WORST album of every year since....

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Now that the Best album of every year since.... thread teeters on the event horizon, about to fall into the abyss of forgotten threads, I think its about time to make you feelings known about what albs you DON'T like. Which ones besmirched and tainted a year? Which one album in each years did you look upon with shame, fear and disgust and carried unceremoniously to the trash, preferrably by a sanitized pair of barbeque tongs.
Warn us so we don't make the same mistake.

RULES.
1) It must be an album you have heard all the way through and/or have actually owned.
2) You are NOT only permitted, you are ENCOURAGED to piss all over any sacrosant "Canonically Correct Meisterwerk" if you think that record was one of the worst blights on human civilization that came out that year.
3) There is no rule #3. But if you happen to encounter a third rule, do not read it. Cover your eyes and walk swiftly and calmly to the nearest exit.

I won't be posting my own list yet. I'll post it in the morning after I've had time to mull it over and decide which artist/rekkid from that year really deserves the abuse.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 7 March 2003 06:13 (twenty-three years ago)

Ryan Adams' Gold, the Heiroglyphics album, Morrissey's Maladjusted, Craig Mack's album, Pavement's Terror Twilight and all post-Pavemnet Malkmus, Weird War, and Laub's Filesharing CD were all morbid disappointments. These are the ones that immediately spring to mind.

This year also brought the worst album I have EVER HEARD (and i've been doing music journo for a little over a decade and have heard more crappy records than I care to think about) - the Queen tribute, Dynamite with a Laser Beam, on 31G, is the most godawful piece of garbage I have ever heard in my life. No exaggeration, friends.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 7 March 2003 06:25 (twenty-three years ago)

I follow 'Maladjusted'.
'Southpaw Grammar' deserves a mention, too.

Just had a tape of Black Cherry, the new Goldfrapp album. I have a feeling that, too, will be joining the list for this year.

It's shockingly, crushingly disappointing.

― russ t, Friday, 7 March 2003 10:51 (twenty-three years ago)

The Langley Music School Project. It's a seminal work of youngsters re-interpreting famous rock hits. No it's not. It's an interminable school assembly from hell.

― kim tortoise, Friday, 7 March 2003 11:26 (twenty-three years ago)

1) It must be an album you have heard all the way through and/or have actually owned.

This leaves me out. I am not the kind of guy who would change my tastes so drastically over time that I would end up hating an album that I have actually spent money on owning.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 7 March 2003 11:29 (twenty-three years ago)

I'll second the Langley School disc. Unlistenable kitsch. I'll listen to the originals instead.

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Friday, 7 March 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

This is my Truth Tell Me Yours - Manics
Nu-Clear Sounds - Ash
Head Music - Suede
Boys for Pele - Tori Amos
Melody AM -Rosykopp
Any Pearl Jam that my best mate used to blare through my wall while at university. I'm pretty sure I've heard all their albums from start to finish numerous times.

― Calum Robert, Friday, 7 March 2003 15:58 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone just post Geir's "Best album of every year" list already. You know you want to.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Friday, 7 March 2003 16:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Must...resist...posting...List...of...Death

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 7 March 2003 18:25 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd like to defend Southpaw Grammar - i don't know why the hardcore Moz freaks hate it - I'll admit the two minute drum solo that begins The Operation was a bit of a head scratcher, but I really like Reader Meet Author, Southpaw, and (gulp) that first song a LOT.

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Friday, 7 March 2003 19:41 (twenty-three years ago)

I love Nu-Clear Sounds! Bah.

2002/1(?)Andrew WK - I Get Wet

― Simon H., Friday, 7 March 2003 19:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Most most disappointing purchases (not necessarily the worst, but definitely among them) of the past years. Hmmm. Lemme check

2002: Oasis: Heaten Chemistry
2001: Starsailor: (Whatever was that album called anyway - got rid of it rather quickly)
2000: Radiohead: Kid A

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 7 March 2003 21:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i'd like to defend Southpaw Grammar - i don't know why the hardcore Moz freaks hate it

Hardly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 7 March 2003 22:55 (twenty-three years ago)

Southpaw Grammar wasn't bad, but it was also during my first listen to it that it occurred to me: I don't have to buy each new Morrissey release the day it comes out.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 7 March 2003 23:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned -

great review. were we, like, seperated at birth or something?

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 8 March 2003 00:20 (twenty-three years ago)

I am not the kind of guy who would change my tastes so drastically over time that I would end up hating an album that I have actually spent money on owning.

understatement of the motherfucking century!

― M Matos (M Matos), Saturday, 8 March 2003 00:37 (twenty-three years ago)

the worst albums of 2000 and 2002 are, respectively, Agaetis Byrjun and ().

i have a love/hate thing with Southpaw Grammar -- Ned is the only other person i know who also likes "the operation" (which strangely to me seems to make a lot of "worst of" lists wr2 mr. morrissey's output).

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:09 (twenty-three years ago)

It IS a good song - once the drum solo ends - "everyone here is so sick to death of you" - vaguely rocking

i agree with the anti-Sigur Ros campaign as well - throw Godspeed on the fire too - and Mogwai better start pulling their weight or they are next...

― roger adultery (roger adultery), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:15 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the drum solo for "the operation" -- maybe because it's just so wrong, esp. for a Morrissey record. but like it i do, as well as the rest of the song.

and yeah, by all means throw GYBE! on the fire -- just as useless as Sigur Ros, maybe more so. i do like the first few Mogwai EPs, though everything after that is mostly a waste of time -- though i find it hard to hate Mogwai because i find them to be entertaining (shame their music isn't very entertaining any more, though).

― Tad (llamasfur), Saturday, 8 March 2003 09:38 (twenty-three years ago)

G!YBE are merely irritating at times, while Mogwai is just life-sucking, bullshit bogus self-indulgent pointless insulting boring incompetence with the same sonic quality and effect as your gut rumbling at 3 AM when it's cold and you're tired and you REALLY don't want to get up and go and take a shit

― dave q, Saturday, 8 March 2003 11:19 (twenty-three years ago)

OPM is a plodding, badly produced piece of uk garage fakery that embarasses the fuck out of me and makes me sweat whenever i hear it or see his fans

― schnell schnell, Saturday, 8 March 2003 12:26 (twenty-three years ago)

yeah, fuck the streets!

― todd swiss (eliti), Saturday, 8 March 2003 20:49 (twenty-three years ago)

This thread is boring. Why aren't there REAL lists on here like on the Best Album For Every Year Since... thread? Surely we must have SOME bored aging rock-crits who've been forced to listen to totally krap albums since the 70's and feel like striking back on here?

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 8 March 2003 23:46 (twenty-three years ago)

i think the worst album ever is californication by the red hot chili peppers...

― robin (robin), Saturday, 8 March 2003 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

and dark side of the moon

― robin (robin), Saturday, 8 March 2003 23:50 (twenty-three years ago)

good choices, robin did you know godawful stoner types who played dark side of the moon at parties too? Maybe just me but I can't fucking stand it. Red Hot Chilli Peppers are so embarassing aswell, that new single with the "this life is more than just a readthrough" ending makes me cringe, it's like the very idea of someone thinking that was my generation or that was why I listen to music is so horrible!

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 9 March 2003 00:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm not a stoner in the least and can actually appreciate Dark Side as the '70s Spector-bastard-child answer to Pet Sounds it should be, as opposed to the 'hey man let's turn on our black lights and blaze some Maui Wowie' stereotype every lazy writer and some not-so-lazy ones always throw at it.

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 9 March 2003 01:03 (twenty-three years ago)

(If you can't tell I'm going to make it my mission to sabotage these "LET'S MENTION SHITTY BANDS WE DON'T LIKE" threads with nothing but nice complimentary laudatory remarks about said bands)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 9 March 2003 01:07 (twenty-three years ago)

(Not all of them, though. I mean, Californication?)

― Nate Patrin (Nate Patrin), Sunday, 9 March 2003 01:08 (twenty-three years ago)

2001: Starsailor: (Whatever was that album called anyway - got rid of it rather quickly)

IN agreement with Gier Homegro SHOCKAH.

Except there is one worse, Doulbe 00 Boyz (pronounced Double Naught Boys Im told) put out an album combining new country with bling bling style lyrics and delivery.
It was so WRONG I was captivated to see just how bad it would get. I think Puffy and Mutt Lang might stand a chance (provided Mase and Shania hit it off) but otherwise it was a bad idea horribly, HORRIBLY executed.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Sunday, 9 March 2003 01:12 (twenty-three years ago)

i think dark side of the moon sounds absolutely,skin crawlingly horrible,but i think i have a particular aversion to it as someone who does like to smoke joints and listen to music,its horrible to hear something that just sounds like its completely tailoring to people on drugs...
i would like to think that while listening to music on drugs can make good music more enjoyable,it wouldn't make me like something that was awful,and when you hear something that is awful anyway,it is even worse when you cant help but think of people on drugs loving it for that reason...this would also explain why i hate trance

― robin (robin), Sunday, 9 March 2003 01:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Ned -
we'll have to agree to disagree on Southpaw Grammar - it looks and sounds like an album that's been chucked together - from the dog-eared, tired old rockabilly band he insists on using (to this day, too.....) to the aimless songs and the bootleg-like hideous cover, Southpaw Grammar was my Morrissey divorce album.

By the time he insulted me with Maladjusted, I'd got a new lover so didn't really give a shit (but it still made me a little sad when I heard it after picking it up in a Woolworths bargain bin some 18 months after release)....

Loved your 136 best album list, though - and agree wholeheartedly with the Marc Almond one - an incredible record from a much underrated talent.

― russ t, Monday, 10 March 2003 12:44 (twenty-three years ago)

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