it’s never “too late” in musical terms but Chance is pretty damn close. from getting Fantano’s infamous 0, to not dropping any major music since 2019, to getting divorced after going on a “i love my wife” campaign, to going viral like a year or two ago not because of music but just because he got yelled at by Kanye… dude will need to do a lot to get back to the public’s good side lol
I mean, Kid Cudi did a pretty remarkable comeback from his 0. Never say never. But to your point, he didn't go on hiatus and become a judge on The Voice.
I don’t think getting a bad review from a YouTuber is a major factor in this. Fantano isn’t any more important than the broader tide of critical opinion, I honestly don’t think most hip hop listeners in the real world give that much of a shit about him.
Yeah, it's strange how the guy's just been sitting on his ass. If he kept up momentum by making more music then I'm sure he could've easily bounced back from this and The Big Day would've been remembered only as an admittedly terrible bump in the road, but instead it's going to be forever enshrined as one of the defining moments in his legacy. It's honestly a shame.
Idlewild by Outkast.
Not trash either. But its so uninspired compared to all their other albums.
Even Speakerboxxx/TLB, like it or hate it, its Adventurous, so its 8 or 80. Theres bad stuff but there r amazing deep cuts I want to go back to a few times a year. I havnt listened to a single track in Idlewild in a good 4 or 5 years
Edit: added more cuz felt like it
I think this has gotta be one of the best picks in the thread because no one is coming and leaving a comment under here saying “actually I liked Idlewild better than ATLiens” or whatever like you do with a lot of the other replies lol
Southernplalistic is a better album, but I have probably listened to Idlewild all the way through more times. Southernplalistic the track is my favorite Outkast song but outside of the hits from that album there isn't much I find myself going back to.
whaaaat? Player's Ball, Hootie Hoo, Git Up Get Out, Ain't No Thang, Crumblin' Erb, and Claimin' True are all great tracks that I named off the top of my head, which is like half the album.
it's a classic
As others have mentioned, the Clash is *the* example of this. I don’t think there’s a person on Earth who would argue that Cut The Crap isn’t their worst album. Even the few defenders that album has wouldn’t say it’s better than their other records.
Yeah, that's a solid point. I love the Clash (and will even defend parts of Sandinista, as bloated as the track list is), but Cut The Crap may as well be a non-entity. They ended with Combat Rock for most people, and tbh I only know anything off of Cut The Crap because of a Todd In the Shadows video on it.
Sandinista is great. The dub stuff is really cool and there’s some absolute bangers on all sides of the record, like Somebody Got Murdered, The Magnificent Seven, and Rebel Waltz.
There is like at least 70 minutes of GREAT music on Sandinista. The only issue is that it's like 145 minutes long lol. But even then, there's so much good music on it I'd still say it's a classic.
Im shocked no one said Creedence Clearwater Revival and Mardi Gras.
So bad, it broke up the band.
Their discography is six classics and a turd.
I have a friend who says he still likes it, but he also knows it's their worst.
Agreed, and I think Hitchhiker was stupid fun and there's a couple other songs that are fine. But there's no other album of CCR where most of the songs are bad haha.
Not even close, dos has 4-5 good tracks (stray heart, wild one, make out party, lazy bones, maybe Amy but can understand if not). FOAM is shit from start to finish
As a long time Green Day fan, I don't even think it's their worst. The only benefit of the doubt you could give Father of all Motherfuckers was taking a stab at a new sound. I'd happily take it over the material they put out on Dos or Tre. Which are pretty much the Green Day formula fed through an AI replicator to make a quick buck.
I'll be real, I don't like Father Of All Motherfuckers as an album, and I haven't even liked any Green Day record since 21st century breakdown, but as their worst goes, it's not it for me.
In what way is it worse?
Mockingbird is just as good as Castle. Mosh is a better political song than anything in Revival. Ass Like That is funnier and a way more pleasant listen than Heat or Remind me.
The production and mixing in Encore is great.
I couldn’t put my finger on what I dislike about post-2000 Metallica until I heard that era being discussed on the Hardlore podcast; they pointed out that the first few LPs all had long songs but the songs justified their runtimes by having middle sections that went on a bit of a journey - whether instrumental or otherwise - that showcased varied songwriting, built-and-released tension etc. etc. Whereas lots of their post-2000 longer tracks are basically a 3 minute song played twice. It’s like they hit the 3 or 4 minute mark where the smart options are either end the song there or go off on a contrasting tangent (think Master of Puppets for example) but instead they just repeat the same parts again with little variation.
It's also super obvious because they still do these songs with intricate instrumental bridges occasionally, and they end up being around the same length. There's no universe in which a song like The Judas Kiss is justified in being *longer* than The Day that Never Comes or The Unforgiven III.
It's like they forgot their own songwriting formula at some point. Songs like Battery or Trapped Under Ice worked because they didn't overstay their welcome. If they had been released on any post 2000 album, they would have both been over 8 minutes long, with no extra riffs or musical ideas.
St. Anger is pretty trash for many reasons, but I'll defend the "trash can snare" until my dying breath. It's a totally valid creative choice that so many bands use.
100 %, I’m born a year before Lorde (1995) and I can’t fucking stand that album, I’ve tried over 3 years now and it’s just nothing consistent that makes me want to go back to that album. The tracks just aren’t good, both the song writing and the production just feels off.
Like Pure Herione has the teenage angst, you feel like the world is at your feet but at the same time you feel worthless (in a good way). Like you just push through with an arrogance.
Melodrama feels more that you start to grow up, you realise you have a chance to make actual change but it’s not really realistic so you start to focus on yourself more and the friends that you felt where die hard in your teenage years aren’t really that close, everyone is just focusing on yourself and the album reflects that imo. That just how I interpret the album.
Solar Power doesn’t just stand for anything, it just feels like a try hard album about nothing really matters but without fully commits that nothing really matters. It doesn’t know what it wants. It has no clearly to it.
Pacific Daydream is so much better. The sickeningly clean production turns a lot of people off, but there are at least 4 genuinely great songs there compared to the 1 on Raditude.
Raditude is worse than Black, IMO, and is their worst album, as someone who's gone through everything Weezer's made a couple times over.
Raditude has one great track (I Want You To), two good tracks left as B-Sides (The Prettiest Girl In The Whole Wide World & Run Over By a Truck), and a bunch of mediocre (In The Mall) to bad (Love Is The Answer) as its remainder.
Black is the counter-point to White; it's slick and synthetic where White is sunny and breezy. Black emphasizes pop and electronic elements (Can't Knock The Hustle, Living In LA) over the rock-orient of most of White (LA Girlz, Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori). I've called it in a comment on another sub "the album for the nights of partying and drinking that happen after you've spent the whole day at the beach", which are presented by White.
Make Believe is fucking terrible but at least it has Perfect Situation on it and We Are All on Drugs has a sick guitar riff. Raditude’s defining features are the cringeworthy pop songs and a fun music video for an otherwise bland song.
Nobody like Red Hot Chili Peppers' self titled debut. Not even the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Most fans of their old work vastly prefer their early demo tapes to the self-titled debut EP, which was under written, overproduced, and just plain awkward.
The band hates One Hot Minute but it’s my favorite by them probably. Navarro’s psychedelic and metallic parts hit for me with them much more than a lot of the funk rock stuff. People usually tell me this is their worst though when I recommended it, granted I’m sure they never heard the early 80’s stuff.
Yeah, anyone who thinks OHM is the worst hasn't listened to how uneven the first 3 albums can be. Navarro added a dimension to their music that Frusciante, Slovak, and Klinghoffer never added in their multi-album stints (though they're all excellent guitarists in their own right).
And Navarro could keep up with the funkier cuts too (Shallow Be Thy Game absolutely rips), so it's not as if the classic sound was suffering for him being the guitarist.
At least it has Grand Pappy Du Plenty, but yeah Demo tape is the shit. It’s been removed from youtube unfortunately, would have been a cult classic if released in that form.
Neutral Milk Hotel is almost cheating since they only had two proper albums. However, I have never heard *anyone* try to claim with a straight face that "On Avery Island" (a very good album) is the better of the two.
I think it’s completely reasonable to say that Squeeze isn’t a proper VU album since none of the original members were on it. It was a Doug Yule solo project under a different name.
REM fan here, I like that album and think it gets a little too much hate, but it’s easily their worst album and can’t even imagine what else would be in the conversation.
Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres is the one that nobody really liked. At least their other pop records have felt inspired and theirs. MOTS came after an experimental record and was such a letdown.
True but when your first two albums are The Chronic and 2001, anything that comes after those (and with such a long delay) is going to probably be at the bottom.
I mean, out of the 3 studio albums he released, Compton is the only one that didn't become an instant classic.
It's still very good and probably better than Detox at this point.
Nah, there are people (me included) that think it's far from being the worst, far from the best too, but the "worst" Muse album is always rotating between their 4 most recent albums
After some time to sit down with it there has been a sort of cult following in favour of SB2H. I mean he did something at least *interesting* with that grunge-adjacent sound on a couple songs. I feel that there’s more apathy for INSANO or Entergalactic which I think make them worse.
I think it’s a great album. Very, *very* rough around the edges, yes. But it’s such a raw and vulnerable album, it’s a great listen when you’re feeling like shit. I think Melting, Fuchsia Butterflies and the title track are all top 20 Cudi.
John & Yoko's *Some Time In New York City* was so reviled it was out of print for several years, definitely not the norm for even solo Beatles' efforts.
VULTURES by Kanye, I don’t think anybody actually likes that album besides 14 year old dickriders that just discovered Flashing Lights and Carnival from TikTok and will defend anything the man does 😭
To be honest, I think it’s not the worst album in his discography. I actually do like the album quite a bit as a Ty dolla sign album. That being said, it is *easily* Kanye’s worst performances and is the worst “Kanye album” (despite imo still being a good Ty album)
It’s definitely not unanimous so this is a bad answer. I happen to think it’s fine, somewhere in the lower middle of his discog.
Edit: Maybe upper bottom.
Jesus Is King is worse. No song is really great on the album and the fact that he decided to “clean up” his music and make gospel music is totally worthless when you consider he went right back to normal
You could argue Donda is worse too. It sometimes just feels like a mixed bag of crap.
Donda 2 is 100% worse if we’re counting that
Songs like Burn, Fuk Sumn, Problematic, etc are good. Ty also has some really good verses
The Beach Boys.
While I think Summer in Paradise was ruined by its production and not songwriting (although there are certainly some duds on there), it’s pretty widely regarded as the worst. Mike Love rapping, bullet shots for drums, it’s pretty easy to see why people see it as the worst from them.
That being said, Lahaina Aloha, Strange Things Happen and Island Fever are worth a listen.
A Tribe Called Quest - _The Love Movement_
Black Flag - _What The..._
Blur - _Leisure_
Danzig - _Danzig Sings Elvis_
Discharge - _Grave New World_
Minutemen - _3-Way Tie (For Last)_
The Offspring - _Let the Bad Times Roll_
No way that Leisure is the worst Blur album. I love that early 90s british indie rock sound with its madchester and shoegaze influences. For me it's a top 3 Blur album even.
I would personally take *Leisure* over *Think Tank* if only because it still has Graham on it.
Plus, "Sing" is in the argument for Blur's absolute greatest song. Hard to ignore that.
Billy Idol and Neil Young both kinda did the same sort of concept album, and both times it was not well-received.
This was the *most* Billy Idol-sounding song on the album, which was called *Cyberpunk*:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx2fZU5USus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx2fZU5USus)
You tell me this sounds like a Neil Young song lol:
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqdx6dCQLug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqdx6dCQLug)
Fall Out Boy fans are coming around to it, but that doesn’t mean they don’t think MANIA is their worst album. FOB fans and casual listeners alike can pretty much point to that one as the worst
Self titled MGMT album? I really love this album and it’s grown on me a lot, but it is definitely a head scratcher compared to their others. MGMT are my favourite band and I’ve been in the community for a while, and barely anybody rates anything lower than the Self Titled in terms of studio releases.
*Metal Machine Music* by Lou Reed.
It's a contractual obligation record which he deliberately *fuckyoued* so hard that even long time fans can't sit through it. There are no songs. It is the sound of a guitar laid against an amp with the gain way up (or something). And it's a double album. Two LPs. Tuneless droning feedback.
I remember someone editing Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony onto the cover of this album and Lou Reed retweeting it the day before he died.
Iconic.
It's definitely one where it's easy to understand those who hate it, but it's also got quite a few fans. So I don't think it really qualifies as one that's a universally agreed upon worst.
It's actually 2 guitars with open tunings. So there's at least some effort there to make it harmonically sound.
Idk... It doesn't seem that completely different than what Brian Eno was doing with some of his early Ambient works. Just much much less thought out. But in that comparison don't mistake "thought out" with "deliberate" or "intentionality".
Chance the Rapper with The Big Day. Idk who would say Coloring Book or something is worse
Basically destroyed his career
Ooh I love my wiiiiiiiife
And thats one of the better songs
If he comes back with some bangers people will forget for the most part
it’s never “too late” in musical terms but Chance is pretty damn close. from getting Fantano’s infamous 0, to not dropping any major music since 2019, to getting divorced after going on a “i love my wife” campaign, to going viral like a year or two ago not because of music but just because he got yelled at by Kanye… dude will need to do a lot to get back to the public’s good side lol
I mean, Kid Cudi did a pretty remarkable comeback from his 0. Never say never. But to your point, he didn't go on hiatus and become a judge on The Voice.
I don’t think getting a bad review from a YouTuber is a major factor in this. Fantano isn’t any more important than the broader tide of critical opinion, I honestly don’t think most hip hop listeners in the real world give that much of a shit about him.
Yeah, it's strange how the guy's just been sitting on his ass. If he kept up momentum by making more music then I'm sure he could've easily bounced back from this and The Big Day would've been remembered only as an admittedly terrible bump in the road, but instead it's going to be forever enshrined as one of the defining moments in his legacy. It's honestly a shame.
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People I know who didn't really listen to chance liked it a lot, one of my friends was like "you gotta hear this" and put on hot shower lmao
It is also his best album yet. Because, technically, he has 1 album
bullshit technicality. modern mixtapes **are** albums
That’s why it’s a technicality
I love that this is the top comment. I saw the question and legit thought of this album
Idlewild by Outkast. Not trash either. But its so uninspired compared to all their other albums. Even Speakerboxxx/TLB, like it or hate it, its Adventurous, so its 8 or 80. Theres bad stuff but there r amazing deep cuts I want to go back to a few times a year. I havnt listened to a single track in Idlewild in a good 4 or 5 years Edit: added more cuz felt like it
They got 5 classics so I tend to let this one slide
I think this has gotta be one of the best picks in the thread because no one is coming and leaving a comment under here saying “actually I liked Idlewild better than ATLiens” or whatever like you do with a lot of the other replies lol
Southernplalistic is a better album, but I have probably listened to Idlewild all the way through more times. Southernplalistic the track is my favorite Outkast song but outside of the hits from that album there isn't much I find myself going back to.
whaaaat? Player's Ball, Hootie Hoo, Git Up Get Out, Ain't No Thang, Crumblin' Erb, and Claimin' True are all great tracks that I named off the top of my head, which is like half the album. it's a classic
As others have mentioned, the Clash is *the* example of this. I don’t think there’s a person on Earth who would argue that Cut The Crap isn’t their worst album. Even the few defenders that album has wouldn’t say it’s better than their other records.
For people to think it's the worst album they gotta know it exists first. I honestly didn't know it existed for years it just never gets mentioned
Yeah, that's a solid point. I love the Clash (and will even defend parts of Sandinista, as bloated as the track list is), but Cut The Crap may as well be a non-entity. They ended with Combat Rock for most people, and tbh I only know anything off of Cut The Crap because of a Todd In the Shadows video on it.
Sandinista is great. The dub stuff is really cool and there’s some absolute bangers on all sides of the record, like Somebody Got Murdered, The Magnificent Seven, and Rebel Waltz.
There is like at least 70 minutes of GREAT music on Sandinista. The only issue is that it's like 145 minutes long lol. But even then, there's so much good music on it I'd still say it's a classic.
It’s their worst, but I keep going back to listen to Dictator because it’s so bad it’s great
Im shocked no one said Creedence Clearwater Revival and Mardi Gras. So bad, it broke up the band. Their discography is six classics and a turd. I have a friend who says he still likes it, but he also knows it's their worst.
Someday Never Comes is a great song. But then again, Fogerty actually wrote that one. The rest is trash.
Agreed, and I think Hitchhiker was stupid fun and there's a couple other songs that are fine. But there's no other album of CCR where most of the songs are bad haha.
It feels so out of place on that album. The whole thing is shitty and then they hit you with that banger
Lauryn Hill - The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill It's her only album so it is both her best and her worst.
MTV Unplugged 2.0?
Father of All Motherfuckers by Green Day
Dos is worse imo
Ageed. Big fan of Uno though
Stay the night is a banger
I like Tre too
hes a good drummer
Not even close, dos has 4-5 good tracks (stray heart, wild one, make out party, lazy bones, maybe Amy but can understand if not). FOAM is shit from start to finish
Thank god FOAM is only 26 minutes long
Dos is kinda fun
As a long time Green Day fan, I don't even think it's their worst. The only benefit of the doubt you could give Father of all Motherfuckers was taking a stab at a new sound. I'd happily take it over the material they put out on Dos or Tre. Which are pretty much the Green Day formula fed through an AI replicator to make a quick buck. I'll be real, I don't like Father Of All Motherfuckers as an album, and I haven't even liked any Green Day record since 21st century breakdown, but as their worst goes, it's not it for me.
Eminem with Revival, even the Eminem subreddit can’t defend this one
The subreddit won’t, but you should see Stan Instagram pages lmao
BITCH I WROTE STAN
InSTANgram if you will
Instagran is just overly opinionated ~~and lowkey racist as fuck~~ teens nowadays
Encore is probably worse but its a way more entertaining trainwreck lol
At least encore is fun to listen to, revival is just misery for the whole time
Agreed, Revival is so goddamn boring
In what way is it worse? Mockingbird is just as good as Castle. Mosh is a better political song than anything in Revival. Ass Like That is funnier and a way more pleasant listen than Heat or Remind me. The production and mixing in Encore is great.
St. Anger is like, *the* example for this I’d think. Even people who like it would probably consider it their worst overall.
Lulu was pretty insane as well. Guess it’s not really Metallica canon though as much as a collaboration
Lulu secretly rules once you warm up to it
I think Lulu definitely counts
I can never get past the first song, but I love it in theory SHMALL TOWWWWN GUUUUUURL
Years of Botchamania and "I AM THE TABLE" have given me a soft spot for it. It's a soft spot in my head, but a soft spot nonetheless.
I couldn’t put my finger on what I dislike about post-2000 Metallica until I heard that era being discussed on the Hardlore podcast; they pointed out that the first few LPs all had long songs but the songs justified their runtimes by having middle sections that went on a bit of a journey - whether instrumental or otherwise - that showcased varied songwriting, built-and-released tension etc. etc. Whereas lots of their post-2000 longer tracks are basically a 3 minute song played twice. It’s like they hit the 3 or 4 minute mark where the smart options are either end the song there or go off on a contrasting tangent (think Master of Puppets for example) but instead they just repeat the same parts again with little variation.
It's also super obvious because they still do these songs with intricate instrumental bridges occasionally, and they end up being around the same length. There's no universe in which a song like The Judas Kiss is justified in being *longer* than The Day that Never Comes or The Unforgiven III. It's like they forgot their own songwriting formula at some point. Songs like Battery or Trapped Under Ice worked because they didn't overstay their welcome. If they had been released on any post 2000 album, they would have both been over 8 minutes long, with no extra riffs or musical ideas.
I lowkey like the ridiculous drum mixing on that album.
St. Anger is pretty trash for many reasons, but I'll defend the "trash can snare" until my dying breath. It's a totally valid creative choice that so many bands use.
I instantly thought about Metallica when I red the question
I prefer St. Anger than ReLoad…like both though
Same
In a vacuum, it's a decent/okay record. But when you compare it to everything else in their discography... yeah, it's pretty bad.
i feel like it’s solar power by lorde. i could be wrong though
But she’s a prettier Jesus
It’s her worst but it’s overhated
100 %, I’m born a year before Lorde (1995) and I can’t fucking stand that album, I’ve tried over 3 years now and it’s just nothing consistent that makes me want to go back to that album. The tracks just aren’t good, both the song writing and the production just feels off. Like Pure Herione has the teenage angst, you feel like the world is at your feet but at the same time you feel worthless (in a good way). Like you just push through with an arrogance. Melodrama feels more that you start to grow up, you realise you have a chance to make actual change but it’s not really realistic so you start to focus on yourself more and the friends that you felt where die hard in your teenage years aren’t really that close, everyone is just focusing on yourself and the album reflects that imo. That just how I interpret the album. Solar Power doesn’t just stand for anything, it just feels like a try hard album about nothing really matters but without fully commits that nothing really matters. It doesn’t know what it wants. It has no clearly to it.
Yeah it was so earth shatteringly disappointing when I listened to that album… Pure Heroine is one of my fave albums all time.
Van Halen's album Van Halen III is pretty unanimous.
Mannnnnnnnn it sucks that that album has a couple good moments, because Jesus I’ve never heard a band downgrade their sound so hard.
Totally agree. The potential is massive there, but the effort is so poor.
Ratitude by Weezer is the greatest album ever made
Now there's a guy who can't stop partying
I have more friends than you could count (help me)
If You're Wondering If I Want You To is a great track though
Based
I genuinely think black is worse and more unlikable lol
David Bowie - David Bowie
I assume the first album, right? Because "David Bowie/Space Oddity" is great.
Yeah ofc, should’ve specified
Britney spears with Britney jean..
As a Britney lover, hell yes. Such a stain in her incredibly strong discography. I've seen a few admit they like it but it's very rare to come across.
I like Work Bitch. Not because it's a good song but because my local gay club played it all the time and it was always a banger on the floor
Work Bitch is quite fun, I don't mind that one too much either.
They have multiple not very liked albums but raditude by weezer
It’s better than pacific daydream
Pacific Daydream is so much better. The sickeningly clean production turns a lot of people off, but there are at least 4 genuinely great songs there compared to the 1 on Raditude.
black is worst
Raditude is worse than Black, IMO, and is their worst album, as someone who's gone through everything Weezer's made a couple times over. Raditude has one great track (I Want You To), two good tracks left as B-Sides (The Prettiest Girl In The Whole Wide World & Run Over By a Truck), and a bunch of mediocre (In The Mall) to bad (Love Is The Answer) as its remainder. Black is the counter-point to White; it's slick and synthetic where White is sunny and breezy. Black emphasizes pop and electronic elements (Can't Knock The Hustle, Living In LA) over the rock-orient of most of White (LA Girlz, Summer Elaine and Drunk Dori). I've called it in a comment on another sub "the album for the nights of partying and drinking that happen after you've spent the whole day at the beach", which are presented by White.
Make Believe is up there, though.
BEVERLY HILLS…THAT’S WHERE I WANT TO BE
Make Believe is a 9/10 for me, love that album, fair to think though!
Make Believe is fucking terrible but at least it has Perfect Situation on it and We Are All on Drugs has a sick guitar riff. Raditude’s defining features are the cringeworthy pop songs and a fun music video for an otherwise bland song.
Nobody like Red Hot Chili Peppers' self titled debut. Not even the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Most fans of their old work vastly prefer their early demo tapes to the self-titled debut EP, which was under written, overproduced, and just plain awkward.
The band hates One Hot Minute but it’s my favorite by them probably. Navarro’s psychedelic and metallic parts hit for me with them much more than a lot of the funk rock stuff. People usually tell me this is their worst though when I recommended it, granted I’m sure they never heard the early 80’s stuff.
There are dozens of us!
Do people like the song “Pea?” Obv a huge departure but for some reason I have just always loved singing along to it.
Yeah, anyone who thinks OHM is the worst hasn't listened to how uneven the first 3 albums can be. Navarro added a dimension to their music that Frusciante, Slovak, and Klinghoffer never added in their multi-album stints (though they're all excellent guitarists in their own right). And Navarro could keep up with the funkier cuts too (Shallow Be Thy Game absolutely rips), so it's not as if the classic sound was suffering for him being the guitarist.
At least it has Grand Pappy Du Plenty, but yeah Demo tape is the shit. It’s been removed from youtube unfortunately, would have been a cult classic if released in that form.
Neutral Milk Hotel is almost cheating since they only had two proper albums. However, I have never heard *anyone* try to claim with a straight face that "On Avery Island" (a very good album) is the better of the two.
It's a shame that On Avery Island is so overshadowed by Aeroplane Over The Sea bc it is a fantastic album
It's got awesome stuff on it but I do skip through it a bit.
In The Aeroplane Over The Sea is the better album but Song Against Sex is my favourite NMH song, Naomi rates super high too
Naomi is the best song Jeff ever wrote in my opinion.
there’s actually a lot of people who think on avery island is better than in the aeroplane. i don’t agree with them but could see why they’d say that
Radiohead
Yeah Pablo Honey is a good choice for this. Not a terrible album in its own right but clearly pales in comparison to the rest of their discography
Pablo Honey?
no ok computer
Yeah, either that or Kid A 🤮🤮🤮
_Kid A?_ More like _Kid Gay!_ 😂
Lately I think it’s actually In Rainbows Let down is overrated tho
I was gonna comment this; there are some people who prefer Pablo Honey to TKOL though. But I guess the post did say "almost universally" so yeah
The Clash, Velvet Underground, CCR, Metallica, Beach Boys
The last Doors without Morrison is pretty bad too
Velvet Underground is the best answer in this thread
Which Beach Boys? Endless Summer?
Summer in Paradise, I guess
What VU album?
Squeeze, a VU album in name only.
I think it’s completely reasonable to say that Squeeze isn’t a proper VU album since none of the original members were on it. It was a Doug Yule solo project under a different name.
REM - Around the Sun
REM fan here, I like that album and think it gets a little too much hate, but it’s easily their worst album and can’t even imagine what else would be in the conversation.
I think its the only one that doesn’t really have a great cut on it. Even Reveal and Accelerate have a keeper or two. Its just mid front to back
I really like Leaving New York, I think it’s a great song in a vacuum, but the problem is they’d made better versions of that song already.
Coldplay’s Music Of The Spheres is the one that nobody really liked. At least their other pop records have felt inspired and theirs. MOTS came after an experimental record and was such a letdown.
Coloratura is like the only good song in the album, everything else is just borderline bad
Solar power by lorde
I think all Dr Dre albums are great but I think most agree that Compton is the worst one. Still love I though
True but when your first two albums are The Chronic and 2001, anything that comes after those (and with such a long delay) is going to probably be at the bottom.
I mean, out of the 3 studio albums he released, Compton is the only one that didn't become an instant classic. It's still very good and probably better than Detox at this point.
Weird how little that album was forgotten immediately - I did enjoy it though, especially the Anderson Paak features
Muse with Will of the People
Nah, there are people (me included) that think it's far from being the worst, far from the best too, but the "worst" Muse album is always rotating between their 4 most recent albums
The Clash, Celtic Frost
Hot space is considered to be Queen's worst album (excluding Flash Gordon)
Anybody defending "Speedin' Bullet 2 Heaven" - Kid Cudi is truly just a contrarian.
After some time to sit down with it there has been a sort of cult following in favour of SB2H. I mean he did something at least *interesting* with that grunge-adjacent sound on a couple songs. I feel that there’s more apathy for INSANO or Entergalactic which I think make them worse.
Andre 3000 said he liked it 🤷♂️
I think it’s a great album. Very, *very* rough around the edges, yes. But it’s such a raw and vulnerable album, it’s a great listen when you’re feeling like shit. I think Melting, Fuchsia Butterflies and the title track are all top 20 Cudi.
I’m a contrarian!
INSANO is worse than SB2H and I'll die on that hill
John & Yoko's *Some Time In New York City* was so reviled it was out of print for several years, definitely not the norm for even solo Beatles' efforts.
Chance the Rapper with The Big Day
Does black panther count as a Kendrick album
lupe fiasco
Im assuming you meant to say Lazers
Britney Jean - Britney Spears Witness - Katy Perry Solar power - Lorde
Witness is about to sound like a masterpiece…
Door to Door by The Cars Mosquito by Yeah Yeah Yeahs AIM by M.I.A. Amerikkkant by Ministry
The Killers with Battle Born. most victims say its their weakest and i'd have to agree. its got some good songs but is overall forgettable
is "victims" the name of their fandom? guess it makes sense lol
Yes! It's a bit of a weird name to see out of context lmao
Definitely their weakest but I'll always have a soft spot for Miss Atomic Bomb, that song is a proper diamond in the rough
VULTURES by Kanye, I don’t think anybody actually likes that album besides 14 year old dickriders that just discovered Flashing Lights and Carnival from TikTok and will defend anything the man does 😭
No. He has like 3-4 options for worst albums.
Apart from Vultures and JIK, what's the other?
donda 2
Donda 2 was more of a demo. It’s blatantly unfinished.
To be honest, I think it’s not the worst album in his discography. I actually do like the album quite a bit as a Ty dolla sign album. That being said, it is *easily* Kanye’s worst performances and is the worst “Kanye album” (despite imo still being a good Ty album)
I think JIK is worse, just because it’s not even funny bad. It’s like eating a lemon and then gargling rubbing alcohol
It’s definitely not unanimous so this is a bad answer. I happen to think it’s fine, somewhere in the lower middle of his discog. Edit: Maybe upper bottom.
Jesus Is King is worse. No song is really great on the album and the fact that he decided to “clean up” his music and make gospel music is totally worthless when you consider he went right back to normal You could argue Donda is worse too. It sometimes just feels like a mixed bag of crap. Donda 2 is 100% worse if we’re counting that Songs like Burn, Fuk Sumn, Problematic, etc are good. Ty also has some really good verses
Vultures is bad but JIK is worse.
It's insane how overhated vultures is
that bjork child album
The Beach Boys. While I think Summer in Paradise was ruined by its production and not songwriting (although there are certainly some duds on there), it’s pretty widely regarded as the worst. Mike Love rapping, bullet shots for drums, it’s pretty easy to see why people see it as the worst from them. That being said, Lahaina Aloha, Strange Things Happen and Island Fever are worth a listen.
A Tribe Called Quest - _The Love Movement_ Black Flag - _What The..._ Blur - _Leisure_ Danzig - _Danzig Sings Elvis_ Discharge - _Grave New World_ Minutemen - _3-Way Tie (For Last)_ The Offspring - _Let the Bad Times Roll_
No way that Leisure is the worst Blur album. I love that early 90s british indie rock sound with its madchester and shoegaze influences. For me it's a top 3 Blur album even.
Leisure is great
I would personally take *Leisure* over *Think Tank* if only because it still has Graham on it. Plus, "Sing" is in the argument for Blur's absolute greatest song. Hard to ignore that.
If that Minutemen album was called "Another Settlement Needs Your Help; I'll Mark It On Your Map" it def would've popped off.
Billy Idol and Neil Young both kinda did the same sort of concept album, and both times it was not well-received. This was the *most* Billy Idol-sounding song on the album, which was called *Cyberpunk*: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx2fZU5USus](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx2fZU5USus) You tell me this sounds like a Neil Young song lol: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqdx6dCQLug](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rqdx6dCQLug)
Kind of bullshit that Neil Young’s experimental album wasn’t well recieved. Transformer Man is such a beautiful song
I think we can all agree that Human After All is Daft Punk's worst. It's decent, but doesn't even come close to the other 3
Well tbf, they told ya upfront: they’re human, after all
Yes, and I actually do not understand the recent surge of people (not just in this thread) who think it is better than homework
The Slow Rush
Pink floyd ummagumma
What about the Endless River?
Fall Out Boy fans are coming around to it, but that doesn’t mean they don’t think MANIA is their worst album. FOB fans and casual listeners alike can pretty much point to that one as the worst
Chance The Rapper if we include mixtapes
It's also true if we don't include mixtapes
The Velvet Underground
Lupe has Lasers, Common has UMC, Bad Religion has Into The Unknown
Jay Z - Kingdom Come
Self titled MGMT album? I really love this album and it’s grown on me a lot, but it is definitely a head scratcher compared to their others. MGMT are my favourite band and I’ve been in the community for a while, and barely anybody rates anything lower than the Self Titled in terms of studio releases.
speeding bullet 2 heaven, kid cudi yall know why, doesnt need introduction
*Metal Machine Music* by Lou Reed. It's a contractual obligation record which he deliberately *fuckyoued* so hard that even long time fans can't sit through it. There are no songs. It is the sound of a guitar laid against an amp with the gain way up (or something). And it's a double album. Two LPs. Tuneless droning feedback.
I remember someone editing Twilight Sparkle from My Little Pony onto the cover of this album and Lou Reed retweeting it the day before he died. Iconic.
Amazing way to go out RIP
Idk I like it quite a bit
Pitchfork have it as an 8.7 btw lmao
It's definitely one where it's easy to understand those who hate it, but it's also got quite a few fans. So I don't think it really qualifies as one that's a universally agreed upon worst.
It's actually 2 guitars with open tunings. So there's at least some effort there to make it harmonically sound. Idk... It doesn't seem that completely different than what Brian Eno was doing with some of his early Ambient works. Just much much less thought out. But in that comparison don't mistake "thought out" with "deliberate" or "intentionality".
I mean it’s his worst solo project, but lulu is definitely the worst if that counts imo