Artists worst album.

[karloss01]

I don't like any of the Linkin Park albums after Meteora. Minutes to midnight was meh, Thousand suns was boring (except for "Wisdom, Justice and Love" and "Iridescent" the only part of their new stuff I like but it doesn't save their album) and Living things again was meh.

 

[smithy_2045]

Going through my iTunes library in alphabetical order, to see what I can find...

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Suck It And See by Arctic Monkeys. Massive disappointment after the awesomeness of Humbug. They just lost their edge completely, very generic album.

Everything after Not Accepted Anywhere by The Automatic wasn't good enough to stay in my music collection.

Intimacy by Bloc Party. Had some great songs, like Halo, Talons, Ion Square, Your Visits Are Getting Shorter and Flux, but some absolute stinkers as well. Mercury was an awful choice for the first single, Biko was 5 minutes of boring, and there were a couple of other well below-par songs in there as well.

Tonight: Franz Ferdinand was a waste of time for everyone involved.

Interpol's self-titled didn't sit right with me. The bass lines were less prominent, the guitar lacked punch, and the vocals weren't quite up to the high standards set in their previous albums.

Shine On by Jet was just a massive "what the fuck are they doing?!". Completely lacked the spark that made their first album a massive success. They did recover it a bit in Shaka Rock, I'll give them that.

The Future Is Medieval, by Kaiser Chiefs, was just a massive facepalm. They supposedly had a massive catalog of songs they could pick from, yet barely any of the ones they chose were any good.

The Killers lost it after Sam's Town.

As previously mentioned on numerous occasions, Minutes To Midnight by Linkin Park was a massive flop, and for good reason. If you ignore where they came from, at least Thousand Suns and Living Things are decent, but M2M was just all round poor.

As far as I'm concerned, Metallica haven't made an album since The Black Album.

Congratulations by MGMT was a drastic change from their first album, and not for the better.

The Resistance by Muse didn't capture me. A few too many filler songs, and a load of pretentious wankery with their symphony. The 2nd Law is a clear improvement IMO.

Nirvana's only good album is Nevermind.

Beacon by Two Door Cinema Club is good, but Tourist History was considerably better.

Ritual by White Lies lacks the deep wells of emotion that you can feel bleeding through in To Lose My Life, and is worse off for it.

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And we're done.

 

[Baron_Rouge]

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.

Now Imma let you finish, but Graduation is one of Kanye West's best albums of all time. OF ALL TIME!

In all seriousness, I do think it is one of his best, but that's just my opinion, obviously you're entitled to your own opinion on this entirely subjective matter

In answer to the original question, probably St. Anger by Metallica? Not such a bad album per se, but each song could be cut down to about half the length and nothing too valuable would be lost. Also, possibly Love Liberty Disco by the Newsboys. Once again, kind of a fun album, but it was a disco album released by (in my opinion) one of the best pop bands of the 90's-2000's. It just couldn't stack up when compared to their other stuff.

 

[MorganL4]

Guns n Roses' 'the spaghetti incident?'

Meh.

Damn, you stole mine....

Ummm Grace Potter and the Nocturnals latest album is one I found quite disappointing The Lion The Beast The Beat..... But I have seen them do a number of the songs live and have come to the conclusion that it was simply a bad producer.

 

[Voxgizer]

The Ataris - Welcome To The Night

But The Cheyenne Line is one of my favorite songs ... rest of the album I can agree with but I really like that song.

Glad someone liked the it. I just wish I knew what Kris had been thinking with that album.

 

[RanD00M]

Now Imma let you finish, but Graduation is one of Kanye West's best albums of all time. OF ALL TIME!

But it just feels so weaker. It has so many weak songs compared to his other albums. And the fact that it isn't even an hour long is something that irks me because all his other albums (discounting 808's) manage that.
But of course, as you said, we are all entitled to our opinions.

 

[Pickles]

hmmm...my favorite band is mastodon, so i guess The HUNTER is their worst album...but its still amazing, thats how good they are

Usually I'd just say that anything not by Mastodon was Mastodon's worst album. I actually liked the hunter more than crack the skye, but I didn't listen to that one as much as I should have so it may not be a fair comparison.

Eat me, Drink me by Marilyin Manson. Dear good... Look, I like some of the depressive songs by Manson, but a whole album of whining about a girl is to much. It's just boring and depressing

Eat me drink me was the album that convinced me I was done with Manson, loved his stuff up until then.



Children of Bodom's Blooddrunk was pretty damn bad. It had a few good songs, but strayed even further from their good stuff towards some pretty boring metal.

 

[Launcelot111]

The Suburbs by the Arcade Fire. Sure, they won the Grammy for best album with this, but it still lacks so much of the dynamism of their first two albums. The second half of the album only has one really good song too.

Stay Positive by the Hold Steady. They had firmly established what they were good at, and then they tried to get a little too fancy here. All the straightforward rock songs are good, but that's only like four songs.

 

[The Artificially Prolonged]

Yellow Submarine by The Beatles. It just such a pointless album, half the songs already existed on other albums and the new songs where miles from the usual quality of The Beatles.

Sandinista by The CLash. I do quite like this album but there is one big problem with it is that there are just too many filler songs which drag the album down. If they'd have cut the album to maybe half the size it would have been a fantastic album.

The Final Cut by Pink Floyd. I cannot stand this one, it's the only Pink Floyd album I really cannot sit and listen to right through, with Not Now John being the only exception. I tend to view this one more as a Roger Waters solo album which just happens to feature the rest of Pink Floyd, and the album suffers because of the lack of input from the rest of the band.

Bad Religion - Into The Unknown

Bad Religion is by far my favorite band, and I truly enjoy almost every song of theirs, but this album is probably the one I like the least. I wouldn't say it's terrible or even bad, it was just them experimenting. Too bad they hate it so much themselves that they generally deny its existence.

I love Into The Unknown, the fact they decided to experiment with their sound so early in their career took a lot of balls. Plus the album to me sounds amazing. I feel it was a shame that the album got blasted the way it did and a pity that the band doesn't like to acknowledge it as they did some good work on it.

 

[Ilja Lyubimov]

Nickelback's every album.

 

[deathzero021]

i love St.Anger. if we're talking about bad Metallica albums, it'll be Load and ReLoad. while the writing is good, the overall presentation of the albums come off as cheap and lame. St.Anger is consistent and was a nice return to Heavy Metal for the band. Plus the melodies and instrumentation is good stuff. i don't see how any Metal fan would dislike it. (aside from the odd drum sound)

But let me bring up Cradle of Filth's Thornography. it's their worst album, the only album i can't stand. It has more gothic/thrash elements than anything else, which is odd for a band that normally plays gothic/black metal. The album just sticks out and sucks in comparison to the rest of their albums. If you're listening to Midian and loving the powerful riffs and intense speed than switching to Thornography is like derailing a roller-coaster while going 90mph.

I could bring up AFI's CrashLove as well. it's a good rock album sure, but for a band that used to have tremendous energy as a hardcore punk group, the album is massively disappointing and boring. bands often get slower as they get older but damn, these guys are practically crawling at this point.

and now Iron Maiden. I hate the Number Of The Beast album. it just sucks. it's more generic Heavy Metal than their other stuff. Iron Maiden was a strong force in the NWOBHM scene and most of their songs were faster, stronger and more melodic than anything on that album. It seemed like an attempt at making a more approachable album for the mainstream audience. it's a good thing they didn't stick with that sound and than made Piece of Mind, one of their best albums and than Powerslave, F*** yeah!

Korn's first LP is so terrible it has the lowest rating out of 500 albums on my iTunes.

Panic At The Disco's 2nd album, was incredibly difficult for me to get into. i couldn't stand it. not only such a departure from their first album but i was completely bored with it. Luckily the 3rd album was a decent return for them.

The Offspring's Days Go By. Half the album is a really pathetic attempt at modern pop. They've always done a few pop-oriented songs but they were still mixed with rock/punk for the most part and they were in a small enough number to just ignore. However on this album, most of the album is just bad. only a few decent songs on the album. what a waste. The Offspring used to be such a badass group too.

Rise Against, Appeal To Reason. It's just boring. Compared to their Melodic Hardcore stuff, this album is just boring. There are a few good songs with nice melodies but overall not the kinda stuff a punk wants to listen to. It's a good album by rock standards, but not a good punk album. (similar to AFI's later direction)

okay i better stop here.

 

[Richard Flockhart]

Any one like Nine Inch Nails??? because there worst album for me would have to be With Teeth

 

[Voxgizer]

Bad Religion - Into The Unknown

Bad Religion is by far my favorite band, and I truly enjoy almost every song of theirs, but this album is probably the one I like the least. I wouldn't say it's terrible or even bad, it was just them experimenting. Too bad they hate it so much themselves that they generally deny its existence.

I love Into The Unknown, the fact they decided to experiment with their sound so early in their career took a lot of balls. Plus the album to me sounds amazing. I feel it was a shame that the album got blasted the way it did and a pity that the band doesn't like to acknowledge it as they did some good work on it.

I completely agree. I liked it, but only chose it because it's my least favorite Bad Religion album.

 

[Nazulu]

and now Iron Maiden. I hate the Number Of The Beast album. it just sucks. it's more generic Heavy Metal than their other stuff. Iron Maiden was a strong force in the NWOBHM scene and most of their songs were faster, stronger and more melodic than anything on that album. It seemed like an attempt at making a more approachable album for the mainstream audience. it's a good thing they didn't stick with that sound and than made Piece of Mind, one of their best albums and than Powerslave, F*** yeah!

If it wasn't for that album I wouldn't give that much of a damn about them. While I find most the melodies weak on it, Run to the Hills, Hallowed be thy Name and The Number of the Beast are the fastest, strongest and most melodic songs I've heard from them. And Children of the Grave is pretty good too.

I like many songs before and after as well, but they're nothing like those 3.

 

[Innocent Bystander]

I really enjoy Megadeth, although I just can't into get one of their newer albums, "Risk".

Edit: oh and that Jay-Z / Linkin Park crossover album was just awful. It was an interesting idea but I don't think it sounded very good tbh.

Risk isn't really "new", since it came out in 1999 and they've released four albums since. But yeah, it was a step down for them, the only song I liked was "Prince of Darkness"

 

[Innocent Bystander]

hmmm...my favorite band is mastodon, so i guess The HUNTER is their worst album...but its still amazing, thats how good they are

Usually I'd just say that anything not by Mastodon was Mastodon's worst album. I actually liked the hunter more than crack the skye, but I didn't listen to that one as much as I should have so it may not be a fair comparison.

As much as I enjoyed Leviathan, Blood Mountain and Crack the Skye, I get the feeling like they were sort've burnt out on concept albums and needed some time to cut loose, and it really worked out well on The Hunter.

 

[Ultress]

I really didn't like the album "One by One" by Foo Fighters.
I know that a lot of people like "All my life" and "Low" but they just didn't jell with me.
"Wasting light" is a close runner up but it at least has "Walk" with is one of my favorite tracks.

Dammit Ninja'd, yeah the album just felt slapdash(Times Like These was pretty good) and sort of started the decline of the Foo Fighters to me. I enjoyed ESPG and In your Honor but just weren't as good as The Colour and the Shape or Nothing left to Lose.


I tend to be wary of Blue Oyster Cult post Fire of Unknown origins but I've heard it gets pretty mediocre after that album.


Rush's Roll the Bones, I liked it when I first heard it but it really doesn't hold up that well as say 2112 or Moving Pictures

 

[Kevlar Eater]

The Agonist - Only Once Imagined

I'm not gonna lie: this album bored the hell out of me. Sure, I can understand the vocalist in this one the best, but a good chunk of the songs' guitars chug and chug while the drums sound flat with the nigh-inaudible bass. Can't forget that the frontwoman sounded really flat.

Thankfully the band as a whole stepped up their game in the latter albums, which I enjoy immensely.