Albums from your fav bands that never "clicked" with ya

For me:

King's X - Please Come Home...Mr Bulbous [too jazzy]
Dangerous Toys - Artist Formerly Known as Dangerous Toys [too all-around shitty]
Saxon - Forever Free [still better than most albums from 1992, but the weakest in their catalog, imo]
Raven - The Pack is Back [Again, a couple of good songs. Otherwise, WTF?]

Megadeth - Risk

Try as I might, I just can't get into that album. It's a big, steaming turd in the Megadeth punch bowl.

Judas Priest - Turbo, Demolition, Nostradamus

Agree with Risk and Nostradamus. I listen to "Demolition" and imagine it is not JP and, then, it ain't too bad!

Metallica - And Justice For All
Anthrax - Among the Living
Judas Priest - Screaming for Vengeance
W.A.S.P - Inside the Electric Circus
Megadeth - Countdown to Extinction
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For the Dying
Black Sabbath - Dehumanizer
Saxon - Innocence is No Excuse

Rather than go for albums that sucked, I've gone for records that I know are good but there was just something 'off' for my tastes.

Boris2008 wrote:

Rather than go for albums that sucked, I've gone for records that I know are good but there was just something 'off' for my tastes.

Yep - that is what I was going for.

VH - 1984 through OU812
Overkill - White Devil Armory
Iron Maiden - Seventh Son
Iced Earth - Dark Saga

Agreed about Risk.

This latest Priest album was a chore to get through.

I think most people here to tend to agree about Risk.

Just to keep it interesting, I'll stick to albums that are usually well-regarded by fans.

Judas Priest: British Steel and Screaming for Vengeance
Iron Maiden: Killers
Bloodgood: Out of the Darkness
Van Halen: Fair Warning 
Iced Earth: Something Wicked this Way Comes
Deliverance: Deliverance
Believer: Extraction from Mortality
Saint: In the Battle

Agree with Risk and Turbo. Also would like to add KISS' Unmasked and Overkill's I Hear Black.

Dream Theater - Awake
Dokken - Shadowlife
Helloween - Chameleon
Kiss - Hot In The Shade
Ozzy - No More Tears
Queensryche - Everything since Tribe
Van Halen - 3

I'll add Kiss: Destroyer

Carnival Of Souls - KISS
Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin
Forbidden - Black Sabbath
Load and Reload - Metallica
Risk - Megadeth
God Hates Us All - Slayer
Virus - Hypocrisy
Hate Them - Darkthrone
Stiff Upper Lip - AC/DC

MetallicSeminarian wrote:

Just to keep it interesting, I'll stick to albums that are usually well-regarded by fans.

That's kind of what I understood this thread would be about. Not about listing the universally agreed upon worst album of an otherwise celebrated band (Megadeth - Risk).

I'd pick Dio - Sacred Heart. An album released during the "golden era", and hailed by many as an equal to others of that time. But to me, that's clearly the weakest Dio record of the 80's. Kind of tired compositions, coupled with a lazy/uninspired performance by Vivian Campbell (getting Craig Goldy in for the next LP was a necessary kick in the butt by this point). I just don't think it compares to the albums before and after.

Dream Theater - Awake. Some say it's their best. I never really connected with this that well. Objectively it's still a really good collection of songs though. But it must be how much more I liked Images & Words that I can't really appreciate this as much. With all the songs I don't "get", to me, this is an album that's less than the sum of its parts. I'll listen to Space-Dye Vest, Lie and Silent Man any time though, and be happy I did. Good shit, but I don't understand the worship.

Metallica - ...and Justice for All. A failure of an album. To me. At least after this they had straight-forward main stream appeal with their Black album, and before this they were thrash metal proper. Now this is just something in between. Are they trying to be progressive? A couple of songs could be, and are, great, but it also sounds so flat instrument and production -wise. I kind of understand the love this band gets, though I don't necessarily share it, but I especially don't understand the worship this album gets.

Queensryche - Rage for Order. An unfocused, semi-commercial sounding, confusing album. Yet, I hear nothing but praise for it. What the hell? I love the Warning. Prog metal bliss. I love Mindcrime. Prog power masterpiece. I've tried to like Rage for Order. I've tried so hard. I now kind of like half of it... but the songs lack punch and the kind of oomph that to me make it special. It's also lacking any sort of an epic.

Those are just the first four that I thought of. Maybe I'll post more later. Watching hockey now...

Each to their own, but shit. Most of these are just shocking.

Pantera - The Great Southern Trendkill
Metallica - St. Anger
Suicidal Tendencies - Free Your Soul and Save Your Mind
GnR - Chinese Democracy
Van Halen - III
Megadeth - Risk

A Matter of Life & Death, and Final Frontier - Iron Maiden
Nostradamus - Judas Priest

Destruction - The Least Successful Human Cannonball
Sadus - Out for Blood

Savatage - Streets, A Rock Opera
Iced Earth - The Dark Saga (their weakest album, I think)
Iron Maiden - Killers (a bit of a letdown after the amazing debut)

Iron Maiden - No Prayer, the Blaze albums (I do like the music, but his voice doesn't work for Maiden)
Dream Theater - falling into infinity
Kiss - crazy nights, hot in the shade
Metallica - st bullshit
MegaDave - Risk
Priest - ram it down, the Ripper albums
Van Halen I I I
Ratt - reach for the sky
Anthrax - the bush albums after sound of white noise
Barren Cross Rattle your cage
def leppard slang and everything after euphoria
Fates warning inside out
Queensryche hear in the now frontier and all of the Tate albums post DeGarmo
king's x manic moonlight
Scorpions Savage Amusement, Face The heat, Eye To Eye
Twisted sister love is for suckers, come out and play

thejokeriv wrote:

Metallica - st bullshit
Priest - ram it down, the Ripper albums
Van Halen I I I
def leppard slang and everything after euphoria

Yeah that!!! Same here too!

A lot of my would-be "picks" have already been mentioned so I'll just add these:

W.A.S.P. - K.F.D. and the Neon God two-parter

Iced Earth - Framing Armageddon: Something Wicked Part One

Warrior Soul - Chill Pill

Deliverance - Learn, River Disturbance and Camelot in Smithereens

One that I'm surprised not to see on here: Megadeth - The World Needs a Hero

If there was an album that felt like it was designed by focus group, TWNaH is it. You can almost hear the boardroom conversation.

"Ok, so they didn't like Risk, but you know those kids will eat anything up that references the old stuff, so how about a song sequel?"

It just felt like a tired retread, and not a very good one either. The System Has Failed was the return to form some seemed to wish TWNaH to be. It just never had anything on it that grabbed my attention. Love or hate Risk, at least that album had an identity. TWNaH just felt like a half-hearted grab at the past. Seemed like Dave was burnt out and maybe the enforced (temporary) retirement was the way to go. Everything that has come out since has been head and shoulders above that turkey.

I'll get hate for this but the Maiden albums before Bruce don't do much for me. I enjoy many of the songs but these aren't the Maiden albums I often reach for.