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elassi · Post by **elassi** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 10:05 am

donkey tugger wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:36 amGood one- writing catchy angst-ridden pop was obviously not good enough for the lad.

Rather tenuously, one of the local nutters with whom I occasionally exchange a few words still maintains that when the police raided his house a few years back they stole his cassette of Joe Jackson's Greatest Hits. I tend to put this down to paranoia induced by high-grade marijuana, but a part of me does want to believe that the local rozzers are sat down the cop-shop eating their lunch listening to, 'It's Different For Girls' and , 'Is She Really Going Out With Him?'.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:18 pm

neu2 or as it should have been called "quit f**king with the tape speed"

thecontrolcentre · Post by **thecontrolcentre** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:24 pm

Die Antwoord - Mount Ninji And Da Nice Time Kid

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:27 pm

metamorphosis wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:42 am [edited] Whoops - took thread title as literal, rather than 'worst albums'.

I'm not sure what you mean ... This isn't a worst album discussion. It's a WTF were they thinking when they did xxx.

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:31 pm

nasenmann wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 8:44 am
ariston wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:48 am And, ever since, say, Tubular Bells II, Mike Oldfield has been in constant WTF mode
sadly.

well, the 2nd track on Bells II is great..

Well in the context of the Topic ... The thing that made me go WTF with MO was Earth Moving (WTF?), Amorak (phew, ok back on track). Heavens Open WHAT! THE! f**k!!!!!!! ... I actually kind of like TB2, but agreed after that it wasn't the same level. But, Earth Moving and Heavens Open are absolute WTF albums.

Gone soft · Post by **Gone soft** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:53 pm

Ah, if it's WTF where they thinking then KISS - Music from "The Elder" from 1981. Produced by Bob Ezrin (producer of Pink Floyds "The Wall" among other successes) with a symphonyorchestra and choir, the album originally opened with the orchestral aptly named "Fanfare".

It pretentiously tells the story of a heros journey towards battling an ancient evil, or actually it's just him doubting himself and his theme tune is the melody if the chorus of "Just a Boy" (where he claims he ain't no hero though he wish he could be). Then there's more doubt, some threats of the ancient evil lurking and at the end he is done with his journey towards becoming a hero and both he and the good ancients believe in him in "I" where the chorus goes "I believe in me". Then the albums over before there ever comes to any actual battle between the forces of good and evil. As if this wasn't practically fragmented allready the recordcompany messed with the order of the tracks to have heavy track open instead of the orchestral "Fanfare" and what little story there once was now made absolutely no sense. Later rereleases have the tracks reordered back to their original order, check it out wtith the original opender "Fanfare" and imagine what the people having spitted in a fortune in this must have thought listening to that opening of the promised epic new KISS album.

Yes, offcourse producer Bob Ezrin had a cocaine addiction at the time and the two chiefs of KISS have supposedly later admitted they where delusional about the project.

The original two opening tracks "Fanfare" and "Just a boy" ->

And "Odyssey" really shines when you see the lyrics, masterfull poetry like "Once upon - not yet"

->

Gone soft · Post by **Gone soft** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 4:04 pm

vurt wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:18 pm neu2 or as it should have been called "quit f**king with the tape speed"

Yeah, I had the impression this was such a classic album and finallly getting to hear it was a total

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 4:16 pm

AHAHAHAHA KISS The Elder definitely falls in the WTF category. Worse, I'm one of those idiots who actually bought the f'n thing. And sat going WTF through as much of it as I could stand. I can't remember where I quit, but I don't believe I've ever heard the entire thing.

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 4:19 pm

Gone soft wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 4:04 pm
vurt wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 3:18 pm neu2 or as it should have been called "quit f**king with the tape speed"
Yeah, I had the impression this was such a classic album and finallly getting to hear it was a total

the 2 neu! albums where great!
and im sure theres some great stuff on the neu2 album, if you can be bothered importing it to your computer and fixing all the speed issues

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 4:23 pm

That KISS left turn reminds me of this turd from Utopia. Todd/Utopis are kind of guilty pleasure artists for me. I don't know why, but I kind of like his awkward approach to pop and R&B. As was usual back in the day, they were in a label war and owed a record. So they did a Beatles parody. To say it's bad, is an insult to the bad things. Coming off Adventures in Utopia, us fans were primed for the next GREAT record ... we'd have to wait.

Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 4:46 pm

The first record by Take That

harryupbabble · Post by **harryupbabble** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 5:31 pm

Not me personally, but wasn't the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album a WTF to a lot of people?

vurt · Post by **vurt** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 5:37 pm

harryupbabble wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 5:31 pm Not me personally, but wasn't the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album a WTF to a lot of people?

not if theyd stayed till the end of revolver, the sgt peppers was more of a calming relief

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:03 pm

harryupbabble wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 5:31 pm Not me personally, but wasn't the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album a WTF to a lot of people?

I thought it was revolver. I was very young, so I didn't experience it personally. But like a lot of us, my aunts, uncles etc.. were huge Beatles fans. I know that Revolver was kind of a dividing album from pop to better-pop.

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:44 pm

SJ_Digriz wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 6:03 pm
harryupbabble wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 5:31 pm Not me personally, but wasn't the Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album a WTF to a lot of people?
I thought it was revolver. I was very young, so I didn't experience it personally. But like a lot of us, my aunts, uncles etc.. were huge Beatles fans. I know that Revolver was kind of a dividing album from pop to better-pop.

When I was 10 or so, my brother, older than me by 10 years, was in the army. He'd left a large pile of LPs scattered around the basement floor. Of those, I appropriated 'With The Beatles,' 'Revolver,' and 'Are You Experienced?' The only track on Revolver I didn't grok was 'Tomorrow Never Knows.' I loved Hendrix from that age, strangely enough. I didn't hear Sgt. Pepper in its entirety until I was 13. It was certainly a 'WTF' moment. I liked 'With A Little Help From My Friends,' and 'When I'm 64.' It wasn't until I was 15 and introduced to herbal jazz cigarettes that I could relate to 'Tomorrow Never Knows' and 'Sgt. Pepper.'

And now, on my Sgt. Pepper (remix) playlist, I've removed 'When I'm 64' and inserted 'Strawberry Fields' and 'Penny Lane.' The former just makes me wince now.

Albums that made you go WTF