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RE: Maxim's 30 worst albums of all time! From: Lieberman, Neil (Neil.Lieberman@Aspect.com) Date: Thu Apr 13 2000 - 09:05:33 PDT

30. Milli Vanilli - All For Nothing ... "You know who's Rob, who's Fab, and which one's dead" 29. Bruce Willis - The Return of Bruno ... "When you get high you think you're black" 28. Michael Jackson - HIStory ... "Go away" 27. Jewel - Spirit ... "You will say or do anything to get laid" 26. Pearl Jam - Vitalogy ... "I said no foam on that latte, zit-face" 25. Barbara Streisand - Soundtrack to Yentl ... "You have a keenly developed sense of irony. But you're a dick" 24. Vanilla Ice - Hard to Swallow ... "Wow, what does a penis taste like" 23. Jesse Camp - Jesse & the 8th Street Kidz ... "Dad wants the credit card back" 22. Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In ... "Table six needs more rolls" 21. The Notorious Big - Born Again ... "What's it like being on Shasta McNasty" 20. Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory ... "Um, why are you wearing chaps" 19. Regis Philgin - It's Time for Regis! ... "Shh! QVC's doing a special on Beanie Babies" 18. Huey Lewis & the News - Fore ... "How's that oat bran working for ya" 17. Oasis - every single album ... "Just what the hell is a champagne supernova"? 16. David Hasselhoff - Hooked on a Feeling ... "Mom, what are you doing reading this?" 15. Various Artists - If I Were a Carpenter ... "The dickey's looking sharp, my man!" 14. Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue ... "Oh, there you are! We've been looking for you." 13. Ace of Base - The Sign ... "You can pronounce the names of your Ikea furniture" 12. Bob Dylan - Self Portrait ... "Psst! You holding, man?" 11. Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin ... "We have some shocking news for you about Peter Allen" 10. Hanson - Middle of Nowhere ... "You should have trashed those jpegs before the feds seized your hard drive" 9. TIE: Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth / Tiffany - Hold on Old Friend's Hand ... "You own a bedazzler and think acid wash is coming back" 8. Air Supply - The Definitive Collection ... "Guys like you get reamed in prison" 7. Leonard Nimoy - Highly Illogical ... "You feud with relative over which was better -- the original series or Next Generation" 6. Yoko Ono - Onobox ... "Jack Kevorkian would like a word with you" 5. REM - Monster ... "You mime the Everybody Hurts video" 4. Michael Flatley - Lord of the Dance ... "Your workmen's comp claim was denied after that nude somersault into a Saint Patrick's Day parade" 3. The Osmonds - Osmond Family Christmas Album ... "You've finally met your Mormon bride" 2. Yanni and John Tesh - The Endless Dream ... "Terrible, terrible things will soon happen to you...worse than Hitler" 1. Soundtrack of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band ... "Nobody will ever love you....We'll get you back Australia"

also.... The worst hair in rock and roll...

Most notable: Michael Score of the Flock of Seagulls: Now bald. Justice is served.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Here's the original article, in case anyone wants to read it.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Targets are all too easy. Yawn. And, for that matter, what the fuck does Maxim know about anything other than penis-lengtheners and hair-replacement products anyway?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

ok onobox is brilliant.
i also really loved the if i was a carpenters album

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just about to listen to 'Emotional Rescue', and now I will.

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Good point. Emotional Rescue is great, if not for the title track and "Where the Boys Go" alone.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:29 (twenty-one years ago)

''Targets are all too easy. Yawn. And, for that matter, what the fuck does Maxim know about anything other than penis-lengtheners and hair-replacement products anyway?''

alex- you always pick on easy targets.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Like yourself?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i only pick on crap like killing joke.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I think Vitalogy is the best pearl jam album. Prefer it to Ten and VS by a long way.

― richy, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(*steps in between Alex in Julio*)
Yo yo yo yo...put your tools back in yer holsters. This is a peaceful thread.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

What exactly is your problem, Julio? You seem to go for the jugular more than I do! You got something you want to say?

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

say with email or with flowers. No bloodshed in my thread.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:49 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the weird things abt the reviewers etc in "trend-setting fashion mags" is that they take their lead so slavishly from the mainstream rock press, ie (on the whole) geeky boys they wd mock totally in re dress sense blah blah

i admit i noticed this mainly when reading eg uk cosmo etc (i've never read maxim in my life, and stopped reading the uk himbo mags when FHM/loaded appeared) but this unexpected inferiority complex seems universal: if for example uk elle aggressively backed music which went WITH its overall ideology-look-attitude that wd be (potentially) interesting and useful, but instead it timidly follows the hem hem rockist consensus

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

(i don't mean mags like the face, which in the 90s in the uk wz possibly one of the BEST places to read abt music)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:52 (twenty-one years ago)

that bruce willis album is diabolical

― robin (robin), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

but Mark, what about Nick Hornby? *ducks*

― dave q, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 11:56 (twenty-one years ago)

that bruce willis album is diabolical
I, too, can vouch for the inexplicable horribleness of "Return of Bruno".
Eight bucks wasted.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

(also Mark the presence of 'Onobox' seems like a wink at their 'real' constituency, who haven't heard it either)

― dave q, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:10 (twenty-one years ago)

(of course they wouldn't like it even if they did but that's not the point - or is it?)

― dave q, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought the ladmags were geekmags?

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:12 (twenty-one years ago)

similar amount of damaged ideas about sexual identity, only a different focus on the "men's health" side of things.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Did anyone actually bother reading this whole article? Holy crap. Is Maxim really all bad dick jokes? Like, is that the substance of the magazine? Bad Dick Joke Monthly? I never want to read another magazine again.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:25 (twenty-one years ago)

pre-1998 Details > current Details > FHM > Maxim

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:27 (twenty-one years ago)

''What exactly is your problem, Julio? You seem to go for the jugular more than I do! You got something you want to say?''

not really, just JOKING around as usual do u see blah blah...

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:28 (twenty-one years ago)

(Right on Alex, plus "All About You")

― Andrew Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Richy said exactly what I was going to. I find Vitalogy to be Pearl Jam's most exciting, interesting, creative, and emotionally jam-packed album, a waaaay more mature album than Ten.

Otherwise, like Alex said, these are all quite easy targets. I mean, c'mon, who's gonna jump to the defense of a Yanni/John Tesh album or a Leonard friggin Nimoy album? Sheesh.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:33 (twenty-one years ago)

This list is seriously all about flattering its readers. Like, "I don't own a single one of these albums! I guess I'm not a fag! Yes!" This is worse than those fucking commercials for Maxim hair dye. Seriously, the knowledge that this thing exists is fucking up my morning.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I need to stop using the word "seriously" so often.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "Vs" is twice as exciting, interesting, creative, and emotionally jam-packed as either Ten or Vitalogy. Vitalogy also has a problem with the song quality half-lifing through the album. It starts out great but each song (after the third track) is half as good as the one before it. And it gets diabolically shitty by the end.

and they spent months hyping "Yellow Ledbetter" and then they DIDN'T put it on the friggin' record! What was up with THAT!

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i actually found a few of the blurbs offensive-funny. the carpenters one in particular. (haha is the writing better/worse than vice? tighter for sure i think).

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

That Debbie Gibson album is great, "Over The Wall" in particular. Anthony's right about the Carpenters tribute album too - Babes In Toyland's cover of "Calling Occupants" is truly classic.

― edward o (edwardo), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

hell with debbie gibson (which yeah is great and had hit songs too.. so there!) the tiffany has one of my fav. broken-heart songs of all time -- "we're both thinking of her tonight" (shit i shoulda put it on my breakup tape).

blurbs still are sorta fun tho.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 13:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yentl??? They didn't like Yentl?
O Maxim, I thought I knew you, but now it seems I really don't and maybe never did.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:01 (twenty-one years ago)

The Carpenters tribute 's pretty cool overall, methinks.
And there's a coupla more problematic picks on that "worst of all time" list ('HIStory', after all, is partly a comp=not entirely bad; and instead of 'Monster', there should rather be 'Reveal').

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

the only ones that make sense are the ones that were ubiqitous enough to seem worse than they are. stuff like onobox is just anti-intellectual nonsense. and i don't even like yoko ono's music very much.

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Otherwise, like Alex said, these are all quite easy targets. I mean, c'mon, who's gonna jump to the defense of a Yanni/John Tesh album or a Leonard friggin Nimoy album? Sheesh.

Well, not this Nimoy album anyway. But The Touch of Leonard Nimoy is absolutely sublime. His version of "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," makes me cry. That does not diminish your point, however. This list ranges from easy targets to just plain nonsense. You think anyone on the staff of Maxim has ever even listened to Onobox? Or is it just funny and cool to dismiss Yoko Ono's entire career by sticking her collected works on some idiotic "worst of" list? (To be fair, I've never read Maxim. But I'm pretty sure it sucks.)

If I Were a Carpenter is terrific, and includes my favorite Sonic Youth song ever -- "Superstar." And plenty of other records on here are just fine.

The whole damned list is a pretty easy target.

― Salmon Pink (Salmon Pink), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure a lot of these records are rubbish. But the question is - are they worse than the records that would be on MAXIM's Best 30 Records list?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

A bad record is fine, but in order for you to have a legit claim to hating a record, you have to be forced to listen to it, otherwise, what the fuck is your problem? Are you CHOOSING to listen to this crap?

To me, hating music is a non-starter.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:13 (twenty-one years ago)

i do like the idea of EVERY maxim reader taking there oasis collection down to the second hand shop thinking "bbbbut i thought you liked them"

― james (james), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

"who's gonna jump to the defense of a...Leonard friggin Nimoy album?"

I don't know if it's on that album, but that Bilbo Baggins song is off the hook.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if it's on that album, but that Bilbo Baggins song is off the hook.

(Fulfilling my duty as token white guy 'round here:) Fo' shizzle my Nimoyizzle

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i prefer yield to vitalogy.
And who the fuck are they to take shots at ace of base? I guarantee you at least 40% of their readership turns the radio up whenever they hear "don't turn around" or "all that she wants" (when noone else is around). i know i do (regardless of who's around).

― Felcher (Felcher), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Mmm, Swedish Reggae.

― Charles McCain (Charles McCain), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

for reference, the line that makes the If I Were A Carpenter review:

"No, here at Maxim we prefer to remember the late Karen Carpenter just the way she was—on her knees in the kitchen, face-down in the dog food bowl."

anyway i still think lad-mag music reviews (as opposed to hit-pieces) generally have a less rockist and more lifestyle outlook in the u.s., whatever sinkah's impressions of the english ones are.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm talking more elle and cosmo really (which i occasionally read) less loaded or jack or FHM or arena (which i never do)

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I am among the 8 or so humans on earth that possess the Jesse Camp record (also a year in the life VHS video that I bought in my first rush-to-romance with eBay a few years ago), and it's not that bad....good power pop NY Dolls sort of stuff, actually has Rick Neilson from Cheap Trick on a couple, if I recall.....Better than the Shaggs.

― Matt Helgeson (Matt Helgeson), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

These are real good records, if anybody cares:

Michael Jackson - HIStory
Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In ...
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Ace of Base - The Sign
Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin ...
Hanson - Middle of Nowhere
Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth /
Tiffany - Hold on Old Friend's Hand

― chuck, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

And yeah, the Jesse Camp one isn't bad, either. Definitely better than anything by Pearl Jam or Smashing Pumpkins or the Chili Peppers. (Probably better than anything by D Generation after their debut, too. Basically, it's a Hanoi Rocks album, when you get down to it.)

― chuck, Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

yay chuck and sterling win the playground prize!

― amateurist (amateurist), Tuesday, 8 July 2003 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

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conor hate is way more pathetic than conor love.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:45 (twenty-one years ago)

though this only became true in 2002.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:46 (twenty-one years ago)

where does conor indifference fit in?

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I've hated conor ever since that fucker came down to athens stalking mangum

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

conor oberst : jeff mangum :: ed kowalcyzk : michael stipe

― James Blount (James Blount), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I've hated Conor since that one shit show he put on at Koo's. GRR.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Conor indifference is dandy. Though I think people love this guy way too much (I think the Desaparecidos album is possible the best album of the decade so far, but that doesn't mean Lifted isn't bloated), he's done enough ambitious, quality work that the haters seem pretty reactionary. Then again, most people seem to be hating him for something he did live, rather than his music.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:54 (twenty-one years ago)

besides his self-infatuation is much more rewarding then that guy from Cursive's handwringing.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Then again, most people seem to be hating him for something he did live, rather than his music.

He did his music live, that's hate enough.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

what about his show pissed you off so much? and when was it? As I said earlier, it wasn't until 2002 that his music got REALLY good.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:01 (twenty-one years ago)

It was before 2002, so if you can explain to me how all of a sudden he got good...

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:02 (twenty-one years ago)

artists improve, Ned. Though I'm sure he might still be insufferable live for all I know.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Doubtless. In any event, they may improve, but given the combination of 1) all the other things I'd rather listen to when otherwise 2) not listening to music and loving the silence instead, I'm content to let Conor hone his craft and become special as much as he likes without me caring.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

he had one hit I sorta liked - "A Perfect Sonnet", which was alright in a John Hughes love anthem way, although even it got tired after hearing it on the radio for the nine millionth time. Pretty much personifies everything wrong with indie rock in 2002-3, ie. indierock got to choose between Saddle Creek and DFA and they chose Saddle Creek (see also: their parents picking James Taylor over Roxy Music).

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ie. goodbye any chances for an American Madchester, hello more late 90s malaise

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:07 (twenty-one years ago)

He ain't Taylor and he ain't Dylan, but for the sake of my argument I'm gonna note somebody can listen to Roxy and Dylan and not necessarily pick sides.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

you'd think!

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

but one look at cmj sez 'apparently not'!

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:13 (twenty-one years ago)

not really my problem, since I can. I don't know what Mr. Oberst means for the "scene," but I'm digging it at home.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

good for you cuz there's plenty more coming! 1998 will never die!

― James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

in fact, Oberst has reminded the scene that lyrics are important (after a decade of Malkmusmatadorishness) and that artistic ambition isn't evil, so go him.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

lyrics are important

MMMMMMMMMMM.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't realize you'd find the concept so tasty, Ned.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:18 (twenty-one years ago)

lyrics may be important, but it helps if they're actually any good

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

besides, the crap stuff in 1998 was all that Thrill Jockey post-rock bullshit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:24 (twenty-one years ago)

This last point I will happily agree with Anthony on.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:29 (twenty-one years ago)

custos, what is your attraction to that TT tag? i find it mildly annoying.

― ron (ron), Friday, 11 July 2003 00:39 (twenty-one years ago)

The teletype tag is beeeeyoootiful. It makes what you're quoting look official, professional, clean and legible.
I have a policy. If I quote something said my an ILM'er I use Italics. If I quote something from "outside" the forum, I use Teletype. I think it's a good policy.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:39 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it looks horrible, but don't let that stop you ;-)

― ron (ron), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay. Let's try this instead:
How does this look to everyone?
(the above should look like a standard version of Helvetica.)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

it's lovely.

i prefer comic sans though

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Friday, 11 July 2003 03:01 (twenty-one years ago)

eeeeuuuuuwww. Comic Sans always looks shitty regardless of the context. (I have a hundred Comic Book fonts on my system, and every single goddamned one of them is 100x better than Comic Sans.)
Besides, I think teletype might not really be a font, but a monospacing feature...or somesuch nonsense....that modifies a font.
I haven't done any experiments though.
(Heads over to the HTML Playground area)

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 11 July 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, i solved it on my end too - by choosing another font preference in my browser. so tt away, sir.

btw my browser overrides your helvetica font also

NOTHING BUT SWEET BEAUTIFUL ARIAL hehe ;-)

also btw my html book says tt stands for 'typewriter text'

― ron (ron), Friday, 11 July 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, tt tells your browser to use it's default monospace font

― ron (ron), Friday, 11 July 2003 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

HELLO THIS THREAD IS NOT ABOUT BRIGHT EYES IT IS ABOUT LOUSY ALBUMS

oh wait

― maura (maura), Friday, 11 July 2003 04:11 (twenty-one years ago)

scoobyists are those who pick "scooby albums". a scooby pick is like at the end of a scooby doo episode the evil dude is always revealed as the person so unlikely it HAD to be them. like "metal machine music" is lou's best album is a scoobyist pick. evenmoreso maybe "sally can't dance".

we used to talk about this lots back in the infancy of ilm.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 11 July 2003 04:25 (twenty-one years ago)

maura will you marry me

― geeta, Friday, 11 July 2003 04:39 (twenty-one years ago)

la la la la la la!!!!

― maura (maura), Friday, 11 July 2003 04:57 (twenty-one years ago)

What? Why no Britney. Atleast Deborah Gibson did her own materail and looked cute. Now looks hot!!!

And what about Mandy Moore "So Real", "The Flying Nun" soundtrack, and "Kids Bop".

― John Norton, Sunday, 13 July 2003 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

"at least"

― James Blount (James Blount), Sunday, 13 July 2003 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

four months pass...

― rv, Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Pearl Jam - Vitalogy ... "I said no foam on that latte, zit-face"

i still like this review.

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 11 December 2003 00:27 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

Apart from Yoko Ono (who most critics don't even consider as important OR bad) there is no remotely tough target on the entire list. Most of the albums would be rejected offhand by almost every critic.

So much of Maxim's list consists of the most routine targets of the rock critics - Milli Vanilli, Hanson, Air Supply (#10 on Blender's "50 Worst Artists Of All Time"), Ricky Martin, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany. The albums by Dylan, the Stones and R.E.M. date from after they "sold out" or lost relevance.

Many critics really don't see grunge as actually relevent nowadays, so Pearl Jam is no tough target either.

Though he really does not attack tough targets, the intelligent amateur "janitor-x" (see "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-glance/-/A2AXIWOCL9XOMM/ref=cm_aya_ac_longdesc/102-0267016-6736903?see-more-desc=1") does realise how irrelevant people today understand these super-soft targets of Blender and Maxim to be. "janitor-x" believes the idolisation of the 1960s to be quite unrealistic and a betrayal of the roots of rock music. For him, the worst artists ever are U2, the Beatles, the Cure, R.E.M. (all eras), Rage Against The Machine, the Smiths, the Clash and Pavement. His views on music might be seen as rather narrow, but his intellignce betrays popular assumptions about metals fans - for one thing.

― Julien Peter Benney, Monday, 9 August 2004 23:18 (twenty years ago)

ya wasted my time Julien Peter Benney, with your **janitor-x** scam.
that guy's a talentless bum.

6 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

gangstagangsta, January 12, 2001
Reviewer: A music fan

I'll say I was impressed with them's collection of songs. Perhaps the best gangsta rap album of 1965 this one must be picked up. the beats are so fat. Its all over now fet. Van Morrison is so phat. peace out ya'll

― The Bells! The Bells!, Tuesday, 10 August 2004 00:20 (twenty years ago)

fifteen years pass...

None of these albums are bad.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:46 (five years ago)

I remember liking <i>Fore!</i> "Doin it all for my bayyba" That song is funny.

― billstevejim, Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:48 (five years ago)

I mean Fore!

― billstevejim, Thursday, 22 August 2019 03:48 (five years ago)

All this talk about Conor Oberst upthread. That’s someone who fits the “Whose artistic legacies have declined in the past ten years?” thread like a glove.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:09 (five years ago)

There has never been a good “Worst Albums Ever” list.

― Mr. Snrub, Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:10 (five years ago)

Wow, what a dumb list. I mean it's Maxim, but still.

― Dez Tekken (Old Lunch), Thursday, 22 August 2019 15:13 (five years ago)

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