The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records


The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records is a compilation album released by Rhino Records in 1983. It purports to compile the worst music ever recorded and features mostly novelty songs, parodies and cover versions of popular songs, performed very poorly. The original album included an airsickness bag and a warning that the album "may cause internal discomfort;" Dr. Demento wrote the liner notes for the album.
The original 1983 album included two musicians, the Legendary Stardust Cowboy and Wild Man Fischer, that later became associated with the outsider music movement. None of the songs on the first album were top-40 hits, and only one act on that album, The Turtles, contributed substantially to popular music. Ogden Edsl and Barnes and Barnes both achieved notoriety in the novelty music field.
A second volume was released in 1985, with a slightly different focus.

Track listing

Volume 1

  1. "The Crusher"
  2. "Big Girls Don't Cry"
  3. "I Want My Baby Back"
  4. "I Like"
  5. "Kazooed on Klassics"
  6. "Fluffy"
  7. "Paralyzed"
  8. "I Wanna Be Your Dog"
  9. "Boogie Woogie Amputee"
  10. "Kinko the Clown"
  11. "Umbassa and the Dragon"
  12. "Ugly"
  13. "Surfin' Tragedy"
  14. "Young at Heart"

    Volume 2

A follow-up album was released in 1985, under the title The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records, Vol. 2. This volume featured some more recognizable names from the novelty music field; it also included at least one top-40 hit and was more focused on the comedic than the outright-bad tone of its predecessor.
  1. "Downtown"
  2. "K'nish Doctor"
  3. "Party in My Pants"
  4. "Foreign Novelty Smash"
  5. "Nag"
  6. "Who Hid the Halibut on the Poop Deck"
  7. "Goodbye Sam"
  8. "Just a Big Ego"
  9. "Candy Rapper"
  10. "Hands"
  11. "Baseball Card Lover"
  12. "Fudd on the Hill"
  13. "Split Level Head"
  14. "Teenage Enema Nurses in Bondage"
  15. "The Troggs Tapes"