The Audio Torture Chamber featured the worst records ever made. It did not feature homemade tapes sent in by listeners that were just made to be awful. The point was to feature things that people paid to have recorded and pressed up, with the intention that people would buy them.
It ran every week for the first 19 weeks of 1987, and then on average every other week for the rest of the year, for a total of 34 visits, or about 2/3 of the weeks that year.
Over the next few years, it only appeared once a year 1988-1991, except twice in 1990 but once was a selection originally featured in 1987. After that it popped up occasionally with repeats until returning with new items on one show in 2015, 3 shows in 2018, and 8 shows in 2019. There may be more in the future.
This listing covers the 38 visits from the original 1987-1991 run.
87-01: Can I Pawn My Teeth To You - Roy Esser
87-02: Spot Tavern Bar Maid - Beulah
87-03: Charlie Brown - Superior Street Singer [slowed down at end]
87-04: The Queen Of The Night Aria from The Magic Flute - Florence Foster Jenkins [slowed down at end]
87-05: Training Pants Song (complete?) - Little Learners
87-06: B.C. - Sister Ugly & The Underwearless Girls
87-07: I'm A Police Officer - Omo The Hobo
87-08: I Believe (complete) - Danny Rogers
87-09: Smokum Hokum - Lee Alden & Jack Barron
87-10: Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed
87-11: Fish - Leona Anderson
87-12: Drinkin' - Freddie Coaster
87-13: Memory - Duke The Singing Dog
87-14: Teamwork - Ernie Banks
87-15: Downtown (edit) - Mrs. Miller
87-16: Also Sprach Zarathustra - Portsmouth Sinfonia
87-17: My Pal Foot Foot - The Shaggs
87-18: I Never Seen The Buttercups Until I Seen Your Eyes - Jerry Herzon
87-19: Don't Never Hurt Your Mother (edit?) - Dave Allen
87-22: Young Love - Kenny Laursen
87-23: Stars And Stripes Forever - The Guckenheimer Sour Kraut Band
87-26: Mrs Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter - Mr. Miller
87-28: Audio Torture Chamber theme - The Rubber Duckie String Band/Hey Nelda - Ned & Nelda
87-31: ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT !aaaH-aH - noelopaN VIX
87-33: I Want To Know Why - Jandek
87-36: The Pal That I Loved Stole The Gal That I Loved - Charles O. Canfield
87-39: Free Form Guitar - Chicago Transit Authority
87-40: The World Is - M.A. Numminen
87-42: The Air Battle - Sanford & Herman Hertz
87-43: excerpts from BBC Sound Effects Vol. 27 - Even More Death And Horror: people falling from heights (2), the gas chamber
87-47: I'm Not Going To Be A Hippy Anymore - Keith Herrick
87-49: Triumph of Death - Hell Hammer
87-50: O Holy Night - William J. Amerling
87-51: Deck the Halls - Herman Wurlitzer
88-04: House Of The Rising Sun - Jandek
89-10: Mr. Wrecker-Driver - D.E. Scott
90-10: Mack The Knife - Bill Smith
91-04: One Tin Soldier (complete) - Roseanne Barr
"Ask The Doc" phone call from 90-40