Ok, as we love to bitch about our favorite groups/artists so much (I'm kidding, of course!) I thought it might be fun for everyone to discuss albums which have really disapointed them by artists/groups that they are huge fans of.

If possible, I'd like to keep this one a strictly Stones free zone as we have numerous stones threads on this kind of topic in one form or another.

On your marks, get set, and go.......

Lou Reed - Growing Up In Public, Mistrial, The Raven, Rock n Roll Animal
Neil Young - Greendale, Old Ways, his rockabilly CD
Miles Davis - The Man With The Horn
Beach Boys - everything after "Love You" ('77)
Iggy - Blah Blah Blah, American Caesar
Steve Winwood - everything post Traffic (1977 till his excellent 2004 CD)
Everything by Clapton post '81 or so.
Primitive Cool

afew off the top of my head....

Neil Young - Greendale

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare

Oasis - Be Here Now

The Strokes - Room On Fire

The Stone Roses - Second Coming

Aimee Mann - Lost In Space

Allison Moorer - 'Mockingbird' ,'Getting Somewhere'
(her 2 albums post-divorce from Butch Primm, and marrying
Steve Earle...a serious decline in form )

Radiohead - everything since the excellent 'The Bends'

Endless Nameless by The Wildhearts

Undercover (but I don't remember the band playin' this)

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Lou Reed - Growing Up In Public, Mistrial, The Raven, Rock n Roll Animal

WTF?

(A bit harsh on 'Growing up in public' too, IMO)

Dylan - Down In the Groove, Saved (love the shows from that year though)
Lou - Metal Machine Music
Lennon - Some time in NYC (aka "Whatever It Is - We're Against It")
Stones - Satanic Majesties
Bowie - all that drum 'n' bass bollocks from the late 90s
Elvis - most of the 60's movie soundtracks
Prince - Too many to mention from the last decade

Sheryl Crow's last two. Well I wouldn't say I hate the newest one, although Wildflower was awful but it is still miles away from where she was.

Sheryl is not capible of releasing a bad CD. The new one and Wildflowers are great.

Bob Dylan -- Dylan, Knocked Out Loaded, Down in the Groove, Dylan and the Dead

Grateful Dead -- Dead Set

Neil Young -- Trans, Landing on Water

Built to Last - Grateful Dead
Tripping the Live Fanatastic - Paul McCartney (so many baetter live CDs!)
Dirty Work - You Know Who

The Lion King - Elton JohnTin Machine II - It's Bowie enough to count it as his
Ummagumma - Pink Floyd
Most stuff from Sleeps w/ Angels to now - Neil Young (why, Nwil, why???)
Capeman - Paul Simon

Dylan & The Dead - doulbe strike. Ouch.
Primitive Cool - Mick Jagger. Worst Jagger-related album ever.
American Songbooks I-Iv - Roddy Stwey. Yuck.
Chrome Libido - The Powergoats. THose bastards sound too much like the #$%&ing Stones.! (no such thing as bad press, eh? )

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The Clash - Cut the Crap

Almost forgot - Gone Troppo - George Harrision.

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Steel Wheels

Bob Dylan - Down in the Groove
Bryan Adams - Spirit Stallion of the Cimarron

I can't come up with any more now off the top of me head.

It's been hard to come up with these. The opposite category, songs you love by artists you don't, would be easier to fill.

Bob Dylan- Empire Burlesque

Neil Young - Trans MEZ

I don't enjoy most of Eric Clapton's records. It's not that I hate Clapton, infact I've seen him live and loved it, and some nice songs are on albums as well, but most of his studio work is just too flat and boring.

Neil Young's Sleeps With Angels... I was at a local cd store and saw about 15 of these in the used bin! It really is pretty awful.

Bowie's trio from the early-mid 80's-- I think it was Let's Dance, Blue Jean (is this the album title, or just the single?), and Glass Spider... bad, worse, and awful.

The Moody Blues... one of my all time favorite groups, but everything after the 70's is terrible, terrible synth-pop/ soft rock.

Robert Plant's third album, Shaken and Stirred I think is the title... ruined by mid-80's production and Phil Collins' roto-toms.

The whole Van Hagar era. Dave is the once and future King.

Did anyone besides me buy that truly, truly, exceptionally horrid Jefferson Airplane reunion album from about 1990?

Wasn't there a really horrible CSNY reunion reunion record a few years back as well?

I'm tired, I'm tired of doing what I'm told.
Things are moving way too slow.

"Their Satanic's Majesty.." and "Love You Live"...

Machina/The Machines of God - Smashing Pumpkins -- Adore was far from what I loved about them, but I grew to like it. Was never able to tolerate this one. I gave it a listen a month or so back and my opinion hasn't changed.

The Ghost of Tom Joad - Bruce Springsteen -- I gave it away after a couple of listen throughs right after it was released (10+ years ago?). It could be something I'd like if listened to now.

Steel Wheels

Body Wishes - Rod Stewart

John Holm Verklighetens Afton, 'orrible 80s production.
He has been doin some more disastrous works afterwards as well.
Everything else is just *****.

No Code by Pearl Jam,Van Halen with Gary Cherone singing...

U2 RATTLE AND HUM

Endless Wire

Rising Sand -- Plant (& Krauss)

The Clash - Cut The Crap
Neil Young - Everything after Year of the Horse
David Bowie - Never Let Me Down
Bruce Springsteen - Human Touch
Rolling Stones - Bridges to Babylon
Prince - Musicology/3121/Planet Earth
PIL - everything after Album
The Fall - Interim
Nick Cave - Nocturama/Dig Lazarus Dig
Marvin Gaye - Midnight Love (unforgivable blandness)

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McCartney - Pipes Of Piece ...not HATE but not at all good
Travis - Most stuff after the brill' The Man Who
Elvis - Aloha From Hawaii ... there were so many better concerts, before and after.
Latter day stones live albums ..NOT HATE, but disappointed