Bad Albums by your favorite artists

[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!

[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.

[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.

[toys2cool]

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

I actually loved that one

[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.

[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!

[toys2cool]

god the Spaghetti incident by GNR

[Mikey]

Carl and the Passions – So Tough

[cjefferys]

DaDa is great! "Former Lee Warmer", "Scarlet and Sheba" and "I Love America" are favorites of mine. And the weird "DaDa" opening.

And his look during that era is just so... out there! I think he was trying to be current by doing new wave and looking like his version of DEVO/Buggles etc. I just love it.

Anyway, sorry, I'm hijacking the thread.

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.

[Mr.Marion]

I am NOT a fan of the Black Keys latest, Turn Blue. I do like Get Behind Me Satan.

I have the opposite with The Killers. I'm not a fan of any of their stuff, except I love the collection of b-sides and rejects on Sawdust.

I never thought the White Stripes were as good as the Strokes or The Hives.

I agree the Killers are hit or miss. But I enjoyed Sawdust the most. Tranquilize with Lou Reed being the gem from the album.

And the MJ Albums after dangerous were History, invincible and Michael and Xcape after his death.
I think America's love affair with Michael ended and he fell out of touch with reality and pop culture by the time Dangerous came out.

[EmergencyIan]

Jackson Browne's "Lawyers In Love"...for the most part.

- Ian

[CrimsonGhost]

The first three of his "lost" albums only have a few songs that I like, but I love DaDa and personally think it's a sadly overlooked Alice classic, terribly underrated. Funny, I've actually been listening to it a lot recently, I'm on a bit of an Alice kick right now.

DaDa is great! "Former Lee Warmer", "Scarlet and Sheba" and "I Love America" are favorites of mine. And the weird "DaDa" opening.

And his look during that era is just so... out there! I think he was trying to be current by doing new wave and looking like his version of DEVO/Buggles etc. I just love it.

Anyway, sorry, I'm hijacking the thread.

[apes3978]

The Beatles: A Hard Days Night and Help

I don't know anyone who listens to the instrumentals more than once

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

[Werewolf]

Don't care for Clones or really any of Alice's songs from that era. I find them hard to listen to and the videos even harder to watch. To me, the Clones music video shows an obviously very ill man trying to do disco long after its popularity had already faded.

[cjefferys]

Kiss Dynasty (their disco album), Kiss Unmasked and Peter Criss' solo album are also really bad.

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.