Top Ten Best Songs on Bad or Disappointing Albums by Good Artists
Often, a great artist who you love beyond compare releases a slip of an album that leaves you disappointed. Some of these albums are absolutely horrible and make you lose your faith in that artist, others are just mediocre and don't deliver the same quality as their previous works.No matter what is the case, you'll most likely end up leaving the album in your shelf, next to the other albums of that artist which you listen to again and again. If it wasn't for this one, two or three songs on it that have that certain spark you love the artist for. Most of the album is a frustrating experience but for this short moment(s), you remember why you're a fan.
Tell me how Tell Me is better than Crash? Nah seriously Crash is a great song and best on the album.
Lol what's up with these r&b artists having one amazing song on an awful album?
Sarah Connor has a beautiful voice, one of the best of modern pop singers. I personally put her in one league with Aguilera and Beyoncé. Her biggest hits are dramatic and soulful ballads which showcase great emotion, grace and strength. Like other great soul divas, she is a pure performer (her 2015 German language debut is her only album as a singer songwriter so far), and up until this album, she was offered music that compilemented her voice. But on "Sexy as Hell" they tried to change her image to a sex vixen, but due to bad production, songwriting and the fact that her voice is more graceful than erotic, the result was bad. But fortunately, the album also contains this beautiful ballad - and that's what she's most comfortable with.
Go back to fighting terminators!
The black panties album was horrible, but this song was pretty nice. Lyrically, it's nothing too amazing and pretty similar to what Kelly usually sings about but at least he isn't using auto-tune and talking about how he wants to marry a girl's vagina.
Many people including me regard "Bossaura" as Kollegah's weakest album. Kollegah is great as always, offering an advanced mix of punchlines, rhymnes and clever twists. But the production is fatal. The beats sound cheap and amateurish, and thick layers of flanger and autotune destroy every bit of atmosphere. Autotune has been used by other German rappers as well such as Farid Bang, DatAdam or SpongeBozz, but on here it was used without the slightest feel for mood (weird because SpongeBozz partly helped creating the sound).
But the title track is 6 minutes of pure rapping over a sinister beat without any chorus. The track is seen by many fans as his lyrically best and has his most stunning rhymes of all time.
"Artpop" contains is by far least artful or poppy album. It contains monotonous production and singing, little of her dark extravaganza and overall feels repetitive and rushed. But the opening song "Aura", produced in collaboration with psytrance project Infected Mushroom, is a surreal and stomping pleasure.
I know it's uncomfortable talking about this album so soon after Chester's suicide, but it won't change that it wasn't their best.
The album was an experiment with electro pop and that's simply not their genre.
But "Victimized" was a wild and rough rock piece that foreshadowed the style of their great follow up "The Hunting Party".
Damn Boosie, what happened? How do you name your album after 2Pac and have so many skippable tracks!
As I wrote on the item "Bossaura", the album was weakly produced and slaughtered with special effects. Nevertheless, "Mondfinsternis", which almost constantly features doubletime rapping, became one of Kollegah's most popular and acclaimed tracks. The beat is okay and the chorus isn't so bad as well, but the raps by Kolle are the highlight.
Kay One was an acclaimed freestyle rapper whose flow and technique was considered outstanding in the late 2000s. His debut and second albums were much anticipated, but in the end they turned to be Pitbull-esque house pop rather than rap. They were mediocre and didn't show his talent, but were at least acceptable. They were light hearted and had production that could keep up with the US. Then "Rich Kidz" was released and it was widely panned. It was the same house pop but with cheap and amateurish production that sounded more like demos. But there is "Helal Money", a Lil Wayne-ish hip hop track featuring the popular rapper Farid Bang, in which Kay One shows much of the energy of his early freestyle days. Fortunately he kept that style for his two follow up albums.
(PS: on the audio sample, the first/third voice is Kay One, the deeper second voice is Farid Bang)
Madonna is one of my absolute favorite artists, and definitely my favorite pop artist. Alwayd having full control over her projects, she always managed to make each album special, outstanding and unique. Well, until "MDNA". This album features exchangable contemporary electro-pop that could have been done by anybody with more memorable and irresistible results. Madonna's voice and lyrics often feels as casual as another synth line on the beat. The liveliest moment on the record comes from a short guest verse by Nicki Minaj. Nevertheless, "Gang Bang" is one awesome song. It has this extremely static robotic and dark techno tone with Madonna coldly chanting the same haunting melody fragment again and again. The sound is beyond cool.
A great song but honestly I think Afraid to Shoot Strangers is better.
One of their best songs from one of their worst albums
Agree here, too.
The album wasn't bad or anything, but just very generic and forgettable especially after the masterpiece album a year before "Better."
A great song on Their weakest album Hot Space though Put Out The Fire is also very good
The album is widely considered a disappointment but I personally like this song very much.
Bangerz had several good pop songs, like "FU", "Drive", "Adore You", "4 by 4",...
The album was completely overshadowed by her public image though, that's why many consider it a bad album. But the music she made in that time is quite good and catchy actually, and not as pseudo-shocking as her videos (even if I don't think they are THAT bad), and she actually has a nice voice.
FU and Drive were good too but this stood out the most. Bangerz had the most potential in an album ever because there some really great songs there but that little prick called Mike WiLL mess it up.
I used to not like this song because I didn't like the music video, but the song itself is actually very good and one of the best songs on "Bangerz"
This album was pretty awful, I still have nightmares about it until this day, but this song is everything you could ask for in r&b, and Kelly is using his full potential, something he doesn't do often these days.
I am a fan of Nickelback. Their albums are full of awesome guitar sounds, poppy melodies and despite many people claiming they're repetitive, their albums also cover a variety of moods without feeling like mixed bags. But "No Fixed Address" is like a collection of leftovers and outtakes. The songs barely have a common tone, at best are strange (e.g the duet with Flo Rida), but most often are simply forgettable.
But I have to say the opener "Million Miles an Hour" DOES rock. Unfortunately, it doesn't keep this up.
Yep, agree with christangrant. That moment when the best song on a Megadeth album is a cover song... Thank god, it's the best cover they've ever made.
A Great Thin Lizzy cover on their 2nd worst album
Great song, also not a bad album.