Bad Albums by your favorite artists

[Mr.Marion]

I remember a co-worker telling me about what a stinker Emotional Rescue by the Stone was.

I felt Satan get behind me was a weak effort by the White Stripes.
Invincible by Michael Jackson wasn't anything special.

I'm drawing a blank on the other ones but I'm sure I'll be reminded of others.

[Wee67]

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

Although there a couple good tracks, I always felt The Who's Who By Numbers fell short.

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.

[Mikey]

LOVE Pink Floyd but I find Ummagumma very hard to sit through

[Mikey]

Dire Straits Communique

[Earth 2 Chris]

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

Chris

[huedell]

That's a hard one. I feel bad pointing out what I think a band's worse albums are, because, besides being subjective, I think it's true that the band needs their albums I like less in order to get to the making of albums I like more...if you can get my meaning.

I think it's easier (and more fun?) to point out that as far as the classic "proggy" groups go, some of their more deliberately commercial albums are the ones I prefer, while a lot of their hardcore fanbases will put them at the bottom of their lists.

That includes: Genesis' self-titled album, Rush's Distant Early Warning...and most pertinently Yes' 90125 which I think is unbelievably tight albeit a huge departure from their signature approach (and missing Steve Howe, a key member who, maybe not so incidentally, was a big part of the deliberately pop-geared prog musician-supergroup album that I like better than even the three I just mentioned, one of my top faves of all-time: Asia's self-titled debut).

[HardyGirl]

Invincible by Michael Jackson wasn't anything special.

Hey! I liked that album.

But the first one that comes to mind is Wasp by Shaun Cassidy. I think at that point he was trying to change his image, and that album is such a desparture from his previous 4. I used to call it his "angry album" and I had to warm up to it, but I like it now, (w/ some exceptions).

[Hector]

Hot Space by Queen. That's the one when they tried to go disco, pop, r&b, dance music...following the success of The Game album with its huge hit, Another One Bites the Dust.

Under Pressure is in it (which I love)...but...that song was a separate project and recorded ahead of the album in collaboration with David Bowie.

Hot Space is Queen's worst album.

[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...





More:

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.

[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!

[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.

[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.

[Mikey]

The Beatles: A Hard Days Night and Help

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

[Nostalgiabuff]

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

[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.