Bad Albums by Good Bands
 

What are some of the worst albums by your favorite artists?

After a little while I'll compose a top 10 for this topic.

And the nominees...

I like this topic but I'll have to get back to you with a list of them.

Morrissey "Kill Uncle"
Bob Dylan "Oh Mercy"

I can't really think right now.

The solo stuff on UMMAGUMMA by PINK FLOYD.
MARILLION-anything post Fish. (I did give them a go, but it's just not the same)
THE BEATLES-first two sound quite twee now.
RUSH-SNAKES AND ARROWS.
METALLICA-THE BLACK ALBUM
MOBY-18

I think St. Anger takes the place of the Black Album, since there are fans of the Black Album while no one really likes St. Anger aside from Slipknot and KoRn fans and do they really count?

No they don't lol, but Burton and his melodic sense grounded the band and gave them an unsual sound compared to all the other thrash bands. From the BLACK album they became formulaic in my view.

Pelican - City of Echoes.

Primal Scream - Echo Dek
Worst remix album ever

The Fall - Cerebral Caustic
Only one good song on it & Mark E Smith isn't even singing it

Manic Street Preachers - This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
This is sh*t , are you seriously telling me this is the best you've got?

Beck - Midnite Vultures
Sh*tty 80s pop should be left there

Jane's Addiction - Strays
If they'd released this crap in 1991 they would have died with all the other hair metal

Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy
A band desperately running out of steam + Tony Iommi's desire to be taken seriously = this crap

Thin Lizzy - Renegade
Horrible 80s synth pop

Suede - A New Morning
Suede had been stinking the place out since Bernard Butler quit the band. But at least they had the odd decent single.This rubbish was the final nail in the coffin ... thank god.

The Cult - Beyond Good & Evil
Another crappy comeback album that tarnishes all the great memories you have of a band.

Rolling Stones - Live Licks
Probably the most sterile live album I have ever heard

Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother
Pink Floyd try to make a psychadelia album without Syd Barrett :laughing:

The Clash - Cut The Crap
I own about 30 Clash albums , this isn't one of them

David Bowie - Hours
I could have gone for some of the more obvious ones like Tonight or Never Let Me Down , but this was hailed as his best album since Scary Monsters. I can handle Bowie being bad , What I can't deal with is Bowie being boring & thats what this album is ...pure boredom.

Yeah, it's a bit...eh. Title track and "If" are pretty cool though.

Good calls on Technical Ecstacy and Strays.

I guess one obvious answer would be the posthumous 2Pac/Biggie albums. I guess they're not all bad, but Christ...that "Duets" one...

----Beck - Midnite Vultures
Sh*tty 80s pop should be left there----

I disagree I love the retro sound on this album, it puts me in a happy mood.

Jawbreaker - Etc

except for "Kiss the Bottle"

Ha that's funny cause I actually quite enjoy it in a weird way. Nice to listen to in bed.

The remixes on the Shoot Speed compilation blow it out of the water.

Thrice- Artist In The Ambulance, so horrible compared to all their other stuff.
The Fall of Troy- Manipulator
Dave Matthews Band- Stand Up
Comeback Kid- Broadcasting


I'm sure there's more, but I didn't both to put most of the crappy albums on my laptop.

Did you read the second part of the the thread title ^

Yeah, it says "good" bands, not "outstanding" bands. I would consider all of those to be good.

I'm just bustin' ya chops. I like Thrice, hate the rest.

Some will argue, but IMO

Rolling Stones - her majesty's satanic request

It's not bad it's misunderstood

Feel free to choose any of their 90s albums though.

You don't even like Comeback Kid?

To be fair, they've had several shit albums.

That one started it.

And I refuse to admit that anything after that came out.

Hey now the new stuff isn't all bad, how could you not love this song?



lasodlaosdlasodlsoadslolol

Urgh

This is how I want to remember them




Ahhh memories

I think thats my favorite song by them and damn that would've been sweet to see live back in the day.

Not really, that doesn't make me a bad person does it?

Manipulator by The Fall Of Troy


ever since they've gained popularity, their albums have been going downhill.

the fall of troy > doppelganger > manipulator

No, not at all, I just figured you would.

Johny:

the fall of troy > doppelganger > manipulator == Truth

Popularity isn't to blame for them going 'downhill' them wanting to be more of a prog band and less of a hardcore band is.

is a correlation, not a cause.

How Profound...

AFI - decemberunderground

To be fair it wasnt a BAD album, just not as good as the others.
Some more examples:
Anthrax - State Of Euphoria (bad album when they we're at their peak)
Metallica - Reload (i dont need to explain)
Pixies - Triomp Le Monde (the magic was well and truly gone)
Helloween - Pink Bubbles Go Ape (the album title says it all, urgh!)
Megadeth - Risk (boring radio-friendly tosh)
:yikes:
i'll add more when i can think of some

^ If I had to say personally I was particularly disappointed with any one Metallica album, I would say 'Saint Anger' really was a drag.

Never understood the hate for this.It may not be as good as some of their other stuff but it's nowhere near bad.
If anything I rate Bossanova lower.

pixies have no bad

THE STOOGES - THE WEIRDNESS

i dunno if i should even count this piece of crap as a Stooges album, but it ****ing sucks.

No way, I love Bossanova. Velouria, Is She Wierd?, Dig For Fire, Down To The Well, they're all great Pixies tracks

Midnite Vultures, no wai.

I can't think of any albums right now, but I don't think the Life Pursuit by Belle and Sebastian is very good and they are a great band.

I think I'll have to go for Foo Fighters here. I was a big fan right up until In Your Honor. They'd never been a particularly adventurous band but this was the big turning point in my eyes... this was the beginning of that middle-of-the-road sound that they've stuck with. I'm not saying that they weren't radio-friendly to begin with because their music has always been accessible but there's something missing these days.