Say something nice about your least favorite albums

Mosh

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Pretty self explanatory. We're all pretty good at pointing out the negatives, but I'm interested to see what nice things y'all have to say! Try to include a favorite song too please.

I'll start:

Iron Maiden - Fear of the Dark: Honestly just ATSS makes this one worth it, but that's a cop out answer. One cool thing about this album is that Janick has really settled into the band here. There's a lot more personality in his playing than on No Prayer, he's writing more, and the band is closer to having that twin guitar sound that came with Adrian and Dave. Although I'd argue they never quite got there, this is pretty close. If anyone was to get an MVP for this album, it's Janick. He also had the most fresh and creative ideas here, particularly with the acoustic guitars in Wasting Love.

Favorite song: Afraid to Shoot Strangers

Dream Theater - Systematic Chaos: This is actually a tougher one. I guess I can say that every song has at least one cool moment. Also, for a band that isn't really riff driven, a lot of the riffs on this are actually pretty solid. Especially on Dark Eternal Night.

Favorite song: Constant Motion

Foo Fighters - One By One: This is kind of cheating because I don't really consider this a bad album by any means, although it falls apart pretty quickly after the first half and makes way for some of the aboslute worst songs the Foos produced. But those first four songs are great and it's really one of my all time favorite runs on any album.

Favorite song: Times Like These

Opeth - Morningrise: Still an Opeth album. :p But seriously, this one has been growing on me and I don't consider it bad really. I don't know the individual songs well enough to pick out a favorite, but none of it is really bad either. Just not particularly remarkable I guess. But it's an enjoyable enough listen.

Rush - Test For Echo: similar to DT, Rush isn't really a riffs band. They were in the early 70s but with each album became less riff driven. Which is probably for the better. TFE shows Rush getting back to those roots and using more riffs. It's a pretty good guitar album in that sense and like Virtual XI for Maiden, it really paved the way for a lot of what they're doing more successfully now. So it's still an important album.

Favorite song: Driven

Judas Priest - Demolition: could've been longer. :D
 
No Prayer For The Dying - There are a few strong tracks on here like the title track and my personal favourite on the album, Holy Smoke. Even the worst songs on the album (Fates Warning/Hooks In You) are not horrifically bad, Fates doesn't do enough to make the song terrible, it's just unmemorable and Hooks is slightly catchy to its credit.

St Anger: This album starts REALLY strongly. The one/two of Frantic and St Anger is a great pairing; a fast opener to get the album going, and a strong title track to support it as track 2.

I'll do some more later.
 
Iced Earth - The Glorious Burden: Declaration Day and the Gettysburg trilogy are absolute treasures. The latter is a masterpiece. Also, the chorus of Red Baron/Blue Max is hilarious.

Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned: It's probably the last time we'll ever hear Roy Khan singing heavy metal.

Metallica - St. Anger: Sometimes the main riff from Some Kind of Monster gets stuck in my head, and it's pretty cool.

Opeth - Morningrise: To Bid You Farewell is beautiful and Black Rose Immortal was incredibly ambitious for a sophomore album.

Rush - Rush: They call me the Working May-uhn!

Sabaton - Metalizer: 7734 is a good song. Also, it's cool to hear Sabaton not singing about war, even if it doesn't work at all.
 
Annihilator - Remains: Worst Annihilator album by far, but at least there're some quite good songs here, like "Tricks and Traps", and "Human Remains". This might be a good album for industrial fans, but don't spect too much.
 
N=Metallica: St Anger. It made Death Magnetic a better album by giving it a 30% improvement due to sheer relief
 
Demolition - The first 12 seconds of Jekyll & Hyde are awesome.

St Anger - Reminds me of when I was a young kid, I used to bang on the pots and pans in the kitchen.

Helloween - Chameleon - Giants is amazing and First Time is pretty damn good too. I guess 2 out of 12 ain't bad.

Black Sabbath - Never Say Die! - Title track is great.

This is kinda hard because I generally don't touch albums I dislike again.
 
Iron Maiden - Virtual XI: The Clansman is good.

Dream Theater - When Day and Dream Unite: Ytse Jam was pretty cool.

Megadeth - Super Collider: Kingmaker is amazing, and so is Dance in the Rain.

Metallica - St. Anger: Frantic gets stuck in my head.

Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man: Ehrm.... The guitar sounds ok, thats it.

Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu: With out that album we wouldn't have had this.
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Pink Floyd - The Endless River - Although it didn't live up to the hype created around it, it is a nice send off for the band, and closure for them and the fans.
 
Collin said:
Iced Earth - The Crucible of Man: Ehrm.... The guitar sounds ok, thats it.
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Oh yes, how could I forget Crucible. Barlow sang on it, there's 2 good songs plus one amazing song. so 3 from 15? I guess it's still a better ratio than Chameleon.
 
Unknown One said:
Oh yes, how could I forget Crucible. Barlow sang on it, there's 2 good songs plus one amazing song. so 3 from 15? I guess it's still a better ratio than Chameleon.
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3 good songs only????? Sometimes I wonder if you guys are hearing the same album I do, there are 6 absolutely awesome songs and all the others except Something Wicked, Part 3 and intro/outro are at least good.
 
Birth of the Wicked and (especially) Come What May are great. Not sure what the 3rd song UO mentioned is. Even Barlow couldn't save that album. His performance isn't very good anyway. FA is way better. At least the first half of that album would be solid if you got rid of all the interludes.
 
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Mosh said:
Birth of the Wicked and (especially) Come What May are great. Not sure what the 3rd song UO mentioned is. Even Barlow couldn't save that album. His performance isn't very good anyway. FA is way better. At least the first half of that album would be solid if you got rid of all the interludes.
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I wish those two albums had just been combined, cutting out all the interludes and bad songs. It could have been one of their best single albums ever.

...and with Barlow singing.
 
Killers - the nice thing is that it features Adrian and the two instrumentals are really cool. Other than that, it's my least favourite Maiden album...
 
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