Top 10 Worst Albums by Good Artists

1. St. Anger - Metallica

   

   Metallica is a great band, but this album killed them a little bit. It shouldn't have even been recorded. They had so many things going on, like James going to rehab.

   When you listen to Ride the Lightning, Master of Puppets, and ..And Justice for All, they're so much better than this album. The only good songs are Frantic, St. Anger, and Some Kind of Monster. The rest get pretty boring.

   What's with Lars' drums? They sounded way different on this album. A real letdown.

   But they've gotten it back together with Death Magnetic, which is one of my favorites. I'm looking forward to more albums in the future. Rock on, Metallica!

   PLEASE READ! Don't be misled by the beginning!

   Now, it's okay to have one or two bad albums in your discography. Look at The Beatles, perhaps the greatest band of all time. They've had a few bad albums here and there, like Magical Mystery Tour and Yellow Submarine. But when you have such a great repertoire like The Beatles, you can be excused.

   This album shouldn't really have been made, in my opinion. Metallica have made some "eh" albums like Load and Reload, but St. Anger is just bad. At least the majority of it makes it bad. There are so many flaws with this album I can't begin to tell you. Don't hate on me, but there are some decent songs on here. Frantic, which is considered one of the worst Metallica songs, is in my opinion a decent song. Keep in mind that was just my OPINION!

   Anyway, Lars' drums sound really bad. Throughout the entire album, you can obviously notice his snare sounds horribly high. It sounds like he released the springs and tightened them while the switch was still down. In Some Kind of Monster, you actually notice his snare being on for a change. In the intro, you hear the springs making the rattle noise when there's noise in the room.

   Besides the drums, there is no mind-blowing solo from Kirk Hammett or James Hetfield anywhere throughout this album, unlike in any other Metallica album you'd listen to. It's just riffs all in drop C and literally nothing else.

   Hey, you want to listen to an album where every song is in the key of C? Well, this is the album. Don't listen to it all the way through.

2. Lulu - Lou Reed & Metallica

   

   Two great artists clash and somehow this abomination is the end product? Every song is a mess. The vocals are off in tone, key, and enjoyability. The instruments are weak or out of sync, and the songs themselves are just stupid. There were no songs on here that were good.

   Heck, people even sent death threats due to how awful this album was.

   My favorite metal band of all time just killed me inside. Metallica, are you ashamed? Remember Ride the Lightning, Kill 'Em All, ..And Justice for All, and Master of Puppets? How could you do this to me?

3. "The Spaghetti Incident?" - Guns N' Roses

   

   Why couldn't they just write their own songs for the album? It's not like they can't write songs.

   Just by looking at the name and the cover, you know it's a bad album, even if Guns N' Roses made it.

   Not as great as some of their earlier stuff, but I like it better than Lies.

4. Black Panties - R. Kelly

   

   With a name like "Black Panties" and the fact that it's by R. Kelly, you should already know that you're in for a nightmare.

5. A Thousand Suns - Linkin Park

   

   This was so bad that I immediately stopped listening to Linkin Park when I heard it. This is the true definition of "sellout."

   I grew up with Linkin Park's Meteora, Hybrid Theory, and Minutes to Midnight, but this isn't what I'm used to.

   The only good songs were Burning in the Skies, Waiting for the End, and Iridescent, and Iridescent is the best on the album.

   This album was so bad, I stopped even looking for new LP material to be released. Their excuse for the album's poor performance was even worse.

6. Chinese Democracy - Guns N' Roses

   

   I don't know how this album got to number 5. It's a damn great album.

   Edit: Jesus, what was I thinking when I posted this comment?

7. 808s & Heartbreak - Kanye West

   

   This isn't the same Kanye from Graduation, Late Registration, or College Dropout. He better come big with Good A Day in 2010.

   This isn't rap, it's techno crap. Why would he even release this album? It makes me so mad.

8. Nastradamus - Nas

   

   The only one in the top 10 I can relate to. Nas is one of my favorite rappers, but this was terrible.

   Not really his fault, though, considering I Am... was meant to be a double album but got bootlegged. So he released this right after I Am... and it was rushed. But as good as Nas is, it's fair to say this is his worst.

   Nas is definitely one of my favorites, but this is garbage.

   Nas criticized Jay-Z for how commercial he went on Ether, which is only one album removed from Nastradamus? This was a sellout attempt, and a bad one at that.

9. Sex Love & Pain II - Tank

   

10. Dirty Work - The Rolling Stones

    

    I'm surprised this isn't in the top 20. This album is just a bad album by a great band. But at least they made better albums after this.

The Newcomers
11. ?

    Coming Home - Usher

    

    At this point, we could probably put all of Usher's post-Here I Stand albums on this list, which raises the question, can Usher still be considered a good artist? I mean, he has a pretty terrible track record as of late, 4-5 bad albums in a row! How is this possible? How is it possible to be seen as a top tier artist, someone who should have access to the best writers and producers, yet go in the studio this many times in a row and consistently miss the mark by so much? I don't think any other R&B artist who is actually seen as credible can say that. Even R. Kelly, for all his flaws, could still put out a great soulful album like Love Letter after a few that were mediocre.

12. ?

    Father of All Motherfuckers - Green Day

    

    Keep in mind this was apparently made with the intent of getting Green Day's label to ditch them since their contract was about to expire. A desperate move, but an effective one.

The Contenders

13. E=MC² - Mariah Carey

    

    Carey dominated summer 2005 as "We Belong Together" stayed at #1 for who knows how long. And then she dropped this.

    Horrible follow-up to The Emancipation of Mimi!

14. Hot Space - Queen

    

    Queen are one of my favorite bands, and every song is special in its own right.

    Well, except Hot Space. The only good song on the entire album is Under Pressure, and even that song is a little overrated.

    Even though this album is bad, we should all be glad it exists. It influenced Michael Jackson's Thriller, which went on to sell 50 million copies.

    Wasn't their biggest album, but you gotta love Body Language.

15. Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel - Mariah Carey

    

16. Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - The Re-Up - Nicki Minaj

    

    I kind of liked it at the time, but now you can't pay me to listen to this. What is with the chipmunk voice?

    Wait, so a reboot of a reboot of an awful album? You know it's gonna suck.

17. Self Portrait - Bob Dylan

    

    The album was actually meant to be a joke. Sometimes artists just get tired of being famous.

18. Relapse - Eminem

    

    Oh, poor Relapse. It gets so much hate, and it's not even in his top two worst albums.

    Eminem is great, but this album sucks real hard.

19. Looking 4 Myself - Usher

    

20. Super Collider - Megadeth

    

21. Van Halen III - Van Halen

    

    From after the infamous Van Hagar era, where every album hit #1 just for sounding like an extended Pepsi ad.

    The guy on the cover looks like he's waiting to be shot after hearing this awful album.

    A disaster. Terrible lyrics, bad mix, bad voice, no structure. Ouch.

22. Having Fun with Elvis on Stage - Elvis Presley

    

    At least most of the other albums on this list have music. This is just a bunch of clips with Elvis talking, but the clips are edited so badly that the conversations don't even make sense. It's completely pointless. The only Elvis album that might be just as bad as this one is "Elvis' Greatest S*", but despite that album purposefully having the worst music that Elvis ever made, at least it was music.

    This will go down in history as one of the worst albums of all time.

23. Savage Life 4 - Webbie

    

24. The Black Album - Jay-Z

    

    The Black Album. How dare he? We all know where he got that title from.

    That douche totally ripped off Metallica.

    Total ripoff of the Metallica album.

25. The Red Hot Chili Peppers - Red Hot Chili Peppers

    

    Hey, this was just their first album, and they didn't have much experience recording songs at the time. They were mainly comedic performers then.

26. The Marshall Mathers LP - Eminem

    

27. Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne

    

    Okay, Lil Wayne is NOT a good artist, but the songs on this album suck, especially that horrible "A Milli" song.

    I like Lil Wayne, but this is terrible. I was expecting something hot judging from C2, C1, and some of his mixtapes, but instead I got a bad R&B album. His lyrics on this are as bad as Puff Daddy or some clown like that.