Hi, There goes a list of heroes doing awful things (for me). Remco hits the nail in several of his choices! Maybe those records are better than the average, but you expect more from these guys. Just looking at one of my Cd towers I get all of these: -Marc Ribot & Los Cubanos Postizos: "Muy divertido" Pathetic, simply pathetic. An abyss opens between their first and their second release. - Satlah: Any of their two Tzadik releases. I might try to save their live but their music doesn't seem to work. Pretty amateurish attempt to join Coltrane and Jewish tradition. Clumsy. - Fred Frith "Cheap at Half the Price". remco said it all. - Derek Bailey & Susie Ibarra "Daedal". And now they've released a follow-up. Does anyone manage to listen it in one sitting without falling asleep? - Again, Remco... You know I have a tendency to sell Frisell records! - Norman Yamada "Being and Time". What the hell is this? Maybe a musical rendition of boredom in big capitals. Shame on Tzadik for publishing this. - Susie Ibarra "Songbird Suite". I can't understand so much appraisal for this record. Ibarra's drumming is amazing, as was her "Flower after Flower" but there's nothing here! Best, Efrén del Valle n.p: Tom Waits "Alice" (Certainly not the worst recording ever made!)
John Zorn: My First Recordings/ wank, wank, can't believe I even bought this Ornette Coleman: Virgin Beauty/ don't know what to say, lame fusion? Chris Potter: Gratitude/ just so conservatory, derivative and over-clever Dave Douglas: Magic Triangle/ just lame jazz Ginger Baker: all of his African Airforce material/ untight ramblings going on and on and on (oops, already sold this stuff!) Lol Coxhill & Pat Thomas: Halim/ yuk jazzdance with a lame beat, and entirely non-swinging. No idea what they intended to do here. Mahavishnu Orchestra: this eighties or early nineties album with the word RADIO in it/ lame fusion with a flat synth drum beat (again: already sold it!) Fred Frith: Cheap at half the price/ trying to be pop, the results sound like a sad wannabe's demo, with a tiny twist
or, coming closer to 'all time worst records ever': The Damned: the album called 'Anything' Ian Anderson: this eighties synthi solo album, preceeding the countless mediocre Jethro Tull Albums.
Regards, Remco Takken
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