A few pretty obvious choices here;
Elvis Costello - Goodbye Cruel World
- Punch the Clock
Both these albums are victims overproduction. They have their moments, but they could have been so much better
David Bowie - Young Americans
Ditch 'Across the Universe' and 'Somebody Up There Likes Me' from the tracklisting (which I still think are really good songs), replace them with the brilliant 'Who Can I Be Now' and 'It's Gonna Be Me' and you've got a classic
Turin Brakes - Dark On Fire
It probably wouldn't have been a masterpiece, but the guys just completely took the wrong approach in the studio for this album
Cold War Kids - Robbers and Cowards
This otherwise wonderful album tails off with the last two tracks 'God Make Up Your Mind' and 'Rubidoux'. If they'd used those as B-sides and included 'Every Valley Is Not a Lake' this album would be one of my favourites of all time
Oasis - Be Here Now
A noisy, overcluttered and overlong mess of an album. Trimming a few minutes off each song and shuffling some of the B-sides in would have helped this one a lot
PIL - This Is What You Want, This Is What You Get
'Commercial Zone' (i.e the album the way it would have been had Kieth Levene not been fired) is so much better imo
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