The worst of the worst

I can't speak for the others albums on this list but neither Abacab or Final Cut is the worst from the respective artists.

I vote "other" for Can's self-titled album

Whoa whoa whoa! What's with all the hate for The Final Cut?

Hawkwise wrote: Conor Fynes wrote: Poor Final Cut...  Yeah strange easily the best album in that list ...

Let's discuss.

The Final Cut is a very competent release that has struggled beneath the overshadowing stigma of Roger Waters' bloviation.  As someone else said, a strong Waters release, perhaps, but as a Pink Floyd record it is the absolute sticks.  Not even the pretense of band cooperation, no writing credits for any of the other members, a continuation of the bleak, self-concerned lyricism that bogged down The Wall, and (most importantly, perhaps) the lack of Wright's keyboard contribution...this is a terrible Floyd record.  But not a bad Roger Waters record.

Of course, this brings to the fore the question of how we objectively judge a piece of music.  Am I condemning The Final Cut because it's a terrible piece of music, or because it represents what is, in my opinion, the complete nadir of everything that made Pink Floyd powerful and compelling?  Probably a little bit of both, at the end of the day.  I will say unequivocally that I find Waters' wailing drone really insufferable on this album, but how much of that I can attribute to unconscious prejudices towards a man I consider to be a complete, fully-fledged jackass is beyond me.

In short: I never listen to it, I find it repugnant, thematically dull, irritating, self-conscious, self-indulgent, and (dare I say it?) kinda whiny.  I really, really don't like it. 

But to each their own.




Edited by Lozlan - November 02 2010 at 18:08

Ouch that's bad. I mean really bad. Is this meant as a self-parody?

The best of Magma would struggle to avoid my vote, so Merci has to be my choice.

The only album on here I would just rate at a scrapy 3* is The Single Factor. The rest are all 2* or 1* garbage.

James McProgger wrote: Hawkwise wrote:    A Momentary Lapse of Reason

Roll the bones is one of my favorite Rush records!!!!!!

Tapfret wrote: Snow Dog wrote: Tapfret wrote: Epignosis wrote: Not sure what criteria you are using to call these the worst.  Yes's lowest rated studio album isn't Big Generator, it's Open Your Eyes (although in my opinion their worst is Union). They are all 1's. Union has marginally more depth than Big Generator. Oh, they are all just atrocious. For me, Talk is the worst. For me Open Your Eyes ***** Talk ***** Big Generator ***** Union ***** You recently called me insane.

Timeline, worse than Camera Camera, worse than pop Genesis/Yes, an album bad enough to give giant turds like Eye II Eye or St Anger a superiority complex.  Love Beach is not such a bad album at all, it's just the artwork and the "dude, how the f*** could ELP make this album" syndrome. 

Big Generator would get my vote closely followed by Abacab.