[1][2] It purports to compile the worst music ever recorded and features mostly novelty songs, parodies and cover versions of popular songs, performed very poorly (though in many cases, intentionally so, either as a novelty or as a joke).

[citation needed] A follow-up album was released in 1985, under the title The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records, Vol.

[5] This volume featured some more recognizable names from the novelty music field; it also included at least one top-40 hit ("Nag" by The Halos) and was more focused on the comedy than the outright-bad tone of its predecessor.

A review at AllMusic stated, "The Rhino Brothers Present the World's Worst Records!

anticipated this trend several years in advance, proposing that "bad" was infinitely better than "boring," though their overdependence on prefab wackiness lessens the importance of the package.