Bad albums by good artists (metal, pink floyd, metallica, American)

Urban Hat€monger ? · 03-28-2008, 11:16 AM

I'm going to go through my top 10 most played artists on last FM & pick which I think is their worse album

1. The Fall - Are You The Missing Winner
There are 3 fall albums I don't really like much. The Frenz Experiment , Cerebral Caustic & Are You The Missing Winner.
I'd probably go with Are You The Missing Winner as I can't recall a single song from that album without looking

2. David Bowie - Young Americans
Most people would rightly go for his 80s & 90s material but personally Young Americans bores me to death. Only Fame , Golden Years & the title track are any good really.And even then I only really listen to Golden Years out of those three.

3. The Rolling Stones - Black n Blue
There are plenty of recent albums I could include but i'm gonna go with Black n Blue because if there's one thing the stones should never have attempted it's reggae , and on this album they didn't try it once but twice. The rest of the album is made up of Jaggers crappy disco tunes & some turgid ballads.

4. The Clash - Give Em Enough Rope
I refuse to put Combat Rock here because the more I listen to it the more I love it. I also refuse to put Sandinista here for the sheer balls for even attempting it. I shall put here Give Em Enough Rope. I can handle The Clash being bad , but I can't handle them being boring and side 2 of this album is dull as ditchwater.

5. Motorhead - March Or Die
A lot of fans seem to hate Another Perfect Day because it's one of their most melodic albums , probably due to the influence of Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson being in the band at the time , but I love that album. I'll go instead for their March Or Die album , which was so boring to me I didn't buy another Motorhead album for about another 10 years.

6. The Cure - Wish
Crowquill is spot on with Wish , a horrible cynical attempt of latching the band on to the growing grunge audience in the U.S.
An awful AWFUL record.

7. Primal Scream - Primal Scream
Despite being a huge Primal Scream fan half their recorded output could be here. There's the jangly indiepop debut the band disowned which is rather good to me , so i'm not choosing that. I could go for Give Out But Don't Give Up which was labelled by one critic as a Black Crowes tribute album , but that was the first album I got by them so i'm not going for that. The remix album Echo Dek I personally think is rubbish . I also found Riot City Blues got old real quick too. But if I was to choose one I would go for their self titled second album which just contains every single garage rock cliche going.

8. Radiohead - In Rainbows
I'm going to come out of the woodwork and back up ComingUpRoses with In Rainbows here. Pablo Honey has it's faults but it's a debut & they were finding their feet. With In Rainbows my biggest problem is it sounds like you'd expect a Radiohead album to sound , theres just no surprises (HA!). Every Radiohead album has it's own sound , to me In Rainbows just sounds like a mish mash of all their other albums. And another thing , it sounded virtually identical to Thom Yorke's solo album. Just what do the other 4 bandmembers do exactly?

9. Can - Rite Time
This one is pretty easy. Rite Time , the late 80s comeback album with original vocallist Malcolm Mooney. I have heard it I just can't remember a single thing about it

10. Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Most of Stereolab's albums have tons of filler but if I had to pick a worst I would probably say Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night. More thought seems to have gone to the title of the album rather than the songs.

chartsengrafs · 03-28-2008, 12:11 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

Sam's town by The Killers. The jury is still out on whether or not they're good artists, but I love Hot fuss.....

i couldn't agree more. talk about dissapointment.

sleepy jack · 03-28-2008, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by adidasss

Also, Sea Change by Beck...the only good song on it was Lost Cause. Let's hope he doesn't get depressed again...

What are you talking about? That's probably one of Beck's best albums.

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Originally Posted by TheBig3KilledMyRainDog

And I would like to contest the inclusion of Midnight Vultures. What is wrong with that album? We used to play it contantly in a frame shop I worked in a couple years back.

Peachs and Cream is great, and Deborah is a ****ing masterpiece. Whats not to Lovesex?

You really gave no intelligent argument unless playing it in a frame shop constantly is an argument. It was cheesy and boring especially in comparison to Odelay or something else he did. I guess its a nice homage to stuff he's been influenced by but his influences were way way way better. Weak revival album.

Molecules · 03-28-2008, 03:37 PM

i'm fed up of subjective opinion being put forward as fact and i can't wait 'til a flesh-eating monkey virus wipes us all out, only for tidal waves to wash the corpses away. Interpretations of the albums of Beck will not matter when we're bludgeoning household pets to death for something to eat

adidasss · 03-28-2008, 04:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

What are you talking about? That's probably one of Beck's best albums.

Maybe to an Elliott Smith fan...

GravitySlips · 03-28-2008, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Crowquill

What are you talking about? That's probably one of Beck's best albums.

well, Bad Moon Rising is one of Sonic Youth's best albums SOOOOOOOOO...

ah subjectivity how nice.

Alfred · 03-28-2008, 05:39 PM

Sandinista! - The Clash
As much as I love The Clash, they pretty much sucked after this album. They should have stuck with what they were good at. Honest, straightforawrd punk rock. Instead, they tried to experiment with R&B, Pop, Funk, and Raggae. And you know what? I hate it. I know London Calling only had "Koka Kola", "London Calling", "Clampdown" and maybe one or two other songs that were actually Punk Rock, but at least they did a good job of incorporating other genres. "The Right Profile", "The Card Cheat", "I'm Not Down", "Spanish Bombs", "Rudie Can't Fail", "Guns Of Brixton" and their covers of "Brand New Caddillac" and "Wrong Em' Boyo" is among their best work, and it was arguably not punk. But Sandinista and afterwards, blah. They rarely did anything with punk after that. It was all this experimental garbage that sucked. I love the Clash, but I would love them more if they actually stayed punk (and maybe throw in a few raggae or rockabilly ones, I guess).

Urban Hat€monger ? · 03-28-2008, 05:45 PM

Sandinista has a really good album in it if you take the crap out.
You reduce it to say 12 songs and you get...

The Magnificent Seven
Junco Partner
Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
The Leader
Somebody Got Murdered
One More Time
Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
Corner Soul
Police on My Back
The Call Up
Washington Bullets
Charlie Don't Surf

Which to me is a pretty solid album

Alfred · 03-28-2008, 05:54 PM

I used to like Magnificent Seven, but now it just gets annoying. About the only song I like on that list is Police On My Back.

Too many songs on Sandinista = Too much boring.

Urban Hat€monger ? · 03-28-2008, 06:00 PM

I still like it more than Give Em Enough Rope

03-28-2008, 11:16 AM	#21 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I'm going to go through my top 10 most played artists on last FM & pick which I think is their worse album 1. The Fall - Are You The Missing Winner There are 3 fall albums I don't really like much. The Frenz Experiment , Cerebral Caustic & Are You The Missing Winner. I'd probably go with Are You The Missing Winner as I can't recall a single song from that album without looking 2. David Bowie - Young Americans Most people would rightly go for his 80s & 90s material but personally Young Americans bores me to death. Only Fame , Golden Years & the title track are any good really.And even then I only really listen to Golden Years out of those three. 3. The Rolling Stones - Black n Blue There are plenty of recent albums I could include but i'm gonna go with Black n Blue because if there's one thing the stones should never have attempted it's reggae , and on this album they didn't try it once but twice. The rest of the album is made up of Jaggers crappy disco tunes & some turgid ballads. 4. The Clash - Give Em Enough Rope I refuse to put Combat Rock here because the more I listen to it the more I love it. I also refuse to put Sandinista here for the sheer balls for even attempting it. I shall put here Give Em Enough Rope. I can handle The Clash being bad , but I can't handle them being boring and side 2 of this album is dull as ditchwater. 5. Motorhead - March Or Die A lot of fans seem to hate Another Perfect Day because it's one of their most melodic albums , probably due to the influence of Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson being in the band at the time , but I love that album. I'll go instead for their March Or Die album , which was so boring to me I didn't buy another Motorhead album for about another 10 years. 6. The Cure - Wish Crowquill is spot on with Wish , a horrible cynical attempt of latching the band on to the growing grunge audience in the U.S. An awful AWFUL record. 7. Primal Scream - Primal Scream Despite being a huge Primal Scream fan half their recorded output could be here. There's the jangly indiepop debut the band disowned which is rather good to me , so i'm not choosing that. I could go for Give Out But Don't Give Up which was labelled by one critic as a Black Crowes tribute album , but that was the first album I got by them so i'm not going for that. The remix album Echo Dek I personally think is rubbish . I also found Riot City Blues got old real quick too. But if I was to choose one I would go for their self titled second album which just contains every single garage rock cliche going. 8. Radiohead - In Rainbows I'm going to come out of the woodwork and back up ComingUpRoses with In Rainbows here. Pablo Honey has it's faults but it's a debut & they were finding their feet. With In Rainbows my biggest problem is it sounds like you'd expect a Radiohead album to sound , theres just no surprises (HA!). Every Radiohead album has it's own sound , to me In Rainbows just sounds like a mish mash of all their other albums. And another thing , it sounded virtually identical to Thom Yorke's solo album. Just what do the other 4 bandmembers do exactly? 9. Can - Rite Time This one is pretty easy. Rite Time , the late 80s comeback album with original vocallist Malcolm Mooney. I have heard it I just can't remember a single thing about it 10. Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night Most of Stereolab's albums have tons of filler but if I had to pick a worst I would probably say Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night. More thought seems to have gone to the title of the album rather than the songs. __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

03-28-2008, 03:37 PM	#24 (permalink)
Molecules daddy don't Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: the Wastes Posts: 2,577	i'm fed up of subjective opinion being put forward as fact and i can't wait 'til a flesh-eating monkey virus wipes us all out, only for tidal waves to wash the corpses away. Interpretations of the albums of Beck will not matter when we're bludgeoning household pets to death for something to eat __________________ [SIZE="1"]Eff em tumble her

03-28-2008, 05:39 PM	#27 (permalink)
Alfred one big soul Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 5,096	Sandinista! - The Clash As much as I love The Clash, they pretty much sucked after this album. They should have stuck with what they were good at. Honest, straightforawrd punk rock. Instead, they tried to experiment with R&B, Pop, Funk, and Raggae. And you know what? I hate it. I know London Calling only had "Koka Kola", "London Calling", "Clampdown" and maybe one or two other songs that were actually Punk Rock, but at least they did a good job of incorporating other genres. "The Right Profile", "The Card Cheat", "I'm Not Down", "Spanish Bombs", "Rudie Can't Fail", "Guns Of Brixton" and their covers of "Brand New Caddillac" and "Wrong Em' Boyo" is among their best work, and it was arguably not punk. But Sandinista and afterwards, blah. They rarely did anything with punk after that. It was all this experimental garbage that sucked. I love the Clash, but I would love them more if they actually stayed punk (and maybe throw in a few raggae or rockabilly ones, I guess). __________________ LAST.FM / VINYL COLLECTION / RYM

03-28-2008, 05:45 PM	#28 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	Sandinista has a really good album in it if you take the crap out. You reduce it to say 12 songs and you get... The Magnificent Seven Junco Partner Ivan Meets G.I. Joe The Leader Somebody Got Murdered One More Time Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice) Corner Soul Police on My Back The Call Up Washington Bullets Charlie Don't Surf Which to me is a pretty solid album __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.

03-28-2008, 05:54 PM	#29 (permalink)
Alfred one big soul Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Canada Posts: 5,096	I used to like Magnificent Seven, but now it just gets annoying. About the only song I like on that list is Police On My Back. Too many songs on Sandinista = Too much boring. __________________ LAST.FM / VINYL COLLECTION / RYM

03-28-2008, 06:00 PM	#30 (permalink)
Urban Hat€monger ? The Sexual Intellectual Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Somewhere cooler than you Posts: 18,605	I still like it more than Give Em Enough Rope __________________ Urb's RYM Stuff Most people sell their soul to the devil, but the devil sells his soul to Nick Cave.