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What are some of the worst albums you've actually sat through with an open mind, perhaps even multiple times?

I'll get back to you on my picks, seeing as I try to listen to alot of stuff at least SOMEWHAT related to my personal taste, but I'm sure I can think of a couple stinkers.

Guys... I'm sure Generations really ISN'T the worst album ever..

Styx' Carrot Album..dumbest cover too..

The Scorpions "Eye II Eye". Total piece of shit. Could have single handedly destroyed their career it's so bad. Of course, by 1999 when this came out, they weren't going very far anyway.

piecesofeight wrote:Styx' Carrot Album..dumbest cover too..

Yeah, that WAS pretty medicore. At least it had a single saving grace in "One with Everything."

Brave New World was terrible too... but not one of the worst... well maybe.

ProgRocker53 wrote:

piecesofeight wrote:Styx' Carrot Album..dumbest cover too..

Yeah, that WAS pretty medicore. At least it had a single saving grace in "One with Everything."

Brave New World was terrible too... but not one of the worst... well maybe.

Generations.

Saint John LIVE at White Castle

worst piece of crap ever.....

even Rick hated it and he likes EVERYTHING...

Saint John wrote:Generations.

too easy

First one that came to mind was Barenaked Ladies. Had one good song, and then became a coaster, lol...

I HATE that, lol...

Bon Jovi, The Left Turn Feels Right, or whatever the hell it was called. Stunningly horrendous.

DrFU wrote:Bon Jovi, The Left Turn Feels Right, or whatever the hell it was called. Stunningly horrendous.

Good call.

DrFU wrote:Bon Jovi, The Left Turn Feels Right, or whatever the hell it was called. Stunningly horrendous.

I also have to agree

The last McCartney album was pretty bad. 5,000 CDs in my collection and that one pops right out as the worst. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

I just thew up a little bit in the back of my mouth just thinking about it....




Yeah BJ's Left Feels Right was pretty bad. I remember being shocked the first time I heard it and never listened to it again.
It's a shame too because I think that one killed sales of "Lost Highway" – which I think is one their VERY best.

ProgRocker53 wrote:What are some of the worst albums you've actually sat through with an open mind, perhaps even multiple times?

I'll get back to you on my picks, seeing as I try to listen to alot of stuff at least SOMEWHAT related to my personal taste, but I'm sure I can think of a couple stinkers.

Guys... I'm sure Generations really ISN'T the worst album ever..

OK Computer - by a fucking mile.

Do you like Opeth by the way? Some of their stuff is very cool.

Tie between:

Def Leppard - Slang

Van Halen - III

Generations has too many good songs to be an awful album

Dokken's "Shadowlife"...Rip may even agree on this one.

Paradise Theater by Styx...Voice by Neal Schon....New Jersey by Bon Jovi...Astral Weeks by Van Morrison...the first three albums by Journey....so many contenders....but the album I've looked forward to most and been most disppointed by is And Justice For All by Metallica. It's not a stinker on a par with the other records I listed but it was the biggest let down. You just knew the golden age of one of the most exciting bands of all-time had ended far too early in their career.

Matthew wrote:...but the album I've looked forward to most and been most disppointed by is And Justice For All by Metallica. It's not a stinker on a par with the other records I listed but it was the biggest let down. You just knew the golden age of one of the most exciting bands of all-time had ended far too early in their career.

I think it's a great album, though not as good as "Master of Puppets". Of course, the production is horrible on it, though. There's barely an audible bass and the drums sound like Lars was pounding on them in an empty bathroom.

Gordon from Edinburgh wrote:

ProgRocker53 wrote:What are some of the worst albums you've actually sat through with an open mind, perhaps even multiple times?

I'll get back to you on my picks, seeing as I try to listen to alot of stuff at least SOMEWHAT related to my personal taste, but I'm sure I can think of a couple stinkers.

Guys... I'm sure Generations really ISN'T the worst album ever..

OK Computer - by a fucking mile.

Do you like Opeth by the way? Some of their stuff is very cool.

OK Computer !! Are you insane ? That album is a modern masterpiece !!

conversationpc wrote:

Matthew wrote:...but the album I've looked forward to most and been most disppointed by is And Justice For All by Metallica. It's not a stinker on a par with the other records I listed but it was the biggest let down. You just knew the golden age of one of the most exciting bands of all-time had ended far too early in their career.

I think it's a great album, though not as good as "Master of Puppets". Of course, the production is horrible on it, though. There's barely an audible bass and the drums sound like Lars was pounding on them in an empty bathroom.

Listening to it now I can see that it's still better than most other records released at that time so it's possibly unfair to include it here. But I was responding to Prog's scenario of really wanting to feel a certain way about a record and playing it over and over again...and it just not delivering.

When I'd bought Ride The Lightning and Master of Puppets..well, when I got those albums home from the record store they completely blew me away. And Justice For All... and indeed that Garage Revisited EP a year earlier...it was a totally different experiencee...and it was obvious that Cliff's death had taken the soul out of the band somehow.

Matthew wrote:Paradise Theater by Styx....

There is some shite on that album, but "Snowblind" makes it worth the price of admission (IMO).

I bought Supertramp's album that came out in the 90's (can't remember the name of it) and it was the worst piece of crap I've ever listened to in my entire life! Sounded like the whole musical track was recorded off of this guy's Casio keyboard!

DrFU wrote:Bon Jovi, The Left Turn Feels Right, or whatever the hell it was called. Stunningly horrendous.

This is the top of my list as well. This cd was rancid. Although, now that I think about it, Van Halen III suckles as well.

Matthew wrote:

conversationpc wrote:

Matthew wrote:...but the album I've looked forward to most and been most disppointed by is And Justice For All by Metallica. It's not a stinker on a par with the other records I listed but it was the biggest let down. You just knew the golden age of one of the most exciting bands of all-time had ended far too early in their career.

I think it's a great album, though not as good as "Master of Puppets". Of course, the production is horrible on it, though. There's barely an audible bass and the drums sound like Lars was pounding on them in an empty bathroom.

Listening to it now I can see that it's still better than most other records released at that time so it's possibly unfair to include it here. But I was responding to Prog's scenario of really wanting to feel a certain way about a record and playing it over and over again...and it just not delivering.

When I'd bought Ride The Lightning and Master of Puppets..well, when I got those albums home from the record store they completely blew me away. And Justice For All... and indeed that Garage Revisited EP a year earlier...it was a totally different experiencee...and it was obvious that Cliff's death had taken the soul out of the band somehow.

Good call on JUSTICE- though I'd hardly call it the worst ever, it was with very few exceptions, an almost unlistenable album.(Especially coming on the heels of MASTER and the supurb RIDE THE LIGHTNING!) But come on Matthew- PARADISE THEATRE? ASTRAL WEEKS???? Come on!

BTW- my vote would also go for VH III. What an absolute piece of garbage!

Matthew wrote:Paradise Theater by Styx...Voice by Neal Schon....New Jersey by Bon Jovi...Astral Weeks by Van Morrison...the first three albums by Journey....so many contenders....but the album I've looked forward to most and been most disppointed by is And Justice For All by Metallica. It's not a stinker on a par with the other records I listed but it was the biggest let down. You just knew the golden age of one of the most exciting bands of all-time had ended far too early in their career.

WWWHHHAAATTTT?????? I mean, provided, "Puppets" was the best album ever by Metallica, but "Justice" isn't anywhere near a bad album. Obviously you haven't listened to St. Anger.

And Paradise Theater, NEW JERSEY???? Dude....WTF?

Greg wrote:. Obviously you haven't listened to St. Anger.

How could I forget about that turkey? Yes...much, much worse than And Justice...but by 2003 I'd long become disillusioned with the band so it didn't really bother me too much.

And Paradise Theater, NEW JERSEY???? Dude....WTF?

I don't like Bon Jovi's music one bit - never have - and I blame them to a large extent for bringing the golden age of AOR/melodic rock to an end - but at least I get why that band found success. I chose "New Jersey" because that was the last Jovi offering I coudn't escape from. It was everywhere. At least in the the 90s and 00s Jovi could release a record and I barely noticed.

But Styx? They look and sound like a band who ought to have supported - say - Coney Hatch, Aldo Nova or Triumph (or some other hard-working, honest-to-goodness B-listy AOR act) for one tour and then disbanded in the mid-80s.

REO Speedwagon - Building the Bridge

I hadn't listened to a REO CD since High Infidelity, so I expected 80's REO. What I got (IMO) is some country-ish shit I couldn't get into at all.

Matthew wrote:

Greg wrote:. Obviously you haven't listened to St. Anger.

How could I forget about that turkey? Yes...much, much worse than And Justice...but by 2003 I'd long become disillusioned with the band so it didn't really bother me too much.

And Paradise Theater, NEW JERSEY???? Dude....WTF?

I don't like Bon Jovi's music one bit - never have - and I blame them to a large extent for bringing the golden age of AOR/melodic rock to an end - but at least I get why that band found success. I chose "New Jersey" because that was the last Jovi offering I coudn't escape from. It was everywhere. At least in the the 90s and 00s Jovi could release a record and I barely noticed.

But Styx? They look and sound like a band who ought to have supported - say - Coney Hatch, Aldo Nova or Triumph (or some other hard-working, honest-to-goodness B-listy AOR act) for one tour and then disbanded in the mid-80s.

Bon Jovi's went down hill after the "Faith" album. Although, I kind of liked that album, because it reminded me of the summer after I graduated high school. New Jeresey was really good Jovi album, but if you're not a fan, it's not going to matter. Styx, I don't know...I liked the Grand Illusion, but I've never been a hardcore fan. I have the greatest hits and my brother had the cassette (lol) to GI.

As for 'Tallica, like I said, Justice's only downfall was the way everything was produced. You could tell Metallica needed a good producer who would've had complete control over the mixing. However, that album has some killer tunes....Harvester of Sorrow, Shortest Straw, One, Blackened.....can't bag on that album at all. Most bag on the black Album, because it was so commercially successful...something Metallica didn't care about (or so they said.) The Load albums really got people's goat and I think Tallica went downhill from there. And the result....St. Anger! Their new album promises to return the band back to their "roots" so when it's released in September, I guess we'll see if that's true.

DrFU wrote:Bon Jovi, The Left Turn Feels Right, or whatever the hell it was called. Stunningly horrendous.

Definitely up there on my list too.

And Matty, Bon Jovi's ~ New Jersey? Really?

This Left Feels Right.
McCartney II
Jonathan Cain's Piano with a View