what's the worst side-project by an otherwise (at least somewhat) respectable artist?

is it this?

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/puscifer.jpg

Is that worse than Dee Dee King?

Mick n' David

I think you could do a whole thread based around terrible Tool side projects.

Dee Dee only had one single while he was in the Ramones. It was mostly a post-band project, not a side project...

But that one single was probably worse than Puscifer

I don't know what Puscifer is, but on the strength of the cover posted at the top of the thread, I'd say that is much worse than poor Dee Dee.

Can we count the dabolical three-headed monstrosity that was Sting/Adams/Stewart? If so, then lock thread.

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sorry what

http://bisson.googlepages.com/tin_machine.jpg/tin_machine-full.jpg

Revenge?

Chris Gaines?

oh, otherwise respectable. hummmm...

Tuatara

minuteflag.

john lennon and yoko ono. lock thread.

Hindu Love Gods!

This was really disappointing:

http://x48.xanga.com/745c70e5d9d35175596815/z133720865.jpg

revenge were nowhere near as bad as history would have you believe. better than monaco anyway

The Tom Tom Club segment on "Stop Making Sense" is really painful.

no it isn't!

Doing that record with that terrible rock "singer" was pretty embarrassing for Mouse on Mars.

It's a good record; better than anything they'd done solo since Idiology, if not before.

Also, it's MARK E SMITH, Tuomas.

Well yeah, I was gonna add the qualifier that it's not like their career has been that great anyway lately. Ever since they decided they want to be a real band with proper vocals and all, it seems like they've just gradually gone worse and worse, but getting this guy to "sing" for them was really the rock bottom.

"this guy"

""sing""

Art of pretend forgetfulness in full effect here

Well yeah, I do know he's supposed to be some sort of punk demi-god around here, but that doesn't change the fact that he sounds horrible to me. I never really got the "punk" idea that singing badly can somehow be as good as (or even better than) singing well.

Some way to go before you reach Geir standard.

I dunno, that whole post reads much the same.

Sorry Tuomas, talking about you while you're standing there.

Does he take sugar?

No, he's a Husker Du purist.

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― № 1 (libcrypt), Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:38 AM (9 hours ago)

words of extreme foolishness.

What did they have that was going while the band were extant? Mr Bungle, Imperial Teen, couple of Patton solo things, Brujeria... acquired tastes I'll grant you but Dee Dee King was the second post here

I read that as Mike Patton's worst side project being Faith No More.

Norman Cook was horrible in the beginning, but got better from the mid 90s onwards.

tin machine?

Memphis (guy from Stars)

The Raconteurs

'A Fifth of Beethoven'

Standing in the Spotlight is the album by Dee Dee Ramone, under the rap moniker Dee Dee King, released in 1989. The album is sometimes considered to be one of the pinnacles of modern culture, while others argue the whole affair was tongue-in-cheek. It also gave Dee Dee Ramone the distinction of being one of the first white rappers.

Dee Dee Ramone's wikipedia pages have some weird highly questionable shit in them.

was wondering how long this thread would last before tin machine were given a nudge.
totally dont agree.
while the band were not that great (other than a couple of songs), the whole process was necessary for bowie to cleanse away the memories of the 80 excess haircut era. also, i reckon those albums dont sound half as bad as people like to suggest.

if blur ever make another album, then i'd like to bet a fw quid that they will become a viable addition to this thread.

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― № 1 (libcrypt), Tuesday, October 28, 2008 1:38 AM (9 hours ago)

words of extreme foolishness.

― m the g, Tuesday, October 28, 2008 11:19 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark

Much as I love a lot of his stuff, Patton has put a fair bit of shit out there to be honest.

Yeah but at the risk of overly splitting hairs, he didn't have that much going on while FNM were still a band

actually, come to think of it, even worse than puscifer would be dave pajo's "metal" project dead child. just beyond horrible. and melvins side-project altamont was really bad too. (can't remember which melvin did that one...)

i haven't heard enough of j mascis's "metal" band witch to say whether they belong here, but they probably do.

and eagles of death metal probably suck too.

Harry Crews

Gorillaz

(o hell yeh i went there)

Minuteflag was GREAT! I'm in the minority here, I know, but however noodly it was, it was a uniquely noodly in a way that kinda went in a good direction that was neither Minutemen nor Ginn/Black Flag somehow.

Minuteflag >>> Gone >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Hor

which segues into the worst side project ever

Hor

Thuck You, Greg Ginn

"Harry Crews"

hahaha, that's for sure! i lied to kim once and told her i really liked the album after it had come out. i was drunk and was trying to think of something nice to say to her.

Altamont was Dale Crover I think. Witch doesn't really have much metal going on, more uptempoish thud-rock that I'm not sure Mascis (the drummer) has a lot of musical input into. Dead Child I couldn't understand people being bothered about one way or the other

awesome faith no more sideproject reccerd:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/315DMPRZYJL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

"Dead Child I couldn't understand people being bothered about one way or the other"

i actually found the first album to be offensively bad. and it never would have been put out by anyone if he hadn't been involved. i mean, there are vanity projects and there are one off goofs and then there are things that probably seem like a fun idea to people at the time, but that should never actually be released and instead handed out to friends and family as gag gifts.

Gorillaz global success anulates the nomination. I think for a band to truly be considered as the worst one it has to provoke equal disgust amongst audio philistines and connoseurs, or complete indifference, at least.

The Raconteurs and a huge deal of Patton's side-projects like say, Mr. bungle or Fantomas receive polarizing reviews and have a fanbase big enough to nulify the vote.

I'd give my vote to Puscifer as well. There's absolutely no redeeming qualities to that piece of shit.

I'd like to nominate both Mike Patton and Nick Cave for creating (what seems like) hundreds of pointless side-project bands to make some music that could have just been made by their primary bands.

dim stars altho SY members have probably been in worse

Except for a couple songs, Traveling Wilburys.