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They do something similar over at ILF. This is intended to be a judjement free thread please let's keep it light. I'll go first. It doesn't have to be 5 how ever many you want is good.

5 Good
Alexisonfire - Watch Out! (I could listen to this from start to finish for DAYS)
Rufio - MCMLXXXV (takes me back to simple pop punk times)
Metallica - LOAD (Probably my favorite Metallica record)
Deftones - Adrenaline (My personal music choices started young 1995)
Better Than Ezra - ALL OF IT. (they are very under-rated IMO)

5 Bad
Pink Floyd - ALL OF IT I seriously can't stand any of their music
U2 - All except 4 songs form Achtung Baby
Mastodon - Emperor of Sand. pretty much anything after Crack the sky was terrible.
Metallica - ride the lightning, and anything after Load.
Dave Matthews Band- EVERYTHING (i do think his drummer is super talented tho.


...GO...

5 good
Porcupine Tree - In Absentia
QOTSA - Songs for the deaf
Katatonia - The great cold distance
Pain of salvation - BE
Opeth - Ghost Reveries

5 bad (geez this is way harder)
Metallica - St. Anger
Audioslave - Out of Exile
Pain of salvation - Scarsick
The Beatles - Magical Mystery Tour
Marilyn Manson - Everythinng after Holy wood

I'll have to check out that Opeth album!

Good:

Pink Floyd- Everything between 1970-1983
U2- War, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, Achtung Baby
Metallica-Everything up to: Injustice for All, everything after sucks

....hahaha....sorry, I couldn't resist...


 

Quote from: peAk on May 11, 2017, 03:31:54 PM
Good:

Pink Floyd- Everything between 1970-1983
U2- War, Unforgettable Fire, Joshua Tree, Rattle and Hum, Achtung Baby
Metallica-Everything up to: Injustice for All, everything after sucks

....hahaha....sorry, I couldn't resist...

HAHAHA Awesome!!!

Good (great)

King's X - Dogman (Greatest album by the most underrated band in existence today)
Killswitch Engage - Incarnate (Quite possibly the best metal album in I don't know how long)
Alter Bridge - AB III (Proof that I don't actually have to like the singer to love the album.  Don't particularly like Myles voice, but it works)
Van Halen - Balance (Full stride for the whole band.  And yes, I am a Van Hagar fan)
Tremonti - Dust/Cauterize (Rarely do I like side projects as they tend to be derivative of what I like about the main band.  However, Mark is so wickedly talented (my opinion, right up there with EVH) that it can't be contained within one group)

Bad (Terrible)

Van Halen - III (So much potential and Cherone should have been a great fit, but Eddie can't be given unlimited creative control)
U2 - Zooropa (Full disclosure, I have an intense dislike for U2)
Extreme - Three Sides to Every Story (Should have been great, but they missed the point and got too creative.  Pornograffiti is still one of the best albums of the early 90s).
Asking Alexandria - Anything without Danny Worsnop.  (Glad he's back in the fold.  Reminds me somewhat of Corey Tayler/Aaron Lewis in the way he tries to cover a lot of musical spectrum.  Love him in We Are Harlot)
Steel Panther - Lower the Bar (Here's the thing - it's actually a great album.  Problem is the schtick is getting old with the juvenile dick and fart jokes.  Rerecord it with a guy who's actually trying to write an album and not just continue a joke, and it's killer).

Impossible to choose just 5....Here's some all time favorites (still too short of a list ;))

Metallica - ...And Justice For all and Reload (funny ey)
Pink Floyd - Darkside of the Moon
The Black Crowes - By Your Side
Blind Guardian - Nightfall in Middle Earth
Monster Magnet - Powertrip
Ayreon - Flight of the Migrator
Sting - Ten Summoner's Tales
Bruce Dickinson - The Chemical Wedding
Helloween - Better Than Raw
In Flames - Colony

5 Bad
Orgy - Candy Ass (stitches and blue monday are cool, rest is utter crap)
Korn (mostly all of it)
Muse - The 2nd law + The Resistance(seriously, great band but this sucked, except Panic Station)
Pink Floyd - UmmuGumma (mostly unlistenable) and Final Cut (boring)
Eric Clapton - 401 Ocean Boulevard (booooring)

Albums where at least half the songs still make me tingly:
QOTSA - ...Like Clockwork
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Hendrix - Axis: Bold as Love
A Tribe Called Quest - Low End Theory
Dangermouse - The Grey Album

Stuff I tried to like but just can't.
AC/DC - Fly on the Wall
Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy (why?)
Coheed and Cambria - Love their instrumental work but I just can't get past Claudio's voice
Leonard Cohen - You Want It Darker (title song is SO good, the rest of the album is not)
Eminem - Encore (so many songs that are just...bad)

Great thread BTW

Love: 5 is SO hard to come down to.. so this is what I have listened to the most this month so far. Some old some new.

The Jesus and Mary Chain - Psychocandy (Reminds of of Jr High, Still an amazing album)
Gem Club - Breakers (Hidden gem, got this on vinyl from a friend and fell in love with it)
Portishead - Dummy (Don't need to say anything about this album)
Dusted - Total Dust (Another hidden gem)
Shlohmo - Bad Vibes (If you like some wonky/offbeat instrumental beats.. look no further)

Bonus love: Wu‐Tang Clan - Enter the Wu‐Tang 36 Chambers (Listening to it right now!)

Hate:
Greenday (Really dislike Billie Joe's voice)
Rush (Never been a fan.. never will lol)
Kanye West (Nnnnooopppeee, Im a huge hiphop fan FYI)
Ed Sheeran (It's just not for me)
Bob Dylan (Yup, I said it.. Not a fan of the vocals at all)

Cody

These are 5 that I could listen to for the rest of my life and be happy (in no particular order)

Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart
John Coltrane - A Love Supreme
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage
Simple Minds - New Golden Dream or Once Upon a Time
Radiophonic - I Could Have Been a Rocket Scientist

I'm cheating by including my own band but there's a good reason - listening to my own record makes me happy, it makes me remember the good times I had making it with my friends and it makes me proud that we finished it despite taking almost five years from start to finish. I'm picking that one over our other ones because it was my baby.


5 Terrible albums-
All the 80's metal I listened to in the actual 80's. Def Leppard, White Lion, LA Guns, Faster Pussycat, Guymanndude, and like a million more. They just don't hold up for me.

The good,

Led Zeppelin III
Ramones - Ramones
Miles Davis - Lind of Blue
Sonic Youth - NYC Ghost and Flowers (but really almost anything by sy)
Les Savy Fav - Go Forth

+ any Beatles, early Radiohead (still want to start a western themed Radiohead cover band called Rodeohead), Bowie, Dino Jr., REM and more


The bad-

Soundgarden comes to mind
Pretty much any of the more corporate radio stuff from the mid-late nineties
Sonic Youth - Goo and Experimental, Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Post Master of Puppets Metallica
And I know I'll catch some flak here but anything by the Stones that isn't Sympath for the Devil

Good
Wilco - Being There
Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Springsteen - Darkness on the Edge of Town
U2 - All That You Can't Leave Behind
Counting Crows - August and Everything After
Tom Waits - Closing Time

Bad
Wilco - Star Wars (not a fan of noise for noise sake)
Nirvana - Nevermind (I always thought a little overrated)
Radiohead (never got them)
Anything Modern "Country" (its basically Nickelback with a banjo)

Quote from: dan.schumaker on May 12, 2017, 02:04:32 AM
Anything Modern "Country" (its basically Nickelback with a banjo)

There are a couple newer country musicians that are actually pretty good (Sturgill Simpson, Mondo Cozmo and Josh Ritter to name a few) but yeah, for the most part it's crappy pop these days...

I'll play, from my own LP's
5 good:
Kishi Bashi - Lighght
Bob Seger/Silver Bullet Band - Night Moves
Wes Montgomery and Jimmy Smith - The Dynamic Duo
Jimmy Cliff - In Concert 1976
Mundell Lowe - Porgy n Bess

5 bad:
Aerosmith - Night in the ruts
Van Halen - Diver Down
Blackfoot - Strikes (TrainTrain can't redeem the rest of the album)
Ron Pearson and The Ron Don's - I've got a lucky feeling
Alan Parson's Project - I, robot

Great

Steely Dan - Aja
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Cure - Disintegration
Jane's Addiction - Nothing Shocking
Depeche Mode - Violator

Terrible

Pop Punk (Green Day, Rancid, etc)
Post Grunge (Creed, Nickelback, etc)
Nu Metal (Limp Bizkit, Korn, Slipknot, etc)
Modern Country/Pop
Metallica (Post Injustice for All)

I like too many albums to pick just five!

U2 can go piss up a tree, though. I dunno why, but to me their music sounds really preachy.

Some goodies

Failure - Fantastic planet
Manic street preachers - Holy bible
NIN - Downward Spiral
Radiohead - The bends
Qotsa - Rated R
Helmet - Betty (Saw these guys play this in full recently  :D )

The not so good

The Feelers
The Beach Boys
Post Aenima Tool
Post Black Holes and Revelations Muse
Any new Pearl Jam

Hard to choose five flawless albums as there are so many, I whittled it down to ten...

Clutch - Blast Tyrant
Monster Magnet - Superjudge
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Live - The Distance To Here
Tool - Lateralus
Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime
Rainbow - Rising
Riverside - Shrine of New Generation Slaves
Sleeping Pulse - Under The Same Sky
Survivor - Premonition

Albums that were crushingly disappointing/bad

Metallica - St. Anger. I really haven't forgiven them for this utter shite
Nine Inch Nails - Year Zero. The first time he faltered...
Queensryche - Q2K. What... Happened...?!
Depeche Mode - Exciter. Gahan smacked up and Fletcher leaves. Mess of an album.
Kiss - Psycho Circus. A 'fan' pandering cash-in. Annoyed the crap out of me after they just seemed to be finding some new stuff that was working for them. Revenge was awesome, and Carnival of Souls had merit. As a life long fan, this was when I bailed.

I like your list Juan! A lot  ;D Should've included some Rainbow in my already too long list. But live in Germany is one of the greatest live albums out there.

Oh man...how did I forget to include Kid A on my list?

I didn't think of it as the five best and worst. Just ones that I like and don't like. I just went with what popped up in my head at the moment.

Good
The Pogues - Rum, Sodomy and the Lash
The Stooges - Funhouse
Pink Floyd - Relics
X (Australian band) - Aspirations
RL Burnside with Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - A ass pocket of whisky
Bad
Heaps of stuff, most modern Bieber type pop crap.
AC/DC - the vast majority of post Bon Scott material
Heaps of other forgotten stuff no doubt.

Can't do 5. Too hard.  ;D

GOOD
GnR - Appetite for Destruction
Alice in Chains - Jar of Flies
Pearl Jam - Ten
Steve Vai - Passion and Warfare
Pink Floyd - The Wall
Iron Maiden - Live After Death
Black Crows - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

BAD
Metallica - Anything after AJFA is garbage
Dream Theater - Anything other than Images & Words
Kiss - Just don't care for them generally
Eric Clapton - I just don't get it. I think I needed to have experienced it in the context of the time in which he was emerging.
Butt Rock in general (especially those bands with yarlers leading)

Quote from: madbean on May 12, 2017, 12:38:26 AM
Radiophonic - I Could Have Been a Rocket Scientist

I really like this album. And I'm not just saying this because we're pals and business partners. It's a good record.

Quote from: juansolo on May 12, 2017, 08:26:11 AM
Live - The Distance To Here

Revenge was awesome, and Carnival of Souls had merit. As a life long fan, this was when I bailed.

Distance to Here was/is stellar.  I found most of their stuff prior to it to be a little too disconnected (not uncommon in the mid 90s, there were a lot of discs which were 40% great 60% "well, we've got 11 songs now, we're done").

Revenge was fantastic.  And I really, really, really don't like Kiss.  Just could never get into it.

Quote from: Matmosphere on May 12, 2017, 12:12:26 PM
I didn't think of it as the five best and worst. Just ones that I like and don't like. I just went with what popped up in my head at the moment.

It's not supposed to be but hey what ever works. I do enjoy reading everyones distaste for U2. Bono is a turd. Here's a few more from me.

good
Pantera - Everything from Cowboys to Trendkill
Poison The Well - Come What You Are
Finch - Say Hello To Sunshine (everyone HATED this when it came out. I think it was because it was such a drastic change from their last album. I was the outsider. I though it was Fantastic from start to finish.
Caspian - You are the Conductor

bad
98% of the hip hip / rap from 2004 to now.
AC/DC - All of it except for that one song from the movie Empire Records
From First To Last - Heroine (i though Sonny Moore ruined their sound)
Hootie and the Blowholes - I played guitar in a 90's cover band and we would always get requests for their TERRIBLE material.

Remember it doesn't have to be your favorites or 5. Just whatever comes to mind! Keep them coming!!!

Quote from: madbean on May 12, 2017, 12:38:26 AM
Trail of Dead - Worlds Apart

listening to this now. It's WAY different than I thought. Really good stuff! Thanks

I ran an online folk music magazine for a while.

Lemme tell you, you folks have NO IDEA what a bad album is.

This is tough. Leaving out a lot of music I love, but trying to stick only to albums I love start to finish - with, like Brian said - a nod to the 'desert island' five for some variety.


Frank Black - Teenager of the Year
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
Cake - Comfort Eagle
Fu Manchu - The Action is Go
Rancid - And Out Come the Wolves


For the bottom, I'd like to use all my allotted space to say as loudly and emphatically as possible:

Quote from: Matmosphere on May 12, 2017, 12:12:26 PM
I didn't think of it as the five best and worst. Just ones that I like and don't like. I just went with what popped up in my head at the moment.

this ^^^^^

Quote from: culturejam on May 12, 2017, 12:57:04 PM
Black Crows - Southern Harmony and Musical Companion

Some of my favorite guitar playing and tones of ANY record to date.

I'll go five of my favorites I've actually owned physical copies of no order of importance(my head would hurt going through my digital collection)
1) Led Zeppelin - II - I've worn a few tapes of this out, a vinyl, and one seriously scuffed up cd before moving to mp3
2) Boston - Boston - I think cd actually made this one sound better
3) ZZ Top - Tres Hombres - floating around in the cd changer of my car at the moment
4) Van Halen - 1984 - the high water mark, it all goes downhill from here. of note, no cover tunes.
5) Metallica - Master of Puppets

Five of the worst albums I've ever owned no order of importance
1) Marilyn Manson - Smells Like Children - the musical equivalent of Alice Cooper's used condom
2) Metallica - S & M - when Metallica became a turtle on a post
3) Pearl Jam - VS - when people go gift shopping for you based on knowing you like Nirvana
4) Offspring - Smash - when you take a girl's advice to check out this band she heard
5) Kid Rock - Devil Without A Cause - there was simply no excuse for this, no matter how high I was at the store

I don't mind early  U2 stuff, the Edge is a pretty cool, kinda unique player. Anything prior to Zoo or whatever it was called is alright, but just alright.

Couple other albums to throw out here
Urge Overkill - Exit the Dragon (great and underated)
Flaming Lips - Soft Bulletin (just great.)
Spoon - Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga, Ga and Kill the Moonlight
And if I can take the liberty of straying from a particular band, The Nuggets box sets are both excellent collections of music.

The bad
Stuff Like Chicago, Boston, Journey, Styx none of that stuff does it for me. I just think of it as corporate rock.
I couldn't get into that wave of pop punk stuff that included Blink 182 and all of those bands.
And I'm old now so this is pretty much me these days

5 that I love start to finish:

Radiohead - In Rainbows (my favourite of theirs... beats OK computer and Kid A for me).
The National - High Violet (great songs start to finish and really good production/arrangments).
Daedelus - Denies the Days Demise (like a mix of samba, hip hop, bossa nova and rave music. I love this album).
Kendrick Lamar - To Pimp a Butterfly (not a massive hip hop fan but this blew me away).
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush (cos...Neil Young).

5 that I listened to all the way through and thought were shite:

RHCP - Stadium Arcadium. A double album helping of cack.
Kasabian - Kasabian (was recommended this and I hated it).
Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Star Whateverthef***itwascalled (NuMetal was all the rage when I was in 6th form and my best mate would have this on in his car constantly).
Cream - Disraeli Gears (I could include anything by Clapton here).
Oasis - Be Here Now (so so disappointing... they should have just left it after WTSMG).

Just too too much to list so for no other reason then no one's mentioned them and i'm overwhelmed by the options and my mood and choices shift/change/spin on dime...

Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me
Sex Pistols - Never Mind the Bullocks
Fleetwood Mac - Rumours


Bad of artists i like...
Huge Patti Smith fan, pretty sure i've everything but her album of covers. She does covers all the time and makes the song her own, the one made up of all covers was for me straight karaoke, too bad.
Again i probably have more Richard Thompson albums then any other artist and a few years ago he did an album produced by Jeff Tweedy again another favourite. Not long before they did this i saw Thompson sitting in with Wilco, how could this not be great? For me total dud, flat lifeless performance, so disappointing. I did buy the deluxe package that included a short second cd produced by Thompson and it was all there, it was like all the energy exploded as an outlet from the constrained Tweedy cd.
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On
Daniel Lanois - Shine

dave

edit, edit,edit...
Just to clear up a mess from above, Richard Thompson sitting in with Wilco was a treat! Richard Thompson's cd produced by Jeff Tweedy was the huge dud for me.

English is not my best language, unfortunately it's my only one.

Quote from: davent on May 12, 2017, 05:24:51 PM

Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights



Again i probably have more Richard Thompson albums then any other artist and a few years ago he did an album produced by Jeff Tweedy again another favourite. Not long before they did this i saw Thompson sitting in with Wilco, how could this not be great? For me total dud, flat lifeless performance, so disappointing. I did buy the deluxe package that included a short second cd produced by Thompson and it was all there, it was like all the energy exploded as an outlet from the constrained Tweedy cd.
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On

Interesting, I've thought of delving into Richard Thompson. He did a great interview a few months back on Marc Maron's WTF podcast.

One of my favorite bands did a cover of Calvary Cross and I always thought it was a great song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3UIDBfoeqw

When I get a chance I'll have to cue up a few tunes.

Quote from: Matmosphere on May 12, 2017, 07:24:05 PM

Quote from: davent on May 12, 2017, 05:24:51 PM

Richard & Linda Thompson - Shoot Out the Lights



Again i probably have more Richard Thompson albums then any other artist and a few years ago he did an album produced by Jeff Tweedy again another favourite. Not long before they did this i saw Thompson sitting in with Wilco, how could this not be great? For me total dud, flat lifeless performance, so disappointing. I did buy the deluxe package that included a short second cd produced by Thompson and it was all there, it was like all the energy exploded as an outlet from the constrained Tweedy cd.
Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Marvin Gaye - What's Goin On

Interesting, I've thought of delving into Richard Thompson. He did a great interview a few months back on Marc Maron's WTF podcast.

One of my favorite bands did a cover of Calvary Cross and I always thought it was a great song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3UIDBfoeqw

When I get a chance I'll have to cue up a few tunes.

I should be clear which i wasn't, Thompson sitting in with Wilco was great! The cd Richard Thompson did that was produced by Jeff Tweedy was the huge disappointment. Sorry for the confusion! Thompson is one of those players that will leave you slack jawed whether he's playing acoustic or electric. Very funny guy as well.

dave

Quote from: midwayfair on May 12, 2017, 03:24:40 PM
I ran an online folk music magazine for a while.

Lemme tell you, you folks have NO IDEA what a bad album is.

hehehe i bet!

Quote from: dan.schumaker on May 12, 2017, 02:04:32 AM
Anything Modern "Country" (its basically Nickelback with a banjo)

I call it Nugrass (with an effing umlat over the u)

Quote from: shedland on May 12, 2017, 07:48:24 AM
The not so good

The Feelers

The first Feelers album was good (Pull The Strings is a great track), but they had the same problem that 3 Doors Down did.

First album, decent enough rock-pop.

Second album, it's all soppy dribble designed to sell to as broad a demographic as possible, and it's all downhill from here on out.

Lots of good stuff and a whole lot more CRAP...

in no particular order
the good:
Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies (enough said)
Jeff Beck Blow by Blow ( 8) )
Frank Zappa Over Night Sensation ( Plus at least another dozen or so CDs from the FZ catalogue)
The Who Live at Leeds ( nothing like a late 60s SG special  into a superfuzz pushing a HiWatt)
Umphrey's McGee Greatest Hits Vol. III (Had to toss a band to my "the good"  that did not play in the 70s)  ;)

The Bad... (maybe we should add the Ugly too!)
Peter Frampton - I'm in You
Soundtrack to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Movie
The Black Eyed Peas — The E.N.D (oh hell no)
Green Day — American Idiot
Phil Collins — No Jacket Required

too many other bads to list LOL

OK, here's my lists. 

Good, in alphabetical order by artist, and not sticking to the limit of 5, whoops:

Fur and Gold - Bat for Lashes
No need to argue - The Cranberries
Wake - Dead Can Dance.  OK, so it's a 'best of' album, is that cheating?
The Mission soundtrack - Ennio Morriconi
Mezzanine - Massive Attack
Graceland - Paul Simon
Automatic for the people - R.E.M.
OK Computer - Radiohead
Lust Lust Lust - The Raveonettes 
Pretty much anything from Smashing Pumpkins.  They can do no wrong as far as I'm concerned. 
Under the Pink or Little Earthquakes - Tori Amos.  Can't decide between those two. 

Bad:

Anything by ABBA.  Just terrible. 

Jomsviking by Amon Amarth.  These are a bunch of guys who take their Viking cosplay a bit too seriously.  It's just crying out for parody. 

Most of Queen's stuff. 

Graveyard Classics III - Six Feet Under.  This is one my kid purchased, which seems to consist of a guy grunting, and another guy making goat noises.  Maybe I'm getting old, but I just don't get it. 

Peter Garrett's solo album.   I love(d) Midnight Oil, but then the lead singer takes 10 years off to be a politician, and comes back with a solo album which I really didn't like.   :'(

Elephant by White Stripes.  Seven Nation Army was so good, hated the rest of the album.  How dare they not conform to my tastes.    ;)

That U2 album that appeared in my iTunes without me asking.   ;D

And finally - for anyone who's been a parent in Australia (and possibly other places) in the last 10 years...
any album by The Wiggles. 

Lots of great (and crappy) stuff here guys.  I might as well join in the fun too so here it goes:

The Good
Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers - The definition of Rock and Roll in my book
Queens of the Stone Age (self titled) - this one hasn't been mentioned yet and is also worth a listen
The Eagles: Desperado - I didn't really like the Eagles until I gave this one a listen. It has a couple of the big hits but the magic happens in between
Dire Straights (self titled) - I really wish I could play like Mark Knopfler
Fugazi: 13 Songs - I love all of their albums but this one brings the most memories from my younger days
Whiskeytown: Strangers Almanac - My favorite alt country album of all time
Rage Against the Machine (self titled) - I can vividly remember screaming along with Zack D on my way to school "f-u I won't do whatcha tell me!..."
Ryan Adams: Orion - Ryan Adams decides to make a metal album. It's about an intergalactic space war or something. Enough said...
Temple of the Dog (self titled) - The best album of the grunge era IMO.  I'm still bummed I couldn't get a hold of a ticket for the "reunion" tour last year.

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The Bad:
John Frusciante: Niandra LaDes and Usually Just a T-Shirt - this guys solo material is unbearably bad and this one is no exception
Blues Traveler: Four - I can only prey I never hear "runaroud" again in my lifetime
Def Leppard: Adrenalize - Do you wanna get rocked? No thanks...
The Doors - pretty much falls into the U2 / Kiss category of suckage for me.
Guns n Roses: The Spaghetti Incident?  - I can only hope the story behind the album name is better than the material on this record
Poison: Open up and say ahh! - I can't believe I listened to this crap.
Warrant: Cherry Pie - I NEVER listed to this crap!
Kings of Leon: Aha Shake Heartbreak - How did they make it big with this material?
Smash Mouth - All of it makes me cringe.  His voice just gets under my skin for some reason.

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Quote from: Matmosphere on May 12, 2017, 07:24:05 PM
Interesting, I've thought of delving into Richard Thompson. He did a great interview a few months back on Marc Maron's WTF podcast.

One of my favorite bands did a cover of Calvary Cross and I always thought it was a great song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3UIDBfoeqw

When I get a chance I'll have to cue up a few tunes.

Speaking of covers of Calvary Cross, this one by Peter Laughner:

Nothing definitive here.  Just the ones that came to mind.

Great:
The Allman Brothers Band - At Fillmore East
Tom Waits - Heart of Saturday Night
Neil Young - After The Gold Rush
The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue

Terrible:
The Police - Synchronicity ($#@!*&^ Sting takes over the band.)
The Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (Can't abide Johnny Rotten.  Just can't.)
Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu (WTF?)
Guns n' Roses - Chinese Democracy (shouldn't it be on everyone's list)
... having trouble coming up with a 5th stinker ... 'cause it's late

Not my desert island list but stuff I've been listening to lately,
Good:
Left Lane Cruiser - All You Can Eat
Dax Riggs - We Sing of Only Blood or Love
Clutch - Psychic Warfare
The Devil and The Almighty Blues - II
Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden.

Bad:
Green Day - American Idiot. And anything else after that if they've released anything.
Foo Fighters - Anything after One by One. Not sure how the Wheels came off so fast. See what I did there...
Shinedown - Supported Maiden when I caught them recently. Urgh.
Trivium - Supported Maiden last time I saw them. I like some really crappy metal but I feel like Randy from South Park listening to this band.
Tool - This album that leaked recently. It just wasn't worth the wait and it's a bit too.. progressive.


;D

Good - tomorrow's list would probably be different

UFO - Strangers in the Night
Dream Theater - Images and Word
Steven Wilson - hand.cannot.erase
Marillion - Clutching at Straw
The Who - Who's Next
Led Zeppelin - depends on the day
Gary Moore - Still Got the Blues
Frank Zappa - Shut Up and Play Your Guitar
Redemption - The Art of Loss
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Iron Maiden - Powerslave
Judas Priest - Unleashed in the East

The Bad

Anything by Poison
Eric Clapton - I don't get his albums
The Grateful Dead
John Mayer
Boston
All the new pop music
The list could go on...

Quote from: mjg on May 13, 2017, 05:51:30 AM


Peter Garrett's solo album.   I love(d) Midnight Oil, but then the lead singer takes 10 years off to be a politician, and comes back with a solo album which I really didn't like.   :'(

Didn't know he'd done a solo album, hmmm.

Tickets for the Midnight Oil's show here next Saturday sold out to the American Express crowd before they went on sale to the working classes. First saw them in a tiny club in the early eighties up to big arenas, festival shows through the years. This would have been the perfect size, crushed-in-stand-up show but i will not buy from the re-sellers.

dave

Quote from: Rockhorst on May 12, 2017, 08:50:44 AM
I like your list Juan! A lot  ;D Should've included some Rainbow in my already too long list. But live in Germany is one of the greatest live albums out there.

There are some belting live albums out there, so much so it could have it's own category:

Kiss - Alive! - To this day the finest thing they ever did.
Deep Purple - Made In Japan - Possibly the greatest collection of muso's ever to form a band. Here at the very height of their powers.
Rainbow - On Stage - Ok, more Blackmore I know, but this time with our lord Ronnie James Dio \m/
Queensryche - Operation Livecrime - Just as awesome live as it is on album
Marilyn Manson - The Last Tour on Earth - Despite being a fan of industrial music I often find the studio albums to be too perfect and clean. I like the nastiness of it live, and this is just about as nasty as it comes. This goes for Nine Inch Nails too. Listen to The Slip Live Rehearsals (they came with it on DVD) and I'm left feeling that I'd just would have liked the whole album made that way...

QuoteListen to The Slip Live Rehearsals (they came with it on DVD) and I'm left feeling that I'd just would have liked the whole album made that way...

Your right Juan, the rehearsals are far better than the album, same goes for 'Every day is exactly the same'.

I really liked the live album 'Beside you in time', as well as the Woodstock performance. Its good to see what a band is actually capable of live rather than how many layers they can put in the chorus (looking at you Mr Corgan).

I'm gonna have to do another, first 5 good, second five '80s vernacular "Baaaaad!"
Good:
Byrds - Sweetheart of the Rodeo
Roy Buchanan - Telemaster Live in '75
Charles Bradley - Changes
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots
Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030

5 "Baaaad":
The Meters - The Meters
Alton Ellis - Rocksteady
Marie Queenie Lyons - Soul Fever
The Gaylads - Fire and Rain
Linton Kwesi Johnson - LKJ in Dub

Never actually heard any of The Flaming Lips' albums.

I first heard them on the Tribute to Deep Purple -- Remachined album, and it was so disjointed, out of place, and sounded contrived, compared to all the other tracks, that it left a bad taste in my ears.

I don't mind being the lone defender of U2

War, Blood Red Sky, Rattle and Hum, Joshua Tree, Unforgettable Fire, Achtung Baby, All That you Cant Leave behind....

All great albums IMO.

Edge created a sound of his own and I have a ton of respect for his guitar playing.

Bono? Yeah....he's a turd. He can sing though.

the flaming lips are a real love or hate kinda deal. if I were to have included my mp3 collection in my list, I probably would have included with a little help from my fwends in my 5 good.
the best analogy I have is the gastropub. either you are ok with your deconstructed cheeseburger or you're really pissed off that you can't just get a goddamn cheeseburger like you wanted.

METAL MONDAY FIVE!!!

\m/
Between The Buried And Me - The Silent Circus (Changed me forever!)
Killswitch Engage - Alive or Just Breathing (SO MANY RIFFS)
Fear Factory - Obsolete (what more can I say "BREAK OF THE EDGE CRUSHER")
Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Intervals - A Voice Within (Instrumental Version only)


:'(
Intervals - A Voice Within (The Version with the singer is TERRIBLE, it almost ruined it entirely)
Opeth - Watershed (I just...I wanted to like it...urg)
Avenged Sevenfold - Any and ALL OF IT. I don't know why but it urks me when people say that are metal. I think of them as the butt rock of metal
Lamb Of God - just can't get past Randy's awful vocals
Pantera - Reinventing Steel (this still makes me sad to think about)

Quote from: peAk on May 15, 2017, 01:21:37 PM
I don't mind being the lone defender of U2

I like U2 quite a bit. They've put out a hell of a lot of good tunes over the years.

Quote from: alanp on May 15, 2017, 06:09:37 AM
Never actually heard any of The Flaming Lips' albums.

I first heard them on the Tribute to Deep Purple -- Remachined album, and it was so disjointed, out of place, and sounded contrived, compared to all the other tracks, that it left a bad taste in my ears.

I find the covers they do to be some of their worst work.  I always get the feeling they​ purposefully try to make a cover as awful and uninspired as possible.  It's worth exploring a bit more before you decide you really can't​ abide the Lips

Top 5:

In no particular order:

Ott - Blumenkraft
Thin Lizzy - Life live double album
Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Rush - Exit Stage Left
Bob Marley - Legends (OK, its a compilation, still one of my favorites)

Notable: there's a good body of work by Phish, Ministry, The Black Keys, Cypress Hill, Shpongle that could easily get bumped into that list.

Bottom 5:

Rush -- Power Windows and anything after
Pink Floyd -- Anything sans Waters
Grateful Dead -- Never got it
Yngwie Malmsteen -- sounds like insects mating
U2 -- Is Pretentious Rock a thing?

Quote from: flanagan0718 on May 15, 2017, 01:59:59 PM

Avenged Sevenfold - Any and ALL OF IT. I don't know why but it urks me when people say that are metal. I think of them as the butt rock of metal

I assume that all members of AV7 were conceived in the bathrooms during the GNR/Metallica tour of 92, because most of what they put out sounds like a bad derivative of Use Your Illusions and the Black Album.  I say most, because I actually really enjoyed Hail to the King, but the rest of it is pretty tough to listen to.

Quote from: EBRAddict on May 15, 2017, 04:40:12 PM
Ott - Blumenkraft

Never heard of this until you posted. Giving it a listen now. It sounds a LOT like Shpongle / Entheogenic, so I did some digging and turns out Ott is the engineer behind Shpongle (or at least he engineered a couple of their albums). Definitely sounds similar in the details.

I should have probably put "Are You Shpongled?" on my top list. That one really blew my mind.  ;D

Quote from: culturejam on May 15, 2017, 08:02:08 PM

Quote from: EBRAddict on May 15, 2017, 04:40:12 PM
Ott - Blumenkraft

Never heard of this until you posted. Giving it a listen now. It sounds a LOT like Shpongle / Entheogenic, so I did some digging and turns out Ott is the engineer behind Shpongle (or at least he engineered a couple of their albums). Definitely sounds similar in the details.

I should have probably put "Are You Shpongled?" on my top list. That one really blew my mind.  ;D

All of Ott's albums are masterpieces if you're into that genre. If you like Shpongle you might like Infinity Project and Hallucinogen, too. Same people.

A couple of great albums I've been listening to lately.

Weeknd - Starboy
This Patch Of Sky - The Immortal, The Invisible
Between The Buried and Me - Coma Ecliptic
Nine Inch Nails - Add Violence

A few that I was looking forward to that disappointed me   :'(

Gorilliaz - Humanz (thought this was going to be way better than it was. it's awful modern hip hop over real instruments. very disappointed in this one)
We Came As Romans - S/T (wasn't horrible but wasn't great either)
UnderOath - Disambiguation (i heard this years ago when it first came out. Didn't like it then so i gave it another try...still bad)

Great:
Pearl Jam - Ten

Terrible:
Pearl Jam - No Code

The Good....

Big Star  -  #1 Record / Radio City
Curtis Mayfield   -  Superfly
Dinosaur Jr. - Bug
Elliott Smith - Figure 8
Hot Snakes  - Audit in Process
Flaming Lips - Hit to Death in the Future Head
Calexico - Aerocalexico
Ennio Morricone - A Fistful of Film Music
Guided by Voices - Do the Collapse
Husker Du - Zen Arcade
Jesus and Mary Chain - Darklands
Link Wray - The Swan Singles Collection
The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime
Pavement - Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain
Queens of the Stone Age - Songs For the Deaf
Radiohead - OK Computer
Ramones - Any of the early albums
The Replacements - Let It Be
Slow - Against the Glass
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Television - Marquee Moon
Yo La Tengo - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One

The Bad...

If I don't like it, I ignore it so nothing here

Unpopular opinions? Ok, I've got a few (pitchforks and torches may be collected at the door)

The Good:
Coldplay - Rush of Blood to the Head
I love this album. Its the in-media-res feel of several tracks (particularly the opening) I think that always gets me. Funny enough, my least favorite cut on the album was Clocks, the song they spent the next decade remodeling themselves desperately trying to recreate. Not perfect by any means, but it sees fairly constant rotation on my mp3 player.

The Mediocre (very few albums I'd really call bad)
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Its ok. That's it. A few tracks I like, a few I really dislike, most are just "meh". I remember when this thing first hit music critics were queuing up to fellate the band. I ran to my record store and gabbed a copy and couldn't figure out what the hell the hype was about. A warbly voiced melodramatic with decent musicianship and crowded production work. Ok? I didn't hate it by any means, but I've dusted the disk off several times over the last decade and still can't figure out what everyone else saw in it.

Not sure which category I'd put this in:

Actually good:

Winger Pull - Yep, a Winger album, and it's just a solid really good rock album.
Billy Idol Cyperpunk - Total departure from his usual stuff, I utterly love it. Most didn't.
Black Sabbath The Eternal Idol, Headless Cross and Tyr - The Tony Martin era Sabbath was lambasted at the time and overlooked by many (including me) and the three albums he made with them are fucking brilliant.
Iommi Fused - I just think this passed many by. Tony + Glenn Hughes. Sadly they never got to tour this as Heaven and Hell reformed. But what an album!
John Parr - 80's pop rock goodness. Solid album if that's your thing. (I fixed his missus' computer at work once...)
Mr Mister Go on... - After the poppy Welcome to the Real World they released this utter masterpiece, and disappeared...
Warrant Dog Eat Dog & Ultraphobic - Warrant get so much stick for Cherry Pie, these two albums showing that they're quite a bit more than simple hair metal.



Bad but not always for the reasons you'd expect:

Whitesnake 1987 - The production is so atrocious it's unlistenable.
Metallica Death Magnetic - Same . No idea if it's any good, I've maybe listened to it twice.
Metallica St Anger - Never forgiven them for this steaming pile of shit, should never have been released.
Van Halen Balance - When VH fell out with Sammy. 3 good songs, the rest of it is shit.
NIN Year Zero - I suppose he tried something different. It just didn't work.
Queensryche Q2K and everything thereafter - When Tate's ego took over the band and ruined it.

Quote from: EBK on August 29, 2017, 03:44:49 PM
Great:
Pearl Jam - Ten

Terrible:
Pearl Jam - No Code

I can forgive no code purely, purely for Present Tense.

Can't believe I'm just seeing this - I don't believe in 'guilty pleasures' (like what you like), but here's how I did my list:

GUILTY PLEASURES
Ke$ha
Andrew Lloyd Webber - especially JCS
A laundry list of pop radio stuff (Bieber, Bruno Mars, a lot of stuff that's grown on me after enough car rides with Mrs. Clean and the kiddo)
90's rap
80's hair metal (some of it doesn't hold up for me, either, as Bean mentioned earlier, but that list is WAY shorter than the stuff that does)
Bon Jovi - listed separately b/c it's the cheesiest of the 80's rock stuff that does hold up for me, but mostly for nostalgia - Sambora was my first guitar hero and I still say he was the main reason I wanted a guitar; my 9-10yo brain probably thought something similar to, 'If I could get 1/2 as good as him and catch 1/3 of the ladies he has to getting, I'm set' hahahaha

I JUST DON'T LIKE IT
Kiss - almost all of it, I got "into" them in the 80's and still have Crazy Nights on tape somewhere, gosh it's awful - I would probably sing along to Rock-n-Roll All Nite, but...ugh
Slayer - again, will still scream along to the chorus of RAINING BLOOOOOODDDD, but I just can't get into em


Separate Metallica thoughts
While I still like and listen to the black album, it was the first without an instrumental and the next after AJFA (by far my fave album); while I don't wanna be a pissy fanboi and don't want James to pick up the bottle again, I still haven't liked very much after the black album

Quote from: Matmosphere on May 12, 2017, 01:10:22 AM
(still want to start a western themed Radiohead cover band called Rodeohead)

Genius!  ;D

Quote from: EBK on August 30, 2017, 10:54:44 AM

Quote from: Matmosphere on May 12, 2017, 01:10:22 AM
(still want to start a western themed Radiohead cover band called Rodeohead)

Genius!  ;D

Reminds me of the AC/DC hillbilly cover band called Hayseed Dixie.  It's surprisingly good!

here is another unpopular opinion from me

I have a strong distaste and loathing for Pearl Jam. Yup I HATE Eddie Vedder. Never liked the music they produced (except even flow that one and only song was pretty good). I've tried, many, MANY times too...I just can't. I don't doubt that they are decent musicians but 99% of the time when i hear their music I have to either change the channel or mentally block it out.

Quote from: electrosonic on August 29, 2017, 05:02:39 PM
The Good....
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Husker Du - Zen Arcade
The Minutemen - Double Nickels on the Dime

Two of my favorites from middles school.

The good:

Khruangbin - any song
SRV - In the Beginning
Fleetwood Mac - Rumors
Smashing Pumpkins - Pisces Iscariot
RUN DMC - Raising Hell

The bad:

John Mayer - anything (great guitar player, always exhaling while singing!)
Adele - anything (because they play it over and over and over and over and you can't get away! "Hello from the other side! I must've called a thousand times, to tell you I'm sorry, for everything that I've done" ....aagghhhh!!!!!)
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore
Auto-Tune - (it deserves it's own mention as an artist since it does more work than most these days)
Bobby McFerrin - Simple Pleasures (this is guaranteed to put you in a straightjacket after the 100th listen)

No joke, that Bobby McFerrin album is the first album I remember owning. On cassette. I'm pretty sure I was only 3 or 4 years old, and yet I still recall holding the tape.

That song. IT NEVER LEAVES.

First two tapes I owned were Apitite For Destruction and Green by R.E.M. Odd pair I know.

Anyone wanna guess which I'd listen to front to back these days?

My first tape was Elton John Too Low for Zero.  My brother won second or third prize in a sweepstakes, which was a Sony Walkman and about 20 tapes of various pop and rock artists.  That particular tape became mine, and I listened to it over and over and over again.  "I'm Still Standing" made it into a kids' movie recently, so my daughter has been singing it, which takes me back.  :D