Funnily enough (also drifting this thread) I think about this song when older generations complain about my generations music being so bad (I'm a millennial).Orchorsol wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 7:17 am Thread drift.jpg
I'm going to drift this thread unapologetically - here's a wonderfully, gloriously dreadful 78: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlVCkjmTXrY
Worst cylinder record songs
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Nearly Anything with the word “Mother” in the title is bound to be as dull as dishwater.
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just before the battle mother hits pretty hard thoughAmberolaAndy wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:25 pm Nearly Anything with the word “Mother” in the title is bound to be as dull as dishwater.
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Come on, Captain Baby Bunting isn’t THAT terrible… when it is compared to punk music!jamiegramo wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 5:01 am Hard to think of anything much worse than Captain Baby Bunting. Pretty dreadful.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypad55KxaxI
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Hey! I happen to like some punk musicVictroid wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 12:03 pmCome on, Captain Baby Bunting isn’t THAT terrible… when it is compared to punk music!jamiegramo wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 5:01 am Hard to think of anything much worse than Captain Baby Bunting. Pretty dreadful.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypad55KxaxI
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Me too!oceanlinerfanatic wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 4:37 pmHey! I happen to like some punk musicVictroid wrote: Wed Nov 26, 2025 12:03 pmCome on, Captain Baby Bunting isn’t THAT terrible… when it is compared to punk music!jamiegramo wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 5:01 am Hard to think of anything much worse than Captain Baby Bunting. Pretty dreadful.
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Anything with the word "Mammy" in the title is bound to be even worse.AmberolaAndy wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2025 8:25 pm Nearly Anything with the word “Mother” in the title is bound to be as dull as dishwater.
Although I'll grant you, if it's as awful in the cylinder account https://www.discogs.com/release/1795102 ... bDZ1A3elEu as it is on a Victor disk, Alan Tours's "Mother o' Mine" bids fair to trump even the worst of the Mammy songs. Even Emilio de Gogorza, a master at selling dubious songs, couldn't salvage that one. (A shame, because it is the first of two songs on the record, and the other, "The Lark Now Leaves its Wat'ry Nest," is a pure delight.)
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For sheer bad taste, 'The Colored Recruits' (a vaudeville sketch, but includes a song) is pretty hard to beat.
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Makes me think of Dorothy Parker's review (as 'Constant Reader') of A.A. Milne's verses:jamiegramo wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2025 5:01 am Hard to think of anything much worse than Captain Baby Bunting. Pretty dreadful.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ypad55KxaxI
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"Santa Claus Hides in Your Phonograph" Sounds more like something from a Freddy Krueger movie.