BrokeNCYDE's "I'm Not A Fan, But The Kids Like It" - the worst album ever, ever?

I think so. This is ear rape, in its truest sense. Imagine the shitness of the instrument section in a song by, hmm, 3OH!3, Cobra Starship or even Akon. Add lyrics about fucking some random, drunk 14 year old scene girl against a wall in a club (every song is based around this pretense). Then some cliché screamed vocals, typically found in a song by a group such as Linkin Park, as well as heavily-autotuned vocals reminiscent of T-Pain.

This is BrokeNCYDE. They suck. They really, really suck. Once, an artist with integrity (forgot who) told them they were shit. They replied "you're just jealous cause we get all the girlz" (or something along those lines). They don't get it. People laugh at them. The only people who take them seriously are 14 year old scene girls, the same ones that they sing about fucking drunk in a club. Their tracks are entitled such things as "Booty Call", "Get Crunk" and "Sex Toyz". I'm 6 tracks through now and I think I've heard the word 'panties' in every song so far.

My ears have been violated. I tried getting through the whole record, I really did, but I can't take this anymore.

Matt
Now listening to "Riceboy Sleeps" by Jónsi and Alex

Nominees for Secondary Awards

Even though no one reads this, here is the awards that I will be giving at the end of the year (doesn't include top 10s):
Best Rock Album, Best Folk Album, Best Metal Album, Best Post-Rock Album, Best Alternative Album;
Absolute Worst Artist, Best Album to Fall Asleep To, Biggest Letdown, Stupidest Things to do in Public, Best Album Art

And the nominees are.

Best Rock Album (these nominations liable to change)

• Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
• Pearl Jam - Backspacer
• Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
• Karnivool - Sound Awake

Best Folk Album

• Yusuf Islam - Roadsinger
• Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
• Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
• Neil Young - Fork In The Road

Best Metal Album

• Isis - Wavering Radiant
• Giant Squid - The Ichthyologist
• Mastodon - Crack The Skye
• Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals

Best Post-Rock Album (these nominations liable to change)

• And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
• Do Make Say Think - The Other Truths
• If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
• Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship

Best Alternative Album

• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
• The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
• Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Let's Wash Away

Absolute Worst Artist

• BrokeNCYDE
• 3OH!3
• Cobra Starship
• The Millionaires

Best Album To Fall Asleep To

• Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Let's Wash Away
• Muse - The Resistance
• Yusuf Islam - Roadsinger
• If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky

Biggest Letdown

• Muse - The Resistance
• Pearl Jam - Backspacer
• New Moon Soundtrack
• Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest

Stupidest Things to do in Public

• Interrupt Taylor Swift (as done by Kanye West)
• Die (as done by Michael Jackson)
• Release an album (as done by BrokeNCYDE)
• Prosecute people who download music (as done by Lily Allen)

Best Album Art

• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
• And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
• Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
• Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More

Remember, any of these could change. The ones that I've noted are probably going to change. You can still consider it a final nominee list, however :)
Matt
Now listening to "Above The Earth, Below The Sky" (2009) by If These Trees Could Talk

Shortlist of 10 Best Albums of 2009

At the end of the year, I'm going to do a few yearly lists. They are:
10 Best Albums of 2009
10 Biggest Fail Songs of 2009
10 Best Albums of the Noughties
5 (maybe 10) Best Games of 2009
as well as Best Metal Album, Best Folk Album, Best Rock Album, Best Progressive Album, Best Alternative Album, Best Post-Rock Albumand the honorary awards:Absolute Worst Artist, Stupidest Thing to do in Public, Biggest Letdown Album
So, for myself as much as for the three people who read new blogs on this site, I'm going to post the shortlists I've come up with for these lists.

10 Best Albums:

• And So I Watch You From Afar - And So I Watch You From Afar
• Animal Collective - Merriweather Post Pavilion
• Antony & The Johnsons - The Crying Light
• Atlas Sound - Logos
• Bill Callahan - Sometimes I Wish We Were An Eagle
• Danger Mouse & Sparklehorse - Dark Night Of The Soul
• Do Make Say Think - The Other Truths
• The Flaming Lips - Embryonic
• Giant Squid - The Icthyologist
• Grizzly Bear - Veckatimest
• If These Trees Could Talk - Above The Earth, Below The Sky
• Isis - Wavering Radiant
• Karnivool - Sound Awake
• Manic Street Preachers - Journal For Plague Lovers
• maudlin of the Well - Part The Second
• Mew - No More Stories Are Told Today, I'm Sorry, They Washed Away, No More Stories, The World Is Grey, I'm Tired, Let's Wash Away
• Modest Mouse - No One's First, And You're Next
• Mumford & Sons - Sigh No More
• Pearl Jam - Backspacer
• Sunn O))) - Monoliths & Dimensions
• Them Crooked Vultures - Them Crooked Vultures
• Tortoise - Beacons Of Ancestorship
• Yusuf - Roadsinger (To Warm You Through The Night)

and, some albums that might make it but I haven't listened to yet,

• Alexisonfire - Old Crows / Young Cardinals
• Alice In Chains - Black Gives Way To Blue
• (i'll keep posting more here as i think of them)

The shortlist for the 10 best albums of the noughties list is going to be not-so-short, and will probably take me days of solid work to finally come up with one, even just a shortlist. So here is the 10 biggest fails shortlist:

• Lady GaGa - Love Game (all songs of hers qualify)
• Soulja Boy Tell 'Em - Kiss Me Thru The Phone
• DJ Sidney Sampson - Riverside
• Cobra Starship and Leighton Meestor - Good Girls Go Bad
• Flo Rida - Sugar
• Flo Rida - Right Round
• Taylor Swift - Love Story
• Kesha - Tik Tok
• 3OH!3 - Starstrukk
• 3OH!3 - Don't Trust Me
• Black Eyed Peas - Boom Boom Pow
• Robbie Williams - Bodies
• The Lonely Island and T-Pain - I'm On A Boat
• Pitbull - Hotel Room Service
• Pitbull - I Know You Want Me
• Big Pink - Dominos
• The Millionaires - Just Got Paid, Let's Get Laid
• Brokencyde - (everything off their album)
• (this is a work in progress, there's plenty more shit to be sifted through.)

Matt
Now listening to "Sigh No More" (2009) by Mumford & Sons(edit 2) Now listening to "Sound Awake" (2009) by Karnivool

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