Bad albums by good artists
 

Pretty self-explanatory. I want to take a break from decade lists (particularly since the 70s one is such a bitch) so yeah. My nominations:

Beck "Midnight Vultures"
Bob Dylan "Down in the Groove"
Bob Dylan "Dylan"
Bob Dylan "Knocked Out Loaded"
Bob Dylan "Self-Portrait"
Cure, The "Wish"
Joni Mitchell "Dog Eat Dog"
Morrissey "Maladjusted"
Mos Def "Tru Magic"
Neil Young "Trans"
Sonic Youth "NYC Ghosts & Flowers"
Van Morrison "Pay the Devil"
Xiu Xiu "La Foret"

I'm considering putting Pablo Honey on here but I don't know.

:(

I wouldn't say it was bad , it just wasn't poppy enough for some people. And it was produced by Scott Walker.

This is Hardcore was worse

I've never listened to it I just saw it on tons of lists like this D:

Though after reading the rateyourmusic reviews I've become intrigued and Scott Walker is always a plus.

weezer - maladroit and make believe

and that pinkerton album,...that was pretty bad too

wuteva, woman. pink triangle, tired of sex, and no other one are three of the all time bests

David Bowie - Never Let Me Down and the Tin Machine albums.

the Glass Spider Tour:




I rest my case

leave Pablo Honey alone!!

Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music

and the blue album...and the green album too.

I know I don't think I will. I mean its not really a bad album its just like...nowhere near as good as every other radiohead album.

blasphemy.

Okay lets look at Weezer from a subjective standpoint.

Generally well liked: Blue Album
Liked by fans: Pinkerton
Generally considered average: Green Album
Generally considered bad: Maladroit, Make Believe

I think we can rule Weezer out based on their mediocrity/bad albums outweighing their good ones.

i'm just saying that under the context of "worst albums by good artists," using blue album for weezer makes absolutely no sense. it is obviously their best album. at least in my opinion.

Sam's town by The Killers. The jury is still out on whether or not they're good artists, but I love Hot fuss.....:(

Also, Sea Change by Beck...the only good song on it was Lost Cause. Let's hope he doesn't get depressed again...

As the Poets Affirm - Awake

Pedro the Lion - Control

Agreed. and maybe Paper Tiger isn't half bad.

And I would like to contest the inclusion of Midnight Vultures. What is wrong with that album? We used to play it contantly in a frame shop I worked in a couple years back.

Peachs and Cream is great, and Deborah is a ****ing masterpiece. Whats not to Lovesex?

You should, along with In Rainbows.
There I said it :eek:

Neither one really lives up to Radiohead standards in my opinion.

Jimmy Eat World, Chase The Light.

Dinosaur Jr - Without a Sound
Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
My Bloody Valentine - This Is Your Bloody Valentine

I'm going to go through my top 10 most played artists on last FM & pick which I think is their worse album

1. The Fall - Are You The Missing Winner
There are 3 fall albums I don't really like much. The Frenz Experiment , Cerebral Caustic & Are You The Missing Winner.
I'd probably go with Are You The Missing Winner as I can't recall a single song from that album without looking

2. David Bowie - Young Americans
Most people would rightly go for his 80s & 90s material but personally Young Americans bores me to death. Only Fame , Golden Years & the title track are any good really.And even then I only really listen to Golden Years out of those three.

3. The Rolling Stones - Black n Blue
There are plenty of recent albums I could include but i'm gonna go with Black n Blue because if there's one thing the stones should never have attempted it's reggae , and on this album they didn't try it once but twice. The rest of the album is made up of Jaggers crappy disco tunes & some turgid ballads.

4. The Clash - Give Em Enough Rope
I refuse to put Combat Rock here because the more I listen to it the more I love it. I also refuse to put Sandinista here for the sheer balls for even attempting it. I shall put here Give Em Enough Rope. I can handle The Clash being bad , but I can't handle them being boring and side 2 of this album is dull as ditchwater.

5. Motorhead - March Or Die
A lot of fans seem to hate Another Perfect Day because it's one of their most melodic albums , probably due to the influence of Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson being in the band at the time , but I love that album. I'll go instead for their March Or Die album , which was so boring to me I didn't buy another Motorhead album for about another 10 years.

6. The Cure - Wish
Crowquill is spot on with Wish , a horrible cynical attempt of latching the band on to the growing grunge audience in the U.S.
An awful AWFUL record.

7. Primal Scream - Primal Scream
Despite being a huge Primal Scream fan half their recorded output could be here. There's the jangly indiepop debut the band disowned which is rather good to me , so i'm not choosing that. I could go for Give Out But Don't Give Up which was labelled by one critic as a Black Crowes tribute album , but that was the first album I got by them so i'm not going for that. The remix album Echo Dek I personally think is rubbish . I also found Riot City Blues got old real quick too. But if I was to choose one I would go for their self titled second album which just contains every single garage rock cliche going.

8. Radiohead - In Rainbows
I'm going to come out of the woodwork and back up ComingUpRoses with In Rainbows here. Pablo Honey has it's faults but it's a debut & they were finding their feet. With In Rainbows my biggest problem is it sounds like you'd expect a Radiohead album to sound , theres just no surprises (HA!). Every Radiohead album has it's own sound , to me In Rainbows just sounds like a mish mash of all their other albums. And another thing , it sounded virtually identical to Thom Yorke's solo album. Just what do the other 4 bandmembers do exactly?

9. Can - Rite Time
This one is pretty easy. Rite Time , the late 80s comeback album with original vocallist Malcolm Mooney. I have heard it I just can't remember a single thing about it

10. Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Most of Stereolab's albums have tons of filler but if I had to pick a worst I would probably say Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night. More thought seems to have gone to the title of the album rather than the songs.

i couldn't agree more. talk about dissapointment.

What are you talking about? That's probably one of Beck's best albums.

You really gave no intelligent argument unless playing it in a frame shop constantly is an argument. It was cheesy and boring especially in comparison to Odelay or something else he did. I guess its a nice homage to stuff he's been influenced by but his influences were way way way better. Weak revival album.

i'm fed up of subjective opinion being put forward as fact and i can't wait 'til a flesh-eating monkey virus wipes us all out, only for tidal waves to wash the corpses away. Interpretations of the albums of Beck will not matter when we're bludgeoning household pets to death for something to eat

Maybe to an Elliott Smith fan...:rolleyes:

well, Bad Moon Rising is one of Sonic Youth's best albums SOOOOOOOOO...

ah subjectivity how nice.

Sandinista! - The Clash
As much as I love The Clash, they pretty much sucked after this album. They should have stuck with what they were good at. Honest, straightforawrd punk rock. Instead, they tried to experiment with R&B, Pop, Funk, and Raggae. And you know what? I hate it. I know London Calling only had "Koka Kola", "London Calling", "Clampdown" and maybe one or two other songs that were actually Punk Rock, but at least they did a good job of incorporating other genres. "The Right Profile", "The Card Cheat", "I'm Not Down", "Spanish Bombs", "Rudie Can't Fail", "Guns Of Brixton" and their covers of "Brand New Caddillac" and "Wrong Em' Boyo" is among their best work, and it was arguably not punk. But Sandinista and afterwards, blah. They rarely did anything with punk after that. It was all this experimental garbage that sucked. I love the Clash, but I would love them more if they actually stayed punk (and maybe throw in a few raggae or rockabilly ones, I guess).

Sandinista has a really good album in it if you take the crap out.
You reduce it to say 12 songs and you get...

The Magnificent Seven
Junco Partner
Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
The Leader
Somebody Got Murdered
One More Time
Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
Corner Soul
Police on My Back
The Call Up
Washington Bullets
Charlie Don't Surf

Which to me is a pretty solid album

I used to like Magnificent Seven, but now it just gets annoying. About the only song I like on that list is Police On My Back.

Too many songs on Sandinista = Too much boring.

I still like it more than Give Em Enough Rope

Give Em' Enough Rope had two really good songs (English Civil War and Tommy Gun). I don't really give a hoot about the rest of the album though. The best two were London Calling and The Clash.

Pink Floyd- Dark Side Of The Moon. Yes I said it.

St. Anger - Metallica

I will make this short: This album is God-awful.

Maybe I should change the title to Bad Albums by Good Artists.

I second that......This ablum makes me wand to put my head in a blender, its just sad what Metallica has come to.

american idiot- green day

yes i went there.
please take it easy on me.

I said "Good Artists" and as I proved with Weezer if mediocre/bad albums make up most of your discography you're not a good artist.

lol i like how you proved an opinion but okay crowie, gotcha.

I felt my Weezer post was pretty objective.

well.. i hate to break it to you, but opinions aren't objective.