Terrible Albums by Great Bands/Artists

[Negative Creep]

Come on then, even the greatest bands are allowed some shockers now and again. So any studio albums by your favourite bands or artists that range from mediocre to just plain awful? So to start with -

Judas Priest - Jugulator : a simply excruciating Painkiller retread
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying : the worst single you ever release is the only one to get to number one
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero : zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Metallica - St Anger: less said the better
The Offspring - Splinter
Biohazard - Kill or be Killed
Rage Against the Machine - Evil Empire: just plain dull, Bulls on Parade apart
Slipknot - Iowa: heaviness before tunes
Deftones - Deftones

[Fittster]

Prodigy - Always Outnumbered, Never Outgunned.

Fat Boy Slim - Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars (2000). We liked the fun album before, don't try and get serious.

Goldie - Saturnzreturn.

[IainT]

Queen - Hot Space.

Grew to at lest not detest it but it is really a shocker.

[neilr]

Macca has had his fair share of complete howlers. McCartney II to mention but one.

Neil Youngs 'Arc' and 'Trans' are pretty questionable too.

Gene Simmmons solo record (when Kiss all released solo albums on the same dayin '78) is err, not good. I mean it finishes with 'When you wish upon a star' done very badly FFS!

[minipete]

IainT said:

Queen - Hot Space.

Grew to at lest not detest it but it is really a shocker.

Yep you are right there!

[minimatt1967]

Slipknot- Iowa, after the first one being brilliant, Iowa was just noise with the possible exception of two tracks I like... My Plague and Left Behind!

ETA- Remembered the track names!

Edited by minimatt1967 on Thursday 27th November 19:11

[Sprouts]

The Orb, Pomme Fritz

[miss molly]

rolling stones, emotional rescue,i rest my case m lud.

[Plotloss]

Leftfield - Rhythym and Stealth

The album that defined the term 'difficult second album'

Sasha - AirDrawnDagger

12 fking years and you come up with this? .

[miss molly]

guns and roses anyone ?

[Z06George]

Metallica-Death magnetic

[minimatt1967]

Z06George said:

Metallica-Death magnetic

Its not that bad....compared with the previous 10 years worth of albums!

[buffly]

neilr said:

Macca has had his fair share of complete howlers. McCartney II to mention but one.

Neil Youngs 'Arc' and 'Trans' are pretty questionable too.

Gene Simmmons solo record (when Kiss all released solo albums on the same dayin '78) is err, not good. I mean it finishes with 'When you wish upon a star' done very badly FFS!

I reckon McCartney is allowed to write some bad songs, considering the massive collection of brilliant songs he did write.... I`d say thats fair....?

[Fire99]

neilr said:

Neil Youngs 'Arc' and 'Trans' are pretty questionable too.

This is an interesting one. What is the appeal with Neil Young.. I've only recently heard a few song from him on Planet Rock so he's an artist i've never taken the time to listen to .

But so far i cant see the appeal. He seems to whine on and on and his guitar solos seem completely unimaginitive..

Is he the kinda guy that grows on you in time or am i missing something... or dare i say is it 'horses for courses' and all that?

[AL...Ease]

Graduation by Kanye West, after the first two excellent albums... I think the new one's probably even worse too!

[Motown Junk]

Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed

WTF?

[JaymzDead]

Negative Creep said:

Biohazard - Kill or be Killed

I quite like that album!

But then I like quite a lot of raw sounding stuff that most people think sounds like poo, except for St Anger, even I think that sounded horrible. BTW does anyone actually agree with Lars that in 20 years time St Anger will be percieved with the same Reverance as Sabbath's Born Again?

Others:

Earth Crisis - Slither. From the dizzying heights of Gommorah's Season Ends and Breed The Killers to this?
Turmoil - From Bleeding Hands. With this the quality of the songs is up to their usual high standard, but the production is utter cack.
Most Iron Maiden post No Prayer is pretty dire IMHO.
Slayer - Christ Illusion.
Sepultura - Against, although contrary to the popular view I think all the alums they have released with Derrick Green since then have been pretty good.
Ministry - Filth Pig. Al Jourgenson on too many drugs, and that's saying something!
Prodigy - whatever the last one was called it was a huge dissapointment
Megadeth - Risk

[Ozone]

IainT said:

Queen - Hot Space.

Grew to at lest not detest it but it is really a shocker.

Whoa, steady, as Freddie said on the Hot Space tour when i saw them at MK Bowl
"they're just fkin' songs" haha

I like the album. Cool Cat is great! You have to think that Freddie has gone disco - better than Mr Bad Guy with the Linn drum stuck on the same sound and pattern.

[dern]

Motown Junk said:

Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed

WTF?

I sat and listened to the whole of that album stoned at uni... I think I must have been listening the last repeating groove for 20 minutes before I noticed

[anonymous-user]

minimatt1967 said:

Z06George said:

Metallica-Death magnetic

Its not that bad....compared with the previous 10 years worth of albums!

if death magnetic had been released by some new metal banc rather than metallica, everyone would have said "mm, average" and it would be consigned to the history books. as it is, people seem unable to look beyond the artists name and decalre it to be brilliant. i too think its particularly shocking and is nothing like a testament to their musical ability.
compare it to the last megadeth album, the latter is fluid, making use of the bands experience and talent, the other sounds like your average sixth form metal band.

anyway i digress, i bought "Orange" by the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion having played "Now I Got Worry" to death. "Orange" was dire...