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AshleyR  ·  3281 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What's the worst album you own?

Hmm... hard to pick just one. There are a few that come to my mind:

Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy

Didn't sound like Sabbath to me. I was going to put Forbidden here, but it's just "Illusion Of Power" that went sour.

Accept - Eat The Heat

They were trying to go to a hard-rock route with a new singer and all... it didn't feel like Accept here.I liked "Generation Clash", and liked it even more when they re-recorded it with Udo in Death Row. The first 3 albums were more rock-oriented and didn't stand out to me. They got their trademark sound starting from Restless and Wild.

ATB - Dedicated

Sounded cheesy to me, listening to this in 2014.

Gotthard - Homerun

Another dated album. Too many ballads for me. I liked when they go for that lush 90s sound that a lot of bands did at the previous decade, taking it to a more U2 territory, like in "End Of Time".

Fancy - Get Your Kicks

The title track is the only thing you can salvage from here. Cheesier than cheesy.

Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity

Pop, conceptual Kraftwerk singing about radioactivity didn't tickle me fancy. Computer Love was a conceptual album too, but the arrangements were better made IMO.

Moby - Destroyed and Innocents

I didn't like this "new ambient" phase. This comes from someone who loved Ambient. Here, things sound too stale for me.

Diamond Head - What's In Your Head

All Will Be Revealed was a good album, the new singer did a good job, Death & Progress was awesome (Sean Harris FTW), but this one... was just bland. Basically, the quality has dropped here.

Loser - Just Like You

This album hasn't been released officially, and thank goodness for that. John 5 is awesome, his work here is great. The problem is the singer he teamed up with at the time, who makes the whole thing sound like a heavier Nickelback clone.

Now, an album that wasn't bad, just very unusual:

Chris Cornell - Scream

I liked that he teamed up with Timbaland, but this album's production was very weird. The songs were cut right in the middle, and some drum tones, like in "Part Of Me", are just off.

If I had to pick the worst of all, Get Your Kicks, hands down.