Best Ever Albums

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

Luigii — Mon, 4 May 2020 17:14:10 GMT

Author: Luigii

Posted: 05/04/2020 21:14

LedZep wrote:

Luigii wrote:

Link

That's a great video, I've seen some of his others recommended before but never watched them. Seems like a fun channel.

I agree he has a fun channel. Been a fan of his work for almost 10 years. And while he retains what he was doing in the beginning, he has adapted a lot. Talking about pop hits, one hit wonders, failed records and best/worst lists of current years.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

LedZep — Mon, 4 May 2020 12:25:31 GMT

Author: LedZep

Posted: 05/04/2020 16:25

Luigii wrote:

Link

That's a great video, I've seen some of his others recommended before but never watched them. Seems like a fun channel.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

Luigii — Sun, 3 May 2020 10:37:02 GMT

Author: Luigii

Posted: 05/03/2020 14:37

baystateoftheart wrote:

Since no one else has, I have to mention The Beach Boys. While I stand by my statement that the perfect album doesn't exist, Pet Sounds comes the closest, and their later career is known for dire releases like:

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Summer In Paradise by The Beach Boys

I don't know if you saw this video Bay, but I fell like you might enjoy this.

Link

If you enjoyed this, he has other videos like this.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

Anonymous — Sun, 3 May 2020 10:20:30 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/03/2020 14:20

RoundTheBend wrote:

Oh damn... yeah Raditude and Hurley... they just don't exist to me. I won't even acknowledge their existence... except when I am... like right now. :lol:

I can actually live with Hurley. It's not going to be a rec for anyone, but still...it just kind of reminds of stoopid 90s alt rock/metal I used to listen to when I was 14 and I'm okay with this even now when I'm in the right mood (there's some decent tunes on there). Though it's a truly terrible cover/ title. Sometimes, it's like Weezer lost the distinction between ironically bad and just plain bad for a while back there 🙁

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

Anonymous — Sun, 3 May 2020 10:13:31 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/03/2020 14:13

Hayden wrote:

Weezer is a pinnacle.

Yes, with Raditude especially they learned to make terrible music with a kind of military precision.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

Anonymous — Sun, 3 May 2020 10:09:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 05/03/2020 14:09

baystateoftheart wrote:

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Summer In Paradise by The Beach Boys

Yeah, they managed two decades of good albums (mostly anyway-I used to consider MIU a bad album then Yann pointed out the rather sweet 'Match Point of our love' and this redeems the album a bit.

I've not listened to their 80s/90s albums but I think it's safe to assume they made some terrible ones. The tracklist for the one you pick it out (surfin', still surfin'-Jeez) is not promising.

And, yes, Pet Sounds is as close to a perfect pop album as you can get really. Though I'm interpreting 'perfect album' here as '5 star classic' of which the Boys have a few contenders.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

baystateoftheart — Sat, 2 May 2020 22:28:00 GMT

Author: baystateoftheart

Posted: 05/03/2020 02:28

Since no one else has, I have to mention The Beach Boys. While I stand by my statement that the perfect album doesn't exist, Pet Sounds comes the closest, and their later career is known for dire releases like:

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Summer In Paradise by The Beach Boys

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

RoundTheBend — Sat, 2 May 2020 22:22:08 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 05/03/2020 02:22

Hayden wrote:

Weezer is a pinnacle.

Green Day. Eminem. Drake. Coldplay. Unfortunately, all of which have more duds than hits now.

Some recent additions to the club:
Chance The Rapper
Kanye West
Justin Timberlake
Beck

Wu-Tang's had some heavy duds too.

I like to forget the bad releases.

Spot on.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

Hayden — Sat, 2 May 2020 14:23:33 GMT

Author: Hayden

Posted: 05/02/2020 18:23

Weezer is a pinnacle.

Green Day. Eminem. Drake. Coldplay. Unfortunately, all of which have more duds than hits now.

Some recent additions to the club:
Chance The Rapper
Kanye West
Justin Timberlake
Beck

Wu-Tang's had some heavy duds too.

I like to forget the bad releases.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

Romanelli — Fri, 1 May 2020 08:05:45 GMT

Author: Romanelli

Posted: 05/01/2020 12:05

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Mardi Gras by Creedence Clearwater Revival

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

meccalecca — Fri, 1 May 2020 07:22:13 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 05/01/2020 11:22

Just gonna leave this here...

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Cut The Crap by The Clash

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

CharlieBarley — Fri, 1 May 2020 00:08:31 GMT

Author: CharlieBarley

Posted: 05/01/2020 04:08

Near perfect album:

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Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles

Pretty awful album:

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Beatles For Sale by The Beatles

[Kansas City and maybe one or two others aside]

And I say this as a Beatles fan.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

RoundTheBend — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 23:09:40 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 05/01/2020 03:09

theblueboy wrote:

Weezer. And I'm referring specifically to Raditude.

Oh damn... yeah Raditude and Hurley... they just don't exist to me. I won't even acknowledge their existence... except when I am... like right now. 🤣

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

JOSweetHeart — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 15:07:33 GMT

Author: JOSweetHeart

Posted: 04/30/2020 19:07

pctrooper wrote:

A true fan will never admit if an artist they like makes a bad album!

I have mixed feelings about this statement. With the album being from your favorite act, how bad is it really when one thing about the album is already right, its your favorite act doing the performing and not someone else?

God bless you always!!!

Holly

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

Anonymous — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 04:03:35 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 04/30/2020 08:03

Weezer. And I'm referring specifically to Raditude.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

RoundTheBend — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:39:54 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 04/30/2020 04:39

Fischman wrote:

Blue Oyster Cult
Death Angel
Eric Clapton
Electric Light Orchestra
The Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
Queensryche
The Rolling Stones
The Who

Oh yes... so much ouch.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

RoundTheBend — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:39:25 GMT

Author: RoundTheBend

Posted: 04/30/2020 04:39

I guess this is cheating... perfect albums by amazing bands, but then they lost their key player(s) and the band went to shit.

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The Doors by The Doors

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Full Circle by The Doors

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The Velvet Underground by The Velvet Underground

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Squeeze by The Velvet Underground

Also some argue Boy, War, Joshua Tree, Achtung Baby are perfect albums by U2 (it seems there's never a consensus on when their peak was or their downfall was... but that's a different conversation). Their last album was mostly shit.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

Fischman — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 00:05:48 GMT

Author: Fischman

Posted: 04/30/2020 04:05

Blue Oyster Cult
Death Angel
Eric Clapton
Electric Light Orchestra
The Kinks
Led Zeppelin
Metallica
Queensryche
The Rolling Stones
The Who

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

pctrooper — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:35:10 GMT

Author: pctrooper

Posted: 04/29/2020 23:35

In fact, I am about to go listen to some Ghostface albums so I can form my own opinion about this.

Re: Bands who've made both perfect and terrible albums.

pctrooper — Wed, 29 Apr 2020 19:33:57 GMT

Author: pctrooper

Posted: 04/29/2020 23:33

Skinny wrote:

Yeah, I can't get behind this line of thinking. Ghostface is probably my favourite artist, but he has been depressingly uninspired for years. (Actually, his most recent album had some moments where it felt like the old spark was back, but before that you have to go back to 2010's Apollo Kids to find an album that wasn't either sleep-inducingly boring or otherwise entirely propped up by production that deserved far better.)

EDIT: Just seen you were joking. My point about Ghostface still stands, though judging by RYM ratings it seems I am clearly in the minority.

That's kind of what I meant by the joke too. Perhaps all those other Ghostface fans can't admit that his later albums aren't as good cause they feel a sense of loyalty. I really should check out Ghostface's discography myself as I love 36 chambers and GZA's solo "Liquid Swords" but for some reason never got around to anything else from Wu-Tang.