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Ah, Bud, the times have indeed changed! You kids today have all types of pharmaceutical delights to ingest. Man, all we had were good ol’ illegal drugs. I think the drug companies finally got smart and knew where the REAL money was. But I digress…
More tiny hints today. (Oh, and please tell me you people know what TSA scanners are… if not, please Google it) But this one I’ll let out of the bag: It’s a hint to Bud’s real name. Yes, I picked a winner for the Name Bud contest and you’ll get that on Thursday!
Okay, Plan 9 has 5 albums ranked worse than theirs in the history of 70s rock and roll. WHICH FIVE ARE THEY? You tell me! Below is a handy dandy little form that will allow you to submit your Top Five bad albums of the 70s. Not alive in the 70s? Well, then it sucks to be you. No, no, just kidding! Go to iTunes or something and take a listen, there’s LOTS of titles that are real stinkers! The folks who submit album titles I use will get an exclusive desktop that will be sure to please just about anyone. It’s a surprise, but you’ll love it I know.
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“Sports” by Huey Lewis and the News was a solid album and had it’s share of hits and MTV videos as well. I was duped into buying the follow up album and have not gone back to Mr. Lewis and the News since. But, this was one good album and worth the torture of their follow up.
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Oooh! Now we have the beginnings of Bud’s real name – one initial. The plot thickens…
Oxycontin (which IIRC is the same as Vicodin) is such an unsexy drug to abuse, but then drug abuse amongst musicians and actors has become as unsexy as a flannelette nightie in the current era. Sheesh, back in the day we outlaws were actual outlaws, y’know? And no *real* rocker would ever willingly go to rehab, much less advertise the fact on the internet. Bad behaviour ain’t what it used to be 😛
Well, then we gotta “teach” these kids a few things about being rockers…
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Dammit, I was really hoping my “Adlai” suggestion would win. 🙁
Also, ‘worst’ albums… dude, it’s not just the ’70s. When it comes to choosing the stinkers of ANY era of rock and pop, I wouldn’t know where to begin. Can you say ‘Sturgeon’s Law’? :-S
Yep, every decade has it’s “winners” for sure. Everyone focuses on the “best” out there. Hey, there’s some really bad albums that, like movies, are so bad they’re good… in a funny way.
But since Plan 9’s album came out in ’79, I’m sticking to the 70s.
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Who do you think started all the drug companies….old hippies.
Well, technically they were young when they started them…
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I admit that the albums I submitted probably won’t be considered “Rock”, but man, did they suck. I mean, Muskrat Love? It kills me! They keep playing it over the intercom at our local Kroger to this day!
Well, that’s the primary issue I’ve always had with what some record companies called “rock and roll”. Donnie Osmond was not rock and roll. But groups like the Carpenters, Chicago, Neil Diamond, and other similar acts were also classified as rock and roll. What?! How can Neil Diamond be compared to Bachman Turner Overdrive? So,yeah, the list is going to be HUGE due to what some folks actually considered were rock albums.
So, I’ve got some wonderful submissions already! Keep ’em coming!
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Neil Diamond’s kind of borderline. I’m not sure I’d call his version of “I’m a Believer” rock and roll, but the Monkees’ version (or the Monkees’ session musicians’ version, if you prefer) does.
I know some people make a distinction beteen rock and pop, but I think pop is too vague and mutable to count as a genre at all.
Admittedly, this leaves me in a bit of a pickle — what *do* I call the Carpenters, or Burt Bacharach, or other “that sure as hell isn’t rock and roll” style composers and performers of the 60s and 70s?
One of the nicest things about getting old is they give you painkillers. Heh.
When I was 25, I’d ask for painkillers. It was fat chance stoner! Even after a motorcycle accident! Now its “Poor dear, sucks to get old, we know. Here have some Percocet, just don’t abuse it.”
Now if they just made coffee with Percocet in it I’d have natures perfect food! Finding 70s albums I hate should be easy enough if I pry the rose colored glasses I wear for thinking about the 70s off for a few minutes……..
Age has many benefits… one of them is drugs. Yeah, my wife’s doc is real handy at handing out ‘scripts… Not so in our younger days. Again, leads me to the whole pharmaceutical industry screwing with us, but I digress again…
So far, I’m drug-free… well, legal drugs. 🙂
That poor security guard…his eyelids flew right off his face and onto the ceiling!
I love doing silly cartoon expressions! I don’t do enough of them.
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They already had the sex, now they have the drugs, but will they have the rock and roll?
About the worst… I haven’t got a clue, since I’m 18, and I couldn’t probably tell you a single album name from the 70’s 😀
Talking about music: being someone who likes audio stuff; I got really surprised when I found out my mother still had a pair of Beyer Dynamic DT- 220 Hi-Fi headphones. Damn those studio things are enormous.
And: does the pharmacy on the drugs actually refer to a T-rex farm?
Jurassic parc ! 😛
AH HA! Another savvy reader who’s picked up on my theme in this story line… 1977 is about sex, drugs and rock and roll, so this storyline has been following that theme… this time in that order!
Ah, the T-Rexall Pharmacy is actually a tip of the hat to the group T-Rex who had a 70s hit “Bang A Gong, Get It On” (and it feature Marc Bolan as well).
Hey are you going to elaborate on what happened to Jeff in ’81? Because he changed the subject in a hurry 😀
It will be a recurring theme, and yes, we will find out what happened in Mexico in ’81 sometime this year!
Oxycontin. This era’s heroin! Nice one!
A friend recommended that one to me… I just take a crap load of extra strength Tylenol when I smash a thumb with the hammer or something similar…
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Peter Criss’ solo album topped my list, but there were some truly unspeakable albums released back then… as now.
All of the Kiss solo albums have been a big hitter in the “worst” category. Sucks to be them…
The only other more “popular” worst albums are from Partridge Family. ~shudders~
I liked “Fractured Mirror” off the Ace album, but other than that, I have to admit, the one thing I left in the 70’s that I NEVER want back is my desire to EVER listen to anther KISS album! “Just Leave my ELO alone!
Two OC’s in one day? I imagine he IS ready to sing quite a few tunes. 😀
Hey, if you’re gonna do it, do it big… 😛
Ya know, it’s interesting that while the 70’s decade had alot of rock’s greatest songs come out of it, it seemed to have more than its fair share of god-awful “schlock pop” that I don’t consider rock, but all the worst of the 70’s lists go straight to that genre & you get the obvious: Starland Vocal Band, Paper Lace, Bay City Rollers, Morris Albert, Terry Jacks, Bo Donaldson & the Heywoods, Blue Swede, Climax, Rupert Holms, First Class (Can’t place ’em? Remember “Beach Baby”?…), Eric Carmen, etc., etc., etc.
Except for one album – the original sound track to “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”, I went with well known rockers who were also some of my favorite 70’s bands, but just happened to put out either widely acclaimed stinkers, or, what I thought were horrible, just to show that Plan 9 are in good, or this case, bad company when it came to terrible albums. (I did include KISS & agree with you Byron – all 4 of their solo albums could have made the list, & speaking of Bad Co., altho I didn’t, they could have gone on for “Desolation Angels” imo. If this had been a top 10, I could’ve put that & the 4 solo’s….).
He shoulda been holding a bottle of Metamucil! [smirk] …. or better yet Cialis! …. as long as I find it funny, I guess thats all that matters!
So what were the “winners” out of the list you asked for, the five albums that outranked Plan 9’s opus? When do we see the list?