Any Turkeys?

Classic 'sore thumbs in a Simpsons episode' must be:

"Love Beach" by ELP (although most people might say that the preceding Works Volumes 1 and 2 precipitated this)

"Get Your Dog Off Me' by scottish proggers Beggars Opera was pop/rock shlock after 3 very good albums

"Dance With Arthur Brown' by erm.... Arthur Brown, was just an embarrassment to the great man's legacy




Edited by ExittheLemming - May 27 2008 at 15:40

Kate Bush's Red Shoes springs to mind. It's not really such an awful album, it's just significantly less brilliant than the rest of her work.

The Pixies - Bossanova.   Doolittle, Surfer Rosa, even Tromp le Monde were great.  This album stands out due to its horrible "VERY 80s sounding" production  mostly.  Which is odd because it was released in the early 90s and their first two albums and EP have such sweet, raw, "non-80s" values.

Cocteau Twins - Victorialand.  Not a terrible album at all.  Its actually a good album.  However, its very lacking in that they lost their drummer which forced them to become more etheral and in my opinion a bit less interesting.  I still loved Guthrie's guitar work and the vocals, but without the drummer it just sounded so....new age-y.

U2 - The Joshua Tree.  A landmark album to so many people yet it leaves me bored and skipping most tracks.  The group went from super awesome with their first 3 albums, to mediocre (Under a Blood Red Sky) to kind of lame with the J Tree.  Achtung Baby at least picked up some slack, but JTree is filled with melodramatic stadium bores for the most part.

Pearl Jam - Pearl Jam.  A Band that started awesome and got progessively more awesome with each album then came to a halt.  This album basically condensed and compromised all their great albums into a tiny package of annoying pop songs with bad riff after bad riff.  Coincidentally, its been quite successful.

TV on the Radio - Cookie Mountain.  Their first official EP was pretty good.  Their first album was brilliant.  Their follow up was tragic.  Here was a band that seemed so promising and creative that ruined itself.  The songs became boring with an overabundance of atmospheric effects and lyrics that weren't nearly as interesting and melodies that were either not really there or just not really ear-grabbing.  It also seemed rather over produced.  Supposedly, this is the sound they had been looking for and will probably continue to go with.   The only worthwhile song was the single "wolf like me".  Hopefully, Dave Sitek's production job on the new Scarlett Johanson album isn't an indication of what the next album will sound like. 

BroSpence wrote: Cocteau Twins - Victorialand.  Not a terrible album at all.  Its actually a good album.  However, its very lacking in that they lost their drummer which forced them to become more etheral and in my opinion a bit less interesting.  I still loved Guthrie's guitar work and the vocals, but without the drummer it just sounded so....new age-y.

A B Negative wrote: BroSpence wrote: Cocteau Twins - Victorialand.  Not a terrible album at all.  Its actually a good album.  However, its very lacking in that they lost their drummer which forced them to become more etheral and in my opinion a bit less interesting.  I still loved Guthrie's guitar work and the vocals, but without the drummer it just sounded so....new age-y. They actually lost their bass player, Simon Raymonde. They didn't have a real drummer until the mid 90s, they used a drum machine instead. I saw them when they played at T in the Park with a real drummer (and some horrible session-type musos) and they were terrible, nothing like the Cocteau Twins of Treasure or The Spangle-Maker.

Right right.  Its weird because they didn't have a bassist on Head Over Heels which is magnificent, but they still stuck to the more usual style rather than the much more spacial sounds of Victorialand.  I love everything they did up to Heaven of Las Vegas, after that they went downhill.    They were supposed to reunite 4 years ago for Coachella, but Fraser eventually didn't want to or something like that.

chopper wrote: I never thought I'd see The Lamb Lies Down or The Joshua Tree described as "turkeys", and an album with "Moments of Pleasure" on it can never be that bad.

Bono's extramural activities put me off Bono.

The Mars Volta's Francis the Mute is probably the most frustrating album I have ever heard, and its inbetween the brilliant De-lOused in the Comatorium and the rather good Amputechture.  

npjnpj wrote: (saving the best until last) Genesis' 'Lamb Lies Down on Broadway.

Yes: Open Your Eyes