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Ouch! Bad singing, bad playing
Posted by kinkywolfgang on 21 May 2010 - 10:58am.
I was wondering if we have ever had a thread on totally awful records?
Here's Nina Simone trouncing Jonathan King's greatest hit...
Someone please tell me there's a good reason why she's so off key.
However, Jo Stafford , in the guise of Darlene Edwards, really intended her version of Stayin' Alive to be a shocker.
C'mon readers! Post your favourite massacred melodies below! Otherwise, check out Kenny Everett's legendary Capital Radio broadcasts of The World's Worst. http://www.chronoglide.com/wwwshome.html
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Sebastian Cabot takes on Like A Rolling Stone and loses
This
version of The Final Countdown was doing the rounds a couple of years ago.
Still makes me want to wee.
Probably my favourite part is where he busts a move to the line Oh, We're heading for Venus (Venus)and still we stand tall
The singer of post-Britpop chancers Embrace...
avoids the tune as if it were contagious. Shockingly poor.
I just started listening to the Kenny Everett show... the very first song, Surfin' Bird by The Trashmen, is supposed to be terrible... but it's a classic! It's the first time I've heard it and it's just the kind of mad rock n' roll number that I've always loved. Some people don't know a great record when they hear one...
Judge for yourselves...
More shockabilly to be found
More shockabilly to be found on this marvellous Ace Records compilation
And let's not forget Hasil Adkins...really, really bad. But good.
Both of these fine records are in print!
Rockabilly Psychosis !
I had that album when i was a teen ...how i discovered The Gun Club.
The Cranberries
No link because I do not wish to cause unnecessary suffering, but who the hell told that woman she could sing?
And somebody sure as hell must have because she caterwauls as only an artist 100% convinced of the power and beauty of her vocal swoops can.
one man's poison...
... is another man's meat. I think this, for example, is tremendous. I should say, however, that when I found the official video on Youtube to link to, which I'd never seen before, I saw that it was shockingly bad, which is why I've linked to this 'look at the album cover' version.
Still don't get it
She seems to be able to hit scary notes while at the same time sounding flat - undoubtedly a unique skill but my ears still hurt.
But The Trashmen... now dat's singin'!
The best song in the Everett show is the last one
Complete with "paydirt" gag and sound effects...
But this is even worse-laydeez and gennlemen, let's all wig out to Reginald Bosanquet and "Dance with me"
To be fair to the Mighty Bose
There was a shovel-load of pre-postmodern irony going on there.
Was it his response to this?
I've posted this before...
...it's not technically bad singing, but it is soooo very wrong...