Eduard Khil >> I Am Very Glad, Because I'm Finally Returning Back Home (Trololo)

The Trololo song comes to Spotify, sadly without being able to see Eduard's manic grinning face as he shuffles around the stage in his brown leisuresuit. For that, you really need Youtube.

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Various Artists >> Love Making Songs

I'll let our submitter Ben do the talking here: "This is shocking - worse than it looks.. yep, worse than the cover art. Not some bad compilation - mainly the work of one "Will Henry" who seems to think you'd want to get your rocks off to his piss-poor drum-machine-and-Casio rip-offs of the Crusaders."

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Various Artists >> Beethoven's Farth

One of these things is not like the others, one of these things just doesn't belong. This album of party hits is pretty non- descript, but one song stands out above all others. Who would have thought Beethoven was such a flatulent guy?

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Wafted towards me by PO Anfelter

Album removed.

There was another album here, but I've removed it. The artist whose album it was has displayed their ignorance by contacting me, accusing me of breaching copyright by posting my review and by linking to the album on Spotify.

Despite my attempts at explaining that I have no association with Spotify besides being one of it's users, and that the artist had, either directly or indirectly, approved the album to be published online themselves, they persisted in their endeavour to bully me into removing it.

This artist has supposedly contacted their attorney over this. In one email, they demanded $1,000 per year to publish their works, again not understanding that they are trying to negotiate with the wrong people.

So, because I'm just a user, a normal guy doing something perfectly legal by reviewing their album and linking to it on Spotify (a perfectly legal music service, comparable to iTunes), but don't want this hassle, I have removed my review.

Now you, readers of this blog, cannot know about this album, cannot listen to it on Spotify, and the artist will receive no revenue for you doing so (which they would otherwise have done).

Ladies and Gentlemen, this artist truly is The Best of the Worst of Spotify.

Birgit Løkke >> Forbidden Forest

What is this? Is this new age? Experimental? Or perhaps it's just mental. Bells, clangs, ethereal noises, bangs and other strange sounds make this album particularly droll.

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Brainbombs >> Urge To Kill

After listening to only a few songs from this album, my urge to kill is definitely rising. It's monotonous, droll, loud, and senseless. Is this music? I just don't get it.

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DJ Master Mix >> Dance Fever TV & Movie

Take some famous TV theme tunes, and then proceed to crap all over them by adding a horrid beat and synthesiser sounds.

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Jackie Gleason >> Presents "Oooo!"

Ooooh ooooh ooooh ooh oooh, ooooooooooh oooooooooh oooh. Ooh oooooh oooooh, ooooooooh ooh oooh ooooooh ooh, ooooooooh oh oooh.

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Oooooooh oooooooh oooooh ooooooh, JonnieCache!

Olga Marie Mikalsen >> Olga Synger Solo

I swear I sound exactly like this when I'm singing in the shower.

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Thanks to tipster Hans, who was at least nice enough to apologise in his email.

Russ Abbot >> Songs of Joy

Funnyman Russ Abbot is not well known for his singing career, for a good reason. This is his third album (according to Wiki) and he struggles to find things to sing about, instead resorting to a series of bad cover versions.

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Thanks to AF82 via Twitter

Memories of Underdevelopment >> Throat of a Black Kitten

This bizarre album sounds a bit like my tape player eating the cassette. I guess it's what the musical elite like to call 'experimental'. I just call it 'mental'.

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Jaye Mitchell >> Love Streams

Recording industry, please come back, all is forgiven. This.. this is just.. possibly the worst thing I've ever heard. It's only redeeming feature is that I can stop it playing at any time I want to.

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Thanks to tipster Nathan!

Joey Welz >> LOVE MAKES THE WORLD GO ROUND

This guy is prolific, with over 40 albums on Spotify alone. There's no way I can listen to them all to find the one that's most awful, but I don't think any of them are going to be particularly good.

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And remember, CAPS LOCK is cruise control for cool!

Joe Pesci >> Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just For You

Christmas is a time for watching movies, and something every movie has in common is that it's got actors in it. Which is a coincidence, because Joe Pesci is also an actor! Reprising his role from 'My Cousin Vinny' Pesci recorded this album in character.

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Crazy Frog >> Jingle Bells

Crazy Frog was born from a silly recording someone made and released to the internet a few years back. So what better occasion can there be than Christmas to listen to a horrid noise such as this?

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Wing >> Everyone Sings Carols With Wing

Santa Claus is coming to town, but he's gonna turn his sleigh right around and head back to the North Pole as soon as he hears Wing warbling these seasonal classics.

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William Hung >> Hung For The Holidays

Not the first time we've featured William Hung, but as we're getting close to Christmas it's about time to inflict his album of holiday hits on you and those around you.

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2 Live Jews >> Christmas Jews

The worst thing about this is not that it exists, but that I had three Christmas-themed albums to choose from!

Oy vey!

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Rupaul >> Ho Ho Ho

Rupaul the red nosed drag queen, had a very shiny nose. And if you ever saw it, you would even say it glows. All of the other drag queens, used to laugh and call her names. They never let poor Rupaul, join in any drag queen games.

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Matthew Ross >> Wurlitzer Christmas

"It's like listening to Christmas in a retirement home, as the old-folks are all lined up in the dining room" said my wife, just now. I think that's all that needs to be said about this album, really.

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Greg MacDonald >> A Real Steel Christmas

The Steel Drum is not an instrument traditionally associated with Christmas music, and it turns out there's a very good reason.

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Paris Hilton >> Paris

How has this blog gone so long without posting this hotel heiress? With liberal use of autotune, the engineers just about manage to wrangle her voice into some semblance of accurate pitch, but there's just no emotion there. Just like her face.

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The Chipmunks >> Christmas With The Chipmunks

All your favourite Christmas songs, recorded by chipmunks. Of course, what this means, is that they're normal songs but they've raised the pitch of the vocals by a silly amount. Cute? No. Annoying? Oh definitely.

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The Power Pack Orchestra & Singers >> Kid's Themes

There are lots of albums of theme music on Spotify, many of them cheap imitations and cover versions. However, this album has to be the cheapest of them all. Awful.

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