What is the worst album you've heard

Sean Trane wrote: rogerthat wrote: Atavachron wrote: ^ I quite disagree.  Waters was indispensable in more ways than just dark angst & thematic direction, he had a compositional relevance and depth that Dave would never have even if he tried.   Dave's a brilliant musician and has released some perfectly good rock records but having seen both men live, it was Waters who had the much more compelling and interesting music.   AMLoR suffered from his absence and it is quite evident. Well, I can't really penetrate Waters solo. So I do think Waters needed Gilmour a lot. But, yeah, the depth he brought to Floyd albums is what they lost on AMLOR/DB. A Floyd album had a lot of meaning. That was no longer the case. Totally agree about Waters being the depth (AMLOR and TDB are shallow like a puddle), while Gilmour (and Wright) being more or less the musicality somewhat lacking in a sombre and hopeless ocean-abyss like ATD I can't help but wonder what would've sounded A Momentary Lapse of Radio Kaos' Reason and Amused To Death by The Division Bell, by keeping the best tracks of each Yup, Killroy Was Here is also a contender for worst album ever.

I guess having Momentary Lapse and Radio Kaos combined with the best songs, and input into each song from the rest of the band members, would have helped to make a great album. However, with Amused to Death and The Division Bell, I think both were great and didn't really need to be complemented by each other (in any case, I would have combined The Division Bell and The Endless River), however, having the rest of Floyd to contribute to Amused to Death would surely have helped to elevate that one to perhaps the best album Pink Floyd might have released. Te Division Bell might have gotten a bit more of punch and depth to the lyrics. And let's not forget "Broken China", since that one could have benefitted well enough by having the help from the rest of the band (as an example, there's "Breakthrough" on Gilmour's "On Concert" DVD.

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Edited by Cristi - June 12 2019 at 08:33

Sean Trane wrote: in terms of "prog" anything from Vulgar Unicorn.  (not that Pineapple Thief is any better)   I'll tale KAOS over Permanent Lapse of Reason

Erenan wrote: I would submit Annihilator's Metal as another example of truly awful music

Erenan wrote: I don't doubt it, I just haven't listened to that one. I picked Metal only because it's the worst of the Annihilator albums I've heard. After the first two, what happened? Is he just phoning it in to give himself an excuse to tour?

St. Anger is pretty terrible.

Maybe The Ladder by Yes. "Homeworld" is admittedly a great song, and then the rest of the album is just utter trash.

Watch out now! A band member from Yes could be here posing as a prog fan.

verslibre wrote: Erenan wrote: It's true, Metallica as a metal band is a spent force IMO. It was actually a good idea to do something different with Load and Reload (whether these albums were successful musically or not is a separate question). What they're doing now is completely uninteresting. It's like they've got a knob labeled "modern Metallica style" which they've just turned up to 11. The result has no dramatic contour whatsoever. It's just constant "Hey this is a Metallica song!" for the whole album.   I pretend Metallica disbanded after the '80s.

I will admit that I do enjoy some of the songs from Load and Reload, but I never listen to them as complete albums because there's so much filler that's just not fun to listen to.