Belittled albums that you actually like

Often, I'll find myself wondering what is wrong with a certain album to cause such an outpouring of hate from so many people, because when I put it on, all I hear is a good record.


So, which albums do you like that the world hates ?


My personal choices:
Guns N Roses - Chinese Democracy  - Good album, history doesn't matter.
Metallica - St Anger                             - Great album, snare drum and solos don't matter.
Yes - Tales Of Topographic Oceans    - Good album, length doesn't matter.
Jethro Tull - A Passion Play                 - Great album, length doesn't matter.
Machine Head - Supercharger             - Too fun to let the style change matter
Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy      - Dirty Women is classic and 'You Wont Change Me' is their Stairway.
Fear Factory - Digimortal                     - Too fun to let the style change matter
Judas Priest - Turbo                             - Too fun to let the style change matter

Also Slayer's three most recent albums sometimes get too much jip for my tastes, I can't figure that one out at all.



Oh, and while Dynasty by Kiss isn't up in this list, the song 'Save Your Love' off of it is my favurite Kiss song.

Metallica: St. Anger (they went back to playing aggressive and fast music and, in my book, much better than Load & ReLoad)
Metallica: Death Magnetic (the criticism it has received seems more like an instance of general Metallica bashing - for my money, it's their best album since Justice)
Judas Priest: Turbo (I like their experiments with guitar synths)
Judas Priest: Jugulator & Demolition (Tim Owens does a great job!)
Celtic Frost: Cold Lake (it's really not as miserable as people say)
Celtic Frost: Vanity/Nemesis (for some reason, lumped in with Cold Lake, although the style is completely different - I think it's a pretty good album)
Pestilence: Spheres (I loved it since the first time I heard it)
Atheist: Elements (ditto)
Carcass: Swansong (I quite like it although it's not their best album)

.... and loads more.


Edited by Time Signature - 03 Dec 2011 at 8:58am

Dream Theater - albums six through ten.  In my opinion, they are superior to everything they released before.

UMUR wrote: Kreator - Renewal (people absolutely hated this album when it came out, but I�ve always liked it and it�s probably my favorite Kreator album)./QUOTE] I wholeheartedly agree, the needle nearly went through the record I played it so much! [QUOTE=J-Man]Dream Theater - Octavarium (People love to hate this one, but it's one of my favorite albums of all time) Pain of Salvation - Scarsick (Most folks detest this one... I personally love the controversial lyrics and angsty raw metal style) Metallica - Death Magnetic (While I don't like the few albums before it, I've never understood the hate this one generates) Genesis - And Then There Were Three & Duke (Both of these albums are considered the start of Genesis' pop era, but they are both amazing albums IMO)

Again I completely agree with DT and PoS (but as Jeff knows they were to write one two later that I do detest.)

I adore Genesis, although the day my sister walked into my bedroom proudly holding "Duke" a pop, disco and R 'n' B fanatic saying how good it was, was sadly the last time it saw my turntable.


Edited by Colt - 03 Dec 2011 at 11:25am

Time Signature wrote: Carcass: Swansong

Oh, good shout.

I really like Load and Reload by Metallica.  The Black Album was the wake up call to fans that they were making the transition to hard rock and leaving thrash behind, but Load/Re-load I think did the rock thing better with a darker, more stripped down sound.  Granted, I don't kid myself and know there is some weak stuff on there.

Wilytank wrote: Sunn O))) - almost everything they made.  Let's face it; it's hard to hook yourself on this band, but even harder to unhook yourself.  If you've listened to the band, they're either a cult classic or an annoyance.

This

I also am possibly the only person ever who thinks DT's debut is their best

J-Man wrote: Genesis - And Then There Were Three & Duke (Both of these albums are considered the start of Genesis' pop era, but they are both amazing albums IMO)

I like them, too, and I really don't consider them pop albums at all.

Time Signature wrote: J-Man wrote: Genesis - And Then There Were Three & Duke (Both of these albums are considered the start of Genesis' pop era, but they are both amazing albums IMO) I like them, too, and I really don't consider them pop albums at all.

Yeah, aside from one or two tracks on each, I don't either.

UMUR wrote: J-Man wrote: Triceratopsoil wrote: Wilytank wrote: Sunn O))) - almost everything they made.  Let's face it; it's hard to hook yourself on this band, but even harder to unhook yourself.  If you've listened to the band, they're either a cult classic or an annoyance. This I also am possibly the only person ever who thinks DT's debut is their best You're probably right about that.   ...Amen to that

I actually dig that album quite a bit (the fact that it was released in 1989 also means it's one of the earlier full-blown prog metal albums), but the production is just so shitty that most of my enjoyment is diminished.