From artists I generally like, I'll say Metallica's Load and Billy Idol's Cyberpunk, which is among the worst albums I've ever heard. It's unlistenable.
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Albums that absolutely BLEW...
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and it sounded just like every hard rock album made these days.
I can appreciate just about anything as long as it has some melody or musical content.
I picked up a White Zombie album that happened sometime before La Sexocisto and I could not believe it. It was like 4 people trying their hardest NOT to play together. It was noise for the sake of making art or doing something different. That to me makes a terrible album. I would have rather thrown my money out the window than buy that!
If your not gonna play the instrument then don't pick it up.
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I picked up a White Zombie album that happened sometime before La Sexocisto and I could not believe it. It was like 4 people trying their hardest NOT to play together. It was noise for the sake of making art or doing something different. That to me makes a terrible album. I would have rather thrown my money out the window than buy that!
If your not gonna play the instrument then don't pick it up.
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This will date me... but, Pages 1st album (Pages) and Future Street from the late 70's really shaped my approach, attack and attitude. Bassist Jerry Manfredi - go listen to him - AWESOME! 
as well as a big +1 on almost all the albums mentioned I'd like to add 3rd stage by Boston. I think the most dissapointing album I've heard was By The way, I still havnt been able to make it all the way through that one. Because it sucked so bad I wasnt even going to get Stadium Arcadium but my wife bought it for me and it was good enough to somewhat restore my faith in the Chili Peppers. Anything AFI put out after The Art of Drowning was realy dissapointing as well.
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I read Gene Simmons book and it oddly says he really enjoyed making this album and thought it would work, and it was a huge disappointment when it went nowhere. But I put the fault on the guy they had managing it, who also helped with Pink Floyd's The Wall.
Kiss had no business doing a concept album. No business.
Yeah, you got me thinking about Kiss' "The Elder".. Production was flat too.. I also thought the Ace song was the only value. Kinda' like the solo albums really. There's some "stinkaroo"!!
HEY.....Let's not forget any album released by that businessman Gene Simmons. Talk about putrid stuff..
This is fun, I can't wait to read more..
Marc
HEY.....Let's not forget any album released by that businessman Gene Simmons. Talk about putrid stuff..
This is fun, I can't wait to read more..
Marc
Pretty much all of the ":music" i hear on "rock" stations. How many times are they gonna rewrite and resell us the same crap? They call it "new", but I've heard them all before
I don't even really like metal and most hard rock but I did grow up in the late 70's and got out of high school in the mid eighties and always paid attention to all music.
Anybody remember these little gems:
First up Billy Thorpe's "Children of the Sun record."
Sure, "Children of the Sun" got airplay, but "Goddess of the Night" with him yelling "RAAAAAPEEE ME!" is beyond bad. The whole record is one giant bad sci fi novel.
Then you have Jay Ferguson's second record that had "Shake Down Cruise" on it.
It actually contains the line "if you boys want some sex you can squeeze the sails, you can lick the decks."
How about The Headpins lead singer singing a song about wanting sex and making you not want to have it...and yes it was a chick singer.
I hate Japan, what was with the little new wave and goth girls loving those guys.
The second Vapors record was some sort of crazy political narrative about the rise of a dictator or some such nonsense...another one the name escapes me now on.
The neo-rockabilly band The Rockats put out a Duran Duran lite record under the name of the Sacred Hearts that is just bad.
Does anybody know any of these at all? I would love to know if I am alone in remember these.
I can keep going on stuff like this all night LOL.
Anybody remember these little gems:
First up Billy Thorpe's "Children of the Sun record."
Sure, "Children of the Sun" got airplay, but "Goddess of the Night" with him yelling "RAAAAAPEEE ME!" is beyond bad. The whole record is one giant bad sci fi novel.
Then you have Jay Ferguson's second record that had "Shake Down Cruise" on it.
It actually contains the line "if you boys want some sex you can squeeze the sails, you can lick the decks."
How about The Headpins lead singer singing a song about wanting sex and making you not want to have it...and yes it was a chick singer.
I hate Japan, what was with the little new wave and goth girls loving those guys.
The second Vapors record was some sort of crazy political narrative about the rise of a dictator or some such nonsense...another one the name escapes me now on.
The neo-rockabilly band The Rockats put out a Duran Duran lite record under the name of the Sacred Hearts that is just bad.
Does anybody know any of these at all? I would love to know if I am alone in remember these.
I can keep going on stuff like this all night LOL.
Good choice, what I've heard of it was downright comically bad.
This may get me flamed big time, but the worst album I own is John Entwistle's "Boris the Spider", I got it for like a buck and I think it's a snoozefest from start to finish.
Terraform - Shellac
I promised a friend that I would listen to it all the way through and try to like it. It was easily the most torture-like music I have ever heard.
St. Anger is a close second.
I promised a friend that I would listen to it all the way through and try to like it. It was easily the most torture-like music I have ever heard.
St. Anger is a close second.
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This will date me... but:
Kilroy Was Here by Styx - it killed that band for sure
Led Zepplin's In Through the Out Door. I was visiting a friend in LA and I made his mom drive me to the mall so I could buy it (LP) the day it came out. I played it once and not again for a year or two. I like it now, but it wasn't what I was expecting.
Kilroy Was Here by Styx - it killed that band for sure
Led Zepplin's In Through the Out Door. I was visiting a friend in LA and I made his mom drive me to the mall so I could buy it (LP) the day it came out. I played it once and not again for a year or two. I like it now, but it wasn't what I was expecting.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - It's Blitz
Not the worst album ever, but I was rather dissapointed that it was not like the older albums
Not the worst album ever, but I was rather dissapointed that it was not like the older albums
That is a horrible album. A buddy loaned his copy to me, and it was bad, he would not take it back. Eventually, I could not let it's awefulness ooze to other cds so I took it to the pistol range to put it out of my misery.
I would personally put forth any album done by Nirvana...horrible.
