Good or Unpopular album opinions

[alanp]

I like too many albums to pick just five!

U2 can go piss up a tree, though. I dunno why, but to me their music sounds really preachy.

[shedland]

Some goodies

Failure - Fantastic planet
Manic street preachers - Holy bible
NIN - Downward Spiral
Radiohead - The bends
Qotsa - Rated R
Helmet - Betty (Saw these guys play this in full recently  )

The not so good

The Feelers
The Beach Boys
Post Aenima Tool
Post Black Holes and Revelations Muse
Any new Pearl Jam

[juansolo]

Hard to choose five flawless albums as there are so many, I whittled it down to ten...

Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Monster Magnet - Superjudge
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Live - The Distance To Here
Tool - Lateralus
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Rainbow - Rising
Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves
Sleeping Pulse - Under The Same Sky
Survivor - Premonition

Albums that were crushingly disappointing/bad

Metallica - St. Anger. I really haven't forgiven them for this utter shite
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero. The first time he faltered...
Queensryche - Q2K. What... Happened...?!
Depeche Mode - Exciter. Gahan smacked up and Fletcher leaves. Mess of an album.
Kiss - Psycho Circus. A 'fan' pandering cash-in. Annoyed the crap out of me after they just seemed to be finding some new stuff that was working for them. Revenge was awesome, and Carnival of Souls had merit. As a life long fan, this was when I bailed.

[Rockhorst]

I like your list Juan! A lot  Should've included some Rainbow in my already too long list. But live in Germany is one of the greatest live albums out there.

[madbean]

Oh man...how did I forget to include Kid A on my list?

[matmosphere]

I didn't think of it as the five best and worst. Just ones that I like and don't like. I just went with what popped up in my head at the moment.

[Jules]

Good
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
The Stooges - Funhouse
Pink Floyd - Relics
X (Australian band) - Aspirations
RL Burnside with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - A ass pocket of whisky
Bad
Heaps of stuff, most modern Bieber type pop crap.
AC/DC - the vast majority of post Bon Scott material
Heaps of other forgotten stuff no doubt.

[culturejam]

Can't do 5. Too hard. 

GOOD
GnR - Appetite for Destruction
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Pearl Jam - Ten
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Black Crows - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

BAD
Metallica - Anything after AJFA is garbage
Dream Theater - Anything other than Images & Words
Kiss - Just don't care for them generally
Eric Clapton - I just don't get it. I think I needed to have experienced it in the context of the time in which he was emerging.
Butt Rock in general (especially those bands with yarlers leading)

Radiophonic - I Could Have Been a Rocket Scientist

I really like this album. And I'm not just saying this because we're pals and business partners. It's a good record.

[GermanCdn]

Live - The Distance To Here

Revenge was awesome, and Carnival of Souls had merit. As a life long fan, this was when I bailed.

Distance to Here was/is stellar.  I found most of their stuff prior to it to be a little too disconnected (not uncommon in the mid 90s, there were a lot of discs which were 40% great 60% "well, we've got 11 songs now, we're done").

Revenge was fantastic.  And I really, really, really don't like Kiss.  Just could never get into it.

[flanagan0718]

I didn't think of it as the five best and worst. Just ones that I like and don't like. I just went with what popped up in my head at the moment.

It's not supposed to be but hey what ever works. I do enjoy reading everyones distaste for U2. Bono is a turd. Here's a few more from me.

good
Pantera - Everything from Cowboys to Trendkill
Poison The Well - Come What You Are
Finch - Say Hello To Sunshine (everyone HATED this when it came out. I think it was because it was such a drastic change from their last album. I was the outsider. I though it was Fantastic from start to finish.
Caspian - You are the Conductor

bad
98% of the hip hip / rap from 2004 to now.
AC/DC - All of it except for that one song from the movie Empire Records
From First To Last - Heroine (i though Sonny Moore ruined their sound)
Hootie and the Blowholes - I played guitar in a 90's cover band and we would always get requests for their TERRIBLE material.

Remember it doesn't have to be your favorites or 5. Just whatever comes to mind! Keep them coming!!!

Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart

listening to this now. It's WAY different than I thought. Really good stuff! Thanks

[midwayfair]

I ran an online folk music magazine for a while.

Lemme tell you, you folks have NO IDEA what a bad album is.

[jubal81]

This is tough. Leaving out a lot of music I love, but trying to stick only to albums I love start to finish - with, like Brian said - a nod to the 'desert island' five for some variety.


Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Fu Manchu - The Action is Go
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves


For the bottom, I'd like to use all my allotted space to say as loudly and emphatically as possible:


RUSH SUCKS!  RUSH SUCKS!  RUSH SUCKS!  RUSH SUCKS! RUSH SUCKS! RUSH SUCKS!

[peAk]

I didn't think of it as the five best and worst. Just ones that I like and don't like. I just went with what popped up in my head at the moment.

this ^^^^^

[peAk]

Black Crows - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Some of my favorite guitar playing and tones of ANY record to date.

[thesmokingman]

I'll go five of my favorites I've actually owned physical copies of no order of importance(my head would hurt going through my digital collection)
1) Led Zeppelin - II - I've worn a few tapes of this out, a vinyl, and one seriously scuffed up cd before moving to mp3
2) Boston - Boston - I think cd actually made this one sound better
3) ZZ Top - Tres Hombres - floating around in the cd changer of my car at the moment
4) Van Halen - 1984 - the high water mark, it all goes downhill from here. of note, no cover tunes.
5) Metallica - Master of Puppets

Five of the worst albums I've ever owned no order of importance
1) Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children - the musical equivalent of Alice Cooper's used condom
2) Metallica - S & M - when Metallica became a turtle on a post
3) Pearl Jam - VS - when people go gift shopping for you based on knowing you like Nirvana
4) Offspring - Smash - when you take a girl's advice to check out this band she heard
5) Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause - there was simply no excuse for this, no matter how high I was at the store