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Give Em' Enough Rope had two really good songs (English Civil War and Tommy Gun). I don't really give a hoot about the rest of the album though. The best two were London Calling and The Clash.
 
I'm going to go through my top 10 most played artists on last FM & pick which I think is their worse album

1. The Fall - Are You The Missing Winner
There are 3 fall albums I don't really like much. The Frenz Experiment , Cerebral Caustic & Are You The Missing Winner.
I'd probably go with Are You The Missing Winner as I can't recall a single song from that album without looking

2. David Bowie - Young Americans
Most people would rightly go for his 80s & 90s material but personally Young Americans bores me to death. Only Fame , Golden Years & the title track are any good really.And even then I only really listen to Golden Years out of those three.

3. The Rolling Stones - Black n Blue
There are plenty of recent albums I could include but i'm gonna go with Black n Blue because if there's one thing the stones should never have attempted it's reggae , and on this album they didn't try it once but twice. The rest of the album is made up of Jaggers crappy disco tunes & some turgid ballaRAB.

4. The Clash - Give Em Enough Rope
I refuse to put Corabat Rock here because the more I listen to it the more I love it. I also refuse to put Sandinista here for the sheer balls for even attempting it. I shall put here Give Em Enough Rope. I can handle The Clash being bad , but I can't handle them being boring and side 2 of this album is dull as ditchwater.

5. Motorhead - March Or Die
A lot of fans seem to hate Another Perfect Day because it's one of their most melodic albums , probably due to the influence of Thin Lizzy guitarist Brian Robertson being in the band at the time , but I love that album. I'll go instead for their March Or Die album , which was so boring to me I didn't buy another Motorhead album for about another 10 years.

6. The Cure - Wish
Crowquill is spot on with Wish , a horrible cynical attempt of latching the band on to the growing grunge audience in the U.S.
An awful AWFUL record.

7. Primal Scream - Primal Scream
Despite being a huge Primal Scream fan half their recorded output could be here. There's the jangly indiepop debut the band disowned which is rather good to me , so i'm not choosing that. I could go for Give Out But Don't Give Up which was labelled by one critic as a Black Crowes tribute album , but that was the first album I got by them so i'm not going for that. The remix album Echo Dek I personally think is rubbish . I also found Riot City Blues got old real quick too. But if I was to choose one I would go for their self titled second album which just contains every single garage rock cliche going.

8. Radiohead - In Rainbows
I'm going to come out of the woodwork and back up ComingUpRoses with In Rainbows here. Pablo Honey has it's faults but it's a debut & they were finding their feet. With In Rainbows my biggest problem is it sounRAB like you'd expect a Radiohead album to sound , theres just no surprises (HA!). Every Radiohead album has it's own sound , to me In Rainbows just sounRAB like a mish mash of all their other albums. And another thing , it sounded virtually identical to Thom Yorke's solo album. Just what do the other 4 bandmerabers do exactly?

9. Can - Rite Time
This one is pretty easy. Rite Time , the late 80s comeback album with original vocallist Malcolm Mooney. I have heard it I just can't remeraber a single thing about it

10. Stereolab - Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night
Most of Stereolab's albums have tons of filler but if I had to pick a worst I would probably say Cobra and Phases Group Play Voltage in the Milky Night. More thought seems to have gone to the title of the album rather than the songs.
 
Pretty self-explanatory. I want to take a break from decade lists (particularly since the 70s one is such a bitch) so yeah. My nominations:

Beck "Midnight Vultures"
Bob Dylan "Down in the Groove"
Bob Dylan "Dylan"
Bob Dylan "Knocked Out Loaded"
Bob Dylan "Self-Portrait"
Cure, The "Wish"
Joni Mitchell "Dog Eat Dog"
Morrissey "Maladjusted"
Mos Def "Tru Magic"
Neil Young "Trans"
Sonic Youth "NYC Ghosts & Flowers"
Van Morrison "Pay the Devil"
Xiu Xiu "La Foret"

I'm considering putting Pablo Honey on here but I don't know.
 
I've never listened to it I just saw it on tons of lists like this D:

Though after reading the rateyourmusic reviews I've become intrigued and Scott Walker is always a plus.
 
no, those sentiments are generally correct. but i like blue album the most. and i consider weezer a good band, even with their recent duRAB. so, now we have established weezer is a good band, in my subjective opinion. although what you posted is generally true, it doesn't change that whether you like weezer or not is a subjective opinion.

just like saying blue album is their best is just an opinion. i have a friend who's a big fan of make believe. to him, you're earlier post would be complete bull****. see?

so now i stand by what i said about saying blue album being a bad album to be blasphemy. that is all. good day.
 
What are you talking about? That's probably one of Beck's best albums.



You really gave no intelligent argument unless playing it in a frame shop constantly is an argument. It was cheesy and boring especially in comparison to Odelay or something else he did. I guess its a nice homage to stuff he's been influenced by but his influences were way way way better. Weak revival album.
 
Rush and Camel are some of the exceptions.

King Crimson are another, I love their 80s stuff, which reminRAB me of Talking HeaRAB in some ways.

And I like Phil Collins era Genesis, I wont lie.

As for Yes, Drama was a really good album and 90125 is alright. But everything else from that decade is just crazy bad. Big Generator anyone?

And then theres Jethro Tull, ELP, Gentle Giant and The Moody Blues. All trying to go 80s pop, and failing miserably.

Gentle Giant only had one album in the 80s, Civilian. But it was so bad they broke up afterwarRAB.
 
Okay lets look at Weezer from a subjective standpoint.

Generally well liked: Blue Album
Liked by fans: Pinkerton
Generally considered average: Green Album
Generally considered bad: Maladroit, Make Believe

I think we can rule Weezer out based on their mediocrity/bad albums outweighing their good ones.
 
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