A thread dedicated to terrible albums.

This was brought on by someone playing Robbie Williams' Rudebox album at me.

I've never liked the bloke (Williams, not the bloke who played it).

But I couldn't believe this was actually a released album from a man who has packed out arenas and sold millions. Utter, utter, rubbish. From the lyrics to the songs, terrible.

Sugababes third album
Jimmy Page - Outfield?

I bought the Lily's album "A nanny in manhattan", it was a superb 60s harmony pop melody CD which I was very fond of.

But then I bought the follow up and it was a completely dire collection of what sounded like amateurish computer music with no vocals, I felt like I had had my trousers pulled down etc..

Although I am a huge fan of the Jesus and Mary Chain, William Reid's solo album Finbegin literally sounds like a guy sitting with his guitar plugged into a tape recorder noodling on it whilst watching telly or talking on the phone. In fact that sounds better than it is as you would think there might be improvised chord sequences that sound half decent etc (a la Ry Cooder's soundtrack to Dead Man which was improvised along to the film), there are no discernable patterns tunes or sequences just someone randomly hitting a guitar.

All albums by Celine Dion,Chris De Burgh,Robbie Williams,Coldplay & Travis!!:gag:

I had the misfortune (as i was a huge Guns 'n' Roses fan at the time) of buying Duff McKagan's solo album "Believe in Me". Let's just say it wasn't all i hoped it would be......

Anything by Coldplay

Latest album from Avril Lavigne, Fergies album and worst of all Kanye West - Late Registration :gag:

Agree with Robbie - Rudebox, how on earth did his management let him release it!

A lot of bands' second or third albums...


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Many albums which follow a superb album always come out diasappointing. Is that because the material is rubbish or falls below people's expectations.

Oasis - Be Here Now
Radiohead - Kid-A

Trapist - Ballroom, taught me to not to always be taken in by John Peel's enthusiasm and how good some music can sound on the radio on a long night drive on a hot summer evening.

Someone bought me Coldplay's second album and Prodigy's Fat of The Land.

I took them to Forever Changes.

...or falls below people's expectations. ...
Such as 'Painted From Memory' by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. Dear God, that was awful. Thankfully, Elv appears to be mostly out of his genre-trampling phase (although I hear he's writing an opera :|).

My niece bought a Joss 'I want to be american' Stone album and it was terrible! A very lucky girl with (imho) very little talent! :rant:

My niece bought a Joss 'I want to be american' Stone album and it was terrible! A very lucky girl with (imho) very little talent! :rant:

Don't get me started on her, hearing her sing is dull but actually hearing her talk and some of the rubbish that comes out of her mouth left me flabbergasted!

Don't get me started on her, hearing her sing is dull but actually hearing her talk and some of the rubbish that comes out of her mouth left me flabbergasted!

Agreed! very much up her own backside!

I got back into Chris Moyles for a bit about 6 months ago and I drove into work, parked the car and sat in the car for something like 5 minutes, just listening to her, literally with my mouth open and an incredulous look on my face as I listened to this garbage spew forth, it was amazing. For the rest of the day snippets of what she'd said came into mind and just made me laugh.

Such as 'Painted From Memory' by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. Dear God, that was awful. Thankfully, Elv appears to be mostly out of his genre-trampling phase (although I hear he's writing an opera :|).

I still can't believe that Elvis Costello, whose music I have loathed ever since it first appeared, is married to the utterly gorgeous and heavenly Diana Krall. That should have been my job.

That Mika bloke, god my daughter made me play it in the car I really wanted to throw it out of the window.

How can people actually like this dross:rant:

I have severely reprimanded my daughter for buying crap but she is only 11:hihi:

I'll agree with Mika. Not so much a singer, more of a one man high voice contest.

Can I be the first person on this thread to recognise James Blunt for the whiney-voiced whinger with less songwriting knowledge than most that he is?

Can I be the first person on this thread to recognise James Blunt for the whiney-voiced whinger with less songwriting knowledge than most that he is?

You can, but I'll be very quick to second it.

Has anyone heard Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart? 28 tracks and not one of them listenable. The band are playing what sounds like wrong notes and going out of time while the singer yells dementedly over the top.
It's fantastic!

You can, but I'll be very quick to second it.

I did have a copy of his album (can't remember the title- I've expunged all memory of it from my memory). I was given it and rapidly found it a new home with someone who would appreciate it (when they turned their hearing aids off).

There is of course the concept of "Contractual Obligation", whereby an artist releases a quickly-recorded album of dross just to get out of a contract that stipulates they must deliver a certain amount of albums before they can get a new deal elsewhere. This presumably would explain Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music", Marvin Gaye's "Here My Dear" and presumably anything the Arctic Monkeys have released.....

Has anyone heard Trout Mask Replica by Captain Beefheart? 28 tracks and not one of them listenable. The band are playing what sounds like wrong notes and going out of time while the singer yells dementedly over the top.
It's fantastic!

Trout Mask Replica is widely recognised as one of the best albums of all time, a view which I tend to agree with.

I still can't believe that Elvis Costello, whose music I have loathed ever since it first appeared, is married to the utterly gorgeous and heavenly Diana Krall. That should have been my job.
Clearly her taste in men is better than your taste in music ;) .

More a case of her taste in men is as weird as my taste in music. :hihi:

There is of course the concept of "Contractual Obligation", whereby an artist releases a quickly-recorded album of dross just to get out of a contract that stipulates they must deliver a certain amount of albums before they can get a new deal elsewhere. This presumably would explain Lou Reed's "Metal Machine Music", Marvin Gaye's "Here My Dear" and presumably anything the Arctic Monkeys have released.....

Although slightly OT as they were singles, one should also mention in this context the Crystals "Do The Screw" (Phil Spector was required to give the royalties from his next single to his erstwhile business partner Lester Sill - in a poetic touch the Crystals were joined by Spector's lawyer who said the actual "Do the Screw" line) and Nick Lowe's "Bay City Rollers We Love You", which, bizarrely got to number one in Japan, thus rather ruining his get-out strategy (but not his bank balance).

Many albums which follow a superb album always come out diasappointing. Is that because the material is rubbish or falls below people's expectations.

Oasis - Be Here Now
Radiohead - Kid-A

I think you'll find that a majority of Radiohead fans love Kid A

Justin Timberlake's second album. Absolutely loved 'justified', dance pop at its best so was really looking forward to the second. Tried to be too serious and so failed. Justin you are a pop star, not a rapper, not RnB not anything else you try to be on that album, just a damn fine looking pop star. (I do like sexyback tho':hihi:)

Tales Of Topographic Oceans - Yes
Wild Cat - Tygers Of Ping Pong
Wild Life - Wings
Born Again - Black Sabbath
Innocent Victim - Uriah Heep

Oh, many, many others too ........

Tales Of Topographic Oceans - Yes
Wild Cat - Tygers Of Ping Pong
Wild Life - Wings
Born Again - Black Sabbath
Innocent Victim - Uriah Heep

Oh, many, many others too ........

Topographic Oceans, I agree, is dire. On vinyl it's a double album with four songs! If i wasn't laughing so hard i'd be crying.

I think you'll find that a majority of Radiohead fans love Kid A

I didn't like the rapid change in direction I thought it took after "OK Computer" (although I thought "Fitter Happier" really spoilt the album).

Justin Timberlake's second album. Absolutely loved 'justified', dance pop at its best so was really looking forward to the second. Tried to be too serious and so failed. Justin you are a pop star, not a rapper, not RnB not anything else you try to be on that album, just a damn fine looking pop star. (I do like sexyback tho':hihi:)

It's a quality album produced by a quality producer. To be fair he doesn't try & 'rap', he just adds his unique voice to a more urban sound. Oh & the guy who produced his 2nd album also produced half of Justified. The other half of Justified being produced by..... another rapper.

Queen. A night at the Opera:gag:
Meatloaf. Bat out of Hell:gag::gag:

Such as 'Painted From Memory' by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach. Dear God, that was awful. Thankfully, Elv appears to be mostly out of his genre-trampling phase (although I hear he's writing an opera :|).


Don't think he'd be too upset you didn't like the album. Not a great love of this country or the people in it by some accounts
http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/inthenews/0,,2206692,00.html