The Worst Music here on Jamendo

This album has one of the best covers I've ever seen on Jamendo!

Although some of the music is pretty bad, it isn't all that terrible. Well, actually, it is extremely terrible.

Great cover though...

I actually like this album. It has some interesting elements and isn't afraid to be different. Most listeners have a certain morality about music and when they hear something without a beat and isn't 4/4 time they tend to think its garbage. This is immoral music, that is, it isn't playing by your rules but it does follow the ethics of music which keeps it from being "noise."

I think it's a pretty good effort at challenging the norm.

This is what we call "art contemporain" : as soon as it is published, it becomes art to the eyes of some, and shit to others. It creates a buzz and is, after all, a piece of fun.
Next volume call me, I'd like to contribute. :)

Hmm! Hmmmmmm! Yes! Hmmmm!

"Worst" would be a proud accolade to possess in the music world or, indeed, on Jamendo.

I find this very confusing. Is music by definition bad? Isn't the whole point of calling some form of sound "music" to praise it or elevate it above the norm? If so, this album is supposed to be the worst of all that, on J anyway! So, it's the worst of what is intrinsicaly good. Am I mixing up good and bad with worst and best? Is the title of the album? Is that why I'm getting so confused?

I suppose the sheer kilowatt load the mere title of this album is putting on my tiny brain is qualification enough for "worst" album, but I don't think that is the intention.

The "music" is ok, particularly, "La ballade du Chimse", which is superb. It has enormous humour in a musical, rhythmical way that is difficult to achieve with any flair, and "She's on drugs" is the funniest sample I have heard in a long time.

Surely worst means bordering on, or actually unlistenable? I have some good ideas about what is unlistenable. A piercing high pitched whine with sub-base so powerful that it has the potential not only to destroy the speakers it plays through, but to make the listener physically sick as internal organs are actually being rearranged. At low levels the sound is inaudible. At moderate levels it could actually be found listenable by some, and would have a presence rather than a sound, I think. It could be deemed to become music when played at nothing less than 11 on the volume control. It's possible to do this, but the damage inflicted to the listener, not to mention the people engineering the sound, is prohibitive, and it would then be arguable whether such sound is music at all!

I really like this album because it's actually quite good, imho, which defeats the object of the project, I think... maybe. So, that means I have to give it 0 for not being the worst. I think! Is that right?

On a cynical note, the title will get attention for some rather good tracks.

Cover is OK. Reminds me of Pocket Universe - Yello. Dunno why, sorry.

Er... Nice! I think!

And interesting project by these artists - yet for me it seems clear that some of these artists have clearly missed the point of creating "the worst music on jamendo".

Creating music that is arhythmic or polyrhytmic or makes use of aggresive sounds and noises does not necessarily make that music "bad", just the same as creating easy-listening pop tunes does not necessarily make the music "good". The same is true if the result is intelligent satire.

Yes, there are tracks that do really completely suck - like "the president has fragile x...", but on the other hand, e.g. "Birth of the Bad" would have come out a good and enjoyable tune, had it been made a little shorter (roughly 1:20), and I had to laugh a great deal about "La ballade du Chimse".

Giving a rating to this is tough, though: if I had to rate how it fulfilled the promise of the title, the rating would be a 1 or 2. However, due to the fact that it's really fun, and sometimes enjoyable music, I just ignore the goal behind this project here...