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So many choices, but the winner has to be ALL country and western discs. YECH!!!!!!!!

A three-disc boxex set of The Three T's, purchased from Sears for $9.99. The recording sounded as if someone had sneaked a pocket tape recorder into a live concert. I gave it to Mother to enjoy. She tossed 'em after one listen!

Coupe De Grace, The Stranglers

Holy One Hit Wonders, where do I begin, Batman? How about My Sharona? Or the 867-5309 song? Or that song from the 70s tha Olivia Newton John (?)sang where she hits a high note that can bust panes of glass for a 100 mile radius? Or Ch-Ch-Cherry Bomb? How about almost ANY all-girl pop group (e.g., The Go-Go's, The Bangles)they ALL sound like Pebbles and Bam-Bam from the Flintstones. The limits of my irritation know no bounds. Lately the 'Thong' song gets my vote for the repeal of the first amendment.

Worst album, "Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen. Overrated and dull!!

One of the worst is Alannah Myles' first album. I paid full pop for it, thinking it would have at least one other great song like "Black Velvet." Man, was I ever wrong. The album has one gem and nine tracks of crap. Just a huge bummer.

Anything by Kenny G . . . oooo, the name makes me cringe.

I Was Made for Lovin' You

That 1968 blockbuster The Transformed Man, by William Shatner, in which he favors us with his inimitable vocal stylings on "Mr. Tambourine Man" and "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds."

Human Clay by Creed

Any album by Oasis. What a bunch of incompetent, pompous musicians! To dare say their cacophony compares to the Beatles and the Rolling Stones is utterly ludicrous.

Of course, the list can be more pervasive than the Internet itself, but the hands-down winner of Recorded Awfuldom: Morton Downey Jr.'s "Zip It." I can fully guarantee you will NEVER hear as gruesome an aural abortion as this document from the beyond-clownish talk-show host of the '80s. Pop-rock sensibilities so gleefully botched and misbegotten, William Shatner's Priceline commercials are Shakespearian by comparison. Go ahead

The list makes sense if one focuses on major artists only. There is plenty of obscure junk that did not sell and is hated by only a few unfortunates. But the swill that moved in millions . . . My vote goes to Springsteen's Born to Run. What an overproduced, tuneless mess of attitude and posturing! To think that the Rolling Stone magazine generation of rock crits have exalted it to cult status. Bah!

Anything by Styx, Kansas, Boston, etc. Overproduced, hollow, showing no taste whatsoever.

Anything by Eagles, ABBA, Ace of Base, Neil Sedaka, Metallica, and so on.

Anything by Elvis Presley. Just can't stand him.

Frampton Comes Alive (isn't it funny how those voice-box gizmos never really took off?) scores high for irritation factor. Alternatively, anything at all by Supertramp

Wha'samatta, nobody here ever heard the "Ballad of the Green Berets"? I think John Wayne sang that!

Oops I Did It Again by Britney Spears. Ms. Spears may be attractive, i'll grant her that much, but her music and lyrical skills leave something to be desired!

The new 2000 Matchbox 20. How could their first be such a masterpiece and their second be so bad?

Any present-day country-music release. On second thought, just about any present-day release, period.

Boy, where can I start?! How about most CDs today that are distributed by the big music companies? Most of the CDs only have one or two songs worth listening to and the rest are crap. No wonder I just download the songs I like on MP3.

Cat Scratch Fever by Ted Nugent

There are so many mindless, dud songs that I would have to write a book to list them all. God willing, we still have Coltrane, Monk, and Mozart, among others, to keep me safe.

After painfully reading the article about Warren Zevon, I would have to say, anything by that &*@^$*$ %##^$#!!! What happened to good journalism?

I Love by Tom T. Hall. Heard this on the radio when I was a youngster. Still makes me wanna puke just thinking about it.

Great American Eagle Tragedy: 1970s screaming "stop the war." No musical ability, no vocal ability. Truly horrible. I keep the album as a reminder of how bad it can be.

anything from some damn wailing diva like cristina aguilera , whitney houston , celine dion,newer aerosmith

Garth Brooks has made many albums, so it's hard to pick the worst one. Tape them all to the wall and toss a dart. Bonus points if you can hit Garth between the eyes; he's on the cover of every album.

Anything by any of the boy bands: Backstreet Boys, etc. Totally wretched, contrived manure. Most of today's rock and pop is garbage. Sound-quality-wise, 95% of today's albums can be ranked here also. That is why there are old bands getting back together and making money, because people are starving for listenable music that is fun.