WORST ALBUMS OF 2023 

CORRECTION: At around 5:00 during the first Dishonorable Mention, I accidentally used the wrong pronouns for the artist in question. They go by they/them pronouns. Honest mistake and I should have caught it in editing, but the goof is on me. Sincerest apologies there.

I agreed with a lot of these, but I mostly think that is the best t-shirt you have ever worn.

Can someone please tell the music industry to stop feeding the Imagine Dragon? He’s borderline obese now, this is just abuse at this point! You’re gonna give the poor reptile a heart attack!

Its like Fall Out Boy and 30 Seconds looked at his 2018 worst video and then only Fall Out Boy listened.

This might be the most chill you've ever been during a worst list and that's pretty rad. Glad you're choosing your mental health over forcing yourself to hear every popular bad album for the sake of views. Oh and it's not just fuck Hardy for ruining the Royal Rumble but WWE for hyping him up nonstop the entire night prior to his performance.

You can, in fact, never be too hard on U2

You gotta have respect for any music critic that can use ‘Stradivarius’ as an insult. That is entering my lexicon now.

I was not expecting that Crotchduster shoutout but I appreciated it immensely. In that spirit, I'll toss out a couple more recommendations for people looking for more music in that vein: Sigh, Unexpect, Don Salsa, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faxed Head, Ved Buens Ende, Sculptured, Aborym, Gonin-Ish, !T.O.O.H.!, Clotted Symmetric Sexual Organ, Lunatic Gods, Contrastic-and that's just metal bands, really.

👏JUSTICE👏FOR👏BIG👏GAY👏HULK👏

I still remember when Jared and company tied with Mania for worst record in 2018. I’ll admit that Fall Out Boy of all bands getting about 80% of their shit together (would’ve been higher but they just *had* to butcher WDSTF 🙄… and for some reason it charted) wasn’t on my 2023 bingo card.

You know it’s great that Avenged Sevenfold ended up topping Crash’s list because I finally have something that I consider a guilty pleasure topping Crash’s worst list. Which the other number 1s have failed to do. I’m Guilty and I know it. 🤪

Mommy said she bought dad a lollipop at the coffee shop something something UNHOLY was one of the most unintentionally hilarious pop train wrecks in recent memory.

The wait was absolutely worth it. What a great video; humour's still on point and the picks were explained well (with a few curveballs, gotta say). And yeah, 2023 was a WEIRD year for music... and thank goodness for that. Hell, even in the (mid-to-lower parts of the) American pop charts with regional Mexican music and afrobeats on the rise. It seems that the #1 album on here would fall under "respectable garbage"? Would that be an accurate label for it?

I do have to correct you. Maneskin were never even pretending to do drugs, Damanio just had his head in his hands in such a way that it looked a bit like he was snorting coke.

For the Morgan Wallen thing, I get it. My eyes widened when I saw the track list. 36 songs? Are you kidding me? There are Broadway cast albums with fewer songs on them and they have multiple artists and singers on them. The original version of "All Things Must Pass" has only half the amount of songs as this album and that was a triple album! "The Last Waltz" was shorter than this and at least that was a live album! 36 songs of new material?! You really think people are going to spend two hours listening to this Morgan? For fucks sake not even the longest albums in the 90's were this bloated. You couldn't have at least cut a third of this?!

“Finland got absolutely robbed” I’m out of the Eurovision loop, but I can’t help but agree with you. #JUSTICEFORFINLAND! Update: I wasn't expecting this many likes, but thanks? I don't even watch eurovision, i just have a GF in finland...also i finally hit the mammal sauce, and all of my fluids leaked out. halp.

Man, Avenged Sevenfold sure _bungled_ their Mr. Bungle impression, huh? ...I'll show myself out

I was passively listening to it... Until I heard "Eurovision" Well, taking about Måneskin, as an Italian I can't stand them. They are quite everywhere. I liked "Zitti e buoni" when it came out. Eurovision wise it's not bad. I don't like it now. Some songs from their new album are used here for ads. I don't want to hear them. Let's come back to Eurovision, why don't we? Well, you got my attention with Hatari, I like them. I like them a lot. I quite miss them. They had one album, some people say that it was published too late to be interesting for them... I feel bad for them but let's put that aside. For Käärijä I agree. I liked him so much. But it is what it is. We all know the problems with having juries that is, in the majority, specialised in pop or that are past Eurovision entries or that are just TV personalities. I just hope Käärijä will have a good career and support. I like him so much I made a crochet doll based on his look. Anyways, I really like your videos! Love from Italy!!

I was NOT expecting a Hatari reference in this video xD BDSM industrial pop ftw 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻

I burst out laughing when you played that Hatari clip, I wasn't expecting it at all. I love them so much

I'm still up for that HTGI on U2 - I still maintain that Pride (In The Name Of Love), Sunday Bloody Sunday and Sleep Like A Baby Tonight are great songs with regular rotation in my listening.

I feel like I'm the only one who actually really liked the new Maneskin record. I thought it was a fun sleazy party rock album that delivered on the sleaze and fun. Yeah Cool Kids is a dud of a song, but I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the album and regularly revisit a bunch of those songs. Loved the video crash!!! Can't wait for your best of video!

Crash: 'I'm putting this [Morgan Wallen's "One Thing at a Time"] on the list because it's too long' Me: *Looks it up on Wikipedia while the video is still playing* ...111 minutes... 111 minutes over 36 tracks... Holy fuck, WHY!?

Why did you animate a glistening, sparkling line of coke onto every album cover?

I'm down for a "How to Get into" video for U2. I already know where their latest album will head though. They're my dad's favorite band and he lost interest around 2009.

55:30 you know what… fair enough. Calling this A7X’s St Anger is a reasonable. Especially when I think about it, both albums tried something different, but missed the target, and there’s some songs on their I don’t mind, some I do like *ducks*, and weirdly enough when both of them play some of the songs from those albums, they sound far better than they did on the albums.

Great video and understandable picks. My worst of the year list is: 20-Ashnikko- Weedkiller 19-In This Moment- Godmode 18-Hardy- The Mockingbird and the Crow 17-Theory of a Deadman-Dinosaur 16-Owl City- Coco Moon 15-Jasiah-3 14-Rae Sremmurd- Srem 4 Life 13- Corey Taylor- CMF2. 12-Drake- For All the Dogs 11- Oliver Tree-Alone in a Crowd 10-Lil Pump- Lil Pump 2 9-Staind- Confessions of the Fallen 8-Nicki Minaj- Pink Friday 2. 7-Godsmack-Lightning up the Sky 6-Key Carson- A Great Chaos 5-Puddle of Mudd- Ubiquitous 4-Jonas Brothers- The Album 3-Avenged Sevenfold- Life is But a Dream 2-Destroy Lonely- If Looks Could Kill 1-Thirty Seconds to Mars- It's the End of the World But it's a Beautiful Day

I'll say this regarding Lighting Up The Sky, It's not my favorite Godsmack album by any means but I do think it was probably the best result we could've gotten given the circumstances. Cause when you think about it, The album preceding it was extremely polarizing among the fanbase and turned away a lot of long time listeners as a result, Though in spite of its controversy, It also managed to be their most successful release since Faceless in 2003. With all 4 singles going straight to the #1 spot on the rock charts. So given this, I think the decision to not stray any further away from their core sound was a smart move. I mean really, If you took the song Red, White & Blue out of the tracklisting it'd probably be their fourth best album behind the first three. The writing on the rest of the songs is pretty solid and there's so many tiny details that give it much more personality than the previous two had. I don't think it'll ever have a proper reevaluation but I do think time will show that Lighting Up The Sky was a good send off. Or at least the title track itself, Say what you will about the rest of the album but the 3 song sequence of Best Of Times, Growing Old, and Lighting Up The Sky was just perfect. As for the rest the only other album I listened to last year was Puddle Of Mudd's Ubiquitous and it was so inconsistent that it made me appreciate Welcome To Galvania more. At least that album for all of its flaws actually tried.

It keeps bumming me out that Macklemore will probably never make a song as awesome as "Can't Hold Us" or "Downtown" or even his feature on "Summer Days" ever again.

All I have to say about Avenged Sevenfold... MORE SEX MORE POWER BUILD TALLER BUILD WIDER! You said that this record is going to be this generation's St Anger. But I can argue that this album’s going to be this generation's Lulu I AM THE TABLE! The other words, the album was really bad.

AND LIKE THE PHOENIX HE RISES FROM THE ASHES TO BRING DOWN ALMIGHTY JUDGEMENT Glad to see you back Crash :3

I appreciate the Jones soda nod. Now I want one, dang it. Great seeing you back, Crash!

Okay i didnt listen to the morgan wallen record, but listening to the AI version of mater from Cars doing Last Night makes the whole record worth it imo

I was thinking of St. Anger the moment you defended your points about A7X’s album And when you brought it up…. it’s like you read my mind; the prophecy has been fulfilled Congrats A7X fans!!! You now have your own St. Anger and the eternal, brutal discourse awaiting you👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

If someone were to ask me to describe the vibe of your channel it would be “Imagine you know a guy that always has good recommendations for music and isn’t an asshole about it”

Good see you back Crash,have always enjoyed your work even if I don't agree with your musical takes and preferences but still thouroughly enjoy your videos and hope you stick around and don't go away this time as shitty as life can get at times keep up the good work dude!!!

Thanks for the video, Crash! Waiting for the best of the year list. Happy new year, all the best

Glad to have you back, and Yes, do a U2 feature!

just fyi Lil Uzi Vert uses They/Them pronouns

Don’t know if you’ll see this crash, but man I’ve been a longtime fan, going all the way back to the worst album covers vol 1. It’s good to see you’re still doing it to it even with life being, well, life. Keep it up man, I’ll be watching em all🤘🤘

I love you Crash!! Thank you for referencing A Mighty Wind!!!

Finally someone mentions Crotchduster. Never heard anyone talk about them ever. 'Mammal Sauce' is one of the best songs ever made by a human being. And 'Stars Ingenious Cooter' fucking rocks too XD

What a weird year for music fr. I expect a lot more of that in 2024

Even as a Used fan I gotta agree with Used being here. It may not be as bad as Canyon but yea it isn't good. I did really love their last effort Heartwork too. At least they were experimenting a little more there. TP just comes across as taking two steps back

Was looking forward to this. Hope everyone has a good New Year!

Thirty secs even got the imagine dragons guy to write for them.

Nice video Crash! No joke when it got to that Nothing Burger part I was eating at McDonald's. Talk about a happy accident!

Thanks for the content Crash.

I love you Crash. Also I just checked out Crotchduster. Actually brilliant. I normally hate … what that thing they do there is (would hate to spoil anything for any other weirdos) but they really make it work. Haha. You’re looking well man. Sending you my pervy love from the UK x

this is exactly how i wanted to round the year off - welcome back Crash !!!! ❤❤ and oh boy, I will be…doing some extensive listening 😶xx

Yes please do a where to start with again Crash (U2 or not) as I love those.

The opening track off that Used album is awesome. It plummets significantly afterwards

Hey Crash been following you since Weezer Everything will be all right in the end. Why it the album greenscreen bleed looks like a line of coke on every album on the list? Lol Love the content.

I'm always going to love Waking the Fallen. One of my absolute favorites. The new one, I listened to it and instantly forgot it a day later.

Agree with the 30 Seconds To Mars and Avenge Sevenfold albums.

“Fuck you for ruining the Royal Rumble.” That Rumble showing was so bad that WWE themselves didn’t bother uploading it and likely edited it out of their archived showing for that Rumble show.

I'm very happy to see that your ok. I hope that your break helped your mental health and your are doing ok. It's good to see you back crash. Great list also

So excited to see A7X topping most of my fav critics' worst of lists of the year. Longtime fan, went through the whole ass five stages of grief listening to Life Is But A Dream, finally settled on baffled & vaguely disgusted hilarity. We're not laughing with the band anymore, now we're just laughing at them, holy shit. Incredible list. Can't wait to see that inexplicable Lil Yachty record make it onto the best list (bc I'm not gonna lie it's my AOTY).

I hope when you do your best list you mention Council Skies by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds aka the best album of the year

WELCOME BACK! You've been dearly missed.

"I don't want to hear [an album] for two hours straight!" BUT CRASH WHAT ABOUT "SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE" THAT ALBUM IS JUST TEN MINUTES SHORTER THIS IS A BRILLIANT COMPARISON TO MAKE I AM SO SMART

Hey Crash good to see you back at it my dude, while I agree with just about everything on this list, your assessment of the new A7X was SPOT ON. I've been down with avenged since at least unholy confessions and city of evil still has some of my most favorite songs they've made and that new album was a hot steamy pile of suck. It was like giving a schizophrenic ADHD patient a mountain of cocaine and letting them record every hair brained idea and tossing all of it into a blender with no rhyme or reason or structure and being forced to slurp it all down while pretending that it's a genius innovation, like they had 50 songs all chopped to pieces and stitched together Frankenstein style. And yeah my first thought after 3 songs was exactly comparing it to a poor imitation of Mr. Bungle. Only when you put it at the top of the list did I finally realize it is pretty much number one worst for me too, if only because I really wanted to like it and wanted it to be good but was sadly disappointed. Still it's great seeing you again hope next year has some better music for you and the rest of us.

I had never heard a moment of Songs of Innocence before watching this video, in fact I had zero idea what it was about. ...and I was FLOORED by the Pride (in the Name of Love) rendition. It was one of the biggest WTF moments I had in a while, and not in a good way. Also kudos for the KISS comparison. The second makeup era was... not great to say the least.

Good to see you again Crash!

I haven't watched the full video yet, but my theme for worst albums of the year was artists trying to hold on to the past but failed miserably

I get why people think the A7X album can be viewed as art, but I think only in the way that someone spilling a bucket of paint can be considered art😂😂

I honestly thought Asking Alexandria was gonna make this list because you showed the Psycho music video at the start.

If anyone here quite liked that Avenged Sevenfold album, I implore you to listen to Cardiacs. Only recently got round to it after years of hearing about them and it was one of those great 'oh' moments as a music fan when you suddenly realise where a whole bunch of bands you've been listening to for your entire life got their sound from. In this case Mr. Bungle and other Mike Patton side projects and, unexpectedly, early Brit pop like Blur and Suede. Fact is 'Life is But a Dream...' wouldn't exist without Mr. Bungle and Mr. Bungle wouldn't exist without Cardiacs. You might not like it, but if you are interested in seeing where these weird sounds come from it's worth listening to.

Yay!!! Don't care what's on this list, just glad to see You back and hope You're doing well there 🙂 Right, let's watch the video😊👍

I'm soooooooooooo glad you showed no mercy and brought the hammer down on U2's "Songs Of Surrender". That was such a depressing slog of a listen and it is beyond me how U2, a band that used to grip me with every new release from the late 80s on through the early 00s...............have been one of the single most complacent, unimaginative acts in all of music and are in the midst of a two-decade-long losing streak beginning with shamelessly plagiarizing themselves with "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" and becoming even more uninspired and sanitized ever since. "Pop" was the last U2 album I enjoyed listening to from front to back. It may have been a hot mess of an album, but that's exactly why I enjoyed it: because they were swinging for the fences and were fearlessly willing to be experimental, and it made for a really interesting listening experience even as obviously imperfect as it was. Moreover, some of Bono's most personal, vulnerable songs EVER appear on that album with "Mojo", "Please" and "Wake Up Dead Man". One of my single biggest issues with U2 over these past two decades..............is Bono's OBSESSION with every lyric and every song NEEDING a big statement. When, really, I feel Bono is at his best lyrically when he gets more personal and vulnerable. And I'm just patiently waiting as a long-suffering follower of U2 for him to deliver more of that and for the rest of the band to revitalize that experimental hunger again. Until then, I'm awaiting with bated breath Todd In The Shadow's TRAINWRECKORDS episode on "No Line On The Horizon".

I have Your number one as my favorite album of the year, it hits all the spots for me, but i love your way of criticism for the album, its very well done, fair play to you man. Much love

thank you for making videos i love you

Happy New Year, Crash!!

Just glad you are back Crash

Ehhhhh....This year's mainstream rap didn't grab me, so I'll go with Corny-Ass Macklemore and his Targetcore Hip Hop. With a bit of Staind on the rock side.

Happy New Year, Crash!

Thirty Seconds to Mars played "The Kill" and some new song I think is called "Seasons" back to back on New Year's Rockin Eve. Even the Letos messing up the former shows just how little effort they're making in the last decade.

*SIGH* … The Used-To-Be-Great

Another thing to be pissed at HARDY for has to be that he wasted the potential of Jeremy McKinnon, Andrew Wade, and Cody Quistad on "RADIO SONG" (they all had writing/production credits on it while Jeremy also featured on it). It is, without a doubt, my least favorite song of the year.

One thing about Water's voice, while yes he was never an amazing singer I think the clips you showed didn't do him justice, on songs like hey you, comfortably numb, and times where he was backing for Gilmour he did a good job and on hey you especially the final verse really has a desperate feel to it, not to mention those high pitched shriek's you showed I'd argue were a bit of a talent of his, not PRETTY obviously but on something like another brick in the wall pt2s intro its great Just a lil note I wanted to say, great vid and yeah that whole album is still an embarrassment, R.I.P Syd and Richard also your hoodie at the end looks like steve from blues clues :)

Hey that being alive thing is really working for ya you should keep doing that

roger waters and bono saw how much bank taylor swift was getting from her taylor's version schtick (granted i saw that swifties were sour on speak now and 1989's rereleases after they came out) and knew at least their fans had more disposable income than the swifties (most of them being under 35)

Man, you hit the nail on the head about why I dislike Sam Smith. They never do anything new with the formula and it's such a waste of their great singing voice.

Ngl, i completly forgot suicide silence was still a band after that last horrible album

Well, I have valiantly defended the new Avenged Sevenfold record and I love St. Anger, so… You are onto something there. You and Fantano share a Worst of the year candidate… But me? Well, I’m on the other side of the coin… 🤫

Its crazy that your number 1 worse is one of my absolute favorites of the year

Why is there a white line near the bottom of every single album?

yo crash what did you think of so much for stardust by fall out boy? it was better than their last album mania in my opinion but still kinda average overall and half of the album felt very lazy.

You should do a video about Mr. Bungle.

Glad I wasn't the only one dumb enough to listen to the Roger Waters redux.

As I said in another comment, Godsmack was my choice for worst (again I didn’t listen to all of Hardy) but putting A7X at number one and calling it their St. Anger is my favorite take of the year. I fucking love it.

I’m surprised that Helmet’s “LEFT” didn’t make the list. It certainly made mine. What a disappointment.

WOOOO yeahhh babyyyyy. this what we've been waiting for!!! that's what it's all about!

To this day, I still don't know what critics from magazines, media and all that shit saw in Life is but a Dream to give it rave reviews. They wanted that interview with M. Shadows THAT bad?

Tegan and Sara didn’t release an album this year therefore I am entirely apathetic to every album released in 2023 (send help)

For me, I went into 'Life is But a Dream...' with lowish expectations, as the two lead singles were piss-poor, and for that, I can't say it disappointed me. The singles were some of the album's weaker moments, with songs like 'Cosmic' and 'Beautiful Morning' saving some face, but I'm honestly not sure which song would've been a good choice to sell audiences on the overall sound, as they were just all so radically different. I think beautiful mess is definitely the best way to describe that album.

As an old/og (maybe former is a better word) 30STM fan, it’s sad how little is left of the band they used to be. Their first 2 albums are good and I think the first one is pretty underrated, but the stuff they make now (or have been making for yearss) is just lazy and boring. Might as well call it quits, but you know that won’t happen anytime soon

>placing The Used above Macklemore Lol. Gotta love it.

The biggest tragedy of a7x is that the stage was an absolutely incredible album. But we love you was absolutely terrible. Like it's so fucking bad!

Im glad noticed the yearly themes for the worst list. Personally 2023 was "The year that didnt want to be 2023". Huh, also goes hand in hand with that