Least Favorite Albums from Your Favorite Bands

[Dark Castle]

What's with the dislike for Fortress guys?

[425]

Mylo Xyloto is my favorite Coldplay album and in my top five of all the albums in my collection, period. It's an absolutely stunning achievement that deserves none of the hate it gets.

Ok, i give up.

I gave up long ago on MX getting the respect it deserves. 

[Outcrier]

That's the equivalent of an album like St. Anger getting any respect (not that Mylo Xyloto is bad as St. Anger or anything but both are the lowest rated album from their respective bands).

[BRGM]

Dream Theater - WDADU

Porcupine Tree - On The Sunday of Life

Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (Amazing album though)

Blackfield - IV

The Mars Volta - The Bedlam In Goliath (Agadez forward is amazing(Still haven't listened to noctourniquet))

Neal Morse - Lifeline (haven't heard his first two)

Transatlantic - SMPTe (although it's still stellar)

The Flower Kings - The Rainmaker (Still haven't listened through Sum of No Evil and Adam & Eve)

Steve Vai - Flexable/Sex & Religion

Joe Satriani - Engines of Creation (not entirely sure)

Haken - Aquarius (Has some of the bands greatest songs though)

OSI - Free

[Elite]

Favourite bands aye?

Here we go:

Leprous - Coal
Haken - The Mountain
Pain of Salvation - Scarsick
Dream Theater - Black Clouds & Silver Linings
Devin Townsend (Project/Band) - Synchestra (yes, in this shootout Devlab and The Hummer don't exist)
dredg - Cuckles & Mr. Squeezy
Karnivool - Themata
Opeth - Heritage
Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life
Steven Wilson - The Raven Who Refused to Sing (this was terribly hard to do)
Agent Fresco - A Long Time Listening (lol, they only have one album out so far.)

[Mladen]

Alice In Chains - Alice In Chains

No! This is my favorite AIC album. 

I'll name the albums by my ten favorite bands:

Iron Maiden - Fear of the dark
The Beatles - With The Beatles
Dream Theater - Falling into infinity
Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin I
Rush - Rush
Pink Floyd - More
Radiohead - Pablo Honey
of Montreal - Coquelicot asleep in the poppies - a variety of whimsical verse
Thin Lizzy - Night life
Helloween - Chameleon

Interesting point: most of these aren't bad at all.

[hefdaddy42]

The one that sprang immediately to mind is Drastic Measures by Kansas.

[King Postwhore]

Blob is correct in putting Crazy Nights and Unmasked below HitS...

...and TAC is correct about Trail by Fire.  Freaking BRILLIANT Journey album, and a worthy follow up to Frontiers.

I'd rather punch myself in the groin then listen to Hits in full.

[BlobVanDam]

I'd rather punch myself in the groin then listen to Hits in full.

I'll be over there in 5, with a copy of Hot in the Shade and a video camera.

[hefdaddy42]

Um, I like Hot in the Shade.

[KevShmev]

Devin Townsend - A lot of people have been saying Physicist which is fair, but are we forgetting the existence of Devlab and The Hummer?
 

I get the impression that most don't give much thought to those, which is why they are usually ignored.

 
Porcupine Tree - Anything before Stupid Dream?

Signify, The Sky Moves Sideways and Up the Downstair are all amazing.

[Elite]

Porcupine Tree - Anything before Stupid Dream?

Signify, The Sky Moves Sideways and Up the Downstair are all amazing.

In fact, all those three would be in my top 5 PT albums.

[King Postwhore]

I'd rather punch myself in the groin then listen to Hits in full.

I'll be over there in 5, with a copy of Hot in the Shade and a video camera.

I would abide.

Um, I like Hot in the Shade.

4 good songs the rest are just awful.  The worst KISS song ever, Read My Body.

[hefdaddy42]

That one certainly isn't fantastic.  But it puts a smile on my face.

[King Postwhore]

Love me to hate you is a killer song though.

[425]

That's the equivalent of an album like St. Anger getting any respect (not that Mylo Xyloto is bad as St. Anger or anything but both are the lowest rated album from their respective bands).

See, and that I just don't get. How can MX be the lowest rated when it is the best? 

But seriously, would you agree that Systematic Chaos is a better comparison than St. Anger, in that MX is not universally regarded as one of the worst albums ever released, but instead a disappointing album from the particular band? I can be the Coldplay equivalent of those people who rank SC first. Except that MX is miles better than SC (and SDOIT )

[ozzy554]

Black Sabbath - Forbidden
King Diamond - House of God
Judas Priest - Turbo
Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the dying/Virtual XI
System of a Down - S/T
Ozzy Osbourne - Black rain
WASP - KFD
Metallica - St Anger
Queensryche - Dedicated to chaos

[Randaran]

Dream Theater - Black Clouds and Silver Linings
Death - Individual Thought Patterns
Opeth - Heritage
Between the Buried and Me - The Silent Circus
Symphony X - Symphony X (if this does not count, then The Odyssey)
Megadeth - The System Has Failed
Slayer - anything released after Divine Intervention, they're all pretty bad

Those are the first to come to mind.

[Genowyn]

What's with the dislike for Fortress guys?

I do think Scurrilous is worse, it's just that like half of Fortress feels like filler. Bloodmeat - Sequoia Throne is great and Goddess Bound/Gagged are good, but the rest feels really meh to me.

Porcupine Tree - Anything before Stupid Dream?

Signify, The Sky Moves Sideways and Up the Downstair are all amazing.

In fact, all those three would be in my top 5 PT albums.

I've tried and tried but I just can't get into them. At least OTSOL has Radioactive Toy which remains one of their best songs to date.

[mrrct]

Least favorite albums from my favorite bands?

Dream Theater:  When Dream and Day Unite (Hate Dominici's vocals).
Iron Maiden:  The Final Frontier (Dull as dishwater; would be Virtual XI due mainly to The Angel and
                    The Gambler, but The Clansman saves it).
U2:  October (Seems like Boy leftovers; Songs of Innocence isn't far behind, but at least the price was
       right).
Nightwish:  Angels Fall First (Even a young Tarja can't make up for Tuomas's atrocious vocals, and
                 they hadn't yet developed their power metal style).
The Tea Party:  Splendor Solis (Not so bad but just not nearly as good as their next three albums).
Within Temptation:  (tie) Enter and The Dance (I guess I just don't like gothic metal; Sharon sounded
                              like a banshee on these two; Mother Earth had as big a leap in quality as DT did
                              from WDADU to IAW).
KISS:  Hot in the Shade (The songwriting is seriously lacking, even for them; disclaimer:  I haven't
          heard Dynasty, Unmasked, Animalize, or Asylum in their entirety, only the singles).
Queensryche:  (tie) Every album from Tate/Wilton/Jackson/Rockenfeld after Hear in the Now Frontier;
                      disclaimer:  I haven't heard either the self-titled or Frequency Unknown.
Megadeth:  The World Needs A Hero (Just a nothing album; disclaimer:  I gave up on them after
                 United Abominations, so I can't say if Supercollider (sp?) is as bad as people say it is).
Metallica:  St. Anger (no explanation needed; Lulu may be worse, but it's a collaboration album).

[Outcrier]

But seriously, would you agree that Systematic Chaos is a better comparison than St. Anger, in that MX is not universally regarded as one of the worst albums ever released, but instead a disappointing album from the particular band?

More or less. I certainly don't think both Coldplay or Dream Theater have anything nearly as bad as St. Anger.

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

But seriously, would you agree that Systematic Chaos is a better comparison than St. Anger, in that MX is not universally regarded as one of the worst albums ever released, but instead a disappointing album from the particular band?

More or less. I certainly don't think both Coldplay or Dream Theater have anything nearly as bad as St. Anger.

DT12 comes close. But yeah St. Anger is pretty unbearable.

[Onno]

Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite (with DT12 closely behind it)
Opeth - Orchid (though it's still really good)
Porcupine Tree - On the Sunday of Life
Devin Townsend - Devlab
Steven Wilson - Insurgentes (though it's still a fantastic album)
Leprous - Tall Poppy Syndrome (great album, but I very much dislike the title track)
Mastodon - Remission (though it's still pretty good)

[Zantera]

Going by the same band picks from the other thread:

Oceansize - Self Preserved While the Bodies Float Up (but I still love it)
Cardiacs - Guns (still a darn great album)
Swans - The Burning World (either this one or Greed)
Boris - Asia
Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Asunder, Sweet and Other Distress
Converge - Halo in a Haystack
The Cure - Wild Mood Swings
Sigur Rós - Von
The Mars Volta - Noctourniquet
Kayo Dot - Gamma Knife
Sun Kil Moon - Among the Leaves
Red House Painters - Old Ramon
Neurosis - Pain of Mind
Isis - In the Absence of Truth
Amplifier - Insider (I still really dig it though)
Between the Buried and Me - Between the Buried and Me
Boards of Canada - Music Has the Rights to Children (maaaybe? I honestly consider all 4 albums on par, it really changes every month or so)
Mew - Half the World is Watching Me
Nine Inch Nails - The Slip
Steven Wilson - Hand Cannot Erase

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

Boards of Canada - Music Has the Rights to Children (maaaybe? I honestly consider all 4 albums on par, it really changes every month or so)

Thought I was the only one. It's my least favourite now, but it's still amazing.

[Kotowboy]

Therapy? - One Cure Fits All.

Their worst album by a long long way and the band have recently begun admitting to it as well.

The songs are lazy and half-baked. The production is awful and tries to be a dirty rock album and a polished pop album at the same time. The drums are buried and at times barely audible and the overall playing on the album is really poor.

What's worse is that it is smack bang in the middle of a great run of albums which got better each time.

High Anxiety is better than Shameless then never Apologise, Never Explain was better than High Anxiety..then One Cure ended that run and then their next album, Crooked Timber

( which they deliberately spent 3 years working on after they rushed out One Cure Fits All ) - was one of their best albums.

[TAC]

Love me to hate you is a killer song though.

No Question.

Honestly it's one of the best and most unique songs of the no makeup era.

[TAC]

Megadeth:  The World Needs A Hero (Just a nothing album; disclaimer:  I gave up on them after
                 United Abominations, so I can't say if Supercollider (sp?) is as bad as people say it is).

UA is awesome, and you missed out on the very excellent Endgame.

KISS:  Hot in the Shade (The songwriting is seriously lacking, even for them; disclaimer:  I haven't
          heard Dynasty, Unmasked, Animalize, or Asylum in their entirety, only the singles).

Dynasty, Animalize, and Asylum have so many great songs on them. You are truly missing out.

Iron Maiden:  The Final Frontier (Dull as dishwater;

I would say sir that you were not properly prepared to receive this. Try agin!


Welcome to the forum BTW!
Great list of favorite bands.

[425]

Megadeth:  The World Needs A Hero (Just a nothing album; disclaimer:  I gave up on them after
                 United Abominations, so I can't say if Supercollider (sp?) is as bad as people say it is).

UA is awesome, and you missed out on the very excellent Endgame.

Iron Maiden:  The Final Frontier (Dull as dishwater;

I would say sir that you were not properly prepared to receive this. Try agin!

Seconded on both counts. The Final Frontier is actually probably my favorite Iron Maiden album.

[krands85]

Aside from DT who are my clear #1 band, I'm not sure who my 'favourites' are. So the rest of the list is a mix between bands I've been listening to a lot of over the last year, as well as bands who, I maybe don't listen to as much now - but who are still high on my most listened artists section of last.fm. No real order to it after DT.

Dream Theater - When Dream and Day Unite
Anathema - Serenades
Opeth - Heritage
Muse - The Resistance
Haken - Aquarius
Deftones - Adrenaline
Metallica - St Anger
Radiohead - Kid A or The King of Limbs
Tesseract - One
Maybeshewill - Fair Youth
65daysofstatic - We Were Exploding Anyway
Tool - Undertow
Symphony X - Symphony X
Rage Against the Machine - Renegades

The albums there range from still excellent - like Aquarius by Haken, to underwhelming/disappointing, to downright awful like Muse, Metallica and Radiohead's efforts. Also a couple of things to note - Tesseract only have 2 albums thus far and Renegades is a cover album.

[LieLowTheWantedMan]

downright awful like Muse, Metallica and Radiohead's efforts.

Radiohead - Kid A or The King of Limbs

[KevShmev]

Calling All Stations -  You know that From Genesis to Revelation still counts as a Genesis album in spite of its being left out of the boxed sets, don't you? 

 

I think I've listened to those two albums maybe two or three times each; neither were good.  I gave the debut a slight pass because it was the debut, and Calling All Stations got docked a point for them trying to continue on without Phil Collins.

[ThatOneGuy2112]

Radiohead - Kid A

 

[Kotowboy]

Radiohead - Kid A

 

Compared to The Bends it's a turd. Compared to Amnesiac it's a polished turd

[Zantera]

Radiohead - Kid A

 

Compared to The Bends it's a turd. Compared to Amnesiac it's a polished turd

But Kid A and Amnesiac gang-rape The Bends so many times it's not even funny. Saying The Bends is better than Kid A and Amnesiac is like saying Putin is a better than Jesus.