WORST Record Albums EVER

[Shaul-Ike Cohen]

The form of his, err, cigarette, and the way he's squinting a bit might explain why Mr Cosby tries to feed the parking meter with a banknote.

 

[matei]

I'm sure some of those albums seemed like pretty good ideas at the time. :eusa_doh:

My friend's brother has this album cover hanging on his wall:
http://www.schlared.com/badsteve.jpg
His name is Steve, so it fits... Apparently the album was so bad that he frisbee-ed it out his window after one listen.

In terms of bad albums - music-wise - the first Men Without Hats album is so bad it is actually good... in a funny way.

 

[Baron Kurtz]

Marc, with your experience and knowledge of Spanish, maybe you (or another member with similar such) can explain something that always bothers me when I hear it.

If Quixote is pronounced kee-ho-teh (more or less), why is Quixotic pronounced kwik-saht-ik? I assume it was originally a British English corruption of the word?

Thanks,

- Mark

Yes, it is a British corruption of the name's Spanish pronunciation.


The Brits did this all the time. Think of Lord Byron's famous poem, "Don Juan". Know how the title is pronounced? Yup: Don Jew-ahn.


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I've heard Quixotic pronounced with the X (rarely, mark you), but really, i have NEVER heard anyone pronounce Don Juan with anything other than the proper pronounciation.

bk

 

[Baron Kurtz]

I believe the South Park people were simply tipping their hat to the creation on the Louvin Brothers album cover.

And yes, Charlie does look like he's doing his Rodney Dangerfield impression.

bk

 

[Marc Chevalier]

... really, i have NEVER heard anyone pronounce Don Juan with anything other than the proper pronounciation.

As an English Lit major at university, I was taught that the title of Byron's poem is pronounced "Don Jew-ahn". This was the way that Brits of Byron's time -- and apparently Byron himself -- said "Juan", and the pronunciation has stuck with the poem.


I am not saying that today's Brits as a rule pronounce "Juan" as "Jew-ahn"; only that this particular poem's title continues to be pronounced as such.


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[Vermifuge]

How did this not make the list?

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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Don't know ... but there's an obscure '70s Shatner album on the website. Wanna hear? http://franklarosa.com/vinyl/Exhibit.jsp?AlbumID=56


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[Baron Kurtz]

The cover of the shatner album isn't so bad. The album itself, of course, is a different matter.

bk

 

[NewMexExpat]

True one ....

As an English Lit major at university, I was taught that the title of Byron's poem is pronounced "Don Jew-ahn". This was the way that Brits of Byron's time -- and apparently Byron himself -- said "Juan", and the pronunciation has stuck with the poem.

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... and other similar phrase endings wouldn't rhyme with "Juan", but worked nicely with "Jew - ahn". (same teaching from my one-and-only university Eng. Lit. class).

I've heard Quixotic pronounced with the X (rarely, mark you),... ...

That's a surprise! I've never heard it any other way and it has always rankled.

- Mark

 

[NewMexExpat]

The cover of the shatner album isn't so bad. The album itself, of course, is a different matter.

bk

Have you watched his 'cover' of "Rocket Man" at the 1978 Science Fiction Awards?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9186670810343559618&q=shatner+%22rocket+man



Enjoy...................
...................- Marklol

 

[Marc Chevalier]

That really, really, REALLY sucked!!

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[BellyTank]

 

[BellyTank]

I'm so sorry Mrs. Jones- but your husband died of a total ...

B
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[jake_fink]

I'm so sorry Mrs. Jones- but your husband died of a total ...

B
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lol lol lol

 

[Maj.Nick Danger]

Have you watched his 'cover' of "Rocket Man" at the 1978 Science Fiction Awards?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9186670810343559618&q=shatner+%22rocket+man



Enjoy...................
...................- Marklol

I have a good idea what was in that "cigarette" he was smoking.

 

[Senator Jack]

Family Guy did a parody of that Rocekt Man bit with Baby Stewie as Shatner

I have this one:

If you find it at at a yard sale, buy it. Not doing so would be highly illogical!


Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[jake_fink]

I have a Leonard Nimoy record with no cover. Is that the one with If I Had a Hammer. (But I do have a hammer and that hammer is freedom...) lol

 

[Senator Jack]

Two Sides has If I Were a Carpenter, The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins, and, of course, Highly Illogical:

From far beyond the galaxies I've journeyed to this place
To study the behavior patterns of the human race
And I find them highly illogical

Girl meets boy they fall in love
She says he's everything she's dreamed of
But when they get married before he's aware
She changes his habits the way he combs his hair
She changes him to someone he's never been
And then complains he's not like other men
Now really I find this most illogical

Take the case of your automobiles
Greatest invention since man discovered wheels
Hydromatic overdrive four-on-the-floor
Pushbutton windows pushbutton doors
Double barreled carborators rush you anyplace
But you never can find a parking space
Highly illogical

Take the case of modern man
He works all his life gives it all he can
Saves all his money works overtime
Pinches every penny banks every dime
All he can think about is money but you know
That he can't take it with him where he's going to go
Now I find that fascinatingly illogical

Now is the time to journey home to tell of what I've learned
My people I believe have every right to be concerned
For in spite of computers and advanced psychology
Behavior patterns are still a mystery
I predict the future of this earthly human race
Is that having made a mess of Earth They'll move to outer space
Well there goes the neighborhood
Totally, completely, absolutely, irrevocably, highly illogical


Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[jake_fink]

Here is the visual to that sonic nightmare:

Bilbo Baggins

 

[MudInYerEye]

ANNIE original cast recording.