# The Worst Album By A Band U like **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [September 20, 2020, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058 "2020-09-20T03:58:32Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tavaritz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/71e660/32.png) [@tavaritz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tavaritz)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/21 "2020-09-20T19:37:12Z")
I like both Lou Reed and Metallica but I hate Lulu! ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/22 "2020-09-20T21:13:35Z")
> [@dalej42](#): > > And Then There Were Three by Genesis. It’s definitely a band trying to figure things out. Also, the production sounds like a sub sandwich with everything on it, just mush where you can’t really hear anything. All midrange, no bass and no treble. > > I’m excluding From Genesis to Revelation and Calling All Stations from the Genesis canon. I have always thought And Then There Were Three sounded like crap, but I just assumed it was only my copy on vinyl that sounded like that. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/23 "2020-09-20T21:36:39Z")
As much as I love The Alan Parsons Project, they have had over the years more than a few “oh, poor me” songs where the world, or more particularly women, are being mean to them. It can be pretty juvenile. Eve does that in spades, all the way down to the horrid album cover. I really do hate that album. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/24 "2020-09-20T21:51:37Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > > > [Naked](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_(Talking_Heads_album)) by the Talking Heads. It signaled a move away from everything that made the band great. > > Wow, just goes to show how subjective music is- I really like that that album and think of it as a prime example of ‘going out on a high note’, a late-period album by a band that still maintained a high level of quality. What exactly about it was a move away from everything that made the band great, in your opinion? This here. Naked may be my favorite TH album. mmm ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/25 "2020-09-20T22:20:52Z")
A joint Metallica/Lou Reed project probably would’ve worked had it come about 15 years before it actually did in 2011. Unfortunately, in instances like this, it’s proof timing is everything. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/26 "2020-09-20T22:38:21Z")
As the consummate Tull groupie, I find a couple of their more popular releases disappointing. I read somewhere that A Passion Play was one of their biggest selling albums, but it was just never able to reach me. Similarly, the radio had a big hard-on for Bungle in the Jungle which I found to be eminently ignorable, instead greatly favoring Skating Away (on the Thin Ice of a New Day) from that album. They made it up to me in short order with Songs from the Wood, which is solid all the way through. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/27 "2020-09-20T23:08:45Z")
Count me in as a Naked fan. Johnny Marr and Kirsty MacColl as guests, and “Nothing But Flowers” is sublime. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/28 "2020-09-20T23:26:33Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Love Neil Young but the album “Everybody’s Rocking” with the Shocking Pinks was a low point. Although I am Kinda Fonda Wanda. Neil Young released more albums than almost anybody, so of course there are a few clunkers among them. My personal candidate for his nadir is “Landing On Water” from 1986. “Everybody’s Rocking” at least had a kind of nostalgic charm, But LOW (funny, in order to avoid some keystrokes I just discovered that the acronym describes the album 😳) was a strange exercise in the most schlocky production values the 80s had to offer, which didn’t suit Young’s music in any way. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [September 20, 2020, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/29 "2020-09-20T23:29:16Z")
> [@Hippy\_Hollow](#): > > Count me in as a Naked fan. Johnny Marr and Kirsty MacColl as guests, and “Nothing But Flowers” is sublime. Now I HAVE to listen to “Naked”. I’m sure you know, but for everybody else I recommend Kirsty MacColl’s album “Kite”, which was recorded with Johnny Marr. It’s excellent. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/30 "2020-09-21T00:03:49Z")
Yes @EinsteinsHund, Kite is brilliant. Kirsty was one of my favorite singers as a solo artist, so when she did backing vocals for The Smiths I was in heaven. I think I’ve tracked all of the Marr-MacColl collaborations. I still get teary eyed when I think about her death. Off to listen to her version of “You Just Haven’t Earned It Yet, Baby!” ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/31 "2020-09-21T01:23:07Z")
> [@Maserschmidt](#): > > As much as I love The Alan Parsons Project, they have had over the years more than a few “oh, poor me” songs where the world, or more particularly women, are being mean to them Yeah, that. There’s not much excuse for being so oblivious about why women behave as they do; they’ve been quite vocal and explained in clear and compelling detail what their situation is. I’m certainly not saying any male person who doesn’t like their own situation is just whining, but yeesh, if we don’t like how things are set up, and want some sympathy, we really oughta start by extending some, and exhibiting some understanding about how that same setup looks and feels from the women’s vantage point, instead of acting like women dreamed the whole damn thing up in the women’s bathroom stalls and inflicted it on us hapless guys. [/soapbox] ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/32 "2020-09-21T01:27:26Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > As the consummate Tull groupie… Oh that reminds me. I have liked a lot of Jethro Tull over the years. One day back in the 80s I snagged a cheap used cassette of a Tull album I’d never heard: A. (yeah, that’s the name of it, “A”, by itself). For awhile I kept fishing it out and playing it again after a few days, thinking I must’ve not been in a listening mood. But nope, there’s just nothing on there to make any impact. Extremely forgettable. Except perhaps some vague recollection of a song about “I’m a working Joe” which was still down in the basement compared to the good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/33 "2020-09-21T01:37:36Z")
I got A when it was still warm from the stamper. It was different, and I was in an odd headspace at the time, so I could sort of connect with it. Broadsword & the Beast came as a bit of a relief, a kind of return to normal-ish, but '80s Tull was somewhat uneven. You kind of had to want to like some of that. After Catfish Rising, though, their studio work became quite bland. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/34 "2020-09-21T01:55:16Z")
I bought everything Tull released up through Broadsword (but nothing after that), saw them three times in concert, and listened to them incessantly (I literally wore out Heavy Horses)…so I’m also a fan of sorts, though I didn’t last throughout the discography. I didn’t like “A” when it came out, but after seeing the A tour did end up liking it somewhat better. But oddly I like Passion Play better, so results did vary… ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/35 "2020-09-21T01:58:42Z")
A reasonable soapbox. In the end that’s why decades later I still semi-regularly listen to Tales of Mystery & Imagination, Turn of a Friendly Card, and Pyramid, but not so much the other albums. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/36 "2020-09-21T02:06:54Z")
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/37 "2020-09-21T02:22:08Z")
Yet still far superior to A Momentary Lapse of Reason ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/38 "2020-09-21T02:40:21Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > Pink Floyd - The Final Cut True that. Just awful. Oddly it has its fans, but I’m sure not among them. There’s one track that’s kind of haunting and evocative — “One of the Few” — the problem is, the track is only about one minute 20 at max. ---
**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 3:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/39 "2020-09-21T03:52:22Z")
> [@solost](#): > > > [@madsircool](#): > > > > For me its the Doors Soft Parade. It features this ‘tribute’ to Otis Redding… > > If The Doors after Morrison died counts, surely ‘Other Voices” would win hands-down, would it not? I bought the album used out of curiousity and I don’t think I was able to even listen to it once all the way through. Ya think that’s bad? The Doors were slated to play a festival near us, and they didn’t cancel… we just got one of those “Other Voices” instead of Mr. Lizard King. And thanks, **madsircool**. I’ve gotten that snippet playing in my head: _"All right, look at my shoes/_ _Not quite the walkin’ blues…"_ (though I haven’t heard it since the late 60s), and I always wondered where the hell I would’ve heard a Dylan parody… until this thread I had no idea it was a Doors song! ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/40 "2020-09-21T05:41:08Z")
This may be low-hanging fruit, but I have to bring up Creedence Clearwater Revival’s final album, _Mardi Gras_. Their penultimate album, _Pendulum_, is actually a fine effort IMO, reflecting a more mature sound than their previous work. But the band was already beginning to fall apart. Every member not named John Fogerty was tired of being pushed to the background, despite John being the very reason they were successful. John’s own brother quit the band, turning a quartet into a trio, and at that point Fogerty basically said “fuck it” and let the rhythm section have the creative control they craved - but refused to sing any songs the other two wrote. Fogerty contributed two good songs, one throwaway track, and a lackluster cover of “Hello Mary Lou.” The rest of the songs, written and sung by Stu Cook and Doug Clifford were… not good. If John’s ego had allowed him to actually collaborate with his bandmates, they may have been able to continue to do great things. But the album was a complete mess and marked the end of a great American rock band. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058.md?page=3)