every mcr album

I guess I’m the only person, other that Eddie Van Halen himself, that thinks Van Halen 3 is criminally underrated. It’s definitely a grower. Most people didn’t give it a chance past the 3rd song. Eddie shreds this album front to back. It’s much better than at least half of the Hagar output.

“Sometime in New York City”, John Lennon & Yoko Ono
“McCartney II”, Paul McCartney
“Lucky Town”/”Human Touch”, Bruce Springsteen
Everything by the Beach Boys post-1967

all post-Gabriel Genesis, altho Duke was ok.

U2 “Pop”

Neil Young “Trans”

Devo “Smooth Noodle Maps”

Robert Plant “Shaken N’ Stirred”

Anything by U2 post Achtung Baby. Seriously, they are just plain bad since then.

Dirty Work is not a bad album.
Bowie’s Tonight has a brilliant lead-off track Loving The Alien. It was brave of him to open a follow-up album to a blockbuster -Let’s Dance- with an anti-religious song.

“First Impressions of Earth” by The Strokes

Get Behind Me Satan, by the White Stripes had about three good song, and the rest was horrible
At War with the Mystics, by the Flaming Lips was just annoying
and Oh, Inverted World, by the Shins was a slaughterhouse for your ears, especially compared to their later works

I would say that “No Code” by Pearl Jam was a bland, uninspired mess by one of the great bands of our time.

any Neil Young record from the 80’s that isn’t Freedom.

Oasis – Standing on the shoulder of giants
worst studio album of a class band

peeping tom.

Right on chad. Van Halen 3 is definetely underrated. I’ll take it over most of the hagar stuff any day.

Aerosmith – Just Push Play

The Spaghetti Incident? is one of my favorite albums.

…But few people know it. Sometimes I play songs like Ain´t it Fun of Down on the Farm for people who doesn´t know the album, and they say: “Wow, is that an outtake?, or a new song?…”

No Code by Pearl Jam is a great record. You have to hear “In my tree”, “Who you are”, “off he goes”, “Red mosquito”, “Smile”, “hail, hail”….. it has great songs!

American Life – Madonna

jane’s addiction – Ritual de Habitual or whatever the hell it was called.

The Band-Islands

the Clash after Combat Rock when the band was firing each other daily. I miss JOE!

Pearl Jam-Binural
Oasis-Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
Radiohead-amnesiac

1.)Goodbye Cruel World – Elvis Costello & The Attractions – great songs , bad arrangements, bad production ,bad execution – one day, Costello should go back and rerecord the album the way it should have sounded.

2.)Give My Regards To Broad Street _ Paul McCartney – an creative nadir in Beatles and career revisionism.

3.)The Gingerbread Man – The Residents – the interactive CD-ROM if you can find one is great, the video on Icky Flix is splendid, but the actual music album is boring and uninteresting which is tragic for such an adventurous group as The Residents.

4.)The Division Bell – Pink Floyd – the first Floyd album without Roger Rogers that is boring, uninteresting and pretentious – yet, sold like hotcakes – that says a lot about Floyd fans doesn’t it?

5.)Superactive Wizzo – Roy Wood’s Wizzo – Right in the middle of both punk and the summer of disco, eccentric British pop genius Roy Wood goes fusion jazz but without any of his famous catchy licks or dark humour – number of albums sold – one hundred and four, including recent sales on ebay. Warner Brothers recently refused to re-issue this album on CD on the grounds it’s still unsellable.

I agree with h.r.g…..No Code by Pearl Jam has quality songs…it was just a departure from the “grundge” that everyone one expecting at the time. The tribal drumming from Jack Irons on “In My Tree” and “Who You Are” are top notch.

Santana-Shaman…worst follow-up possible to Supernatural

Smashing Pumpkins-Machina/The Machines of God–a few quality songs but overall a far cry from their previous work.

That new Chinese Food album that my ‘tard son is trying to release.
Bewteen you and me…it blows like a cheap hooker with an overbite.

U2- Pop

Someone said “Every MCR album”. The category is bad albums by great artists. Not just bad albums. If every MCR album is a bad album by a great artist, are they a great artist?

No Code is a great album, Hail, Hail and Red Mosquito are fantastic staples of their live show. Binaural on the other hand is an album I still can’t bear to listen to because it was so bad. Only Insignifigance is a salvageable song, and their version of Parting Ways that they do live at the end of Touring Band is good. The entire album is a mess. It broke my heart, I was sure that they would quit. Then they came back with Riot Act and rocked my ass. I thank Bush for that one thing, of bring PJ back with a vengance.

I would have to agree with Axl’s mom (she’s a sweetheart, but a bit of a booze-hound)…anywho.
That Chink album that Axl has been trying to get released for 10 whatever years, sucks like a cum guzzling meth whore.
Love
-Slash’s Mom

The Rolling Stones – Their Satanic Majesties Request. This is the worst Stones album by a longshot.

Clapton’s “Unplugged” album. This is Clapton on autopilot. He turned “Layla” into an adult-contemporary hit, for crying out loud.

U2 – How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb. The first U2 album to seem completely redundant. Should have been called How to Create an Artistic Bomb.

It guess it puts a space in the link when I try to post it. Oh well, you get the idea. Take that space out and that is the link.

the stooges – the wierdness

The soft Parade – The Doors
Never Let Me Down – David Bowie
Too Old to Rock and Roll and Too Young to Die – Jethro Tull
Night in the Ruts + A Rock and a Hard place – Aerosmith
The velvet underground album after Loaded when Lou Reed left
anything after the black album from Metallica

stone temple pilots – no.4
weezer – make believe
linkin park – minutes to midnight
kid rock – cocky
supergrass – road to rouen

…and anything touched by rick rubin

mick jagger’s solo albums

duran duran’s cover album – “thank you”

dave matthews band live albums that feature many of the same songs on them.

notorious b.i.g.’s greatest hits which featured songs from BOTH his cd’s.

Dave Matthews Band-Everyday–where was the band. It’s only Dave & Glen Ballard
Aerosmith-Just Push Play–You guys are better than this
The Black Crowes-Lions–Bueller, Bueller, Bueller, Bueller
Metallica-Load & Reload—when any song from either of these albums are played I get the gastric nasties
The Who-Endless Wire–it just didn’t kick my ass like all the other Who records

Good News For People Who Like Bad News, considerint the ratio of worst album to greatest band.

No Code is great.

Pop by U2 is the worst album I’ve ever bought, and I like everything they’ve done before and after.

Probably because Endless Wire isn’t really The Who.

Dylan & the Dead is Awesome!!!!!

Really BAD albums:

U2-Zooropa
Duran Duran-Liberty
Kiss-Music From The Elder
The Cure-Wild Mood Swings

Pink Floyd (pretty much any of the David Gilmour albums), but Division Bell and Pulse were particularly bad.

Paul McCartney – Chaos & Creation in the Backyard

Aerosmith – Rock in a Hard Place

Santana – All That I Am

Eric Clapton – Pilgrim

The Who – Face Dances

Rolling Stones – Satanic Majesty’s Request

All of the above albums may have one redeeming track on them, but overall they would have been better off if they were never made.

WTF 37 comments and I’m the first one to say ST. ANGER???

Jeez!

So yeah, St. Anger.

If you need proof, just watch the “Some Kind Of Monster” DVD and witness for yourself how clueless they were when they went about “producing” it.

The Who, It’s Hard. I like Eminince Front, it’s on my iPod. But that’s the only song from the album that I like. The Who went downhill after Keith Moon died. But I’m still a serious Who fan.

A couple of more:

Metallica-The Black Album (HORRID)
R.E.M-Monster

EVERYTHING but THE WHITE STRIPES after they started recording.

Cut the Crap- The Clash (Joe denounced this album and quit halfway through).

Let it Be- The Beatles (Someone had to say it)

Walls and Bridges- John Lennon

Any Cure album after ‘Disintegration’.

Any Cure album after Disintegration.

Oh yeah, and the Clash album that shall not be named

Foo Fighters – One By One

Its just very boring all around. It brought absolutely nothing new to the table. Its very Blah and Im a HUGE Foo fan!

Soundgarden’s Down on the Upside was a letdown.

“Hot Space” by Queen

I can’t believe no one mentioned that. Queen attempted to get into disco about ten years too late. The album has one or two stand outs, but nothing mind blowing. It pales in comparison to every other Queen album in existence.

Man, Trans was a great record.

about u2-
pop is a sad aimless puppy -
but zooropa contains Numb and Dirty Day – enough for redemption.

r.e.m. – green
replacements – all shook down

and the gold medal winner…
lou reed – metal machine music.

* AC/DC – For Those About to Rock

Every post-humous Tupac album

Jethro Tull – Under Wraps or any of those other god aweful quasi-synthpop Tull albums

Red Hot Chili Peppers-One Hot Minute-a few good songs, but its not rhcp
Green Day-Warning
Arctic Monkeys-Favorite Worst Nightmare
Eminem-Any new songs after Encore (the re-up, new songs on Curtain Call)

Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Show Your Bones
Weezer – Make Believe
Seriously, hearing “Beverly Hills” for the first time was a tad heart-shattering.

Nirvana – Incesticide
“I love Cobain. But not that Cobain.”

Steely Dan – Aja
“Believing their own hype. And it showed.”

ALL BTO ALBUMS AFTER TIM BACHMAN LEFT. THEY WERE THE GREATEST BAND EVA AND STILL ARE I MISS TIM

Radiohead-Kid A even though it has some decent songs i rarely listen to it. I prefer Amnesiac even though the band should have just combine the best of the two and have the rest as b sides,

R.E.M. Green is an amazing album, dude.

My bad. Van Halen III was the one with Gary Cherone. Guess my ignoring it doesn’t keep it from existing.

The velvet underground White light/White heat. I only bought it to complete my collection one song is just a 10 minute story the other one is 17 mins. of guitar noise and the rest are not that great as well.

binaural is a fantastic album, definently under appriciated by fans

I am the biggest Bowie fan but he has not done a good album since the 1980’s Scary Monsters. The kinks have not done a decent once since the early 70s.

There should be a Rock Daily debate dedicated on deciding which U2 album is worse, Zooropa or Pop?

door to door – the cars
inarticulate speech of the heart – van morrison
metal machine music – lou reed
saved – bob dylan
do ya think i’m sexy – rod stewart
river of dreams – billy joel
all shook up – cheap trick
trans and living with war – neil young (good message, but overhyped as most of the songs simply suck)

Cut the crap – The Clash

Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute
Stone Temple Pilots – Tiny Music…

Can I please get my money back

stone temple pilots – no.4
weezer – make believe
linkin park – minutes to midnight
kid rock – cocky
supergrass – road to rouen

…and everything touched by rick rubin

hahaha korn “see u on the other side” definitely not korns best

all AC/DC after For Those About to rock and b4 blow up ur video

Considering Kid A makes just about every list for best albums of past 25 years, and some think it’s their best album ever, you’d have to be a COMPLETE DOUCHE to think that Kid A belongs on this list. EVEN MORE OF A DOUCHE to think Amnesiac is better.

Led Zeppelin – Presence
Pink Floyd – Division Bell

Courtney Love’s “America’s Sweetheart”.

The Strokes, “Room Of Fire”.

Garbage, “Beautiful Garbage”.

Julieta Venegas “Si”.

Every Weezer album after pinkerton. I almost shot myself when I heard the green album, then went to the show and saw hordes of 12 year old girls. ugh.

‘The Soft Parade’- The Doors. Just bloody awful…

Marilyn Manson – Mechanical Animals
Metallica – St. Whatever
REM – Reveal, Up
Chilis – One Hot Minute

Any Nickelback album. I want my nickel back!

this is a hard one to nail down…as we can see by all the diversity in selections…

so many of the BIG NAME nominations are after some key member left the band or they became SO BIG they didn’t know where to go…

How about that Garth Brooks album where he pretended to be someone else… Chris Gaines???

That one was smelly socks..huh?

There are many many people who think SOFT PARDADE is the best Doors.

try LISTENING to it.

“you CANNOT petition the LORD with prayer!!!!!”

Jim- I think you meant
“SOFT PARADE”…

The Band- Islands

The Strokes- First Impressions of Earth

Dave Matthews Band- Busted Stuff

All those Great American Songbook albums by Rod Stewart…sadly the best-selling albums of his career.

I just don’t get it…

ONE HOT MINUTE by the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

DAVE NAVARRO IS BOT A CHILI PEPPER!

I mean NOT a chili pepper

Bowie: Black Tie White Noise, Tonight, Never let me down & Let’s dance.
Weezer: Make Believe
Audioslave: Revelations
Incubus: Light Grenades

In my opinion one hot minute is a great record, but it’s not a real chili peppers album. They sound quiet different without John.

red hot chili peppers:one hot minute/stadium arcadium/by the way

metalica:reload/st anger

stone temple pilots:shangri la dee da

pearl jam: riot act

the doors / soft parade

My List:
1. Red Hot Chili Peppers- “One Hot Minute” What’s a RHCP album without Frusciante?

2. Bruce Springsteen- “The Wild, The Innocent, and The E Street Shuffle” I love the Boss, but not this album.

3. Pearl Jam- “Yield” This was kind of poppy sounding and was dull for my taste.

4. Santana-”Shaman” If Santana is going to make an album w/ guests on it the least he could do would be to not pick talentless hacks to sing along with him.

5. Billy Joel- “The River of Dreams” This was just lame.

The Pixies – Trompe le Monde

we’d just rather pretend this one didn’t exist…I still reserve judgement on Come On Pilgrim.

Oasis – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants. That was their only truly bad album (Though Heathen Chemistry was pretty average by istelf) and I’m still scarred by Liam’s lyrics from “Little James”

I still like it, but I think The Beekeeper by Tori Amos is weak compared to the rest of her work.

Smashing Pumpkins- MACHINA.

Surprisingly, it’s only been mentioned once, but I think REM’s MONSTER–a perennial staple of the Bargain Bin– is criminally underrated. It’s messy and a huge departure from the strings-and-acoustic splendor of AUTOMATIC FOR THE PEOPLE, but it’s also a terrific arena rock record with some of their best efforts on it– What’s the Frequency Kenneth?, Let Me In, Strange Currencies, etc.

All right, I’ve said my piece. Get off MONSTER’S back!

first impressions of earth by the strokes!

METAL MACHINE MUSIC DAMMIT!

Garth Brooks album “Lost in You” as Chris Gaines would definitely rank among the biggest busts by great artists. I mean, you’re talking about a LEGEND in his genre trying something TOTALLY new and different… and it BOMBED.

You HAVE to be a Garth Brooks to overcome that kinda of bashing of an album.

“Standing On The Shoulder of Giants” isn’t all that bad. There’s at least four good songs on that one… so its not a “bad album”.

I would say “Goodbye Cruel World” by Elvis Costello. For such an amazing writer, its numbingly bad.

Also, “In Through The Out Door” and “Coda”. Shows what drugs and booze can do, people.

2nites the nite by neil youg…WHAT A MESS!!!

Not trying to be the stick in anybody’s “Anti-Bono mud” but all u early-mid nineties u2 haters can eat my ass

I’ll go with……..
Deftones…..”Ad renaline”
Deftones have rocked my ass off ever since, but ADRENALINE, is just like a big strong rabid gorilla thrashing about……or maybe I was just too young at the time to appreciate………

Genesis – …and then there were three…

The Who-anything post moon, except Endless wire.

VhIII-Mike ANthony played bass on three songs–ed shreds but the songs sound too drag.

Pearl Jam-riot act—I agree No Code is very underrated–great album jack irons drumming added depth to their sound.

Definitely “Goodbye Cruel World” by Elvis Costello…I mean, Elvis himself says in the liner notes “Congratulations. You’ve just purchased our worst record.”

And did someone seriously say “Trompe le Monde?!” While it isn’t their greatest album (Kim Deal’s lack of involvement definitely hurt it) but come on, an album with “Planet of Sound,” “U-Mass,” “Head On,” “The Sad Punk,” “Alec Eiffel,” “Bird Dream of the Olympus Mons,” and ESPECIALLY “Subbacultcha” can not be considered a bad album.

R.E.M. ‘Around The Sun’…just plain flat.
I appreciate the consistancy of quality and the craft of their more recent albums like ‘Up’ and ‘Reveal’ but, they lack songs with a punch, like ‘Finest Worksong’ or ‘Drive’.

I’ve seen U2’s ‘Pop’ mentioned on this list several times – I have to disagree. ‘Wake Up Dead Man’ ranks among their top 10 songs; ‘Staring At the Sun’ is great; if you give it a fair shake, ‘Mofo’ is sublime and one of Bono’s strongest lyics.

patti smith
horses

“Pablo Honey” Radiohead (sorry thom)
“Coda” Led Zeppelin
“Zooropa” U2

Umm.What in the hell is a 4-star album like the “The Spagheti Incident” doing here!? Really,guys.This is getting ridiculous.Hell,you even have a link to your very own review below.A more than favorable review,as well.4 out of 5,5 being “classic”,4 being “excellent”.

Okay,I get it.We should just assume that anything over 10 years old is expected to be first praised,and once it loses steam/an audience or just popularity,you can simply dismiss it as another “bad” album by a great band.

Well,at least you got one of ‘em right.

Jesus.First you trash the Chinese Democracy demo leaks,and now this?

Why do I get the feeling that i’ve seen this list before? Oh right, because I HAVE! Come up with another list for Christ’s sake.

pablo honey-radiohead

Can – Out of Reach
Morrissey – Kill Uncle

On the ATS tour, R.E.M. proved to me that the songs on ATS are quality songs.. but the recording and mixdown are just… horrible.. I mean, first they leave ‘DJ’ off, and then make the rest of the songs so low key, they bored my ADD crackwhore to sleep.. but in concert, songs like Final Straw, ATS, Leaving NY, and the other one I cant remember the name to right now actually RAWK.. so, hopefully Jacknife Pee will have a better turn.. If not, I fear the worst.. QUACK

Dylan’s Infidels/80’s albums except Oh Mercy and Empire Burlesque.
Clash’s one album after Combat Rock- can’t remember the name.

cut the crap-the clash
get behind me satan-the white stripes

Catherine Wheel – Wishville
CSN – Live it Up
Mott the Hopple – Drive On
Dave Matthews – Stand Up

But the real “great artists” should be those who NEVER released a “bad album”.. like the Pixies, Hendrix, Pavement and.. the Beatles, of course.

AC/DC-Bon Scott age “Powerage”
-Brian Johnson age “Flick of the Switch”
Lou Reed “Metal Machine Music”
Pink Floyd “Atom Heart Mother”
The Police “Zenyatta Mondatta”

Hard to believe, nobody has mentioned
Bostons fourth Album: Walk On.

So bad and pretentious that I keep it
just to say that I own the worst album
ever made.

Zenyatta Mondatta??? With songs like don’t stand, when the world is running down, voices inside my head, man in a suitcase, bombs away…

Are you drunk or high?

Hey, come on now U2’s Pop was not a bad album. It has its moments, Disoctheque, Staring At The Sun, Mofo. Jesus, if they produced anything matching them on HTDAAB, it would not be the dog turd that it is. I will not have anyone else badmouth it, you have to be stoned to appreciate it.

Didn’t RS give GN’R’s TSI? 3.5 stars when it came out in November of ‘93?

“Strays” by Jane’s Addiction. They sobered up and sold out.

Wowee Zowee by Pavement

Tonight’s the Night….a bad album? Is that a joke?

How about Weezer’s hideous ‘Make Believe’? Who thinks Rob Sheffield was paid off to give it a glowing 4-star review? I do!

I demand that that ‘Wowee Zowee’ post below be stricken from the record!

The Elder and Dynasty from KISS.

My list:

Motley Crue: Motley Crue
Van Halen: Van Halen III

Kingdom Come- Jay-Z
NaStradamus- NaS
Weezer- Pinkerton and Make Believe

Bah, I can’t believe someone nominated AC/DC’s Flick of the Switch. No hits, but still a very good album. I would compare it to Rush’s Presto (and I can hear a lot of people saying “exactly.”).

You want to talk bad AC/DC, how about Blow Up your Video. The only thing it had going for it was the cover art. While Flick of the Switch was hitless and somewhat bland, Blow up your Video was flat out bad!

come on, Zoo TV…

Which is worse, Zooropa or Pop?

Those are two of the three best U2 records available. That was the most creative period that band has ever had. They were absolutely unafraid to take a chance and try something completely different…unlike the past few records.

Weezer’s Make Believe rocked. So do us all a favor, haters, and hold your breath until Songs From the Black Hole comes out…

My 3 cents – Yankee Hotel Foxtrot. Thank you Wilco.

Queen- Hot Space…Oh my wow, what a flaming piece of dog poo, and Queen is one of my favorite bands.

I wouldn’t put One Hot Minute on this list because it’s not terrible, it’s just not RHCP.

And Doof Dog…Pinkerton?? How can you consider Weezer a great band and not like Pinkerton?

P.S. Stadium Arcadium rules, River of Dreams ain’t bad and Make Believe is better than Maladroit.

I can’t believe someone mentioned “The Wild, The Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle” as a bad album! I’m a fairly decent fan of Bruce Springsteen…. and this is a great freakin’ album!

Bad albums by good artists:

Ian Dury’s “Lord Upminster”
Duran Duran: “Seven and the Ragged Tiger” (no really, their first two albums are nearly perfect pop)
ELO: “Xanadu” (Soundtrack)
XTC: Oranges and Lemons (yawn! Why people liked this I do NOT know)
DEVO: “Shout”
Billy Joel: “An Innocent Man” (anyone want a free CD?)

I could go on and on….

Any rap album released since 1986

Funny to see Boston’s 4th album nominated. I’d say they’re not qualified for this list because it is supposed to be “Bad Albums by GOOD Bands”!

I actually like GNR’s Spaghetti Incident and Van Halen III. I would throw in every Van HAGAR album except Balance, because they were ALL stinkers.

Black Crowes – Lions.
Love them, could only stomach that steaming pile for one listen.

“How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb” – U2

“Pablo Honey” – Radiohead

“Worldwide Underground” – Erykah Badu

“Around The Sun” – R.E.M.

Hole – Live Through This

I personally think that Trompe Le Monde and Metal Machine Music are good records… I know many people hate Lou Reed for make a very noisy and pretentious record but I love it but I’m also a fanboy.

People saying things like Nickelback are missing the point of the poll. This is “Worst Albums by Good Bands.” Nickelback is not a good band.

The Weirdness by Iggy Pop and the Stooges, what a disappointment.

lennon-sometimenyc
ps dirty work stones is fab

Is this lets bash Guns N Roses week for RollingStone magazine? First some amature writes a 2-bit article regarding the most highly anticipated album of the last twenty years and now RS is bashing the spaghetti incident?, a classic album by any standards. Look folks, here’s the real “Top stinkers” of all time:

Bruce Springsteen- The Seeger Sessions
U2- All That You can’t Leave Behind
GreenDay- American Idiot
Pearl Jam- Riot Act
Bon Jovi- Bounce
Motley Crue- Motley Crue
NIN- With Teeth

I nominate Pink Floyd- The Wall. One of the worst albums ever from one of the best bands.

Blah, go back to smooth noodle maps and listen to “DEVO has feelings too” again. Pretty good Bob1.

Spaghetti incident was a mediocre album by a great band. And their last ( to date). I still like their cover of Down on the farm.

David Bowie – Never Let Me Down
Velvet Underground – Squeeze
The Kinks – Preservation Act 1
Roxy Music – Manifesto
Oasis – Be Here Now
T.Rex – Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of Tomorrow
Duran Duran – Big Thing
Michael Jackson – invincible

make believe by weezer for sure should’ve been on the list
that band was so good before that album. it was like some other band who was trying to be kinda like weezer but didn’t get the point. weezer songs need to be smart and captivating, not dumb and obnoxiously catchy. it was just gross.

Pop – U2
Bat Out Of Hell 3 – Meat Loaf
Abacab – Genesis

NO,..wait. Ignore what I said. I thought this was something else. hahaa. I’m embaressed now

woah woah woah… JZ says that Yankee Hotel Foxtrot by Wilco belongs on this list? that’s definitely their best album

Brighten the Corners – Pavement (though Shady Lane is a kickass song)
One Hot Minute – Red Hot Chili Peppers
Machina I and II – Smashing Pumpkins

Victory – The Jacksons
Calling All Stations – Genesis
The Real Thing – Faith No More
Red Hot Chili Peppers – Red Hot Chili Peppers
New Tattoo – Motley Crue
Law and Order – Lindsey Buckingham
Night and Day II – Joe Jackson
Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned – The Prodigy
ELO part 2 (need I say anymore)

“Oasis – Be Here Now”?? “Oasis – Standing on the Shoulder of Giants”!!

Bob Dylan is a master of identify theft and has taught the entire world how to not give a dam about anything other than money.
So it isn’t a surprise to now constantly hear politicians here using his phraseology, in Australia. The utter poverty of ideas he represents is so obvious you’d be better off in some Soviet Gulag, where at least you might make some friends.
There ain’t no Jesus, so that makes his stuff even larger lies. etc Sure we all know who arranged the JFk assassination and why, same with King. That story War and Peace where Napoleon is the beast 666; newsest church here 1900 catholic changed that to $$$, three dollar signs. Love of money and real estate. You could only vote if you owned property. This is so bad you’d need to be Joe Stalin to see how it really worked after australia stopped being a penal, prison, nation. etc.
If Bob Dylan was a Jew you’d say, Kill all the Jews, only he ain’t a Jew.
What is then?
A dope dealer?

It is funny how RS put “The Speghetti Incident on the list, considering they gave it 4/5 stars. Not to mention that it received the same creditials from the magazine for both “Use Your Illusion” records. What does that say about their thoughts on G N’R in gereral, or even more importantly, the other albums over the years they gave 3.5 stars or less. It is hilarious how RS gives way to “get in” with the real fans.

Yes – Tormato
“Don’t kill the whale” Need I say more?

I don’t get how some GNR fans can say, with a straight face, that Chinese Democracy is “the most highly anticipated album of the last twenty years”

In what world are you guys living in that GNR is still relevant? They haven’t put out an album or had a hit song in over a decade and they’ve drastically changed members.

Don’t get me wrong, I want to hear the album as much as the next guy. I want Axl Rose to prove me wrong. But to consider the album “the most highly anticipated album of the last twenty years” is laughable.

Some pretty inane comments here..who said “Horses” by Patti Smith?.
Pablo Honey by Radiohead was their debut. While it pales with the later stuff it was still promising.
I agree with “Tonight” by Bowie & “Goodbye Cruel World” (which ironically contains one of my favourite Costello songs “Peace in our Time”). Some others..
Death of a ladies Man- Leonard Cohen
Self Portrait- Dylan
And then there were three- Genesis
Love is a Prima Donna- Steve Harley
Rock of the Westies- Elton John
Pleasant Dreams- Ramones (had some classics but production by Graham Gouldman lacked punch).
3- Violent Femmes.
Some of these made me lose interest in the artist.

The Killers- Sam’s Town

They went and re-made Hot Fuss, and it was completely, painfully overdone.

Recently, Neon Bible, Arcade Fire. Funeral was filled with 6 brilliant songs, none on NB.

There was also for me Give out but don’t give up, Primal Scream, and The Soft Parade, The Doors. I was gonna say All that you can’t… U2, but there are too many other bad records to chose from, despite the fact that they have at leats 2 interesting tracks even on their bad albums.

And Strange Behavior, for Metallica, everything since the Black Album is crap, what would they do on this list?

Pearl Jam – Pearl Jam
it was such a well reviewed album by every magazing that is out right now but I could not find a single song on the CD worth listening to more than once.

‘Truth in Structured Form’ by Atlanta Rhythm Section. What the hell were they thinking?

It is very revealing that Rollingstone would put GNR’s cover album on this list when they reviewed it at 4 out of 5 stars! Do you guys even think when you make these lists? I mean seriously. This is a question for MK –What album has been more anticipated the last 20 years than Chinese Democracy??

Weezer~ Maladroit & Make Believe

The Faint- Media
Outkast- IdleWild
Janet Jackson- 20 Y.O.
David Bowie- Tonight

Binaural – Pearl Jam
In Through the Out Door – Led Zeppelin
Zooropa – U2
Around the Sun – REM

pop – u2
pocket symphonys – air
…..any audioslave alnum
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants – oasis
the weirdness – the stooges
weezer – make believe
Load & ReLoad – metallica
In Your Honor – Foo Fighters (what a waste of money)

No album has been more anticipated for the last 20 years because only Axl Rose is a big enough asshole to lie about it being ready for the last 20 years…even if a normal album release gets pushed back it’s usually only anywhere from a couple of months to a year. Name any other album that has taken over 20 years to complete…

In all seriousness though, if you think they aren’t still relavent you’re wrong. If they came to your city, I bet you that anyone would stand right in line with the other people to see them.

A few albums I would add:

Bright Eyes: Digital Ash In A Digital Urn

Wilco: A Ghost Is Born

Helmet: Aftertaste/Size Matters

“Lace and Whiskey” -Alice Cooper

“Love is Hell, Part II” by Ryan Adams. I normally love his stuff but that album was absolute crap.

COMPLETELY agree with whoever said Audioslave – Revelations….that record was PURE crap! Not surprising that the end was in sight.

I would also say Modest Mouse – We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank….this album Suh-uh-uh-ked.

Here’s the deal, amongst GNR fans the album is highly anticipated. But once you get outside of that, gradually shrinking, circle of fans people just don’t care.

I am sure to some people the last Tool album was of far greater importance. And to others the return of Jay-Z was huge.

The truth is I can’t give you an answer. There isn’t any data I can provide you with that supports my opinion other than my personal interaction with people who just don’t care about a band from 20 years ago.

it says good bands making a bad album, so weezer doesn’t count cause they are a terrible band

R.E.M. – “Monster”
Live – “The Distance to Here”
The Smiths – “Strangeways Here we Come”
Public Image Ltd – “That Which Is Not”
Ian McCulloch – “Candleland”

Vanilla Ice: “Mind Blowin’”. We don’t want to see Vanilla rappin’ about weed! We want him rappin’ about if rhyme was a drug, he’d sell it by the gram! Or rappin’ about the Ninja Turtles. But no weed, Vanilla, no rappin’ about weed.

Anyone who doesn’t like Weezer’s “Make Believe” album…

I agree, the second half is terrible/half-assed/sad/beyond lame.

But in my opinion, “This Is Such A Pity” is the best song they’ve done since The Blue Album. Very underrated track.

Jane’s Addiction – Strays

X – Ain’t Love Grand
I love X. I think they are one of the most under appreciated bands of all times. When you compare Ain’t Love Grand to their first four albums its such a let down.
I have to agree with The Ramones – Pleasant Dreams. I absolutely love the Ramones but lets face it the production on that album killed it. They didn’t recover until Too Tough To Die.

I think that the latest from Modest Mouse and The Arcade Fire are a bit dissapointing in comparison to their previous work. Funeral was an amazing piece of work.

Let’s pray that Sigur Rós don’t make a bad album anytime soon. Never!

Fleetwood Mac – Mirage
Led Zeppelin – Presence
Pink Floyd – A Momentary Lapse of Reason
Soundgarden – Down on the Upside
Pearl Jam – Yield
Eric Clapton – There’s One in Every Crowd
Elvis – Moody Blue
The Clash – Cut the Crap

Pete Townshend – Psychoderelict

REM “up”
Smashing Pumpkins “Machina”
Weezer “Maladroit”

All Springsteen albums, and stop saying Strangeways isn’t any good!!It’s the Smiths’ best!

Hi hi hi hi,you talk about “The Spaghetti Incident?”,but you can’t say anythink about “Use Your Illusion” , can you ? ! And you can’t , ’cause it’s one of the best albums ever !!! Guess why ! Hi hi hi…

Someone said The Wall, and someone said Ritual de lo habitual…
Those are two of the best albums ever recorded by any artist.
Grow up.

sam’s town by the killers (ok, some good songs but most of it is crap)

Pearl Jam by Pearl Jam.
Maybe because Stone Gossard was
somewhat missing.

AC/DC’s Flick of the Switch and Fly on the Wall…

Pink Floyd–The Final Cut

chilli peppers – one hot minute

Reload- Metallica
X Factor & Virtual XI – Iron Maiden
By the Way & Stadium Arcadium – Chili Peppers
Machina & Machina 2 – Smashing Pumpkins
Alice in Chains – Alice in Chains
Risk – Megadeth

Ah – so many duds, so little time…
The Band – Cahoots.
XTC – Skylarking ( and everything after it ).
Aretha Franklin – Aretha ( 1986 ).
Talking Heads – Little Creatures.
Elvis Costello – Goodbye Cruel World, and also Imperial Bedroom.
Foo Fighters – In your honour.
Prince – Graffiti Bridge. Plus the Prince & the New Power Generation-album with the big stupid symbol as the name of the album.
Outkast – Idlewild.
And I agree with Bowie´s Tonight belonging on this list.
I´m sure I could have named 40 more if I hadn´t given all the crap albums away to unsuspecting friends and forgotten all about them.

These lists always upset me, since I love albums like Be Here Now, The Wild the Innocent and the E Street Shuffle (one of my all-time favorites), The Love Symbol Album, and River of Dreams, all of which have been suggested, and I have Boston’s whole catalog. That said,

My nominations:
- Billy Joel – The Bridge
- Heart – Private Audition
- A Perfect Circle – Emotive
- Dave Matthews Band – Stand Up
- Rush – Signals
- Led Zeppelin – Presence (excluding Achilles’ Last Stand of course)
- Warren Zevon – Wanted Dead or Alive
- Any of Lennon’s Two Virgins albums, if they even count.

Um It’s Hard by The Who. Although Athena and Eminence Front are good songs, the rest aren’t very good. There are some decent songs John Entwistle wrote, but I only ever listen to about half of the album. And Cook’s County is definitley one of the worst Who songs. Thankfully they released Endless Wire last fall. That is a good album!

John Lennon -Rock and Roll.Still flat .Led Zepplin- In Through the Out Door.

Beastie Boys – TT5B

Reveal – REM.
This album is downright boring>
It is a chore to listen to it in its entirety. Rem hasn’t had a decent record since New adventures in Hi-Fi. What Happened?

Pearl Jam’s Yield?!?!? Wow…probably their one of their best.

Tea Party- Seven Circles
APC- eMotive

Metallica – Load through St. Anger
TSOL – Beneath the Shadows

Motley crue-generation swine and MOTLEY CRUE.

Billy Idol-cyber Punk

Metallica-Load,Reload and St. Anger

OHM is one of their best, and anyone who says it isnt their ’style’ should shut their mouths, compare True Men Dont Kill Coyotes and If from SA, and youll see what can be in between

Led Zeppelin – CODA
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell (even though no Waters)

Dave Matthews Band- Stand Up
Radiohead-Hail to the Thief,Pablo Honey
The Beatles-Yellow Submarine

I’ll probably get killed for that one. I just don’t like it

U2-POP
Bob Dylan-Everything between Desire & Infidels and then everything between Infidels & Time Out Of Mind
Van Morrison-Too Long In Exile
Neil Young-Everybody’s Rockin’
Bruce Springsteen-Human Touch

Bossanova-The Pixies. I am a huge Pixies fan, but I just cannot get into this album except for maybe 3 songs. It’s just too slow and mellow.
In Through the Out Door-Led Zep.
Van Halen III-Van Halen
Make Believe-Weezer Despite being a big hit for them, personally I despise the song “Beverly Hills”.
Metallica-St. Anger Home of the worst snare drum sound ever.

Emotive is probably the poster child for this topic. Personally, though, I like about 7 songs on that album, making it pretty worthwhile.

Metallica – the black album

Rage Against the Machine – Renegades

Radiohead – Pablo Honey/Hail to the Thief

Brand New – The devil and god are raging inside me

Sparta – Porcelin

The Mars Volta – Amputecture

New Found Glory – Coming Home

U2 – Pop/All that you can’t leave behind

The Smashing Pumpkins – Adore/Machina

pearl jam – pearl jam
radiohead – pablo honey
rage – every audioslave album
muse – black holes and revelations (i HATE this album, have no idea why it’s been such a success)
zwan – mary star of the sea (let’s be honest, it’s a smashing pumpkins album, just not a very good one)
oasis – standing on the shoulder of giants

someone said ‘let it be’

‘yellow submarine’ is worse than LIB and still miles from being considered bad. with the exception on george’s 2 songs and ‘the one after 909′ every song on LIB is great. and after hearing the anthology, it appears that ‘the one after 909′ isnt a bad song, it was the arrangement that was poor.

also, things like ‘incesticide’ or ‘pablo honey’ arent bad records, they are just not as good as some of the other stuff the respective artists have released. would you call someone 6′5” short because he is standing to someone who is 7′? no, you wouldnt.

also, things like ‘the division bell’ or ‘one hot minute’ dont count because i wouldnt expect a comparable record with different band members/chemistry

that being said, led zeppelin’s coda is awful in every way…not one redeeming thing about that piece

peace

all of these people keep nominating all these different pink floyd albums, but they all miss the worst one
“The Wall”
not only is this album brutally boring and overlong, its one of the most overrated albums of all time. With the exception of the clearly brilliant “Comfortably Numb”, this album is just not good.
“Standing On The Shoulders of Giants” – oasis.
say what you want about oasis, but morning glory was one of the best albums of the 90’s
there was nothing of any worth on this p.o.s.
Green Day – Nimrod
everybody keeps putting “Warning”, but that album had two of their best songs ever – “Deadbeat Holiday” and “Macy’s Day Parade”
Nimrod isnt terrible, but to put warning on here is just wrong.

Wilco- Sky Blue Sky.

Yeah, just wait.

Wilco- Sky Blue Sky

REM’s Around the Sun is so unbelievable dull. I listen to it when I can’t sleep. Leaving NY is a brilliant song, but just about everything after that is instantly forgettable. In fact, all their albums since Bill Berry left have been fairly weak. I compiled them into one album on my iPod and they are still too mid-tempo. This band hasn’t even attempted to rock in a long time.

P.S. U2’s Pop is a grossly underrated album. Please (particularly the single version) is brilliant.

If we’re going to say Oasis, let’s go with Heathen Chemistry. Standing on the Shoulder of Giants had some fantastic tunes (The Indian-style spiritual “Who Feels Love” and “Go Let It Out”, to name a couple), while Heathen was an entirely safe and uninspiring commercial rock album designed simply to produce hits and sustain the band’s image as pop titans.

re: le_bon

rage and audioslave are 2 different bands. apples and oranges. is ‘mind bomb’ a smiths record? no, it isnt

same thing with zwan and the pumpkins. would you say ‘celebrity skin’ is a bad pumpkins record because billy corgan wrote it?

pablo honey is comparitively not as good, still not bad by any stretch.

as for the muse record, saying ‘i dont like it’ is not an argument for a record being bad. your taste is your taste.

good call on oasis and pearl jam thought, im glad you got 2 out of 5 right

Led Zep – Presence is great, no questions. Coda has it’s moments, notably We’re Gonna Groove. But In Through The Out Door is just a shambles. For the worst song ever by a great band see Carouselambra. The fact that Page was too strung out too record properly tells – JPJ had too much say with his synth…a crying shame in many ways.

First of all, Pearl Jam has made no record I don’t want to exist. “Pearl Jam” is a solid record even if a little shallow and uncreative.

Second, REM’s Up is a great atmospheric record with brilliant songs to match the mood (a rare thing). Their downfall started with Reveal and carried to Around the Sun.

Third, Metallica’s Load is a very good comination of metal and hard rock and Reload isn’t a bad follow-up. St. Anger (even if it’s an SOAD rip-off) is even better.

I agree with the person who said Pixies – Bossanova
It didn’t have any of the vigor or creativity of their other albums.

Here’s another comment:

Most people seem to be confused about this list (I am one of them). My take on this list is :it’s about great artists who have released an album you wish didn’t exist. But what happens when a great artist just stops making good ones? Is it valid to name all of Robert Plant’s solo albums? or what about most of Lou Reed’s? (think the Raven).

I’m thinking more like “The Soft Parade.” Every other Door’s album is basically great but this one. It’s one I don’t necessarily want to exist.

REM’s Around the Sun is another. There’s no spark of creativity,no captivating emotion, or anything that characterized REM’s best stuff.

Every rap album after 1996

Rage Against the Machine…Battle for LA (actually these guys turned out to be a bunch of whiny capitalists anyway…the very thing they rally against)

Radiohead…Hail to the Thief (horrible)

Black Sabbath…Technical Ecstasy
(lackluster effort)

Pearl Jam…too many to name..the worst band to survive the grunge movement of the 90’s.

Suicidal Tendencies…that album where they redid their first album…what the hell was that???

Bob Dylan…Self Portrait

Neil Young…Greendale (saw the concert in West Palm Beach…Neil was booed for about an hour. Complete joke of an album)

Metallica…Load and anything that follows it.

Grateful Dead-Built to Last
Clash-Cut the Crap

New Order’s first album. They were trying to sound too much like Joy Division.
Um, Lou Reed’s Mistrial, although I suspect some may favor Sally Can’t Dance or his first solo album as his worst.
Randy Newman’s Faust.
Good call on Alice Cooper’s Love and Whiskey, whoever said it.
Also, to whoever said Pink Floyd’s Final Cut… I consider that their best album.
Good call on the Who’s It’s Hard, whoever said that.
The Cure’s last album (self-titled). I know it was critically acclaimed, but I consider it a misstep.

Hail to the thief rules, it is the album that really best showcases Thom’s piano chops. which are gorgeous. It might be a little too dark for those who place OK computer or The Bends on a pedestal, but hey, taste is relative. How about meet the beatles? Or maybe mutations? I personally think With Teeth is NIN’s weakest effort by far.

Nas- everything in between Illmatic & HHID

Eminem- Encore

Aerosmith- Just Push Play

JayZ- Blueprint Vol 2.1

gosh, the last album of Wilco (wild blue sky or something like that) is WAY TOO BORING.

Oh, and I agree with woooooo – Love Pink Floyd, can’t stand The Wall.

i’ll take the worst of the best anyday…

Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers: Southern Accents, Let Me Up (I’ve Had Enough)
Macy Gray: The Id
Aerosmith: Done With Mirrors
Ben Folds Five: The Unauthorized Biography Of Reinhold Messner
Beth Orton: Comfort Of Strangers
Bruce Springsteen: Human Touch
The Cars: Door To Door
David Byrne: Uh-Oh
Eric Clapton: 24 Nights
INXS: Full Moon Dirty Hearts
Jonny Lang: Long Time Coming
Madonna: I’m Breathless
Michael Jackson: Bad
Morphine: Good
Neil Young: Silver & Gold
No Doubt: Everything Pre-Tragic Kingdom
Prince: The Rainbow Children
R.E.M.: Fables Of The Reconstruction
Santana: Shaman
Sarah McLachlan: Touch, Afterglow
Stevie Ray Vaughan: Soul To Soul
Stevie Wonder: Everything Post-Hotter Than July
Talking Heads: True Stories
U2: October

Incesticide – Nirvana
Ummagumma – Pink Floyd

Tool – Lateralus
Tool – 10,000 Days

Vitalogy- Pearl Jam

they’re my favourite band, but this album is just terrible as an album, you can take a few songs away from it seperately and enjoy them, but I find it hard to listen to this album. A huge dissapointment.

White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan

I hate the song my doorbell, and I just hate what happened with this album, I wish there was more guitar, I wish there was more rock, and I wish there was more of what they were before

The Who-”It’s Hard”

U2 – Pop
Metallica – St. Anger (!!!)
A Perfect Circle – Emotive (they really shoudn’t have)
RHCP – One Hot Minute
The Mars Volta – Amputechture

…and if we talk about Linkin Park, ANYTHING after Hybrid Theory… that album was the real linkin park, inspired and everything… The EP too… Everything after that is bad… They just became comercial robots, adapting their music for MTV needs, just like many other great bands… Korn for example… Loved their first 4 albums… Now they are commercial robots…

Michael Jackson – “Invincible”
RHCP – “Stadium Arcadium”
The Offspring – “Splinter”
Sugar Ray – “In The Pursuit Of Leisure”
Busta Rhymes – “It Ain’t Safe No More”,”The Big Bang”
Jamiroquai – “A Funk Odyssey”,”Dynamite”

MATT SORUM CAN”T PLAY THE DRUMS!!!

Everything Beatles. Look up ‘over hyped mob mentality appreciation of stupid’ you see a picture of the beatles.

Hey look I’m a music critic, I pick the beatles as a good band because if I don’t people without an original thought in their head will be mad at me and stop reading. At best they deserve the ranks of Limp Bizkit or ICP… seriously guys.

*lame*

somebody said REM’s fables of the reconstuction? that album made me a fan for life. I think it’s the best album of the 80s.
I’d like to naminate Idlewild by Outkast, I almost cried when I heard this. Greatest rap group ever, Over?

Our Lady Peace: Gravity

right…

like somebody said before me… if every mcr album is bad, then why do you actually consider them to be such great artists??

and seriously… I think that I have to agree the person who said invincible by michael jackson

u2 pop

Midnite Vultures by Beck. I like Beck but this one was exceptionally bad.

Pearl Jam-Riot Act.What a stinker!
(right after the snoozefest Binaural,they tried to rock.But it was an uninspired,self-parodying mess).

Another …

Neil Young – Lucky Thirteen

I have to disagree with whoever liste Fables of the reconstruction by REM. This has always been my favorite REM record.
Reveal and Around the sun are absolutley awful. REM has not made a good record since Bill Berry left.

-Black Keys: Magic Potion
-Beck: Guero
-Nirvana: In Utero
-Everclear: everything after So Much for the Afterglow
-Jon Spencer Blues Explosion: Platic Fang
-beastie Boys: To the 5 Boroughs

I think Sometime in New York City is criminally underrated, i expected the worst and was very pleasantly surprised. Same goes for the Beach Boys’ post-67 work, give it a chance and there is a lot to love.

I wish Metallica’s black album did not exist. The new Stooges album is an embarrassment. Willie Nelson’s reggae album gave me ulcers. OutKast’s Idlewild clogged my toilet. Liz Phair’s first for Capitol changed the meaning of ‘blow job queen.’ And I’d like to erase Danzig 4, even though I like it, because that’s when he turned into a cartoon.

I don’t see Riot Act as being a disappointment at all, rather a very somber art rock record with true moments of experimentalism and growth on their part as artists. And with the current state of rock being as commericialized and pre teen eye liner oriented as it is, I for one welcome any and all contributions the band has to give in terms of bucking the trends.

By the way, to the poster who said “anything Beatles” and compared them to insane clown posse, you may want to go have your head examined if you’re not just out to cause aggravation. It’s one thing to not like a band, but when that band happened to influence virtually every aspect of popular rock and roll it’s kind of hard to take you seriously. The Beatles are incredible and you are insane…maybe you should join the clown posse

How can RS propose the Spaghetti Incident as one of the worst albums when they gave it 4 stars in their own review!?

songs for silverman by ben folds.
landed is a great song, but the rest lack the truth and sarcasm of his ben folds 5 stuff

I can also add my voice to the chorus of people who hate the wall. I hate it, it’s total rubbish. I like the Piper At the Gates of Dawn, Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here though.

madonna: the Bob Dylan Songbook

Aerosmith – Honkin on Bobo

N.E.W.S. – Prince

Rock In A Hard Place – Aerosmith

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White Stripes: Get Behind Me Satan

I hate the song my doorbell, and I just hate what happened with this album, I wish there was more guitar, I wish there was more rock, and I wish there was more of what they were before”

—I can’t agree with this attitude. Why should jack white be expected to “rock”? You ought to give him at least one brownie point for trying something new.

The white stripes have pretty much covered the two piece garage rock sound they started with. How many more ways can he invert or sycopate or flip the riff to “Dead Leaves and The dirty ground”?

He deserves credit for trying to switch things up before they got stale

Red Hot Chili Peppers – Stadium Arcadium
Everything they have done in the past is way better. Stadium Arcadium was good at first but now it is grossly overplayed.

I can understand how someone that doesn’t know about music can say the Beatles are over hyped. There are no other bands that are as consistantly as good. Nic I can’t believe you call yourself a music critic and cannot acknowledge everything the Beatles did for music as we now know it. Even if you dont enjoy the music they play the hype as you call it is not mis-directed, otherwise they would be forgotten like the hundreds of bands that have come and gone since. You are entitled to your opinion of course but someone that professes to know something about music should have more sense than to post what you did. you should step back and actually listen to the music before you follow the anti-hype. it is fasionable to dislike what is popular so the Beatles would get the most backlash to that knee jerk reaction. If you are going to criticise then you should know what you are talking about and actually listen to more than the greatest hits.

Here are a few:

Aerosmith: Done With Mirrors
The Beach Boys: Keeping The Summer Alive
Blondie: The Hunter
David Bowie: Never Let Me Down
The Byrds: their self-titled Asylum album from 1973
Johnny Cash: Mean As Hell
Cheap Trick: All Shook Up
The Clash: Cut The Crap
Elvis Costello: Goodbye Cruel World
Creedence Clearwater Revival: Mardi Gras
The Del-Fuegos: Smoking In The Fields
The Doors: The Soft Parade
Bob Dylan: Self-Portrait & Bob Dylan at Budokan
The Go-Go’s: Vacation
Grateful Dead: Shakedown Street
Iggy Pop: Party & Zombie Birdhouse
Joe Jackson: Body and Soul
Elton John: Victim of Love
Lenny Kravitz: Circus
John Lennon: Some Time in New York City
John Mellencamp: Nothing Matters (and what if it did?)
Van Morrison: A Period of Transition
Oasis: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Sinead O’Connor: Am I Not Your Girl?
Tom Petty: Into The Great Wide Open
Pink Floyd: all the post Roger Waters albums
The Pretenders: Packed!
Public Enemy: Muse Ick N Our Mess Age
The Ramones: Mondo Bizzaro & Acid Eaters
R. E. M.: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
The Replacements: Don’t Tell A Soul
The Smiths: Strangeways, Here We Come
Bruce Springsteen: Human Touch & Greetings From Asbury Park
Talking Heads: Naked
U-2: Zooropa & Pop
The Velvet Underground: Squeeze
The Who: Face Dances
Neil Young: Trans, Old Ways & Everybody’s Rockin’
Warren Zevon: Mutineer

am i the only person who even remotely likes “Around The Sun”?
Sure, its not great, but “Leaving NY”, “Around The Sun”, “Aftermath”, “Make It All Okay”, “The Ascent Of Man”? I love those songs, perhaps not as much as Nightswimming (favorite R.E.M. tune) but that doesnt make me wish they didnt exist.

Metalica- St.Anger
Aerosmith- Nine Lives
Every KISS album past 1979
U2- Pop

Just a few comments on previous posts:

Just because U2’s Pop is not their best, it does not mean it’s bad. I don’t even think it’s their worst album. Some excellent tunes too.

Pearl Jam never released a bad album. Disappointing yes, bad albums, no.

Load/Reload by Metallica were bad mainly because their sound changed completely, and for the worst.

Wild Life by Wings.

Anything Stones after Tattoo You and before a Bigger Bang.

Slang by Def Leppard

Sometime in NYC – lennon & yucko

Dave Matthews Band – Stand Up

I bought this album and gave it a few listens and ended up giving it away…huge dissapointment

smashing pumpkins – machina/the machines of god
nine inch nails – the fragile
red hot chili peppers – one hot minute
dinosaur jr. – without a sound
weezer – make believe
radiohead – pablo honey
r.e.m. – around the sun
pink floyd – a momentary lapse of reason
anything metallica did after the black album

I agree with you about REM’s Around The Sun.I Think that people in general got tired of REM and wanted to dismiss their latest works no matter what.But songs like “The Outsiders”,”Wanderlust” and “Electron Blue” are classic REM pop,while the political and social part of Around The Sun (”Final Straw”,”I Wanted To Be Wrong”,”Leaving New York”"Boy in the Well”)were stronger and more inspired then anything from Eddie Vedder’s mumbled half awake cliches on ‘Riot Act’.Because Michael Stipe was coming from a personal and direct place in these songs.

I think Led Zeppelin and Queen are great, but Coda and Hot space are not their best albums.

“Standing On The Shoulders of Giants”, Oasis
“A Crow Left of The Murder”, Incubus

FIRST IMPRESSIONS FROM EARTH its an OUTSTANDING record

sonic youth – ny city ghoosts and flowers.

weezer – everything after pinkerton?

and, since were all picking our least favorite pearl jam album, my vote goes to the new one.

i would have to say pop by u2

The question was great band or artists that make bad albums, not adverage bands that had one hot single on a poor album that followed that up with garbage. Nor was the question what are the worst compilations from great acts, all fools you don’t know what an album is…..Oh and picking on Pearl Jam is way to easy..

Anyone who put Get Behind Me Satan needs to be declared clinically insane. How can anyone not mention Sam’s Town by The Killers? A misguided effort in every way following an unusually strong debut.

ok I’m gonna be the first to tell you that I really am not a fan of GNR. I never really liked them. Just not in my taste. But these people keep saying the album was given 4 stars BY RS!!!How contradictory can you get? It just shows me that I can’t trust RS anymore with their opinions on music. Then again, I already knew that when I got the RS album guide, which contradicted almost every review on this website, FOR THE WORSE.[as in the reviews in the book were almost mediocre]
I’m sorry guys, but you need to get your act together a little better, and make sure you’re not screwing yourselves over.

Now on-topic.
In my opinion, With Teeth was a big disappointment because it was straight-up wanna-be mainstream crap. Minus a couple of songs.

Metallica – St. Anger.
Aerosmith – Rock in a Hard Place.
AC/DC – Fly on the Wall.
Kiss – Music from the Elder.
Black Sabbath – Never Say Die!
Pearl Jam – No Code.
R.E.M. – Monster.
U2 – Zooropa.
Led Zeppelin – Presence.

no code? great album, prob. my favorite PJ album.

Don Imus – The Nappy Headed Ho Album.

THIS MAY SOUND PRE-HISTORIC TO ALL THE YOUNGINS HERE, BUT I REMEMBER IN MY DAY THAT PETER FRAMPTON WAS THE SH*T,AND AFTER “COMES ALIVE” HE CAME OUT WITH “IM IN YOU”…OMG THIS WAS SUCH A HUGE DISAPPOINTMENT FOR A ROCKER AT THE TENDER AGE OF 16.

Oasis – Be Here Now not Standing on the shoulders of giants.

RHCP – One Hot Minute
Hoobastank – Every Man for Himself
Scott Stapp – The Great Divide
Motley Crue – Motley Crue (the one without Vince, although a few tracks were not bad)

“Strays” by Jane’s Addiction. Original bassist Eric Avery had the good sense to skip this reunion project. Pretty weak from beginning to end.

i threw up in my mouth when i saw this…
“Stadium Arcadium was good at first but now it is grossly overplayed.”
everyones entitled to their own opinions, but theres nothin worse than people who try to sound original by deciding not to like music just because it goes mainstream.

anyways for my bad album i gotta say “dont tread on me” by 311. its got a couple good songs but overall it was pretty much lame.

DMB – “Stand up” was awful

pearl jam – binaural

Who does everybody keep saying “One Hot Minute”? That wasn’t a bad album at all! – “Deep Kick” is one of my favorite Chili Peppers songs, and Dave Navarro shreds all the way through. I think it’s just popular to hate on Dave because he had such bad chemistry with the band (I saw them on that tour, and it was an obvious case of “One of These Guys is Not Like The Others”).

For a bad Chili Peppers album, try listening to their debut.

KISS is not a great band
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb – U2 was terrible and RS gave it rave reviews.

maybe next weeks list can be albums RS gave good reviews to that are clearly unlistenable.

John Lennon – Sometime in New York City
Tom Petty – The Last DJ
Pink Floyd – Division Bell
The Who – Endless Wire

btw, for a cover album, The Spaghetti Incident ain’t too shabby

How about Weezer’s hideous ‘Make Believe’? Who thinks Rob Sheffield was paid off to give it a glowing 4-star review? I do!

I do find it interesting that as soon as their fairly unheralded drummer left, R.E.M went on a considerable downslide. Maybe he brought more to that band than we realized. Or had a better sense of time than we even knew.

Love Beach by Emerson Lake and Palmer, Union by Yes, We Can’t Dance by Genesis, Sacred Love by Sting. Alive In America by Steely Dan, Try Anything Once by Alan Parsons Project, Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed, Tubular Bells III by Mike Oldfield, Wild Life by Wings.

If you want to discover these artists, don’t start by getting those albums.

-Silverchair: Anything after Freakshow.
-Everclear: Slow motion Daydream and Welcome to the Drama Club.
-Foo Fighters: In your Honor
-No Doubt: Rock Steady.

if the spaghetti incident is so bad, why did RS give it four stars? thats the same rating as OK Computer, which i dont consider to be a bad album at all.

I’ll go with The Wall. Wish You Were Here and Dark Side of The Moon are practically perfect, The Wall is bloated and spotty. A few good songs but not great in my eyes.

‘Second Coming’ Stone Roses

SNAKES AND ARROWS
Power Windows
Signals

by rush.

I will admit it, I am a hopeless rush addict, but they’ve had their share of bad albums, and Snakes and Arrows just might be the worst. ever.

But im still going to see them in september

I disagree with what Nic said most every Beatles album was awesome. I also disagree with the comment about the album Alive in America by Steely Dan its great and it shows a differnt musical style of the band

Everything by Aerosmith after they got sober. Love in an Elevator does not remind me of the band that did Back in the Saddle. They were much better when they were perpetually stoned.

Zep – In Through The Out Door
AC/DC – Everything after Back In Black
The Doors – Soft Parade
The Replacements – Don’t Tell A Soul
The Who – Who Are You?
X – Ain’t Love Grand?

RHCP-Californication and every album after that.

U2-Zooropa
Bjork-Medulla
Rad iohead-Pablo Honey
Jay-Z-Kingdom Come
OutKast-Idlewild
Pearl Jam-Yield
Led Zeppelin-Presence
Smashing Pumpkins-Machina/The Machine of Gods

pretty much all Roger Waters solo releases… Angels & Airwaves! Oy, Tom Delonge broke up blink for this crap-o-la…Club Ninja by BOC, ALL Van Halen without Dave…

everything by billy corgan post adore has been okay, but not up to the man’s standards- hoping new sp is better. also, when pablo honey came out, radiohead had yet to decide they were the best band of our generation.

Some of the artists listed here may have released dissapointments, but bad albums?

U2 came close with Rattle and Hum, but it is redeemed by some terrific materal. Same goes for Zooropa. As for Pop, it’s underrated and daring (”Mofo” is the business, by the way) , and if they had taken the time to put it together right, it would have been a great one.

Let’s be clear about the question. It isn’t about dissapointing records or Not-Good-For-Them. It’s about just bad records by great artists.

i’ll probably get flamed for this but Make Believe is ten thousand times better than The Green Album. True, Beverly Hills is atrocious, but Hold Me, Peace, Freak Me Out, and Haunt You Everyday are better than ANY song on Green. Green was one of the biggest letdowns ever.

There are really two obvious answers to this:

Live on Stage With Elvis

Metal Machine Music by Lou Reed

Pink Floyd-The Final Cut

I would not say a lot of these selections are great artists

U2’s strength is their live performances. Pop might not have been a great album, but the songs were pretty good when they hit the road. Same goes for Zooropa. It’s a shame after the backlash of both albums that they ignore that material when they play now.

As for Oasis’ Standing on the Should of Giants, this was an album that suffered in production. The sound on Go Let It Out is a bit off. I Can See a Liar was rushed and even Noel commented that he wish he had time to write better lyrics. Other than that, this album has a lot of beautiful songs.

1.any van halen w/out Roth.They all got fat and sloppy.Just like Sammy.
2.i disagree with the St.Anger bashing,that cd has muscle.
3.King’s X Please Come Home Mr.Boulbus…i adore these guys but this one was like a terd that won’t flush.
4.John Mayers’ Continuum is a total flatline,like getting diarrhea in the desert.
5.Foo Fighters In Your Honour.Please,after John Kerry.He lost,so did this stinker.

Oasis- Be Here Now. So terrible, they had to call in Johnny Depp to do lead guitar on 1 song.

Whoever said “Nirvana: In Utero” needs to sit and give it a listen first. As a follow up to “Nevermind,” an album that does what In Utero does is incredible. It builds off their last album, doesn’t try to simply pump out songs that might hopefully make cash.

And the Beatles? A music critic who just puts them on his favorites list so people will read his article? What a tool. Go to any other country, and a regular citizen may not know the name of the Queen of England, but parents and their kids will be able to sing along to almost any Beatles song. That’s something very few artists ever achieve. Its cross-generational for a reason.

If I had to put something on the list, I’d put Oasis, “Don’t Believe the Truth.” Lyla is the worst single they’ve ever had, I’ve heard that they personally don’t even like it, and the album isn’t much better either (with a few exceptions)

UNDERMIND by Phish

by then it was clear they were past their prime….did they have to rub it in???

Fables of the Reconstruction of the fables is the single best record ever. EVER.

R.E.M. was once the best band in the world. Some of you may not
understand this but it is truth. Fact, actually.

Bill Berry, where did you go?? I think he was the only one that could hold Stipe’s ego in chiggity check… Hey! Baldy, enough with the touchy-feely! We want rawk!!!

Wow once again I read the list and I am once again angry and dissapointed by the picks of everyone who doesnt like to hear anything other than the formulated cookie cutter songs that their favorite bands put out. I found at least three of my favorite albums on this list. Forget Rollingstone.

Don’t be a stranger don’t be a shadow to this boy.

Yankee Hotel Foxtrot-Wilco. I really like this band but could never understand why this record was considered such a masterpiece.
I think it’s totally overated.

who ever said Van Halen and Guns n Roses were great artists?

neil young’s landing on water. i love most all of his different genres of music, but crappy 80’s techno is not one of them

i think u may just not like mcr “Tim”

Ryan Adams ‘Rock and Roll.’ Come on, the guy is more gifted than the rest of us and he used to be in a punk band, so you would think he could just make one decent rock album. Turns out he’s as out of touch with rock as he is with most of the women in his life…

I’ve seen a few mentions for Machina by Smashing Pumpkins. This album is a deadset classic, and i think it survives the times better than any of their other stuff. If there was a Pumpkins album that didn’t reach expectations, it was Adore. Machina though is gold… i challenge any so-called serious Pumpkin fans who don’t rate it, pull it out, dust it off, and give it a good listen. it’s magic!!!

Oh, and the new Bryan Ferry album where he rapes the Bob Dylan songbook…shame on you, Bryan!

Every album ever made isn’t as good as it can be.

David Bowie – (Three in a row:)Let’s Dance /
Tonight /
Never Let Me Down

U2 – Pop

RHCP – One Hot Minute
not dissing dave… it just wasnt a good album

Motley crue. Generation swine

Hey man, I didn’t lose… Ohio was rigged, damnit!

Binaural, Riot Act, and the selftitled are the best three consecutive PJ albums to date.

The album “Liz Phair”

I know someone already said it, but Incesticide by Nirvana was horrible, I know it was just B-Sides and covers to hold everyone over before In Utero Dropped, but it was just embarrassing.

“Sam’s Town” – The Killers

dylan and the dead? come on now.

oh come on people

Metallica – St. Anger

wortless garbage delivered by a metal band who took too much advice from therapists and not enough advice from their sick minds which gave us the black album etc.

Rob Zombie – Educated Horses

i disagree with Emily. Snakes and Arrows is by far not their worst. In fact, I’d say it was one of their good albums. Signals is one of their better 80’s albums, its had some decent tracks. Power Windows was OK, definitely not their best but alright nonetheless.

The title for worst Rush album, I think, goes to Hold Your Fire. There’s only 2, maybe 3 OK tracks, but other than that it is seriously dull.

Baconballs,

Zenyatta Mondatta is a good album, but i was thinking in standards of other Police records. Compared to Outlandos d’Amour, Regatta de Blanc, Ghost in the Machine and Synchronicity, ZM is mediocre.

In retrospect, I probably shouldn’t of included it in the list. Sorry.

Any manic street preachers w/out richie
rhcp one hot miniute

most albums where the line up dramaticly changes (ex. clash w/out mick)
And Sams Town by the Killers
it’s just pathetic and hot fuss is great.
Infinity on High by FOB is just to pop.

Giuffria-Silk and Steel. This is when “Butt Rock” (That’s what Deep Purple called it when they opened for them) went to total crap.

Any record with John Mayer’s name on it.

All the Van Halen discs without Diamond Dave’s voice. When you go from “Romeo Delight” to “Dreams” it’s game over pal.

Loverboy’s efforts after “Get Lucky.” Loverboy went limp.

Porcupine Tree will never, NEVER make this list!

The Who – It’s Hard (I liked Endless Wire)
Metallica – St. Anger
Dave Matthews Band – Busted Stuff
Evanescence – The Open Door
Live – Birds of Pray

In The Court of The Crimson King by King Crimson is atrocious

The Yeah Yeah Yeah’s new album was a huge dissapoitment

Amputecture by the Mars Volta is just boring

Anything by the Butthole Surfers after they left Touch and Go
Oh and despite the fact that they’re a horrible band the New Fall of Troy album is probably the worst album ever made

ALANIS MORISSETTE…

Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie

End Transmission. I mean really, no one in history even comes close to a tank job following a superhit.

stones bridge to babylon

one of the biggest problems with a lot of suggestions is people not making picks that fit both parts. is anyone going to seriously argue that my chemical romance or john mayer are great? also, it says bad album, not disappointment compared to other works.

the most blatant example has to be the stooges- the weirdness. they were truly a great band, and this is an awful album.

also, why did so many people list the soft parade by the doors? it isn’t even their worst album. other voices and full circle, their two albums they made after jim died are much worse and both merit inclusion.

other examples:
dylan and the dead
santana- all that i am
run-dmc- crown royal
elton john- victim of love
fleetwood mac- time
beach boys- summer in paradise
billy joel (if you can call him great)- river of dreams

oh, and having fun with elvis on stage has to make the list.

Van Halen III…would have been a great record, had Hagar or Roth sang the lyrics…The music was actually some of Ed and the boys best…Gary just got played by the band and an interim vocalist he became…to bad too!!

I really feel like N SYNC’s “Pop” didn’t match the tone and majesty of “No Strings Attached.” It was a total letdown for me.

You’re haters, all of you.

Metallica-Reload
David Gray-Lost Songs
Andrew WK-Close Calls With Brick Walls

REM – Up
I really liked Reveal, but Up is just boring to listen to.

And the new Modest Mouse album isn’t as good as their last two. I love The Moon and Antarctica

I agree with the person who said that anything with John Mayer’s name on it is crap. John Mayer is such a tool.

Not that she’s “one of the greats”, but still she has a place in pop culture for her first album, but Alanis Morissette’s albums following “Supposed Former…” are all crap. “Under Rug Swept” is jibberish, “So’called Chaos” is weak. Very big letdown from her phenomenal impact with her first album.

Pearl Jam’s Binaural.The ‘writers block’ scribbling inside the booklet was the perfect introduction to a lifeless and uninspired (and very dull) album.

* Anything The White Stripes made without someone in the band who can actually play drums.

How about:
Yes – Tormato
Queen – Hot Space
Queensryche – Q2K
The Alarm – Raw
Crosby Stills & Nash – Live It Up

I would maintain that Tom Waits’ Black Rider falls under this. I’m not sure if it is a bad album, but I have found it unlistenable, even by Waits’ standards.
Good call on the Liz Phair album with the hits on it. She sure stunk on that album, especially after the first 3 of hers.
I like In Through The Out Door. I feel like Presence or Coda is Zep’s weakest.

i find it funny that ive seen nickelback, evanescence, and fall out boy on here, 3 of the worst, if not THE WORST bands of all time.

why do so many people hate “Sams Town”. Maybe not as good as “Hot Fuss”, but there are many great tracks and no bad ones (”Everything Will Be Alright” anyone?)

U2’s Pop is probably one of the greatest albums.

Bruce Springsteen-Lucky Town& Human Touch

two albums released at the same time about Bruce’s sudden happy family life in Hollywood.His two
worst albums,and huge flops.

Pearl Jam-No Code

someone said that Alanis Morrissette Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie was the “biggest tank job following a superhit”.But nothing can come close to No Code.The biggest grunge band of the early 90’s decide to be a preachy and judgemental version of Neil Young.All the singles tank.The album tanks.And people wonder where the 11 million people who purchased ‘Ten’ and 8 million people who purchased VS and 5 million people who purchased Vitalogy disappeared to.

Counting Crows-Hard Candy

awful album afer a great debut and
a strong followup.Why on earth would Counting Crows want to sound like generic Tom Petty clones?And their version of “Big Yellow Taxi” makes me cringe.

Any thing with Gene Simmons in it. If there is a way, Gene Simmons will make a buck or two.

Paul McCartney- “Back to the Egg.” Paul can be awesome, and he can be disappointing. But this is his only album that’s just plain depressing.

Hey Sam, just cause an album doesnt sell that great(no code) – doesnt mean its bad.

one hot minute-RHCP is not at all bad. It wasn’t their normal stuff u expect, but its very experiemental and in a way their most interesting album ever. and i hate people who hate dave navarro b/c he played in that album. if anthing by RHCP is bad, its their debut, only because it was horribly produced

am i the only one that loves binaural-PJ. it is not at all soft as someone said, their softest stuff is on riot act. it may not live up to ten and Vs., but “grievance” and “insignificance” are two of my fave tracks.

agree with MJ-invincible

U2- How to dismantle an atomic bomb

The Jacksons- Goin’ Places

Queen- Flash Gordon & Hot Space

Michael Jackson- Blood on the dance floor HIStory in the Remix

Robert Plant (of Led Zep) Shaken ‘N’ Stirred

Nirvana- Incesticide

The Beatles- Let it Be

Led Zeppelin- The Song remains the Same origninal movie soundtrack & Coda

P.S

After 1967 The Beach Boys did 20/20 (1968), Sunflower (1970), Surf’s Up (1971) & Holland (1974) all great albums!!!

But they did do-

15 Great ones

&

Love you

Can’t remember the year cos I don’t care!!!

I really think Human Touch and Lucky Town would have been raved about if anyone other than Springsteen had released it. Similarly, No Code by Pearl Jam is a very interesting album. Unfortunately, both acts tend to be dismissed by tone-deaf tastemakers and hipper-than-thou critics during certain parts of their careers because they were successful. Neither Pearl Jam nor Springsteen ever catered to the mainstream. Occassionally, the mainstream catches up to them. But most people bash these albums because they didn’t sell well, which has never been an indication of artistic merit.

Tori Amos-The Beekeeper.
It had some good tracks, but not nearly as good as her earlier stuff, and as a concept album is wasn’t as strong as even Scarlet’s Walk.

Death Cab for Cutie used to be great, but Plans kinda sounded like they’re just trying to make an indie teen soundtrack.

Any Bob Dylan album.
Fleetwood Mac Last Studio Album was a let down.

Please stop doing these lists. In every one of them you fail to set up any sort of parameters that work. The contradictory nature of half the responses prove it. Several of the posts argued that Nic was wrong for saying the Beatles were overrated in their albums. Problem is that if you go by what you stated (bad albums by good artists) than Nic is actually quite right. Every Beatle album has some misfires on it, cause no one can ever make the perfect album. For those of you upset about the comment, he’s not the one you want to fire off at.

u2’s how to dismantle an atomic bomb was ten times better then pop in my opinion so i would have to say pop

Chocolate Starfish & the HotDog Flavored Water

Personally, I thought Aerosmith’s Nine Lives wasn’t all that amazing. Ain’t that a Bitch, Sweet Taste of India,and Kiss Your Past Goodbye were decent, but the rest of the cuts don’t do it for me. It seems like Tyler and Perry relied on some old material that was never used and they tried to resurrect it on this album. It lacks the norm of Aerosmith’s gritty rock n’ roll.

Make Believe – Weezer
Cut the Crap – The Clash
Prescence – Led Zeppelin
Animals – Pink Floyd
Metal Machine Music – Lou Reed

How can you say the Spaghetti Incident? is a a bad album when there are coversongs on there of Nazereth, The Skyliners, The Misfits, The Stooges, The UK Subs, HELL, THERE IS EVEN A COVER OF A SOUNDGARDEN SONG ON THERE!!!! THIS DESERVES RESPECT! The only people that don’t like this album are the people that listen to the first song, then snub it because its not Use Your Illusion 3… Anyone that actually listened to the album in its entirity has respect for it, at least they didnt pull a Bon Jovi and sell out all through the 90’s…. The only album that should be #1 on this list is St. Anger, no one, and I mean no one likes this poor excuse for a bargin bin special, bang on my pots and pans, lets get sober and make a product for people to waste their money ALBUM.

Why do people keep saying things like, every __ album or every album but ___ artist? It’s the WORST album by GREAT artists, not WORST albums. I assume you know how to read.

Green Day – Warning
Except for one, I repeat, ONE song (Misery), but that one song just happens to be the greatest Green Day song ever, so I guess it’s debatable.

Mirror Ball by Neil Young and Pearl Jam-Both of these acts have put out some great songs and albums but when they worked together for the first time on an album they produced one of the worst albums ever.

I agree with:

Aerosmith – Rock in a hard place
U2 – Pop
Metallica – St Anger

Not even the insane fans like these albums.

Warning by Green Day
Audioslave by Audioslave
Bullets by My Chemical Romance
Loovehatetragedy by Papa Roach

Well let me see:

- Pearl Jam – No Code

- Bloc Party – A Weekend In The City

- The Strokes – First Impressions of Earth

- Bjork – Volta

- The Killers – Sam’s Town

- U2 – Zooropa

- Audioslave – Revelations

- Metallica – St. Anger

- Aerosmith – Just Push Play

I lived this time…

Reminder, “Sam’s Town” rec’d a BRIT award for best international album…the band rec’d another BRIT award for best international band…for the love of music…play it again Sam.

John Lennon “Walls an Bridges”
Hugs,
Lisa

The Who “It’s Hard”

Wilco – A Ghost Is Born
Wilco – Kicking Television
Wilco – Sky Blue Sky

Jeff Tweedy without Jay Bennett is like Sting without Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers: A sad and pathetic shell of his former self. Somebody please save him from his own worst enemy.

Eric Clapton- Reptile
U2- Pop
DMB- Everyday
Weezer- Everything after “the Green album”

Whose anyone to say ANYTHING is bad?

For example, I happen to think “Sam’s Town” was the best album of 2006…while others on here are saying it wasn’t any good.

Metallica, ST. ANGER

The whole thing sounds like it was recorded in a garage, Lars Ulrich’s drums sound more like pots and pans, Kirk Hammett never plays a solo, and some of the lyrics are just plain laughable. “My lifestyle determines my deathstyle”? Gimme a break.

Oasis, BE HERE NOW

There’s actually a pretty good album somewhere in here. But most of the songs just go on and on and on for what seems like forever (”All Around The World,” I’m looking at all 9 and a half minutes of you — and that 2-minute “reprise” that pops up two tracks later), and as a result the album just overstays its welcome.

U2, POP

As soon as I heard “Discotheque” for the first time, I recalled the many hours I spent as a child listening to THE JOSHUA TREE and WAR over and over again and realized that this was what one of my favorite bands had become. It was incredibly disappointing to hear the guys behind “Sunday Bloody Sunday” and “Where The Streets Have No Name” singing a disco-rock song with lyrics like “You know you’re chewing bubblegum/You know what that is but you still want some/You just can’t get enough of that lovey-dovey stuff.”

the byrds (73 reunion)

jefferson airplane long john silver

b 52s mesopotamia

jethro tull passion play

mc hammer vanilla ice, etc

I actually think Combat Rock is a crappy excuse for a Clash record. “Ghetto Defendant” and the two radio hits are great, though. “Sean Flynn” is decent but not good.

How could I forget, the ultimate crappy album by the ultimate great artist:

Captain Beefheart – Unconditionally Guaranteed

Man, that record blew!

Wilco’s Sky Blue Sky, the worst record they’ve recorded since A.M.

Good call on Zeppelin’s Presence, bad call on In Through The Out Door (their best album after the HOTH) and bad call on CODA (it had some stinkers, but come on – “Darlene”? “Poor Tom”? Those were two of their best songs ever).

GREAT call on the Talking Heads’ Little Creatures. That was the first TH album I ever heard, and it was so bad that it took me a long time after that to redeem them in my mind and begin getting into them. “And She Was” is the ONLY decent song on Little Creatures.

I’m not sure why RS is so obsessed with Guns’N'Roses lately. They weren’t that great. And although RS and its readers seem to be obsessed with it, I’ve never heard a single mention of Chinese Democracy anywhere but on this website.

Pearl Jam– No Code/Yeild
Green Day– insomniac (?? it’s the one with the song “My eyes feel like they’re gonna bleed/the clock is laughing in my face…”)
Danzig-Cant speak

All of U2’s albums after Rattle and Hum. Achtung Baby gets me argh!!!!!! Pop is poppish, for the birds, really. Zooropa is up Bono’s ass. How to Dismantle a Nuclear S**t is really s**t. Somebody ought to tell Bono that poverty will always be with us. Check the Bible, Mr. Hewson, and you might as well come down from your sweet delusion as the Rock and Roll Savior of Earth and Mankind.

nickoliiii,

It’s not snobbery or elitism when people say that an album is “overplayed.” It just means the person has heard the songs too many times so now he’s sick of them. (Duh).

BTW, I’m glad RS said Dylan & The Dead instead of Self-Portrait. Self-Portrait, while too long and loaded with junk, is not all bad by any means. “Wigwam” is an extremely cool tune. “I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know About Her” is one of my favorite Dylan lyrics of all time.

these lists always leave me with more feelings of disagreement than anything. R.E.M’s “New Adventures in hi-fi” should be on the “underated albums” list, “Get behind me satan” by the white stripes cemented them as the greatest band of today, I love Radiohead’s “Hail to the Theif”, don’t even get me started on “In Utero”, my goodness, what DO you think is good? “Incesticide” being a B-sides album is great (it sounds like a B-sides album) but I like the unpretentions of B-sides albums, like “Amnesiac. Have you heard the song “Aneurysm”? Listen to it damn it. I would say “Pablo Honey” and Nirvana’s “Bleach” but those don’t count because they are the first albums. “The Wall”? wow, that made me feel a lot better about my other disagreements, as there clearly are ignoramouses on here. “Trompe le Monde”? is that some kind of pun on words? This is a pointless rant and I’m going to stop reading ’cause its making me angry and I completely forgot why I came on here.

crosby stills nash and young, looking forward

ok, i am a pearl jam die hard…
while i may not agree, i will give you no code and binaural. they have writers block written all over them. But YIELD???? who do you think you are. that album was incredible. diamond in the rough….

and i really love the person that put a moadonna album on a rock list…

st. anger totally owns this list, how could the greatest metal band (metallica) put out one of the wirst metal albums wierd seems like they did it on purpose!

For whomever said it was one of their favorite Dylan lyrics of all time; Dylan didn’t write I Forgot More Than You’ll Ever Know. It’s an old country song.

Stevie Wonder, “Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants”

I would have to agree with all the people listing Sam’s Town by The Killers

My Top 25 List

25. Aerosmith – Just Push Play
24. Beastie Boys – To The 5 Boroughs
23. The Clash – Give Em Enough Rope
22. Weezer – Maladroit
21. The Who – It’s Hard
20. The Smashing Pumpkins – Machina: The Machines Of God
19. The Pixies – Bossanova
18. The Offspring – Splinter
17. Beck – Midnite Vultures
16. Bruce Springsteen – Human Touch
15. Neil Young – Trans
14. Pink Floyd – Atom Heart Mother
13. The Cranberries – Wake Up And Smell The Coffee
12. Lenny Kravitz – Lenny
11. Tears For Fears – Raoul and the Kings of Spain
10. AC/DC – Fly On The Wall
9. Billy Joel – An Innocent Man
8. Bush – Golden State
7. U2 – Pop
6. Pearl Jam – Binaural
5. Dave Matthews Band – Everyday
4. Foo Fighters – One By One
3. Metallica – St. Anger
2. The Doors – The Soft Parade
1. Bob Dylan – Self Portrait

My apologies to the Clash, I meant Cut the Crap. Give Em Enough Rope is sick.

Bob Dylan- Saved/Shot Of Love
AC/DC- Flick of the Switch
The Who- Face Dances
Eric Clapton- August
Led Zeppelin- Presence
Neil Young- Trans (my ultimate “what-the-f*ck?!” moment)

“American Life” – Madonna

Red Hot Chili Peppers – One Hot Minute

Perhaps this has already been said, but the album pictured for this list, BAD albums by great artists, was The Spaghetti Incident, which RS gave 4/5 stars…?

Just finished reading everyone else’s, what’s with the “No Code” “Yield” and “Incesticide” bashings?!? U guys are crazy. Oh, and I have one that I don’t think has been mentioned:
Ramones – Mondo Bizarro. It’s easy to tell that DeeDee was gone during this one. Horrible album by one of the best bands of all time. Oh, and can everyone please stop including bands such as The Strokes, The White Stripes, and Arctic Monkeys. The topic is GREAT bands releasing terrible albums.

A new day at midnight-David Gray

there are two screamingly obvious titles,MIU by The Beach Boys and Getting in over my Head by Brian Wilson,two lps that are an insult to my ears,and this form the guy who wrote Good Vibes! hey little tomboy! possibly the most tasteless peado song ever

be here now, oasis

Undermind by Phish was a phenominal album, it wrapped up their era and give a preview in the direction that each member was heading in. If you want a bad album but Phish, the Siket Disc is as far as you have to look.

peeping tom?!? Are you nuts?

Kudos to the one or two people that realize that Reload was Metallica’s tank job. St. Anger is a great record that most don’t get because it doesn’t sound like Master or Sandman. It’s too bad. You all are missing out.

Same with No Code. I mean really. You have to be deaf to miss the greatness of this record. Because it took a left turn from Vitalogy, it went over the heads of the cooler than hip losers of that generation. It’s easily one of the best of their stellar catalog. The true stink bomb was Riot Act, and even that is better than the most of the crap coming out of the “top” artists of this year.

I totally agree with rock god. I thought spagetti incident? was brilliant.

Topher: Everyday by DMB? I thought that was a good album that flowed fairly well. And your list has the wrong Foos album, “InYour Honor” was horrible. I was expecting a double album, but it just felt like B-Sides and crappy songs.

One hot Minute was a good album….Adore was weak.

ok…Kevin..and everyone else…these are OPINIONS…and we all know about about opinions, they are like social security numbers, evrybody has one. But I was on the fence for a long time about MIRROR BALL.. this past spring I found copy in a New Mexico GoodWill for a mere 99 cents and I was road tripping so I needed something to listen to, etc.
Well MY verdict is in…the boys in PearlJam got together with the Godfather of Grunge, Mr. Neil Young, and SMOKED a groove-oreinted jamfest that will stun all the dogs in YOUR neighborhood if you really give it a listen.
If you need to find a way IN, start with “I’m the Ocean”…but your best bet, find a smooth stretch of highway on a moonlit summer night and crank this bitch up and drive until the tires go bald.
Simply Amazing.
How about Paul McCartney+Wings, LONDON TOWN. Bloody Awful is more like it. They should re-issue it under the alternative title “The Worst of Wings”.
See ya next weekend!!!!

I agree Mirror Ball totally rocks! I’m the ocean is an amazing song. This record delivered what it should: Pure Grunge.Full of true rock and roll spirit.

have to say One Hot Minute is awful just awful, Stadium Arcadium is a great double album. Also Binaural is the bad one by Pearl Jam. Whoever said Neon Bible was bad was way off the mark. It is start to finish better than Funeral.

Dylan Albums mentioned already:

Saved
Shot of Love
Dylan and the Dead
At Budokon
Infidels
Any 80’s Album except Oh Mercy
All the Christian Albums

I’m not sure live albums should be on this list, especially when there are enough bad studio albums to go around. Dylan was very uneven in the 80’s, but I defy anyone to listen to “Down in the Groove” all the way through.

Also, Self Portait was deliberately bad album, as was Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music (which I am surprised more people didn’t mention). So I don’t think they should count either.

The best suggestions I have heard so far are Journey Though the Secret Life of Plants by Stevie Wonder and Presence by Led Zeppelin. American Life by Madonna was also a good call.

Manson- Golden Age Of The Grotesque
Pumpkins- Machina
Metallica- St. Anger
Incubus- Light Grenades
Silverchair- Young Modern
Nas- Nastradamus
Jay-Z- Kingdom Come
Eminem- Encore
A Perfect Circle- eMotive
Deftones- Self-Titled
Pearl Jam- Everything after No Code
311- Soundsystem
Garbage- Beautiful Garbage
Wu-Tang- Iron Flag

For all you metal heads out there:

Judas Priest: Turbo (and anything with Ripper Owens)

Iron Maiden: No Prayer for the Dying (and anthing with Blayze Bailey)

And, yes, St. Anger by Metallica blew, but they jumped the shark with Load.

Here’s what I think of all your insolent opinions: *pfffffft*

Yes Terrance, I agree. *pfffffft*

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I thought I would give some pop artists. These probably wont make the list because they are not the best artists or they are not albums known for how bad they are relative to the artists’ other albums. However, I thought I would still mention some.

In no particular order:

1. Michael Jackson – Blood On The Dance Floor (excellent nomination by one of the bloggers above – woeful)

2. Janet Jackson – 20 Y.O or Damita Jo (I don’t think these even qualify as albums – ppl just disregard them anyway)

3. Madonna – Music (I don’t know, everyone seems to rave on about it, but I just can’t seem to get into it)

4. TLC – 3D (The album is not very cohesive. A bit messy)

5. Coldplay – X&Y

6. Destiny’s Child – Survivor

7. U2 – How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (boring)

8. Outkast – Idlewild

9. Beyonce – Dangerously In Love (You can’t deny Beyonce is a great artist, but her first solo was disappointing. I wouldn’t say that it should be disregarded, just probably that it was below expectations)

10. Gwen Stefani – The Sweet Escape (I guess Gwen is a pop icon, but her latest album seems a bit whack)

anyone who say’s No Code is a bad album has obviously not listened to it more than once or twice. Get over the TEN and VS years! It is a solid album with an amazing new drummer (Jack Irons), with thoughtful lyrics and great harmonies. It is definitely one of their best.

I’m sorry, but U2’s Pop is one of the great albums…..in my opinon. Man…..”if you wear that velvet dress” alone is worth buying the CD for…..not to mention last night of earth, playboy mansion, wake up dead man….etc. lots of great songs on there. Zooropa is much worse, though it does have “stay” on it…which is a great tune.

No Code is by far their best album. I am 100% a PJ fan too, seen them many many times in concert.

STP’s #4, when they had Core,Purple and Tiny Music…..it was a huge let down.

It’s all about the contrast: for instance, The Stone Roses’ second album – total rubbish apart from the derivative but pleasant Ten Storey Love Song – came after the superlative landmark debut (often voted No.1 album of all time here in the UK). By the same criterion, you’d have to cite (most of) Sandinista and (all of) Combat Rock by The Clash. Too many people here are just posting the worst album (in their view) by an established act but it’s an immutable law of rock’n'roll that most bands will decline after their first 2 albums. Obviously there are exceptions (Dylan, Bowie, REM…) but there are far more who conform to the theory. It would be easy to simply list the latest or last album by an established artist (as many have done here).

“Smell the Glove” Spinal Tap

Soundgarden- Down on the Upside

I’ll see that Down in the Groove and raise you a Knocked out Loaded and Empire Burlesque.

Can’t agree with Bossanova. The Happening is my favorite pixies song.

Plus, it was the album where Frank Black, said, “I was looking to have her in the sack. I was looking handsome. She was looking like an erotic vulture.”

The quote alone keeps it off the list.

Sorry, Dylan’s Shot of Love is not a bad album. For chrissake, it has ‘Every Grain of Sand” on it.

dj shadow- the outsider

it’s not that i don’t like the crunk/hyphy songs on the album, it’s just that none of them are really anywhere near as good as they could be. plus, it can’t even decide what album it wants to be, and halfway through it turns into a less-good UNKLE / private press. “the tiger”, “erase you” and “broken levee blues” are fairly bland retreads of what he’d done better before. don’t get me started on chris james’ vocals- i take it thom yorke was too expensive to hire? the only redeeming track is the opener, “this time”, but even that is merely treading on david holmes’ turf.

it just seemed so halfhearted, a massive disappointment for me after his first two, truly great, solo albums.

i saw “idlewild” somewhere on this list, good shout, far too bloated for its own good.

and i’ll stick my neck out and agree with “neon bible” being here, it doesn’t have an ounce of the heart that “funeral” did. so while it might be impressive technically, emotionally it left me cold.

Driving Rain – Paul McCartney
You’re the One – Paul Simon
Living Colour – Time’s Up
Ice-T – Home Invasion

People don’t even know these albums exist. There’s a reason for that.

Weezer “Make Believe”

It was so blatantly obvious Rivers didn’t want to make that album and just half-assed the lyrics. It sounded more like a Barney record than Weezer.

And I saw someone who previously defended the album, calling people who didn’t “haters.” Keep in mind anyone who uses the term “haters” is in the age group that probably grew up on Barney, meaning he was probably just feeling nostalgic while listening.

Neon Bible sucks in ways I don’t even understand, only RS sheep could like that album, and that’s only because RS hyped them up.

Pilgrim – Eric Clapton

Down On The Upside is classic! What madness is this?!

No Code and Yield? Wow, people on here are mentally deficient. Get out of the early 90’s and realize that they don’t simply do harder rock.

Kings of Leon: Because of the Times

Kings of Leon – rocking + (absurd reverb x vocals) = taking all of the fun out of it

Done With Mirrors – Aerosmith
Pop – U2
Riot Act – Pearl Jam
Machina/Machines of God – The Smashing Pumpkins
In Your Honor (Disc 2) – Foo Fighters

Pharrell’s latest botchery:
”In My Mind”

Eminem-Encore
Oasis-Everythin g Afther Be Here Now excluding Stop the Clocks.
Jay-Z Blueprint 2, Kingdom Come
Nas-Nastradamus

Neon Bible=Classic Album, however for some they cannot mentally understand the complex lyrics. Riot Act is good real good, get a clue.

in a pre-emptive strike, let’s add axl’s “chinese democracy” to the list

john white – big black baller pt. 1-6

Megadeth – The World Needs A Hero
Black Sabbath – Technical Ecstacy
Audioslave – eponymous
Chris Cornell – his new album
Toni Iommi – Iommi (I actually gave this one a listen last week for the first time in years to see if my opinon was too harsh. It’s pretty bad.)

“I was looking handsome. She was looking like an erotic vulture.”

That’s from “Subbacultcha” on Trompe le Monde, not Bossanova.

Dave Matthews —-Stand Up—
After song 8… I threw it out the window onto the Interstate

Why start an argument about The Killers? I thought the question was “Great Artists who made Bad Albums.”

Since when are the Killers – a bastardized keyboard-rocker group copping Springsteen, The Cure and The Smiths – a great group?

Mustaches! Awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Prince has a lot of dogs: Rave Unto the Joy Whatever, Emancipation, which is about 2 and a half c.d.’s too long; Chaos and Disorder.

Elvis Costello, for all his critic buddies, has half-a-shelf full of lame ones: Goodbye Cruel World, Useless Beauty, North, Juliet Letters, the Bacharach record, Mighty Like a Rose.

White Stripes’ Get Behind Me Satan won’t stand the test of time. Too formless.

I rather like R.S.’ Dirty Work myself. Plenty of meaty songs. It was their next record that took the Stones down the hill.

Anything by Kings of Leon. Those guys are crazy overrated.

Dave Matthews Band’s last album was marathon of crap, i only listened to it once, literally.

I know I am going to be crucified for the next albums that I mention.
Oh well hells bells!
Last 4 albums- U2
1984 and on – Van Halen or Haggar
Last 3 Santana Albums
Everyone Deserves Music-Spearhead
Black Album- Metallica (This album and the ones after are too radio friendly)
Musicology- Prince
Last 3 Beck albums
Strays- Janes Addiction

I love all Beck’s albums…but to eaches own. Speakerboxx/The Love Below by Outkast could’ve only been one album and it would’ve been great,over rated, didn’t deserve all that praise. Bloc Party’s current effort could’ve been stronger if they decided to stick with their sound instead of trying to be like Interpol, who are great it’s just that bloc party’s silent alarm was awesome and their new one…not so much. Dave Matthew’s Band’s Stand up is atrocious. Clap your hands say yeah’s new album is bad as well.

12 Bar Blues – Scott Weiland

XTC – Oranges and Lemons

Comment on the Mccartney Stuff. Almost one of the album’s listed–except for back to the egg and even that has fans–has been hailed by critics at one point or another as a great record. Problem with Paul is that he makes records that are consistantly half-great and half-terrible.

Of course the same thing is true of all the other Beatles.

Lennon–Some Time in New York City or STiNC may be the worst post beatles album ever. Its even worse than most of Ringo’s stuff.

smell the glove was alright… shark sandwich – spinal tap

I’ve tried to like U2’s Pop, but it’s the only u2 album that I do not have or want in my collection. To me, it misses the mark all the way around, and not just by u2 standards. “Gone” hurts my ears! Zooropa rises above Pop because of the songs “Stay” and “The Wanderer,” and because it succeeds as a concept album–although it doesn’t warrant repeat play like the truly great concept albums do.

Bad Religion – Into The Unknown

Weezer – Make Believe (to everyone knocking “Beverly Hills” — yeah, ok, but have you forgotten about “We Are All On Drugs”? WTF was that ridiculous nonsense?)

Reel Big Fish – We’re Not Happy Til You’re Not Happy (yes I expect a lot of “RBF is not a good band” comments, but in the third wave ska world they’re one of the best)

whoever nominated DMB’s Busted Stuff is nuts. The same goes for Tool’s last 2 albums — those are 2 of the best albums ever. and to the person that said No Doubt – everything pre-Tragic Kingdom, I think you’ve got it backwards. I nominate No Doubt – everything POST-Tragic Kingdom.

Led Zeppelin – In Through The Out Door
Pink Floyd – The Division Bell
Bruce Springsteen – Human Touch
Neil Young – Everybody’s Rockin’ (so bad Geffen sued Neil Young for making it)
The Beach Boys – Keepin’ Summer Alive
The Who – It’s Hard

Van Halen – 3
Aerosmith – anything after Get a Grip
Lenny Kravitz – Lenny
Metallica – St. Anger
Primus – Brown Album
Judas Priest – Ram It Down
Iron Maiden – A Matter of Life and Death
Eric Clapton – Pilgrim
King’s X – Please Come Home Mr. Bulbous
ZZ Top – Afterburner

ok now this is silly, u2’s pop is great, pearl jam has had a few weaker albums but none of them were straight up bad, and wilco’s sky blue sky is a great album, even if it is mellow

yellow submarine-the beatles

Paris Hilton! Paris Hilton!
Any music from that waste is a joke.

Wow, so many people are missin the point. BAD albums by GREAT (or at least GOOD) acts, not just bad albums.
1)Don’t Tell a Soul (Replacements, my favorite band ever).Also, 98% of the post ‘Mats Westerberg, which just kills me.
2)Amorica (Black Crowes)
3)Night in The Ruts (Aerosmith)
4)Afterburner (ZZ Top)
5)Psychoderelict (Pete Townshend)
6)Every post-IRS REM Record
7)Under a Cherry Moon (Prince, but too many to choose,really)
8)Filthy Lucre (Sex Pistols.But at least they admit it’s just for the money)
9)Cut The Crap (The Clash)
10)Worst album ever not by Boston –THE WALL. What a boring, drawn out piece of crap.

pearl jam’s lost dogs was a real dog.

where’s the top 25?

The new Bloc Party…i’d like my 20$ back please!
And i’m watching you Axel!

Did I just see Paris Hilton listed? Oh God.

And shut up about Neon Bible and Sam’s Town. Those were great albums!

U2’s Pop was, to my point of view, a great album, Zooropa, if it wasn’t for Stay and the title song (ironically, one of my all-time favorite),that would be the U2 album to forget
Here’s some other bad albums:

Genesis-Land of Confusion

Tears for Fear-Songs from the Big Chair

Me first and the Gimme Gimmes- Love their Country

Pink Floyd-Ummagumma

Marillion-S eason’s End

Nirvana-In Utero

Roger Waters-Radio K.O.S

Neil Young-Trans

A lot of 80’s album should in fact be forgotten

A few comments:

First anyone that tries and judge an album that hasn’t come out yet, like GN’R’s Chinese Democracy and Chris Cornell’s new record are just being childish. Those records will both be great.

Second, if anyone thinks All That You Can’t Leave Behind isn’t a great record, get the wax cleaned out of your ears.

Ali

Phew, checked the comments and saw that (luckily) I’m not the only one thinking people are wrong when they see St. Anger as Metallica’s worst album. IMO it’s by far the Reload album.

One hot Minute by the chili peppers is in my opinion their greatest album…there self titled debut album would be the one up there if anything

These stinkers by these great artists are completely unlistenable.

Neil Young – Trans

Pink Floyd – Ummagumma

Bob Dylan – Self Portrait

Queen – Hot Space

U2 – Atomic bomb

Tales from Topographic Oceans

The spaghetti incident may be a bad album ( I ‘ve never heard it) , but I’d buy it from itunes just to get the cover floating around on my ipod

I rather liked Ummagumma’s live side.Didn’t care for Atom Heart Mother much but everything after the Wall I never listen to.All of Roger Waters’ solo projects,specifically Radio KAOS.Black Sabbath’s Technical Ecstasy,even though the version of Dirty Women from the Hammersmith Odeon 1978 really kicks ass.I’d also say all Sab albums after Born Again,including the Reunion.Everything from the Rolling Stones after 1974.Paul McCartney’s solo albums after Wings.Ou est le soleil?BRUTAL!The Doors Soft Parade.Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy,Presence and In Through the Out Door.Jimi Hendrix Isle of Wight.All AC/DC after For Those About to Rock.Lou Reed Transformer.(I know…but IMO it sucks)David Bowie Let’s Dance.Anything from Iggy Pop after 1979.Everything from Metallica after 1986-ESPECIALLY that pompous S&M album(projectile vomit)Chris Cornell’s solo projects.Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention.Henry Rollins.Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist.Foo Fighters.Everything from Britney Spears,Miley Cyrus,The Jonas Bros and the like.Country music and Techno musak.I think that covers that.

U2- No Line On The Horizon (seems to hark back to the awful POP album)
U2- POP
RHCP- Californication (a sell out with weak tunes, give me OHM any day).
RHCP- Stadium
Radiohead- Hail To The Theif
R.E.M.- Everything after Berry left
Pearl Jam- Everything after Ten
Iron Maiden- No Prayer
Iron Maiden- X-Factor
Iron Maiden- Virtual 11
Iron Maiden- Dance of Death
Iron Maiden- A Matter of Life & Death
Megadeth- Everything after Youthanasia
Metallica- Reload
Metallica- St Anger
Metallica- Death Magnetic
Prince- Everying album since the early 90’s have been steaming turds.
NIN- The Slip
Axl Rose Band- Chinese Democracy