What's at the top of your list?

Was actually listening to my Metallica playlist earlier today, made me think of the topic (St Anger). I was a huge fanboy growing up and I still couldn't convince myself to like the album. Still can't wrap my head around how that happened...

Then 'The thing that should not be' came on and all was forgiven.

Harvey Danger - where have all the merrymakers gone.

Bought it because of flagpole sitta.

Rest of the songs were absolutely terrible. Flagpole sitta is not all that great of a song looking back, but good grief.

Judas Priest---Ram it Down

Was very disappointed with The Carter V

Doubt by Jesus Jones

Load

In Utero

Metallica- And Justice for All

After the first three albums it was a big disappointment. Those first three still hold up.

OjoDelMono77 said:

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Weezer - green album. Followed up the blue album and Pinkerton with....that. Then it just got worse from there.

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Totally agree. Pinkerton is one of my top 20-25 albums off all time. Blue album was obviously really good as well. Green sucked and it got so bad I lost track of them for a decade.

But don't sleep on 2014's Everything Will Be Alright in the End. The one that followed that had a few moments. And then the one that followed that was kind of a play on a style and had a few catchy songs thought the modern rock production / clipping makes it hard to listen to. And then everything else I have heard has jus been so bad again.

But Green was a real kick to the crotch after two great albums.

More recently, the new Vampire Weekend. I just really hate Paul Simon and I don't know how, when you have every advantage in the world and 3 plus years, you make an album full of blase 70s rock.

Bottlehead90 said:

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Metallica- And Justice for All

After the first three albums it was a big disappointment. Those first three still hold up.

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Sorry for all the replies but this one is spot on too. I went most of my life thinking Metallica was just a terrible, cheesy band and then listened to their first 3 albums a few years ago, and while I'm not a metal guy, it is pretty unpretentious blues based shredding. Ritchie Blackmore on speed. Love it. It sounds very honest and as you said, not dated at all.

dp

New Local Natives is underwhelming. Alt j's last was meh.

The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society

Bruce Springsteen's "The Rising"

John Matrix said:

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PharmD4 said:

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Was actually listening to my Metallica playlist earlier today, made me think of the topic (St Anger). I was a huge fanboy growing up and I still couldn't convince myself to like the album. Still can't wrap my head around how that happened...


Then 'The thing that should not be' came on and all was forgiven.

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St. Anger is probably the most important terrible album ever released. It's literally the sound of a band tearing itself apart l, which Metallica was doing at the time. It's heavy, chaotic, illogical, cringe-worthy, but strangely honest. For that, I'll always kind of have a soft spot for it even though objectively I know it's terrible.

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Yes! This is why it grew on me.

It wasn't until I watched the documentary they released showcasing all the **** they were going through and showing the foundation of which that album was made that I grew an appreciation for it.

"The most important terrible album ever released" is an amazing description. Cause what did we get after that? DEATH MAGNETIC which ****ing rocked!!!!

Zooropa from U2.

A rushed EP expanded into a full album from a band in the middle of a huge world tour.

Everything about that album felt unnecessary. Like they threw it together in between tour dates to keep themselves relevant years after Achtung Baby .

It's not so much that it was bad....just disappointing from them.

Bruce Almighty said:

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The Spaghetti Incident

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I thought the same at the time it came out, but there's some pretty good tracks on there. Love the punk covers. Played a couple of them recently, like a month ago. "New Rose" and "Down on the Farm". Give'em another listen.

The actual album cover might be the worst in history though.

Philo B 93 said:

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Van Halen 3 with Gary Cherone. I couldn't find more than about 60 seconds of good listening on the entire cd. Hindsight is 20/20, but at the time I thought VH still had some creative gas in the tank, and I respected Extreme as one of the last of the great 80s guitar rock bands. But VH 3 was crappola.

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This one was so bad it essentially ended the band, they've only done Best of's and redone demos since.

I derisively call that album the lemon album ot this day,
I remembered bono justifying their massive change at some point, by claiming it saved the band.the only reason it saved the band was because the had to spend at least another decade making decent music to overshadow
that turd.

OjoDelMono77 said:

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Weezer - green album. Followed up the blue album and Pinkerton with....that. Then it just got worse from there.

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Green album at least had 4-5 good songs. The ones after were just money grabs

I think zooropa holds up pretty well. I'm not much of a u2 fan though but like a few of their albums. Zooropa is one of those.

The Shank Ag said:

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Chinese Democracy

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I agree but there was no reason to think it was going to be great really. After finding out that all of AFD and most of the great songs for Use Your Illusion 1 and 2 were written in maybe a three month period when they were living together in a practice space I am not surprised.

If I recall Civil War, November Rain, and several other notable tracks from the Illusion Albums existed in almost full form from that three month period. All having major contributions from multiple band members maybe other than Adler. All the songs that are most loved came from a tiny space in time when the band was living in a unique way.

Izzy, Duff, and Slash contributed way more to the song writing than just Axl, who by himself is good but not great. Axl by himself gave us crap like My World.

MD1993 said:

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Judas Priest---Ram it Down

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Still can't believe he came out as gay