50 Worst Albums

[jjcourtright]

Q 4 Music has released a listing of the 50 worst albums. (http://www.rocklistmusic.co.uk/qlistspage3.htm#50%20Worst%20Albums)

1. Duran Duran – Thank You
2. Spice Girls – All Their Solo Albums!
3. Various – Urban Renewal: The Songs Of Phil Collins
4. Lou Reed – Metal Machine Music
5. Billy Idol – Cyberpunk
6. Naomi Campbell – Babywoman
7. Kevin Rowland – My Beauty
8. Mick Jagger – Primitive Cool
9. Westlife – Allow Us To Be Frank
10. Tim Machine – Tin Machine Ii
11. Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
12. Tom Jones – Mr Jones
13. Bruce Willis – The Return Of Bruno
14. Terence Trent Diabolical – Neither Fish Nor Flesh
15. Various – Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Heart Club Band – OST
16. Spice Girls – Forever
17. Bob Dylan & The Grateful Dead – Dylan And The Dead
18. Crazy Frog – Crazy Hits
19. Goldie – Saturnz Return
20. Mariah Cary – Glitter OST
21. The Clash – Cut The Crap
22. Robson & Jerome – Robson & Jerome
23. Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
24. Lauryn Hill – MTV Unpugged 2.0
25. The Cranberries – To The Faithful Departed
26. Vanilla Ice – Hard To Swallow
27. Destiny’s Child – Destiny Fulfilled
28. The Rolling Stones – Dirty Work
29. Various – Christmas In The Stars: Star Wars Christmas Album
30. Michael Jackson – Invincible
31. Stevie Wonder – Woman In Red
32. Ace Of Bass – The Sign
33. Billy Ray Cyrus – Some Gave All
34. Fishspooner - #1
35. Puff Daddy – Forever
36. Kula Shaker – Peanuts, Pigs & Astronauts
37. Shania Twain – Come On Over
38. Chris Rea – The Road To Hell Pt2
39. Big Country – Undercover
40. The Others – The Others
41. Paul Simon – Songs From The Capeman OST
42. Babylon Zoo – The Boy With The X-Ray Eyes
43. The Travelling Wilburys – Vol 3
44. Kiss – Music From The Elder
45. William Shatner – The Transformed Man
46. Oasis – Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants
47. Ozzy Osbourne – Under Cover
48. Milli Vanilli – All Or Nothing
49. Neil Young And The Shocking Pinks – Everybody’s Rocking
50. Beck – Midnight Vultures

[FanGirl]

I've never owned any of them. That's good right?

[phit_demon]

I own two, but I ain't saying which.

[acid_soda]

Yeah i have Beck-Midnite Vultures...it's not a great album...but i wouldnt call it one of the worst out there.

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Shania Twain's 'Come on Over' happens to be one of two country albums I own. I like it. This list, other than that, is a really good.

[ratm1966]

I've have and/or still own these from that list:

11. Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
25. The Cranberries – To The Faithful Departed
32. Ace Of Bass – The Sign
37. Shania Twain – Come On Over
44. Kiss – Music From The Elder

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Shania Twain's 'Come on Over' happens to be one of two country albums I own. I like it. This list, other than that, is a really good.Since when does putting a steel guitar on a pop song count as country?

[Dave]

Steel Guitar = Country

[Jason_Brown]

Some pretty weird mistakes in the list, unless Terence Trent Darby changed his last name to Diabolical. Neither Fish nor Flesh got some decent reviews when it came out, but if I remember correctly, public reaction was negative primarily because it was the "weird" follow-up to a monster hit album.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Well, this is the same organization that says Oasis' Defiinitely Maybe is the best British album ever, followed at number two by Revolver by some band called the Beatles.

[Jason_Brown]

Ay chihuahua!

[ILovePapaSmurf]

Since when does putting a steel guitar on a pop song count as country?

I don't fucking know. I mean, I usually listen to Backstreet Boys so my lack of music knowledge shows.

[TLS]

Ha, Ace of Bass. I think I still have that somewhere.
Do not be fooled. It is nothing like Bass Outlaws. Though I wouldn't consider it one of the worst albums ever. I think it had a couple songs hit the top ten. Ok, maybe top 50. I don't know. All I remember is hearing the songs on the radio an awful lot.

[jjcourtright]

Some pretty weird mistakes in the list, unless Terence Trent Darby changed his last name to Diabolical. Neither Fish nor Flesh got some decent reviews when it came out, but if I remember correctly, public reaction was negative primarily because it was the "weird" follow-up to a monster hit album.That's pretty weird. Q4's website seems worthless, so I had to get it elsewhere.

The one that confuses me is Milli Vanilli - All or Nothing. Girl You Know It's True is the album that I owned. Also the one that one them a Grammy for Best New Artist. That album's awesome, and shares 6 songs with All or Nothing, so how can that be one of the 50 worst albums?

[phit_demon]

...so how can that be one of the 50 worst albums?
This list came out about 3 months ago, I heard the editor of Q on the radio explainning the list. He said it had a lot to do with expectation that was put on each record before release, hence the Terrance Trent Derby mention; as well as records that were just complete unnecessary, such as Urban Renewal, Spice Girls solo stuff, Naomi Campbell's album and Thank You (Duran Duran doing a Public Enemy cover? YIKES!!).

Well, this is the same organization that says Oasis' Defiinitely Maybe is the best British album ever, followed at number two by Revolver by some band called the Beatles.

Q Magazine does indeed suck, but Definitely Maybe is a great album.
The rest of Oasis' stuff may suck, but I will defend that album til the day I die.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Q Magazine does indeed suck, but Definitely Maybe is an great album.
The rest of Oasis' stuff may suck, but I will defend that album til the day I die.I'd say they only have one not good album, and their last one was a fantastic rebound. That song "Lyla" was a near perfect pop song.

[Mighty Wingman]

That's pretty weird. Q4's website seems worthless, so I had to get it elsewhere.

The one that confuses me is Milli Vanilli - All or Nothing. Girl You Know It's True is the album that I owned. Also the one that one them a Grammy for Best New Artist. That album's awesome, and shares 6 songs with All or Nothing, so how can that be one of the 50 worst albums?

I think it’s time to tell my Milli Vanilli story.

I got a job at Six Flags when I was sixteen. For anyone who doesn’t know, Six Flags is an amusement park. Rides, shows, attractions, souvenirs and other useless whatnot. I worked in a stand that sold turkey legs and sausage on a stick. The stand was positioned next to a “Log Ride “ who’s only real purpose in life was to get people wet. So all day long, women in tight, light-colored tops and short, shorts would come to my stand sopping-wet and seeking refreshment. The job paid minimum wage , but the scenery was divine.

It’s important to note that at the time I was a Metal Head . Real metal, not the poser-hair-band-shit that Bytor and Britt listen to. Anything on the soft side of Metallica was trash, so far as I was concerned. But the expression “anything on the soft side of Metallica” doesn’t mean what it used to. This was before the Black album, before the dark times.

A girl named Jill , actually, I can’t remember her name. I call her Jill because when I think of her face she looks like a Jill. So anyway, looks-like-a-Jill comes to me and asks if I’ll trade shifts, work hers on Friday night and have Saturday off. The system in place at the time required signatures in order to trade shifts. So I signed on the dotted line and looks-like-a-Jill starts laughing hysterically, as if she just pulled one over on me.
“Hahahahahahahaaaaah ! Now you’re gonna miss Milli Vanilli “ she says .
“ Look at me “ I say “ Do you think I give a shit about Milli-fucking-Vanilli ?”
Honestly , I didn’t even know they were playing the park that Friday. Looks-like-a-Jill seemed disappointed that I wasn’t put out by agreeing to work on Milli Vanilli night.

It was slow around the stand that night. Across the park, faintly, I could hear Milli Vanilli warming up their pre-recorded live show. They had just started their set when the worst storm of the summer struck. The kind of storm that brings flash flood warnings with it. Milli Vanilli , ironically enough , was rained out . We closed the stand and I got to go home early.

So Monday when looks-like-a-Jill showed up for her shift, she found me standing in the door of the stand wearing borrowed dreadlocks and singing “ Blame it on the rain Yeah, Yeah. “
She was not amused.
Still don't understand why?

[ozchick]

You know what the most disturbing part of that story was?

...turkey legs and sausage on a stick....


GROSS!!!

[Matthew]

38. Chris Rea – The Road To Hell Pt2

I saw this, and at first I thought "What is wrong with these ppl, I love that album", then I saw Pt2, and agreed.

[Matthew]

Wingman, that is a hilarious story!

I too remember what real metal is, prior Black Album. I was in H.S. when M.V. were popular, and I said "What a bunch of posers, they suck. I even doubt they sing their own songs"

Did I catch hell all over school! About a month later, they were busted. I walked around school with A homemad shirt (I took a white T shirt and wrote "I told you so" along with charactures of M.V. on it) ooh the looks I got..

What a great time.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

I too remember what real metal is, prior Black Album.
Understood as well. Never a metal-head, but I remember a time when it was almost scary to buy a Metallica album, at least in my town. It was at one time, the equivalent to disavowing Jesus and accepting Satan into your life. I was even pressured by my youth minister and preacher to get rid of my entire AC/DC collection (because the acronym was true). Incidentally, you could tell if a girl was cool if she listened to Metallica as opposed to New Kids on the Block or Milli Vanilli.

Cut to years later when a teenaged girl in front of me at a mall record store bought Metallica and the Backstreet Boys.

[TLS]

Incidentally, you could tell if a girl was cool if she listened to Metallica as opposed to New Kids on the Block or Milli Vanilli.
Yay! I was one of the cool girls. Yay!

I remember for like 2 years I refused to spend the night at any of my girlfriends house because their rooms were plastered in NKOTB posters, pictures, magazines..etc.

My grandma was the best. She bought me Use Your Illusion I, when I was just 14, even though Back Off Bitch was the name of one of the songs. She was so cool, she even listened to the whole album with me. I new she really didn't care for it, but it made me happy that she tried listening to it and didn't dismiss it right away.

[Matthew]

t a mall record store bought Metallica and the Backstreet Boys.

Hehe, and the Backstreet Boys rocked harder.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

For the time, I would say it's a toss-up. By then they were both making music for 14-year-old girls.

[PftLBritt]

It’s important to note that at the time I was a Metal Head . Real metal, not the poser-hair-band-shit that Bytor and Britt listen to. Anything on the soft side of Metallica was trash, so far as I was concerned. But the expression “anything on the soft side of Metallica” doesn’t mean what it used to. This was before the Black album, before the dark times.

Ouch. Damn, the truth hurts. But I'm willing to admit that I was a product of my college years and groups like Kix, Bulletboys, E'Nuff Z'Nuff, Slaughter and Y&T got me through some tough times....

Sorry, I couldn't type this post with a stright face. Although it is probably sadder that I know that these groups existed than actually listen to them.

[Dave]

Kixx was the shit!!!! Okay, maybe not really, but i had at least 3 of there cassettes and a very eventful moment in a young mans life happened to Great White, so they will always have a special place in my heart.

I just got my tickets to the Poison/Cinderella show, i'm going to be practicing throwing my air guitar around my neck up until the show.


and just to show that i'm not a total tool (although, just having to put this caviate in might disprove my point), i did have Iron Maiden, Death Angel, Metallica and Megadeath records back in the day too.

[Matthew]

Kixx? Poison? Cinderella???

These are NOT metal.....

METAL:

Metallica (agan, prior 'And Justice For All'), Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Maiden, Slayer, Motorhead...

Borderline, yet honorable mention ...Judas Priest, Ozzie and Ratt (Out of the Cellar & RATT only).

[PftLBritt]

I just got my tickets to the Poison/Cinderella show, i'm going to be practicing throwing my air guitar around my neck up until the show.

That should be a good show, Dave. I saw both of them along with (ughh) Winger and Faster Pussycat about 4 years ago during some sort of nostalgia tour. Cinderella and Poison really still had their shit together (unlike the previous two). And as cheesy as Poison is, they still can put on a good show.

[PftLBritt]

Kixx? Poison? Cinderella???

These are NOT metal.....

METAL:

Metallica (agan, prior 'And Justice For All'), Megadeth, Anthrax, Testament, Maiden, Slayer, Motorhead...

Borderline, yet honorable mention ...Judas Priest, Ozzie and Ratt (Out of the Cellar & RATT only).

Metal - No mention of Sepultura? What about Pantera? Metal Church? Wasp?

Can The Cult be included in the honorable mention category? And you're really on a slippery slope if you're gonna include Ratt anywhere on a Metal list. Because once that door is opened, groups like Dokken, Motley Crue, Hurricane, Dangerous Toys, Twisted Sister, Tangier, Quiet Riot, and their ilk will slide right into the conversation.

[Dave]

If Ratt can be metal, then The Cult gets to be too.

Metal Snobbery is hysterical to me... The only true metal is Speed Metal, no it's Death Metal, no it's that Operatic Stuff like King Diamond and Anthrax and Maiden....

If it's loud and fast, it's metal, dude....

[FanGirl]

Where does Twisted Sister fall then?

[Dave]

Metal

EDIT: if it was featured in Hit Parader, Circus or Metal Edge magazine back in the day, it was metal.

[PftLBritt]

Maybe this release will help make the distinction between Metal and Non-Metal acts:

Metal: A Headbanger's Journey (http://kungfurodeo.com/2006/03/28/its-not-decline-of-western-civilization-part-2-but-it-might-be-just-as-good/)

[Mighty Wingman]

You know what the most disturbing part of that story was?




GROSS!!!

The turkey legs came in boiler bags, we boiled them in the back until they were about 170 degrees at the bone then removed them with tongs and threw them on the grill which was in front of the window. So the customers thought they were getting grilled turkey legs.
I was eventually fired for saying "Next victim!" to the customers instead of "May I help you ? "
My boss asks me " Why are you saying 'next victim' to the customers ? "
" A dollar sixty for a thimble full of soda-flavored-ice ? You figure it out . "
Summer was almost over anyway .

Wingman, that is a hilarious story!
Thank you.


Cut to years later when a teenaged girl in front of me at a mall record store bought Metallica and the Backstreet Boys.
She had to have been buying something post Black album.

Ouch. Damn, the truth hurts. But I'm willing to admit that I was a product of my college years and groups like Kix, Bulletboys, E'Nuff Z'Nuff, Slaughter and Y&T got me through some tough times....

Sorry, I couldn't type this post with a stright face. Although it is probably sadder that I know that these groups existed than actually listen to them.
Oh don't get all feelings on me , I'm sure I listen , or at least did listen to something you would think " I would never listen to them , and if I did I wouldn't admit it. " :cool:

[ozchick]

The turkey legs came in boiler bags, we boiled them in the back until they were about 170 degrees at the bone then removed them with tongs and threw them on the grill which was in front of the window. So the customers thought they were getting grilled turkey legs.

Stop it, you're turning me on...


Not.. ;)

[Matthew]

Metal - No mention of Sepultura? What about Pantera? Metal Church? Wasp?


Yes, they are metal. I remember when I got "Electric Circus" man that was great! I wore out 2 cassettes in 3 months time.

To all those under 25: Cassettes are those little square things with 2 holes in that have a piece of tape running under the wheels. A box full can be found in either your dad's or weird uncle's closet.

[Matthew]

If Ratt can be metal, then The Cult gets to be too.


The first 2 albums of Ratt are close to metal, but not quite. That is why they went on the mention list. The Cult is not even close to metal.

[Dave]

I'd submit to you that the Cults albums both rock harder and have stayed way more relevent than Ratt's.

Ratt's relationship to Milton Burle, almost knock them out of metal all together, anyway.

And i like Ratt. (even Way Cool Junior)

[Matthew]

Hmm, 'Sun King' is brought to mind... I accept your submission that the cult goes in the "Honorable Mention" list with Ratt, but neither are metal.

You all are right, I retract my statement about Ratt being even close to metal. I was thinking of their early stuff, (Out of the Cellar was one of the first cassettes I ever bought) and I was being nostalgic. Bands like this do not belong in a metal list.

[Mighty Wingman]

Stop it, you're turning me on...
Gosh, you really play hard-to-get. ;)

[PftLBritt]

I'd submit to you that the Cults albums both rock harder and have stayed way more relevent than Ratt's.

Good call. "Electric" is a rare few that I've had in vinyl, tape and CD.

And i like Ratt. (even Way Cool Junior)

Wha?!?! C'mon, Dave. Everyone knows that the last good Ratt album/CD was "Invasion of Your Privacy". "Reach for the Sky" was a weak attempt by a band that was trying so hard not to disintegrate from within.

[Dave]

I know... It's one of my secret shames..... It's that last hair band gasp, right before Nirvana kicked them all off into the ether.

[Dave]

So anyway is anyone watching Heavy: the Story of Metal on VH1? I caught it last night as i was dialing for the Soul Patrol.... It's excellent stuff. Last night was the story of Iron Maiden. I had forgotten about their original lead singer entirely... Plus they talked about Def Leopard and Van Halen. It was truely excellent.

[FanGirl]

I was just listening to Def Lepard's Vault CD with a friend this weekend. Amazing how you remember not only all the words, but the which side of the cassette the songs were on. Not to mention any minor trivia about the song. Liek Photograph was about Marilyn Monroe.

[jjcourtright]

I caught a little of the show last night after watching Idol. I flipped it on watched until the first commercial - they were talking about Eddie (the Iron Maiden one, not the Van Halen one) - got up to get a glass of water, came back and the wife was watching her TiVo'd episode of General Hospital, so I went to sleep.

[Dave]

hopefully, and knowing VH1, it will be replayed all weekend, so i can see the first episode that i missed on monday.

Also interesting looking is the "Supergroup" show where they have created a beast that consists of Sebastian Bach and Ted Nugent. I can't remember what other band members are in there (hopefully Don Dokken or something)

[jjcourtright]

Scott from Anthrax, John Bonham's kid, and...the guy from Biohazard I think. I watched the last 10 minutes of Sunday's episode. The idea seems at least entertaining - at least in the "Real World" sense of the term - but Bach's voice is just terrible. Makes me not want to watch. But Scott's always entertaining.

[By-tor]

Got both scheduled in on the Tivo. Damn good stuff. Also Tivoed the Pantera "Behind The Music". Phil is fuckin' gone. Great interviews, and the video of the nite of Dime's murder is scary as hell. Anybody catch any of it?

[jjcourtright]

Hadn't even heard about it. I'll get right on it, sir.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

Got both scheduled in on the Tivo. Damn good stuff. Also Tivoed the Pantera "Behind The Music". Phil is fuckin' gone. Great interviews, and the video of the nite of Dime's murder is scary as hell. Anybody catch any of it?
I haven't watched Behind the Music in some time, but I came across the Pantera one and thought it was great. The video was disturbing, so I'm glad they chopped it up as much as they did, although for maximum affect they should have let it run in longer spurts than they did. Kind of in a "let us see and hear it, then discuss it instead of talking over it" way.

Still pretty cool though.

[Dave]

I, too, didn't even know that existed. I'll have to be on the lookout for it.

When did Video Hits One turn into Your Heavy Metal Station?

[jjcourtright]

It is metal month according to the website.

[Robbo_the_Hood]

When did Video Hits One turn into Your Heavy Metal Station?For this one month only.

[Dave]

Dammit!!! and the month is almost over.

also shouldn't this be during Rock-tober?

[jjcourtright]

Don't ever use that term again!

[Dave]

I'll be An "Owner of a Lonely Heart", if you tell me i can't use "Yes-vember" either...

[Zens7s]

Don't ever use that term again!
I still like to call it Rock-tober. In fact, I think I may have discovered the theme for my October party.

Cum on feel the noize! Girls can't spell like boys!

[jjcourtright]

I'll be An "Owner of a Lonely Heart", if you tell me i can't use "Yes-vember" either...I don't even know what that means...

[Dave]

Well JJ, being as i work in the slum of Advertising, i see slogan's like "Yes-vember" all the time.

Yes was the Prog-rock group that sang "Owner of a Lonely Heart".

You now have a scary example of how my mind works....

[Dave]

I still like to call it Rock-tober. In fact, I think I may have discovered the theme for my October party.

Cum on feel the noize! Girls can't spell like boys!

You know those aren't the real lyrics, don't you?

[jjcourtright]

Well JJ, being as i work in the slum of Advertising, i see slogan's like "Yes-vember" all the time.

Yes was the Prog-rock group that sang "Owner of a Lonely Heart".

You now have a scary example of how my mind works.... I understand your middle sentence, but "Yes" sounds noth...just got it while typing it out. I'm pretty sure that I'm retarded.

[foghorn leghorn]

Im sure the journalists that put this list hoped to get some kind of response from its readers.I own these:

Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water
Alanis Morissette – Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Shania Twain – Come On Over
The Travelling Wilburys – Vol 3
Kiss – Music From The Elder
Oasis – Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants

I'm sure that the ones on this list are just the ones that they never really got into.Some of these albums that I listed have some really good songs and I know of one that is one of the best selling country albums of all time so there must be something wrong there.

[phit_demon]

I know of one that is one of the best selling country albums of all time so there must be something wrong there.

The amount of units an album shifts has nothing to do with quality, Ashlee Simpson I'm looking your way...

Oh, and Limp Bizkit were never country.

[jjcourtright]

In the actual magazine article they give some justification for their choices. It's been a while since I read it, so I don't remember many of them.

But, for the Wilbury's "Vol 3" their complaint was that Roy Orbinson had died, so they shouldn't have still been the Travelling Wilburys.

I think the knock on Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie was just that there was so much buildup because Jagged Little Pill had sold soooo many copies.

[foghorn leghorn]

The amount of units an album shifts has nothing to do with quality, Ashlee Simpson I'm looking your way...

Oh, and Limp Bizkit were never country.

And I thank god they never were....But Shania Twain however is another story. ;)

[|ngenius]

I think it’s time to tell my Milli Vanilli story.

For the look of the story, I guessed it was going to be "that story of my youth when I had to listen Milli Vanilli being played over and over in the rollercoaster placed just besides the stand where I was working". Pity it wasn't.

The part of the story I didn't quite get is... aren't you a metalhead anymore? Everything died with Metallica?

As for Supergroup, I watched the three first episodes, it's oddly funny. Sebastian Bach recorded the very good "Slave To The Grind" with Skid Row long ago, but never did anything worthy again. However, he acts as if he was a first line rock star, when he's merely a bad version of Axl Rose in the "Spaghetti Incident" years. And now Bach can't even sing properly...

Ohm, and back on subject, one of the worst albums ever:

Skid Row .- "Subhuman Race"

|ng.

[Gonzo Axl]

Hmm, Skid Rows album SR wasnt their best *Slave/Grind was* but it's Not the worst album ever. Thinnk of all the crappy boy band shit thats come out? But yeah, Bach wasnt a great singer, he oversang wayyyy too much and just was a little,,, well, flat.

[variedmusicfan]

26. Vanilla Ice – Hard To Swallow

I like that one. No, seriously, check it out, it's a lot different than his other albums. It's a kind of rap-metal thing. His album after that, Bi-Polar is also worth listening to. I don't know why this is on this list.

[Rob101]

Didn't Vanilla Ice just regurgitate the same crap on every album? Same lyrics just done in a different style?

[variedmusicfan]

I think there were three songs on Hard to Swallow that were based on earlier lyrics, one of which was a complete rap-metal remake of "Ice Ice Baby", (Too Cold (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zvtDiPt6s24)) the other two only using a few previously written lyrics. I don't think there's anything lyrically repeated on Bi-Polar.

Ice was younger when he did the whole 'pop rap' schtick. He wanted to be a more hardcore rapper and admits that he sold out, that he did everything in those early To The Extreme days because they pushed a check in front of him. On Mind Blowin' and beyond, he started doing what he wanted to do, though the records didn't sell as well. Early in his career, his record label pushed that ridiculous clothing on him because MC Hammer was popular at the time and they wanted to remake him to look like Hammer. Unlike Hammer, Ice kept his money because he invested it well.

If you poke around, Chuck D has some interesting things to say about Vanilla Ice. Chuck is actually on one of the tracks on Bi-Polar.