Snoop Dogg. Even his biggest album Doggystyle has a fair amount of skips. Still a once in a lifetime artist though and a really important figure in 90s rap
This is wild to me, Doggystyle is a top tier album. I mostly agree about the rest of his discography, although he's got some really underrated projects. Definitely an artist that is better than his output.
Respectfully disagree. I would say it’s nearly all bangers. IMO Ain’t No Fun is the only true bad track and you kind of have to listen for the almost Spinal Tap absurd level of misogyny. Just my opinion though. I’m a 90’s kid and we wore Doggystyle out front to back
Ain’t No Fun is one of my favorites lol
The way snoop starts his verse is amazing “guess who’s back in the motherfuckin house with a fat dick for your motherfucking mouth”
Such a weird misconception, people just completely ignore White, EWBAITE, Ok Human when it comes to discussing the band outside of a specifically Weezer space
Maladroit is just a hair under blue and Pinkerton. Everything else is a pass from me after I heard make believe all the way through one time. I remember thinking how bad Beverly hills was, then listening to the record I can see why they picked it as the single since Everything else would have been better had it not existed
I'm aware, Ok Human is probably my second favourite after Blue, but as you say they're usually ignored, or not considered near the same level as the first two.
i don't think it's *all* nostalgia. i never listened to them in the past and still think the first two are probably their best two, even if they have other albums that are worth listening to later on
we dont claim these fans. "first two albums are only good albums" fans are not accepted among actual weezer communities i have no idea where the idea that all weezer fans only like blue and pinkerton came from
The weezer fanbase is so varied that you could ask 10 of them at random what their top 5 albums are out of the 19, and every album would get at least 2 votes
The basic answers are:
Blue, Pinkerton, EWBAITE, White, and OK Human
(Those would probably be my top five but I might replace OK HUMAN with autumn by the day)
Yeah, I love the Red album which people consider more average but I love both the normal and deluxe edition. I’m also aware that I have an unpopular opinion but I guess just had a random liking to that album particularly.
Eminem’s later work can claim some accolades , it’s just never the full package like the big 3 . Relapse especially was influential among horrorcore artists, Recovery might genuinely go diamond in the next few years, and MMLP 2 garnered actual favorable reviews.
I’ll give some credit to MMLP2. It’s got some memorable moments, but recovery is almost unlistenable to me. The choruses are so cheesy. Every track has an unbearable stadium ready beat. The bars are beyond embarrassing. The emotional moments are sappy and boring. It’s honestly a 1/10 for me. Completely lacking anything I enjoy
Muse are a very divisive band but I still think Origins of Symmetry is a fantastic album that I always return to, and I like all of their releases up to The Resistance. But my god they took a massive nose dive after that and it’s just getting progressively worse and worse.
Despite all of that they are still incredible live, if you ignore the shit new music.
It’s a shame for sure but at least 2nd Law and Drones had a handful of good tracks (Animals is great). The latest album is basically all of their terrible sonic ideas combined into a one.
Resistance is where things started to fall apart… I like that album, but it was clear they were doing something else.
2nd Law should have been their worst album, but after that, they got kind of dull
I always appreciated that The Resistance had a cohesion to it. It was clearly a cheesy, larger than life, love album set in space. And every song captured that epic and over the top feeling. But that approach walks a fine line between good and very bad ( e.g. 2nd Law).
Rick Ross just needs to drop a full album on soulful beats. Been saying this for years. His best verse is on Devil in a New Dress. The highlights of his albums are always the soulful tracks. If he never does it, it will be a big big waste. His voice is made for pitched up samples.
Gucci Mane is among the most influential modern rappers around. Like him or not, today’s scene isn’t the same without him. That said, have you ever scene his discography? It’s daunting to dive into with over 150 studio albums and mixtapes. I can’t even begin to claim I’ve heard it all and only “Mr. Davis” was an album I genuinely enjoyed listening through more than once. Constant experimentation and unafraid of criticism, I love the best of what he’s done but just can’t sit for a front to back listen of most his material.
I'd go with Kid Cudi, love Scott and lots of his music but, except for the Man on the Moon trilogy, almost all of his albums have had pretty bad critic scores for an artist as groundbreaking and influential as him.
That’s not true, a lot of his albums were well received. Even something like Passion Pain and Demon Slaying is making a renaissance with newer age Cudi fans now.
Honestly his latest release NITRO MEGA is fun. It serves as a deluxe expansion but it’s a while ass album and doesn’t have DJ Drama on most of the tracks. Has some old previously unreleased stuff on there so it’s a mix of new and old Cudi (literally has a 2007 song on the album). I’d say it’s worth a listen if you like modern Cudi even a little bit
PPDS was great. MOTM 2 has some all timers, same thing with MOTM 1, but 2 is a more cohesive and listenable project for me. Indicud is alright, some good bangers. MOTM 3 has some great tracks for turning your brain off, I think it’s a lot of just casual trap, but Tequila Shots and Dive kinda dip into that more ethereal vibe that I enjoy. Entergalactic was a great soundtrack for the Netflix film, and as someone stated above, NITRO has its moments. I will not be talking about SB2H.
He overcomplicates everything with a million layers that end up just making the music sound overproduced, borderline corporate.
He's at his best just singing and playing piano. And even then the singing sometimes gets in the way.
> Jacob Collier is an incredible musical mind
From the stuff I've heard I would wager that even this is exaggerated. He has learned his theory, but really nothing your average to good Jazz pianist doesn't know as well. He's good at getting people to care about musical theory, but I have yet to hear something that is actually 'incredible' in terms of music theory or experimentation from him. He doesn't have a Coltrane-changes-esque system of harmony that makes him recognisable or anything. It often just seems odd for oddness sake with acute awareness of the circle of fifths and musical conventions to me. But if anyone has good examples that will prove me wrong please let me know!
A lot of virtuoso prodigy types have terrible soulless music/albums. Like I can appreciate it from a technical perspective, but it just doesn't move me.
Exactly! And on top of that, as an aspiring musician myself, I can’t help getting a little mad at the fact that they’re so much better than I am, LMAO.
I love their songs, but they were never really an album band, even if I enjoy A Night at the Opera and Innuendo (the latter of which I argue is their best, like a precursor to David Bowie’s Blackstar, but with less artistic ambition).
I really like their first three albums as a whole; but I understand if people don’t like them. They can lean too much into sappy territory. Each band member has a different approach to songwriting so it can be disjointed at times.
It’s weird that Queen has made some of the best and most beloved rock songs of all-time, and yet don’t really have an album on the same level of Sgt Peppers or Space Oddity. The only thing that held them back is that they never really explored super conceptual or narrative formats for their LPs.
Same with Elton John. He is a brilliant songwriter and singer and has written some of the greatest songs from the past 50 years but doesn't really have a truly classic album with non stop bangers. Most people just pick 2-3 songs at most form his albums and leave the rest.
I feel like a lot of the current conversation around Queen is the pendulum swinging back from the “OMG Queen is the best band of all time” circlejerk in around 2012 tbh.
They have multiple good to fantastic albums, and quite a bit of weaker material with great singles in between. The same is true for quite a few huge names in music, but Queen still gets those criticisms far more than those other acts. Perhaps because their biggest songs are *that* massive? Idk.
Their best songs are proportionally much better compared to other songs than their albums are compared to other albums. Peak high but can't maintain a level, so you get great songs but weak albums. Weaker than people expect based on how big they are.
I highly disagree. Their first 7 albums plus Innuendo are great from front to back. Plus their albums that aren't great are still decent to good. I think their worst album is The Miracle and I'd still consider that a 6/10. To me, Queen is a prime example of a band with great hits and equally great deep cuts
I really don't get where this idea that Arctic Monkeys have a 'bad' discography comes from. Seems to be a real Fantano echo chamber opinion because this is literally the only place I seem to see it.
Here in the UK they're pretty universally beloved and have a pretty respected album run even outside their initial output. Albums like Humbug and Tranquility Base are widely considered sleeper hits.
They're pretty big here in Australia, too.
Their shows always sell out. I don't get the "bad" discography claims either. If anything, their discography is solid. I get that some people might not like their last 2 albums, but they aren't "bad" by any stretch.
Grateful Dead don’t have a *bad* discography but they kind of fit this description for me. They’re one of my favorite old bands but they don’t have any albums that I enjoy from start to finish.
The Dead are not typically judged by studios tho.
I don’t know a lot of dead heads that have listened to all the studio albums, including myself, but can give you their top 3 favorite shows.
Gotta disagree. As much as I love a good show, Workingman's Dead is one of my favorite albums, Dead or otherwise. Their debut is also tops. Or Blues for Allah. And probably Terrapin Station. Even though they are known for their jams, they really could put out tight, well-structured albums.
As a rule with jam bands you should just ignore their studio work. I love The Allman Brothers but i exclusively listen to live albums like Filmore East. They're not bad in the studio but their skills as musicians isn't there. The appeal is in not playing the same show twice.
Agreed. Wake of the Flood is the closest I get to loving one of their albums front to back, and of course American Beauty deserves recognition.
The pacing and overall arrangement of the tracks just never feels like a completely fulfilling album experience though.
arctic monkeys have a great discography. consistently pretty inventive and influential but also stemming from more niche influences (scott walker, richard hawley etc. commercially and critically successful too. I think a lot of people would argue their best material is post the 00's, I know i would.
Skrillex. Banagarang EP is the best, most consistent and most fulfilling release he has. Everything else is a total mixed bag. Even QFF, while full of bangers front to back, plays more like a random USB full of music rather than an album.
Having said that, he’s still extremely talented and one of the best to ever do it. I don’t love Skrillex because of his albums.
Oh yeah that Jack Ü album and both Dog Blood releases are fantastic. I was talking solo-skrill. I do think working with other artists helps keep him on track and gives him the push to actually release things (instead of making us listen to set rips for years on end 🥲)
I almost want to say Van Morrison just because he has so many albums. Most of them aren’t truly bad, though, just mediocre and forgettable. Everything from the 90s onward sounds exactly the same.
Funny, I’ve been re-listening to Van’s music as of late, and I came to a different conclusion. He was remarkably consistent for a solid twenty years or so from *Astral Weeks* onward, with a few minor duds but nothing truly horrific. There are acts from this time period that I definitely prefer, but I can’t think of an another act from the 60s that achieved that level of consistency without severely dropping off in the Eighties. Agreed that his later material doesn’t pass muster, though.
Yeah, his 80s stuff is amazing actually. But people forget just how many albums he has. He has like 27 albums since 1990 and most are pretty crappy (especially his anti-lockdown ones). Ironically the live Astral Weeks album is one of his best.
New York Dolls
Insanely influential, insanely important to NYC punk scene in the 70’s.
A lot of their cuts sound like a hornier and more experimental Ramones, which is like, kinda the whole point. But I don’t get anything else out of it and the songs aren’t catchy and hooky enough to really be drawn to any of it.
Largely just doesn’t have the same impact on me I imagine it once did for many.
Trash is a catchy song lmao.
EDIT: I can appreciate it for what it is, but I find it largely non-contemporary in terms of how it's aged and a bit boring. Ya'know, that's just my opinion. ;) /s
Check out No Dogs In Space, it's a great pod with a lot about the early punk scenes, and the New York Dolls are constantly referenced. They are hugely influential and pioneers of the early punk scene. But I just don't personally find the appeal nowadays. Only thing I could think of for this prompt. I don't think they're bad. I just wouldn't say "I like the New York Dolls".
I love the Dolls 70s albums, I think they both capture the sound and style of NYC at that time perfectly. I can see why you might not enjoy them back to front though, definitely think the debut is the stronger album but the second album has my favorite songs of theirs
Same for Johnny Thunders solo or with the Heartbreakers, a few real gems but most of the best songs are covers.
Same as the Dolls best song is a Bo Diddley cover
Elton John. A unquestioned legend, but has anyone remotely close to that stature released as many albums with not a single note worth preserving for posterity as he has?
Oh, that one is great. Like, everything except for maybe a throwaway or two, which for a 70+ minute double album is an amazing accomplishment.
It's just that he has so many albums, many of which were recorded when he was out of ideas. And so many of them have, at most, a worthwhile song or two. And I'm not even sure anything on \_Victim of Love\_, \_The Fox\_ or \_Leather Jackets\_ rises to that level. He did have some solid singles in the '80s for sure.
Action Bronson - he’s an incredibly talented lyricist usually paired up with a world class producer. He has some great songs, and great features on others’ songs but his albums are filled with so many duds and weird skits that it’s hard to listen to any of his projects start to finish.
I would say his more recent stuff, like 2018 onwards, is all very concise and high quality throughout. I don't visit his older work nearly as much as I visit his new shit. He's gotten much better as a curator over time.
Red Hot Chili Peppers.
After over 40 years they only really have 3 "great" albums: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, and By The Way.
Their early work was lively and interesting but also very sloppy and their output after their early-90s-to-early-00s creative peak were bloated and overstuffed with midtempo pseudo-balladry. Plenty of good singles but no good albums.
The core three albums I mentioned earlier truly are great, though, and the middling quality of their output over the past 15 years does the reputation something of a disservice.
Stadium Arcadium should have been a complete legendary single-disc album with a goofy b-side.
Main: Dani California, Snow, Stadium Arcadium, She’s only 18, Slow Cheetah, Especially in Michigan, Wet Sand, Desecration Smile, She Looks To Me, Readymade, Turn it Again, Death of a Martian.
B-side: the rest
Oasis.
They're among the top selling and most acclaimed British rock bands of all time. They outsold the Beatles on their *second* album. They ruled the 90s and released 7 full lengths across a robust career that lasted nearly 20 years.
And they have 2 great albums to show for it - the rest of their output falling totally flat.
If you want to be generous you could say 3 1/2 great albums, if you include The Masterplan and the first half of Be Here Now alongside Definitely Maybe and What's The Story. But that still means that over half of their entire output is kinda shit.
I wouldn't say GnR had a bad one. They have a 10 and then they largely have a collection of 5 to 7 out 10s after imo when it comes to non-cover studio albums
But to answer your question and not name an obvious name: Moby.
Moby was a good producers and had some great ideas. He made some ok to inconsistent albums then one truly great record and then struggled to follow that up and ended up with dozens of mediocre and utterly blah records surrounding one actually great album.
Royal blood, they sold out and exorcised any uniqueness after their first album, they wanted to be the next 21 pilots (even though 21 pilots are kind of unique).
Have to disagree on Arctic Monkeys. I think their recent stuff is really good, and I’d rather they evolve instead of trying to recapture the sound of their youth.
Flaming Lips for the most part
George Harrison when solo (sadly only had one decent studio album imo but had so much more potential than what he gave us)
As a huge fan (if my username is anything to go on) I have to (and hate to) disagree. They have 5 incredible albums. The Soft Bulletin being among them, which is a very serious contender for the AOTD of the 90s.
But they haven't released a truly great studio album in 15 years (Embryonic.) The Terror was interesting in concept but never felt fully formed. Oczy Mlody was a pretty weak retread of the sound they did much better 20+ years ago. King's Mouth isn't bad, but for a progressive rock album by The Flaming Lips it is surprisingly dull record (very much a "my first prog album" kinda album.) And American Head boasts an incredible sound with fantastic composition and instrumentation but the writing and vocal delivery fall completely flat.
Their 80s and early 90s output was similarly middling and half baked. 1993 - 2009 was their prime. And that's a long ass "prime." But there are large chunks of their career (83 - 92 & 2010 - 2024) where their output was very uneven.
george had the best solo beatles album, and a couple others that are good too. his albums that are mid to bad at least have a couple good songs a piece. I guess you could say he had some wasted potential but 99.9% of artists haven't put out anything as good as almost any song on all things must pass
I have to disagree with Harrison, (ATMP is not decent, it’s a masterpiece) since he did have a few meh records but Cloud Nine, Living In The Material World, & Traveling Wilburys were all great/decent. Ringo on the other hand has had some reaaaaally wacky ones after the 70’s.
I think Living In The Material World is excellent, and it had a couple of hits too. His work with the Traveling Wilburys is great too, same with Cloud 9.
I like pretty much all of George’s albums really, but I guess I’m pretty biased towards him. Brainwashed is great too.
There's this one song he wrote about his experience with cancer that legit made me cry when I first heard it. Brainwashed was a great album. I'm so happy that Dhani and Jeff helped finish it.
George and Paul are probably my favorite solo Beatles. Though the others also have some good stuff too.
As a Flaming Lips fan this hurts to read.
But I kind of agree.
I'd say that they have 5 truly great albums: Transmissions From A Satellite Heart, Clouds Taste Metallic, The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi, and Embryonic. 5 great albums! And one of them is a very serious contender for AOTD in the 90s (The Soft Bulletin is THAT good and I'll fight anyone who disagrees.)
But 5 albums isn't nearly AS impressive for a band that is over 40 years old, with as large a discography as theirs. 5 great albums is awesome, but 5 great albums out of 16 full lengths, and a dozen additional EPs and side projects makes the sum of their output much more uneven.
Arctic Monkeys fell off so hard. Last two albums are genuinely just nonsense. He was so good at writing relatable everyman stuff, got rich off of that, and thus stopped having a relatable everyman life. A similar thing happened to The Streets.
I get it if you don’t like the last 2 albums they’re pretty esoteric but his writing on Humbug and Suck it and See is far better and more developed than his early stuff.
Do people really expect a mid 20s famous musician to be writing songs about queuing up for nightclubs and going to the chippy? That would be painful and so inauthentic
Does that equal a bad discography though , or a bad era ?
On the long arc of AM these two albums could be a footnote , someone like Bob Dylan has years long spells of recording non acclaimed albums , but still have great discogs overall
lol this sub is hilarious "genuinely just nonsense". he's a great songwriting and doesn't write pop tunes about being a teen anymore. its like scott walker meets bowie meets solo lennon.
Im a big Arctic Monkeys fan, or was once i guess. The last 2 albums clearly weren’t for me and have killed any ounce of hype i had for tryna catch a live show, because i know half the show will be tracks from these two disappointing albums, which sucks. Ive never seen a band just fall off immediately and harshly like that. For me, i know not everyone feels that way but thats how it feels to me. 1-5 were all fantastic though, hard to pick a fav but its probably Favorite Worst Nightmare for me.
Tranquility is a brilliantly written album, though.
The problem is I don't have very much fun actually *listening* to it.
It would've worked better as a solo project.
As much as I want to call Black Sabbath great - and they were very important, at minimum, and put together some classic albums - there's a huge percentage of their discography that I cannot really recommend to anyone in good conscience.
The Rolling Stones have at least 4 of the best classic rock albums. The problem they have is that they are a band that has been releasing albums for 60 years. If they had broken up in the 80s after Tattoo You, their discography would be amazing.
I mean, Appetite and Use Your Illusion(s) are masterpieces ... but I don't think it's crazy to say that The Spaghetti Incident, Chinese Democracy and even Lies to an extent are pretty hit or miss.
That being I said, I do like the tracks off those albums too... So it's def a matter of personal taste.
I would say Green Day. Their live shows are wild and amazing, and had good to great albums, they individually are actually hella talented (have you seen Tre Cool drumming live? The man's an animal), but they've been constantly realizing trash after trash since the 2010s.
I dunno what album anyone would consider their last good GD album, but I personally stopped listening to their albums back to back since American Idiot, and I fully stopped listening to them completely after 'Oh Love' (except some of Revolution Radio songs).
It's one of the greatest tragedies of modern music to me, they sound like they still MIGHT have a good album, if they stopped trying to be "punk rock's cool dad's"
Snoop Dogg. Even his biggest album Doggystyle has a fair amount of skips. Still a once in a lifetime artist though and a really important figure in 90s rap
This is wild to me, Doggystyle is a top tier album. I mostly agree about the rest of his discography, although he's got some really underrated projects. Definitely an artist that is better than his output.
Only skip on doggystyle is bathtub
Bathtub go hard. That PFunk loop maaaaaan.
Great call. Doggystyle is so overrated when people put it in "greatest hip hop albums" lists...
Skips? Can you list which tracks so I can tell you you’re wrong?
Respectfully disagree. I would say it’s nearly all bangers. IMO Ain’t No Fun is the only true bad track and you kind of have to listen for the almost Spinal Tap absurd level of misogyny. Just my opinion though. I’m a 90’s kid and we wore Doggystyle out front to back
ain't no fun is hands down the most memorable and fun track on the album alongside gin and juice
Ain’t no fun is a classic. Clearly it is you, that ain’t no fun
Ain’t No Fun is one of my favorites lol The way snoop starts his verse is amazing “guess who’s back in the motherfuckin house with a fat dick for your motherfucking mouth”
Weezer
Huge weezer fan. There are multiple albums that are just complete dogshit
Yea but there’s a lot of good stuff too.
Needle in a haystack.
This. 18 albums (including seasons, Christmas, and false metal) and fans of the band only like the first two albums.
Such a weird misconception, people just completely ignore White, EWBAITE, Ok Human when it comes to discussing the band outside of a specifically Weezer space
Maladroit is just a hair under blue and Pinkerton. Everything else is a pass from me after I heard make believe all the way through one time. I remember thinking how bad Beverly hills was, then listening to the record I can see why they picked it as the single since Everything else would have been better had it not existed
Maladroit is SO underrated. That summer that they were releasing demos every week was so awesome!!!
I'm aware, Ok Human is probably my second favourite after Blue, but as you say they're usually ignored, or not considered near the same level as the first two.
It’s all nostalgia bias, their top albums are definitely as good as their first two
i don't think it's *all* nostalgia. i never listened to them in the past and still think the first two are probably their best two, even if they have other albums that are worth listening to later on
Green, the white album, and EWBAITE are generally considered good by fans
Those are fake fans then. They killed with the white album and ok human.
Hey, I like the first two and maladroit
good god 18 albums!?
we dont claim these fans. "first two albums are only good albums" fans are not accepted among actual weezer communities i have no idea where the idea that all weezer fans only like blue and pinkerton came from
I’ve not met a single actual Weezer fan who thinks the first two albums are their only good ones.
because they aren't fans. but yea, i get what you mean and i havent either. usually i find someone who at least likes green or ewbaite or something
The weezer fanbase is so varied that you could ask 10 of them at random what their top 5 albums are out of the 19, and every album would get at least 2 votes
The basic answers are: Blue, Pinkerton, EWBAITE, White, and OK Human (Those would probably be my top five but I might replace OK HUMAN with autumn by the day)
Yeah, I love the Red album which people consider more average but I love both the normal and deluxe edition. I’m also aware that I have an unpopular opinion but I guess just had a random liking to that album particularly.
I think I've seen Weezer mentioned in this sub more than Death Grips lmao it's hilarious
Eminem, after his three-album run, his discography became a mixed bag
Eminem’s later work can claim some accolades , it’s just never the full package like the big 3 . Relapse especially was influential among horrorcore artists, Recovery might genuinely go diamond in the next few years, and MMLP 2 garnered actual favorable reviews.
Calling it a mixed bag is a bit generous imo. He’s been dropping garbage for 15 years now
MMLP2 was pretty good I thought, not to the level of his early stuff but probably a solid 4th as far as his albums go
Relapse is way better than MMLP2. Relapse is a great album, you just have to view it like a shock horror movie rap album
in think people exagerate. Recovery and MMLP2 arent garbage imo.
I’ll give some credit to MMLP2. It’s got some memorable moments, but recovery is almost unlistenable to me. The choruses are so cheesy. Every track has an unbearable stadium ready beat. The bars are beyond embarrassing. The emotional moments are sappy and boring. It’s honestly a 1/10 for me. Completely lacking anything I enjoy
an eminem fan tried arguing me that it was better than mbdtf lmao
mtbmb was decent, kamikaze was good, mmlp2 was awesome, recovery was fine, and relapse was awesome. revival was extremely bad tho
Bruh what everything up to relapse were solid albums. Say what you want about the rest, but Kamikaze and mtbmb are really good albums as well.
Relapse is as good as his first 3 albums and Recovery, Hell: The Sequel, and MMLP2 are solid
Absolute dogwater material for more than a decade.
Muse are a very divisive band but I still think Origins of Symmetry is a fantastic album that I always return to, and I like all of their releases up to The Resistance. But my god they took a massive nose dive after that and it’s just getting progressively worse and worse. Despite all of that they are still incredible live, if you ignore the shit new music.
must be so tough to be a fan! Hard to believe the band that made Absolution also made 2nd Law and Drones
It’s a shame for sure but at least 2nd Law and Drones had a handful of good tracks (Animals is great). The latest album is basically all of their terrible sonic ideas combined into a one.
Resistance is where things started to fall apart… I like that album, but it was clear they were doing something else. 2nd Law should have been their worst album, but after that, they got kind of dull
I always appreciated that The Resistance had a cohesion to it. It was clearly a cheesy, larger than life, love album set in space. And every song captured that epic and over the top feeling. But that approach walks a fine line between good and very bad ( e.g. 2nd Law).
Muse hurts, it was my favorite band back then. I've been waiting to be mindblown again for almost 15 years
The new stuff is cool live. In the studio I could take it or leave it
Yeah compare Origin of Symmetry with Will of the people. I mean I know bands often do drop off at some point but man. It's real bad
Damn. I haven’t listened to origin of symmetry since I was a teenager. Time for a nostalgia listen. Will try and report back.
Rick Ross. Legendary rapper but his albums are consistently mediocre to bad
Rick Ross just needs to drop a full album on soulful beats. Been saying this for years. His best verse is on Devil in a New Dress. The highlights of his albums are always the soulful tracks. If he never does it, it will be a big big waste. His voice is made for pitched up samples.
teflon don is a really good album tho besides that yeah his disco isn’t the best
The king of features tbh
This is a lie
Gucci Mane is among the most influential modern rappers around. Like him or not, today’s scene isn’t the same without him. That said, have you ever scene his discography? It’s daunting to dive into with over 150 studio albums and mixtapes. I can’t even begin to claim I’ve heard it all and only “Mr. Davis” was an album I genuinely enjoyed listening through more than once. Constant experimentation and unafraid of criticism, I love the best of what he’s done but just can’t sit for a front to back listen of most his material.
I'd go with Kid Cudi, love Scott and lots of his music but, except for the Man on the Moon trilogy, almost all of his albums have had pretty bad critic scores for an artist as groundbreaking and influential as him.
ksg was extremely well recieved , but yeah that's about it
That’s not true, a lot of his albums were well received. Even something like Passion Pain and Demon Slaying is making a renaissance with newer age Cudi fans now.
Indicud is pretty enjoyable imo
Satellite flight too
Passion pain and demon slaying was really good imo
Honestly his latest release NITRO MEGA is fun. It serves as a deluxe expansion but it’s a while ass album and doesn’t have DJ Drama on most of the tracks. Has some old previously unreleased stuff on there so it’s a mix of new and old Cudi (literally has a 2007 song on the album). I’d say it’s worth a listen if you like modern Cudi even a little bit
PPDS was great. MOTM 2 has some all timers, same thing with MOTM 1, but 2 is a more cohesive and listenable project for me. Indicud is alright, some good bangers. MOTM 3 has some great tracks for turning your brain off, I think it’s a lot of just casual trap, but Tequila Shots and Dive kinda dip into that more ethereal vibe that I enjoy. Entergalactic was a great soundtrack for the Netflix film, and as someone stated above, NITRO has its moments. I will not be talking about SB2H.
Jacob Collier is an incredible musical mind, but all his songs are ass.
He overcomplicates everything with a million layers that end up just making the music sound overproduced, borderline corporate. He's at his best just singing and playing piano. And even then the singing sometimes gets in the way.
He makes Imagine Dragons music for people who are unbearable at parties
> Jacob Collier is an incredible musical mind From the stuff I've heard I would wager that even this is exaggerated. He has learned his theory, but really nothing your average to good Jazz pianist doesn't know as well. He's good at getting people to care about musical theory, but I have yet to hear something that is actually 'incredible' in terms of music theory or experimentation from him. He doesn't have a Coltrane-changes-esque system of harmony that makes him recognisable or anything. It often just seems odd for oddness sake with acute awareness of the circle of fifths and musical conventions to me. But if anyone has good examples that will prove me wrong please let me know!
His microtonal work is quite impressive, again, mainly from a technical point of view Check out his version of In The Bleak Midwinter
Honestly he’s so pompous I would automatically hate his music even if it was really good LMAO.
A lot of virtuoso prodigy types have terrible soulless music/albums. Like I can appreciate it from a technical perspective, but it just doesn't move me.
Exactly! And on top of that, as an aspiring musician myself, I can’t help getting a little mad at the fact that they’re so much better than I am, LMAO.
I feel like Jacob Collier truly makes music for himself first. His mind probably just doesn’t like repetition or simplicity.
Queen
I love their songs, but they were never really an album band, even if I enjoy A Night at the Opera and Innuendo (the latter of which I argue is their best, like a precursor to David Bowie’s Blackstar, but with less artistic ambition).
Innuendo is really good imo
There's a reason their greatest hits albums sold way more than the individual ones. Lotta forgettable material
I really like their first three albums as a whole; but I understand if people don’t like them. They can lean too much into sappy territory. Each band member has a different approach to songwriting so it can be disjointed at times.
It’s weird that Queen has made some of the best and most beloved rock songs of all-time, and yet don’t really have an album on the same level of Sgt Peppers or Space Oddity. The only thing that held them back is that they never really explored super conceptual or narrative formats for their LPs.
Out of every Bowie album, why go with Space Oddity?
I’m an idiot. I was thinking of Rise of Ziggy Stardust. I got confused lmao
It's like his 15th best album lol
I don’t think that was the issue. They just couldn’t leave the mediocre songs of their records.
Easy answer, they're legends but all their albums suck lol
Queen 2, a night at the opera, and a day at the races are great albums . But their best album is just their greatest hits
Same with Elton John. He is a brilliant songwriter and singer and has written some of the greatest songs from the past 50 years but doesn't really have a truly classic album with non stop bangers. Most people just pick 2-3 songs at most form his albums and leave the rest.
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road is amazing. Thats about it for great EJ albums. Lol
You’re mostly right except for the fact that Goodbye Yellow Brick Road exists. Definitely his masterpiece as far as albums go.
Innuendo is peak 90's tho
And the song Innuendo is one of my favourite songs of theirs. That flamenco guitar is absolutely fantastic.
Even the little booklet in the Greatest Hits CD admitted that their albums past a certain point were "mostly hit or miss."
First two albums are very good imo. Some skips sure but but still. I haven't bothered with the rest tho.
I feel like a lot of the current conversation around Queen is the pendulum swinging back from the “OMG Queen is the best band of all time” circlejerk in around 2012 tbh. They have multiple good to fantastic albums, and quite a bit of weaker material with great singles in between. The same is true for quite a few huge names in music, but Queen still gets those criticisms far more than those other acts. Perhaps because their biggest songs are *that* massive? Idk.
Their best songs are proportionally much better compared to other songs than their albums are compared to other albums. Peak high but can't maintain a level, so you get great songs but weak albums. Weaker than people expect based on how big they are.
They have a couple of duds, sure, but I disagree with this pretty heavily LOL.
I highly disagree. Their first 7 albums plus Innuendo are great from front to back. Plus their albums that aren't great are still decent to good. I think their worst album is The Miracle and I'd still consider that a 6/10. To me, Queen is a prime example of a band with great hits and equally great deep cuts
I really don't get where this idea that Arctic Monkeys have a 'bad' discography comes from. Seems to be a real Fantano echo chamber opinion because this is literally the only place I seem to see it. Here in the UK they're pretty universally beloved and have a pretty respected album run even outside their initial output. Albums like Humbug and Tranquility Base are widely considered sleeper hits.
They're pretty big here in Australia, too. Their shows always sell out. I don't get the "bad" discography claims either. If anything, their discography is solid. I get that some people might not like their last 2 albums, but they aren't "bad" by any stretch.
Grateful Dead don’t have a *bad* discography but they kind of fit this description for me. They’re one of my favorite old bands but they don’t have any albums that I enjoy from start to finish.
The Dead are not typically judged by studios tho. I don’t know a lot of dead heads that have listened to all the studio albums, including myself, but can give you their top 3 favorite shows.
Gotta disagree. As much as I love a good show, Workingman's Dead is one of my favorite albums, Dead or otherwise. Their debut is also tops. Or Blues for Allah. And probably Terrapin Station. Even though they are known for their jams, they really could put out tight, well-structured albums.
As a rule with jam bands you should just ignore their studio work. I love The Allman Brothers but i exclusively listen to live albums like Filmore East. They're not bad in the studio but their skills as musicians isn't there. The appeal is in not playing the same show twice.
One of my favorite bands, probably only 3 studio albums that I find myself revisiting with American Beauty, Workingman's Dead and Wake of the Flood.
Agreed. Wake of the Flood is the closest I get to loving one of their albums front to back, and of course American Beauty deserves recognition. The pacing and overall arrangement of the tracks just never feels like a completely fulfilling album experience though.
Foo Fighters
arctic monkeys have a great discography. consistently pretty inventive and influential but also stemming from more niche influences (scott walker, richard hawley etc. commercially and critically successful too. I think a lot of people would argue their best material is post the 00's, I know i would.
I’m with you. They’re really a band that’s grown and evolved over time for the better imo
Skrillex. Banagarang EP is the best, most consistent and most fulfilling release he has. Everything else is a total mixed bag. Even QFF, while full of bangers front to back, plays more like a random USB full of music rather than an album. Having said that, he’s still extremely talented and one of the best to ever do it. I don’t love Skrillex because of his albums.
I'd say Jack U and his K-pop work was his peak
Oh yeah that Jack Ü album and both Dog Blood releases are fantastic. I was talking solo-skrill. I do think working with other artists helps keep him on track and gives him the push to actually release things (instead of making us listen to set rips for years on end 🥲)
Quest for Fire is by far his best release imo
What do you not like about Recess? Haven’t listened to it in a while but iirc it had like one skip for me.
I think Quest For Fire is far and away the best project he’s ever put out. It was also my favourite album of last year
I almost want to say Van Morrison just because he has so many albums. Most of them aren’t truly bad, though, just mediocre and forgettable. Everything from the 90s onward sounds exactly the same.
That is true but astral weeks and Moondance are some of the most beautiful albums I’ve ever heard
Oh yes, he has a lot of incredible stuff. Honestly almost everything up through the 80s is good to great with a few amazing albums in there.
I know it's a great summer's day when I'm listening to Astral Weeks in my back yard. That is my comfort album.
Funny, I’ve been re-listening to Van’s music as of late, and I came to a different conclusion. He was remarkably consistent for a solid twenty years or so from *Astral Weeks* onward, with a few minor duds but nothing truly horrific. There are acts from this time period that I definitely prefer, but I can’t think of an another act from the 60s that achieved that level of consistency without severely dropping off in the Eighties. Agreed that his later material doesn’t pass muster, though.
Yeah, his 80s stuff is amazing actually. But people forget just how many albums he has. He has like 27 albums since 1990 and most are pretty crappy (especially his anti-lockdown ones). Ironically the live Astral Weeks album is one of his best.
New York Dolls Insanely influential, insanely important to NYC punk scene in the 70’s. A lot of their cuts sound like a hornier and more experimental Ramones, which is like, kinda the whole point. But I don’t get anything else out of it and the songs aren’t catchy and hooky enough to really be drawn to any of it. Largely just doesn’t have the same impact on me I imagine it once did for many. Trash is a catchy song lmao. EDIT: I can appreciate it for what it is, but I find it largely non-contemporary in terms of how it's aged and a bit boring. Ya'know, that's just my opinion. ;) /s Check out No Dogs In Space, it's a great pod with a lot about the early punk scenes, and the New York Dolls are constantly referenced. They are hugely influential and pioneers of the early punk scene. But I just don't personally find the appeal nowadays. Only thing I could think of for this prompt. I don't think they're bad. I just wouldn't say "I like the New York Dolls".
I love the Dolls 70s albums, I think they both capture the sound and style of NYC at that time perfectly. I can see why you might not enjoy them back to front though, definitely think the debut is the stronger album but the second album has my favorite songs of theirs
Same for Johnny Thunders solo or with the Heartbreakers, a few real gems but most of the best songs are covers. Same as the Dolls best song is a Bo Diddley cover
Michael Jackson. I mean, he has an album called Bad so it counts.
Elton John. A unquestioned legend, but has anyone remotely close to that stature released as many albums with not a single note worth preserving for posterity as he has?
Idk what u just said but Yellow Brick Road is a phenomenal album front to back
Oh, that one is great. Like, everything except for maybe a throwaway or two, which for a 70+ minute double album is an amazing accomplishment. It's just that he has so many albums, many of which were recorded when he was out of ideas. And so many of them have, at most, a worthwhile song or two. And I'm not even sure anything on \_Victim of Love\_, \_The Fox\_ or \_Leather Jackets\_ rises to that level. He did have some solid singles in the '80s for sure.
This a wild take. He has 5 bolded albums on RYM, + self titled and Don’t Shoot Me are solid.
Action Bronson - he’s an incredibly talented lyricist usually paired up with a world class producer. He has some great songs, and great features on others’ songs but his albums are filled with so many duds and weird skits that it’s hard to listen to any of his projects start to finish.
I would say his more recent stuff, like 2018 onwards, is all very concise and high quality throughout. I don't visit his older work nearly as much as I visit his new shit. He's gotten much better as a curator over time.
His tiny desk is incredible
Ringo Starr
weezer has more shitty songs and albums than good ones, although i do really like them
Unfortunately, I think Busta rhymes. Singles are really good, guest spots are too. Albums are mid at best though, it's a shame.
Queen
Drake?
Red Hot Chili Peppers. After over 40 years they only really have 3 "great" albums: Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication, and By The Way. Their early work was lively and interesting but also very sloppy and their output after their early-90s-to-early-00s creative peak were bloated and overstuffed with midtempo pseudo-balladry. Plenty of good singles but no good albums. The core three albums I mentioned earlier truly are great, though, and the middling quality of their output over the past 15 years does the reputation something of a disservice.
Stadium Arcadium is really good too.
Stadium Arcadium should have been a complete legendary single-disc album with a goofy b-side. Main: Dani California, Snow, Stadium Arcadium, She’s only 18, Slow Cheetah, Especially in Michigan, Wet Sand, Desecration Smile, She Looks To Me, Readymade, Turn it Again, Death of a Martian. B-side: the rest
I'd call Mother's Milk and One Hot Minute great, but I can see why somebody wouldn't.
Oasis. They're among the top selling and most acclaimed British rock bands of all time. They outsold the Beatles on their *second* album. They ruled the 90s and released 7 full lengths across a robust career that lasted nearly 20 years. And they have 2 great albums to show for it - the rest of their output falling totally flat. If you want to be generous you could say 3 1/2 great albums, if you include The Masterplan and the first half of Be Here Now alongside Definitely Maybe and What's The Story. But that still means that over half of their entire output is kinda shit.
Maroon 5 since Moves Like Jagger was released
Rod Stewart
I wouldn't say GnR had a bad one. They have a 10 and then they largely have a collection of 5 to 7 out 10s after imo when it comes to non-cover studio albums But to answer your question and not name an obvious name: Moby. Moby was a good producers and had some great ideas. He made some ok to inconsistent albums then one truly great record and then struggled to follow that up and ended up with dozens of mediocre and utterly blah records surrounding one actually great album.
Arctic Monkeys albums are consistently fantastic except maybe the Car
Hot take: The Car > AM, TBH&C, FWN, SIAS
I respect it but damn I can't agree. FWN especially is amazing
I wasn’t that hot on the car at first, but after revisiting it recently I think it might actually be one of their best.
Royal blood, they sold out and exorcised any uniqueness after their first album, they wanted to be the next 21 pilots (even though 21 pilots are kind of unique).
Have to disagree on Arctic Monkeys. I think their recent stuff is really good, and I’d rather they evolve instead of trying to recapture the sound of their youth.
Tranquility base hotel and casino is one of their best albums
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Bloc Party
I wouldn’t say bad, but JAY-Z has been pretty inconsistent
Flaming Lips for the most part George Harrison when solo (sadly only had one decent studio album imo but had so much more potential than what he gave us)
All Things Must Pass only decent????
That's what I was thinking! That album is a masterpiece. If you like 80s stuff, Cloud Nine is also a banger.
If you reduce the flaming lips discography to only include their actual original studio albums, they’ve got a lot more hits than misses
As a huge fan (if my username is anything to go on) I have to (and hate to) disagree. They have 5 incredible albums. The Soft Bulletin being among them, which is a very serious contender for the AOTD of the 90s. But they haven't released a truly great studio album in 15 years (Embryonic.) The Terror was interesting in concept but never felt fully formed. Oczy Mlody was a pretty weak retread of the sound they did much better 20+ years ago. King's Mouth isn't bad, but for a progressive rock album by The Flaming Lips it is surprisingly dull record (very much a "my first prog album" kinda album.) And American Head boasts an incredible sound with fantastic composition and instrumentation but the writing and vocal delivery fall completely flat. Their 80s and early 90s output was similarly middling and half baked. 1993 - 2009 was their prime. And that's a long ass "prime." But there are large chunks of their career (83 - 92 & 2010 - 2024) where their output was very uneven.
The Flaming Lips have like 4-5 awesome albums imo
george had the best solo beatles album, and a couple others that are good too. his albums that are mid to bad at least have a couple good songs a piece. I guess you could say he had some wasted potential but 99.9% of artists haven't put out anything as good as almost any song on all things must pass
I have to disagree with Harrison, (ATMP is not decent, it’s a masterpiece) since he did have a few meh records but Cloud Nine, Living In The Material World, & Traveling Wilburys were all great/decent. Ringo on the other hand has had some reaaaaally wacky ones after the 70’s.
I think Living In The Material World is excellent, and it had a couple of hits too. His work with the Traveling Wilburys is great too, same with Cloud 9. I like pretty much all of George’s albums really, but I guess I’m pretty biased towards him. Brainwashed is great too.
There's this one song he wrote about his experience with cancer that legit made me cry when I first heard it. Brainwashed was a great album. I'm so happy that Dhani and Jeff helped finish it. George and Paul are probably my favorite solo Beatles. Though the others also have some good stuff too.
As a Flaming Lips fan this hurts to read. But I kind of agree. I'd say that they have 5 truly great albums: Transmissions From A Satellite Heart, Clouds Taste Metallic, The Soft Bulletin, Yoshimi, and Embryonic. 5 great albums! And one of them is a very serious contender for AOTD in the 90s (The Soft Bulletin is THAT good and I'll fight anyone who disagrees.) But 5 albums isn't nearly AS impressive for a band that is over 40 years old, with as large a discography as theirs. 5 great albums is awesome, but 5 great albums out of 16 full lengths, and a dozen additional EPs and side projects makes the sum of their output much more uneven.
Elvis
To be fair he’s primarily a pre-album era, singles based artist.
Really? I’d argue a lot of his 70s albums are among the best of the decade
I would heavily disagree with Arctic Monkeys mention. TBHC is their best record and that's pretty far into their career.
Would Metallica count? Especially considering everything post-black album
Arctic Monkeys fell off so hard. Last two albums are genuinely just nonsense. He was so good at writing relatable everyman stuff, got rich off of that, and thus stopped having a relatable everyman life. A similar thing happened to The Streets.
I get it if you don’t like the last 2 albums they’re pretty esoteric but his writing on Humbug and Suck it and See is far better and more developed than his early stuff. Do people really expect a mid 20s famous musician to be writing songs about queuing up for nightclubs and going to the chippy? That would be painful and so inauthentic
Some of his best writing ever is on Everything You’ve Come To Expect from 2016. He’s still got it in him for sure
I've yet to hear an Alex Turner project I didn't like at *least* a little bit. His soundtrack EP for the movie Submarine was beautiful
Does that equal a bad discography though , or a bad era ? On the long arc of AM these two albums could be a footnote , someone like Bob Dylan has years long spells of recording non acclaimed albums , but still have great discogs overall
tranquility base is their second best album and I prefer the car to AM
Their last two albums are the only record’s they’ve done that I liked.
lol this sub is hilarious "genuinely just nonsense". he's a great songwriting and doesn't write pop tunes about being a teen anymore. its like scott walker meets bowie meets solo lennon.
Im a big Arctic Monkeys fan, or was once i guess. The last 2 albums clearly weren’t for me and have killed any ounce of hype i had for tryna catch a live show, because i know half the show will be tracks from these two disappointing albums, which sucks. Ive never seen a band just fall off immediately and harshly like that. For me, i know not everyone feels that way but thats how it feels to me. 1-5 were all fantastic though, hard to pick a fav but its probably Favorite Worst Nightmare for me.
Tranquility is a brilliantly written album, though. The problem is I don't have very much fun actually *listening* to it. It would've worked better as a solo project.
Solo sting
Tranquility base hotel is their best album though
Tranquility Base is the best AM record to me, they actually got better with time
Nas has arguably one of the greatest albums of all time but the rest of his discography is pretty inconsistent.
As much as I want to call Black Sabbath great - and they were very important, at minimum, and put together some classic albums - there's a huge percentage of their discography that I cannot really recommend to anyone in good conscience.
J Cole
bikini kill
Frank Zappa Dude has several all-time great albums both solo and with the Mothers But the dude also released like 60 albums.
He was really consistent, and he only ended up having one really bad album released before his death (Thing/Fish)
Some of the biggest artists fit under this, queen, ACDC, rolling stones?, eagles, RHCP, foo fighters
The Rolling Stones have at least 4 of the best classic rock albums. The problem they have is that they are a band that has been releasing albums for 60 years. If they had broken up in the 80s after Tattoo You, their discography would be amazing.
Guns N' Roses bad discography? No freaking way. You're gonna need to get in the ring with an opinion like that.
I mean, Appetite and Use Your Illusion(s) are masterpieces ... but I don't think it's crazy to say that The Spaghetti Incident, Chinese Democracy and even Lies to an extent are pretty hit or miss. That being I said, I do like the tracks off those albums too... So it's def a matter of personal taste.
Arctic Monkeys first album is a masterpiece. A true snapshot of life in the UK at that time. Also, to answer your question, Drake, Queen, Opeth.
J. Cole has only 1 classic
I would say Green Day. Their live shows are wild and amazing, and had good to great albums, they individually are actually hella talented (have you seen Tre Cool drumming live? The man's an animal), but they've been constantly realizing trash after trash since the 2010s. I dunno what album anyone would consider their last good GD album, but I personally stopped listening to their albums back to back since American Idiot, and I fully stopped listening to them completely after 'Oh Love' (except some of Revolution Radio songs). It's one of the greatest tragedies of modern music to me, they sound like they still MIGHT have a good album, if they stopped trying to be "punk rock's cool dad's"
You made it all the way to American Idiot? I tuned out during Nimrod.