Dave2112
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We've had a lot of threads recently about favorite bands/albums/singers, etc. So let me ask, which is the most dissapointing album in your opinion. Now, I'm not looking for everyone to answer "Britney Spears", ok? I'm talking about real suck-shaft albums by bands or artists you like (or used to like). Most of mine came in the '80's and here's a short list.
Motley Crue, Theater of Pain - The Crue were never the most talented band in the world, but on the first few albums, they were at least fun to listen to if you liked metal. Then they went glam and became Poison clones. The entire album is trash. "Smokin' in the Boys Room" was overplayed and sucked, having been done perfectly by Brownsville Station earlier. "Home Sweet Home" was a joke, as was the fact that Nikki Sixx kept getting "Best Bassist" awards by the little glam-freaks.
Metallica, Load - Metallica holds the strange distinction of being my favorite and least favorite metal band. Up to the "Black Album", they were gods...having reinvented metal and made it acceptable and yet not commercial. A band that at one time refused to even do a video for fear of selling out, Metallica shocked the rock world by completely caving in to the grunge movement of the '90's. A band that once showed up to accept a surprise award in T-shirts and ripped jeans with few words other than "Thanks" shows up at a ceremony a few years later in shiny red jackets, make-up and jewelry. Kirk Hammett doesn't even need to be in the band anymore, they never solo, just grind out the same barre chords everyone else is churning out.
Triumph, The Sport of Kings - But wait, Dave...aren't you a huge Triumph fan? Yes, and it's not that I didn't like this album on some level. But it just wasn't a good Triumph album, if that makes any sense. After Allied Forces and Thunder Seven became two of the greatest prog-metal albums of all time, they tried to become Bon Jovi, and it didn't work. The songs aren't bad, but they just don't sound like Triumph. Rik Emmett had always wanted to expand thier sound, and this sounds more like a practice warm-up to Emmett's outstanding solo album, Absolutely...except the latter was supposed to sound like it did. Sport of Kings was so heavily synth-laden that they had to add a fourth member on tour, and it made the older material sound remixed and clunky.
Y&T, Down For The Count - Another band I absolutely love that released a shitty "let's be Bon Jovi" album. The ballads were sappy and plodding, the "rock" tunes were three-chord party-fests and the hit "Summertime Girls" had only really great harmonies going for it (not to mention one of the stupidest videos ever shot). At least Y&T, unlike other bands that fell into the pop-rock trap, learned from thier mistake and would go on to record some very good, if totally underrated music over the following years.
Black Sabbath, The Headless Cross (and everything after until the reunion) - Ozzy WAS Black Sabbath. However, after he left and Ronnie James Dio took over for Mob Rules and Heaven and Hell, they still had that "Black Sabbath sound". After that, they went straight downhill. Like Whitesnake, they became a vehicle for the continued career of one original member. Tony Iommi had a comletely new line-up for every album, and at one point changed the name to "Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi". He should have announced a solo career, and then those albums would have made sense, because Sabbath they weren't. And speaking of Whitesnake...
Whitesnake, Whitesnake - Another band that became a veiled solo effort by frontman David Coverdale. Thier previous release, Slide It In was a hot, nasty injection of killer riffs that gave us a sound like The Allman Brothers on acid. Yet, they also fell into the glam trap and released the over-produced self-titled album that became thier biggest hit, but thier least original. Hell, they even covered thier own tunes. "Here I Go Again" was originally recorded on Whitesnake's Saints and Sinners album with a Hammond organ instead of three banks of synthesizers, and it was all that much better for it. The self-important Coverdale kept cycling members to feed his own ego.
Van Halen, Van Halen III - Do I really have to say anything? Gary Cherone? Puh-LEEEZE. There wasn't one respectable part of that whole money-grabbing attempt at a continued career post-Sammy.
Motley Crue, Theater of Pain - The Crue were never the most talented band in the world, but on the first few albums, they were at least fun to listen to if you liked metal. Then they went glam and became Poison clones. The entire album is trash. "Smokin' in the Boys Room" was overplayed and sucked, having been done perfectly by Brownsville Station earlier. "Home Sweet Home" was a joke, as was the fact that Nikki Sixx kept getting "Best Bassist" awards by the little glam-freaks.
Metallica, Load - Metallica holds the strange distinction of being my favorite and least favorite metal band. Up to the "Black Album", they were gods...having reinvented metal and made it acceptable and yet not commercial. A band that at one time refused to even do a video for fear of selling out, Metallica shocked the rock world by completely caving in to the grunge movement of the '90's. A band that once showed up to accept a surprise award in T-shirts and ripped jeans with few words other than "Thanks" shows up at a ceremony a few years later in shiny red jackets, make-up and jewelry. Kirk Hammett doesn't even need to be in the band anymore, they never solo, just grind out the same barre chords everyone else is churning out.
Triumph, The Sport of Kings - But wait, Dave...aren't you a huge Triumph fan? Yes, and it's not that I didn't like this album on some level. But it just wasn't a good Triumph album, if that makes any sense. After Allied Forces and Thunder Seven became two of the greatest prog-metal albums of all time, they tried to become Bon Jovi, and it didn't work. The songs aren't bad, but they just don't sound like Triumph. Rik Emmett had always wanted to expand thier sound, and this sounds more like a practice warm-up to Emmett's outstanding solo album, Absolutely...except the latter was supposed to sound like it did. Sport of Kings was so heavily synth-laden that they had to add a fourth member on tour, and it made the older material sound remixed and clunky.
Y&T, Down For The Count - Another band I absolutely love that released a shitty "let's be Bon Jovi" album. The ballads were sappy and plodding, the "rock" tunes were three-chord party-fests and the hit "Summertime Girls" had only really great harmonies going for it (not to mention one of the stupidest videos ever shot). At least Y&T, unlike other bands that fell into the pop-rock trap, learned from thier mistake and would go on to record some very good, if totally underrated music over the following years.
Black Sabbath, The Headless Cross (and everything after until the reunion) - Ozzy WAS Black Sabbath. However, after he left and Ronnie James Dio took over for Mob Rules and Heaven and Hell, they still had that "Black Sabbath sound". After that, they went straight downhill. Like Whitesnake, they became a vehicle for the continued career of one original member. Tony Iommi had a comletely new line-up for every album, and at one point changed the name to "Black Sabbath featuring Tony Iommi". He should have announced a solo career, and then those albums would have made sense, because Sabbath they weren't. And speaking of Whitesnake...
Whitesnake, Whitesnake - Another band that became a veiled solo effort by frontman David Coverdale. Thier previous release, Slide It In was a hot, nasty injection of killer riffs that gave us a sound like The Allman Brothers on acid. Yet, they also fell into the glam trap and released the over-produced self-titled album that became thier biggest hit, but thier least original. Hell, they even covered thier own tunes. "Here I Go Again" was originally recorded on Whitesnake's Saints and Sinners album with a Hammond organ instead of three banks of synthesizers, and it was all that much better for it. The self-important Coverdale kept cycling members to feed his own ego.
Van Halen, Van Halen III - Do I really have to say anything? Gary Cherone? Puh-LEEEZE. There wasn't one respectable part of that whole money-grabbing attempt at a continued career post-Sammy.
