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ReadyMadeFour64 12-13-2015 03:13 AM

Top 5: Worst Albums of 2015
 
Worst albums are here for the year. This year was not the worst, but it had some spots. Here you go, the Top 5 WORST Albums Of 2015


WORST

5. A Head Full Of Dreams (COLDPLAY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtXby3twMmI
I like Coldplay. I enjoyed Mylo Xyloto, which took a different direction then the usual songs of Coldplay. The same vibe comes off of this album, but for some reason, was really bummed. This album seemed like a waste of time. Only a few songs stood out, but the album all sounds the same. If you like this album, Good for you. This just didn't do much for me.

4. Star Wars (WILCO)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB6oV_y4Lik
I also LOVE Wilco. This album was just really meh. I didn't think that too many songs were really enjoyable. I do enjoy some of the songs, but in the end, a couple of songs doesn't save a boring album. (I am talking about the 2nd part of the album.) It isn't the worst, but I was underwhelmed.

3. Citizen Zombie (THE POP GROUP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rxeo6scjSMk
The last 2 albums were nothing special. This on the other hand is pretty horrific. "Citizen Zombie" is hard to listen to. The only way to explain is like this. Imagine a pile of goo slowly going down a wall. Yeah. The guitars are horrible, drums are mediocre and vocals sound way too distorted/tampered with.

2. American Beauty/American Psycho (FALL OUT BOY)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjtNPyVwMps
I am not a Fall Out Boy fan, but everything deserves a fair chance. I took a listen, and after the album, my head hurt. I cringed. This album is just terrible. Every single song has the same progression. The vocals are just horrible, and don't get me started on lyrics and guitars. Don't think about this album at all.

1. Miley Cyrus & Her Dead Pets (MILEY CYRUS)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wu5iAgJ65dA
Again, everything deserves a fair chance, but this was doomed for the first song. This album hurts my head. The vocals on some songs just are WAY too distorted and sound ike she is yelling into a megaphone. The songs are horribly made and produced. It does not help that she is, well, Miley Cyrus. For her to make 0 effort on an album just gets me angry. I'm done.

Frownland 12-13-2015 03:18 AM

Say one more bad thing about The Pop Group and I'll spit in your cereal.

Trollheart 12-18-2015 02:59 PM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1659966)
Say one more bad thing about The Pop Group and I'll spit in your cereal.

Or, he'll play you his albums! You do NOT want that!

ReadyMadeFour64 12-19-2015 03:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Frownland (Post 1659966)
Say one more bad thing about The Pop Group and I'll spit in your cereal.

I didn't say TPG was bad, it was just that this album didn't do anything for me.

Trollheart 12-19-2015 05:12 AM

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Originally Posted by ReadyMadeFour64 (Post 1661909)
I didn't say TPG was bad, it was just that this album didn't do anything for me.

I think you said a lot more than that. You also said their last two albums were nothing special, so it's sort of hard not to make the logical leap that you by extension think the band are crap. You did not, in fact, even qualify (if you're going to) your comments by saying something like "the first album was ok" or "this is a departure from their usual output", so what is anyone to conclude but that you think they're a terrible group?

Nobody's particularly denying you your opinion --- I don't think they're that great either --- but have the courage of your convictions. Stand up beside what you say and don't try to weasel out of it by pretending that wasn't what you meant.

Guit-A-Grip 12-22-2015 10:20 PM

Please follow up with a "Best of 2015" would love to read your list for that criteria as well.

Thank You!
GAG

Goofle 12-24-2015 01:34 PM

10. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
9. Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar
8. Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do Vol. 5
7. Richie Kotzen - Cannibals
6. Fences - Lesser Oceans
5. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
4. Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.3 (
3. Кровосток - Ломбард
2. Z-Ro - Melting the Crown
1. Aceyalone & Bionik - Action

Trollheart 12-24-2015 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1663920)
10. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
9. Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar
8. Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do Vol. 5
7. Richie Kotzen - Cannibals
6. Fences - Lesser Oceans
5. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
4. Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.3 (
3. Кровосток - Ломбард
2. Z-Ro - Melting the Crown
1. Aceyalone & Bionik - Action

Ki gonna have words with you...
:shycouch:

Zhanteimi 12-24-2015 02:12 PM

There are only two 2015 albums I despised:

Mumford & Sons' Wilder Mind
Sun Kil Moon's Universal Themes

Machine 12-24-2015 05:50 PM

I personally really liked the new Wilco and the new Miley Cyrus album.

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Originally Posted by mordwyr (Post 1663931)
There are only two 2015 albums I despised:

Mumford & Sons' Wilder Mind
Sun Kil Moon's Universal Themes

I also really liked that Sun Kil Moon album, I'd say it's maybe even better than Benji.

Zhanteimi 12-24-2015 06:00 PM

Benji is one of my favorite albums. I guess that's why I was so disappointed with Universal Themes.

JGuy Grungeman 12-27-2015 11:31 AM

My bottom five are all Bandcamp releases, so I don't know if you'll know them.

5. Diario by Cassio Figuerido. Kinda boring drone music. Then again, I'm not much of a drone guy.
4. Bits by Kermodei. Boring Ambient, and I've heard a lot of ambient, and I like quite a bit. But this put in no effort and was really just bundling long noises together.
3. Battle Galactica by BG. I have no prejudice towards trap, but I've heard better hip hop, and this album was all hip and no hop. What I mean is, it tried to hard to be an album and it didn't have anything to back it.
2. THe Life and Death of Longface. I listened to it because it was grungegaze. However, both grunge and shogaze are good, and it takes a boring group to screw them up.
1. Konia by Borejko. I'm a friend of him, and I believe friends should give people honest opinions instead of pretending all of their albums are good. Borejko (formerly known as Harkan) makes a LOT of albums. He has more than 80. He's bound to have a bad album at some point, and his experimentation with ambient, industrial, electronic, drone, etc. can be for better or worse. This album was pretty bad. The tracks are too legthy, and they have less spunk than most of Borejko's discography. And I've given some of his albums great reviews.

Anyway, that's my bottom five. Ratings ranging from three stars to one star. Not super horrible.

DeadChannel 01-13-2016 12:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart (Post 1661916)
I think you said a lot more than that. You also said their last two albums were nothing special, so it's sort of hard not to make the logical leap that you by extension think the band are crap. You did not, in fact, even qualify (if you're going to) your comments by saying something like "the first album was ok" or "this is a departure from their usual output", so what is anyone to conclude but that you think they're a terrible group?

Nobody's particularly denying you your opinion --- I don't think they're that great either --- but have the courage of your convictions. Stand up beside what you say and don't try to weasel out of it by pretending that wasn't what you meant.

I think by "last two albums" he meant the last two on the list. TPG has only done something like 3d albums total, and the last 2 were like 50 years ago

Neapolitan 01-13-2016 01:30 AM

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Originally Posted by mordwyr (Post 1663931)
There are only two 2015 albums I despised:

Mumford & Sons' Wilder Mind
Sun Kil Moon's Universal Themes

lol Mumford & Sons

http://i76.fastpic.ru/big/2015/1216/...8489298ea1.jpg
The Princes ‎– Stars Prog, Cross over Prog (:confused: haven't heard of that before) The lyrics and singing comes off as a poor attempt at Queen, their music is just OK to so-so run-of-the-mill modern Prog. The album cover cracks me up.

Janszoon 01-13-2016 05:05 AM

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Originally Posted by Goofle (Post 1663920)
10. Steven Wilson - Hand. Cannot. Erase.
9. Subterranean Masquerade - The Great Bazaar
8. Jason Lescalleet - This Is What I Do Vol. 5
7. Richie Kotzen - Cannibals
6. Fences - Lesser Oceans
5. Nightwish - Endless Forms Most Beautiful
4. Alva Noto - Xerrox Vol.3 (
3. Кровосток - Ломбард
2. Z-Ro - Melting the Crown
1. Aceyalone & Bionik - Action

I haven't heard that one yet but I like the first two Xerrox albums. Do you like those?


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