST. The movie's my best-ever pick for the school of bad movies I like to call what were they thinking? But the songs, well, it's hard to screw all of em up...
Then there's #28. The Rolling Stones – Dirty Work. Again, I actually kind of liked "Harlem Shuffle"-but then, as we've esatblished, I don't give a ratfucking piss about The Rolling Stones, so you can't go by me.
#29. Various – Christmas In The Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album. I haven't heard this, but it cannot possibly top the Christmas With The Super Heroes album on which Batman goes up against Rudolph, the red-nosed hitman.
#31. Stevie Wonder – Woman In Red. Oh come now! What about...no, they're right.
#42. Babylon Zoo – The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes. Dunno about that, but I still like "Spaceman."
As for albums I'd add, well, believe it or not...
Pet Shop Boys-Release. In which the boys distinctive songwriting skills desert them, it is to be hoped not forever.
Joe Jackson-Night & Day II. This misstep is the nadir of Jackson's recording career.
2 comments:
I rather like Release: it's perhaps the least glitzy of Pet Shop Boys releases (could do without those remix discs, personally), but that Eminem song makes me smile every time . . .
think what I don't like about it is it's one of the first times Neil's singer/songwriter tendencies have completely overwhelmed Chris's desire for rhythm. The tension between the two is what makes Pet Shop Boys, IMO.
But then, I like the remix records.
As for the Eminem song, for me it's one of those things that is more funny as an *idea*.
The Pet Shop Boys doing a love song to Eminem, oh ha-ha, very funny, aren't you clever.
But as a *song*, it's crap.
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