1980's Biggest Turkeys

  

Chevy Chase : Rapper's Plight

He's Chevy Chase and we're not. And we should be glad because that means we aren't responsible for the worst album of 1980, a collection of very unfunny musical parodies including this rap number called "Rapper's Plight". 

The Beach Boys : Keepin' The Summer Alive

Even with some help from Joe Walsh and Randy Bachman, The Beach Boys can't keep the summer alive. It died of dreck. 

The Chipmunks: My Sharona

The worst thing about this album featuring a 21-year old novelty act is that it sold well enough that The Chipmunks followed it up with A Chipmunk Christmas, Urban Chipmunk and Chipmunk Rock.

Various Artists : What Can You Get a Wookiee for Christmas (When He Already Owns a Comb?) 

Maybe the Death Star had some good qualities after all.

Kiss : Torpedo Girl

This is the album that made every high school kid in America abandon one of the biggest band's of the 70's. That's how bad Unmasked is. 

40 Year Itch: Lemmings

In the Summer of 1973, National Lampoon released Lemmings, a soundtrack to its off Broadway show that mocked Woodstock. Future SNL stars John Belushi and Chevy Chase and Mockumentary master Christopher Guest were among the performers. Belushi did his classic Joe Cocker impression in what would now would fail the PC test with its jokes about Muscular Dystrophy (41:40). Chase plays adequate drums on most of the cuts and apparently pulled off a John Denver impression. Guest impersonated Bob Dylan ( at 7:45) and James Taylor ( at 26:00) . One year later a 30 year old TV executive named Lorne Michaels began searching for a cast for a show to be called NBC's Saturday Night.

It's not so funny today but in 1973 the show ran for 350 performances and the album peaked somewhere near #100 on the Billboard charts.

Meanwhile, in 1973, the magazine published the only thing they've ever had to apologize for: