Every great artist (okay, maybe besides The Beatles) has at least one "crap" album. Of these, which would you vote the worst

Barbra Streisand was once a good artist?puke:

Aerosmith - "Just Push Play" (Night In The Ruts and Rock And A Hard Place are the most maligned, but I think JPP was the bottom of the barrel personally)

I like J.P.P. Its a good album, but not really to their standards. Still decent though. I like Jaded.

i dont even know any of those but i like american life (i might have heard songs from it tho) cause i like madonna

I'm going with Michael Jackson's "Invincible" album.

Originally posted by Nirvana
Barbra Streisand was once a good artist?puke:


well, she is definately not everybody's taste, but I do think for the first 20 or so years of her career, she was at the forefront of her genre. Pretty much everything from "The Barbra Streisand Album" to the Yentl soundtrack was steller. I have not been crazy about much of what she's done since 1983 though.

any Mick Jagger solo effort pretty much stunk up the joint.

hold up!

neither Madonna's American Life or Olivia's Soul Kiss belong on this list. Granted both albums were flops for the artists, but they were decent albums. I love American Life even tho it has done awful.

I think the Batman soundtrack is Prince's worst album. Rainbow Children is good.

Originally posted by vashti1999
I think the Batman soundtrack is Prince's worst album. Rainbow Children is good.

I think Come is worse than either myself

ophellia by natlae merchant shes one of my all time favorites but that was dpressing pardon the bad spelling

Hmm... of course I have heard of every artist up there but I am not familiar with most of those albums, (Probably cuz they were crap! ;) ) so perhaps I shouldn't vote. It's cool Duran Duran is up there for the fact that this topic is about "great artists." (How super :)) "Thank You" wasn't the greatest, to say the least. I love those guys, but what were they thinking? That is one album of theirs that is never getting listened to by me.

It's hard for my to fully put a diss on most of the artists because I respect them, so I don't want to be TOO cruel...
WAIT... this won't be hard. Michael Jackson's Invisible? Gawd. No one, BUT no one wants to see his scary self in videos or hear him sing new garbage. (Okay, there are some and if one of you is reading this, I gotta say, "if you're in need of hearing him sing, just listen to his stuff previous, preferably prewhite Michael.) Invisible better be his last album ever.

Originally posted by Cashodeen
Hmm... of course I have heard of every artist up there but I am not familiar with most of those albums, (Probably cuz they were crap! ;) ) so perhaps I shouldn't vote. It's cool Duran Duran is up there for the fact that this topic is about "great artists." (How super :)) "Thank You" wasn't the greatest, to say the least. I love those guys, but what were they thinking? That is one album of theirs that is never getting listened to by me.

It's hard for my to fully put a diss on most of the artists because I respect them, so I don't want to be TOO cruel...
WAIT... this won't be hard. Michael Jackson's Invisible? Gawd. No one, BUT no one wants to see his scary self in videos or hear him sing new garbage. (Okay, there are some and if one of you is reading this, I gotta say, "if you're in need of hearing him sing, just listen to his stuff previous, preferably prewhite Michael.) Invisible better be his last album ever.

I agree I'm not crazy about Thank You, and that's coming from somebody who LOVES 90's Duran Duran. I loved The Wedding Album and Medazzaland, but Thank You was contractual filler IMO.

I voted for Paul McCartney's Pipes of Peace because it was a disappointment coming right after Tug of War, the music was insipid, the lyrics were dumb ("I acted like a dustbin lid"), and it had one hell of a bad instrumental ("Hey Hey").

Other legendarily bad albums from good artists include:

It's Hard, the Who

Self-Portrait, Bob Dylan

Against the Wind, Bob Seger

American Dream, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

every solo album Neil Young put out from 1982 to 1988

Originally posted by Steve M.
I voted for Paul McCartney's Pipes of Peace because it was a disappointment coming right after Tug of War, the music was insipid, the lyrics were dumb ("I acted like a dustbin lid"), and it had one hell of a bad instrumental ("Hey Hey").

Other legendarily bad albums from good artists include:

It's Hard, the Who

Self-Portrait, Bob Dylan

Against the Wind, Bob Seger

American Dream, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

every solo album Neil Young put out from 1982 to 1988

I don't know too much about Seger, but I'm surprised if Against The Wind was his worst album. I don't have the album but do have the Greatest Hits albums, and there's a few classic songs on there. or are the singles (Against The Wind, Her Strut) the only good songs from the album while the rest are awful filler?

Invincible, and American Life aren't as bad as people make them out to be, it's just that people expect another Thriller, or Ray of Light.

Michael's "You Rock My World," "Break of Dawn," and "Butterflies" are great, and so are Madonna's "Hollywood," "Love Profusion," and "Nothing Fails."

Originally posted by BuffySlayer79
I don't know too much about Seger, but I'm surprised if Against The Wind was his worst album. I don't have the album but do have the Greatest Hits albums, and there's a few classic songs on there. or are the singles (Against The Wind, Her Strut) the only good songs from the album while the rest are awful filler?

On Against the Wind, Seger tried to be a laid-back California country rocker in the style of the Eagles. Rock critics who hated the Eagles for their mellow vibe and their cynical attitude saw Seger's change of style as a betrayal; many LA rock fans heard Seger's attempt to ape his old Detroit buddy Glenn Frey as an oafish effort by Seger to accomodate himself to a style of rock and roll he had no business performing. "What Seger does," Seger fan and Eagles-hater Dave Marsh, writing for the former camp, " is risk his credbility, and that he does accidentally."

The title song is the only keeper on Against the Wind. The rest of the album shows Seger conservatively alternating between sweet ballads and pumped-up rockers that don't have much inspiration. The all-American Midwestern rock and roller who had recorded the much more satisfying Night Moves and Stranger in Town seemed to have become a bland hack - but he regained his artistic direction with The Distance.