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Broken Records - The Search for the Worst Album Ever

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Riot Act Podcast's Stephen Hill and Remfry Dedman trawl through the abysmal, the shocking and the maligned in their search for the worst album of all time.

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Black Sabbath - Born Again

dimanche 26 juin 2022 • Durée 01:09:42

Welcome back to Broken Records, the podcast that searches in all the right places to crown the very worst album in the history of music. We’ve got a biggie of a name this week as we look at Born Again, the 11th studio album from the inventors of heavy metal, Black Sabbath, released on the 7th of August 1983.

Sabbath basically dodged a bullet when original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne left the band and they were able to replace him with the equally enigmatic Ronnie James Dio. Dio recorded two albums with Sabbath, with 1980’s Heaven and Hell being considered as good as anything the band had ever put out. But when personal dynamics led to his departure in 1982, Sabbath were once again on the lookout for a new frontman. Enter former Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan, a man who was highly influenced by Elvis and used to be in Jesus Christ Superstar, he didn’t quite look the right fit for a doomy, dark and menacing heavy metal band. And so it proved; though Gillan is a fine vocalist, he and the band struggled to gel creatively, and the result is this album, which also features one of the most eyeball abusing front covers in the history of music. To rub salt into the wounds, when the band went out to tour the record they were beset by problems, the main one being a massive Stonehenge stage set that they accidentally erected due to some incorrect measurements. Gillan was soon gone, but he leaves this fascinating album behind him. Question is; is it actually that bad?

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Screaming Lord Sutch - Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends

mercredi 8 juin 2022 • Durée 01:21:36

Welcome back to Broken Records, where Steve and Remfry have decided to try and find the very worst album of all time. This week we’re looking at the debut album from UK rock personality Screaming Lord Sutch, Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, released on the 25th of May 1970.

If you’re of a similar age to us then you might know the name from his various political endeavours back in the 80s and 90s, but Screaming Lord Sutch (not a real Lord) was actually something of a shock rock pioneer back in the early 60’s. He had a hit in 1963 with the song Jack The Ripper and during his live shows he would jump out of a coffin and chuck maggots at the audience...which was nice! But, by 1968 Sutch’s joke had worn thin with the “Great British Public” and he went over to the USA and decided to create his first album with the help of a few friends.

Those friends were Led Zep pair Jimmy Page and John Bonham, Jeff Beck and Noel Redding of The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Good eh! Well… not if you’re any of those guys, because they weren’t sure what they were doing was even going to feature on the album, as session musicians were brought in to finish parts of the album in the style of the big names that featured. It was released and immediately became hated, both by musicians, with Page being particularly vocal about his dismay at the results, and by music fans, being voted the worst album ever by the BBC in 1998. But is it really that bad? Hmmm…

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Richard Blackwood - You’Ll Love To Hate This

dimanche 6 mars 2022 • Durée 01:50:08

Welcome back to Broken Records, the podcast that searches for the worst record ever made in the history of music. This week Steve and Remfry travel back to Britain in that wondrous period of the late 90’s going into the early 2000’s as they look at You’Ll Love To Hate This, the long forgotten debut, and so far only, full length album from comedian, actor, presenter and… rapper… sort of… Richard Blackwood, released on the 11th of September 2000.

Who remembers Richard Blackwood… yeah?... a few… who remembers him for something other than not knowing how to grate lemon zest…? Okay, not so many of you. How about anything other than his recent appearances in big name UK soap operas Hollyoaks and Eastenders? Oooh, hardly anyone. Blackwood was, if you can believe it, a pretty big star in the UK from about 1998 to 2001, presenting a host of big name shows like Top of the Pops and MTV Select, before being given his own vehicle, The Richard Blackwood Show, in 1999. His star dropped pretty dramatically after the release of this album though, maybe it was too much of RB too soon, maybe we never really needed a UK version of Will Smith, or maybe it was just the staggeringly bad execution of this album, full of terrible rapping, cheap pop instrumentation and cheesy R&B fronting. Either way, this record is no fun. Less fun than having 18 litres of coffee shot up your arse? Well, we wouldn’t know about that… but we know a man who would! WE LOVE YOU RB, WE WATCH YOU EVERY NIGHT ON TV!!!

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Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus

dimanche 27 février 2022 • Durée 01:30:23

On this weeks Broken Records Steve and Remfry continue their search for the worst album ever made by reacquainting themselves with an old friend. This is definitely not the first time we’ve spoken about death metal pioneers Morbid Angel’s 2011 comeback album Illud Divinum Insanus, but we’re obliged to do it and so we’re going in deeper than ever.

Quite what makes this record broken are things we’ve discussed in prior podcasts; the absurd and seemingly endless wait from the return of iconic frontman David Vincent in 2004 to the actual release of the album, the various line up changes, Vincent’s quite atrocious lyrics and, most importantly of all, the bands ludicrous attempts to broaden out their classic death metal style with some highly ill advised industrial metal influences. We’re not quite sure what they were going for, but, whatever it was, we’re pretty sure it wasn’t meant to end up sounding like Radikult does here. The death metal fans, famously known for their open mindedness, went mad and had a meltdown when the album was released, Vincent soon departed… even though he didn’t appear to be told about it, and both he and guitarist Trey Azagthoth spent the next few years blaming the other one for the stench that Illud Divinum Insanus made. Still, it’s not all bad, they did manage to release a three disc, 39 track, 3 hour and 5 minute long remix of the album, which surely gives them the world record for the single most pointless music release ever, the original artwork is good and, man, you should check out the lovely tin the CD comes in!

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Phil Collins - Testify

dimanche 20 février 2022 • Durée 01:21:35

Grab the coffee and the sleeping pills, this week's Broken Records is going to be a long one. Steve and Remfry are back, continuing their quest to find the worst album of all time, and today they have found the foolproof insomnia cure that is Phil Collins 7th solo album Testify, released on the 11th of November 2002.

Listen, we don’t want to hate too hard on Phil Collins, lord knows he’s had enough pops taken at him over the years. Particularly in the 90’s, when, after his commercial peak in the 1980’s, he was kicked from pillar to post (metaphorically speaking) by the likes of Noel Gallagher, U2 and even some random barman. Yes, Phil Collins in this era was the antithesis of cool Britannia, but he looked like he was going to have the last laugh when he hooked up with Disney at his lowest ebb and ended up a Golden Globe and Oscar winner after his work on the Tarzan soundtrack. You go Phil! You’ve proved all the haters and naysayers wrong! You’ve still got it! Now go make a cracking new solo album under your name and your rehabilitation will be complete… oh. Oh well. Testify was that album, and it’s fair to say that it killed the career renaissance of Phil Collins stone dead before it really even got started. Instead of the massive yacht pop bangers or atmospheric slow jams that he made his name on, Phil seemed incapable of creating anything on Testify that wasn’t pure, middling, bland, pop nothingness. Testify is just under an hour, but feels like it stretches time like a Matrix movie as song after song of paper thin, flat, uninspired and uninspiring noodling drag by. Phil, you fucked it mate, and the worst thing is, you made Noel Gallagher look like he was right about you. Shame that.

Phil Collins - Can't Stop Loving You (Official Music Video)

Phil Collins - Wake Up Call (Official Music Video)

U2 Drunk - dissing Phil Collins - Billboard Awards 1992

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Billy Idol - Cyberpunk

dimanche 13 février 2022 • Durée 01:51:04

Broken Records is here again, bringing you our search for the very worst album ever released in music history. This week Steve and Remfry are looking into the weird, wild and rarely wonderful world of Cyberpunk, the 5th studio album by the plastic punk superstar Billy Idol, released on the 29th of June 1993.

Billy Idol was, of course, a huge star as the 90’s came into view. With a string of MTV heavy hit singles in the previous decade he had become one of the music world’s most instantly recognisable faces. But the 1990’s was the decade that killed many a rock star, and Billy knew that he was going to have to fight off grunge if he was going to stay relevant. After nearly losing a leg in a motorcycle accident in 1990 he became fascinated with the underground subculture of cyberpunk, consuming the works of JG Ballard, Phillip K Dick and, most notably, William Gibson and using it as inspiration for a new record that was recorded completely at his home on a computer. In 1993! Imagine that! Idol ingrained himself so deeply into the subculture that he even set up an online account to chat to other cyberpunk aficionados and ask their advice on how the record based on the culture should look and sound. Still, when it came to the release of the record he might have wanted to listen to their advice a little more intently, as Cyberpunk is a messy dance rock concept album that bizarrely leans in on dated electronic sounds, cringe-y critiques of the LA riots, some exhausting new age hippie nonsense and a truly abysmal cover of The Velvet Underground’s Heroin. The critics hated it, it sold poorly, but, perhaps most gallingly for Idol, the cyberpunk community were furious. Trolling him on his personal email account and accusing him of appropriating their culture for his own financial gain. Obviously it was a different time, and that sort of thing doesn’t happen anymore… little bit of satire for you there.

Billy Idol - Shock To The System

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Lil Wayne - Rebirth

dimanche 6 février 2022 • Durée 01:32:56

Hello and welcome back to another edition of Broken Records, the podcast that searches far and wide for the very worst album of all time. Today Steve and Remfry are talking about Lil Wayne’s The Rebirth, the 7th studio album from the New Orleans rapper, released on the 2nd of February 2010.

We can’t pretend that either of us are massive fans of Lil Wayne… or small fans… or fans. But there’s no doubt that he’s a pretty significant artist in the hip-hop world. By the year 2008 he was a legit superstar in fact, with his The Carter trilogy seeing him lauded all over the place and the third installment picking up the Best Rap Album Grammy. Not bad. He was restless though, and decided that, rather than go into the studio and give his fans The Carter IV, he would do a rock album. Rap and rock have always proved to be challenging bedfellows, for every Rage Against The Machine there is about 50 Vanilla Ice’s, Methods of Mayhem or whatever other cack we still have left in the hat. But, surely, a rapper of Weezy’s stature could put together a band with the chops to provide the killer backing to his unique and idiosyncratic drawl couldn’t he? You’d think, right… but alas no. The Rebirth is instead a confusing, often troubling and often hilarious mess of autotune mixed with paper thin pop punk and generic sleaze rock guitar that is hard, maybe impossible, to enjoy.

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Ashlee Simpson - I Am Me

dimanche 30 janvier 2022 • Durée 01:09:49

Welcome to another episode of Broken Records, where Stephen Hill and Remfry Dedman take a deep breath, hold their nose and dive head first into some of the stinkiest musical moments ever in search for the very worst album of all time. Today we’re looking at I Am Me, the second full length record by US pop-rocker Ashlee Simpson, released on the 18th of October 2005.

With us both being UK based, we don’t actually know all that much about Miss Simpson. She never really cracked Britain, in fact all she is really known for is what she is most known for the world over - being the pop star who was “scandalously” caught lip-syncing on a 2004 episode of Saturday Night Live. Being a pop star (pop stars mime a lot by the way, SPOILER!) you’d think that this would be something of a non-event, but in actuality it became a massive great bastard stick to beat Simpson with for some time. Her career suffered a significant nose dive after the event, but rather than sit at home and mope, she got back in the studio and decided to chronicle her feelings in her second album. Which is what we get here. It’s not exactly groundbreaking, with Simpson claiming the record would lean on influences from the 80’s whilst being 'rawer' and 'realer', yet confusingly crediting her stylist, make up artist and hairdresser in the linear notes of the record. EH?! Still, did she redeem herself or does she show herself up to be the cynical pop puppet prat that the media spun her as?... Listen to find out what we think...

Ashlee Simpson - Boyfriend (Official Video)

Ashlee Simpson - L.O.V.E. (Official Music Video)

SNL Ashlee Simpson - Clean SDTV Video Capture

Owen Paul “My Favorite Waste Of Time” Lip Sync Fail BBC Pebble Mill

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Chris Cornell - Scream

dimanche 23 janvier 2022 • Durée 01:42:30

Welcome to another search for the worst album of all time here on Broken Records. Steve and Remfry really don’t want to be here this week as they are covering an album by one of their heroes; the late, great Chris Cornell and his third studio album Scream released on the 10th of March 2009.

Cornell had become a legit mainstream star in the mid 00’s after his cover of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was being karaoke-massacred by X-Factor contestants and his song You Know My Name being an actual Bond theme! Not bad for the singer in an alternative rock band that had split a decade earlier. Being hot stuff he decided to rope in pop producer extraordinaire Timbaland, he of the sublime work of early Jay-Z, Missy Elliott and Justin Timberlake’s banger filled Justified album, to work on some new material. An odd pairing? Maybe on paper, but then Cornell has a voice of such stunning quality that he would easily be able to pull off pretty much any genre right? Sure, but by this time Timbaland was working with the likes of New Kids on the Block, Black Eyed Peas and The Pussycat Dolls, and it was tempting to say that the pop revolution that he helped kick-start in the early part of the decade was starting to sound a little stale and oversaturated in 2009. What we got was an album that plays to neither man’s strengths, despite the two enthusiastically telling the press how great it was to be working with each other and both the rock and mainstream worlds looked at Scream like a middling half-way house that neither rocked like Cornell’s early material or made you want to get up and dance in the way that Timbaland at his best could. A shame, but then we got Soundgarden back for a few years in the aftermath, so was it really all that bad?

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Chris Cornell - Scream (Official Music Video)

Chris Cornell - Part Of Me ft. Timbaland (Official Video)

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Machine Head - Supercharger

dimanche 16 janvier 2022 • Durée 02:16:54

Welcome to another episode of Broken Records, our search for the very worst album that has ever dared to disgrace the good name of music. This week Steve and Remfry are joined by Tom Dare, host of the Hell Bent For Metal podcast, to talk about Supercharger, the fourth studio album by Oakland metal heroes Machine Head, released on the 2nd of October 2001.

After the lukewarm reception to 1999’s nu-metal leaning The Burning Red, Machine Head told the world that they were coming back swinging with some of the classic sounds of their beloved debut album Burn My Eyes. They certainly talked a good game, and having ditched the orange tracksuits, bleach blonde tipped spiky hair and “I’m mad I am!” facial expressions that characterised much of The Burning Red cycle, they looked the part too. In fact frontman Robb Flynn was more than confident that the band had “weathered the storm” and were going to be better than ever as the new Millennium arrived. Sadly, it didn’t quite work out that way, as Supercharger was a big ol’ flop of an album, the band themselves would point to a release around the time of the 9/11 terror attacks happening that saw the records lead single Crashing Around You dropped from radio and MTV for being a little too thematically close to the events of that day. Really though, that’s not the problem with Supercharger is it lads. This is a painfully long and oddly neutered album from a band who had proved one of metal’s most integral voices in the 90’s. As we know, the band definitely got their shit back together fairly quickly, but, as we discuss, it was touch and go for a while there for Machine Head.

Machine Head - Crashing Around You [OFFICIAL VIDEO]

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