Bad Albums from your favorite artists. - Pablo Honey is the black sheep Album of Radiohead.

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This thread talks about albums that don't meet up to the quality of the artist you admire. I'll share some of mine.

Sounds of the Universe in my opinion is the worst album from Depeche Mode, I wouldn't call it terrible but it's definitely under the quality of their other albums (especially Violator and Music for the Masses). It has a few really good songs (like Wrong and Peace) but most of these songs are forgettable, some of the songs of that album being their worst ones. I still have yet to finish Delta Machine and Spirit but these albums look promising compared to the one I mentioned.

I'd also have to agree with the rest of the Radiohead fanbase and say that Pablo Honey is their worst album. I could understand why they say it's inferior compared to their other albums. Pablo Honey felt like a cliché alternative rock album that appears no different from others and the reasoning has to do with the fact that Radiohead never figured out their signature sound yet. I do really like the songs "Creep" and "Blow Out" though. The Bends was a massive improvement from Pablo Honey and that was the album where their talent and signature sound really began shining through. The King of Limbs was decent in my opinion.

I've also listened to Elvis Presley's worst album. "Having Fun with Elvis on Stage", yes the one with no music and just talking. I wonder what's even the point of this? Elvis Greatest Shit is like the compilations of Elvis's hidden gems from his career, basically a compilation of his most embarrassing songs. I've heard some songs from the album and is weird as hell, definitely not on the quality of Elvis's beloved songs. I admire that man who made that bootleg album in the first place, these songs are really quite the gems.

I'm also aware of Squeeze by The Velvet Underground but I haven't gone to listening to it yet but people say it's bad and when I listen to it, I'd probably understand why.

Lastly. Cut the Crap by the Clash. The Dictator by the Clash is literally the worst 80s song I ever heard. This is England is a good song but it's only one of around three tolerable songs on the album.
 
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Of the dozen or so Residents albums I have, River of Crime is the only one I've never listened to in its entirety. It's more about sharing weird true crime stories than music, which is kind of a waste of their talent.
 
Exodus by the NPG (Prince's backing band) is bad. Now I'm talking about it because its a Prince album. He's on it but its credited to the NPG because of legal shit. Its really sound musically but the lyrics suck. Mostly just the topics. It cant descide whether to chastise blacks for their lifestyle or not.

Emancipation is another one. Its badness is mainly in its length. I get why its 3 hours, but it didn't need to be. I made my own version under 2 hours and still cut shit I really liked. Would be on par with The gold experience if it was like a single disc. Its grown on me over the years. Another thing is that some tracks are just too long. Like he uses the full version where theres like 3 minutes of jamming at the end of songs (Sleep Around) where a proper album would have faded it out. This is mainly because Prince was into numerology at that time and wanted each CD to be 12 tracks and 60 min exactly.

Chaos and Disorder. A side is great. B side is just slapped together in a few days since P owed WB a final album.

Those last few albums he released before he died. They're okay, but just too reliant on the 80s memberberries production. Doesnt have any of the charm of his classic works.
 
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Yes Please! by Happy Mondays is an absolute trashfire of an album. It was recorded in Barbados, with the thought being it would be good working environment for singer Shaun Ryder as he wouldn't have access to heroin. It turned out the island was full of cheap crack and before long, Ryder was trading clothes and furniture to his dealers as he had run out of money. The record naturally turned out to be terrible and was partially blamed for bankrupting Factory Records.

Another interesting side note: prior to the album being recorded, the group tried to sack their guitarist and replace him with Johnny Marr. Marr was horrified at the prospect of spending a few months in Barbados with these mad lads and described the ordeal as an attempted kidnapping.

All that being said, the Mondays first three albums are among my favorites ever, especially the Martin Hannett produced Bummed.
I'm also aware of Squeeze by The Velvet Underground but I haven't gone to listening to it yet but people say it's bad and when I listen to it, I'd probably understand why.
It's because it's not a Velvet Underground record. It was basically a solo album by Doug Yule (who replaced John Cale after White Light/White Heat). I'm not sure how Yule was able to release it as a VU record but none of the songs were written by Lou Reed.

Speaking of Lou Reed and shit albums, Metal Machine Music and Mistrial are two really bad ones from his solo career.
 
Slang by Def Leppard. Just why? :cringe:
 
Tonight and Never Let Me Down by David Bowie. Tonight in my honest opinion is the only Bowie record I cannot for the life of me hear in it's entirety. While Never Let Me Down has some good songs in between all the terrible mixing. Glass Spider is still a banger and Day In Day Out is also pretty good. The rerelease/new mix of the album is better, tho the Glass Spider mix on that isn't as good as the original.

Also Born Again by Black Sabbath, I personally don't like the album at all. I don't know it just sounds like shit.
 
Tonight and Never Let Me Down by David Bowie. Tonight in my honest opinion is the only Bowie record I cannot for the life of me hear in it's entirety. While Never Let Me Down has some good songs in between all the terrible mixing. Glass Spider is still a banger and Day In Day Out is also pretty good. The rerelease/new mix of the album is better, tho the Glass Spider mix on that isn't as good as the original.

Also Born Again by Black Sabbath, I personally don't like the album at all. I don't know it just sounds like shit.
I actually have the poster of David Bowie's Glass Spider Tour which happened in 1987 and just so happened to represent the worst David Bowie Album.
 
Yes Please! by Happy Mondays is an absolute trashfire of an album. It was recorded in Barbados, with the thought being it would be good working environment for singer Shaun Ryder as he wouldn't have access to heroin. It turned out the island was full of cheap crack and before long, Ryder was trading clothes and furniture to his dealers as he had run out of money. The record naturally turned out to be terrible and was partially blamed for bankrupting Factory Records.

Another interesting side note: prior to the album being recorded, the group tried to sack their guitarist and replace him with Johnny Marr. Marr was horrified at the prospect of spending a few months in Barbados with these mad lads and described the ordeal as an attempted kidnapping.
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All that being said, the Mondays first three albums are among my favorites ever, especially the Martin Hannett produced Bummed.

It's because it's not a Velvet Underground record. It was basically a solo album by Doug Yule (who replaced John Cale after White Light/White Heat). I'm not sure how Yule was able to release it as a VU record but none of the songs were written by Lou Reed.

Speaking of Lou Reed and shit albums, Metal Machine Music and Mistrial are two really bad ones from his solo career.
Recommend watching 24 Hour Party People for a neat depiction of Happy Mondays fucking over Factory Records (and general Factory Records shenanigans).


Tonight and Never Let Me Down by David Bowie.
Tonight has Loving the Alien going for it and I think a decent Iggy Pop cover but the rest eh. Never Let Me Down underrated.
 
Recommend watching 24 Hour Party People for a neat depiction of Happy Mondays fucking over Factory Records (and general Factory Records shenanigans).
Yeah, saw it a few years back and will probably rewatch soon. Factory had an interesting philosophy and it must've been an exciting time to be a young musician in Manchester.
 
I like most of Megadeth's discography, I mean my personal favorite album of theirs is one people forget exist, but Thirteen was a fucking awful album. Idk if it's just like Dave Mustane had no ideas but there's one song on the entire album worth listening to, "Public Enemy."
 
I can now attest that the Peppers' latest album, Unlimited Love, is a total dud from start to finish. The only song that stuck to me was These Are The Ways. Everything else sounds exactly what one would expect with a bunch of ex-junkies pushing 60 trying to reclaim some semblance of the glory they had in the Cali-BTW-Stadium trifecta. It goes down like a geriatric fart. At least with Josh Klinghoffer as lead guitarist they had a decent direction - I'm With You is surprisingly fun, and The Getaway already showed the maturity and mellowness that the Peppers tried and failed with their latest record.
 
I like most of Megadeth's discography, I mean my personal favorite album of theirs is one people forget exist, but Thirteen was a fucking awful album. Idk if it's just like Dave Mustane had no ideas but there's one song on the entire album worth listening to, "Public Enemy."
I have strange nostalgia for Never Dead since I was living in a foreign country and I bought a random Konami game that had the theme by Dave.

But in the current era it's pretty middle of the road, especially after Endgame.
 
- Everything Marilyn Manson has done after The Golden Age of Grotesque, which itself was lackluster compared to his prior work.
- Ghost Empire by Caliban
- Rosenrot by Rammstein (It's literally B-Sides from Reise, Reise)
- Digimortal by Fear Factory
- Self-Titled/Suicide Silence by Suicide Silence
- The Age of Hell by Chimaira
- Educated Horses by Rob Zombie
- World War X by Carnifex
- The Unspoken King by Cryptopsy
- Illud Divinum Insanus by Morbid Angel
 
Also Born Again by Black Sabbath, I personally don't like the album at all. I don't know it just sounds like shit.

I love Sabbath but they have churned out whole dumpsters full of garbage some years. The worst of the worst was when some dumb MTV lackey convinced Iommi to cross over with rap in order to keep up with the times. The result was that 90s album produced by Ernie C and featuring one of the fuckers from Rage Against The Machine. I am amazed they ever bounced back from that one.

I think their only good album without Ozzy was Headless Cross.
 
This was a back alley abortion.
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Tyler, The Creator's Cherry Bomb is dreadful. I only really like PIOLT and BUFFALO. Every other song is forgettable or really gross in the cases of BLOW MY LOAD and FUCKING YOUNG/PERFECT. The mixing also sucks pretty hard. It's pretty long and it definitely does not earn its length.
 
Tonight and Never Let Me Down by David Bowie. Tonight in my honest opinion is the only Bowie record I cannot for the life of me hear in it's entirety. While Never Let Me Down has some good songs in between all the terrible mixing. Glass Spider is still a banger and Day In Day Out is also pretty good. The rerelease/new mix of the album is better, tho the Glass Spider mix on that isn't as good as the original.

Also Born Again by Black Sabbath, I personally don't like the album at all. I don't know it just sounds like shit.
I do love Born Again but yeah the mix is the worst mix of all time and there is debate if it was done on purpose by Don Arden. The demos sound worlds better than the final mix.
 
People think Judas Priest's worst album is Turbo, but it's really not. Ram It Down is infinitely worse, and no, Blood Red Skies does not save it. Turbo's actually a pretty catchy, fun listen all the way through once you accept it for what it is. Ram it Down is just dog shit, and Tom Allom must have been extremely drunk, because I've heard albums from 1956 with better production.

The Ripper Owens albums don't count.
 
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