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Anything by Bob Dylan.

Carlos Santana's Supernatural. The title track is okay; the rest is commercial and uninspiring. I must admit I had high hopes, but it looks like this one could be a retirement-fund album. Oh yeah, the recording is a shocker: two-dimensional and no dynamic range.

Anything K-Tell records released as a compalation!

Any album with sitar (sp?) music, one of the biggest frauds ever perpetrated on the American people. I would also include "Solo" by Yo Yo Ma, which sounds like nothing more than classical "RAP".

Marcel Marceau's Greatest Hits.

all Jimmy Buffet...

uaah well, I can recomend going into any record corprate record store and walking up to just about any shelf and taking a gander. turning on mtv is even more effective. Commertial radio is just painful. This task is impossible in light of all the crap that is out there.

Holly Cole: Don't Smoke in Bed [sic]--I bought this "audiophile-approved" album on a whim and listened to it once. ::Shudder:: Haven't touched it since. Supports the fact that recording quality is moot if the performance is shit. =)

Anything by Rush. Who buys that crap?

Pachelbel's Greatest Hit: umpteen versions of you know what.

This is dead easy - the album (name forgotten) by William Shatner (yes, THAT William Shatner). This has an awfulness which borders on the sublime. It adds a whole new meaning to the expression "free Enterprise". If ever an album merited a full salvo of photon torpedoes, this is it.

Paul McCartney: "Press to play", horrible !!

Most modern mainstream pop qualifies. My personal pick is Metallica Load/Reload, which is not so bad compared to Hootie and the Dave Matthews Traveler, but is an incredible disappointment when you consider their firt four albums.