Good or Unpopular album opinions

[flanagan0718]

They do something similar over at ILF. This is intended to be a judjement free thread please let's keep it light. I'll go first. It doesn't have to be 5 how ever many you want is good.

5 Good
Alexisonfire - Watch Out! (I could listen to this from start to finish for DAYS)
Rufio - MCMLXXXV (takes me back to simple pop punk times)
Metallica - LOAD (Probably my favorite Metallica record)
Deftones - Adrenaline (My personal music choices started young 1995)
Better Than Ezra - ALL OF IT. (they are very under-rated IMO)

5 Bad
Pink Floyd - ALL OF IT I seriously can't stand any of their music
U2 - All except 4 songs form Achtung Baby
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand. pretty much anything after Crack the sky was terrible.
Metallica - ride the lightning, and anything after Load.
Dave Matthews Band- EVERYTHING (i do think his drummer is super talented tho.


...GO...

[cresconio]

5 good
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
QOTSA - Songs for the deaf
Katatonia - The great cold distance
Pain of salvation - BE
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5 bad (geez this is way harder)
Metallica - St. Anger
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Pain of salvation - Scarsick
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Marilyn Manson - Everythinng after Holy wood

[flanagan0718]

I'll have to check out that Opeth album!

[peAk]

Good:

Pink Floyd- Everything between 1970-1983
U2- War, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, Achtung Baby
Metallica-Everything up to: Injustice for All, everything after sucks

....hahaha....sorry, I couldn't resist...


 

[flanagan0718]

Good:

Pink Floyd- Everything between 1970-1983
U2- War, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, Achtung Baby
Metallica-Everything up to: Injustice for All, everything after sucks

....hahaha....sorry, I couldn't resist...

HAHAHA Awesome!!!

[GermanCdn]

Good (great)

King's X - Dogman (Greatest album by the most underrated band in existence today)
Killswitch Engage - Incarnate (Quite possibly the best metal album in I don't know how long)
Alter Bridge - AB III (Proof that I don't actually have to like the singer to love the album.  Don't particularly like Myles voice, but it works)
Van Halen - Balance (Full stride for the whole band.  And yes, I am a Van Hagar fan)
Tremonti - Dust/Cauterize (Rarely do I like side projects as they tend to be derivative of what I like about the main band.  However, Mark is so wickedly talented (my opinion, right up there with EVH) that it can't be contained within one group)

Bad (Terrible)

Van Halen - III (So much potential and Cherone should have been a great fit, but Eddie can't be given unlimited creative control)
U2 - Zooropa (Full disclosure, I have an intense dislike for U2)
Extreme - Three Sides to Every Story (Should have been great, but they missed the point and got too creative.  Pornograffiti is still one of the best albums of the early 90s).
Asking Alexandria - Anything without Danny Worsnop.  (Glad he's back in the fold.  Reminds me somewhat of Corey Tayler/Aaron Lewis in the way he tries to cover a lot of musical spectrum.  Love him in We Are Harlot)
Steel Panther - Lower the Bar (Here's the thing - it's actually a great album.  Problem is the schtick is getting old with the juvenile dick and fart jokes.  Rerecord it with a guy who's actually trying to write an album and not just continue a joke, and it's killer).

[Rockhorst]

Impossible to choose just 5....Here's some all time favorites (still too short of a list )

Metallica - ...And Justice For all and Reload (funny ey)
Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
The Black Crowes - By Your Side
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Ayreon - Flight of the Migrator
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Helloween - Better Than Raw
In Flames - Colony

5 Bad
Orgy - Candy Ass (stitches and blue monday are cool, rest is utter crap)
Korn (mostly all of it)
Muse - The 2nd law + The Resistance(seriously, great band but this sucked, except Panic Station)
Pink Floyd - UmmuGumma (mostly unlistenable) and Final Cut (boring)
Eric Clapton - 401 Ocean Boulevard (booooring)

[kgull]

Albums where at least half the songs still make me tingly:
QOTSA - ...Like Clockwork
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Dangermouse - The Grey Album

Stuff I tried to like but just can't.
AC/DC - Fly on the Wall
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (why?)
Coheed and Cambria - Love their instrumental work but I just can't get past Claudio's voice
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (title song is SO good, the rest of the album is not)
Eminem - Encore (so many songs that are just...bad)

Great thread BTW

[selfdestroyer]

Love: 5 is SO hard to come down to.. so this is what I have listened to the most this month so far. Some old some new.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (Reminds of of Jr High, Still an amazing album)
Gem Club - Breakers (Hidden gem, got this on vinyl from a friend and fell in love with it)
Portishead - Dummy (Don't need to say anything about this album)
Dusted - Total Dust (Another hidden gem)
Shlohmo - Bad Vibes (If you like some wonky/offbeat instrumental beats.. look no further)

Bonus love: Wu‐Tang Clan - Enter the Wu‐Tang 36 Chambers (Listening to it right now!)

Hate:
Greenday (Really dislike Billie Joe's voice)
Rush (Never been a fan.. never will lol)
Kanye West (Nnnnooopppeee, Im a huge hiphop fan FYI)
Ed Sheeran (It's just not for me)
Bob Dylan (Yup, I said it.. Not a fan of the vocals at all)

Cody

[madbean]

These are 5 that I could listen to for the rest of my life and be happy (in no particular order)

Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Simple Minds - New Golden Dream or Once Upon a Time
Radiophonic - I Could Have Been a Rocket Scientist

I'm cheating by including my own band but there's a good reason - listening to my own record makes me happy, it makes me remember the good times I had making it with my friends and it makes me proud that we finished it despite taking almost five years from start to finish. I'm picking that one over our other ones because it was my baby.


5 Terrible albums-
All the 80's metal I listened to in the actual 80's. Def Leppard, White Lion, LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, Guymanndude, and like a million more. They just don't hold up for me.

[matmosphere]

The good,

Led Zeppelin III
Ramones - Ramones
Miles Davis - Lind of Blue
Sonic Youth - NYC Ghost and Flowers (but really almost anything by sy)
Les Savy Fav - Go Forth

+ any Beatles, early Radiohead (still want to start a western themed Radiohead cover band called Rodeohead), Bowie, Dino Jr., REM and more


The bad-

Soundgarden comes to mind
Pretty much any of the more corporate radio stuff from the mid-late nineties
Sonic Youth - Goo and Experimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Post Master of Puppets Metallica
And I know I'll catch some flak here but anything by the Stones that isn't Sympath for the Devil

[dan.schumaker]

Good
Wilco - Being There
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Tom Waits - Closing Time

Bad
Wilco - Star Wars (not a fan of noise for noise sake)
Nirvana - Nevermind (I always thought a little overrated)
Radiohead (never got them)
Anything Modern "Country" (its basically Nickelback with a banjo)

[kgull]

Anything Modern "Country" (its basically Nickelback with a banjo)

There are a couple newer country musicians that are actually pretty good (Sturgill Simpson, Mondo Cozmo and Josh Ritter to name a few) but yeah, for the most part it's crappy pop these days...

[timbo_93631]

I'll play, from my own LP's
5 good:
Kishi Bashi - Lighght
Bob Seger/Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves
Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith - The Dynamic Duo
Jimmy Cliff - In Concert 1976
Mundell Lowe - Porgy n Bess

5 bad:
Aerosmith - Night in the ruts
Van Halen - Diver Down
Blackfoot - Strikes (TrainTrain can't redeem the rest of the album)
Ron Pearson and The Ron Don's - I've got a lucky feeling
Alan Parson's Project - I, robot

[peAk]

Great

Steely Dan - Aja
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Cure - Disintegration
Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking
Depeche Mode - Violator

Terrible

Pop Punk (Green Day, Rancid, etc)
Post Grunge (Creed, Nickelback, etc)
Nu Metal (Limp Bizkit, Korn, Slipknot, etc)
Modern Country/Pop
Metallica (Post Injustice for All)