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Buzz Ballads 2: Scraping The Barrel To Sell You The Drama

Hey everyone, remember Buzz Ballads? The compilation of '90s alt-rock (sorta) slow jams for the sensitive flannel owner in you? Almost a year ago I asked you to decide which "buzz ballad" was the worst of the bunch. (The winner, to refresh your memories, was Staind's "It's Been A While," but there's a reason we used the "Everybody Loses" tag on that post.) Well, those nostalgia-mongering sadists at Razor & Tie are back with...Buzz Ballads 2! Could things get ickier than Ed Kowalcyzk's paean to placentas? Apparently yes. Join us, won't you, in helping to decide which of the new crop of buzz bombs on this double-disc set is the worst of the worst. More »

10:00 AM on Mon Oct 6 2008
By Jess Harvell
3,140 views, 36 comments

Latest by sparky0488: I have to say "Swallowed," because it's obvious by listening to it that the band didn't put any thought or work into it. That song says to me, "Hey, no one else playing music now knows how to play their more »

everyone loses

An Idolator Poll: Which Of These "Buzz Ballads" Is Truly The Worst?

Twice this weekend, first on late-night TV and then at Target, I was confronted with Buzz Ballads, a collection of alt-rock balladry—the compilation's marketers obviously using the term very loosely if "Doll Parts" is a "ballad"—that aims to be the nostalgic makeout disc for the generation that remembers every word to "Jeremy." Each time, I was struck with the same thought: "This record is comprised of some of the worst music I've ever heard." But which was the lamest of them all? More »

12:30 PM on Mon Oct 15 2007
By jharv
3,396 views, 58 comments

Latest by musiclover7: Ok Seriously, I don't know how anyone could consider Hanging by a Moment as one of the worst songs. Hanging by a Moment is an amazing and awesome song, and it has great lyrics. After all, it was the most more »