# 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:** 3
**Author:** ![lobotomyboy63](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lobotomyboy63/32/2900_2.png) [@lobotomyboy63](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lobotomyboy63)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/41 "2020-09-21T06:11:52Z")
“Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac. This was the followup to “Rumours,” really? I don’t know if it’s the worst album, but if you compare it…? ---
**Author:** ![Dorabella](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f08c70/32.png) [@Dorabella](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dorabella)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/42 "2020-09-21T06:27:41Z")
I’ll swap you Made in Heaven for Hot Space. It is just awful. I was full blown into my Queen obsession when it was released and of course, I bought it. I had to pretend that I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 7:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/43 "2020-09-21T07:52:33Z")
> [@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. > > [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody’s\_Rockin’](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Everybody%27s_Rockin%27) > [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > My personal candidate for his nadir is “Landing On Water” from 1986. I’ll go with _Trans_🤢 Black Sabbath (pre-'81, because I’m unfamiliar with anything they did afterwards): _Technical Ecstasy_ Apart from this [rootin-tootin (George Duke?) keyboard solo](https://youtu.be/hKYw9LTy9-k?t=2230), Zappa’s _Studio Tan_ seemed like filler for some hasty contractual obligation. (oh and not a bad little guitar solo a minute or two beforehand. 🙂 ) Stones - _Tattoo You_ - neat front cover. 'the hell’s off that album? ELP - _Love Beach_ - ok, even _better_ front cover. 🤪 Lou Reed - _Metal Machine Music_ - hey if you’re in the mood for some good proto-industrial, fill your boots. The Jezus Lizard - _Down_. From this one, onwards, just losing their edge. Cryptopsy - _And Then It Passes_ - the vocalist for this album (Mike DiSalvo - totally ok dude and knew his Bruins hockey) was a sea-change from the previous vocalist, and didn’t go over well, uh, _at all_. He was a fine, gruff hardcore vocalist, but not for a brutally heavy, technical deathmetal band, which requires a vocalist who often has to use the time-honored cookie monster vocals (among other lesser vocal delicacies) A friend from a Vancouver band at the time called him Mike DeSwallow. Not to his face. Fuckin eh instrumental parts [here](https://youtu.be/6C5e9p70Fek?t=153) and [there,](https://youtu.be/6C5e9p70Fek?t=233) though. _Shaggs’ Own Thing_ was nowhere near as good as the original _Philosophy of the World_. King Crimson - _In The Wake of Posideon_ - I thought it was too much a re-hash of _Court of the Crimson King_, and I liked how their next album - _Lizard_, was even more jazz-inflected than the previous two albums, bringing on Kieth Tippet on the ivories. Between the _Lick My Decals Off, Baby_ LP and _Shiny Beast_ LP, Captain Beefheart released two albums that were so watered-down and ‘nice’ sounding - _not_ the captain, at all. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 7:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/44 "2020-09-21T07:57:51Z")
> [@lobotomyboy63](#): > > “Tusk” by Fleetwood Mac. > > This was the followup to “Rumours,” really? I don’t know if it’s the worst album, but if you compare it…? I find Tusk amazing and definitely have always preferred it to Rumours. And that’s not an opinion because Rumours has been played into the ground ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/45 "2020-09-21T12:10:34Z")
> [@glowacks](#): > > Pink Floyd - The Final Cut The Final Cut is technically not a Pink Floyd album, but a Roger Waters solo album with the other members of Floyd as his backup band. I only mention this because I referred to it as a Pink Floyd album in another thread on this board a couple years ago, and I was called out on it, so I’m returning the favor 😁 ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/46 "2020-09-21T12:28:57Z")
> [@solost](#): > > The Final Cut is technically not a Pink Floyd album, but a Roger Waters solo album with the other members of Floyd as his backup band. Well, I guess I could have done 5 minutes of googling BEFORE pulling an “actually…”. It seems The Final Cut IS an official Pink Floyd album, though it is considered to essentially be Roger Water’s first solo album. > **[The Final Cut](https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/the-final-cut-248504/)** > > Check out our album review of Artist's The Final Cut on Rolling Stone.com. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/47 "2020-09-21T12:49:21Z")
> [@ChockFullOfHeadyGoodness](#): > > I think I’ve listened to Van Halen’s _Balance_ all the way through only once. I love all of the Roth-era albums, even _Diver Down_ , but _Balance_ was just a tired slog. It isn’t a Roth era album, it’s the last of the Van Hagar era. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/48 "2020-09-21T12:50:49Z")
> [@Dorabella](#): > > I’ll swap you Made in Heaven for Hot Space. It is just awful. I was full blown into my Queen obsession when it was released and of course, I bought it. I had to pretend that I liked it. Wot he said. No Queen fans like that album. There’s probably reason for it, touring, too many albums for too short a time. Freddy wanting solo career. ---
**Author:** ![Smid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/838e76/32.png) [@Smid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smid)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/49 "2020-09-21T12:56:47Z")
> [@Deeg](#): > > Made In Heaven by Queen. I feel bad not liking it because of the circumstances behind it but it’s just bad. As I said elsewhere, Hot Space is the bad one for me. I don’t even count Made in Heaven as a Queen album. It’s more of a tribute by the remaining three after his death, and with the protracted nature of that, Freddy wasn’t doing vocals with the band for probably six or so years before this album. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/50 "2020-09-21T14:13:29Z")
> [@solost](#): > > 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? > [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](#): > > This here. Naked may be my favorite TH album. Now, don’t get me wrong. _Naked_ is a fine, middle of the road pop/rock album. The issue is Talking Heads made their career by **not** being an average pop/rock band. Maybe it is just having been spoiled by the three great albums with Brian Eno, I don’t know. I would ask what your favourite song off of _Naked_ is? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/51 "2020-09-21T14:22:50Z")
> [@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. 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. Not too familiar with APP besides getting stoned and listening to their CDs in college with a bunch of people in my dorm. Last night I streamed Eye in the Sky and then Eve. Eye in the Sky seemed bleh once you got past the cool introduction and then Eye in the Sky, which I knew from the early MTV era. I quite liked Eve, however. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/52 "2020-09-21T15:30:20Z")
> [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > Now, don’t get me wrong. _Naked_ is a fine, middle of the road pop/rock album. The issue is Talking Heads made their career by **not** being an average pop/rock band. Well, to each their own. I beg to differ. > [@Ike\_Witt](#): > > I would ask what your favourite song off of _Naked_ is? Probably Blind, but just off the top of my head, not having listened to the album in awhile, I also really like Mr. Jones, Ruby Dear, and of course (Nothing But) Flowers (“if this is paradise I wish I had a lawnmower”) ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/53 "2020-09-21T15:58:43Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > Yet still far superior to A Momentary Lapse of Reason I actually really enjoyed AMLR and its follow-up The Division Bell. It was very different from previous Floyd albums, which was to be expected after losing/evicting a founding band member. I think I have to agree with @glowacks that The Final Cut was worse as it seemed they just phoned it in. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/54 "2020-09-21T16:06:12Z")
I think the worst Rush album would have to be 1989’s “Presto”. It was soon after their renaissance of the 80’s and trying to find themselves in the post-grunge rock scene. They course corrected soon after with “Roll The Bones”. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/55 "2020-09-21T16:15:37Z")
The worst Squeeze album would have to be UK Squeeze (which the band was also called for a time, until it got out from under the legal impediment posed by a forgotten U.S. band called Tight Squeeze). In spite of (or because of) being produced by John Cale, it includes pretty dreadful songs like “Sex Master” and “Bang Bang”, and the horrendously titled but not objectionable instrumental “Wild Sewerage Tickles Brazil”. Overall it hardly sounds at all like the group’s future ethos of the devil-may-care-but-unlucky-in-love-young-man-about-London. “Take Me I’m Yours” is one I’ve always liked, though. For The Who, I’m tempted to single out their first two albums, which aside from a couple of hit songs are loaded with semi-dreck and stuff that John Entwistle wrote in his creepy junior high school phase. But the truly worst for me is “Live at Leeds”, which has atrocious sound quality and features endless versions of mediocre songs that would’ve been better left off the recording. _I said a Young Man Ain’t got nothing in the world these days Blah blah blah blah blah_ ---
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/56 "2020-09-21T16:26:55Z")
> [@Skunkdog](#): > > I think the worst Rush album would have to be 1989’s “Presto”. It was soon after their renaissance of the 80’s and trying to find themselves in the post-grunge rock scene. They course corrected soon after with “Roll The Bones”. I know that the point of these kinds of threads is not to argue with people’s opinions, but I have to say that Presto is one of my favorite Rush albums. ---
**Author:** ![Skunkdog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@Skunkdog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skunkdog)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/57 "2020-09-21T16:39:53Z")
That was a tossup for me between “Presto”, “Test for Echo” and “Hold Your Fire”. I chose Presto because of its lack of a real rock song (except maybe Superconductor). While I enjoyed a lot of the lyrics (“Anagram for Mongo”, the title track, and “Available Light”), the music just failed to grab me. Their follow-up album “Roll the Bones” brought back the guitar-driven sound that I fell in love with during the “Moving Pictures” and “Power Windows” era. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/58 "2020-09-21T17:06:02Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > For The Who, I’m tempted to single out their first two albums, which aside from a couple of hit songs are loaded with semi-dreck and stuff that John Entwistle wrote in his creepy junior high school phase. But the truly worst for me is “Live at Leeds”, which has atrocious sound quality and features endless versions of mediocre songs that would’ve been better left off the recording. For me a band full of 17 to 20 year old’s should sound like a band full of hormone fueled teenage angst, so I cut them some slack on their early works . I also like Live at Leeds because it captured the energy of a Live performance that wasn’t really done too well previously, it was a balls to the wall rock and roll performance IMHO and a lot of critics agree. If I had to pick a disappointing Who album it would be “Face Dances”, with Keith Moon departed the band really started showing their age and their studio albums became boring. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2020, 5:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/59 "2020-09-21T17:14:06Z")
> [@eschereal](#): > > 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. Huh. While I Do think that Bungle in the Jungle is pretty bland compared to SA(otTIoaND), not only would I have thought that Aqualung and Thick as a Brick would have outsold A Passion Play, I definitely prefer the latter to Songs from the Wood. Then again I haven’t listened to Songs from the Wood in over a decade so maybe I should break it out again and give it a whirl. Now, that preference is slightly a guilty pleasure, because A Passion Play almost feels like fanservice in that they are giving me more classic Tull in exactly the way that I want instead of pushing boundaries, but I can’t help the way I feel. ---
**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, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058/60 "2020-09-21T17:46:49Z")
I was also a big Who fan - saw them a few times, bought all of the non-modern albums. I totally agree on Live at Leeds, especially the remaster. Somewhere along the line Entwistle commented that LAL was the only album where you could hear his bass the way he hears it, rumbling with the gain turned up. As for the worst Who album, eh, not sure I have one. It’s Hard & Face Dances are both mediocre, but both also have good songs. If pressed, I’d go along with Face Dances. The early stuff is still near & dear to me because of when I first listened to it. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-worst-album-by-a-band-u-like/921058.md?page=4)