Truly appalling albums by acts/bands you like

[Uh_huh_him]

The WonderStuff were one of the bands that I fell for.
Until Never loved Elvis.
I hadn't felt such a sense of betrayal since U2 released War.
Looking back neither album was as bad as it seemed back then.
However...Midnight to Midnight by the Furs sucks as much arse now as it did in 87

 

[blue2]

Oasis wembley some years back they were truly awful great shame best beatles tribute band around

 

[Brightonfan1983]

Great thread!

I occasionally plough through Def Leppard's post-Hysteria period (1988 - present day) purely out of a sense of loyalty to what came before.

Yeah, I know...

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Mike Joyce said it was his favourite, but I just don't listen to it much. The Queen Is Dead is my Smiths album of choice, perhaps my all-time album of choice. Maybe I was so mortified by their splitting up that I turned against Strangeways - or maybe it's just not morose enough for me, despite some dark subject matter.

Very much the same. The Queen Is Dead is a terrific album and Strangeways is easily the weakest of the four long players. However, it does have the brilliant Girlfriend In A Coma single which comes in at a classic two minutes. The Perfect length for a song.

 

[Uh_huh_him]

Have to disagree on this. It's haunting and beautiful.

Agreed... However not an easy album to listen to. Definitely one for devotees.

 

[Since1982]

Bula Quo, Status Quo. Sad to see one of the great rock bands resorting to a tacky film / album tie in that doesn't work in either medium. The only good thing about the album was the reprise of some cracking live tracks from the Official Bootleg album. Still can't wait to see them though for the reunion tour in March - just better not play any of that Bula crap.

 

[Grombleton]

Wrong, wrong, wrong and thrice wrong about The Wall!

Although, you couldn't be more right about THAT guitar solo which still has the power to thrill and reduce me to tears every time I hear it. As an aside, like me, do you always play it on 11 as well?

Earlier on, i watched their Live8 performance through again. Each time, without fail, i hear THAT solo and i get emotional and get goosebumps. I just can't help it.

I can see how people can dislike The Wall - if you take it song by song then it's very hard to enjoy but if you treat it like the concept album that it is then it's wonderful. It's just a shame how so few of the songs stand alone and still sound good (only exceptions being Comfortably Numb, Hey You, Goodbye Blue Sky, Mother & Nobody Home). Their live version of The Wall album is rather great though.
I'm one of the Floyd few that struggle to get into Animals (i love Dogs, but that's about it) - i'm ambivalent towards their albums before Meddle; AHM, Ummagumma etc don't have the same appeal to me. There's the odd gem in there, but nothing i would cry over not hearing.

 

[kevo]

Very much the same. The Queen Is Dead is a terrific album and Strangeways is easily the weakest of the four long players. However, it does have the brilliant Girlfriend In A Coma single which comes in at a classic two minutes. The Perfect length for a song.

Agree. Weird there are some people out there who think it's the Smiths' best album. It's easily their weakest - apart from, as you say, Girlfriend in a Coma.

 

[clapham_gull]

Difficult. Don't really listen to music anymore, find it all highly pretentious and as far as I'm concerned there is as much merit in the Nolan sisters as there is in Bob Dylan.

Any way to disagree with the above as I used to like a bit of Floyd. Loved the Final Cut rather than utter transatlantic dirge Momentary Lapse of Reason after Waters left. If ever there was one it was that album.

 

[METALMICKY]

The X-Factor by Iron Maiden - A really weak album with the only redeeming tracks being 'The Sign of the Cross' and 'The Edge of Darkness'. Blaze Bailey was no replacement for Bruce Dickinson although severely not helped by a production like it was recorded through a wooly sock! Grunge was at its peak and Steve Harris allegedly mentally crippled by a messy divorce were all ingredients for a muddy depressing mess.

And no surprises with this one St Anger by Metallica. A truly horrendous mess complete with the pretentious notion of no guitar solos on a metal album, a snare drum like a biscuit tin and awfully barked over angst ridden Hetfield vocals.

 

[Ali_rrr]

Suck It and See by Arctic Monkeys, fortunately they recovered on their new album.

 

[Tarpon]

I'm not saying this deserves to be put forward, but does anyone think that Strangeways is a great album?

For whatever reason it doesn't hang together as impressively The Queen is Dead or Meat is Murder for me. I've never quite worked out why (maybe the split & not seeing it toured etc) but I just don't have the same affection for it as an album...still pisses all over lots of other lauded albums mind you.

Of course, the advantage of dying young is that you leave a beautiful corpse...I'm struggling to think of many artists with long catalogues that haven't released something so poor even their fan base struggle with it...cue the zealots...

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

I liked everything The Seahorses done until they released 'Do It Yourself'. That was a shit album

 

[Razzoo]

Up The Bracket was good, The Libertines was garbage.

 

[Exiled in Exeter]

Blur – Think Tank
Frank Turner – Tape Deck Heart
Bloc Party – Weekend in the City
Blood Red Shoes – Fire Like This
Charlatans – Us & Us Only
Editors – In this Light & on this Evening
Jarvis Cocker – Further Complications
Nick Cave –Nocturama

 

[highway61]

Bob Dylan's 1988 album Down in the Groove is truly awful .... yet I love all his other officially released stuff, even the much panned Dylan, Knocked Out Loaded and Christmas in the Heart!

my views entirely, Down in the groove was dreadful

 

[highway61]

I'm guessing I won't have many people agreeing with me on this, but having loved WYWH and Animals, I thought The Wall was a bloated pile of self-indulgent turd.

There, I said it.

Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother were my faves but hated Wall

 

[Steve in Japan]

Things i wish I had never bought...

Slipway Fires by Razorlight is poor. Many people think Johnny Borrell is a cock, but I found things in their first 2 albums to forgive and even like. But Slipway Fires has few if any redeeming features at all.
Jewel - Pieces of You. Must have been trying to impresss the mrs, but what a load of twee, arty nonsense
Captain - This is Hazelville. Sounds like Yes-lite and not in a good way.
Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes. Proof that we can all be swayed by hype. Pretentious doesn`t begin to cover it.

I have more lemons in the cupboard but will stop now - that was quite therapeutic.

 

[joeinbrighton]

Things i wish I had never bought...

Slipway Fires by Razorlight is poor. Many people think Johnny Borrell is a cock, but I found things in their first 2 albums to forgive and even like. But Slipway Fires has few if any redeeming features at all.

Very good shout. I like Wire To Wire off that album, but very little else. Up All Night on the other hand was choc full of good songs not just the obvious singles cuts like Golden Touch and Somewhere Else, the latter of which I think only got on the album when they brought out an extended version.

 

[Gwylan]

Also, pretty much everything Bowie has come out with since Scary Monsters.

Agree - although the new album's pretty good: a return to form after 30 years

I may have missed it but has no-one really not mentioned Lou Reed's Metal Machine Music?

The ones that really stick out for me are the two Captain Beefheart albums from the mid-70s: Unconditionally Guaranteed and Bluejeans and Moonbeams. I loved all Beefheart albums before this - I still think Trout Mask Replica is the best rock album ever - but these two were utter pony