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Velvet Underground - Squeeze
Changing the leader of the band is a serious hit and miss chance, but in this case it was following four seriously great albums led by either Lou Reed and John Cale (first two) or just Reed (S/T and Loaded). Not to dismiss the talents of Doug Yule and understanding the circumstances of how this came to be, it was still like seeing your favorite dark hangout with a strong cult following that kept it in business for years turned into a nice Singer Songwriter place but without the kind of artist that would make it a go-to place. The classic four albums were a tough act to follow!

My Not-So-Obvious pick
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Blasting Off
This is a case of the band having the original visionary with a whole different line up, recording in LA and trying to keep the name alive. Some decent songs, but the burn out from not having any kind of major hits from their Late 80's albums which seemed to try to break out (Nothing Wrong and the slightly under-valued Blow) resulted in something sounding like things were on Auto-Pilot running low on fuel. In their case, it's another case of a hard act to follow - the classic first two albums and the collection of classic singles sides that burned the house down. I could have said Nothing Wrong for the very foggy production that ruined it (especially the original UK version - the US version added some great songs, but also had a worse sound on all of it to accommodate the weight of material per side which made the songs of the original cut sound worse on the original vinyl pressing!), but this was a case of knowing when to stop (Pre-2K's return).

Musicwhore A-Z

The worst album from KISS? Sorry, I'll have to pick three of them ( ): 1987's 'Crazy Nights', 1989's 'Hot In The Shade', and 1998's 'Psycho Circus'. ANY of these three could equally pass of as their "worst", to be frank.

TechnicLePanther

I'm sorry to say this, but Ummagumma is horrible. You should know the band.

Plainview

Pretty sure Ummagumma wasn't by The Band...

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Frownland

It's crazy to me that someone would pick Ummagumma considering that it has an incredible live portion and the fact that Floyd released Wish You Were Here, Momentary Lapse of Reason, Division Bell, and The Endless River.

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Chula Vista

Wish You Were Here is in their top 5 for sure.

Led Zeppelin: In Through the Out Door. Plant and Jones' album mostly still Page and Bonham were so out of it by then. Still plenty of great stuff on it though.

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Moss

Wish you were here? You out of your mind? Endless River is the only correct answer to this.

I love In through the out door but I guess I'm in the minority on that one. I would go with CODA being the worst although to be fair, still a great album.

Exo

Tom Waits.

Sorry Tom. Alice just isn't anywhere near the rest of your work. It's really the only album that I sometimes find hard to finish or not put on something else.

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Frownland

For Waits I would say Nighthawks at the Diner tbh. It's a good album but I feel like it lacks the magic of albums like Closing Time and the zaniness of the bulk of his other material.

I just don't like it, too much of it is very boring. It's mainly Shine On that I'm not huge on, but the other three tracks sound like they could be filler or b side tracks on something way better, which I know Floyd is capable of. There's also the fact that the live half of Ummagumma outweighs the more out there type of stuff on the studio lp.

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Moss

WYWH is not in my top 5 but still way above any post Roger Waters Floyd. I find Atom Heart mother tough to get into from the Waters era.