{"id":709,"date":"2014-06-23T11:23:03","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T11:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/192.168.3.178\/?p=709"},"modified":"2015-01-06T11:07:43","modified_gmt":"2015-01-06T11:07:43","slug":"5-famously-terrible-albums-that-are-actually-brilliant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicmagpie.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/06\/23\/5-famously-terrible-albums-that-are-actually-brilliant\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Famously Terrible Albums That Are Actually Brilliant"},"content":{"rendered":"

Musicians have produced a lot of rubbish over the years. Although no scientist has ever wasted their time on such a study, we reckon that for every great album made, there are at least 20 terrible albums produced.<\/p>\n

For most part, a terrible album can be spotted a mile off: The Best of Billy Ray Cyrus<\/em>, the Crazy Frog\u2019s Crazy Hits<\/em> and anything with the words \u201d\u02dcCheeky\u2019 and \u201d\u02dcGirls\u2019 on the cover, for example.<\/p>\n

Occasionally, though, an album slips through that is widely regarded to be terrible by critics and the public yet, on second listen, turns out to be pretty darn good<\/p>\n

These are 5 of those albums.<\/p>\n

Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavoured Water \u201d\u201c Limp Bizkit<\/h3>\n

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Everything about Limp Bizkit screams \u201d\u02dcterrible\u2019, from the fact they\u2019re the only metal band to have a dance routine to one of their songs to their frontman Fred Durst, a middle-aged man seemingly trapped in a perpetual state of adolescence.<\/p>\n

Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavoured Water<\/em> is the perfect encapsulation of the band. It\u2019s crude (if the title didn\u2019t give that away), immature and features said overgrown adolescent rapping incessantly. It also has a song based solely around saying the F word as many times as possible.<\/p>\n

In short, it\u2019s brilliant. Chocolate Starfish\u201d\u00a6<\/em> is the musical equivalent of sitting in your pants eating Wotsits and watching the daily double-bill of The Jeremy Kyle Show<\/em> on ITV2; it\u2019s not something you\u2019d tell your friends you do, but you’ll have a lot of fun doing it.<\/p>\n

Plus, the rapping is really easy to rap along to as well, unlike albums by proper rappers. So dig out your Yankees cap, turn that mutha\u2019 backwards and start moshing like its 2000!<\/p>\n

Rebirth \u201d\u201c Lil Wayne<\/h3>\n

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Some people would argue that all of Lil Wayne\u2019s music is terrible, but we\u2019re partial to a bit of Weezy from time to time.<\/p>\n

\u201d\u02dcRebirth\u2019, though, is generally considered by all to be an abomination. The reason? Four words: \u201d\u02dcLil Wayne\u2019s rock album\u2019.<\/p>\n

Nestled among the rubbish, however, lies 2 diamonds. The first is \u201d\u02dcDrop The World\u2019, one of Wayne\u2019s best songs that also happens to feature one of Eminem\u2019s best verses. The second is \u201d\u02dcProm Queen\u2019, an average enough rock song with the remarkable power to get stuck in your head for days.<\/p>\n

So, in the end, \u201d\u02dcRebirth\u2019 was worth it. Kind of. Maybe\u201d\u00a6<\/p>\n

Hard To Swallow \u201d\u201c Vanilla Ice<\/h3>\n

Vanilla Ice is many things to many people: graceful ice dancer, friend of Jedward and the most stylish man to ever wear a flattop haircut.<\/p>\n

Yet no one has ever called Vanilla Ice a good musician, and for good reason too.<\/p>\n

Ice\u2019s career is filled with musical disasters and \u201d\u02dcHard To Swallow\u2019 has the distinction of being considered the worst of a bad bunch. But\u201d\u00a6actually, yeah, it\u2019s pretty bad.<\/p>\n

Still, it\u2019s worth a listen for \u201d\u02dcToo Cold\u2019, which is \u201d\u02dcIce Ice Baby\u2019 if Limp Bizkit covered it and \u201d\u201c at the risk of committing some form of blasphemy \u201d\u201c might actually be better than the original. Admittedly that wouldn\u2019t be difficult, but it\u2019s something, eh?<\/p>\n

Chinese Democracy \u201d\u201c Guns N Roses<\/h3>\n

\u201d\u02dcChinese Democracy\u2019 took 13 years to make and, at $13 million, is the most expensive album ever made. Needless to say, it performed so badly that most people have forgotten it even exists.<\/p>\n

More fool them, though, because \u201d\u02dcChinese Democracy\u2019 is brilliant. The whole album sounds as though someone unfroze the 1980s version of Axl Rose from a cryogenic sleep, put him in a room with random musicians and let him do whatever the hell he wanted, and it\u2019s all the better for it.<\/p>\n

We\u2019d suggest you check it out, and so would Axl Rose as he\u2019s only about $11 million off turning a profit on it.<\/p>\n

Schizophrenic \u201d\u201c Geri Halliwell<\/h3>\n

The musical trendsetters at Q Magazine deemed this album the 2nd worst of all time and we\u2019d have to agree with them \u201d\u201c it is pretty darn bad.<\/p>\n

Still, musicians get a pretty rough time and we admire Geri\u2019s effort and\u201d\u00a6erm\u201d\u00a6<\/p>\n

Ah, who are we kidding? If you own this album, send it to us and get some cash for it<\/a> instead.<\/p>\n

So those are the 5 terrible albums that we quite like. What terrible albums do you enjoy? Let us know!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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