One Last Breath: An Autopsy of Awful Albums

In today’s episode of One Last Breath, your will be covering the debut album “Sex and Violins” by Swedish techno country group Rednex. The debut for the group contains their only claim to fame; the inescapable Cotton Eye Joe. The song was sensation and is perhaps the most enduring hit from the 90’s or even of all time. One you get past that track however, there’s an entire album of lazy dance insp...

In this weeks episode of One Last Breath, your hosts discuss the album “California” by pop punk OG’s Blink-182. After founding vocalist/guitarist Tom DeLonge had left the band, Blink-182 found themselves with the hard decision of replacing him. They decided on Matt Skiba of Alkaline Trio to lead the band into a new era. The whole situation was met with tons of differing opinions from Blink’s fan b...

In the 25th episode of One Last Breath, your hosts discuss the 4th album by everyone’s favorite nu-metal band: Limp Bizkit. The album in question is “Results May Vary,” a release that found the band without long time guitarist Wes Borland. The problem is, Borland’s guitar playing is considered a key component for the Limp Bizkit formula, so the absence of him was felt by many. Results May Var...

n the 23rd episode of One Last Breath, your hosts discuss children’s novelty album “Smart Kids” by McGruff the Crime Dog. McGruff was an icon of the 1980’s “Just Say No” campaign, quickly becoming one of the most recognizable pop culture figures of the era appearing in countless ad campaigns. Inevitably, an album was made to further expose McGruff to the masses. Smart Kids made a resurgence on Tik...

On the 23rd episode of One Last Breath, your hosts discuss the 8th album by Thrash Metal big four member Anthrax titled “Volume 8: The Threat Is Real.” Anthrax, while being the least popular of the big four, carved out a very influential and noteworthy career for themselves. After putting out classic albums such as “Spreading the Disease” and “Among the Living,” Anthrax found themselves at a cross...

In the 22nd episode of One Last Breath, your hosts will be discussing “Bad Reputation,” the most recent album from country/ hip-hop/ rock musician Kid Rock. Kid Rock has never been stranger to controversy, with too many divisive comments and feuds to count. However, at one point of his career he was at least a successful and mostly well received musician. Such is not the case with this most recent...

In the 21st episode of One Last Breath, your hosts discuss the landmark album “Trout Mask Replica” by experimental rock group Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band. Touching many genres such as garage rock, R&B, free jazz and avant- garde; the album is even wilder and unexpected than you could imagine. There’s much at play throughout the album including polyrhythms,multi-octave vocals and many...

In the 20th episode of One Last Breath, your hosts discuss the eighth album “Diabolus in Musica” by American thrash metal band Slayer. This release by the band came at a time in the late 90’s when almost every veteran metal band was struggling to find their identity among a changing musical landscape. Many critics and fans point to this as the “nu metal” Slayer album, with most pointing out the ob...

In todays episode of One Last Breath, your hosts will be discussing the one and only album “Philosophy of the World” by garage rock/outsider music band The Shaggs. Forced to perform and write music by their father Austin Wiggin, sisters Helen, Betty and Dorothy “Dot” Wiggin released their only effort in 1969. The sisters had no knowledge of how to play their instruments, causing them to play out o...

In todays episode of One Last Breath, your hosts will be discussing the eighth studio album “Thank You” by new wave band Duran Duran. After early career success in early 80’s, Duran Duran experienced struggles with their identity and sound over the late 80s and early 90’s. Troubles navigating the changing musical landscape, as well as two founding members of the band leaving led to a few less than...

In todays episode your hosts will be discussing the 3rd album “Streets in the Sky” by British indie rockers The Enemy. After releasing two albums to mixed to positive reviews and some chart success, The Enemy released “Streets in the Sky” to absolutely overwhelmingly negative reviews. So low in fact that it’s aggregate critic score on website “AnyDecentMusic?” is a pathetic 2.9/10 making it the fi...

In today’s episode of One Last Breath, your hosts will be covering the first and only album by British novelty act Fast Food Rockers with “It’s Never Easy Being Cheesy.” Known for their big hit, simply titled “Fast Food Song”, this song is the furthest the group took their name and shtick. Their one and only album is a run of the mill Euro Pop album, but is pretty much universally considered to be...

The year is 2006. Hips Don’t Lie and Bad Day are at the top of the charts. MySpace, Facebook and YouTube are in their infancy and taking over the free time of teens and young adults everywhere. The Britney’s Spears husband, Kevin Federline, does the unexpected and drops a full length rap album. Kevin Federline was public enemy number one in the media at the time, due to breaking off his engagement...

In today’s episode of One Last Breath, your hosts will be covering Super Collider by thrash metal giants Megadeth. Super Collider finds a band 14 albums into their career, right of the heels of a recent critical resurgence; after their late 90’s and early 00’s downfall. Super Collider was received very poorly by critics and fans of the band, with tired songwriting, cringey lyrics, and the overall...

In todays episode of One Last Breath your hosts will be discussing debut album “The Big Day” by Chicago rapper Chance the Rapper. Chance was on top of the rap game in 2016. He had 3 critically acclaimed mixtapes under his belt and had arguably one of the greatest feature verses not just of the year, but of all time on Kanye West’s track “Ultralight Beam”. Chance had built up so much momentum, sure...

In todays episode of One Last Breath, your hosts discuss the soundtrack “Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Released in 1978, alongside the movie of the same title; the film and soundtrack boasted a star studded cast including The BeeGees, Peter Frampton, Alice Cooper, Steve Martin, Aerosmith and a bunch of less noteworthy people. Both the film and soundtrack were critical and commercial failu...

In this weeks episode your hosts will be discussing the children’s novelty album “Songs in the Key of E” by Chuck E. Cheese. Of course the lineup feature none other than Chuck himself on guitar and vocals, Helen Henny on vocals, Mr. Munch on keybord, Jasper T. Jowls on bass, and Pasqually on drums. The classic animatronic lineup itself. The album is suprisingly versatile, crossing many genres of m...

In the 10th episode of One Last Breath, your hosts cover the debut album “Swan Songs” by Rap-Metal/ Post-Hardcore group Hollywood Undead. Similar to the subject of last weeks episode, Hollywood Undead first made a splash on MySpace, becoming one of the many artists to sign to a record label after establishing themselves on the website. Although Swan Songs was a success commercially and with the sc...

The 9th episode of One Last Breath has your hosts discussing the debut album of Atlanta overnight sensation rapper Soulja Boy. Garnering instant success with his first single released on MySpace in 2007 “Crank That”, Soulja Boy later released the album “Souljaboytellem.com” later the same year to negative reviews. Most critics pointed out the repetitive nature of the songs and the lack of any real...

The 8th episode of One Last Breath has your hosts discussing the first and only (so far) album by wrestling legend Hulk Hogan. In what can best be described as a kids novelty album, it really contains most facets of popular music from the 80’s/early 90’s. There’s some Glam Metal/Hard Rock songs, some rap tunes, some R&B/Pop songs, and even a country song. As expected the album is filled with o...

Episode 7 of One Last Breath has your hosts discussing the debut album by crunk-core, screamo, electronicore (and really any other core you can think of) 2-piece: I Set My Friends On Fire. With their debut titled “You Can’t Spell Slaughter Without Laughter”, the band charted new territory, with an amalgamation of numerous genres that beforehand seemed like oil and water. Upon its release, it was p...

Alien Rap: Songs About Life on the Planet Glumph- Alien Kids In episode 6 of One Last Breath, your hosts Austin and Alex discuss by far the most bizzare album they’ve heard thus far. Alien Rap is children’s album featuring uncanny high pitched rapping vocals, nonsensical lyrics, and a couple of songs that run over 6 minutes long. The outlandish nature of Alien Rap has caused speculation on the int...

Episode 5: Father of All…-Green Day Episode 5 of One Last Breath has your hosts Austin and Alex covering the thirteenth and most recent album by Green Day: Father of All…(Motherfuckers). This release was destined to be a disaster from the start with a promotional billboard stating: no features, no Swedish songwriters, no trap beats, 100% pure uncut rock. The music contained on the album proved to...

In the 4th episode of One Last Breath, your hosts Austin and Alex touch on the “divisive” side of music for the first time. Both hosts grew up on Linkin Park, and remember the rollout of this album vividly. Although mostly received very positively by critics, the fan reaction was very split. Some fans appreciated the maturity of Linkin Parks sound along with the ambitious subject matter of the alb...

Episode 3: Attila- Self Titled (1970) In episode 3 of One Last Breath, your hosts Austin and Alex cover one of the classic examples of “Worst Albums Ever” discussion. No we’re not talking about the metalcore band, we’re talking about the 2-piece proto-metal outfit, famously featuring a young Billy Joel. Not even containing a guitar, the album instead uses an organ to lead every song. The album was...