Queensryche the Promised Land marked the end of growth for the band. It sucked due to infighting within the band and I believe a disbuted contract with the record company. They never recovered and lived on past glory ever since. What a waste.
Guns and Roses the Spaghetti Incident was the same, but for different reasons but same result.
The Who by Numbers is the worst from their classic lineup. Not terrible, but “Squeeze Box” is overrated and most of the other songs are forgettable. Townshend has said he felt detached from the songs, and it shows.
I love the Bonzo Dog Band, but Let’s Make Up and Be Friendly isn’t all that good. They toned down things from being wild and bizarre to being only mildly funny. It was a contractual obligation album, so it’s not surprising that it doesn’t have the old elan.
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Couldn’t concur more - can’t think of many more galvanizing live albums - the dirtiness of rock’n roll reigns supreme here.
Unpopular! Unpopular! (heh - over ELP 
) I was more or less ok with that one.
Huh - you like Love Beach more than that one? (or you just dislike PaaE more. 
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Though Daltrey did describe it as his favorite Who album.
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It’s actually my third favorite, behind Who Are You and Quadrophenia. I don’t like Squeeze Box, but Slip Kid is one of my favorite Who songs.
Not at all a fan of Squeeze Box, but They Are All In Love (and to a lesser extent, Slip Kid) rescued the album.
The Final Cut was really a Roger Waters solo album with the Pink Floyd name on it. As such, I personally did not find it terribly disappointing, because Roger Waters is a fucking artíste, he is sensitive as shit. If you want disappointment, try A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Utter pap. Even Gilmour’s About Face was better than the Fake Floyd stuff.
I should’ve said above, this is one of my top three or four for them. It’s a change of pace, but a really good one.
I am also a fan of Who by Numbers. I was never a fan of “Squeeze Box” (cringed when they would play it live), but “Slip Kid”, “In a Hand or a Face” are among my favorites (definitely not “forgettable”).
But the most impactful song for me is “How Many Friends”. Kind of like the entire album of Quadrophenia, this song came along during my teenage angst years, and asked the question I had been pondering as my circle of friends were “shifting”. I was finding that some long time friends that I thought I could always count on, were letting me down. Yet new friends were turning out to be more reliable and there for me.
Zappa released 60 or so albums before he passed on, so there were obviously some stinkers in there. Thing-Fish gets a lot of stick and rightfully so; it’s a true endurance test even for hardcore fans. Personally I could also do without The Man From Utopia which I find really dreary. And I’m glad I’ve got Playground Psychotics in my collection, but I’m sure I’ll never listen to it again.
I loved that one as a teenager as well.
Hmph! 
I actually like Man from Utopia. Aside from the instrumental stuff and his classical music experiments, I’d pick Sheik Yerbouti if I had to be stranded on a desert island with every Zappa album but one.
Surprised nobody’s mentioned Zeppelin’s In Through the Out Door.
South Bound Suarez is among my favorite Zeppelin tracks, although there are probably 20 I like more. The rest of the album is okay for my nostalgia and not much else.
Eh, I’d say it’s still better than The Revolution By Night.
I’m gonna have to disagree with pretty much all of the Who discourse in this thread and nominate A Quick One for worst album. It was, as the name implies, thrown together on short notice to capitalize on “My Generation” becoming a hit, with the band members churning out mostly forgettable pop numbers on the incentive of a £500 advance each, with the ten-minute title track thrown in because they’d still only managed to write and record twenty minutes worth of music. (The cover of “Heatwave” is pretty cool, though.)
It’s amazing how many albums that fit this criteria for me were produced by Phil Spector:
The Beatles Let it Be
John Lennon Some Time in New York City
The Ramones End of the Century
Dion Born to be with You
@Elmer_J.Fudd heresy! lol…I love End of the Century. But to each their own. My least favorite records by da bruddahs were Too Tough To Die (annoying and thrashy with one great pop single tossed in) and Halfway to Sanity (totally forgettable songs).
Around the Sun by R.E.M… The nail in the coffin for me. They were already fading, but I liked a couple tracks on both Up and Reveal.
I’m a huge Lucinda Williams fan but I’ve always found West kind of boring. After the untoppable Car Wheels on a Gravel Road her next two albums explored different directions with some success, but West felt like one too many in that vein.
Since then she’s gotten a little rootsier and I’ve preferred those albums.
I forgot to, but I’ll second your nomination of it.
I remember well the time. There was a three year drought of LZ having no new studio albums and ITTOD was much anticipated. I was profoundly disappointed when I finally heard it: Not a single solid hard rock song in it. Oh some tracks had some passable rock riffs, and some tracks were jaunty enough in their own way so that as time passed they sounded OK, but nothing in the entire album that makes me want to go out of my way to hear any of them.
Oh the critics hailed it as a great new direction for them, but critics never liked hard rock anyway, so fuck 'em. A few dyed in the wool LZ fans pretended to like it, out of loyalty I suppose, but then I suppose there was a fair degree of cognitive dissonance involved.