Mr. Blobby - The Album

Broken Records - The Search for the Worst Album Ever

Blob blobby blobby blob blob!... or welcome to another week in our search for the worst album ever made. This week it all gets a little odd as Steve and Remfry are forced to take a trip back to the death rattle of British light entertainment and dissect the debut (and weirdly only) album from 90’s pop culture sensation Mr. Blobby, released during some point of 1994.

Apologies to those listeners who are either from outside of the UK, or below the age of 25, this might take a fair bit of explaining for you. But those who do know and remember Mr. Blobby… well, you’ll have no doubt in your mind that he is a worthy inclusion into the Broken Record family. Introduced as a foil to fool hapless celebrities during a segment on Noel Edmonds blockbuster Saturday night, prime time behemoth Noel’s House Party, Mr. Blobby soon transcended the segment to become a genuine cultural phenomenon in Britain during the first part of the 1990’s, despite the fact that he just said “Blobby blobby blobby” and fell over a lot. Depending on your viewpoint (or age at the time) it’s either not much of a trick, and is in fact very fucking annoying, or it’s a hilarious continuation of the grand tradition of slapstick that the likes of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton would be proud of. Whatever, the massive success of the character saw his popularity milked for all it was worth, with merchandise aplenty (Towels, lunchboxes and VHS videos being particularly popular in the Dedman household at the time) and an inevitable musical career being thrust upon the Great British public. Blobby’s debut single somehow managed to fight off competition from Take That and Meatloaf to land the prestigious Christmas number one spot, in one of the greatest upsets in chart history, in 1993 before an entire album of material was released the next year. As a relic of a bygone era, and with radically differing views on the quality of Mr. Blobby’s work from back in the day, what exactly do our hosts think about the record today? It’s certainly some deviation from what we’re used to talking about on the show, still at least the hat full of shit can’t give us anything more ridiculous than this next week can it!... or can it?!

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