We're in previously uncharted Broken Records territory this week, as Steve and Remfry take a deep dive into the 1994 debut album from Naomi Campbell. Yes, that's right, Streatham's very own supermodel released a (predominantly) R&B record, because it was the 90s and the 90s was a weird ole' time for the music industry.

We take a look back at the inescapable celebrity culture that surrounded Campbell and her supermodel chums which allowed them to take part in a variety of extra-curricular activities above and beyond wearing clothes and looking pretty. As well as making this album, she's (ghost)written a book, released 25 fragrances for women via her eponymous perfume house and made light of her various assault convictions by wearing a t-shirt that reads "Naomi Hit Me...and I Loved It" ... how noble of you Naomi.

But we're not here to drag all that up again. Instead, we talk about the relative merits of babywoman, the album that Campbell managed to rope in a surprising amount of talent for, including The Virgin Prunes founding member Gavin Friday, English musician and producer Tim Simenon aka Bomb the Bass, American hip hop and R&B double act P.M. Dawn and Killing Joke bassist Youth! In fact, there are many surprises surrounding this album, not least the reaction of one of our hosts to it. But where will it end up on our ever-expanding chart of Broken Records?

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Steve is on a mission this week to persuade listeners that every single member of a pop-punk band ever is in some way connected to or guilty of fornication with minors ... so that seems like a balanced and totally neutral place for us to start with Buffalo, New York pop punkers Cute is What We Aim For, a band who have seen 20(!) members file through their ranks in just 14 active years as a band. Well ... someone in that band ain't too popular are they!

Rotation, the band's second (and so far final) studio album was released June 23rd 2008 to a relatively unfavourable critical response. Despite this, the album sold relatively well; 23,000 copies in it's initial week and debuting at number 21 on the Billboard 200, proving our much worn idiom that just because something's popular, doesn't mean it's good. But just how 'not good' is Rotation?

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This week on Broken Records Remfry and Steve continue their search for the very worst record in history by looking at one of the most commercially successful metal (or ‘metal’ if you want to be a dick about it) bands … well … ever! Must be said though that One More Light, the band in questions seventh full-length studio album, is not the greatest moment from the career of nu-metal turned boring plod electro rockers Linkin Park.

Released on 19th May 2017, it was the last Linkin Park album to feature lead vocalist Chester Bennington before his death on July 20, 2017. Whilst the record was savaged by critics upon its release, shortly after Bennington’s death there was a re-appraisal of sorts from some critics, who decreed that One More Light’s ambiguous, vaguely melancholy lyrics were in fact an unequivocally lucid document of the tortured vocalist’s final days. Whether One More Light is this generation’s In Utero or not (spoiler alert … it isn’t) it’s difficult, nigh on impossible to defend the dreary, uninspired, one-note electro-pop dross.

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This week on Broken Records Steve and Remfry continue their search for the very worst record in history by looking at a genuinely legendary band; LA hardcore legends Black Flag, and their 7th studio album What The... , released on the 5th of November 2013.

What should and could have been a glorious return to action from one of the most celebrated artists in the history of punk rock soon descended into a farcical situation as Black Flag band leader Greg Ginn sued, ignored and alienated pretty much every legendary musician to have ever passed through the ranks in the past. The result is a rather sad and incredibly confusing period in which the name of a truly exceptional band was trawled through the mud and, arguably, negatively affected their superb legacy. But, was the record that came along during all the drama really that bad? Here’s the place to find out.

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On this week's Broken Records Steve and Remfry continue their search for the worst album of all time by casting a highly critical eye over Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club band… hold on there a second before you decide it’s time we’re #Cancelled, we do not mean The Beatles culture defining 1967 masterpiece, but rather the long forgotten 1978 soundtrack to the long forgotten movie of the same name.

Featuring a star-studded, but ultimately rag tag and jarring, cast, we try and work out just why The Bee Gees manager Robert Stigwood decided to cast his charges in a bizarre, plotless mess of a film alongside shock rocker Alice Cooper, elderly New York Comedian George Burns, funk pop mavericks Earth Wind & Fire, camp UK comic Frankie Howerd, hard rock strutters Aerosmith, a staggeringly coked up Steve Martin and others, and make them turn the most enduring and influential back catalogue in the history of popular music into a flabby, kitsch disco mess. 

The critics hated it, the fans sent it back and The Bee Gees tried to bury it. But, was it really that bad? Listen here to find out. 

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It’s time for us to once again look deep into the murkiest areas of the music industry and pull out a stinker to induct into our list of Broken Records. On this episode Remfry and Steve return to a favoured pastime for the pair; arguing about Pink Floyd. Their 4th album Ummagumma, released on the 7th of November 1969, is the subject of this week's episode. 

Despite Remfry not being a fan, Pink Floyd have done alright for themselves over the years, and this record was both critically and commercially successful. It even has a pretty good reputation amongst the bands hardcore fanbase. Essentially a part live album and part set of improvised solo efforts from the band members, it is seen to be a bridge between the post-Syd Barrett Floyd and the pre-Roger Walters led one. So why is it here? Well, despite the world at large feeling positively about the album, Pink Floyd aren’t so keen… neither is Remfry, shocker!

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Broken Records returns with another contender for our list of the worst albums ever made. Whilst many of the records Steve and Remfry have covered so far on this list have been bad, funny, annoying, grotesque or bizarre, there has really never been a record with such a vile backstory as Bad Blood, the 6th studio album by Blood on the Dance Floor, released on the 3rd of September 2013. 

Although we won’t pretend that Bad Blood is anything other than a very poor album, it’s really the circumstances surrounding frontman Dahvie Vanity in the aftermath of this record that cements its position in our list. This is a deeply troubling and often quite extreme listen, so please advance with caution.

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Another week, another terrible album. Broken Records continues to plunge waist deep into the very worst of music’s grottiest recesses to find the worst album ever. Remfry and Steve believe they have a genuine contender this week, as they try and pick their jaws off the floor after hearing the debut album from crunkcore fools Brokencyde; I’m Not a Fan, But The Kids Like It! 

Released on the 16th of June 2009, Brokencyde managed to mix some of the least appealing elements of the least appealing music ever made and somehow make them even worse. Critics despised it, which, you suspect, was their intention all along, but over a decade down the line, does it really still inspire such negative feelings? Or did you have to be there?

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It’s Broken Records! The hunt for the worst album ever made is back on, and this week Steve and Remfry decide to induct the 11th studio album by hard rock legends Van Halen, confusingly titled III, released on the 17th of March 1998.

After falling out with all of his various previous frontmen, guitar god Eddie Van Halen decided to rope in vocalist Gary Cherone of funk rockers Extreme to take his band into the new Millennium. It didn’t go so good! Despite the Van Halen camp constantly telling anyone that would listen that their connection with Cheron was the strongest they had ever had, fans hated the album, it sold a fractional amount in comparison with their other work and Cherone was ousted from the band 20 months after the albums release. But that doesn’t mean it’s bad does it…!

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