Art Dudley Listening

Listening #122 List of the Month

Sidebar 1: List of the Month

When good people make bad music

There are precious few who could not, given the tools and the time, create a repulsive record; as with so many things, the achievement becomes remarkable only in the hands of those for whom it is a challenge. With that in mind, here are five slipshod singles and five awful albums by artists who really have, at one time or another, known better. Special recognition goes to "Do the Clam," if only because it took fully three people just to write the thing.

1) Simon and Garfunkel: "We've Got a Groovy Thing Going" 2) The Beatles: "Only a Northern Song"
3) Elvis Presley: "Do the Clam"
4) Frank Sinatra: "Bim Bam Baby"
5) Joni Mitchell: "Coyote"
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1) The Band: Islands
2) The Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request
3) Bob Dylan: Infidels
4) The Clash: Cut the Crap
5) Elvis Costello: The Juliet Letters

COMMENTS
smittyman's picture
Submitted by smittyman on February 7, 2013 - 9:15am

Worth the price of admission for Jokerman.

MVBC's picture
Submitted by MVBC on February 7, 2013 - 9:18am

Anyone owning a piano knows that wood is never an inert material and responds to climatic conditions. How is this wood based tonearm supposed to fend off this reality especially when one is adjusting for fractions of a millimeter?enlightened

Freako's picture
Submitted by Freako on December 26, 2024 - 11:13am

Mörch's Danish Name Mørch is spelled with an ø, which is not a "Umlaut", but a regular Danish letter, just so you know. Umlauts has long ago disappeared from the Danish language.

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