Top Ten Worst Albums by Good Artists

The Top Ten
1 Metallica - St. Anger

Metallica is a gret band, but this album killed them a little bit, it should not have even been recorded they had so many things going on, like james going to rehab. When you listen to RTL, MOP and AJFA they are so much better than this album, the only good songs are Frantic, St. anger and Some kind of monster, the rest get pretty boring. Whats with Lars's drums they sounded way different on this album, a real let down.

But they have got it back together with DM, which is one of my favs and looking foward to kore albums in the future! :D ROCK ON METALLICA!

PLEAD READ! Don't be mislead by the beginning!
Now, it's okay to have 1 or 2 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, yellow submarine, but when you have such a great repertoire like the Beatles, you can be excused. But, this album shouldn't have really 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 that 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, Lar's drums sound really bad. Throughout the entire album you can obviously notice his snare sounds just horribly high and in a way, it sounds like he released the springs and tightened them up ...more

I really agree that this album is the worst by Metallica. The started their career with an album like Ride the lightning and albums like M.O.P, kill EM'all,... And justice for all and some good albums but this album really isn't good at all. But they are learning from their mistakes by releasing Death magnetic.

I very nearly gave up on them with this. Thankfully they did right on Death Magnetic what they did wrong here. Sounding like an awful Metallica cover band, Lars sounds like he's banging on paint cans. Dreadfully amateurish from a band who should've known better.

2 Guns N' Roses - The Spaghetti Incident?

I think the covers are great and show the interesting punk and hardcore inspiration that this band had. Nothing expected, like led zep or stones covers, rather rare stuff. I like it!

Why couldn't they just right their own songs for the album? Its not like they can't right songs

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

I know it is not very good, but it is better than Chinese Democracy.It should not be even in top 25!

3 Lulu - Metallica

" I would cut off my legs and tits"

those are the lyrics to begin with this garbage I mean what is this?

lou reed is a good singer and Metallica is an amazing metal band but lyrics like that are just "weird" and the riffs are repetitive and lame this is 88 minutes of boredom and aggravation. St. Anger was bad but I think this is worse but R.I.P. Lou Reed you were still good before this.

Two great artists clash and somehow this abomination is the end product? Every song is a mess, vocals are off tone, key, and enjoyment, instruments are weak or out of sync, and the songs themselves are just stupid. There was 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, Justice for All, and Master of Puppets? HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME?

I Love Lou Reed, I Love Metallica. Both of them on an album would sound great on Paper. But in practice, it just ends up being a huge mess

4 Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy

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?

5 R. Kelly - Black Panties

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

6 Kanye West - 808s and Heartbreaks

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, its techno crap. why would he even relase this album it make me so mad

Great album, some of his best work, but people always hate style change...

7 The Rolling Stones - Dirty Work

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

Yeah, not that good sadly.

8 Nas - Nastradamus

The only one on the top 10 I can relate to. Nas is one of my favourite 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 straight after I Am... And was rushed. But as good as Nas is, it is fair to say this is his worst

Nas is definitely one of my favorites but this is garbage. Nas critisized jay-z for how commerical he went on ether which is only a album removed from Nastradomus? This was a sellout atempt and a bad one at that.

Nas just might be my favorite rapper but theres no denying its a terrible album.Simpley should have never been made.

While it did fill a gap between illmatic and stillmatic this albumis the most disappointing crap by the 4th (? ) best rapper ever. (Should have been called "Fillmatic"

9 Tank - Sex Love and Pain 2
10 Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns

I don't know why everybody hates this album. It's really not that bad, in fact, it's great if you come to think about it! Linkin park said they would change, and by heck they sure did. This album proved their true musicianship. Now don't get me wrong, I absolutely LOVED hybrid theory and meteora, but this truly proved what they are capable of. This album features one of linkin park's only guitar solos, the catalyst which features some of the best drumming rob has ever done, and iridescent which features outstanding vocals and instruments. Though most people don't like this style of music, nobody can decline lp's musicianship. And according to when they come for me, "y'all outta stop talking, start trying to catch up, motherf... Meaning that you guys can't rat on them until you've reached the success they have. Thanks for reading, that is, of this paragraph that took me 10 minutes to type actually made it to the list, otherwise I just wasted some of my life. Speaking of which, why the ...more

This was so bad that I immediately stop listening to Linkin Park when I heard this. This is the true definition of "sellout". I grew up to Linkin Park's Meteora/Hybrid Theory/Minutes to Midnight stuff, but this isn't what I'm used to.

I don't know why this is this high. This is there best album since meteora and has some really good tracks with an interesting unique style. If anything minutes to midnight should be here in its place

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.

The Contenders
11 Mariah Carey - Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel
12 Mariah Carey - E=MC2

Carey dominates summer 2005 as "We Belong Together" stays at #1 for who knows how long... And then she drops this!

HORRIBLE follow up to the emancipation of mimi!

13 Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded - The Re-Up

Firstly, I wouldn't consider Nicki Minaj to be a "good artist". Secondly it's a reboot of her previous album, which was already terrible.

I think that when you put this here, you forgot the title of the list: Worst Albums by GOOD artists. You're right that it's a terrible album, but I would not call her a good artist.

Stupid Haters. hear good songs. not only stupid hoe and starships, you asss. This album should have been released little later. Not immediately after Roman Reloaded. Love 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!?

14 Eminem - Relapse

This album is great. I didn’t enjoy the accents but MY GOD THE PRIDUCTION! WOW! DR DRE U ARE AWESOME! Listen to Old Times Sake, My Mom, Bagpipes From Baghdad, Medicine Ball and Same Song And Dance and tell me just how great the beats are. All the beats are fantastic though but those are my favorites. Also some great lyrics.

Oh poor Relapse, gets so much hate and it's not even in his top 2 worst albums.

Eminem is great, but this album sucks real hard...

This album is amazing!

15 Usher - Looking 4 Myself
16 Queen - Hot Space

Queen are one of my favourite bands and every song is special in it's own right. Well, except Hot Space. The only good song from the entire album is Under Pressure, and even that song is a little overrated.

Even though this album is bad, we all should be glad it exists. Since 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 :-)

A good song or two but it's got serious issues.

17 Megadeth - Super Collider

Another great Megadeth album. Gets too much hate. At least it is better than, for example, Risk.

Great album! There's no such thing as bad Megadeth.

Megadeth suck.

18 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Red Hot Chili Peppers

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

19 Jay Z - The Black Album

This is my favorite Jay Z album why is it here. I think the new one should be here

The Black Album. How dare he, we all know where he got that title from.

That douche totally ripped off Metallica

Total rip-off of the Metallica album

20 Lil Wyte - No Sick Days

Sounded like he needed to take a sick day

21 Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP

I love Eminem. And this is one of his 3 classic albums. Relapse, although not a classic, shouldn't be on here either. They shall be replaced by recovery and encore!

Number one obviously! There's no competition here folks, just a lyrical genius at work...

Re you kidding this is Ems best album no dought and maybe greatest album ever. Relapse is bad thoufh

What's this album doing here? This album is a fine work of art!

22 Van Halen - Van Halen III

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

The guy on the cover is waiting to be shot after hearing this awful album.

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

Epic fail on their part, unfortunately.

23 Lil Wayne - Tha Carter III

I like Lil Wayne but this is terrible. I was expecting somthing hot judgin from c2, c1, and some of his mixtapes but instead I got a bad R&B album and his lyrics on this are as bad as Puff Daddy or some clown like that.

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

LIL Wayne IS SO BAD RUN DMC IS LEGENDARY he's SO BAD so BAD JUST STOP SINGING AND GO STEAL STUFF I'D RATHER YOU BE A CRIMINAL THAN A RAPPER

24 Force of Habit - Exodus
25 Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying

This album gets so much undeserved hate. When I came upon it, I never even knew it existed because it is nowhere to be found on Iron Maiden's best whatever lists, and I found it a very pleasant surprise. Iron Maiden has never made a bad album or even written a bad song for that matter. Songs like Mother Russia, No Prayer, Assassin, Fates Warning, Bring Your Daughter, Tailgunner, Holy Smoke, Public Enema Number One, Run Silent, and Hooks in You are all amazing songs.

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