The Worst Album by Your Favorite Artist

In 1998, Cher had a comeback with “Believe”, Aretha had a comeback with “A Rose Is Still A Rose” and Diana had another shitty album with “Every Day Is A New Day”.

Madonna's American Life. There were remixes of Love Profusion and Hollywood (not the album versions) that were the only good songs that came from that album.

Abnormally Attracted to Sin by Tori Amos. I don't hate it, although a lot of other Tori fans do. I just feel that Tori's heart wasn't in that album. She said a few years after it was released that she wasn't sure what sort of artist she wanted to be during that era, and it shows. "Fire to Your Plain", which I disliked at the time, is actually probably the song that holds up best.

“Dog Eat Dog” by Joni Mitchell. Electronic 80s synth, terrible cover.

I'd say some of her post-"Confessions..." albums were worse than "American Life", R2. Particularly the one with Justin Timberlake and Timbaland.

I like “American Life” and “Love Profusion” is one of my favorite Madonna songs.

“Chlöe and the Next 20th Century” by Father John Misty

MDNA by Madonna

I would also add MDNA with American Life a close second. I know people shade Hard Candy, but it reminds me of a fun period in my life. Hot and single living in NYC. Everything felt possible.

I’ll get hated for this, but here goes.

Barbra Streisand GUILTY

Neil Young “Trans”

Lowkey I am Sasha fierce by Queen Bey. A bit too mainstream for me and some of the dance tracks on Saha fierce(disc 2) are meh.

Bob Dylan's self-titled 1973 album. I have basically his entire discography, and even after so many years, I still do not understand or care for that album.

OP,

Mistaken Identity gave us the beautiful “Friends Unknown”, her love letter to us, her longtime fans. For that, I can’t be hating on the album.

America’s Sweetheart by Courtney Love (all four Hole records are far superior, even Nobody’s Daughter, which was for all intents and purposes a solo album). Even still, there are some bangers on it.

Barbra: Lazy Afternoon or Streisand Superman.

Take your pick. Both awful.

Donna Summer's entire 1970s catalog is impeccable, not a single dud song on any of those albums. The album tracks were as good as the singles. Her 1980s catalog is really hit and miss. She still made some great songs, but the albums had some duds on them.

I liked a few things on Lazy Afternoon, R16, but the rest of it is dreck. That includes Superman, Songbird, Wet and A Star is Born. And her 1970s TV special. “And other Musical Instruments” is embarrassing., audio and video.

^ Oooh I forgot about Songbird. Blech.

Street Angel by Stevie Nicks. Even she doesn't like it.

Lana Del Rey – Chemtrails over the Country Club. I only like one song on that album.

Yellow Submarine by The Beatles. I enjoy that song because it's a pleasant earworm and All You Need is Love is wonderful. The rest was not the best they were capable of. One two many tabs of acid, methinks.

“American Life” was a beautiful and perfect follow up to “Music” for those who cared for musical maturity as our prickly diva aged.

Aside from “Hung Up,” “Confessions” was fine.

Everything after that…

Linda Ronstadt's first three albums on Capitol weren't that great, except for the songs "Different Drum" and "Long, Long Time."

Long, Long Time more than makes up for any turkeys and turds in her discography. She truly was touched by the gods with that one.

It does not make up for that pig cover, however.

r15 Very strange. Earlier today I randomly listened to some songs from this album for the first time in over 15 years. I'll Do Anything is indeed a banger. I still can't decide if it's a bad song or a great one.

R26 agreed. I like the album, although it's her weakest work, but the fact that it's still pretty decent is telling. It has some slower rock ballads on it ("Never Gonna Be the Same" is beautiful) and some raw punk tracks mixed in. "Mono" is a good song. I also like this whacky, mouthy, semi-unhinged one she wrote about Julian Casablancas:

McCartney II:

Another album where he played everything himself. No one to tell him he's going on a wrong direction. His first solo album wasn't that good. At least it had one great song, "Maybe I'm Amazed". On McCartney II technology has taken over. "Temporary Secretary" is particularly repetitive and annoying. There is a McCartney III but I don't even remember anything about it. Last album I liked was Flaming Pie. His voice has gone south. He's a billionaire. Can't he quit and stop turning out turd albums? He could turn his attention to something else.

The Clash's "Cut the Crap" - by 1985, Mick Jones had been ousted from the band, and Joe Strummer and Paul Simenon decided to carry on Clash V.2 with new musicians - apart from "This is England," the album is nearly unlistenable, buried under a horrible production/mix by the band's manager/now producer Bernie Rhodes - tacky drum machines, synths, "Oy!" pub chants, et al. - Ironically, when I saw The Clash on 1984's "Out of Control" tour the year before, they played many of the songs that would later be featured on "Cut the Crap" - and the original, hard-rocking versions sounds great - lean & mean - but the final released album was so abysmal that even the Clash themselves seem ed to disavow it and act like it never existed - a sad coda to "the greatest band in the world."

Raised on Radio - Journey Hate it

The White Album by The Beatles. The good songs could fit barely fill one record instead of two (it was a double album)

The real reason for the double album was their record contract was nearly up and they could negotiate a better royalty deal once it expired. They needed money as their company, Apple was bleeding money. Abbey Road retailed for $6.98, one dollar more than any other stereo album. Beatle albums were always $1 more than other albums from the get-go.

ONJ--Soul Kiss

It's a guilty pleasure--so bad it's good.

[quote]Beatle albums were always $1 more than other albums from the get-go.

I don't remember that, and I bought each Capitol album as it came out. Maybe Sgt. Pepper's cost more than Revolver, but I don't remember Beatles albums costing more than other, contemporaneous albums.

Depeche Mode - Delta Machine. They have a few "meh" albums, but there's usually at least a few songs I really like. This one just leaves me cold.

No, R32, R34 is right. None of them cost more and I bought mono, which was even less $.

I don’t give a shit why you say The White Album was 2 records, half of it was DRECK.

Dionne Warwick’s disco Cole Porter.

Barbra Streisand - The Movie Album from 2003. It was the last album before her voice got deeper and hoarse, but she phone it in with lackluster, forgettable movie soundtrack schlock.

Trivia: Instead of taking a new photo, she had her art team photoshop a 2003 hairstyle on her photo from 1994.

1 Smile

2 Moon River

3 I'm In The Mood For Love

4 Wild Is The Wind

5 Emily

6 More In Love With You

7 How Do You Keep The Music Playing?

8 But Beautiful

9 Calling You

10 The Second Time Around

11 Goodbye For Now

12 You're Gonna Hear From Me

The best songs are You’re Gonna Hear From Me and How Do You Keep The Music Playing. The worst is Emily.

Here is the original.

A lot of Barbra’s output post original Broadway Album is a slog to get through. But Movie Partners Sing Broadway might be the nadir. Who was hungering to hear duets with Alec Baldwin and Melissa McCarthy?

Belinda Carlisle's "Real" album was released in the fall of 1994.

She gave up wearing makeup for the photo shoot to be "real," but chickened out with the cover & used a side view of her face.

I didn't care for the look/ wording on the front or back cover.

The song below was my favorite on the cd & I thought her best chance of another top 40 hit=

R40 Her rendition of Not A Day Goes By makes up for the entire album.

"Tonight" with "Never let me down" a close second-David Bowie. The 80s, for the most part, were not his decade.

R7 glad to see another Father John Misty fan....currently obsessed over "Mental Health". He's given me some hope back as far as the state of music.

Led Zeppelin – Presence

Not a huge U2 fan but I mostly liked them.. and Pop was mostly a piece of shit.

R44 Yup. That’s me. Love Father John Misty. He has certainly surpassed Fleet Foxes.

R38, she got plenty hoarse on that Album

R35 I think Exciter is the worst Depeche Mode album. Dead of Night (track) is laughably bad. I like Delta Machine. Broken, Long Time Lie, Should be Higher, and Soothe My Soul are all really good songs.

I also really enjoy the Madonna American Life album. My personal favorites are Nothing Fails, Love Profusion, Die Another Day, and Nobody Knows Me.

I love Steely Dan - their worst album is Two Against Nature. Only Cousin Dupree saves it.

The Go-Go's got slammed for their rushed-out 2nd album (& the girls even later agreed with that assessment).

It had some good songs on it, but others seemed like they were demos.

Jody Watley's Flower CD. It seemed like every song was trying to copy Janet J. in some way.

I was excited for some new Whitney music, but this song/album disappointed me in every way.

Where are the lyrics? It's all Shoop Shoop with Whitney TALKING (instead of singing like we knew she could). Ugh.

Loveboat and Other People's Songs by Erasure

Freedom from Loveboat at least got a fun MOTIV8 remix on the single but the album on the whole is a dirge

Erasure has recorded a lot of really good covers over the years but Other People's Songs is very uninspired

I don't recall a single song from "Loveboat" and I have all of Erasure's albums.

Loveboat didn’t even get a U.S. release until several years after it came out in the UK. I paid way too much for the import version and didn’t play it more than a handful of times

AI says about the price of Beatle albums:

Most Beatles albums were priced around $3.98 to $4.98.

The difference in price is mono or stereo versions. The first of their albums were never intended to be released in stereo. I think they were recording on two-track. The instruments were on one channel and the vocals were on the other. EMI Recording Studios (later Abbey Road) were stodgy about modernizing their equipment. The White Album was partially recorded at Trident Studios, which had Dolby noise reduction and eight-track recording. EMI had purchased an eight-track recorder, but didn't install it until the group recorded Abbey Road. The Beatles never attended stereo mixing sessions. Stereo releases were done by George Martin.

The link below says that American albums were $2.98 and $3.98

I actually think American Life is a bit underrated. Madge’s string from Like a Prayer to Hard Candy were, I think, her best years.