Purposefully bad contract filler albums: "Got away with it" or "Oh No! Still they talk about it!"

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Got away with it: "The King" - Teenage Fanclub

Oh Noe - (etc) : "Metal Machine Music" - Lou Reed

Don't Know: "Payin' Dues" - Van Morrison

There must be more/plenty of them. How often does this 'purposeful' reduction in quality actually become more of a 'oh no! forgotten how to do good stuff' trauma?

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:42 (eighteen years ago)

i was about to answer, then i noticed the word "purposefully"

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:53 (eighteen years ago)

eminem's last album innit (still sure it was deliberately bad, how else to explain 'ass like that')

also the concept covers album tori amos made to get out of a contract without giving her record label original material (which was better and more interesting than the 20-track concept MOR sludge epics she was then free to release to an uncaring world)

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 09:54 (eighteen years ago)

the t amos concept record wasn't good, but i'm sure she didn't intentionally make it bad. it's wildly erratic for sure and 'raining blood' is a travesty, though i'm sure she felt she'd be tapping into her core audience with the whole project.

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:01 (eighteen years ago)

oh i quite liked it (inc 'raining blood') but the motivation underlying it was clearly "hmm how to get out of contract" - which might be why it's better than her next two because she actually had to engage her brain and focus on the material, rather than fill up the entire disc with whatever garblings came out of her head

― lex pretend, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:04 (eighteen years ago)

Aphex Twin's drukqs

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:18 (eighteen years ago)

come on, drukqs is pretty good. contract ender or no contract ender :)

and lex, you're quite right. 'strange little girls' is obviously a lot more rehearsed and cohesive than whatever she's come up with since, which is mostly flippant and over-indulged

― Charlie Howard, Monday, 30 April 2007 10:44 (eighteen years ago)

van morrison's is great (cf. "want a danish?," "here comes dumb george," etc)

― impudent harlot, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

"You say "France" and I'll whistle" I'm sure is a takeoff of the Beatles' "Hello Goodbye"

― Mark G, Monday, 30 April 2007 12:34 (eighteen years ago)

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