I kind of like that album. It goes well with Paul Anka’s Rock Swings.
Paul Anka’s Rock Swings was released in 2004 and features covers of Eye of the Tiger, Wonder Wall, and Smells Like Teen Spirit. I bought it and enjoyed it unironically. I think Boone might have just been ahead of the curve on that one.
I see that you are also a cultured individual with refined tastes!
Good points all. and on this at least we can agree. I never really objected to it myself, but my Michigander friend was apoplectic that I would consider playing it. Certainly it doesn’t make it to the Highlander 2 level of the OP’s analogy.
I guess I can’t argue they were trying to drown him in dollars…
Re: Pat Boone and Paul Anka’s interpretations of rock standards–I wonder what people think about those albums compared to say, McCartney’s Kisses On The Bottom, Brian Wilson Reimagines Gershwin or Rod Stewart’s Great American Songbook series.
I came here to mention ‘Hot Space’ and was beaten to it.
So I’ll throw in ‘Kid A’ by Radiohead. I bought the cd and I don’t think I ever listened to it twice. What the hell was that all about?
Man do I love that album, my second or third favorite of theirs. 
Mine would be “And Then There Were Three” by Genesis. After Steve Hackett left, they should have taken a few years off before reuniting with their three-piece debut “Duke”.
(Part of the problem I’ve always had with “ATTWT” is that my vinyl copy sounds like shit, and I’ve never been sure if it was bad production on the album or if I just got a bad pressing.)
It’s a call back to the start of Boone’s career ‘whitewashing’ ‘race music’.
I’m not a die hard fan but I have to admit that it isn’t a bad album. But mentioning the Muscle Shoals Rhythm Section made me realize something, even though it doesn’t have to do with them per se. The only part of Bob Seger’s music that transcends the passably good into the great is the background vocals on Still The Same.
Van Halen III released in 1998 and the only one with Gary Cherone (of Extreme) as the lead vocalist is derided by Van Halen fans.
As I remember it described in the Saucerful of Secrets band biography, Waters wanted to make a solo album and CBS Records (I believe) made them publish it under Pink Floyd for sales. But the band was well busted by then and every non-Waters member had minimal participation.
I don’t hate it. I also don’t really consider it a Pink Floyd album.
It can be argued that The Wall was Waters’ first solo album and The Final Cut should have been it’s third disk.
(I.E. Roger Waters’ 'My dad died and I never got over it’ featuring Pink Floyd)
You try to come up with lyrics that rhyme with ‘Vicious’!
I’m suspicious… 
Interesting, I actually saw that Katy Perry residency show in Las Vegas a few months ago. I liked it, but it definitely was kind of weird.
I see that his canonical example is “0304” by Jewel. I might be one of the few people who really likes that album.
Many years ago, my brother was in a record store where they had a copy of MMM available on vinyl for purchase, and he told the clerk, “If this ever gets released on CD, we’ll know the apocalypse is near.” The clerk laughed.
It’s since been released on CD.
“On what day did the Lord create Spinal Tap, and why didn’t He rest on that day too?”
Your mistake was only listening once. Most albums I love took a few listens, or many, to comprehend. Kid A took a few, but it’s a great. Not sure you’ll find many others thinking it is the one Radiohead album to give a pass. Did you like the other Radiohead albums?
It’s up there for me too.
Except that The Wall has very good music on it. Very few tracks that make me get up and fast-forward to the next *, let alone skip the rest of the album. Final Cut doesn’t fit that description in the slightest. They may share a conceptual theme but that’s pretty much all they share.
- “The Trial” on occasion, and “Another Brick in the Wall Pt 2” due to radio overplay. Can’t think of any others.