R.Dean Taylor-Indiana Wants Me.......

....Complete and utter gabbage!!!

I COLLECTED MOST OF THE MOTOWN STUFF WHEN IT CHANGED FROM THE BLACK LABEL DON'T ASK ME WHY BUT THERE IS SOME UTTER CRAP IN THERE THINGS LIKE BLACK RUSSIAN SPRING TO MIND AMONGST A LOAD OF OTHERS JUST OFF FOR A LOOK

KEV

Just Motown's take on the classic "cut in" record. Surely more deserving than a mention in this thread

I think that this was the very first cut up record,it was way way before Chris Hill.

I bought a copy really cheaply many years ago and it's where I heard many of the Motown classics for the very first time - so it certainly did a good promotion job on me .

I agree, it's a good fun record!!

Dorsey Burnette ~ Jimmy Brown , Absolutely no soul content at all .

"Hello" by Lionel...and the ubermangled version of "Come On And See Me" by Chris Clark.

Do you remember the video of Hello when basically

he was stalking a blind girl...Bad tune and worse video

Yup, you'd get 5 years for that now...and a bit added on for the stalking

It's already been mentioned but nothing comes close to the turd that is 'I Just Called To Say I Love You'...

As for the Jackson 5, 'I Want You Back' is a sublime record, and has had a play out recently at a nighter, to my pleasant surprise

Bruce Willis - Return of Bruno . pile of shite

Someone had to say Bruce Willis

what about Miami disco machine and Syretta wasn't good either.

What!!! Wasn't Albert Finney a serious actor,as for Granny,not too sure..Are you messing

Both are true!!! I mess you not !!

I think that this was the very first cut up record,it was way way before Chris Hill.

No they date back to the 50's - Buchanan & Goodman I think are the people who originated cut in records

Someone had to say Bruce Willis

Syretta wasn't good either.

There are plenty of good Syreeta records - "I'm Goin Left" is utterly fantastic, so are "Come And Get This Stuff", "I Love Every Little Thing About You", "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel For You" etc.

There are so many bad Motown records that I don't see how anyone can honestly narrow it down to a 'worst'. But if we're talking Detroit, "Motown Sound" era, 1960s Motown classics and not novelties/MOR/'Licensed In' repertoire etc - that is, genuine Motown recordings of genuine Motown compositions by what we would think of as genuine Motown artists, I think I'd have to pick "In And Out Of Love" by Diana Ross and the Supremes, a record so twee and emotionless that it makes "The Happening" sound like a deep soul classic by comparison...

The previously maligned DeBarge, BTW, made several good records before they started having their pop hits. "I Like It", for instance, is excellent early 80s group soul.

Same goes for the Commodores. Things Like "Just To Be Close To You", "Sweet Love" and "This Is Your Life" are just great soul records that, as far as I'm concerned, are beyond any sort of reproach...

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BEN ARGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG

If some of the 60's & 70's tracks mentioned on here are your bad ones, god helps us, some of you obviously don't know what crap actually came out on the label in the later years.

ooooo theres a few!

first of all though, good calls on Bruce Willis / Charlene / Rare Earth / R Dean Taylor !

BAD call on Commodores Machine Gun.... come on surely The (Human) Zoo and 3 Times A Lady are a lot worse!

I'm gonna put forward "Keep On Truckin'" by Eddie Kendricks...

And "I was born this way" by Carl Bean lol..... im not homophobic but this tune is CHEESE

(im happy, im carefree, and im gay, i was born this way...)

Shabba

as much as i admire Stevie Wonder. 

I just called  &  Isn't she lovely,  have to be in the top 5 worst Motown releases.   

Isn't she lovely , reminds me of Hey Jude , Beatles.....    repetitive garbage after 3 minutes

Edited June 6, 20205 yr by Ian Parker
typo

Isnt She Lovely , reminds me of my daughter Kirsty ,, also born in 76 

Bob & Marcia  'Young , Gifted & Black' - Its not that its a terrible record its that Motown is not a reggae label.

On 03/06/2009 at 02:48, bri pinch said:

WHY WOULD MOTOWN WANT TO ISSUE SHITE LIKE SUSPICION BY THE MONITORS, WHEN THEY COULD ISSUE CLASSIC TRACKS BY DAN THE BANJO MAN

 

 

BRI PINCH.

SUNDAY CHILLOUT, 7TH JUNE, HORSE AND GROOM PUB, EAST LAITH GATE, DONCASTER.

Did The Monitors actually record that song???  I've only encountered The Originals' recording of it.  Are you sure you didn't mean "by The Originals"?

Tony Martin - The Bigger you’re heart is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBUyxwo7pQQThose all make for not very pleasant listening.  But "Happy Ghoul Tide" by Ray Oddis (VIP 45) is truly horrendous!  It's flip, "Randy The Newspaper Boy" is actually worse (but less interesting).

 

Edited June 8, 20205 yr by Robbk

Here's "Randy The Newspaper Boy"  - bring out the vomit bags!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0d3d_1ocbc

Edited June 8, 20205 yr by Robbk

On 02/06/2009 at 15:03, Nige Brown said:

 

 

 

The thread WAS Worst Motown Record was it not !!

So that in my OPINION is it okeh !!

So tuff!!

Anyway just found a demo on EVILBAY!! so there!!

Torchboy!!

The Interview (Summit Chanted Meeting) was the first Motown "break-in" record, and was much worse than Captain Zap's: 

 

Edited June 8, 20205 yr by Robbk

Years ago I found this in a bargain bin:

It quickly made its way to another kind of bin.

In 1983 Motown celebrated its 25 years a year early. This track appears on an otherwise quite good Temptations album, which has one side produced by Norman Whitfield. However this was produced by Berry Gordy himself:

 

35 minutes ago, Robbk said:

The Interview (Summit Chanted Meeting) was the first Motown "break-in" record, and was much worse than Captain Zap's: 

 

yikes !

   we have a winner