Q Magazines Worst Albums Ever Poll Has Been Won By...

Duran Duran

Thank You "DOWNRIGHT INSULTING"

Spice Girls

Any of their solo albums "WRETCHED"

Various Artists

Urban Renewal "WORSE THAN THE ORIGINAL"

Lou Reed

Metal Machine Music "TOSS"

Billy Idol

Cyberpunk "RISIBLE"

Naomi Campbell

Baby Woman "GOBSMACKING HUBRIS"

Kevin Rowland

My Beauty "HIDEOUSLY MAWKISH"

Mick Jagger

Primitive Cool "SOULLESS FUNK-ROCK"

Westlife

Allow Us to Be Frank "AN UNCALLED-FOR MAULING"

Tin Machine

Tin Machine II "A DISASTER"

AND OTHERS...

DJ MARK RADCLIFFE nominates Metal Machine Music, by Lou Reed: "I would say William Shatner's album, but that's almost so bad it comes out the other side. Metal Machine Music is not one, but two albums of unlistenable noise, so technically it's twice as bad. I think Lou Reed would be quite proud of it being the worst album ever."

TV PRESENTER JUNE SARPONG nominates Aquarium, by Aqua: "When I was growing up I used to think they were really cool and I bought all their albums, in fact. The next one was called Aquarius. But looking back now this must be the worst thing I've heard."

DJ NORMAN COOK nominates The Mash Up Mix 2006, various artists: "Mash-ups or bootlegs [where DJs construct new tracks from samples] used to be something underground, illegal and naughty. But when they start doing K-tel style compilations, things like that kill the whole genre."

This is a man who gave the last Coldplay album a 5-star review.

Defend the indefensible: Mick Jagger Solo

It's pretty much what you'd expect from Q, of course, the pioneers of the It's Easier To Laugh At Everything Than To Believe In Anything school of music writing, but Mark Radcliffe's comments are even more depressing, especially when coupled with his daily worsening Radio 2 show. When exactly did he turn into a bitter old fart? God, when he was doing Out On Blue Six 15 years ago he would have PLAYED Metal Machine Music!

My post,shortly.

Thanks, I've been trying to work out how she managed to get a career as a TV presenter for some time and that explains it.

Citing albums loved by millions of true music lovers would have been just pathetic.

Any album that is in the Acclaimed Music Top 2500 belongs nowhere in a list of worst albums ever, regardless of subjective opinion. Most overrated, maybe, but not worst.

I have never heard MMM, but I would like to.

(Although "Let's Work" would be classed as a war crime in an enlightened world.)

I would be angry at Q were it not for the fact that Duran dissed the magazine a long time ago. In "Undergoing Treatment", Simon sarcastically sings, "We are undergoing treatment 'till our ethic fits the scene laid out in Q magazine/They crave our conformity, mediocre to the bone, terrified testosterone." So fuck them. Fuck them and their dated "let's hate on Duran" shit. I thought I'd seen the last of those nightmarish years when it became hip to like things that came out of the '80s, but no. Apparently Q is stuck in some fucking Nineties time warp, the same one that kept my '80s adoration mostly underground throughout my teenaged years.

Q magazine is absymal, i just don't understand how it sells so many copies - i guess there are lot of mainstream rock plebs that listen to virgin radio.

Q magazine

Coldplay 5-star review - went it should have been a 1 star review - I should know I was subjected to it a couple of times at work last summer, dull predictable trad-rock snore-bore drivel.

meanwhile Q gives the new Knife album - 1 star review

X-post the new Mojo issue was a stinker as well, that deserves to rot on the shelves on the newsagent. Elvis on the cover ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ and a dreadful best albums of mojo lifetime list [circa Autumn 1993? onwards]

These magazines are utterly rubbish, but they obviously hit that bit of the market which still actually buys magazines...

In summary: Go **** yourselves, you rockist ****-****s.

I think Q had a point about the wrongness of doing "911 is a joke", but I cannot slag the whole album as I have not heared it.

I think the most wrongness whas heaped on the "Spice Girls" solo albums, all of which have some great stuff. A 'greatest solo hits' would be a perfect 'missing spice girls' album, but again I can't vouch for there being 'bad' tracks on the albums as I haven't heard much of them.

Posh's last single got to number two, right? And wasn't too shabby. But the powers that be decided not to release either album (Apparently she made two), and the good old media would have it as a 'victory' for the whole celeb treadmill.

Fatboy Slim should've done a mash-up album like Soulwax when he had the chance instead of creating the appalling 'Palookaville' (now THAT'S how to kill a genre).

"Astronaut" is so much worse. At least Thank You has some comedy value. And "Lay Lady Lay" is pretty okay, I thought.

(I also recently found out that Duran have a surprising amount of obssessive fans -- wrote a bad review of Astronaut in a local Canadian paper, and got about five complaining letters, which is a tidal wave response comparatively. And some of them were from fans in the New York and UK.)

Er, after you...

Westlife are just so bland they can't even offend, there are less obvious, less cliched, harder and more deserving targets

Not Crap!

Band On The Run
Brothers In Arms
Use Your Illusion I & II
Be Here Now
Up (R.E.M.)

Crap Fabs!

Give My Regards To Broad Street
Unfinished Music No.1 - Two Virgins
Gone Troppo
Ringo The 4th

50) Beck - Midnite Vultures (1999)
49) Neil and The Shocking Pins - Everybody's Rockin' (1983)
48) Milli Vanilli - All or Something (1988)
47) Ozzy Osbourne - Uner Cover (205)
46) Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder of Giants (2000)
45) William Shatner - The Transformed Man (1968)
44) Kiss - The Music From "The Elder" (1981)
43) The Travelling Wilburys - Vol 3 (1990)
42) Babylon Zoo - The Boy With X-Ray Eyes (1996)
41) Paul Simon - Songs From The Capeman Soundtrack (1997)
40) The Others - The Others (2005)
39) Big Country - Undercover (2001)
38) Chris Rea - The Road To Hell: Part 2 (1999)
37) Shania Twain - Come On Over (1997)
36) Kula Shaker - Peasants, Pigs and Astronaughts (1999)
35) Puff Daddy - Forever (1999)
34) Fischerspooner - #1 (2002)
33) Billy Ray Cyrus - Mercury (1992)
32) Ace Of Base - The Sign (1993)
31) Stevie Wonder - The Woman In Red (1984)
30) Michael Jackson - Invincible (2001)
29) Various - Christmas in The Stars: The Star Wars Christmas Album (1980)
28) The Rolling Stones - Dirty Work (1986)
27) Destiny's Child - Destiny Fulfilled (2004)
26) Vanilla Ice - Hard To Swallow (1998)
25) The Cranberries - To The Faithful Departed (1996)
24) Lauren Hill - MTV Unplugged 2.0 (2002)
23) Alanis Morisette - Supposed Former Infactuation Junkie (1998)
22) Robson and Jerome - Robson and Jerome (1995)
21) The Clash - Cut The Crap (1985
20) Mariah Carey - Glitter OST (2001)
19) Goldie - Saturn Returnz (1998)
18) Crazy Hits - Crazy Frog (2005)
17) Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead - Dylan and The Dead (1989)
16) Spice Girls - Forever (2000)
15) Various - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band OST (1978)
14) Terence Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh
13) Bruce Willis - The Return of Bruno (1987)
12) Tom Jones - Mr. Jones (2002)
11) Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and The Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000)
10) Tin Machine - Tin Machine II (1991)
09) Westlife - Allow Us To Be Frank (2004)
08) Mick Jagger - Primtive Cool (1987)
07) Kevin Rowland - My Beauty (1999)
06) Naomi Campbell - Babywoman (1994)
05) Billy Idol - Cyberpunk (1993)
04) Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music (1975)
03) Various - Urban Renewal: The Songs of Phill Collins (2001)
02) All Spice Girls Solo Albums (1999-)
01) Duran Duran - Thank You (1995)

I haven't heard most of Thank You, but it seems to me that its worst aspect (at least from DD's standpoint) was its timing. The band had actually begun having chart hits again - decent ones - with "Ordinary World" and "Come Undone." So how do they try to keep the momentum going? Record a bad covers album. My theory is that it effectively killed their comeback once and for all.

I don't know. Maybe if it'd been released when the band actually wanted to release it, i.e. right off the heels of the massive tour in support of The Wedding Album, maybe it wouldn't have been so negatively regarded, and maybe the band would have been able to return quickly to the task of recording their own music. Maybe that would have led to more positive vibes re: the Thank You album and a continued interest in the band's new music. Because really, the song selection had to be what it was. This is what the band were listening to at the time of The Wedding Album and they wanted to highlight this. None of the members of Duran ca. 1993 were particularly interested in looking back. They were all about looking forward and at the present at once and, as such, they weren't going to be gazing upon themselves as teens and thinking, "Well, we loved Roxy/Bowie/Chic/Pistols when we were younger, so maybe we should concentrate on that for our covers album." They wanted to move away from that at that time.

BTW, would you have purchased Medazzaland had it been released in 1995? Because that was the kind of music they were going for, and the kind of music on said album was actually a logical progression in their path toward creating ever-changing, ever-evolving music. Astronaut was remarkable in that it was actually a huge step BACK in terms of the band's musical evolution, back to the Rio-tinged pop/rock sounds they became famous for in the early '80s. But Medazzaland and Pop Trash made total sense, and had the band released anything new instead of the covers album in 1995, they would have released something akin to Medazzaland.

I cannot understand what people have against that album. Sure it doesn't "rock", but then, Oasis are at their best when they do Beatles-influenced POP ballads anyway.

50) Beck - Midnite Vultures (1999)
46) Oasis - Standing On The Shoulder of Giants (2000)
44) Kiss - The Music From "The Elder" (1981)
43) The Travelling Wilburys - Vol 3 (1990)
34) Fischerspooner - #1 (2002)

As for the rest of the list, I can understand most of the albums are in there, although "Come On Over" occasionally appear on lists of best albums ever and as such shouldn't be in this list.

Also, Rolling Stones' mid 80s output wasn't that bad, was it?

I guess they listed is as a response to those who write of McCartney's entire solo career as bad.

They are sort of an interesting read because they tend to be dominated by two kinds of albums

1. Typical mainstream titles that anyone may click on just to add a bad rating, and then lacking the all the good ratings that Oasis/Coldplay will have to oppose the bad ones. Albums in the "canon" receive too many good reviews to do well in this list
2. Albums that are generally considered by fans to be the act's worst - these people often rate every single one of their favourite act's work while the lack of fans liking them will give the albums very few positive ratings, bringing the total rating to an ovious low.

All in all, this is a fascinating list because, well, I think most people will agree with the selections (other than some of the mainstream teenybopper pop ones)

Crazy Frog at #1...stupid - who has actually heard this album?

Is this true?