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Aloysius · Post by **Aloysius** » Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:56 pm

Miles Davis - We Want Miles.

mellotronaut · Post by **mellotronaut** » Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:05 pm

Gentle Giant was an inventive, versatile and creative band, but from 1977 on they tried to be more "commercial" and the results are quite boring.
1977 - The Missing Piece
1978 - Giant for a Day
1980 - Civilian

Neil Young did incredibly horrible and/or boring albums in the 80's

George Harrison lost track after "All Things Must Pass"
John Lennon got bored and boring after "Imagine"
Paul McCartney did "give my regards to broad street"

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:07 pm

One of the strangest ones has to be Celtic Frost, who went from the marvellously weird 'arty' death metel of Into The Pandemonium;

..to the frankly f**king abysmal cock-rokk of Cold Lake as their next album;

SJ_Digriz · Post by **SJ_Digriz** » Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:15 pm

It seems there is a common thread of the 80s being hard on bands musical direction.

PatchAdamz · Post by **PatchAdamz** » Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:24 pm

mumpcake wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2019 9:09 pm
Pink Floyd, The Final Cut.

Should have been a Roger Waters solo recording.
(Kind of was...)

PatchAdamz · Post by **PatchAdamz** » Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:26 pm

In the Ghetto - Elvis Presley

elassi · Post by **elassi** » Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:35 pm

SJ_Digriz wrote: Fri Mar 01, 2019 10:15 pm It seems there is a common thread of the 80s being hard on bands musical direction.

Pretty good hypothesis.

Bombadil · Post by **Bombadil** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:07 am

Any post Hackett Genesis. I like a few songs after Wind and Wuthering, could make a greatest hits playlist of them, but they lost my attention after Hackett left.

Zep, anything after Physical Grafitti, esp. Presence, I wasn't impressed with.

PF. First thought on hearing Another Brick in the Wall was 'THEY'VE GONE DISCO!' Thump, thump thump.
Post Waters Floyd. I love Gilmour's guitar playing, and Wright's keyboard playing, but there's nothing memorable there. Same with Final Cut.

Jefferson Starship. Pale shadow of the Airplane.

Stones shoulda packed it in after Some Girls. Their peak was from Beggars Banquet through Exile. After that, they were very uneven and meh.

fedexnman · Post by **fedexnman** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:17 am

Metallica - Load (load of crap that is ) .. not a Metallica fan but prior to " the Black album " and Bob Rock ... I actually enjoyed Metallica ... Garage Days , In Justice for all , Ride the Lighting , Kill em all .... And then " the Black Album " was a commercial record but was solid ... Then the haircuts and load ..... ah man WTF ....

Dunbar · Post by **Dunbar** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:22 am

duplicate post...

Dunbar · Post by **Dunbar** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:24 am

PJ Harvey - Let England Shake.

She hasn't put a foot wrong until that catastrophic album.

Of course, it was her most commercially successful...

metamorphosis · Post by **metamorphosis** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:42 am

[edited] Whoops - took thread title as literal, rather than 'worst albums'.

ariston · Post by **ariston** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:48 am

An obvious one would be David Bowie - "Never let me down again". And I even liked parts of "Tonight". And, ever since, say, Tubular Bells II, Mike Oldfield has been in constant WTF mode, right up to Return to Ommadawn, which is a fine return to form. In between though, there is an impressive lineup of turds and stinkers.

And then there's Genesis' swan song, Calling all Stations. Oh yuck yuck double yuck. I mean, my favourite period is obviously 1970 to 1977, as any sane person's would be. I still found lots of things to like in their pop years - few artists are courageous and open enough to change, and I understand why they did - but Calling all Stations was really, really bad. Pompous, overblown crap, doing all the things that prog detractors love to hate.

And last that comes to mind is Joe Jackson. Determined to be taken seriously as an artist (as if that wasn't already the case, for f**k's sake), he started releasing on Sony Classical. Night Music I liked a lot, although it was already a bit too artsy for its own good, but Heaven and Hell and Night and Day II were just awful, self-conscious and trying too hard to be high brow.

nasenmann · Post by **nasenmann** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 8:44 am

ariston wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:48 am And, ever since, say, Tubular Bells II, Mike Oldfield has been in constant WTF mode

sadly.

well, the 2nd track on Bells II is great..

donkey tugger · Post by **donkey tugger** » Sat Mar 02, 2019 9:36 am

ariston wrote: Sat Mar 02, 2019 7:48 am
And last that comes to mind is Joe Jackson. Determined to be taken seriously as an artist (as if that wasn't already the case, for f**k's sake), he started releasing on Sony Classical. Night Music I liked a lot, although it was already a bit too artsy for its own good, but Heaven and Hell and Night and Day II were just awful, self-conscious and trying too hard to be high brow.

Good one- writing catchy angst-ridden pop was obviously not good enough for the lad.

Rather tenuously, one of the local nutters with whom I occasionally exchange a few words still maintains that when the police raided his house a few years back they stole his cassette of Joe Jackson's Greatest Hits. I tend to put this down to paranoia induced by high-grade marijuana, but a part of me does want to believe that the local rozzers are sat down the cop-shop eating their lunch listening to, 'It's Different For Girls' and , 'Is She Really Going Out With Him?'.

Albums that made you go WTF