Artists worst album.

[Vault101]

Dubstep's the wrong word. I'm fully aware of that. If you've got a better word for bands which utilise synthesiser in this way, I'm open to it..

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Dubstep isnt the wrong word...the right word is on earth the wrong word is on mars...dubsteap is several thousand light years away

I...just.....I don't mean to insult you, but you got it wrong in such a way that it physically hurts me.....you didn't mean too..I don't blame you,..

youve just killed part of my soul...is all I'm saying

by the way I actually fucking love synths...but anyway I don;t know what youd call is specifically..I mean theres Bass and such..and "electronic"..and synths

[quote/]The Catalyst I heard thanks to Medal of Honour. Loved that track. I heard Wretches and Kings recently, loved it. Great revolutionary feel, and I liked how they altered their speech emphasis, sort of gave the words a weird rhythm. "Talka-lottagame-!rest!-andyet you don-know". Weird and awesome. I want to listen to that one[/quote]

I still find it odd that you liked some of those tracks from thousand suns...yet didnt like the synths...ah well...to be honest alot of the "electronic/synth" didnt come through for me on living things as much

 

[Inconspicuous Trenchcoat]

I like Weezer enough to buy every album they release when I happen to notice another has materialized. Serendipitously, the one I missed buying was also their worst by far. Raditude... I mean what happened there? I don't spend a lot of time analyzing music so my justification will be weak and vague. That album was just full of generic pop songs that were indistinguishable from each other. I can't even remember a single track from that album, and I'm fine keeping it that way. I'm so glad my brother bought it so I was able to try (multiple times) it before throwing money out a window. If anyone cares: Pinkerton > Blue > Red > Green > Make Believe > Maladroit > Hurley >>>>> Raditude. Raditude and Hurley have made me question my practice of just buying their stuff. However, I've just found out there's another album, Death to False Metal, which has been compared as being the band's version of River's Alone albums. That has me interested; might get that one.

 

[dfphetteplace]

With Teeth from Nine Inch Nails. I am a huge fan of NIN and Trent Reznor, but I just could not like that album. It sounded too commercial for me I cause. I didn't like the way the drums sounded. I thought it was repetitive and just boring. I was very happy when Year Zero came out and redeem the NIN name. I know a lot of people liked With Teeth, but I didn't like it.

 

[xplosive59]

Black Sabbath - Anything after Ozzy/Dio

I agree it's mostly shit but Headless Cross and The Eternal Idol are actually pretty good and way better than anything from the Ozzy era after Sabotage, everything else is shit though.

How could anybody hate this track, it sounds like something from an 80's montage!


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If Iommi released these two albums under a different name they would be way better received, IMO.

 

[AnarchistFish]

There's absolutely no dubstep on Living Things, but apart from that I agree with you. By far their worst album and I never particularly liked them anyway. It's so stale and insipid. A Thousand Suns is actually their best imo.

GY!BE: Their new one, Allelujah! Don't Bend ! Ascend!, but it's still brilliant (2nd favourite album of the year so far, that just goes to show how good and underrated a band they are).

The Weeknd: Echoes of Silence. Again, weakest of his trilogy of mixtapes but still very good. They're all on a similar level anyway.

Brand New: Your Favorite Weapon. Was their debut, very pop-punky and had a few good spots but the style they progressed towards afterwards was a stunning improvement.

Burial: His self titled debut. King of dubstep. Counting his EPs here but this album is just a collection of tracks and as has been shown since, Burial's electronic/ambient soundscapes work best as cohesive units. Again, a few good tracks, but as a whole it doesn't touch the classic that is Untrue, or even the brilliant Street Halo and Kindred, neither of which are far off Untrue (and actually, I prefer the general style he moved towards with longer and deeper tracks).

Yeah, by Dubstep I mean it's sort of evocative of it. It's certainly not actual dubstep, like Skrillex or Ephixa, but it's sort of this repetitive synthesiser drone. If you've got a better word that'd be great, I've been looking for a better term for it. You're definitely spot on about the album-it's just nothing new. The apocalyptic militaristic stuff they did a couple of times on Minutes and Thousand Suns (Remember, I've only heard the two tracks though), and the whinier stuff's been a staple of theirs, and here it's just so immature, and it really feels off that they're getting more like whiny teens as they get older. That shouldn't be how it works.

Haven't heard all of Thousand Suns yet. I heard it was terrible, but I really liked Wretches and Kings from it, and I didn't mind the Catalyst either, so it might be good.

Yeah Skrillex isn't dubstep either. TBH I'd just say they use strong electronic elements cos you can't really assign those segments they use to a particular electronic genre, except maybe electro. I'd call the whole thing electro-rock actually. In fact though, that's the one song I like off the whole album- Lost in the Echo- which has a lot of that. But there's certainly no traces of dubstep on the album at all.

 

[xplosive59]

Any one like Nine Inch Nails??? because there worst album for me would have to be With Teeth

I'm a big NIN fan, and The Slip is their worst album IMO and With Teeth has some great tracks (The Hand That Feeds is super catchy and dance-able). Their best is The Downward Spiral with Pretty Hate Machine close behind IMO.

 

[kyuzo3567]

Heh, you know, I came in here to make an "inb4 St. Anger" joke, then I got ninja'd on the very first reply.

Metallica's St. Anger there was nothing worth listening to on the album even the Load albums had a few catchy tunes but St. Anger just sucked.

I expected Metallica to come up but I didn't expect it to be the first reply

OT: I'll go ahead and add Death Magnetic. It was supposed to be a return to form for Metallica and it's just... awful. These guys used to be the kings of thrash but they just refuse to play thrasy music anymore.

Aaaand that's where I have to disagree. Death Magnetic certainly wasn't Ride the Lightning, but it was still a pretty damn good album. If I made a "Best of Metallica" compilation, The Day that Never Comes and All Nightmare Long would both get a spot.

In my compilation it would have the Unforgiven trilogy... those are still my favourite songs by them out of everything they've done

 

[kanyewhite]

God this sounds stupid, but the Shins Port of Morrow. I LOVED Wincing the Night Away and the Broken Bells stuff James Mercer did, but Port of Morrow didn't gel with me. Same kind of deal with The National and the High Violet album.

 

[William Dickbringer]

One recent example of this is Ensiferum's Unsung Heroes. It just lacks everything that makes Ensiferum Ensiferum, and has nothing but generic or mediocre songwriting to make up for it. It's almost painful when remembering what the band was like when Jari was still in the band. But, at least Wintersun finally released Time I, which is amazing enough to make up for the disappointment of Unsung Heroes.

ninja'd but oh my god someone else is a fan of ensiferum and wintersun on here (and besides at least passion proof power is good...but one good song does not make up for a meh album)

 

[Vault101]

I'm a big NIN fan, and The Slip is their worst album IMO and With Teeth has some great tracks (The Hand That Feeds is super catchy and dance-able). Their best is The Downward Spiral with Pretty Hate Machine close behind IMO.

I agree....more or less

its a shame he didnt do more of that "80's" sounding industrial (downward spiral reflects it a bit)

I think I'd actually like alot more industrial if the "singing" wasn't so much monotone emotionaless growling (like KMDFM or Skinny puppy...KMDFM are slightly better in that regard though)

 

[xplosive59]

I'm a big NIN fan, and The Slip is their worst album IMO and With Teeth has some great tracks (The Hand That Feeds is super catchy and dance-able). Their best is The Downward Spiral with Pretty Hate Machine close behind IMO.

I agree....more or less

its a shame he didnt do more of that "80's" sounding industrial (downward spiral reflects it a bit)

I think I'd actually like alot more industrial if the "singing" wasn't so much monotone emotionaless growling (like KMDFM or Skinny puppy...KMDFM are slightly better in that regard though)

Yeah, I agree with you there. The monotonous tone of voice in alot of industrial music really turns me off of many interesting bands. I get the concept though, the idea that creating monotone vocals creates a more mechanical/produced tone, emotionless in other words.

 

[Dr Bodom]

Fever by Bullet For My Valentine. Absolutely love The Poison and Scream Aim Fire was alright, but Fever was just a shitload of mediocre metalcore riffs, coupled with pretty average lyrics. Was missing all the passion that went into The Poison.

 

[Rastien]

Metallica's St. Anger there was nothing worth listening to on the album even the Load albums had a few catchy tunes but St. Anger just sucked.

I actually liked St. Anger which usually means when i say this i have to run for fear of being dis-embowled x)

For me personally Oceania - Smashing Pumpkins latest album T-T

Just compare and contrast Oceania to Siamese Dream... Billy Corgan is awesome and all but it's not the same without the old crew

 

[baconmaster]

Pablo Honey and Amnesiac - Radiohead

I'll forgive the first one since it was their debut album. Amnesiac had a few awesome songs, but overall it was pretty weak.

Also, Linkin Park was never good

 

[Rawberry101]

I'd say that the worst Beatles album (not EP) is With the Beatles, almost no innovation that could be found on any of their other albums.

And any Pink Floyd, for all their lofty heights, has Ummagumma. Awful, awful, garbage. Nuff said. Most of the stuff they wrote between Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Atom Heart Mother is pretty bad.

Firstly, dude, I love Piper at the Gates of Dawn! Syd Barrett is kind of a musical genius in the way he makes music. I will agree that Ummagumma is their worst though, but this was their transitional phase; away from the Psych Rock they started with Syd on and into the Prog Rock we all know and love them for.

Hey man I said in between. Piper is good, and Atom Heart Mother isn't bad. The stuff in between....much less than sublime.

I'm surprise how almost nobody mentioned The Final Cut yet keep bashing A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell by saying Gilmour failed without Waters. There is a clear separation in quality here. Water's wasn't infallible.