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Worst Albums by Favourite Groups

Worst Albums by Favourite Groups

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Your love for the artists in question aside, what were their weakest albums?

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David Bowie - Never Let Me Down (1987)

There were a few ropey albums post-Let's Dance in Bowie's catalogue but this 1987 effort was the most faxed-in of them all.

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@fmf said
Your love for the artists in question aside, what were their weakest albums?
The Beatles / Something New

A few good songs, but several in the average category

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Francesco Zappa, 1984 album by Frank Zappa.

The music isn't by Zappa and nobody plays any instruments on it.

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springteens The River/Born in the USA

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The Dog and the Butterfly - Heart their 4th album. The Wilson sisters wowed the world with their hard driving hard rock. Songs like Magic Man, Barracuda with screaming guitars and powerful vocals. Then WTF is up with The Dog and the Butterfly? I mean pffffffftt!!!!!!1!

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way back when
in the nineteen seventies
i was wowed by "just a lil band outta boston"
i was gonna complain about their second and third albums because i was spoiled by the first and when i looked them up i found out just today that they've released six albums

lol

that means they've done good once and failed five times

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@rookie54 said
way back when
in the nineteen seventies
i was wowed by "just a lil band outta boston"
i was gonna complain about their second and third albums because i was spoiled by the first and when i looked them up i found out just today that they've released six albums

lol

that means they've done good once and failed five times
Yeah, I remember my friend saying " Look at the cover, it's a mushroom!" I looked and said it's a guitar. Boston never equaled their first album for sure.

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Led Zep Houses of the Holy was weak, compared to their others.

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@mchill said
The Beatles / Something New

A few good songs, but several in the average category
Not really their fault, though. That was executive meddling.

The same is true for my choice, Death Of A Ladies' Man. Some good songs, but ruined by Spector's mistreatment.

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XTC's "Mummer" (1983). Still a pretty good album with some cracking standout tunes, but the over-wrought crafting, complexity and 80s sheen make too many of the tracks a bit charmless. Certainly a disappointment after 1982's monumentally career-peakish English Settlement. The rather maligned The Big Express (1984) would probably be most XTC fans' choice for the worst album, but I like it and I am more likely to give it a spin than Mummer.