Worst FM album?

[becca]

I guess I'd have to say Tusk, yet I wouldn't get rid of any of the albums, even that one. I bought Tusk when it came out and felt ripped off because it cost more than a regular album. To me there was barely one regular FM album there and a ton of Lindsey demos, and they weren't interesting ones to me where he plays some beautiful guitar, they were sort of one song repeated with variations by somebody who'd just discovered a box of studio gimmicks and some cheesy synths. I remember the first Depeche Mode LP Speak & Spell was out around then, and Joe Jackson's first two albums and I really liked them, so I wasn't anti-New Wave. Boiled down to one LP I still think Tusk a bit thin, but at two LP length to me it was just an extravagant rip-off at the time. Now like Time it's something that seems like two very different albums grafted together. Penguin was a half baked album, somewhat an odds and sods, I can imagine people being disappointed with it as an album back in 1973. Kiln House was also somewhat half baked; maybe it's the title and cover art that make it seem a bit more unified.