Worst artistic disaster when compared to the artists' generaly output

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Some examples:
Beach Boys: Keeping The Summer Alive
Genesis: We Can't Dance
Wings: Wild Life
Prince/NPG: New Power Soul

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

"General", that is....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

quite like wild life.

Mumbo = "Music is my radar" Blur

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Can's "Out of Reach" and the Velvet Underground's "Squeeze".

I like "Wild Life" a lot more than several other Wings albums.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I poop too much.

― Labia, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

― Beta (abeta), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"Fat of the Land" by The Prodigy. Luckily they had the sense to call it a quit after that one.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Tin Machine

― Jeremy (Jeremy), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

yo la tengo and jad fair -- strange but true

i wish it wasn't (true, that is). i actually saw it performed live. jad should never have made it out of bowery ballroom alive.

― rainman, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

General Output, you say...

― Huckleberry Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 17:36 (twenty-one years ago)

RE: Velvet Underground's "Squeeze" - that doesn't really count considering Doug Yule was the only member from the "original" band. I'll give him props for Loaded, but they were all Lou's tunes.....

But I would say Metal Machine Music - Lou Reed

― stretch, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

republic by new order is godawful. I'm the biggest NO fan and I've probably listened to it less than 10 times.

change by the dismemberment plan is also crap. one of the biggest disappointments of the last couple years..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Republic is underrated.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I love Republic! But then I don't really like New Order...

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Speakerboxxx/The Love Below

OTM Beta.

― Dean Gulberry (deangulberry), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Air - 10 000 Hz Legend

― tipustiger, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and...

Cylob - Mood Bells

― tipustiger, Wednesday, 19 November 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Primal Scream "Give Up but Don't Give Out"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:09 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHAHahaha and i get to say it first..

Killing Joke "Outside The Gate"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Air - 10 000 Hz Legend

They don't have much of a general output yet, do they? :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Change had great songs on it

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

stretch: I happen to think that "Metal Machine Music" is better than a good half-dozen Lou Reed records, but I'm one of those people.

I see your point re: "Squeeze", but if they're trotting out the name it goes in the discography, in my book. Can have disowned "Out of Reach" as well, but Czukay and Liebezeit made noise on it, and Conny Plank (who could have said no) recorded it.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Wednesday, 19 November 2003 23:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Spiritualized Let It Come Down

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Self Portrait, surely!! It's not for nothing that Rolling Stone magazine started their review of it with, "What is THIS shit?"

Also: Blur's video for "Country House"
Duran Duran - Thank You
Madonna - American Life

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I love that "Country House" video. Reminds me of Madness' "Our House", which I love too.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: "Self Portrait". Sure, it sucks. But 15 years on, he made "Empire Burlesque"....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:26 (twenty-one years ago)

i love "let it come down", Amazing grace is the bad one and i think thats cos cos jason peirce has said it all already - many times. I can't see them releasing another interesting record.

― jed (jed_e_3), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Re: "Self Portrait". Sure, it sucks. But 15 years on, he made "Empire Burlesque"....

...which I haven't heard.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Echo And The Bunnymen "Reverberation"
(granted there's NO IAN on it, but still)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Bowie "Never Let Me Down"

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

(oh, wait, someone mentioned Tin Machine already.. oops)

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Manic Street Preachers: The Holy Bible
Blur: 13

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/images/hitler.jpg

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, Lynskey, that album was an embarrassment really, and I really, really regret making it. You could say it was a contractual abligation album so to say...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Parliment "Trombipulation" is pretty terrible.

― Matt Boch, Thursday, 20 November 2003 01:59 (twenty-one years ago)

'Use Your Illusion'
'Defenders of the Faith'
'Flick of the Switch'

― dave q, Thursday, 20 November 2003 09:04 (twenty-one years ago)

"Self Portrait" - like it a lot. Just the live tracks i can do without...

Geir - curious, tell us more...

Reverberation is a nice album, I have it on cassette. The band wish they were echo and the bunnymen too much on it tho.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 20 November 2003 09:41 (twenty-one years ago)

"Use Your Illusion" isn't bad at all. Particularly the non-metal tracks were nice.
I can understand those who liked their metal style disliked it, but they were wrong anyway. :-)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Hmmm. Forgot about "Kid A". But then, "Amnesiac" helped drag down their general output too...

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 November 2003 12:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Nevermind

Paul McCartney's 'narrative' songs on The Beatles (see Rocky "fucking" Raccoon)

Not that it's musical but This Waking Life totally ruined the massive esteem in which I held Richard Linklater.

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Thursday, 20 November 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I wouldn't say these were exactly disasters but still.
Mazzy Star - Among my Swans
Cure - Wild Mood Swings

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

also republic kinda sucks. I gave a few spins recently and it sounded even worse than when it came out

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Travis' debut also belongs here.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Shit Geir, that record must be baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaad. :-o

― neil simpson (neil simpson), Thursday, 20 November 2003 15:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Wir

― donut bitch (donut), Thursday, 20 November 2003 23:58 (twenty-one years ago)

'Self portrait' is ace. Much better than 'Nashville Skyline'.

― Pete S, Friday, 21 November 2003 00:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Devo: "Shout"

― mike a (mike a), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't listened to Republic (the whole LP) but to me "World" and especially "Regret" are truly great.

― daavid, Friday, 21 November 2003 00:14 (twenty-one years ago)

regret is one of their greatest singles, but the rest of republic is naff. I read the band couldnt really stand each other during the recording so a great deal of the final product was left up to stephen hague. its not so much a new order record (where's the fucking basslines???) as stephen hague's concept of a new order record.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:20 (twenty-one years ago)

"Tarantula" from Ride. Ouch.

― Erick H (Erick H), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Fair play Geir. Sorry if I offended you.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 21 November 2003 00:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Ride's only really great album was "Going Blank Again"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 21 November 2003 01:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, come on...what about "Nowhere?"

― Erick H (Erick H), Friday, 21 November 2003 01:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know about "Nowhere". The problem is, I cannot hear the songs. They may be good, but that is impossible to hear because the vocals are too low in the mix. Same problem as with R.E.M.'s "Monster"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 21 November 2003 01:17 (twenty-one years ago)

'Theatre of Pain' was big let-down

― dave q, Friday, 21 November 2003 10:40 (twenty-one years ago)

aren't "unconditionally guaranteed" and "bluejeans and moonbeams" the quintessential example of this? i've never actually heard them.

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Pulp's Freaks sticks out.

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 21 November 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Judas Priest "Turbo"
Celtic Frost "Cold Lake"

― Siegbran (eofor), Friday, 21 November 2003 17:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Kiss, 'Unmasked'. At least 'Dynasty' had "Sure Know Somethin'" and "Dirty Livin'" on it

― dave q, Friday, 21 November 2003 19:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never heard "The Elder", but I've always been told this would surely be Kiss's sole disaster if you had to choose one. Then again, there is "Crazy Nights". (As many even hardcore Kiss fans will admit, Kiss has had many disasters to choose from)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

"The Elder" is different. Personally, I love it, but then again, the only other Kiss album I really like is "Destroyer"....

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

*sound of head exploding*

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 21 November 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dave Q is right to name Unmasked in place of The Elder, which while ridiculously bad is all the more enjoyable for that.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 21 November 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

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