Albums that absolutely BLEW...

[Craig_S]

Well, the thread with the opposite title is doing pretty well. I thought I'd ask this question:

What is the worst album of all time?

Here's a start:
KISS - Music From The Elder

 

[Rawkabilly]

Metallica - St. Anger

Awful.

 

[meycom]

Metallica - St. Anger

Awful.

+1

 

[JoZac21]

Metallica - St. Anger

Awful.

+1... I actually thought it was a joke when it first came out...

I mean it was... but I thought i was intended to be.

 

[michael_atw]

One hint: it took a decade to finish.

 

[Vagabond]

Metallica - St. Anger

Awful.

It probably isn't the worst album I've heard but I don't think I've ever been angrier after listening to one.

 

[lousybassplayer]

St anger worst? No, but among the most dissapointing for sure. Anything Korn did after follow the leader was pretty up there too. Ditto Incubus post Make Yourself.

But the worst stand alone album IMO would be the Linkin Park/Jay-Z monstrosity. If it was all new stuff they wrote together it might have had some value, even though I have my doubts.

 

[David Jayne]

Possibly this one. Makes a great stocking stuffer:
http://www.amazon.com/Hung-For-The-Holidays/dp/B000V9EQCI/ref=dm_ap_alb1

 

[clmayhew]

I think Primus - The Brown Album was quite a let down.

 

[jaywa]

Going strictly on production value, several come to mind as the worst SOUNDING records of all time:

Metallica - And Justice For All
Van Halen - OU812
Van Halen - 5150

The mixes on these albums -- specifically drum sounds and/or bass levels (or lack thereof) -- make them practically unlistenable.

 

[Spinal Tapper]

I've got you ALL beat!!!

Guns N Roses - CHINESE DEMOCRACY

/thread

 

[Slax]

I've got you ALL beat!!!

Guns N Roses - CHINESE DEMOCRACY

/thread

I think michael_atw already beat you to it.

Definitely a +1 for that album though.

 

[perfektspace6]

I've got you ALL beat!!!

Guns N Roses - CHINESE DEMOCRACY

/thread

Sounds like Axel hatred?

Nothing like old Guns but I thought it was one of the better rock albums of the year.

 

[Spinal Tapper]

I think michael_atw already beat you to it.

Definitely a +1 for that album though.

Oh I missed that - probably because it took 13 YEARS to finish! Over a decade hahaha.

No axl focused hatred here, I love the old GnR stuff, thought the album SOUNDED like it took 13 years to finish.

There was no structure to the album, it just sounded like horribly mixed music thrown together and then ripped apart and then mushed back together again and then over-processed and pushed out through a tube like one of those children's Play-Doh factories.

IMHO of course

 

[Vakmere]

Donny Osmond's Christmas Album 1971.

 

[kaputsport]

St anger worst? No, but among the most dissapointing for sure. Anything Korn did after follow the leader was pretty up there too. Ditto Incubus post Make Yourself.

But the worst stand alone album IMO would be the Linkin Park/Jay-Z monstrosity. If it was all new stuff they wrote together it might have had some value, even though I have my doubts.

I think you missed the point of the album. It was a fun side project. If you took it at face value, some of the stuff isn't that bad, in fact some was really kool...

I guess you have to like LP and JZ

 

[jaywa]

There was no structure to the album, it just sounded like horribly mixed music thrown together and then ripped apart and then mushed back together again and then over-processed and pushed out through a tube like one of those children's Play-Doh factories.

Pretty much describes how all rock records are made these days, doesn't it?

 

[Altitude]

Rush's Vapor Trails has great music, but the amount of compression on the recording makes it almost unlistenable. I thought it might have been the best example of a decent album ruined by terrible production until I bought Level 42's latest album, "Retroglide", which takes the overcompression problem to a whole different level. I can't believe that they released it like that.

 

[lousybassplayer]

I think you missed the point of the album. It was a fun side project. If you took it at face value, some of the stuff isn't that bad, in fact some was really kool...

I guess you have to like LP and JZ

That might have helped, to be sure, but I think taken at face value it was ridiculous. Big pimpin's flute hook and that whiney nitwit wailing away is too much to stand. To each his own I suppose.

Since there was some rebuttal to my original suggestion I humbly submit Silver Side Up as the most gag inducing album I can think of at the moment.

 

[EagleMoon]

Rush's Vapor Trails has great music, but the amount of compression on the recording makes it almost unlistenable. I thought it might have been the best example of a decent album ruined by terrible production until I bought Level 42's latest album, "Retroglide", which takes the overcompression problem to a whole different level. I can't believe that they released it like that.

I can't even listen to Vapor Trails at all. I remember buying thiat when it came out and how disappointed I was in it.

Keith Moon's Dark Side of the Moon was a real yawner. Why couldn't he have put out a drumming album?

Oh and this one....

http://www.amazon.com/Spaced-Out-Le...=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1260556499&sr=1-3