Musical atrocities

[Opsa]

Holy carp, I think I've browned meself listening to those. Shades of Mrs. Miller Hilarious!

The Shaggs were truly awful. Apparently their Dad saw them as talented and produced several records of their music. They were so incredibly bad that they became the darlings of the alternative music scene in the 1980's. It was a special challenge to try to match their uncoordinated drummer and incomprehensible cadences.

[Aggie]

Sounds like human theremins with chimpanzee players, those two...   

Wow, the Shaggs are out there, but I can see where they might have got a certain amount of notoriety on college radio scene (which plays some pretty far-out stuff just because it's far-out).  I've heard other artists approaching that level of 'talent'.

I actually don't have any good examples of all-out atrocities, although I still maintain that there's something for everyone to hate in my music collection, and certain Ween tracks certainly fit the bill.

I could point to some Musical Redemptions, where terrible songs have been reworked into superb cover tracks; notable is Mark Ronson's version of Britney's hideous McDonalds-jingle-disaster "Toxic" (actually includes the phrase "I'm Lovin' It"^TM).

[pieces o nine]

After listening to all the posted links (and other selections where available), I can only say: 
I have bought a hammer! You may borrow it if you wish!

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[Swatopluk]

IMHO you can't do worse than The Shaggs.

Nice attempt at East Asian temple music but they should not try English or they could be mistaken for simply lacking singing talent.
And the bass bordun is missing.

[Sibling DavidH]

And the bass bordun is missing.

They had it cut off during the operation.
_{And that's not all they had cut off.}   

[Opsa]

Last night we caught a film atrocity called "Rock Rock Rock", which contained a musical atrocity called "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent". I howled.

[Sibling DavidH]

I would probably have thought that was great when I was 10.  Not now.

[Sibling Zono (anon1mat0)]

Last night we caught a film atrocity called "Rock Rock Rock", which contained a musical atrocity called "I'm Not a Juvenile Delinquent". I howled.

It's bad but in a cute way, music of it's time and not significantly different from the more successful ones.

Mind you, I won't be adding it to my mp3 player...

[Opsa]

I'm so sorry I didn't cover this one, back when I had my post-punk band. I'd love to have our greaser-like backup singers snarling those lyrics. You're right, it is cute, but the rhymes are awful, aren't they?

You should have seen the movie. It starred Tuesday Weld and went absolutely nowhere. I think they just wanted a vehicle for some popular rock'n'roll groups and loosely threaded a story around some recorded performances.

[Sibling DavidH]

I always thought Tuesday Weld was the most ludicrous stage-name ever.

[Opsa]

 
However, she was in one of the most wonderfully odd movies ever, Lord Love a Duck, where she plays a teenager who basically seduces money out of her estranged Dad to pay for sweaters so that she'll be accepted into the Cashmere Club at her school. I always wondered whether they were stoned during the filming of this scene.

[Sibling DavidH]

I should imagine so, by the look of them.   :spliff: