Bad Albums by your favorite artists

[Spawn67]

Judas Priest "Turbo"
Kiss "The Elder"
Although most people don't like these albums I LOVE Black Sabbath in all there incarnations after Ozzy and DIO! '"Born Again, Seventh Star, Headless Cross" being my favorites..The only one I don't like is "Forbidden"
For anyone here into Extreme Metal (I know there has to be one or 2 of you here) the last Morbid Angel album was one of the worst albums I have ever heard in my entire musical lifetime.

[cjefferys]

Alice Cooper had a string of absolutely terrible albums. Flush the Fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catches the Skin and Dada.

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.

[cjefferys]

Didn't KISS have a few bad ones? The world without heroes album and I think Peter's solo album is regarded as one of the worst records of all time.

Although it was a huge bomb at the time, KISS' "Music from the Elder" is a great album IMO, just not what their fans were looking for or expecting at the time. Peter's solo album has a couple good songs but that's it.

Alice Cooper "Lace and Whiskey" is a bad album I like.

I like it too. It has some clunkers, but also some great songs, I absolutely love the title track.

[CrimsonGhost]

Just for YOU. Ha. Couldn't resist....

I actually love (sincerely love) that song....Cooper shoulda guested on McCartney II! Synth-pop heaven!

YES!!!!

[CrimsonGhost]

Alice Cooper had a string of absolutely terrible albums. Flush the Fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catches the Skin and Dada.

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

I agree those Cooper albums are bad, but there's something about them that I love. Maybe it's because they are so disjointed, or because they were made during Alice's darkest days of alcohol and drug abuse and what came from that is fascinating to me, I don't know for sure. I definitely like them better than Dragontown or Brutal Planet or Welcome to my Nightmare 2, which I have no interest in listening to again.

I love Unmasked too. HAHA! What can I say?

[huedell]

Alice Cooper had a string of absolutely terrible albums. Flush the Fashion.

Just for YOU. Ha. Couldn't resist....

I actually love (sincerely love) that song....Cooper shoulda guested on McCartney II! Synth-pop heaven!

[Werewolf]

Alice Cooper had a string of absolutely terrible albums. Flush the Fashion, Special Forces, Zipper Catches the Skin and Dada.

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

[huedell]

...for me, I think Paul McCartney Press to Play

I love the wacky lo-fi synth approach---as long as the songs are tight---which is why I prefer the similarly toned McCartney II which is probably in my top 3 favorite solo McCartney albums.

[huedell]

Didn't KISS have a few bad ones? The world without heroes album and I think Peter's solo album is regarded as one of the worst records of all time.

I'm pretty immersed in KISS-culture, so, I guess I'll weigh in---but this is where it gets messy.

KISS is one crazy band when it comes to their style changes over the years----they are beyond contrived in "directing their ship". I'm okay with that, but I feel foolish for even caring that much about something so outrageously paper-thin to begin with.

Add to that I often like things that are often despised by mainstream culture---things that are "dated" for example----like, I love disco music---so, while many would diss KISS' Dynasty album as one of their worst---I embrace it.

KISS' Elder? I think it's a classy album by a virtually classless band. A lot of good songs ---- WWHeroes being one of them. It was a flop and, overall, people hated it. Oh well.

I think KISS' worst album is an album that many hardcore fans praise for it's musicality and "serious" approach. That is their Carnival Of Souls album.

I just think Carnival Of Souls reeks of KISS at their most desperate, trying to fit in with a new generation of darker, ploddier, more introspective bands that, ironically, they inspired to pick up guitars a generation prior. Patheticness incarnate.

[Nostalgiabuff]

I always heard the one Zeppelin album was really bad, what was it? Coda?
for me, I think Paul McCartney Press to Play

[Mikey]

The Beatles: A Hard Days Night and Help

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

[CrimsonGhost]

I can admit an album is bad and still like it.

Alice Cooper "Lace and Whiskey" is a bad album I like. "Dragontown" I don't like.

Kiss "Hot In The Shade" I like. "Carnival of Souls" I don't like.

[Mr.Marion]

Didn't KISS have a few bad ones? The world without heroes album and I think Peter's solo album is regarded as one of the worst records of all time.

[huedell]

Invincible by Michael Jackson wasn't anything special.

I find it amusing that I was going to post "Does anybody else think that MJ started phoning it in after Dangerous?" and then slowly realizing Invincible is the ONLY album released AFTER Dangerous and BEFORE he passed that was a legit full-length new album of original tunes.

The gloved one really had an outrageously consistently awesome solo artist 4 album output from 1979-1991.

He's BAD!

[Hector]

From Wiki...

In July 2004, Q magazine listed Hot Space as one of the top fifteen albums where great rock acts lost the plot. Most of the album was recorded in Munich during the most turbulent period in the band's history, and Roger Taylor and Brian May lamented the new sound, with both being very critical of the influence Freddie Mercury's manager Paul Prenter had on the singer. Estimated sales of the album currently stand at four million copies.

Even the cover is ugly...





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Due to its dance-pop sound, Hot Space is widely considered by both fans and critics to be one of Queen's most artistically disappointing albums. Stephen Erlewine of All Music.com said of the album that "the band that once proudly proclaimed not to use synthesizers on their albums has suddenly, dramatically reversed course, devoting the entire first side of the album to robotic, new wave dance-pop, all driven by drum machines and colored by keyboards, with Brian May's guitar coming in as flavor only on occasion." Alex Petridis of The Guardian gave the album two stars and said: "Like Queen, disco was melodramatic, unrepentantly camp, extravagantly arranged and omnivorous in its influences. Or at least it had been. By the time of 1982's Hot Space, disco had mutated into the weird, skeletal, dubby electronic sound pioneered by DJ Larry Levan, which really didn't suit Queen at all." Michael Jackson, who was close friends with the band during the time, later cited Hot Space as an influence for his own album Thriller.