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| Bad albums by good bands, final
Final installment in the adventure my coworker and I undertook. The goal was to find the worst album by bands we liked, bands that are critically well received, or bands that have a decent average rating across multiple albums here on Sput.
DK= duckking, my coworker
Me= me, me | | 1 |  | The Rolling Stones
Dirty Work
DK: 2, Bad. Gonna get some sleep tonight.
Me: 1.5, This sucked. | | 2 |  | u2
No Line on the Horizon
DK: 1.5, Did we finish this? Did we listen to it? Was it on? Is this an album?
Me: 1.5, Pretty not good, sad! | | 3 |  | Jethro Tull
Under Wraps
DK: 1.5, Waaaaaaay too much stock 80's keyboard cliches. Awful. Absolutely awful.
Me: 1.5, I'd rather listen to The Europeans hit song Animal Song on repeat | | 4 |  | The Allman Brothers Band
Brothers of the Road
DK: 2.5, It was music.
Me: 2.5, Not sure why this is considered so horrible, it was just meh | | 5 |  | Ramones
Acid Eaters
DK: 2.5, Seemed like every other song was bad, but had some decent covers.
Me: 2.5, Had some good covers, had some bad covers. Averaged out to an average album | | 6 |  | Black Flag
What The...
DK: 1.5, Black Flag is too big to get away with something this amatuer and terrible.
Me: 1.5, Not as bad as Lulu or St. Anger, but it was starting to give me a headache | | 7 |  | Huey Lewis and the News
Hard at Play
DK: 2, not particularly bad, but not good either
Me: 2, Bleh not very good | | 8 |  | The Smashing Pumpkins
Zeitgeist
DK: 3, Not a Smashing Pumpkins fan, but this wasn't bad. Daresy I kinda liked it.
Me: 3, Enjoyed listening to it, will never listen to it again | | 9 |  | Goo Goo Dolls
Boxes
DK: 1.5, Garbage paint-by-numbers commitee rock. Only song I remember sounded like they said they "sold out".
Me: 1.5, They are just trying to sound like every modern indie rock band | | 10 |  | Matchbox Twenty
North
DK: 3, Didn't blow my mind, but was inoffensive and there was definitely some create songwriting.
Me: 3, Generic rock done correctly | | 11 |  | Train
A Girl A Bottle A Boat
DK: 1.5, Fuck Train and their creatively bankrupt formulaic pop crap.
Me: 1, This was offensively bad. It wasn't St. Anger or Lulu bad, but good god it tried its hardest to be | | 12 |  | John Mellencamp
Dance Naked
DK: 2, Mellencamp really phoned this one in.
Me: 2, Phoned in, lazy, meh | | 13 |  | Misfits
The Devil's Rain
DK: 2, A meh album brought down by a mediocre vocalist. By the last couple tracks I was done.
Me: 2, Jerry Only should stick to playing bass | | 14 |  | Foghat
Zig Zag Walk
DK: 2.5. I genuinely enjoyed the last three tracks. Shame the rest of the album was so bad.
Me: 2, First half was a hard 1.5, second half was a 2.5. Averaging to a 2 | | 15 |  | The Killers
Battle Born
DK: 2, All the joy and inspiration of a cell phone ad.
Me: 2.5, As a fan, it dissapointed me but still wasn't the worst thing ever. Their worst ever though, for sure | | 16 |  | The Animals
Eric Is Here
DK: 2.5, Kind of a generic 60's sound.
Me: 2, Had a couple songs I really dug but overall was boring/bland | | 17 |  | Live
Songs From Black Mountain
DK: 3, This wasn't bad. I actually liked it.
Me: 3, Ended up enjoying this a decent amount | | 18 |  | White Zombie
Make Them Die Slowly
DK: 2, You can tell this is where their creative talents diverged, or they were just sick of it all.
I didn't listen to this apparently | | 19 |  | Iron Butterfly
Scorching Beauty
DK: 1.5, Oh man, this was horrible. Like some kind of hippie fever dream.
Me: 1.5, The vocals were terrible and overshadowed anything good that could be happening with instruments | | 20 |  | Static-X
Cult Of Static
DK: 1.5, I don't think this would have been a good album even if the other half of the band showed up.
Me: 1.5, this felt like it was missing entire instruments | | 21 |  | Machine Head
Supercharger
DK: 2.5, It's Nu-Metal, and by default it sucks, but it was leagues better than 'Cult of Static'.
Me: 2, butt-nu-metal | | 22 |  | The Beach Boys
Summer in Paradise
DK: 2, Voice effects? Check. Drum machine? Check. Sax solos? Check.
Me: 1.5, Maybe I'd enjoy this if I was from Utah | | 23 |  | Suicidal Tendencies
Free Your Soul...And Save My Mind
DK: 3, A decently enjoyable album marred by a couple missteps. Not nearly as bad as I was expecting.
Me: 3, Good! Felt way more crossovery than I expected so late in their career | | 24 |  | The Yardbirds
Birdland
DK: 2.5, Decent covers, but nothing ground breaking. Still, I didn't hate it.
Me: 2.5, Was okay, lots of covers and some good songs but album was too long for what it was | | 25 |  | The Byrds
Farther Along
DK: 2.5, Some ok, country sounding songs, and one really annoying crossfaded song.
Me: 2.5, The song about America's national pasttime sucked hard, other than that nothing that bad | | 26 |  | The Stooges
The Weirdness
DK: 1.5, Competently produced, but christ I just wanted it to end.
Me: 1.5, Bad! Not good! | |
Nazzadan
03.10.17 | fuck almost all the albums we listened to for this, tbh | Frippertronics
03.10.17 | Didn't know Train were good | FullOfSounds
03.10.17 | Sorry you put yourself through these | 50iL
03.10.17 | [2] | Papa Universe
03.10.17 | "Didn't know Train were good" [2] | Nazzadan
03.10.17 | We mentioned Train as a joke because I saw their new album had a 1.1 average or something, and sure enough they have 3 albums above 3 so that qualified them for the list. That was probably in the top 5 worst things we listened to. | Frippertronics
03.10.17 | I apologize if Summer of Love (from 22) shortened your lifespan significantly upon hearing the beta pro tools drum preset and "hey now well it's a love thing" | Minushuman24
03.11.17 | oh jesus christ, this is the worst batch I think | BlownSpeakers
07.19.17 | I'd slap yeah yeah yeahs mosquito on here. | Artuma
07.19.17 | you must really hate st. anger and lulu huh | Kimm
07.19.17 | Everything by The Killers after Sam's Town was just disappointing tbh | starboystargirl
07.19.17 | oh jesus, i remember cult of static. it's the metal album with the weakest guitar tone ever recorded. | Davil667
07.19.17 | 23 rules agreed. | neekafat
07.19.17 | Digging the love for Zeitgeist
Lol at 15 | trackbytrackreviews
07.19.17 | "maybe I'd enjoy this if I was from Utah" | Nazzadan
07.19.17 | I forgot about this list, neat that it's getting some love | supremejelly
07.19.17 | Deftones - Gore. Idk how they listened to the production and thought, "yeah, this is fine" | TheAmazingCumMan
07.19.17 | lol goo goo dolls a good band. this list looks like it was made by a real doofus. | Rik VII
07.19.17 | Björk - Drawing Restraint 9 | Kimm
07.19.17 | Gore [2]
Had such high hopes for that album. |
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