Elvis's worst release would be his ejaculation project that contained Lisa Marie.

Now! Now! trainarollin...that's what I'd call below the belt...

ROCKMAN

I always thought "Goodbye Cruel World" was his weakest album.

Ross

Having Fun With Elvis On Stage. It's a live album that contains no music, only his between-song patter. I'm not making this up. It was released in 1974. The worst album of all time. Period.

Elvis has a cool photo album.

ROCKMAN

tatters Wrote:
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> Having Fun With Elvis On Stage. It's a live album
> that contains no music, only his between-song
> patter. I'm not making this up. It was released in
> 1974. The worst album of all time. Period.


I found it quite amusing in parts. To be fair to Elvis, he had nothing to do with that record. Col. Parker sold it at concerts on his own Boxcar label then somewhow persuadesd RCA to release it.

It was certainly more fun than the "Harum Scarum" soundtrack

tatters Wrote:
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> Having Fun With Elvis On Stage. It's a live album
> that contains no music, only his between-song
> patter. I'm not making this up. It was released in
> 1974. The worst album of all time. Period.


Yeah, that's definitely Elvis' worst. But the worst album of all time has gotta be 'Metal Machine Music' by Lou Reed. Lou was pissed off at RCA over some contract negotiations so he gave 'em a double album filled with nothing but feedback noise. It's absolutely unlistenable.

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Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2007-12-22 04:56 by cirrhosis.

LOL that first post is priceless!
Once he started doing "Zarahustra" he lost me. Ouch!
I would like to hear that album with hs patterings. LOL Reminds me of the album of nothing but Taylor's solos on YCAGWYW.

RockR Wrote:
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> tatters Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Having Fun With Elvis On Stage. It's a live
> album
> > that contains no music, only his
> between-song
> > patter. I'm not making this up. It was
> released in
> > 1974. The worst album of all time. Period.
>
>
> Yeah, that's definitely Elvis' worst. But the
> worst album of all time has gotta be 'Metal
> Machine Music' by Lou Reed. Lou was pissed off at
> RCA over some contract negotiations so he gave 'em
> a double album filled with nothing but feedback
> noise. It's absolutely unlistenable.
>
>


I've got an album that has both the "qualities" of these two, and that's 'Arc' by Neil Young & Crazy Horse from 1991. It's sort of live, since it's the feedback noise and drumroll endings of songs including applause and occasional shouts of Love And Only Love and the like by Neil all mixed into one single 35 minute long track. In the studio they've added some annoying keyboards to it, probably to fix the editing cuts. It sounds really awful, and you can't listen to this for 35 minutes. I tried, but stopped it after 5 minutes or so.
Reading about Elvis' between-song-banter-album actually made me laugh, but I didn't laugh any longer when the thought of 'Arc' came up.

RockR Wrote:
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> tatters Wrote:
> --------------------------------------------------
> -----
> > Having Fun With Elvis On Stage. It's a live
> album
> > that contains no music, only his
> between-song
> > patter. I'm not making this up. It was
> released in
> > 1974. The worst album of all time. Period.
>
>
> Yeah, that's definitely Elvis' worst. But the
> worst album of all time has gotta be 'Metal
> Machine Music' by Lou Reed. Lou was pissed off at
> RCA over some contract negotiations so he gave 'em
> a double album filled with nothing but feedback
> noise. It's absolutely unlistenable.

Right. A big FU to his record company, much in the same spirit in which the Stones fulfilled a contractual obligation by submitting @#$%& Blues as their new single. Not unlistenable, but it probably wouldn't have gotten much airplay in 1970. Or any other year.

Rock R you beat me to it, as soon as I started resding this thread, I knew it was not about Elvis, but Reed's Metal Machine Music came immediately to mind. Released right after two solid live albums, which are still some of the best guitar albums around, he even had the nerve to use similar cover art.

Worse yet, rather than admit at the time it was big FU to the company, Reed gave serious interviews, commenting how all four sides lasted the same amount of time down to the second, how precise things were, and how much better it all sounded on head phones. Hell it was the seventies and I tried head phones and a combination of any street drug I could find, and no mmatter how blissfully blown my mind was, I could never get thru one side of the four!

There was a great interview with Lester Bangs in which Reed explained his creative process:

" .... like, there's tons of things in there, but if you don't know them you wouldn't catch it. Just sit down and you can hear Beethoven right in the opening part of it. It's down here in, like, you know, about the fifteenth harmonic. But it's not the only one there, there's about seventeen more going at the same time. It just depends which one you catch. And when I say Beethoven, y'know, there are other people in there. Vivaldi .... I used pretty obvious ones ...."

Years later he admitted he had made the whole thing up. You gotta admire a guy like that.