Bad Albums by your favorite artists

[rykerw1701]

"Kilroy was Here" by Styx. I remembered not liking it when it came out, but then a couple of years ago I found the CD in a yard sale for 50 cents, and I thought it had to be better than I remembered. It was overpriced. And I really like Styx but I hate that album. No wonder it killed the band.

[Mikey]

Any Badfinger album without Pete Ham

[Earth 2 Chris]

^ 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.

Yeah, the hits are really great, but the rest is just...weird. "Greeks Don't Want No Freaks"? Were the Eagles watching Animal House or something? It's the one album I'll skip around on. Most of the Eagles albums I always just played through.

And yes, the band was crumbling at this point. Poor Timothy B. Schmidt. He came in as the wheels were coming off.

Chris

[palitoy]

This is probably a Canadian thing but TPOH's "Love Junk" was one of my favourite albums of the 1980s, when One Sided Story came out and the first single sounded good, I was all over it. It's really forgettable and in one song (Food) Moe Berg sounds like Weird Al. I haven't listened to it since 1991.

[Spawn67]

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!

I was gonna say that Cryptopsy album but I didn't think anyone on this board would know who they were. Yea that was awful. One of the members told a friend of mine that they were trying to bring in a mainstream audience with that one. I mean yea the average mainstream fan would think cryptosy hmmm I gotta check them out.

[Mr.Marion]

More unhonorable mentions
Metallica - St. Anger
Certain Ratio-Good Together
Van Halen- vh III
Radiohead-Pablo Honey
RHCP-one hot minute
Chris Cornell-stream
Interpol -interpol

[cjefferys]

Celtic Frost's "Cold Lake" album was not well received at all when it first came out, as the avant-garde black metal band inexplicably released what was more of a glam metal album (complete with glam image as shown by the band's photo on the back cover). It was a very jarring follow up to their "Into the Pandemonium" LP. It got universally bad reviews and the band has since disowned it, it's been out of print for years. I still have my vinyl copy that I bought when it was released, I actually liked it because I liked glam metal as well as extreme metal, so I thought it was an interesting combination. I was definitely in the minority though!

[El Hombre Nuclear]

Celtic Frost's "Cold Lake" album was not well received at all when it first came out, as the avant-garde black metal band inexplicably released what was more of a glam metal album (complete with glam image as shown by the band's photo on the back cover). It was a very jarring follow up to their "Into the Pandemonium" LP. It got universally bad reviews and the band has since disowned it, it's been out of print for years. I still have my vinyl copy that I bought when it was released, I actually liked it because I liked glam metal as well as extreme metal, so I thought it was an interesting combination. I was definitely in the minority though!

Oh man, what a debacle that was in the underground scene at the time! We were all dumbfounded when we first saw that video with Tom G. Warrior prancing around with teased up hair, etc. Their cover of "Mexican Radio" had been hard enough to swallow, but "Into the Pandemonium" was full of dark, weird material, so we let it pass. "Cherry Orchards" was really a bridge too far, though...

It's funny, because despite my particular metalhead crew being very underground-oriented (I used to walk around with an Infernal Majesty "None Shall Defy" back-patch on my black denim jacket, for crying out loud), one of my best friends was a total glam metal fanatic, and even he didn't like Cold Lake. Many of the glam guys, despite our constant taunting, were very talented musicians, could actually sing, etc. But good 'ol Tom seemed to think he could get by in that scene just grunting along like he was still doing "Circle of the Tyrants" or something. So, I don't think the people who were into stuff like Winger were really buying it either.

[cjefferys]

Ha, I remember watching the premiere of the "Cherry Orchards" video on MTV Headbangers Ball and thinking "Holy crap, what happened to Tom!". You're right, the strictly glam metal fans wouldn't have liked this album either, mostly due to Tom's vocals. But as I liked both genres of metal, the album worked for me.

Oh man, I forgot about Infernal Majesty, good Canadian metal band! I haven't heard "None Shall Defy" in years but I did buy it when it came out and remember really liking it. I'll have to dig it up and give it a listen again!

[Spawn67]

Yup how could I forget "Cold Lake". I was and still am a huge Hellhammer and Celtic Frost fan. When that came out I was like Huh? A friend of mine asked Tom about that album a couple years ago at a Triptikon show and he just shook his head looked to the ground and kept walking.
Also about 4 years I found a original copy of Cold Lake for .75 cents in a used bin at a record store. I said what the hell. Me and my friend were like ok its been 20 years or so let's see if it's as bad as we remember it. We put it on and couldn't get past the 3rd song...
Whats funny about the "Cherry Orchards" video is how we all know Tom as being a serious guy and it's funny to see a serious guy try to be "cool and happy".
Yea I love Infernal Majesty's "None shall Defy" album and I put it on a regular basis. However everything thing the did after that I couldn't get into.
Im a HUGE Bathory fan and he put out some stinkers after the first 4 albums in the 90's.

[Spawn67]

Oh yea I should add SLAYER's "Diabolus in Musica" to the pile of stinkers. Can't stand that album and there attempt to be "modern" at the time. Really I don't like anything after "Seasons in the Abyss" but that's just me...

[acrovader]

Dynasty and Unmasked are guilty pleasures of mine. Unmasked has some great songs on it that I would personally classify as very good power pop.

KISS power pop? Maybe I need to hear that album.

[acrovader]

Never a fan of Iron Maiden's 'Killers'. I'm on the fence with 'Somewhere in Time'. Not crazy about some of their 90's stuff.

[Mikey]

Does anybody here ever listen to anything pre 1980 ?

[cjefferys]

Im a HUGE Bathory fan and he put out some stinkers after the first 4 albums in the 90's.

I'm a big fan too, but I think "Hammerheart" was the last album that I really liked throughout.

Really I don't like anything after "Seasons in the Abyss" but that's just me...

That's the last Slayer album that I really got into. I've liked some of their songs after that, but not whole albums.

KISS power pop? Maybe I need to hear that album.

There are some really catchy songs on "Unmasked". Paul could write some good power pop songs.

Does anybody here ever listen to anything pre 1980 ?

Sure, I love a lot of 60's and 70's stuff (I'm a huge Beatles and Zeppelin fan for example) but I guess since my teenage years took place in the 80's I feel closer to the music of that era.