Post albums that aren't actually that bad

Post albums that aren't actually that bad.

ITT: Albums that alienated their creators' entire fanbases

actually pretty good

Everybody complains about this one just because it's Metallica, if it was made by a less known band no one would give a shit. It isn't a good album, but I find it "enjoyable".

Besides, it contains The Unnamed Feeling, one of my top 5 favorite Metallica songs.

I think the reason why people don't like it is because of the production, which is completely fucking retarded. At least compared to their other records.

korn? metallica? what is this, the 90s?

I really don't get why it gets so much shit.

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Korn [Epic, 1995]

The cover art depicts a frightened little girl on a swing set cowering as the menacing shadow of a hook-handed rapist draws near. The band loves this image and flaunts it in all of their trade ads as Sony flogs their death-industrial into its second year. They also sing about child abuse--guess what? They're agin it. But if their name isn't short for kiddy porn, the band should insist on a music video where they all get eaten by giant chickens. C+

Life Is Peachy [Epic, 1996] *bomb*

Follow The Leader [Epic, 1998]

Korn deny they're metal--that's Judas Priest, all four-four pomp and solos. But they nevertheless demonstrate that the essence of metal, an expressive mode it seems will be with us for as long as ordinary whiteboys pity themselves, fear girls, and are permitted to rage against a world they'll never beat, is self-obliterating volume and self-aggrandizing display. Calling up death metal's signature groan to prove he's authentic, poor not-actually-abused Jonathan Davis creaks, clicks, clacks, groans, and scats his way through dull verses, eerie licks, strange bridges, and a hyperactive rhythm section. How much his fans identify with such lyrics as "I'll kiss your lifeless skin" and "You trick-ass slut" is unclear. But I'm parent enough to hope that they find a more fully-formed designate than someone whose idea of social commentary is netcasting softcore S&M to any teenager with a logon. C+

Issues [Epic, 1999] *bomb*

This one is completely different from the Pantera everybody is used to, but I like it. A lot. One of the few 80's metal albums that REALLY sounds like 80's metal to me.

>What it is: An album that deals with a anthropomorphic version of Reznor's addictions in to a vile woman he loves and hates. and just wants to get out of her grasp.

>Why it sounds like it does: Because Reznor was still in a fragile state of recovery and went to Rick Rubin for advice on releading a personal album without it nearly fucking killing him like The Fragile did.

>Popular opinion here: It's too commercial sounds, WITHA TEETHA, GOT MY ARMS IN FLIPFLOP FLIPFLOP

releasing*

commercial sounding*

With teeth was great though

Didn't say it was bad, just that it gets shit on all the time. Someone recommended it, and someone else shit all over it and the poster for having bad taste, then immediately made a thread about it

still my favorite slayer album tb h

how can one man be so based

Some LP releases deserve a 2.20 on RYM. This is not one of them, and one of their only two actually musically interesting releases.

100% unironic here, you were either a faggot when they were big or are underaged if you dislike

>LADIES AND GENTLEMAN

This is actually pretty experimental, not all that accessible. Not bad at all.

The king of all actually-not-that-bad albums

This
The album was fucking awesome, falsies couldn't handle the unique and rough production.

This. It's alright.

This album made me cry, listened from it from beginning to the end, the release which comes with Right Where It Belongs belongs to one of the best moments from Trent's discography.

It needs much more love

Absolution was better and even more underrated by """patricians"""

Paramore - s/t
Paramore - brand new eyes

These are both solid albums.

I was actually tossing up between posting OoS and Absolution, I still return to both sometimes

It was decent continuation of Hvis/Filosofem. Compared to the garbage that followed, Belus was pretty great.

I wouldn't call them outright garbage. They both have their moments. I don't think that he should have upped the production quality, though.

Fallen was halfway to being a good album, he tried something new but didn't really vary it beyond the first track.
Personally I thought Umskiptar was a sloppy mess. Sleep-inducing but not in the good way.

Oh, yeah, I agree there. Maybe it's a good thing that he went full fucking Skrillex after those two, I don't know.

none of their albums were really bad, but they receive a lot of hate.

It's probably because of the weed, ska influences , and the pasty white kids that listen to them

>You have to be in a certain decade to talk about certain kinds of music

I still put this on occasionally.

this desu
it's fine

Nah it's pretty bad. The lyrics alone.

Neutral Milk Hotel - In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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it's gentlemen.

Don't think he'd be addressing multiple women and just one (1) man.

No

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Johnauto

I remember that stupid title but the cover is worse than I ever imagined

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40oz to Freedom is a fantastic album. Not a bad track on it. Most people that hate Sublime are just contrarians.

>Robot Boy aka the 3-minute interlude masquerading as a full "song."
>Chester attempting to "rap."
>Transformers 3 the album
>Waiting For The End is the only good song

At least they tried.

This album gets hated on by dadrockers who can't into New Wave, but it's actually really great
This desu
Their best post-Pinkerton album until the 2010s

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>>Robot Boy aka the 3-minute interlude masquerading as a full "song."
nigga that's the best song on the album
if anyone compared them to radiohead on ats, this is what theyre talking about
it's also better than anything on tkol and in rainbows at least but that's just me

Hexagram and When Girls Telephone Boys are still hard as fuck. And this is from someone who was actually into metal music for some time aka ITS NOT A PHASE MOM.

The wide aray of ever changing insults about this album never landed safely in my opinion, there's clear things people could point out and say "this is why I don't like it", but instead they stick to their "they don't know how to write songs anymore" arguments.

It proved that they could write decent riffs even while actively selling out to nu metal/post grunge but completely losing guitar leads is retarded for a band like metallica.

Literally their best imo, either that or around the fur. White pony is overrated

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Wholeheartedly agree, s/t was a fantastic progression/experimental time for the band

kek
i see what you did there

>>Waiting For The End is the only good song
I wouldn't even give it credit there

Should have posted the Resistance

Nobody apart from wanna be "I hate every album thats semi popular" people on Sup Forums say this is a bad album.

This

These are all fantastic fucking albums

The original not actually bad album.

I absolutely love this album, it might even be my favourite static-x record actually

St. Anger is fucking good and everyone who doesn't like it has shitty taste in art.

Daily fucking reminder that even though the first four Metallica albums are masterpieces of their genre, their top artistic contribution of their careers and their musical peak was Load and Re-Load, giving an honorable mention to St. Anger.

>metal
>lyrics
How much a fucking disgusting unwashed dweeb are you in real life?

It's a straight up masterwork and anyone who doesn't like it is memeing. Period.

>an expressive mode it seems will be with us for as long as ordinary whiteboys pity themselves, fear girls, and are permitted to rage against a world they'll never beat, is self-obliterating volume and self-aggrandizing display
what the fuck was his problem? isn't this literally an exact description of the punk music he loves to jerk himself off to so much?

I like this a lot, I'd probably give it a 7 or 6.

Literally every single album posted in this thread is fucking awful..