10 Terrible Albums By Artists I Love (Amity Tracks  

Loved the video. One error of judgment though: Jimmy Hall (on the Jeff Beck album Flash) is far from a generic eighties hair metal guy. He is the excellent lead singer of Wet Willie. Remember Keep On Smilin'?

I greatly enjoy Amity Tracks in high dudgeon! This was great. I laughed pretty hard when, after slamming the U2 double LP for a while, you lifted into frame the FOUR-CD version that you also own. Completism is a helluva drug. :) And I looked up the lyrics to "Queen of the Supermarket," so now I have you to thank (blame?) for that. Wow.

Hey brother, enjoyed the video, If you're a wonderful Jimmy Hall is He was the lead singer of Wet Willie from the 1970s.

Just found your channel, great video, great presentation style.

Beck's Rough and Ready (1971) with Bob Tench on vocals is a great album.

Great video. Very entertaining! A part 2, please (11-20..)

Nice list, thanks! 1.) I DO love Stills' 'Right By You' actually; Yes there's some 80's production on some of it for sure, but on other tracks he strips it back to mostley acoustic instruments. Nice pacing and variety of song styles. 2.) Also actually like 'Endless Wire' -it's mellower than alot of other Who albums, but you are right though, the recent follow up is better (you might have mispoke, but I think that's Roger Daltry sounding like Tom Waits on that one song. Just a fun note about that 'Outlaw Pete' song by Springsteen; It pretty much steals the melody from KISS's 'I Was Made For Loving You'. Cheeeeeeers! :)

I'm telling ya, you've completely missed the boat on the U2 Songs of Surrender set. A real grower for me. I do really like it now. These reworkings of their songs do not eclipse the original versions but they are a very nice compliment to them. So glad that they did this.

OMG! Think Visual is my FAVORITE Kinks record!!! WOW!! I thought you were going to say UK Jive....or Phobia - both brutal. Think Visual is full of Lost and Found like songs. How Are You, Working at the Factory, etc. Chocolate and vanilla, I guess!!

there's a good bit I like on Right by You by Stills. He had a solo video on MTV before Crosby or Nash did, even though Neil was hip to video as a medium way before the other three members of CSNY.

Great list! Some of those I knew enough to stay away from just based on reputation and maybe just streamed a few songs from. I'm looking at you American Dream...although those songs sounded pretty good on Neil's Summer Songs online album/collection from that era. Think Visual was the new Kinks album when I first started actively buying a lot of music. I thought the cover was cheesy even then and have never listened to it. U2...yes, enough with the "songs of" BS. Get Eno and Lanios back and make a decent record again. I liked Endless Wire more than you, but haven't bothered to play it since it first came out. Springsteen...sometimes you really can judge a book (or record) by its cover. Storytone...oh you didn't like the orchestrated version? How about the stripped down version? That went too far? Ok, ok, how about the combo version where we dial back the orchestra just a bit? Sorry Neil, how about it's just not a very good record and not one we need to buy three times. Thanks for the shout out! Glad you hopped on board.

Ohhhh....so you're spreading out the videos on great artists. So Jethro Tull is on the horizon. Sweet!

Endless Wire was the first one that came to mind as I'm a big Who fan; although, I don't mind the Wire & Glass mini opera. I don't mind Think Visual. I found it in a lot of records I bought and there are a few good tracks like Working At the Factory and Lost and Found.

Angry Machines - Dio Shadowlife - Dokken Bananas - Deep Purple Forbidden - Black Sabbath Flesh and Blood - Whitesnake Heaven & Earth - Yes A - Jethro Tull Secret Society - Europe In Through the Out Door - Led Zeppelin Invisible Touch - Genesis

A nice video, and some good arguments for why they are bad. One band I love is the Ramones. However, their album Pleasant Dreams is not really the best. However, it's not really their fault; their producer was ordered by the label to make them sound as crassly commercial as possible. if you're familiar with their sound, you know that won't work. When the band found out about this, Joey wrote the single from that album "We Want the Airwaves" as a big rude finger to the situation. Many years later, the label would release demo versions of the songs, and everyone agrees they sound much better.

What would be interesting to post a horrible album and then a recovery album like the bad Who album then the last one they did.

I think you’ve mentioned Having Fun with Elvis on Stage in an earlier episode. Captain Beefheart’s Unconditionally Guaranteed. (Wasting a terrific Magic Band line-up.) Besides some of his weaker raunchy stuff, Zappa re-recording instruments on good stuff. I actually like Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music, which is unlistenable. The Clash’s Cut the Crap. And, of course, John Lennon’s Two Virgins, with Yoko.

Once you give up on an album, it's difficult to make out decent tracks burried in there: "Compass" from CSN&Y is one of them, "Is That Enough" from The Who another. Absolute classics? NO, but decent enough

The Kinks and the Who are giants in rock history. I admit I don't own either of those albums.

Neil Young - Landing On Water or This Notes For You Alice Cooper - Lace And Whiskey Joni Mitchell - Mingus Eagles - Long Road Out Of Eden CCR - Mardi Gras

Great picks! I actually loved the song American Dream but when I bought the album it was a huge disappointment. I gave up on U2 years ago. At one time they were my second favorite band after The Beatles for many years...

Talking about terrible albums by artists I love how about the horrific 1984 synth pop disaster that is Steve Miller band Italian x-rays what was he thinking and I've got a worse Stephen stills album for you his 1978 disco disaster thoroughfare gap can't get no booty what an embarrassment from such an amazing talent

I know it's down to personal choice but think visual I love!!! How can you not like when you were a child, or how are you?? Man, maybe it's because I'm 44, I discovered this when I was 15 back in the 90s me & my brother would travel to Leicester on the bus & this we would binge on!!! Killing time❤ when I saw ray davies in 1998 on his storytelker tour in derby I told him how much I loved that album, he said really?? Soap opera is much worse

Anything Rod Stewart did after he left the Faces. Do you think I’m sexy, anyone?

Disagree on Beck. I loved Ambitious. It's a generic Niles Rogers drum machine track but Beck's lead playing over it smokes.

I like Video Shop on Think Visual. For me it's the follow up UK Jive where it gets really sad. With CSNY's American Dream some of the songs were better live like Compass and the acoustic version of the title track Neil was doing in the 80's. Drivin' Thunder cracks me up, it's so wrong between the "Slide rule" lyric and sounding like CSNY trying to sound like 80's ZZ Top. I'm a major Who fan, for me the Endless Wire stuff got better live. I pretty much never listen to the original album now since they started giving away their Encore Series CDs and DVDs away for nothing. I bought the Calgary show from the Endless Wire tour on CD and DVD for $5 and that's how I listen to Endless Wire stuff now.

With "Flash" Beck used the hottest producer of the day, Chic's Nile Rodgers. An obvious attempt at commercial success but Rodger's style really didn't suit Beck. Funk and disco were out of Beck's league.

Spot F-ing On!

Unless you bought both the cd and lp of the U2 album at the same time, Why would you spend you money on the other?

Landing On Water - Neil Young Under The Red Sky - Bob Dylan

Neil Young was Jesus Christ to me for a good part of my life. Thankfully he's still releasing old stuff. Really thought "Everybody's Rockin'" would be here.

david bowie is my favorite singer but.... "tonight" is his worst album. 2 great originals in "blue jean" and "loving the alien" but it's an album that largely features covers and songs he had written with iggy pop in the 70s as the production is dated and has too many marimbas. people will say that or "never let me down" as i can agree to that but if you listened to the 2018 version of the latter. the songs feel more direct in its stripped down production and is a better album.

No, not Endless Wire! Admittedly, I did hate the record initially, but over time it has grown on me, and now I would rank it above Who, It's Hard, maybe even Who Are You. I did have to laugh, though, when you were talking about Into the Ether because my reaction was exactly the same? Why is Pete Townshend trying to sound like Tom Waits? And I'm a Tom Waits fan! We're also in agreement about Queen of the Supermarket and Outlaw Pete (although I wouldn't describe the album on the whole as "terrible"...just not that great). With Outlaw Pete, even the title is silly. Who is going to be threatened by a guy named Pete? It's like calling the song Outlaw Bob, or Outlaw Dave, or Outlaw Chris for crying out loud. He couldn't come up with anything better than Pete? It's funny, one time I was on a car trip with my mom and I was playing that CD, and at that point near the end where Bruce is singing "Can you hear me?" ad nauseum, my sweet little Catholic mother who never said anything bad about anyone (well, with the exception of a certain former president) shouted out "We hear you already!" I'll never forget that. :) Cool video by the way. The one that pops into my head is the last XTC album, Apple Venus Vol. II, something about wasps, I don't know. It doesn't even sound like the same band! Terrible, regrettable way for one of the best bands ever to ride off into the sunset.

2:30 Yes, Think Visual is from 1986... Terrible year for Classic Rock

Mazzy, I “used” to be a fan of his

In defence of U2: Innocence is a great rock album, that was completely overshadowed by the whole itunes debacle. Experience i agree is poor, but i would argue that is mainly due to the awful production, than to the actual songs themselves. Surrender therefore rescues some of the Experience songs from that horrible production. The full 40 track set, starting with 'One' and finishing with '40' for me is a great alternative look at their back catalogue. I don't think that any of the versions on Surrender are superior but I still really enjoy these versions. For decades U2 played stripped down acoustic versions live on their B stage and no one ever complained. So why now? I also think that after over 40 years together, U2 had earned the right to revisit their back catalogue. The defence rests, lol. Stuart

Interesting idea💡 How about Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut" or Jethro Tull's "A Passion Play" and "Too old to Rock'n'Roll, too young to die"? All three albums have interesting or great underlying ideas, but their musical execution doesn't move me. In Floyd's case Roger Waters shot himself in the foot by banning Richard Wright and using David Gilmour just as a sideman😂. In Tull's case the bad experience in Chateau Desaster led Ian Anderson to write and record under pressure a complete new oeuvre and it shows: complicated for complicstion's sake😢. The original Chateau D' Isaster Tapes as published on " Nightcap" or in a shorter version on the "20 years of Jethro Tull" Box are excellent! But beware of the wilson version in the "Passion Play" Box set: it's boring😑

how about ten bands everybody loves, but you dislike in the strongest possible terms.

Porcupine Tree the incident

Agree with The Who's worst album by FAR But disagree with Think Visual, which has enough quality tunes to make it very listenable . Phobia, however is a bad Kinks record

You were doing good until you got to ZZ Top... Love XXX!

Almost fell over when you called vocalist Jimmy Hall “some generic 80’s hair metal guy”. You lost all credibility right there. Jimmy Hall was the leader of southern rock band Wet Willie and had a top 10 hit with Keep On Smiling in 1974. He is a soul and blues influenced vocalist and still has a great voice.

My favorite artist is Neil Young. I really, really hate "Everybody's Rockin'" and "Trans".

The kinks are really awesome and they have about 12 albums that are horrible.

CSNYs "American Dream" appears on lists of the worst album ever for good reason.