I Don't Like Mondays - a VR Project.

I want to shoot the whole day down.

I've been fairly lax in projects that I want to complete, and that's a personal failing of mine. It's one, really, that I'm not prepared to accept. And it's one that I want to rectify by taking something to fruition. Something interesting. Something, hopefully, funny. Something that can challenge my writing skills. And, because it's me, something that will inflict terrible levels of mental and spiritual pain.

The project is this; every week, for one whole year, I will find a terrible album, either requested by VRererererers, or one I've found myself in a search for unremitting horror. Then I will listen to it. Then I will write about it, hopefully in a way that conveys the sheer horror of what I'm listening to. I would like to say that this is making a statement by converting bad art into good art, or how we might be pleasantly surprised by where our journey takes us, how we might rehabilitate the reputation of that which has been unfairly maligned, or saying something about how music can touch us, even if in this case the music touches us in a way that puts it on the Sex Offenders' Register.

But alas, mostly it is for laughs and my own high levels of self-flagellating masochism.

The rules for this project are as follows:

1) I'm doing this. Every Monday, for one whole year, a post should appear. Only death, ebola, or serious accident should prevent me from doing this. If I'm not, you have permission to kick my a*se. Failing that, a more suitable punishment; fail to do this and I will destroy one album from my collection that I do not consider it a mistake to have bought, chosen in a poll by VRerererers, in a manner chosen by VRerererers, with photographic evidence posted here.

2) The album has to have sold reasonably well and/or be reasonably well known, in other words, have some kind of cultural cachet. No basement-dwelling unsigned w*nker who was so bad even the general public rejected him, because that's far too easy.

3) Related to 2, the album must be acquirable through means that allow me to listen to this kind of stuff without any money. You didn't think I was going to pay to listen to dreck, did you?

4) Variety is the spice of life. I don't think I'd be able to write consistently or engagingly about 52 different dance albums, or 52 different pop albums, etc, etc. Differing genres and differing styles will be welcomed and ruthlessly slated.

5) Related to 4, only one album per artist.

6) No kids albums. Kids don't know sh*t about anything. That is why all the stuff made specifically for them is sh*t. Again, far too easy.

7) All rules except number 1 can be broken in the interests of entertainment of you, the VRererererering public.

PM me or post suggestions, or rules you think should exist that I've missed, and hopefully the terror shall begin, the Monday after next.

Divine Comedy- Absent Friends.

get the extended one with bonus disk as it has some of the worst songs i have ever heard.

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Good idea. I've been meaning to resurrect The Patch for a while.

Oh no, now, Mods shouldn't be involved in reviving zombie blogs.

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Good idea. I've been meaning to resurrect The Patch for a while.

Oh no, now, Mods shouldn't be involved in reviving zombie blogs.

I'm not a Mod of The Patch Seriously, though, should we revive it or just let you use it? Because I've been reading and there was some good sh*t on there.

Well, I was one of the people who wrote on it anyway, so my point is to kind of revive it; I have no problems with the other folk who were involved also making a go of it.

Worst album I own is Love Is Here by Starsailor, try that

The Libertines - Self titled. I really can`t see the appeal.

RHCP - Stadium Arcadium
Keane - Under The Iron Sea
Razorlight - [take your pick]

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Divine Comedy- Absent Friends.

Oh gosh - it is really not true, I think. - It is sort of disappointing a tiny bit, but also lots of songs are really good too. - "Come home, Billy bird", "My imaginary friend", "Our mutual friend" "The happy goth" and "The wreck of the beautiful" are all really good, I think.

:-[

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A bit of Fallout Boy and My Chemical Romance.

Word. Sadly, not even a half decent tune between them.

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I actually think Teenagers is one of the best songs of the last five years. But I hate the rest of their collective discographies.

i agree with James.

i also think that Alan should listen to Back To Bedlam by James Blunt.

So, yeah. I f*cked up.

A mitigation; I'm seeing a counsellor, on account of the whole "being a mental" thing. This Monday focused heavily on a lot of stuff that I don't talk to anyone about and was incredibly painful to talk about. It left me feeling drained, conflicted, incredibly upset, and really not in any kind of state to do very much at all. I'll still do the forfeit if people want, since it's only fair, but I think a day late to start with is a small price to pay on the road to comparative mental health.

If I do it again you totally get to burn my sh*t up. Or whatever.

So yeah, the post will be up today, Tuesday, in a wee bit, rather than Monday. It's ironic, in that Alanis Morissette not-very-ironic kind of way.

Post is up, motherf*ckers.

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Was it them that did 22 Grand Job and Work Work Work Pub Club Sleep? I prescribe a hermetically sealed cowshed and Zyklon-B. Lots of it

You f*cker, they namecheck cattle trains in Strasbourg for no apparent reason. I'm having flashbacks now, gettin' all PTSD.

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I look forward to the next review, and your gradual descent into insanity at having to listen to these awful albums.

He started off with a counsellor, I dread to think where he'll be when on James Blunt.

Very much enjoyed reading that.

Alan, please tell me you pronounce it with 'I Don't Like' as an open phrase serving as a kind of adjective to the noun 'Mondays'.
That wasn't explained very well. I mean, like Drive-In Saturdays and Naked Wednesdays.