There is alot of Leonard Cohen's material I don't really care for, it's hit and miss with that man.

^^^This isn't albums you love by bands you hate dac.

Oh no I quite enjoy Interpol, but Antics has one good song and a bunch of filler. Bright Lights was ace and Our Love to Admire was pretty good but Antics was Sh*t IMO.

Personally I thought Antics was Interpol's best album. Next Exit, Narc, and Not Even Jail really made it for me.

For me Evil was hypnotic but the rest was just bland.

Next Exit and Not Even Jail are great, but the rest of the album is pretty lame. Even the low points on TOTBL weren't quite so forgettable.

I think he can be a bit hit or miss from song to song (though mostly hit) but I've never heard an album by him that just flat out sucked from beginning to end until I heard Ten New Songs.

Pixies - Trompe Le Monde
The sound of the Pixies creative genius going down the drain. Songs like U-Mass and Sad Punk just dont do anything for me.

Dinosaur Jr - Beyond
A pointless comeback album. Pale in comparison to their early albums.

AFI - Decemberunderground
Put the final nail in the AFI coffin for me.

Metallica - Load/Reload/St. Anger
I dont think i need to explain

Biffy Clyro - Puzzle
Not sure whether it was major label intervention or the band have their sights set on commercial gain, but their last album was a typical bland and over-polished mainstream record. The skewed genius of their first 3 albums was buried under.

Since holidays are coming up, I will mention ..

Billy Idol's album "Happy Holidays" from 2006.

Dear Mr. Idol, tell me one thing .. Why?! .. WHYYY??!??

Come ****ing on, it wasn't that bad. Sure it wasn't thesame as Their pre-the art of drowning, but it wasn't by any means bad, just different. I love all of afi's albums. decemberunderground just wasn't as good.

Jesus. He did an entire album of that crap? I'm a pretty big Billy Idol fan but that's fucking awful.

Also, he looks like a poster boy for plastic surgery .. on prozac. Chicken skin stretched over a skeleton.

He still has his trademark sneer, although that certainly doesn't make things any better.

Billy, man .. What happened? :(

Has anyone ever made a decent Christmas/winter holidays album? Even Phil Spector couldn't pull that one off! I think the phrase "decent Christmas album" is oxymoronic.

I agree. He looks terrifying in that video.

1 - Kasabian - Empire
http://www.clickmusic.com/upload/empirealbum300.jpg
I played the **** out of Kasabian's debut CD. It was catchy and gripping for me at the time and I had no doubts that their follow up would live to be better. Empire pissed the hell out of me when Kasabian took the, arguably, weakest track in their debut CD (Reason is Treason) and extended it to a full length album. The first and last song are all that matter. Everything else in-between will make your ears bleed in disappointment.
2 - The Go! Team - Proof of Youth
http://www.whatrecords.co.uk/live/pics/45579.jpg
The Go! Team pull a Kasabian when their inspiration for a second full length comes from their weakest track in their debut.
3 - Matthew Good - Hospital Music
http://www.melodic.net/img6/matthewgood_2007.jpg
After the genius that was Avalanche, Matthew Good became an even bigger *******, lost his wife, gained weight and released Hospital Music. Anyone could have written these songs.... when they were pimply 15 year olds. It doesn't help that the album, stylistically, is all over the place. There is no unity, and there is no point. I used to love this man's music. I quickly sold all of his CDs after listening to this one.

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I know this was just a testament to see how far Kurt could stretch the scope of his music but, it's just a lame drone album that should have never seen the light of day.

That's basically how I feel about:

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Don't get me wrong, I still like Distortion, but it feels more like a silly noise experiment from Merritt rather than a serious, well thought out album.

I personally did'nt think that the debut was all that. Listenable for sure but I don't think i have played it in over 2 years. 'Empire' was even worse. the only saving grace was 'Stunt Man' which is a top notch track.

Empire sounded strangely (and worryingly) too much of a Gary Glitter compilation to men.

I like the debut as for what it was. nothing special but a lot better than the tripe similar bands produced then.

http://i269.photobucket.com/albums/j...ghTrade_X-.jpg


(Sorry, PissMeOff!)

Ok, I don't hate this one, but if What She Said wasn't on it, I'd probably never play it. A lot of the tracks seem like half-realized ideas that would later be perfected on The Queen Is Dead.

nice pick. i concur

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Seriously?
That's their second best album IMO
Barbarism Begins At Home, Meat Is Murder, What She Said, and That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore really make that album the masterpice it is.

Barbarism is ok, but it goes on way too long and doesn't really go anywhere (I've heard a live version that's a bit better but still nothing special). The title track is sort of forgetable. It's not as awful as some people say, but it's not the great album closer that Suffer Little Children was. That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore has its moments, but the part about "people who feel so very lonely their only desire is to die" bit kills me, and again, it sounds like an early prototype for I Know It's Over.

I won't go into How Soon Is Now. :)

Trivium's 'Shogun'.
I just don't get that album, I mean... eugh!

I thought Barbarianism was a great song, Meat is Murder is actually the only Smiths album I like, probably because it's so different from everything else they've done.

Anyway.

Ummagumma - Pink Floyd... I'm only referring to the studio side of course, I don't know what they were thinking with this one.

Everything between 90125 and The Ladder - Yes... Some of the most horrifying pop filth you'll ever find.

Medulla - Bjork... I love Bjork and how she does something completely different, but there is a point where she tries too hard at being weird, and this is it, I don't know if it's the a cappella gimmick or the fact that she actually gets political here, but this album is just too heavy handed for me.

We Can't Dance - Genesis... Barf.

In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin... Yeah, they tried something different, I'll give them credit for that. But they tried so many styles with this album, and they just fail miserably, everything from the clumsy pseudo prog of Carouselambra and the stock rockabilly of the incredibly awful Hot Dog to the pukey soft rock of All Of My Love and the horrible attempt at samba Fool in the Rain, which sounds like something from the Weekend at Bernies 2 soundtrack.

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No? Its one of Pink Floyd's most brilliant albums.

If by brilliant you mean completely unlistenable sludge mascerading as surrealism then yes.

Wow I think it's their best. They really came through musically on this one.

Hmmm...

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Genesis (gabriel era) - The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
Enslaved - Isa, Ruun and Vertebrae
Ulver - Everything After Nattens Madrigal and before Shadows of the Sun
Ayreon - 01011001
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy
Kings of Leon - Only By The Night

There's more but some don't need mentioning, like Metallica's generaly ****e era that everyone hates.

You mean the majority of their career now... They've been ****e much longer than they were any good

The've been ****e their whole career.

But... Mustaine! http://forums.miniclip.com/images/sm...con_scream.gif

You are pardoned :D

It's a completely different beast to The Queen Is Dead really, you have a point in that it's an album by a band that are still trying to find their own sound but at the same time they're taking a few risks too and going out of their comfort zone, and it works so well.
I wouldn't change a thing about this album.

No denying that they're taking risks and experimenting with Meat Is Murder, but I just don't think they pull it off very well. A lot of the touches, like the endless moaning at the ends of The Headmaster Ritual and That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore, sound to me like a band that has no idea where they're going.

I think I said this somewhere else, but even the mix seems off. The whole thing sounds bland and unexciting. If it wasn't recorded track by track with the band phoning in their parts, it sure sounds like it.

Even the lyrics are pretty bad (even by Smiths standards). I don't think there's a single memorable line in here, unlike their debut and TQID, which were full of great lines. That part in Rushholme Ruffians about "my faith in love is still devout" (and delivered in that awful falsetto) sums up everything I dislike about the album.

But you're right from your side and I'm right from mine. :)

Agree entirely with The Wall. I bought it on CD to replace my cassette about 6 months ago in order to complete my floyd collection. Still unplayed :o:

I love The Wall and Lamb Lies Down. They get way too much of a bum rap.

I thought that the new Who album was a huge letdown... But then what do you expect with 2 key members gone?

Yeah, Daltry's voice hasn't aged very well either.