Bad Albums by your favorite artists

[Mikey]

Carl and the Passions – So Tough

[toys2cool]

god the Spaghetti incident by GNR

[cjefferys]

I always heard the one Zeppelin album was really bad, what was it? Coda?

I actually like Coda, I guess it really shouldn't be considered a proper album, more like a collection of unreleased odds and ends. The new 3 disc reissue/remaster of Coda has tons of great stuff on it!

[cjefferys]

god the Spaghetti incident by GNR

There are a few good punk covers on there but it's sad that this ended up being the last release of the original band (not counting the "Sympathy for the Devil" single a year or two later). They didn't exactly go out on a high note. But then again IMO, GNR started out with a staggeringly incredible debut album that they could never match, so it was just downhill from there.

[toys2cool]

"Sympathy for the Devil" single a year or two later).

I actually loved that one

[Blue Meanie]

"New" by Paul McCartney. IMHO it is the worst album he's put out in his career. Yes, even worse than Wings' "Wild Life" and "McCartney 2". Played the album once and just couldn't see myself listening to it again it was that bad. I usually give albums at least 3 listens to see if it's a good one or has potential to grow on me. Zip...Nada....Nothing interested me on the album at all. I have everything he's ever done, solo and Wings, and my collection is huge with singles from all over the world. That's how much of a fan I am of McCartney...but "New" was a complete waste of $13 in my opinion. I don't understand how it got great reviews and got him a grammy nomination.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

It's so funny to read this thread, when so many of the albums listed are ones that are my all-time favorites (i.e. Flush The Fashion, Zipper Catches Skin, The Elder, Carnival Of Souls, Get Behind Me Satan, Coda, etc....) Just goes to show how subjective music can be!

I don't "hate" anything that QUEEN ever did, but yeah I agree "Hot Space" is one that I pretty much never have a desire to listen to, and really couldn't care if I never hear it again.

[nvmbrsdoom5]

Oh and good call on that last Morbid Angel album, that was just awful. Cryptopsy also put out an awful record several years back that made my jaw drop when I first heard it, unbelievably a mess!

[daz71]

That's why I'm glad the UK versions are available: Both are all Beatles music, no film instrumentals...

glad you cleared that up I was thinking what instrumentals.

[Nostalgiabuff]

"New" by Paul McCartney. IMHO it is the worst album he's put out in his career. Yes, even worse than Wings' "Wild Life" and "McCartney 2". Played the album once and just couldn't see myself listening to it again it was that bad. I usually give albums at least 3 listens to see if it's a good one or has potential to grow on me. Zip...Nada....Nothing interested me on the album at all. I have everything he's ever done, solo and Wings, and my collection is huge with singles from all over the world. That's how much of a fan I am of McCartney...but "New" was a complete waste of $13 in my opinion. I don't understand how it got great reviews and got him a grammy nomination.

really? I like that album a lot. I thought it was the best album he has put out in years, even though his voice is really showing his age these days

[Earth 2 Chris]

I'm a HUGE Bob Seger fan, but his latest, "Ride Out", isn't very good. Bob comes across as an angry old guy screaming off of his porch. A major disappointment to me, as his previous one, "Face the Promise" was his best work in decades.

Chris

[CrimsonGhost]

I'm gonna hijack it a bit more.

I think I read somewhere that of all the albums Alice recorded in this era (he doesn't even remember most of it), "Scarlet and Sheba" is the song he'd most want to revisit. Great song! I think it's funny that Warner Brothers gave Alice and Bob Ezrin money to record the album just out of obligation, it was the last one on his contract with them, and thought they would just go away. They were surprised when Cooper and Ezrin actually recorded and delivered an album. They weren't expecting to get one, so that's why Warner did zero promotion for it, and also since Alice was too sick to do a tour to support it (he has never performed any songs from it live), it just kind of died and was forgotten.

I would love to see him dig up an obscure song or two to play live. Scarlet and Sheba would fit right in with what he's doing now.

And I think I Love America is just begging for a video... a little too late now, I suppose! HAHA!

[megoapesnut]

Other than the tracks that were hits, The Long Run by the Eagles is my least favorite of their original albums.

Chris

By that point they all hated each other so no surprise that their music suffered. Although "I Can't Tell You Why" is one of my favorites.

[EmergencyIan]

^ In The City and Sad Cafe are really good songs from that album, in my opinion...beside The Long Run, Heartache Tonight and I Can't Tell You Why. That's five out of ten songs. That's just half bad.

- Ian

[El Hombre Nuclear]

Well, as someone who's favorite genres are progressive/psychedelic rock, jazz-rock/fusion and heavy metal, all from the late '60s to early '90s timeframe, the evaluation of when a band jumped the shark usually coincides with when they attempted to get too poppy/mainstream, which is not something musicians from these scenes often excelled at, nor were their core fanbases looking for. Unfortunately, as time went on and the youthful creative energy inevitably dissipated, this tended to happen to many of the "big name" groups. As such, there are really too many examples to name here.

For my metalhead peeps who mentioned Morbid Angel earlier in the thread, I can only say that I can't even imagine how bad they must be at this point. Frankly, I didn't even like their '90s stuff. The "Thy Kingdom Come" demo/single and "Altars of Madness" were all I really needed to hear from them.