Bad albums by good artists

Sandinista! - The Clash
As much as I love The Clash, they pretty much sucked after this album. They should have stuck with what they were good at. Honest, straightforawrd punk rock. Instead, they tried to experiment with R&B, Pop, Funk, and Raggae. And you know what? I hate it. I know London Calling only had "Koka Kola", "London Calling", "Clampdown" and maybe one or two other songs that were actually Punk Rock, but at least they did a good job of incorporating other genres. "The Right Profile", "The Card Cheat", "I'm Not Down", "Spanish Borabs", "Rudie Can't Fail", "Guns Of Brixton" and their covers of "Brand New Caddillac" and "Wrong Em' Boyo" is among their best work, and it was arguably not punk. But Sandinista and afterwarRAB, blah. They rarely did anything with punk after that. It was all this experimental garbage that sucked. I love the Clash, but I would love them more if they actually stayed punk (and maybe throw in a few raggae or rockabilly ones, I guess).
 
I said "Good Artists" and as I proved with Weezer if mediocre/bad albums make up most of your discography you're not a good artist.
 
Sandinista has a really good album in it if you take the crap out.
You reduce it to say 12 songs and you get...

The Magnificent Seven
Junco Partner
Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
The Leader
Somebody Got Murdered
One More Time
Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
Corner Soul
Police on My Back
The Call Up
Washington Bullets
Charlie Don't Surf

Which to me is a pretty solid album
 
I used to like Magnificent Seven, but now it just gets annoying. About the only song I like on that list is Police On My Back.

Too many songs on Sandinista = Too much boring.
 
No. I love the first album. I put a track (Pretty Thing) into a comp I posted on here. I don't see the problem. He did'nt use the Bowie name and was admirable in it's failure. There is some good stuff going on in the debut that neeRAB reappraisal I think.
 
Agreed. and maybe Paper Tiger isn't half bad.

And I would like to contest the inclusion of Midnight Vultures. What is wrong with that album? We used to play it contantly in a frame shop I worked in a couple years back.

Peachs and Cream is great, and Deborah is a ****ing masterpiece. Whats not to Lovesex?
 
"Breathe" by Midnight Oil was arguably their worst effort. They just sounded jaded and lifeless. I can't remeraber the last time I listened to it. Thankfully they got back to form with their next CD "Redneck Wonderland".
 
Just about everything from 1984 up until 2001 - Yes
Trans - Neil Young
Ummagumma - Pink Floyd
In Through the Out Door & Coda - Led Zeppelin
*Enter 80s album by 70s prog band here*
 
That one I'll give you but people have since remixed the songs and added bass in (if it's any consolation)



AJFA, the song, is fucking awesome. Just because they didn't write to conform to the 'thrash' stencil and wrote some music how they wanted to write it without worrying if they were going match this preconcept of what 'thrash metal is 'pose to sound like' doesn't mean it was bad.



Drums sounded fine to me, listen to Dyer's Eve the drums kick ass (especially during the verses( 'dear mother, dear father')).



As it turns out, one is one of my least favorites on the album, it takes way too long to get to the good part =)



They wrote the song before they made the video, please foregive them for thier sins.



How can you compete (let's just talk about AJFA here) with Dyers Eve, Blackened, Frayed EnRAB of Sanity, Shortest Straw, I mean the whole album? It's simply balls to the wall awesomeness.
 
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