Terrible Albums by Great Artists | Top Ten - Pt.2
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- Sometimes great artists can put out terrible albums for all manner of reasons. Here is a list of ten stinkers for your consideration
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"Phil Collin's years......" how perfect of a phrase is that and describes so many artists.
I was sat in a green room in the US surrounded by other musicians a few years back and the topic of Phil Collins came up and how fantastic his solo work was. I thought I had entered an alternative universe where muzak had replaced music. I questioned there sincerity but then had to endure them singing back to me their favorite tracks which obviously proved the point depending on ones point of view!
Neil Young has been prolific but that's not always a good thing. He has released a ton of stinkers thru the decades.
agree
Here are a few more:
The Byrds - Byrdmaniax
Creedence Clearwater Revival - Mardi Gras
The Kinks - UK Jive
R.E.M - Around the Sun
The REM one wasn't that bad.
good choices, at least Byrdmania is a great title.
"spread throughout the rock world like cholera" - cholera really opens up the sluices at both ends, causing a wasting death to the afflicted while infecting all nearby. Very apt simile, nailed it.
My two cents. "Back In Line" (1986) by Steeleye Span. 80s production values galore and Bob Johnson's guitar lines sounded too thin. However everything came right with '89's "Tempted and Tried".
Agree it's not as strong as Tempted but I still like Back in Line, but to be fair, there isn't anything by Steeleye Span I don't like, in case no-one guessed.
Thanks for this, good stuff! Keep them coming
Steve Harley's LA inspired 1978 album *Hobo With A Grin* is truly shockingly awful.
I’d argue that Tonight is worse than Never Let Me Down.
yes tonight is crap
I thought that myself, I like 'Blue Jean' but the cover of 'God Only Knows' defies human belief in its horror.
Loving The Alien is a good single! Jazzing for Blue Jean wasn’t too bad as a video…
I'd agree.
I definitely agree that Tonight is the weaker of the two. Aside from Loving The Alien, the first side of that album was pretty underwhelming, and while it does pick up on the second half with Blue Jean and some of the other songs, it wasn't enough to save the album.
Another great video and another nice Grateful Dead shirt. When might you be doing a Dead video of some kind? Perhaps rating their 'live' albums?? Please keep up the great work.
Woo Emancipation! Any chance of Prince Best to Worst albums down the road or maybe Triple Albums feature?
Great vid and SPOT ON regarding Mike Love!!!
Glad you enjoyed it
As soon as you mentioned Scorpions I knew what album you were going to mention, and the word 'mess' was going to be included! 😱 Another addition to your list would be Faith no More - Sol Invictus. My favourite band ever, however a terrible final LP.
Nailed it, sir. Glad this isn't a song snippits channel.
Have to vehemently disagree with "Chaos and Disorder". It is jam packed with some shit hot guitar playing, full of fun, rocking songs and off kilter lyrics - you can't argue "I Rock Therefore I Am" isn't one of his best of best songs, "Dinner With Delores" is sly, twisted fun, the title track is a beast, "I like It There" is a fun and funky throwback, "Right The Wrong" is just loopy with killer hooks, "Dig You Better Dead" sounds like it could have come off Diamonds and Pearls and none of the rest, expect the dull bit thankfully brief "Had U" is objectionable. If this is supposed to be Prince's worst album, I'd be curious to hear what virtues you can find in NEWS or The Rainbow Children.
I think he's made much worse stuff than Chaos and Disorder. I think many of his 90's albums get a bad rap, even those that include, well, bad raps.
I never got the artist that was formerly the artist that was formerly called prince!
@@coreycleven8414 I don't think he has listened to a lot of the albums on these lists, he's likely just cribbed them off some other lists on the net.
I find chaos and disorder in retrospect, much better than emancipation. Emancipation is for me, the most disappointing album in his career, because of the line" the album I was born to make ". I had great expectations, what a disappointment.
I agree. Prince did treat Chaos as a throwaway, and while it isn't a "top 10" album of his, it deserves more than it gets.
Great show!! I agree with your assessment.
Have you ever heard Pete Townshend’s The Iron Man musical? Oh my gosh it’s *awful*. What he does with Nina Simone on the track Fast Food is unforgivable. It always gets overlooked by this sort of list though.
Yea, that is absolute garbage..so bad in fact that it almost has a negative impact on his great stuff.
Apparently the 89 tour was meant in part to finance a stage production. Phew! We dodged a bullet there.
Agreed. As is his next album, "Psychoderelict." I love Pete and have great respect for his accomplishments and willingness to explore his musical ideas. But those 2 LP's are just awful. Huge dropoff from the "White City" album, which I still listen to today.
The Iron Man album gave us one of the final recordings from John Lee Hooker…may not have been THE best track, but it was a good idea as to what Hooker would sound like in a Rock setting.
Fun vid, insightful selections! I'd put Reactor below Landing on Water and Pure Instict below Humanity Hour 1 but NOOOO argument on Cut the Crap!
Good call on Reactor, but I can't decide if T-bone is brilliant or junk.😆
Yes Sir, Your description of Mike Love is Spot On! I had the disfortunate displeasure of meeting him in person, and YES he really is an Ass-hole as many have described him. I went to him without being rude or being a fan boy, and in a respectful manner I tried to gave a bit of a conversation with him and he just looked at me with a blank stare and walked off.
Mike Love is absolutely awful.
@@drink_with_the_dead Yes, BEWARE OF MR.LOVE!
You know him so well
Let me guess, normal day for Mike Love:
“Hi Mike, how are you doing today?”
ML:’Who are you and why are you talking to me?’
turns to assistant. ‘Can you do what I pay you to do and keep these people away from me?’
Nice guy.
@@sstaners1234 Yep, You got it.
you know i love your videos and agree with you on almost everything...but...i love dylan's 'down in the groove'...and it was the album that brought him back to where he belonged...(now 'empire burlesque' was the album that, production wise, took him as far away as possible...)....but when you listen to something like 'rank strangers to me', you hear a natural element that was missing in his recent previous adventures...he found his focus with this album...stay well...cheers....
Yes, I always liked it too and have never understood why it's so reviled. Dylan went for big production in this era and you can hear it on this album. It worked for me. The critics at the time were even writing him off - he's still owed an apology.
Yup ... some real stinkers here ... but, for me, I love Santana's Beyond Appearances (plus Freedom, Shango) from the '80's ... one of my go to Santana albums ... great to drive to .... oh, and re video #1 on this topic, I loved Hot Space by Queen ... especially Back Chat (12 inch version was great) ... like your videos ... always worth watching ... CMcG, Aberdeen, Scotland
Not exactly difficult finding a crummy Young or Dylan album 🤣
I like the sleeve on Landing on Water though
You should do a top ten of great songs that are on crummy horrible albums in this case,NEIL YOUNG's landing on water there's at least two good tunes, drifter and I got a problem.
Bowie's album did get a remix in 2018, which replaces some of the glossiness. A definite improvement.
I don’t think so !
I like that album a bit. Day in Day Out is great and so is Glass Spider. The rest is .... forgettable.
New instrumentation, but the voice remains the same. Pink Floyd did much the same with their 1987 album.
@@jon_the_guanlong , yeah Glass Spider is a great track as is Day in , Day out , better than anything on the vastly overrated Let’s Dance ( maybe not Ricochet) and Tonight ( bar Loving the Alien ) , also like Bang, bang.
Not his worst album for sure
Oh wow, Chaos and Disorder! As Robert Christgau notes in his positive review, it's a Funkadelic inspired, guitar heavy album - Maybe that's why I'm partial to it(?); I adore all things P-funk, even more modern efforts like Dope Dogs and First Ya Gotta Shake the Gate. Anyhow, I think Chaos and Disorder is pretty great and own it on cd. To each their own, respectfully.
Fully agree! I listen this album all and all. Great! I am a Prince’s fun. Almost all albums on my shelf. Chaos and Disorder is one of my favorite.
@@knaw35 nice! I'm hardly a Prince completest to say the least but I like quite a few of his other 90's album too, like Gold Experience, Come, and Emancipation
Warner Bros actually did a good job at compiling Chaos and Disorder and The Vault (The Vault is an underappreciated masterpiece).
Chaos is much better than many efforts Prince put out, specially in latter years.
I am a Prince fan and I love Chaos and Disorder, one of my favorite Prince albums. Very much P-Funk inspired and some of Prince's greatest guitar playing is on Chaos and Disorder. I actually rate it higher than Emancipation. Prince's guitar playing has influences of Eddie Hazel, Carlos Santana and of course Jimi Hendrix. One of Prince's best albums and far from one of his worst. Great comment yes Chaos and Disorder is an awesome album.
I have "Beyond Appearances" on vinyl and "Written in Sand" is one of my favourite Santana tracks - can't remember if the rest of the album is any good though.
The single Say It Again was pretty decent....................haven't heard anything else from that album though.
love it that some of of your horror-shows still have some fans somwhere, its all art in the end i guess.
One of the tracks on Young's Landing On Water, Touch The Night, I already knew from a live bootleg where it sounded like a more angry Like A Hurricane. The excitement of having a studio version was palpable. The response on first listen was "Oh, was that it?".
Its not that landing on water has bad songs. Its the band and the production that are all wrong.
I went to see the Scorpions on that tour in 2008. They opened with Hour 1 off that album, then I think apart from 1 song (321), slipped back into their familiar back catalogue.
Agree - Down in the Groove has no redeeming value except maybe, maybe, maybe... "Rank Strangers". The Bowie album you mentioned is far and away his worst. Nice video - as always! Peace out, from the other side of the pond....
So many classic rock artists tried to sound "modern" and radio friendly in the 80s with synths, synth drums and glossy production. INot a fan of that period. I'm still stunned that ZZ Top, with their blues/boogie roots, hit platinum with how they changed their sound back then.
Mike Oldfield's attempts to imitate 80s synth pop (admittedly under pressure from Virgin to come up with hit singles) produced some quirky gems like In high places, but also the absolutely execrable Earth Rising album. Amazingly he repeated the attempt 25 years later (with predictable results) with the even worse Man on the rocks.
Ummm, one album you might have on the list for Pt 3 of this series, if it gets that far, is 'Built To Last' by The Grateful Dead. There a process of detached recording produces an album where there is the odd good lyric and song, but the band sound like they were tired of each other and torn in multiple different directions.
They made notoriously bad studio albums. Some exceptions, of course. Love Wake Of The Flood & Workingman's Dead.
You should do a series on worst albums containing one great track. So I have bought a few albums in my time on the basis of loving a track, only to find the rest of the album was awful. I’m trying to remember one in particular and will report back when I do so!
I did this with Crowded House, because I heard "Don't Dream It's Over" and assumed the rest of the album would be as good. Unfortunately not.
@@snakeplissken526 C'mon, what about Mean To Me and Something So Strong??
Philfy Phil I'll help you get started: Undercover by The Rolling Stones. The title song is the only decent track.
@@davidl570 I'll give them a listen thx for the suggestion.
I nominate Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
I have Fogerty's album on original vinyl. After hearing him make such an amazing comeback with Centerfield, I eagerly purchased this one. In the almost-40 years since, I've listened to it exactly once. When he came back (again) with Blue Moon Swamp, I listened to that repeatedly and do so to this day.
I'd love to see half of the Beatles' White Album and the Let it Be album on these lists. Thank god those awful efforts were saved by the good parts of the White Album and all of Abbey Road.
Frank Zappa - "Thing-Fish"
Yes! Disastrous.
More like beyond bizarre.....but then again, I"m not a Zappa fan anyway.
If you've seen Todd In The Shadows you'll know he does something called Trainwreckords about albums of the kind featured in these two videos. There is an episode about The Clash's album which I saw recently.
Never listened to "Landing on Water". I have now. Some decent tunes buried in there which I'd like to hear Crazy horse doing. That drum sound on the album is truly horrendous though.
Interesting to see you include Humanity: Hour 1 by Scorpions - yes, it is one of their weaker efforts, but I think most fans of the band would opt for either Pure Instinct or Eye II Eye as their considerable low point. That said, I actually really liked Eye II Eye, except for the terrible single To Be No. 1!!
Big Clash fan. One of my all time favorite bands. Know all their music...except that last death rattle of an album. Never bought it. The band doesn't even acknowledge it in their "Westway To The World" official biography. I bought Big Audio Dynamite's first album instead. Another dishonorable mention might be Joe Strummer's "Earthquake Weather" put out in 1988. His first solo effort. It's soooo boring! I have tried, St Joe, Lord knows I have tried to like this thing. Good thing he made the Mescalaros later. That stuff is gold!
What about the John Lennon albums from the 1960s, like " Life With The Lions " and " The Wedding Album "?
Can “Cut The Crap” even really be called a The Clash album, considering that Joe Strummer was the only member left by the time that was recorded? Only “This Is England” could AND should be called rightfully a Clash number.
When I heard the opening song I thought wtf! it sounded like a tumble dryer that had conked out falling down the stairs into the Grand Canyon and then falling through the earth and then drowning and imploding in the depths of the Mariana trench ha.
He wasn’t the only member left Paul was there too. Sadly that didn’t help.
Yeah This is England is the only solid tune on there.
Your selection puts the 'ex' back into excruciating!
Mardi Gras by Creedence Clearwater Revival. After six very good to great albums, CCR's seventh and last studio album is lackluster (to be charitable).
You should do a top 10 The Enid albums, that would be both interesting and confusing.
Woah - blast from the obscure past!
I’d like to add Blondie’s “The Hunter” from ‘82. One listen and it was pitched.
Your loss
I nearly agree, it's not a great album but there's a tiny amount of merit to it.
I remember Rod doing "Wild side of life" live saying this is how it should be done
Excellent video
Thank you very much! Check out pt.1
The song «Never let me down» might be a weaker Bowie song, but it is a great , very moving song.
As I say in my comment, and imo, above; this, and Loving The Alien are worth it for the other 'stinkers' .. :-)
@@BassGoBomb Agree! :) Still, I have a soft spot for Blue Jean too. The slightly faster version in the video
@@pedrorocha9722 Me too ... :-)
@@BassGoBomb , I would include Neighbourhood Threat as good too, including the normal 2 that seem to be the favourites , the rest Tumble & Twirl,God only knows, Tonight, I keep forgetting, Dancing with the big boys,Don’t look down, dreadful!
@@mikewest1542 I would agree with you .. I'd forgotten about this .. :-). Back in the day, when it was first released and I was a lot younger LOL, I liked 'I Keep Forgetting' .. it was fun, I thought, at the time .. I liked Tonight .. God only Knows , I like the original and always thought this his worst cover. I like 'Don't Look Down' esp. as the background groove the Blue Jean video, the only reggae beat song, to date, ..and I still like that just don't listen to it anymore. Certainly I liked the 3 infamous albums of this period better at the time than now. But there other gems .. Lovin' The Alien etc.,
Paul McCartney's Send My Regards to Broad Street deserves an dishonorable mention
As does tug of war and pipes of peace. All stinkers.
I genuinely enjoy your opinions. I even agree with some. Thanks for the humour. 😄👍
I agree Eye Of The Zombie is a bad mis step but it does have the soulful "Knocking On Your Door" and the very Creedence like "Change In the Weather"
The only one I would push back on here is Prince's Chaos & Disorder but I wont put up too much of fight as I rarely play it but I do play it more than "Come".
Great list :-)....have you ever thought of doing your fav Prince albums list?
Rod Stewart spent about forty years wasting his considerable gifts.
Ever since the Faces IMO. My fav RS song is Python Lee Jackson's "In a Broken Dream", vocals by RS.
4:22 - I love the one big hit from *Beyond Appearances,* "Say It Again." Say what you want about the album, but this was the best song they had done since "Winning" in 1981. This was Motown as reinterpreted by Carlos Santana and his talented band, and it sports the best guitar solo that Carlos ever did since "Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen." At least give him some credit for this wonderful song.
I've actually grown to like Neil Young's Landing On Water which I do listen to on occasion. I found his Bluenotes album that he put out a couple of years later pretty boring and I never listen to, ever.
Violent Side and Touch The Night are bangers!
@@lgfbratwurstAgreed! Also, I love Steve Jordan's heavy drumming on Weight of the World! Neil's guitar playing on Hippie Dream is pretty wild though they have it toned down a bit in the mix.
Steve Jordan always brings it! I agree Blue Notes sucks. Even though Life was a step closer to the sound of his big comeback, I absolutely go back to Landing on Water more than those two combined.
This was his first album I listened to, and only by mistake; remembered his best album had something to do with water and got this one instead of On rhe beach ... like both ones though!
@@paulthebox9164 On The Beach, classic album! Ambulance Blues is one of my favorite Neil tunes of all time.
I liked some of the material on Eye of the Zombie....Knockin' on your door and Sail Away are great tunes....though I do agree I could have done without the synthesizer influence.....
Mohawks Revenge shows the good potential of Cut The Crap. The awful production ruins everything.
Landig On Water is a very unique album in Neil Youngs catalogue, but not his worst. To me its one of his toughest.
I like Landing on Water - Young has done plenty worse albums. Has Barry not heard "Everybody's Rockin' ?"
Touch the night and hippie dream were great and people on the street,pressure and weight of the world were decent.
As a Clash fan I totally agree with your pick on 'Cut the crap'. I would only add that when I heard the album I thought of it's title being a self-sarcastic punchline by Joe Strummer himself. I guess he might had already figured out that the band had closed its life circle and it was time to end. So 'cut the crap and break this stuff up' could be the meaning of the title.
I think it's a disservice to the words "Cut" and "The" :)
I have to disagree with Chaos and Disorder. WB actually did a good job compiling this album, and specially The Vault : Old Friends For Sale.
When the Tower Records booths existed, I gave Chaos a listen and loved it immediately. Tried the same with albums like Come, Graffiti Bridge, and Lovesexy, without success.
It's a bit patchy, but the praises are well deserved. It's hard rocking, uplifting, melodic.
REM - "New Adventures in Hi-Fi" and "Up"
U2 - Zooropa
Smashing Pumpkins - "Adore" and "Cyr"
Highly Suspect - MCID
Pearl Jam - Avacado
Tom Petty - Southern Accents
Blues Traveler - North Hollywood Shootout
Styx - Edge of the Century
Zac Brown Band - The Owl
Plain White Ts - Parallel Universe
Hootie and the Blowfish - Imperfect Circle
Theory of a Deadman - Wake Up Call
Meat Loaf - Braver Than We Are
Umm Both of Those Rem lps are fantastic. Among their best.
That U2 lp is also good.
You sure you ever liked these bands?
Reversing this concept could be a fun challenge: great albums by terrible bands. Can't find an example, to be honest, but maybe someone can come up with something...
...and I just saw that EN came up with the same suggestion.
I must admit dylans cover of Shendahoh is not bad, which not surprisingly is covered by Richard thompson on 1000.00 years of popular music.beatiful cover!
*Shenandoah
Another dreadful & unspeakably bad was Motley Crue's 2000 CD, New Tattoo. No Tommy Lee, No Bob Rock, NO THANK YOU!
The songs on "Never Let Me Down" are WAY better than the schlock found on "Tonight" and "Lets Dance". Sure the production values have that same lame '80s sheen, but the songs themselves are pretty decent. Way more interesting than the overtly comercial wanking found on the two previous releases.
I agree with you and add the dreadful Earthling, & Black Tie , White Noise .
Definitely agree with this. The only song i like on "Tonight" is "Loving the Alien", the rest of the album is so bad, I can't even tolerate "Blue Jean". "Never Let Me Down" has a whole bunch of good songs in comparison.
Nope.
Tonight was lame but it didn't have the tackiness and kitschy 80s flavour synth over production of Never Let Me Down.
An album so awful it would have suited better for Gary Glitter. Not even Rick Springfield would dare to put out a monstrosity like Never Let Me Down.
Agreed!!
Spot on. Absolutely nothing wrong with the album it’s so much fun and it actually really rocks in places too. I’ll never understand the hate it gets. I just went through his catalogue and I can name at least half of those albums I’d rank it in front of
Mickey Rourke rapping? How could that be bad?
Although David Bowie's Never Let Me down is a least favorite by many people, it's one that I actually like a lot. It came at a time in my life that resonated with me in a way that I needed it to. Go ahead and hate away, and I'll be here doing my own thing!
At least Mike Love's bladder works lol 🤣
i suppose when you think about it every top band boasts a stinker in their catalogue
BUT the reason we know their name is cos they hit the highs too !
dont forget neil youngs greendale if you do another video on crap albums barry enjoyed the video though
Greendale has some great stuff on it.
Greendale is ok, but one of the most disappointing shows I ever saw was when he played all of the Greendale album, then finally played, Hey Hey my my, prisoners of rock, and Rocking in the free world then as soon as crazy horse was really grooving the show ended. Ugh.
I don’t mind Dylan’s Down In The Groove. No classic but it gets back to the roots feel that suits him. Knocked Out Loaded on the other hand is truly awful.
I would lump most of Santana's '80s/90s material in the awful category. This is when Carlos decided he'd rather be a pop star than remain true to the formula which was so successful on those first few albums.
Yeah, after Marathon (1979) he was pretty much hit and miss (until he redeemed himself with Supernatural and the follow-up, Shaman).
Agreed, any thing after moonflower I just ignore.
@@talbino7821 Well, I'd recommend giving Inner Secrets (1978) and Marathon (1979) a try. (I actually think the latter is their best album). Yeah, they're both pretty MOR-ish, but that doesn't necessarily make them bad albums to my ears!
@@davidl570 I've listened to some tracks off both - doesn't grab me like the other albums earlier in the decade ! I know things were changing around 76/77, and Santana were trying their hand at the incoming stadium rock craze. But I'll give them a spin again.
@@talbino7821 Cool! Glad you're open-minded musically. Just avoid his 80s output and you'll be fine.
I rather enjoyed Chaos and Disorder and would replace it with Plectrumelectrum; Prince's epic dumpster fire.
I kinda like PRINCEs CHAOS & DISORDER,a solid hard rock album
Lack of bass on landing on water makes it sound odd empty
The eighties was a bad decade for a lot of artists. Cut The Crap gets the cake, it’s is quite horrible.
I quite liked Bowie's Never Let You Down, I'll get my coat!
No.. please stay. I respect you views on these albums, even if they run contrary to mine
@@classicalbum ah... but what if they run contrary to David Bowie's?
Whats the point of being a Rock God if you cant even pass judgement on your own creation.
Bit of a philosophical rock dilemma.
You dont come across them every day!
If you're doing another, I am going to put in a vote for "Early Flight" by Jefferson Airplane. Even "Mexico" cannot save this album.
My personal picks- Jazz from Hell by Frank Zappa and Shout by Devo
With 2 solid contenders for terrible, I'm surprised Lou Reed wasn't mentioned.
I never understood the hate for "Cut the Crap". The Clash changed with every album, and some people always found something wrong with the latest one. I thought it was pretty good considering that Mick was gone.
The final CCR album was much worse than Fogerty's Zombie album.
I disliked the Neil Young album a lot, but not just because of the songs on it. The LP skipped in 2 different places, and I vowed to never buy a new release on vinyl again. I stuck to that vow, it was the last piece of the format that I ever bought.
Cut The Crap is good
@@JCStorm76 It had one or 2 songs on it that were ok at a push.
Landing on Water is one of my favorites and it introduced me to Neil Young. The drums by Steve Jordan are awesome and there's some great corny and cheesy songs but they are groovy and fun.
I agree...it's not an incredible album...but I still think it's decent. I listen to it every now and then.
I certainly love the bootlegs of his tour from that time period. I gravitated towards the Rusted Out Garage shows at first cause it featured Trans material live but I came to really like how songs from Landing On Water and Life were transformed live too.
Landing On Water is a fantastic album with a big emotional impact. It was recorded at great volume and works best when heard that way. For me, it's comfortably one of Neil Young's best.
oh my god are you sure
@@roywatson8133 Works for me. The production is a large part of it. With Crazy Horse it wouldn't have been so powerful. He knew what he was doing. Definitely top 10.
I wouldn't put it in my top 10 by any stretch but I agree - it's a good album. It certainly has some fantastic songwriting, even if the production is ugly. And that's perhaps the best way to describe it.
Rod Stewart should make a cover of the 1976 song from Kiss, “Hard Luck Woman”.
It was a kind of homage to the Faces
Ringo's "Sentimental Journey"...
Disagree with the Bowie choice. There's some great melodies on that album and his vocals sound great...
Criminally underrated album
Rod Stewart went from Britt Ekland to Susan George. He can do no wrong!
And he's got a model railway. Lucky git.
@@FatNorthernBigot he’s got a railway and models
@@russellstratton7065 funny! Thinking about it, women come and go. A model railway could last a lifetime.
@@FatNorthernBigotSome people have it all!!
@@63mckenzie model trains are expensive.
I can't really argue with your choices. Except I do like Let's Work Together, Silvio, Rank Strangers to Me and Shenandoah on Down in the Groove. The other songs are simply dreadful. And I agree for the most part about Landing on Water, especially the production and reliance on synths. But I do think there are some good songs on it, including Weight of the World, Violent Side, Bad News Beat, Touch the Night, and People on the Street. It is my favorite of the unfortunate Geffen releases. I was sympathetic to the idea of Geffen suing Young for producing such non-Neil Young albums.
Nazareth's The Catch has to be on a list of Terrible Albums. Once great 70's hard rock band runs out of ideas and tries without success to do a Culture Club ripoff and includes a Rolling Stones cover... of Ruby Tuesday... yech.....
They were exceptionally good at covers too.
@@markharwood7573 most were good covers. Ruby Tuesday... not so much.
Is amazing how people keep ignoring "Black tie white noise". There's only two options: 1) people give it good reputation (which it DOESN'T DESERVE AT ALL), or 2) people are actually ignoring it 'cause is really bad and they know it.
Listened to black tie the other day wasn’t blown away on its release but after all this time loved it
As a great fan of early Bowie (up to Aladdin Sane), I resigned to liking the occasion song (Yassassin, Always Crashing, Ashes). I once tried to listen to Black Tie. Couldn't get it at all. Left no marks in my memory or soul.
Rod Stewart should have recorded a Dylan tribute album, he's a huge Dylan fan and I always thought his voice was really well suited for covering Dylan.
He does a really good cover of Just Like A Woman on the Tonight I'm Yours album.
Not only is Eye of the Zombie Fogerty's worst album, but it's also his worst album COVER as well!
Actually love "People Like Us" and "Landing On Water".
I agree with you on PLU. John Phillips is a very underrated songwriter and vocal arranger. Glad they dispensed with strings on this album and kept things simple. Bonus tracks on CD version not that great...😎
@@jamesgonsalves3799 This album to me is more about groove and moods as opposed to their old sound. The remix that came out on the box set a few years ago is okay. More Cass, a few strings and synths that were left out of the mix originally.
Pink Floyd The Final Cut deserves mention. A tuneless spew of Roger Waters at his worst.
Disagree. The songs aren’t bad but the production is aimless and sadly without the band his productions never recover. He might have been the principal songwriter but he needed them to bring the sound.
I really like Humanity Hour 1. Oh well…
"Pissed"? "Fizzog"? Please Barry, this is the language of the snooker hall.
Very good and always enjoy your dark sense of humour and your heavy smokers style vocals.On to bands you could compare to lets say a roofer.The old reference to anything is your only ever as good as your last job.You could have been constructing fabulous and beautifull roof structures for decades untill the last one leaked.At that point you have been now recognised as crap.Bands follow the very same rules.Just one crap album trumps all the good ones before.
Yes, Never Let Me Down was a hit and miss album, though so was Tonight. By far Bowie’s worst album was the first Tin Machine album.
I just feel like he lost his muse after like '83.
I dunno - I enjoy "Tonight" frankly.
Bizarre opinion, Tin Machine was great. Better than any of the several albums before or after it.
I would like to nominate Muses new album The Will of the People, truly dreadful !
I’m sorry for any muse fans but, everything they put out is truly dreadful.
@@sstaners1234 , not everything , the 1st 4 albums brilliant, Resistance good not great as was 2nd Law but better, Drones was great , but the last 2 this one and simulation theory were not that good tbh , this one is worst in fact !
I’d nominate anything after the resistance. One or 2 good songs on each one but I think Matt Bellamy disappeared up his own ass.
@@babylemonade2868 You could be right there !
No mention of Genesis’ Calling All Stations yet? Even the band denies its existence now.
It only has one good song, Congo. Easily their weakest album
Frankly, the world should forget there was something called Abacab
I'd like to see Neil Young revisit some of the Landing On Water songs without the 80s bombastic production. I thought there were some good tunes on that LP.