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In fun stuff, Outside Left’s ‘Nick Soulsby Week’ finished with a piece on my five most hated records. Surprises? Probably not. Radiohead! Foo Fighters! One Mogwai album! Nicki Minaj’s latest letting me down! Then, my worst of all-time is definitely that horrendous ‘Duets’ album they released a few years after the death of The Notorious BIG. Bleugh. It’s nice to think of one’s worst rather than one’s best, to have to explain and justify why such a visceral reaction. Hope it amuses. Could I have made it ten? I think it would have taken work to make it to ten! My feeling is it takes a lot to make something worthy of dislike rather than just ‘nothing’. There are a lot of nothing records out there, a lot of music that just ain’t for me but it’s fine if someone else wants it (re: I missed the entirety of The Smashing Pumpkins’ career and trying to look back it just made me shrug)…Hate takes some work.
I would add The Weekend’s album Starboy on in a heart beat – I think it’s the most disappointing thing I’ve listened to ever – but I didn’t want to repeat myself for Outside Left!
Nirvana Legacy 