The worst of the worst

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

 

Seriously, that album has some damn fine songwriting, some of Rogers' best as a matter of fact, it has gorgeous, memorable melodies, and the story is more concise, more relatable and way more moving than the dull, overfed monster that The Wall turned out to be. It's one of my favorite Floyd albums, easily. 

Hawkwise got it right as far as PF is concerned.

Adams Bolero wrote: Bonnek wrote: Ouch that's bad. I mean really bad. Is this meant as a self-parody?   I like it. In fact I love it.