Welcome back to Broken Records, the podcast that searches in all the right places to crown the very worst album in the history of music. We’ve got a biggie of a name this week as we look at Born Again, the 11th studio album from the inventors of heavy metal, Black Sabbath, released on the 7th of August 1983. Sabbath basically dodged a bullet when original vocalist Ozzy Osbourne left the band and they were able to replace him with the equally enigmatic Ronnie James Dio. Dio recorded two albums wi...
Jun 26, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Welcome back to Broken Records, where Steve and Remfry have decided to try and find the very worst album of all time. This week we’re looking at the debut album from UK rock personality Screaming Lord Sutch, Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends, released on the 25th of May 1970. If you’re of a similar age to us then you might know the name from his various political endeavours back in the 80s and 90s, but Screaming Lord Sutch (not a real Lord) was actually something of a shock rock pioneer back in the e...
Jun 08, 2022•1 hr 22 min
Welcome back to another edition of Broken Records, where Steve and Remfry are charged with the unenviable task of finding the worst album ever made. This week we’re looking at Other Voices, the 7th studio album from the LA psychedelic rock band The Doors, released on the 18th of October 1971. In the aftermath of the release of arguably their finest album, 1971’s LA Woman, The Doors were rocked with the untimely passing of their iconic frontman Jim Morrison. They had already been writing as a thr...
May 16, 2022•1 hr 2 min
Welcome back to Broken Records, where Steve and Remfry search for the least good of all the albums in the history of music. Today we’re once again joined by Tom Dare, host of the Hell Bent For Metal podcast, as we’re in bad heavy metal territory once again. Yup, the time has come for us to tackle the Blaze Bayley era of Iron Maiden with their 11th studio album Virtual XI from 1998. The 90’s weren’t great for Maiden, and unlike a lot of bands they can’t really blame grunge. The faults of that dec...
May 01, 2022•2 hr 12 min
Welcome to another episode of Broken Records, the podcast which desperately scours the music world and tries to answer that age old question; what is the worst album ever made? This week Steve and Remfry have a hot contender on their hands as they look at Paula by Robin Thicke, the 7th studio album from the soul-pop lothario, released on the 1st of July 2014. Thicke had a pretty decent decade long career in the music industry by 2013, he may not have scaled the heights of a Justin Timberlake or ...
Apr 17, 2022•1 hr 48 min
Welcome back to another episode of Broken Records, where Steve and Remfry from that Riot Act show search for the worst album in the history of music. This week we are looking at the 4th album from South Africa post-grunge band Seether; Finding Beauty in Negative Spaces from back in 2007. We don’t know much about Seether, other than some bloke at Sonisphere 2014 really liked them and bullied Steve into playing them on the radio, but it turns out they are a pretty big deal in the US. The band got ...
Apr 11, 2022•1 hr 19 min
Welcome back to Broken Records, our weekly search for the worst album ever made in history. This week Steve and Remfry are looking at Shine On by Australian old school rock revivalists Jet, released on the 30th of September 2006. It’s a place that we’ve been multiple times here on Broken Records, looking at the follow up album to the hit record from a garage rock/indie landfill band of the mid-00’s. Usually it would be the same ol’ conversation and we might even be telling you to skip this week'...
Apr 03, 2022•1 hr 17 min
Our search for the worst album of all time resumes, yes, it’s us here at Broken Records. Steve and Remfry head back to October 30th 2006 this week and look at the boom of deathcore with its most successful ever exponents; Bring Me The Horizon and their debut album Count Your Blessings. It’s pretty odd to be thinking about BMTH today in the context of them being a scrappy, drunk bunch of kids trying to sound like The Red Chord, whilst they’re currently one of the biggest rock acts on the face of ...
Mar 28, 2022•1 hr 32 min
Welcome back to Broken Records, the show that searches high, but more often, low for the worst album ever made. This week we are looking at one of the most obvious on paper albums in history; Danzig Sings Elvis from April 2020. Surely Glen Danzig should have done this album ages ago right? The man has made a career from being a black clad, gothy version of The King, earning the nickname “Evil Elvis” dating all the way back to his time fronting goth-punk pioneers The Misfits. If there was a time ...
Mar 21, 2022•1 hr 24 min
Welcome back to a brand new entry into the catalogue of Broken Records, where Steve and Remfry search for the very worst album of all time. This week we come to you with a warning, this episode is not the usual laugh-a-thon that we pride ourselves on being. It’s a heavier and often upsetting episode as we look at the debut album from reality TV star Farrah Abraham, My Teenage Dream Ended, released on 1st of August 2012. Abraham made her name as a 17 year old, on the MTV show 16 and Pregnant in 2...
Mar 14, 2022•1 hr 46 min
Welcome back to Broken Records, the podcast that searches for the worst record ever made in the history of music. This week Steve and Remfry travel back to Britain in that wondrous period of the late 90’s going into the early 2000’s as they look at You’Ll Love To Hate This, the long forgotten debut, and so far only, full length album from comedian, actor, presenter and… rapper… sort of… Richard Blackwood, released on the 11th of September 2000. Who remembers Richard Blackwood… yeah?... a few… wh...
Mar 06, 2022•1 hr 50 min
On this weeks Broken Records Steve and Remfry continue their search for the worst album ever made by reacquainting themselves with an old friend. This is definitely not the first time we’ve spoken about death metal pioneers Morbid Angel’s 2011 comeback album Illud Divinum Insanus, but we’re obliged to do it and so we’re going in deeper than ever. Quite what makes this record broken are things we’ve discussed in prior podcasts; the absurd and seemingly endless wait from the return of iconic front...
Feb 27, 2022•1 hr 30 min
Grab the coffee and the sleeping pills, this week's Broken Records is going to be a long one. Steve and Remfry are back, continuing their quest to find the worst album of all time, and today they have found the foolproof insomnia cure that is Phil Collins 7th solo album Testify, released on the 11th of November 2002. Listen, we don’t want to hate too hard on Phil Collins, lord knows he’s had enough pops taken at him over the years. Particularly in the 90’s, when, after his commercial peak in the...
Feb 20, 2022•1 hr 22 min
Broken Records is here again, bringing you our search for the very worst album ever released in music history. This week Steve and Remfry are looking into the weird, wild and rarely wonderful world of Cyberpunk, the 5th studio album by the plastic punk superstar Billy Idol, released on the 29th of June 1993. Billy Idol was, of course, a huge star as the 90’s came into view. With a string of MTV heavy hit singles in the previous decade he had become one of the music world’s most instantly recogni...
Feb 13, 2022•1 hr 51 min
Hello and welcome back to another edition of Broken Records, the podcast that searches far and wide for the very worst album of all time. Today Steve and Remfry are talking about Lil Wayne’s The Rebirth, the 7th studio album from the New Orleans rapper, released on the 2nd of February 2010. We can’t pretend that either of us are massive fans of Lil Wayne… or small fans… or fans. But there’s no doubt that he’s a pretty significant artist in the hip-hop world. By the year 2008 he was a legit super...
Feb 06, 2022•1 hr 33 min
Welcome to another episode of Broken Records, where Stephen Hill and Remfry Dedman take a deep breath, hold their nose and dive head first into some of the stinkiest musical moments ever in search for the very worst album of all time. Today we’re looking at I Am Me, the second full length record by US pop-rocker Ashlee Simpson, released on the 18th of October 2005. With us both being UK based, we don’t actually know all that much about Miss Simpson. She never really cracked Britain, in fact all ...
Jan 30, 2022•1 hr 10 min
Welcome to another search for the worst album of all time here on Broken Records. Steve and Remfry really don’t want to be here this week as they are covering an album by one of their heroes; the late, great Chris Cornell and his third studio album Scream released on the 10th of March 2009. Cornell had become a legit mainstream star in the mid 00’s after his cover of Billie Jean by Michael Jackson was being karaoke-massacred by X-Factor contestants and his song You Know My Name being an actual B...
Jan 23, 2022•1 hr 43 min
Welcome to another episode of Broken Records, our search for the very worst album that has ever dared to disgrace the good name of music. This week Steve and Remfry are joined by Tom Dare, host of the Hell Bent For Metal podcast, to talk about Supercharger, the fourth studio album by Oakland metal heroes Machine Head, released on the 2nd of October 2001. After the lukewarm reception to 1999’s nu-metal leaning The Burning Red, Machine Head told the world that they were coming back swinging with s...
Jan 16, 2022•2 hr 17 min
Happy new year and welcome back to our search for the worst album of all time. We’ve got a beauty for you this week as Steve and Remfry wrap their ears around Allow Us To Be Frank, the fifth studio album from Irish boyband sensation Westlife, released on the 8th of November 2004. At this point in their career, Westlife had become a license to print money, simply from being nice, faceless boys singing balladic cover versions of increasingly dislikeable songs. In early 2004, the band's only recogn...
Jan 09, 2022•1 hr 47 min
On this week’s episode, it feels like Steve and Remfry have very little to say about the album Atilla by Atilla, so they go off on all manner of tangents instead. You’ll enjoy that, we’re sure. Anyway, the Attila we’re talking about this week are not the rap-metalcore band that you probably know and begrudgingly tolerate, no, rather they are the proto-metal duo of Jon Small and Billy Joel. Yes, THAT Billy Joel. Their self-titled debut album was released in 1970 with Epic records signing the band...
Dec 19, 2021•1 hr 9 min
This week Steve and Remfry get ready to rumble as they once again search for the worst album of all time. This week Broken Records steps into the squared circle to grapple with the debut album from Macho Man Randy Savage, 2003’s Be A Man. Back in the glory days of professional wrestling The Macho Man was one of the most recognisable faces and voices in a game filled with huge and iconic characters. But by 2004 it had been a while since we had heard anything from him, save for a cameo… sorry, fea...
Dec 05, 2021•1 hr 42 min
It’s another trip into music’s most embarrassing recesses with Broken Records and our search for the worst album ever made in history. This week Steve and Remfry head back to 2005, and pick through the poo and willy-filled world of scatological humour dreamed up by Pennsylvanian frat boy rockers Bloodhound Gang and their 4th album Hefty Fine. Seems mad to think it by 2021 standards but, way back when, Bloodhound Gang’s mix of bratty hip hop, pop punk, 80’s synths and deliberately politically inc...
Nov 28, 2021•1 hr 29 min
This week we head back to the 9th of September 2014 and discuss one of the most heinous crimes in the history of music; stadium rock megastars U2’s 13th studio album Songs of Innocence. After 2009’s No Line On The Horizon album “only” went platinum once in both the US and the UK, U2 were keen to make themselves relevant to a broader spectrum of music fans once again. After a protracted 5 year recording process, Songs of Innocence was not just released, it was shoved into the iTunes library of ev...
Nov 21, 2021•1 hr 49 min
Our search for the worst album of all time has brought us to a place where we are considering actual rock n’ roll royalty. This week we look at The Weirdness by The Stooges, the 4th full length album from the Detroit proto-punk legends, released on the 5th of March 2007. These days we are well aware that when a legacy band return with new material, chances are, it won’t be as good as the classics that they used to churn out. That attitude hadn’t really arrived with quite so much gusto in the yea...
Nov 14, 2021•1 hr 21 min
We continue our search for the worst album ever made in music history this week by checking out the result of the gargantuan ego of Kiss bassist Gene Simmons, namely his second full length solo album Asshole, released on the 8th of June 2004. Simmons is, was and will forever remain a fairly controversial character within the music world, most of his detractors would tell you that this is down to his questionable attitudes to the opposite sex, his seemingly endless obsession with squeezing as muc...
Nov 07, 2021•1 hr 19 min
It’s a shooting fish in a barrel kind of week here on Broken Records for Steve and Remfry, as their search for the worst record in history has brought them into contact with one of their least favourite bands of all time; LA glam metal morons Mötley Crüe and their 1997 “comeback” album Generation Swine. The 90’s wasn’t the best time for the 80’s hair metal scene, most of them just vanished or tried to reinvent themselves in a grunge or alternative style. But none of them had it quite so hard as ...
Nov 03, 2021•1 hr 41 min
It’s back to the land of the fetid novelty cash grab, as Broken Records takes on the two biggest franchises of all time; Star Wars and Christmas! What genius would have thought to put these two goliaths together? None other than producer Meco Monardo, a Star Wars superfan, who had previously recorded Star Wars and Other Galactic funk, a dubious 1977 cash grab that inexplicable reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100. Sniffing dollars, this marked a point in George Lucas’ career where he bega...
Oct 25, 2021•1 hr 32 min
Another week, another Broken Record to rank as we search for the worst album in the history of music. In this episode Steve and Remfry discuss Baptism, the 7th studio album from the big scarf-wearing, hard funk, singer-songwriter Lenny Kravitz, released on the 18th of May 2004. By 2004 Lenny was a massive rock star! He’d picked up Grammy’s four years in a row from 1999 to 2002, he’d gone platinum a bunch of times, he was doing songs with Jay-Z, P Diddy and Pharrell, dating Brazilian supermodels ...
Oct 17, 2021•1 hr 23 min
Welcome to what surely has to be the most exhausting, exhaustive, confusing, extensive and ultimately, unsatisfying Broken Records that you’ll ever listen to. In their search for the worst album ever made, Steve and Remfry run the rule over Chinese Democracy, the sixth studio album from hard rock megastars Guns N’ Roses, released, FINALLY released, on the 23rd of November 2008. Where do we even start with this one?! Well, we’re pretty sure you’re more than aware of at least certain parts of the ...
Oct 10, 2021•2 hr 27 min
On this week’s Broken Records the boys are divided, as we look at ¡Tré!, the 11th studio album from pop-punk megastars Green Day, released on the 7th of December 2012. On one hand Remfry is a self-confessed fan of the band, enjoying their jaunty, pop punk, stadium rock hits like a happy little fella and then on the other hand we have Steve, miserable, agitated, elitist punk rock snob, who hates their ascent into the mainstream. But can they agree on Tre? They certainly have plenty to talk about,...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 20 min
