Artists worst album.

[RanD00M]

Now a lot of us are fans of music, some more than other but most of us still people who enjoy it. In this thread I wish that we discuss the worst album any artist/group has released.

My first choice shall be Kanye West and his album Graduation. Now we can argue that 808's & Heartbreak is worse but I'm not counting it since it isn't hip-hop and also stemming from the fact that is an excellent album. But so is Graduation, because while being Yeezy's worst album it's still fan-fuckin-tastic only displaying despite being an asshole he is one talented asshole.

Second choice is Queens of the Stone Age's Era Vulgaris. Now I understand that Josh Homme is an experimental man when it comes to music progression but I think the direction they took with this album was one that wasn't right for the band. I just hope that their next album takes them back to the sounds of either Songs For The Deaf or their first album.

 

[Imthatguy]

Metallica's St. Anger there was nothing worth listening to on the album even the Load albums had a few catchy tunes but St. Anger just sucked.

 

[Lionsfan]

Had to reread your post a few times to made sure I got it all clear. I was about to jump all over you for calling Graduation a bad album.

Anyways, I can't really think of anything right now. Anticlimactic, I know

 

[Marter]

Kelly Clarkson's Thankful is her worst, IMO. Only one track I really enjoy, while the rest is all mediocre-bad. It's her only album I don't really want to listen to from start to finish.

 

[themechanic]

Breaking Benjamin's "Phobia", "Saturate" was excellent, "we are not alone here" was amazing, phobia was garbage(relativly) Linkin parks a thousand suns while good, had too many "art" tracks. Living things is a bit better about that(not by much).

 

[Rawne1980]

Bross - Changing Faces.

Now, when Bross first "appeared" in 1986 I was 6 years old. The reason I got listening to them is my sister was a massive fan. She was 15 and had posters, albums, cups the bloody works.

I remember liking their early stuff but as we got to the 90's they got .... well .... shit.

Changing Faces came out in 1991 when music was taking on a more "dance" style approach and the charts had a more up tempo feel (back when we used to record the charts on a tape recorder and try and pause it during the talking parts ... ahh the memories).

By then they had started to lose their appeal. My sister had moved out and taken her music with her. The songs they released from 1990 onwards just wasn't good enough to keep my attention and I moved on to "happy hardcore" (we all have stupid phases).

 

[Luna]

Guns n Roses' 'the spaghetti incident?'

Meh.

 

[Olas]

A Momentary Lapse in Reason is my pick for the worst Pink Floyd Album. Without Roger Waters they just went to shit.

For Led Zeppelin it's definitely In Through the Out Door.

 

[Andy Shandy]

I would say Linkin Park's worst album is Meteora, and I'm probably in the minority with that. I'm not saying it's a bad album by any means but I don't enjoy it as much as the rest of them.

 

[Benpasko]

Second choice is Queens of the Stone Age's Era Vulgaris. Now I understand that Josh Homme is an experimental man when it comes to music progression but I think the direction they took with this album was one that wasn't right for the band. I just hope that their next album takes them back to the sounds of either Songs For The Deaf or their first album.

As a Josh Homme fanboy I feel that I must now challenge you to a fistfight in a gay bar parking lot for daring to question anything he's ever done.

But to be serious, I did prefer Songs for the Deaf. Era Vulgaris is still great though. On a related note, have you ever haerd of Them Crooked Vultures? It's a side project with Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, and John Paul Jones. There's only one album afaik, but it's one of my favorite albums of all time.

 

[RanD00M]

But to be serious, I did prefer Songs for the Deaf. Era Vulgaris is still great though. On a related note, have you ever haerd of Them Crooked Vultures? It's a side project with Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, and John Paul Jones. There's only one album afaik, but it's one of my favorite albums of all time.

Have I ever hear of Them Crooked Vultures? What next? You're gonna ask me about Eagles of Death Metal?
Yes I have heard of them though I've never really given them a listen. They had one song in Gran Turismo 5 that I liked though.

 

[Hylke Langhout]

I don't know which Metallica album was worse, St.Anger or Lulu.
Masterplan's worst album is definitely Mk.II. The new vocalist just does not compare to Jorn.
Helloween's worst album IMO is Pink Bubbles Go Ape just because it's so weird and not-Helloween.
Linkin Park's worst album was Minutes to Midnight for me because it felt sort of like an awkward transition between their current and old sounds.

 

[Benpasko]

But to be serious, I did prefer Songs for the Deaf. Era Vulgaris is still great though. On a related note, have you ever haerd of Them Crooked Vultures? It's a side project with Josh Homme, Dave Grohl, and John Paul Jones. There's only one album afaik, but it's one of my favorite albums of all time.

Have I ever hear of Them Crooked Vultures? What next? You're gonna ask me about Eagles of Death Metal?
Yes I have heard of them though I've never really given them a listen. They had one song in Gran Turismo 5 that I liked though.

I know a lot of people who claim to like QotSA who haven't heard of TCV, so I just asked. Give them a listen, it's awesome.
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[John Nordstrom]

One recent example of this is Ensiferum's Unsung Heroes. It just lacks everything that makes Ensiferum Ensiferum, and has nothing but generic or mediocre songwriting to make up for it. It's almost painful when remembering what the band was like when Jari was still in the band. But, at least Wintersun finally released Time I, which is amazing enough to make up for the disappointment of Unsung Heroes.

 

[mysecondlife]

Linkin Park's worst album was Minutes to Midnight for me because it felt sort of like an awkward transition between their current and old sounds.

Transition? Wasn't there like 5 - 6 year gap between their albums?

John Mayer's Battle Studies was pretty bad compared to albums like Continuum and Room for Squares.

 

[Hylke Langhout]

Linkin Park's worst album was Minutes to Midnight for me because it felt sort of like an awkward transition between their current and old sounds.

Transition? Wasn't there like 5 - 6 year gap between their albums?

There were 4 years between Meteora and Minutes to Midnight and 3 years between Minutes to Midnight and Thousand Suns.
The main reason that Minutes to Midnight bothered me was that it has an awkward combination of old-style songs like Bleed It Out and Given Up and new style like Shadow of the Day and Valentine's Day. The two styles just didn't mesh well for me and it sounds very disjointed as a whole.

EDIT: Also 200 posts. Yay? Only took me a year and 7 months -_-

 

[Wayneguard]

Metallica's St. Anger there was nothing worth listening to on the album even the Load albums had a few catchy tunes but St. Anger just sucked.

I expected Metallica to come up but I didn't expect it to be the first reply

OT: I'll go ahead and add Death Magnetic. It was supposed to be a return to form for Metallica and it's just... awful. These guys used to be the kings of thrash but they just refuse to play thrasy music anymore.

 

[Something Amyss]

Queen's "The Game."

Some people say "Hot Space," but I enjoy the departure into the funk-ish stuff.

"The Game" has some good tracks, but it's easily their worst.

 

[Vault101]

There were 4 years between Meteora and Minutes to Midnight and 3 years between Minutes to Midnight and Thousand Suns.
The main reason that Minutes to Midnight bothered me was that it has an awkward combination of old-style songs like Bleed It Out and Given Up and new style like Shadow of the Day and Valentine's Day. The two styles just didn't mesh well for me and it sounds very disjointed as a whole.

I was never a linkin park fan (a little too young during their heyday) but M2M seemed too....safe...too boring

I actually really liked the experiemental sound in thousand suns...I actually quite liked thousand suns

living things isnt too bad....

 

[Loonyyy]

I just got "Living Things" by Linkin Park, and I actively despise it. I haven't heard Thousand Suns yet, so I'll reserve judgement as for "Worst". There's like two tracks on there I didn't hate, but I'm not interested in playing it again just to find them.

It manages:

-Crappy dubstep backing. The backing just sucks. It's an annoying dubstep-y distortion sound thing, that just annoys the shit out of me.
-Crappy lyrics. I mean, come on. They're picking out every one of the standard sort of things they say. It's completely unoriginal. Half of the stuff sounds like they're repeating what they've said before, but with crappier imagery.
-It's really, really, really juvenile. "Lies Greed Misery" is dreadful. It's whiny, there's no real progression to the vocals, it's just Chester screaming because they figure that's what he does, the tempo abruptly changes for no reason for the chorus, and it's just senselessly stupid and violent sounding.

I think they should have stuck with at least the vestiges of their old sound. Oh well, I'm not exactly thirsting for more of their original stuff anyway. And hey, I'm sure someone out there wants whinier lamer versions of Linkin Park lyrics on dubstep. They're welcome to it.

Also, Grinspoon's "Black Rabbits" is just bland. They completely moved away from the harder stuff they've done, into a bunch of samey-sounding tracks.

EDIT: Though this post appeared right after Vault's, it's not intended to disagree with her. Post delay.