Every band/artist has one. That album you wish they never released. Heck, some have a few.

KISS is one of my favorite bands, but when they released Psycho Circus, I hated it. Now listening to it again, I remember why.
I didn't mind the single, but man does that album suck!!!
It might as well been a Britney Spears album the way it was so "manufactured"

another example for me would be U2's Pop

The Allman Brothers Band,and I think the title was Reach For The Sky. ...it stunk and that might not even be the title,it's not worth remembering.

I don't "hate" this album, actually love the songs, but find it completely unlistenable because of the way it's mastered. "Vapor Trails" by Rush.

The Loudness War is destroying fidelity and the audio on VT is SO compressed that I literally get stressed out listening to it. Trouble is, Atlantic was going to re-issue it as a remaster but left it sitting on the shelf. GAH!

The recording itself is too hot, but then the mastering engineer(s) cut out the highs and lows to make it "louder" (ever hear of a volume knob, we can do that ourselves) and the result is a loud, sonic mush where some great songs were.

Can't stand any album suffering from over-compression.

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I really like Cream but I thought the "Goodbye" album sucked Top Flite #5's through a Dixie cup straw.

Arjay

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I have what has to be one of the all time suckfests of all time.

I am a fan of a band called 7 Mary 3. There breakthrough cd American standard was a huge hit hard driving hard rocking with great lyrics to go with it.

The problem came when it was released, being a Florida based band, there record company tried to lump them in with the "Seattle Grunge" seen, and the band hated the idea of being thought of as a southern version of Nirvana.

The Next Cd they went out of there way to show they were no Grunge band, Rock king was release, it had 20 songs on it, each sucked worse then the next, mostly acoustic and nothing like American standard it flat killed there fan base.
I think I listen to it once all the way through, before running it though a shredder.

There next effort "Orange Avenue" found them still trying to get there grove back, but it was a better effort and a return to there root. The turmoil in the band at this point caused the guitarist to leave the band, it was a year before they had a new guitarist.
That CD "The Economy of sound" (2001) was one of there best efforts, hard driving with great lyrics, but by then commercial radio had moved on and they could not get it played.

There last studio CD "Day and night driving"(2008) is a fine one as well and one I listen too, Jason Ross can write song as good as Bruce Springsteen.

Oh well, it still makes a good example of if you have a sound, and it is selling you should think long and hard before jumping off the cliff and doing something completely different.

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At first all you want are Hearts and Diamonds.

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Battle Studies by John Mayer wasn't the best.
Some of his songs from that album did sound better though at one of his concerts i went to.

I am okay with Vapor Trails. What I can not tolerate by Rush are their live albums (except for their first one -- All the World's A Stage -- back when Geddy's voice was really strong). The funny thing is that Rush is awesome in concert ... but I hate their live albums. Weird, huh?

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Nice, someone mentioned KISS without just telling me how much they suck

Def my favorite band, but my least favorite album by them was "The Elder" and they released it at such a bad time. With Eric just starting and Ace wanting to leave they needed a good heavy release like Creatures but hindsight is always 20/20 right?

Loved Styx all the way until Kilroy, should have been called "Kil-Styx" it was so bad.

Those are the first two that come to mind for some favorite bands of mine.

Johnny Winter - I'm a Bluesman. Turn off the chorus pedal Johnny............. Mike

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Ya Elder is one of those albums too.
I was searching the other day on the forums and came accross some pics of your KISS basement..... that was awesome! I have a lot of that stuff too but mine is all in boxes, except the smashed paul stanley guitar..... that's on display.

Anyway, keeping with the topic, another one of these albums for me was Van Halen III...... the songs were good, at least what I could remember, but not a VH album at all for me. I liked extreme, I like VH..... but not together

"Family Style" - How could two of the best blues guitarists make such a bad album?

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nevermind...that album only has a couple of good songs on it, and it doesn't even show what grunge is, id say its more alternative rock than grunge.....Still, i own it

its not that its that bad, in fact im pretty sure its not bad, its just that i can not listen to it cause of its public view i guess

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MY all time heros The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix never produced an album that I didn't like however my long time folk/rock idol Donavan released an album called Sutras that was very disappointing as well as some remakes he did of Mellow Yellow and Sunshine Superman-they're not the same without Page,Bonham and Jones.

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+1 on that one

I'm a huge Jethro Tull fan, but I cannot stand the Roots To Branches album.

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