Artists/bands where you love ALL BUT ONE of their albums?

[wolfking]

I liked Pull Harder in 2005 but the album didn't really move me. I don't enjoy a lot of screaming vocals. And Matt's were really screechy on that album.

It wasn't until I heard the song " In Waves " that I went 'Oh hang on a minute...'. That whole album is a masterpiece to me.

VF was like 10 songs that didn't make In Waves in literally any order with no theme. It seemed so rushed. And Paolo said in twitter

they didn't like how hot it sounded.

I don't give two fux that there's no harsh vocals on Silence In the Snow. It's all about the songs to me and that album sounds great and has really good songs.

But yeah the last two albums have been amazing.

Dead Men might be my least fav Trivium album.  It didn't really stick with me.  Felt like leftovers from the album before.

Ascendancy is still their pinnacle for me.

[Buddyhunter1]

Agalloch - The Serpent And The Sphere is probably the closest answer for me. I don't LOVE all of their other albums, but they're all great, and their final album was a big step down in quality.

[cfmoran13]

Machine Head - Catharsis
Trivium - Vengeance Falls

Catharsis sure is an interesting record hey.  I don't mind a chunk of it but there's certainly a couple of absolute WTF moments.

I've persevered with Catharsis and there is the odd track I don't mind.

I definitely forgot about this album.  I probably haven't listened to that album once since the first week or two it was released.  And, that's coming from someone who really likes 'Supercharger'.  Listening to a lot of Phil Demmel interviews since his exit, that album was definitely Robb's project, even more than the other albums are.  He's gone so far as to say it might as well have been a Robb solo album.  Phil and Dave wanted to go super heavy/thrashy and Robb wasn't interested in that. 

[WildRanger]

Only Kyuss comes to my mind. Not a fan of their debut Wretch, love the next 3 albums.

[soupytwist]

Now For Plan A - The Tragically Hip.

I maybe don't love all their 12 other albums but this one is quite a bit weaker in my opinion.

[SoundscapeMN]

Kevin Gilbert:

I can honestly say I *love* almost everything he released between his Solo releases and the bands he was in. Other than probably the Kaviar Demo, which I do enjoy and need to revisit as its been many years since I listened to the whole thing. But it is so dark, twisted, sarcastic and cynical, that much of it doesn't quite resonate with me as much as his other work. Plus a lot of it has an industrial style to it, which even with it being Kevin Gilbert, at this point for me, industrial music has its limitations for my taste.

[OpenYourEyes311]

Neal Morse (prog solo output) - I love just about everything under the "Neal Morse" name... but that last album (Sola Gratia) does absolutely NOTHING for me. I keep waiting for it to connect, and it just never does.

SR-71 - a band with only three albums, but I love both the debut and the final one. The middle one (Tomorrow) has a few good songs, but nothing as great as the rest of the catalog.

The Offspring - really digging the new one. Conspiracy of One is the one dud in their discography.

Michael Jackson - I only count his six adult albums in his discography. They all slay, except the last one I just didn't get into (Invincible).

[Max Kuehnau]

Invincible isn't a bad MJ album IMHO. Not my favourite, but I still listen to it here and there. Having said that, all the other ones get to be thrown on more often. Bad is my personal favourite.

[DTA]

Invincible isn't a bad MJ album IMHO. Not my favourite, but I still listen to it here and there. Having said that, all the other ones get to be thrown on more often. Bad is my personal favourite.

Threatened has such a killer groove to it. Underrated album imo

[Max Kuehnau]

Invincible isn't a bad MJ album IMHO. Not my favourite, but I still listen to it here and there. Having said that, all the other ones get to be thrown on more often. Bad is my personal favourite.

Threatened has such a killer groove to it. Underrated album imo

yes, really really nice. Quite a few others too. Cool album despite the circumstances surrounding it.

[Stadler]

Cinderella - Heartbreak Station.

I LOVE the first one, "Night Songs", their "AC/DC" album.   I LOVE the second one, "Long Cold Winter", which is a little more... melodic.   Kind of Aerosmith-y.   I HATE the third one, "Heartbreak Station", which is their "Small Faces" record; lots of songs with acoustic guitars and train metaphors which fall flat for me.   I really like their fourth, and last, "Still Climbing", which is sort of a combo of all that came before (plus it has my favorite Cinderella song, "The Road's Still Long".)

[TAC]

I liked Night Songs, and I did buy Long Cold Winter when it came out, but I never thought all that much of it. I was pretty much done with them at that point, no that I was really with them.

[WildRanger]

Cinderella - Heartbreak Station.

I LOVE the first one, "Night Songs", their "AC/DC" album.   I LOVE the second one, "Long Cold Winter", which is a little more... melodic.   Kind of Aerosmith-y.   I HATE the third one, "Heartbreak Station", which is their "Small Faces" record; lots of songs with acoustic guitars and train metaphors which fall flat for me.   I really like their fourth, and last, "Still Climbing", which is sort of a combo of all that came before (plus it has my favorite Cinderella song, "The Road's Still Long".)

Do you consider Cinderella glam metal or not?

[Nekov]

Let's see

Queen - Hot Space: Under pressure is great but the rest of the songs are just awful.
Rush - Rush: I never feel the need to revisit this album

I think that's it. Every other band has either more than 1 album I don't like or, in King Crimson's case, none.

[WildRanger]

Rush - Rush: I never feel the need to revisit this album

I agree about Rush debut. It's a very weak album and it sounds like a third-rate Led Zeppelin.
Unlike a lot of classic rock bands Rush made an unmemorable debut album that is not a classic at all.

[Stadler]

Cinderella - Heartbreak Station.

I LOVE the first one, "Night Songs", their "AC/DC" album.   I LOVE the second one, "Long Cold Winter", which is a little more... melodic.   Kind of Aerosmith-y.   I HATE the third one, "Heartbreak Station", which is their "Small Faces" record; lots of songs with acoustic guitars and train metaphors which fall flat for me.   I really like their fourth, and last, "Still Climbing", which is sort of a combo of all that came before (plus it has my favorite Cinderella song, "The Road's Still Long".)

Do you consider Cinderella glam metal or not?

Not really.   More Aerosmith than glam. 

[cfmoran13]

Do you consider Cinderella glam metal or not?

Not really.   More Aerosmith than glam.

Absolutely!  Although, the cover of 'Night Songs' says differently.   

[Stadler]

Do you consider Cinderella glam metal or not?

Not really.   More Aerosmith than glam.

Absolutely!  Although, the cover of 'Night Songs' says differently.   

Shot, incidentially, at the end of Headhouse Square at the corner of 2nd and Pine in Philadelphia.   I lived about five blocks south of there. 

[The Curious Orange]

Dream Theater — The Astonishing

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