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Sep 11
2009
04:41 PM ET
The 50 worst albums of the decade? See if you agree
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Did Sanjaya and William Hung have albums you could have included?
Why on earth is Mark Ronson on this list? That’s just silly. Also disagree on Chinese Democracy, which may not have lived up to hype, but is certainly not one of the 50 worst albums of the decade. And the 2nd Darkness record is highly underrated.
Chinese Democracy was a crime against nature. Old guys trying to be relevent by being loud with nary a hook or a melody to be found. I would have put this steaming pile at #1.
Agreed. Though I think you were far too generous, calling it a “steaming pile.”
I am pleased to say that I do not won any of these. Or even listened to anything from most of the artists who put out these albums.
Sorry, ‘own’. Though I didn’t win any of them either.
Staind’s Break the Cycle was a great album. It really was their best and only full back to front solid CD. I really am shocked its on this list, i have never heard anyone who didn’t like it. Maybe Chapter V or 14 shades of Grey, but not Break the Cycle.
I agree. It may not be one of the best Albums ever, but it certainly isn’t one of the fifty worst….flaws on this list.
How about Metallica’s St. Anger? That has to be one of the worst albums by a mega-band EVER.
good call. I was so looking forward to this CD, but when it finally came out, I couldn’t even finish listening to it!
st anger is completey underrated imo… better than Load thats for sure
Craig David’s disc was good, and while I’m not a fan, that Jo Bros album received 4 stars from Rolling Stone.
Yeah, why is Craig David on this list? I love FILL ME IN and 7 DAYS.
Rolling Stone has no credibility whatsoever and hearing that they gave the Jonas Brothers album 4 stars cements this fact.
They also gave the JB newest cd 3 stars and called it their ” best album” way to contradict RS!
What? Version by Mark Ronson! No way. The British DJ/music producer is brilliant and does a great job of covering and mixing music classics. Valerie, Stop Me, Just, and Oh My God are brilliant tracks.
I’m thinking I need to pick up this CD since it’s getting the most defense.
Mariah Carey really had a CD titled Charmbracelet? Geez, we get it already.. you’re a girl – enough!
i’m surprised glitter wasn’t on the list. or did it come out before 2000?
Yeah me too. I thought Glitter would be the worst. For some reason I thought charmbracelet came out in the nineties.
Both Glitter and Charmbracelet are solid albums, and, actually, Glitter is technically a soundtrack. Charmbracelet came out in 2002 for whomever was wondering.
The Jonas Brothers were nominated for a Grammy for their album titled, “A Little Bit Longer,” and while I understand that some of that can be hype, to say that their tight 80s synth sound was worse than Paris Hilton and Kevin Federline’s albums is preposterous. To be honest, it discredits the entire list.
The Jonas Brothers are a joke. Who cares if they were nominated for a Grammy. Milli Vanilli won a Grammy. The Grammy’s are nothing but good publicity.
exactly Little Wayne got nominated for 8 last year and he’s garbage
They were nominated for a “best new artist”, not anything to do with their album. Actually, that was more a product of their incredibly quite rise to fame and manic hype than any actual talent. While I agree that it shouldn’t be that high on the list, that nomination remains as controversially undeserved as Marisa Tomei’s Oscar win for My Cousin Vinnie.
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I’m not really a jonas brothers fan, but it seems kinda ridiculous to pick on their music when it’s geared at middle school tween girls. Give them some credit, they at least play their own instruments and write their own songs, which is more i can say for half of the pop artists that come out today. No way in hell is their album worse than paris’s or lindsay’s. I have a friend who loves the lindsay lohan album and whenever i’m driving she turns up Confessions of a Broken Heart just to annoy me. I’ve threatened to turn the car into a ditch but have yet to act on it.
I wholly agree…and I HATE the Jonas Brothers music. But I do give them more creedence as ‘musicians’ because they do play their own compositions. Any artists who write their own music or play instruments should be granted a certain level of respect (even if it’s crap) than artists who rely on others to ‘hand’ them songs.
While I would agree that AT LEAST they play their own instruments and write their own music … that music is written with one thing in mind … love songs that will make tween girls swoon. There’s no growth, no improvement from album to album (I’ve got a tween daughter, so I’ve heard it all plenty of times), and it’s completely and utterly generic — i.e., it could be ANY boy band singing it. Music made for the sake of the almighty dollar is just as big a disgrace as those who don’t write or play their own music.
For that alone, I completely agree that they belong on any worst-of list.
No way. EVERY celebrity that writes their own music and plays their own inststruments has at least a few love songs on their albums.
And I’m not going to deny it, but even those Jonas Brothers do.
But at least they’ve got a few good songs that actually MEAN something.
Trust me, you’ll be surprised.
Youtube “Black Keys” “Turn Right” “A Little Bit Longer” all by the Jonas Brothers.
They’re not really about love that make “tween girls swoon”. They’re about life in general.
Proves the fact that they don’t only write songs to make girls swoon over them. They write songs that have actual meanings.
Anyone defending a single title on this list needs to realize his or her taste in music is bad.
Agreed…I’m surprised to see many people defending some of these. Seriously, there is not a single good CD on that list.
That’s your opinion. But here’s mine.Everybody is different. We all have different tastes in food, clothes, and even MUSIC.I think that nobody should EVER even TRY to make a list of the worst albums of the DECADE because that person is obviously different to the rest of us, which means no one will agree exactly. And what’s taste in music anyway? There’s no such thing as “bad” or “good” taste in ANYTHING because we’re all DIFFERENT.You gotta realize that in life, everybody will have different opinions and like and dislike different things. Which means NOBODY can judge another because this “somebody” is different to this “another” and judging them would only be an opinion, not a fact. You’re making it sound like what you’re saying is a fact. It’s not.
This really isn’t a very good list. Some of these albums are my favorites and are artistically and stylistic fine. “Who Needs Guitars Anyway” is an electronic feast. So what if stuck up Rock critics don’t like it.
Anything by PHISH would’ve been my top choice.
Yup, most are bad. But Oasis, Hard Fi and Kaiser Chiefs albums were just tremendous letdowns compared to their previous albums, they weren’t awful. That should be a seperate list.
I actually enjoyed “Taking Chances” and I thought Craig David was okay. I’m sure there were worse albums than some of these. Is Las Ketchup the ones that had that “Ketchup” song that was supposed to be like the Macarena?