AWOV - a waste of vinyl

A repost of an oldie but with a new link!

Be honest... at times do you like a "bad song?"

I mean one, really down right awful. One that has as its saving grace a run time of less than 4 minutes?

Let's face it, not all vintage music is good... the underbelly is that some of it can be down right awful, even discounting the customary pops and scratches.

Far be it for me to put the kabash on Vintage Music. Fun stuff, yes - but some Vintage Music tunes can also turn out to be not only very bad but totally unforgettable.

And that in itself may help make the tune "Vintage."

So, come on and admit it... vintage, non-vintage, whatever - there are some songs a lot of us can categorically point to as a drain of our natural resources and a sheer waste of vinyl.

Where talking AWOV, folks. AWOV - a waste of vinyl.

And yet, you sneak off once in a while, making sure no one guesses this guilty pleasure you allow yourself and give that bad song a spin whether by turntable or jog wheel.

Of course, for something to be AWOV it must have had at one time a cigar touting, wizened record Mogul give his stamp of approval and authorizing the record's release - a far cry from today's plopped out music which finds its way to the Public Ear by a vernacular that would have knocked the block off Martin Block. WAV, or AAC or MP3 or AIFF ...for starters and toss in FLAC EMD, M3U, KMP - and so it goes. Have a look at this site and you'll get the idea: http://www.fileinfo.net/filetypes/audio

Though I expect in the future, bad songs will never have the chance to grace vinyl and will no doubt migrate to an AWOE status. AWOE meaning: a waste of electrons.

Be honest with me... what is the best "awful" song you can recall?

Could it be the first 45 you ever bought and now wonder what possessed you to deplete your meager allowance?

I'll clue you into my secret and I must say, reflecting upon this years later, I am not so sure this is a first purchase to brag about. With earnings generated by my after school Newsday route, I forked over 98 cents to Woolworth and walked away with the "The Little Blue Man."

My younger brother, smart alec that he is, told me I over paid.

Can your first 45 purchase top that, eh?

We all have records like this - well, maybe not just LIKE the "Little Blue Man" - lurking in our pasts.

Come on, admit it. You're not alone. You're in solid company.

Need proof?

Ask yourself this: if folks didn't have an ear and a pocketbook for bad songs, how would Doctor Demento have managed to survive all these years?

Today, I am launching a new series that I call:

AWOV - a waste of vinyl

From Time to time, I will post "bad songs."

Any contributions folks would like to suggest will not fall on deaf ears, though afterwards who knows what state the ears will be in.

Consider contributing a bad song or two as a healing process - a collective way to share the pain and seek closure from all those bad records that lurk in your past.

What qualifies as a "bad song" is solely based on your own criteria.

No one needs to justify their selections. It's that simple.

A decade or so ago, Rhino Records released their collection of Worse Records.

You can have a go with it at this link:

http://rapidshare.com/files/57769560/WWR.zip

Enjoy it if you dare to...

Schalti in Berlin