Worst album or compilation idea?

Only slightly related: Has anyone ever seen the very old "Star Wars Christmas Special". UnFrickin' believable.

 

I forgot about "I'm A Boy", that would've been a good one too. Also, "Little Billy" was in the can and could've been used.

 

The ATM (For trade only) unofficial series for collectors, put together this "cover" for their version of the recordings.

 

Dude's a legend. Why would he do this...

Yes, this is the Vic Mizzy, regaling the convelescent home on his Montgomery-Ward-edition Bosendorfer, with spoken little ditties his grandchildren can't un-hear...but - BUT-! - also includes actual "performances" of both the Addams Family and Green Acres, where he seems to have crooned over the top of his TeeVeeToons disc (shoulda gotten Gladys down the hall in Room 104 to man the audio, and turned it down a just bit more during the vocal!). Yep - just the thing to put you in the mood for some sprightly mall-walkin! Anybody seen my good pair of Easy Spirits...?

 

I kinda like this album but it doesn’t make much sense.

 

Greendale. And the tour was worse.

 

Queen "The A-Z Of Queen Volume 1" album gallery

 

This is a really bad cover,the UK one was better. The entire first side being Beatles songs too is terrible to do to a solo artist. I'm pretty sure I read that George even offered to sequence an LP for the label and they went with this.

 

The Surfsider Sing The Beach Boys Songbook is hilariously bad.

 

Certainly not today. But at the time, a number of these songs were only available on hard to find albums. But, yeah, looking at the track listing, it seems very incoherent

 

Speaking of strange Monkees comps
The Monkees - Barrelful Of Monkees
(Monkees songs for kids!)

 

I got roped into buying that one by the cool-looking cover. I got it home, put it on, and it was..."What the hell is this?"
I took it back to the store, claiming it was defective (I wouldn't have been lying) and got something else.
Definitely scraping the bottom of the Hendrix barrel. And 3 volumes of this $#!t!

 

Pointless comp that misses the point of what exactly is 'spooky' about MJ in the first place.

 

It was unofficial of course. Nothing to do with the Hendrix estate at the time. Ephron himself put the stuff out.
The cover photo is from the Royal Albert Hall rehearsals (February 1969).

 

It was supposed to be part 4 of the Arista Greatest Hits set with Monkee Business being number 3.
I’d have to go through the songs on all four albums and see if all the singles are at least there.

 

Or all their recent unreleased gems like Glittering Girl, Melancholia, Jaguar, Little Billy, Young Man Blues, Sodding About (and/or Hall of the Mountain King)...and, yeah, Dogs and Magic Bus and Mr. Hyde.

Could've been almost a real album, and a great last gasp of the early Who. What they released just baffles.

 

They were the US owners of Queen's catalogue and the DVD sources from pre-existing official DVDs...still

 

The winner. A senselessly wasted opportunity.

 

One wonders what songs US Decca was aware of. I wouldn't be surprised if they were NOT aware of a lot of these songs at that point in time, given that you have an English group and a US label (especially a "not-with-the-times" one such as Decca). I suspect that Townshend and co. were not happy with Decca by now (thought I remembered reading they felt that "I Can See For Miles" should have been a bigger US hit than it was -- they definitely felt that way about "Pinball Wizard ---- but that was still in the future at this point). Or --- maybe -- they had bigger plans for tying those other songs together, and didn't want to release some of them on a "leftovers" compilation.

I was keeping my list confined to songs Decca had issued on singles (A- or B-sides) up to that point and had not released on LP -- songs that Decca definitely knew about at the time this LP was compiled.

My catalogs are at home and I will not be able to look at them until later, to make such a list (of songs that had already appeared on US Decca 45s). Presumably that info is online also, but I don't always trust what I see online.

 

part musical...part cartoon, part variety show.. part live tv. all awful. I hade never heard of this until now... it has the original cast!! wow.. and this introduced Boba Fett (sic) incredible.


P.S. Bea Arthur is in this! so excited.

 

I made the mistake of buying this. 3 CDs of material by KC related musicians. None of it very memorable.

 

I sometimes play the CD of this for the kids at the elementary school where I work. They like it okay, but it's no "We Will Rock You ".

 

Ethel Merman's Disco album's pretty dreadful - so bad it borders on hilarious.

 

It’s kinda weird...
I’m still glad I have it and when I want to play it it’s exactly because it’s such a messy, misleading, thrown-together cash grab!

 

Good point about the U.S.-exclusive throw-together product. I just wish the band would've proactively compiled something for universal release (also in '70 & '72, for that matter, in addition to '68). But they were probably just so forward looking at that juncture, youthfully unconcerned with their "legacy."