ITT: The absolute lowest point in an artist's career

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>>71433676

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>>71433676

>>71433751
come now it wasn't that bad.

Although maybe Lulu was even worse, lowest point both for Metallica and Lou Reed.

>>71433832
It was still their worse

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>>71433676
The 2005-2010 period as a whole was a huge and sad low-point for Weezer.

>>71433716
Not even.

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>>71433676

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lowest point, but not due to lack of creativity.

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I wonder if there's half as much debate about which is their worst as there is about which is their best?

>>71434109
Yes

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I get that it is hard to make a second album, but GOD DAMN. This was just two good songs and reusing the amazing formula the first album used.

>>71434183
That album is amazing.
With Twilight As My Guide and Copernicus are some of their best songs.

>>71433870
Was it really worse than metal machine music
I haven't listened to it yet

>>71433676

Am I really the only person on this godforsaken board who enjoyed If You're Wondering If I Want You To (I Want You To)?

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Black on both sides still my favourite album.
The ecstatic is great but my god this made me question my life,
although I think he did it to fulfill his contract on G.O.O.D music

>>71433980
BEVERLY HILLS

>>71434302
Metal Machine Music is his best

>>71433780
Keepin' The Summer Alive was worse.

>>71434775
Fuck you, that song rules.

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>>71434251
Yeah MGMT and Foster the People both had a hard time on the second album as well

Hopefully, Bloc Party can get the chemistry right with its new members. "Stunt Queen" showed promise for their next album.

>>71433676
Raditude was really the low point. I enjoyed a few songs on make believe. The White Album is my second favorite right next to the Blue Album.

>>71433676
>>71433780
>>71433809
>>71433831
>>71433846
>>71433980
>>71434112
>>71434225
all terrible

>>71434280
i would say painting with

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This has to be the nearest thing there is to a completely pointless Stones album with absolutely no reason for its existence.

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Either pic related or Recovery

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>band is broken up
>scrub guitarists filling in for Perry and Whitford
>Steven Tyler totally wasted from drugs
>album sells about 30 copies

>>71433780
fuck off

>>71435116
this

>>71434112
...take it back. you take it back, anon

>>71435145

>MGMT

?????

>>71433676
i think you mean literally every release by them

>>71435512
You are not implying the self-titled album and congratulations were good....

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>>71435568
Bio [Chess, 1973]

You know how Willie Mays was one of the greatest baseball players in history, but just can't cut it anymore? I feel the same way about Chuck Berry. D+

>>71434112
>>71435292
apologize

>>71435630
>that fucking bobs burgers shirt

>>71434151
It spawned Level Five which is amazing so I give this album a pass.

>>71435630
It's pretty fucking terrible that My Ding A Ling was his only Top 10 hit because that's an embarrassing song (before anyone points it out, yeah I know it wasn't on Bio). Chuck pushing 50 was too old to be singing about Little Chuck.

>>71434303
My fucking man

>>71434151
honestly The Power to Believe is worse

>>71434151
I like every song on there except Frakctured and Heaven and Earth, fight me

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Imagine a middle-aged alcoholic man rambling for 70 minutes about the government poisoning us with chemtrails and how kids these days suck and need to get off his lawn.

>>71435589
Uh congratulations is awesome. What's wrong with it?

>>71434280
This has suddenly become one of my favourite albums and I can't really explain why. Maybe the drugs.

But God damn is it gorgeous.

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>>71435839
don henley's gonna tell me how to feel about the environment? i don't think so, okay

i have two words for don henley:

joe

walsh

OKAYYY?

>>71434112

desu

>>71435656
they don't need to. both of those albums are shite

>>71435853
The songs were all paced the same. The whole album was over produced. The lyrics were lackluster and each song ran on way too long.

The whole album sounds like one monotonous song.

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The first disc is Frank going through the ol' Tin Pan Alley canon. Here he's in his element and as usual, covers these songs brilliantly.

The second disc has a bunch of experiments with a modern (ie. 1970s) pop sound that don't really fit him, although they still manage to be interesting.

The third disc is the embarrassing part where Frank takes us on a voyage through the Solar System. Apparently his songwriting team thought that him sounding like Styx or Rush was a good idea. You can tell from his delivery that he knows this material is retarded as fuck and he can barely choke the words out.

>>71433809
opposite day

>>71435122
*blocks your path*
*jumps towards you*

>>71434775
If you took Beverly Hills off Make Believe, would be a lot better of an album.

>>71436075
>In an interview with the New York Post in October 1978, Sinatra said "There's still good music out there if you know where to look. My guys will come up to me and say 'We tried, but there's nothing around anymore except teenager stuff.' and I'll say 'Well then maybe I should hire some teenagers to write songs for me.'"

I wonder if Frank's songwriters didn't take his remarks a little too literally. They probably put on a Starcastle album and decided "Yeah, we should do this. Show how down with the kids we are."

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Spitfire was a lot better then this terrible album.


At least it got some good remixes

>>71433809
Actually one of their best, exact opposite of The Razors Edge's dirty tones

>>71436345
YOU TAKE THAT BACK MOTHERFUCKER!

A P O L O G I Z E

>>71436322
>There's still good music out there if you know where to look.

frank was the original /mu/fag damn

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>>71436351
>not knowing AC/DC's true darkest moment

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There is no explanation
There is no excuse

Makes Celtic Frost's Cold Lake sound like Welcome To Hell

>>71436558
Jesus you don't have to put all caps on


Sure there are some good songs but there's plenty of albums that are better.
Here's a list

Mat zo-Self assemble

Madeon-Adventure(Similar but less cheesy)

Deadmau5-For lack of a better name

Moody good-Moody good

Chase & Status-No more idols

Camo & Krooked-Zeitgeist

>>71433716
for sure their worst album but pathetic is a bit much

>>71436589
In my opinion this, Flick of the Switch and Fly on the Wall are their albums that are actually bad.

>>71434280
better than painting with imo
and painting with is still a 7

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both musically and personally

>>71434251
This was better than their first hello?
This is in my top 5 albums

>>71434112
>>71436984
Grad was worse than these
His least creative by far

I can see thinking TLOP was a low point
808s changed music. Lots of popular artists today wouldn't be the same without 808s

>>71434084
it's so fucking trash

they got progressively worse as time went on, and weren't that great to start with

what is with NME and latching on to punk-ish shitty Brit bands and trying to make them out as the next Beatles?

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Why...

>>71433751
You like their latest record then?
>>71434112
TLOP is unironically contains all of his best songs but also some of his worst

>>71433809
this man gets it.

>>71437374
Agreed. Very disappointing record

>>71435742
No. Construktion of Light is full of Belew's masturbatory bullshit. Power to Believe is much more solid.

>>71434280
cool bait

>>71437959
Wtf this was great. it's also one of their most popular albums to date.

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Major disappointment after Nocturne.

Hope Tatum bounces back.

>>71437959
Yeah. You're trippin' Pippin. That's a good album.

>>71437374
This album is unforgivably boring.

>>71436075
Okay, I'm a Sinatra maniac, so lemme get real here: Objectively, The Future (part 3) is not a good piece. That said, it's so fucking interesting that I could listen to it all day.

As far as "songwriting team", the whole third disc was the passion project of Gordon Jenkins, who was a close friend and frequent collaborator of Frank's, usually as the arranger for his torch song albums (Where Are You?/No One Cares/September of My Years). A lot of the music industry wasn't a fan of Jenkins because they thought he had too much of a melodramatic flair and an over-indulgence with chiche strings. Despite this, and the fact that his compositions were never as highly regarded as fellow Sinatra collaborators Nelson Riddle and Billy May, Sinatra always felt closest with Jenkins' compositions, likely because Sinatra always considered himself better as a saloon singer than a swinging pop star (despite his career highs in that area).

Anyway, Jenkins' put together the whole Future Suite because he believed that Frank was the only man who had ever been "as sad" as himself (paraphrasing here). Frank liked the idea, and actually stood by the final product in the face of criticism.

""You Must Remember This" actually has a pretty good episode about this that is a summary about the history of that album

http://www.youmustrememberthispodcast.com/episodes/youmustrememberthispodcastblog/you-must-remember-this-episode-2-frank-sinatra-in

>>71433846

Load/Reload is much worse

>>71436718
>Madeon-Adventure(Similar but less cheesy)

Maybe the best EDM album. Easily my favorite EDM live show I've seen.

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the fuck were they thinking

>>71438291
this is why i still come to /mu/

>>71438369
What [what] ever [ever] do [do] you [you] mean [mean] ? [?]

>>71437285
Dystopia is terrible but it's not as embarrassing as Risk

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Too obvious but surprised no one posted it yet.

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Bon Jovi wannabe pop rock cheese with keyboards everywhere. Ugghhh...

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>>71436075
Here, another 63 year old tries his hand at contemporary pop (in this case New Jack Swing) and also misses the mark entirely, again most likely because of well-meaning songwriters with poor judgement who wanted their charge to appear "with it".

Only Rick Rubin and Johnny Cash ever successfully pulled off "Aging legend develops a sudden interest in his grandson's music collection".

>>71434280
Shit opinion. Definitely not their best, but it sure as hell isnt their worst, nor is it even a bad album. It's the only album they've ever released that's been decidedly mediocre.

>>71437374
This record was the same song for what felt like 3 hours.

What's the deal with artists making extremely lackluster and boring albums with little to no instrumentation and people jizzing all over them?

(Looking at you Blond)

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Unlistenable trash that George Harrison banged out to finish his recording contract.

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>late 30s single mom suddenly decides she wants to be 17 again and hires Avril Lavigne's producers
>and dresses like Britney Spears on the album cover

In short, it goes in the trash regardless of the hit she got out of it. But even there, her flat delivery shows that she has no real interest in the material and is just doing it for money/radio play. All the clever little vocal tics and nuances from her 90s albums are gone.

>>71438039
Yeah, I was interested for all of 10 minutes listening to this.

Nocturne was lovely.

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nadir

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Ringo does disco. I use the album as a drink coaster.

>>71438514
guys I think we're forgetting supercollider here

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>shit recorded only to finish out a contract
>Elton was also high out of his mind on drugs and actually had to get surgery to repair the damage done to his throat by cocaine abuse and poor singing technique

He literally almost didn't survive the late 80s, it was that bad.

>>71437423
Definitely

>>71440534
Dare I say this was worse than Victim of Love.

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Between the roller disco production, the singing girls, and Albert's totally tuned-out delivery, this truly is his lowest point.

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They tried to go back to being quieter and more acoustic while also trying to add more electronics, and it doesn't work. And Chris Martin was all sad about his divorce so the lyrics are mostly hot garbage. The bonus tracks are better than almost every thing on it; why are they bonus tracks? That being said, Midnight is one of their best songs, period.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oUqRXz9KkA

>>71435122
*complaining prismadoll in the distance*

>>71437423
i think indie cindy is a fantastic song. the rest is garbage

>>71434303

Great song

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And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more: it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

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>>71441023

Things would get worse

>>71434112
>if young metro don't trust you i'm gon shoot ya
What did he mean by this?

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Karma is a bitch.

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>>71433676
>>71433980
Wrong album my dudes

>>71441101
Stop this

>>71441101
Guaranteed replies.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6a6A6oTFdcw

>>71440663
>that mix
Never heard the drums more in front of the rest than on this, except maybe some Billy Cobham albums

>>71436756
yeah, their entire career is a bit pathetic, I guess

>>71440717
Yeah indie cindy and some other songs did sort of grow on me, but I feel like this album was a result of not making an album after 20 years and by the time you do, your bassist had already left the band

>>71434303
This one song makes raditude a more enjoyable listen than hurley

>>71438369
i like it, it's a 7/10 and golden gals unironically one of their all time best tracks.

>>71437959
>not Supreme Balloon or The Marriage Of True Minds

>>71438291

quality post, great insight- thank you anon.

>>71436075
that sounds fucking hilarious

>That time Audioslave covered Rage Against the Machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT0q3GH16lA

>>71440623
>not x&y

>>71441101
here's your (You)

>>71435292
That's not Relapse

>>71435068
>Metal Machine Music is his best
(You)

>>71435661
Oh, yes. Not only was it a commercial failure, it was panned by critics too.

>>71435116
No way, I've always found Keepin' The Summer pretty listenable. Some of the tracks I'd even call underrated. Summer in Paradise is simply unlistenable.

>>71440401
Can't deny that it's a shit record, but her last one was just pure cancer

>>71434302
Metal Machine Music was intentionally bad and a joke. Lulu was completely serious, which makes it a lower point.

>>71433716
Fuck you, buddy

>>71441208
he is obviously just having fun

>>71440487
This

>>71438298
No no no

>>71436025
This is either amazing bait or you are just so so wrong

>>71441101
DELET

>>71441101
E D G Y

>>71434112
If this is his lowest point Kanye has had a pretty good career.

>>71436345
He hasn't even been making music that long, give him some time.
Hopefully his next album will be better tho.

>>71444650
>>71436345

Sorry, you are objectively wrong. This album was muuuuch better than the dirty dubstep mess that Spitfire was, and while I like spitfire I just find that Worlds (when you look into it) is actually way more conceptual.

>>71437925
>>71438227
fuck I listened to this on the plane (12 hours into the flight) and tripped the fuck out

>>71439858
>This record was the same song for what felt like 3 hours.
Sounds like he didn't like Blonde
>(Looking at you Blonde)
>my fucking sides

>>71444404
I WAS TRIPPING LOOKING AT MY PORTFOLIO

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this one for me too, unlistenable

>>71437113
Delet
Graduation is the best Pop Rap album of ALL TIME.

>>71444726
And what would that concept be

>>71445309

>not Mirages or Love Streams

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>>71435546
>>71436984
>>71441023
>>71441101
>>71444931
>>71445211
no.

>>71441101
>>71444601
>>71444602
it was rivers' personal lowest point at least
and yeah, pretty shit musically

>>71440448
stop

>>71433751
>>71437285
>>71438514
>>71440487
Man, it's almost like Megadeth is a fucking joke or something

>>71445443
Lower than hiring Dr Luke to write throw-away pop garbage and paying a bunch of money to Lil Wayne for 8 bars of trash?

>>71445309
What? This album is one of his best. It's definitely Mirage, or My Love Is Rotten To The Core if that counts.

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Absolute garbage

>>71440448
I think you mean the absolute highest point in an artists career

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How has this not been posted yet. Everyone was addicted to coke during this album and it sounds like shit.

>>71438369
Definitley far from perfect but I'm a huge fan of this album
Floridada, Vertical, Burglars, and Golden Gal are all high tier Ancos songs.

>>71441988
Wrong

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>>71445879
>pink floyd
>addicted to coke

good one

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>>71443766
(You)

>>71440448
Youre kidding me right
One of the better albums they made, it just takes a few listens

>>71446088
David Gilmour and Richard Wright were both addicted to coke around this time. It's the reason Wright didn't work on The Wall. David Gilmour stopped when he met his current wife.

>>71445344
American artist appropriates Japanese culture through EDM instead of vaporware