New York Magazine
The Ten Greatest
Albums Made by Actors
March 19th,
2008
Source
Save (maybe) for professional athletes, is
there anyone on planet Earth worse at making music than actors? We doubt it!
From Joey Lawrence to Jamie Foxx, thespians have been responsible for some
of the most ear-splitting, nauseating, craptastic sounds ever committed to
partially recyclable plastic discs. Still, given the sheer volume of movie
stars that've attempted to make non-embarrassing records, at least a couple
must have succeeded … right? As a public service, Vulture listened to every
album ever made by any actor (including several by Bruce Willis and the
Accelerators) and made a comprehensive list of the very best ones. See it,
after the jump! 10. Steve Burns,
Songs for Dustmites (2003)
Who'd have ever guessed that under the
striped shirt and the propensity for teaching 3-year-olds to count
(he hosted Nickelodeon's Blue's Clues for seven years) was
a talented songwriter and huge Flaming Lips fan? After quitting
Clues in 2002, Steve Burns holed up with Lips producer David
Fridmann and recorded a dozen orchestral pop songs that could easily
be mistaken for leftovers from Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots,
even if you aren't high on LSD. Despite some
strong
reviews, Dustmites came and went without getting much
attention. Luckily, though, Burns was not discouraged — he's
currently working on
another record that also sounds like it might turn out pretty
great. |