A bit of craic in this time of oil rises and all kinds of bollocks
Completely subjective but which are the best and worst outputs form the "bigger" bands, studio albums only
I'll start with a few M's
Megadeth
Best - RIP
Worst - Risk
Metallica
Best - MOP
Worst - St. Anger
Motorhead
Best - Ace Of Spades
Worst - Hammered
Let the handbags begin
Load and reload for me are worse than St. Anger especially when you take into account the bands image during the late 90's.
Maybe controversial but Risk is not Megadeths worst record. I'd take it any day over Thirteen, Super collider etc. Megadeth's output post reunion is just different types of scutter. But Risk has a tune or two on it even if it doesn't really sound like Megadeth.
And no, the Loads are better than St Anger, even the fact that Outlaw Torn is there validates that statement.
Hard to pick a worst with some bands because you usually hit a point where you just give up on them, if they stick around long enough. Has anyone outside of Megadeth actually listened to all the post-Countdown albums all the way through? Is that even possible?
Morbid Angel
Best - BATS
Worst - Heretic (Ilud is fucking shite but Heretic has nothing memorable at all)
Kreator
Best - Renewal
Worst - Cause for Conflict or anything thereafter
AC/DC
Best - Powerage
Worst - Flick of the Switch
Maiden
Best = Powerslave
Worst = Virtual X1
AC/DC
Best - Powerage
Worst - Power Up (up until the early 00's it was Flick Of The Switch, which was replaced by Stiff Upper Lip, then Rock Or Bust then by Power Up)
Iron Maiden
Best - Piece of Mind
Worst - the latest one that I call Shitju.
Judas Priest -
Best - Sad Wings of Destiny (it changes a lot)
Worst - Demolition or Nostradamus (hated both on first listen)
Saxon
Best - Denim & Leather
Worst - Innocence / Rock / Destiny (I've no time for any of these)
Quote from: Bürggermeister on March 09, 2026, 11:56:05 AMHard to pick a worst with some bands because you usually hit a point where you just give up on them, if they stick around long enough. Has anyone outside of Megadeth actually listened to all the post-Countdown albums all the way through? Is that even possible?
I think The System Has Failed was the last I listened to... The hardest part of this is thinking of bands that I have listened to all their studio output. Need to check My Dying Bride and Candlemass but I might still be missing an album or two of theirs...
Judas Priest -
Best - Sad Wings of Destiny
Worst - Ram It Down
Saxon
Best - Strong Arm of The Law
Worst - Destiny
I wish Ram It Down were Priest's worst :laugh:
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 09, 2026, 12:33:41 PMI wish Ram It Down were Priest's worst :laugh:
For some reason Ram It Down just doesn't click, that drum sound and I can't forgive the pointless cover of Johnny B. Goode
Death
Best - Human.
Worst - Leprosy.
Mastodon
Best - Leviathan.
Worst - Hushed and Grim.
Rush
Best - A Farewell to Kings.
Worst - Caress of Steel.
Revocation
Best - Netherheaven.
Worst - Chaos of Forms.
Nevermore
Best - This Godless Endeavour.
Worst - Enemies of Reality.
Manowar
Best - Battle Hymns
Worst - The Lord Of Steel
WASP
Best - The Headless Children
Worst - Helldorado
Quote from: The Heretic on March 09, 2026, 01:07:00 PMQuote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 09, 2026, 12:33:41 PMI wish Ram It Down were Priest's worst :laugh:
For some reason Ram It Down just doesn't click, that drum sound and I can't forgive the pointless cover of Johnny B. Goode
The only thing on Ram It Down that "clicks" is the drums, fucking awful sounding stuff :abbath:
Quote from: Ducky on March 09, 2026, 01:14:26 PMRush
Best - A Farewell to Kings.
Worst - Caress of Steel.
I love Caress of Steel! I'd say their worst is Roll the Bones or the debut. Debut isn't even that bad, just a bit too standard 70s rock
Exodus
Best- Tempo of the Damned
Worst - Force of Habit
Opeth
Best - Still Life
Worst - Pale Communion
Strapping Young Lad
Best - Alien
Worst - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
How is Leprosy considered the worst????
Holy mother and the sweet baby Jesus.
Metallica
Best - Puppets/Lightning. Impossible to pick.
Worst - 72 Seasons. It's just awful.
St Anger is a band lost and operating on self help and prayers.
72 Seasons is just another collection of riffs not songs.
I understand the same can be said for any of the last few not this one annoys me the most.
Slayer
Best - RIB. Like a sonic razor.
Worst - Repentless. Stop shooting you cunt.
Emperor
Best - In The Nightside Eclipse
Worst - Prometheus. Not wacky enough for a solo album from Ishaan and not strong enough to be a classic.
Blood Mountain or The Hunter are Mastodon's worst. BM at best is not quite Crack the Skye, and The Hunter at best is not quite Once More Round the Sun. Emperor of Sand has almost the same relation to Hushed & Grim.
Slayer
Best: South Of Heaven, their most varied, skilful and bedt sounding.
Worst: Undisputed Attitude (if the covers album doesn't count then Diabolus In Musica).
Metallica: Ride The Lightning, it's not even close.
Worst: St. Anger of course.
Anthrax: Persistence Of Time, maturity suited them.
Worst: Stomp 442, just appalling.
Megadeth: Rust In Peace, their best line up peaked first time out.
Worst: Supercollider - when Megadeth reminds you of Bon Jovi, you know it's all over.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 09, 2026, 05:10:24 PMBlood Mountain or The Hunter are Mastodon's worst. BM at best is not quite Crack the Skye, and The Hunter at best is not quite Once More Round the Sun. Emperor of Sand has almost the same relation to Hushed & Grim.
I'd agree until the final comparison. Emperor of Sand is infinitely better.
Quote from: Circlepit on March 09, 2026, 05:04:41 PMEmperor
Best - In The Nightside Eclipse
Worst - Prometheus. Not wacky enough for a solo album from Ishaan and not strong enough to be a classic.
Prometheus, for me, is by far the best album by them. But im aware I may be alone in thinking this. Its honestly the only emperor album ive listened to frequently in the last decade. Utterly adore how bizzare the guitar playing is. The short repetitive phrases in tongue of fire, the undulating trem picked lows in wordless chamber, the wonky rythem in empty. Love it. His solo stuff however, never did a thing for me. It all feels like a pop version of prometheus minus the agression, where the songwriting never quite clicks.
Id second folks calling out the hunter. That was one of the most disappointing album releases for me, I was so hyped and I remember my seething rage on release day as I was expecting more crack the skye :laugh:
Oops double post!
Emperor of Sand is infinitely better than BM and The Hunter anyway. Maybe time'll prove me wrong, but personally can only see Hushed & Grim growing on people.
Ya, I wouldn't disagree with you there about hushed n grim. Only drawback is the run time imo, they coulda trimmed it. Some great tunes on there. Even bothered my hole to learn how to play one of em, lets just say I wouldnt be arsed learning anything off the hunter ;)
Darkthrone
Best: Goatlord/Funeral Moon
Worst: I mean..pick anything from Plaguewielder up until about Old Star
Carcass:
Best: Symphonies of Sickness
Worst: Swansong
Emperor Of Sand is so, so boring.
Take out Blood Mountain and I think they their discography is excellent.
The Hunter and Once More Round The Sun almost feel like a double album that were released separately to me. Love them.
Nothing wrong with Blood Mountain apart from Bladecatcher, that's just annoying. I love The Hunter, it might be more catchty and commercial than their other material but that doesn't make it bad like, say, Youthanasia.
Mastodon's best: Crack The Skye. Took a while to click but it's been a favourite since. I love the progginess of it, it's the first time they really stretched their musical wings.
Their worst: Emperor Of Sand, as Circlepit said it's just boring. Hushed And Grim wouldn't be far behind it in that regard either.
Quote from: Carnage on March 09, 2026, 07:19:46 PMNothing wrong with Blood Mountain apart from Bladecatcher, that's just annoying. I love The Hunter, it might be more catchty and commercial than their other material but that doesn't make it bad like, say, Youthanasia.
Mastodon's best: Crack The Skye. Took a while to click but it's been a favourite since. I love the progginess of it, it's the first time they really stretched their musical wings.
Their worst: Emperor Of Sand, as Circlepit said it's just boring. Hushed And Grim wouldn't be far behind it in that regard either.
Exactly. It's a chore to get through. It out me off them completely, never bothered with Hushed And Grin.
Faith No More
Best - That's a hard one to call. It's either TRT or KFAD.... These 2 outshine Angel Dust for me. Nostalgia plays a major part in why I love The Real Thing. I'd never heard anything like it before.
KFAD has brilliant song writing.
Worst - Sol Invictus. The fact that it was Faith No More made it exciting at the time but it's one I rarely reach for nowadays.
Alice In Chains
Best - Dirt (Jar Of Flies so close to the top spot too)
Worst - The Devil Put Dinosaurs Here
Faith No More
Best - Angel Dust (The Real Thing a very close second)
Worst - Album Of The Year
Paradise Lost
Best - Draconian Times
Worst - Medusa
Type O Negative
Best - Bloody Kisses
Worst - Dead Again
Suicidal Tendencies
Best - How Will I Laugh Tomorrow
Worst - World Gone Mad
So many big bands I've no idea what their worst album is, 'cos I completely checked out X number of rehashes or risible experiments ago. Choosing would be like pissing on lumps of shite stuck to the bowl and seeing which one slides off first.
I've added an overrated/underrated category.
Black Sabbath
Best: Sabotage
Worst: Forbidden (although it's not as bad as folk say)
Overrated: Sabbath Bloody Sabbath, but I should also add that a bewildering amount of people seem to regard the Tony Martin albums as lost classics.
Underrated: Dehumanizer
Iron Maiden
Best: A Matter Of Life and Death or Somewhere In Time
Worst: Killers
Overrated: Piece Of Mind
Underrated: The X Factor
Metallica
Best: Ride The Lightning
Worst: St. Anger (duh)
Overrated: Kill 'Em All
Underrated: Load
Judas Priest
Best: Painkiller or Stained Class (depends on the day)
Worst: Ram It Down
Overrated: Killing Machine/HBFL
Underrated: Sin After Sin or Jugulator
Cathedral
Best: The Carnival Bizarre
Worst: Caravan Beyond Redemption
Overrated: The Ethereal Mirror
Underrated: Endtyme
Megadeth
Best: Youthanasia
Worst: Endgame
Overrated: Rust In Peace
Underrated: Killing Is My Business
AC/DC
Best: Let There Be Rock
Worst: There isn't an obvious one. Can't recall being too impressed with Stiff Upper Lip though
Overrated: Again, no obvious contender
Underrated: Ballbreaker
Thin Lizzy
Best: Thunder And Lightning
Worst: Shades Of A Blue Orphanage maybe?
Overrated: No obvious contender here. I could say Jailbreak because folk tend to cite that album and ignore the rest of the discography, but no album with 'Emerald' on it as the closer can really be criticised that much.
Underrated: Vagabonds Of The Western World or Chinatown
Motorhead
Best: Another Perfect Day
Worst: I wasn't too impressed with Rock N Roll but it's been ages since I listened to it.
Overrated: No obvious contender again
Underrated: Bomber
Quote from: Trev on March 09, 2026, 04:53:15 PMQuote from: Ducky on March 09, 2026, 01:14:26 PMRush
Best - A Farewell to Kings.
Worst - Caress of Steel.
I love Caress of Steel! I'd say their worst is Roll the Bones or the debut. Debut isn't even that bad, just a bit too standard 70s rock
Exodus
Best- Tempo of the Damned
Worst - Force of Habit
Opeth
Best - Still Life
Worst - Pale Communion
Strapping Young Lad
Best - Alien
Worst - Heavy as a Really Heavy Thing
Actually I'll take Caress back, and out Presto in as their worst. Bastille Day is a decent tune and nothing on Presto comes close. I think the only song on Presto I halfway like is The Pass. And sure the riff is basically a lame re-write of Witch Hunt.
Manilla Road
Best: Open The Gates
Worst Metal/Circus Maximus
Only going with bands that I've heard all their stuff, so that rules out the likes of the Big 4.
Maiden
Best: Somewhere in Time
Worst: No Prayer for the Dying
The Crown
Best: Deathrace King
Worst: Death is not Dead
Kreator
Best: Terrible Certainty
Worst: Renewal
Amorphis
Best: Tales from the Thousand Lakes
Worst: Tuonela
Suicidal
Best: Lights Camera Revolution
Worst: World Gone Mad
Helloween
Best: Walls of Jericho
Worst: Chameleon
Interesting to note the amount of dislike for Mastodon's "Blood Mountain" - I rate it higher than "Crack The Skye".
Mastodon
Best: "Leviathan"
Worst: "Empire Of Sand" - but I have barely listened to "Hushed & Grim".
AC/DC
Best: "Let There Be Rock"
Worst: "Black Ice"
Metallica
Best: "Master Of Puppets"
Worst: "St. Anger" - haven't listened to any Metallica albums beyond this.
Thin Lizzy
Best: "Jailbreak"
Worst: "Shades Of A Blue Orphanage"
Queens Of The Stone Age
Best: "QOTSA"
Worst: "Era Vulgaris"
Black Flag
Best: "My War"
Worst: "What The..."
Elder
Best: "Lore"
Worst: "Innate Passage"
Electric Wizard
Best: "Come My Fantics..."
Worst: "Wizard Bloody Wizard"
High On Fire
Best: "Snakes For The Divine"
Worst: "Electric Messiah" - but the thing with High On Fire is that I genuinely think that they have not released an objectively bad record so calling "Electric Messiah" their worst feels off.
Surprised at the dislike for Blood Mountain too. I'd have it not far behind Leviathan (and it has a better production too).
I always thought The Hunter was their attempt to make something commercial. There's one or two tunes on it but it's surface level stuff, nothing with any true staying power.
Blood Mountain is grand, Bladecatcher aside. It just sits between Leviathan and Crack The Skye, their greatest achievements, which is an unfortunate place to be. Nothing after CTS has done anything for me, fierce dull songs going down all over the shop.
I'd probably put The Hunter as their worst. I rate Hushed And Grim very highly, which seems to put me in a minority on here at least.
I haven't heard all bands outputs and if it's clearly in their shit/modern era i haven't heard it so it doesn't count.
Eg
Slayer
Best: live undead
Worst: south of heaven
Overrated: reign in blood.
I have only heard single songs post-south of heaven....
Metallica
Best: puppets
Worst: black
Burzum
Best: HLTO
Worst: fallen
COF
Best: dusk
Worst: midian
Maiden
Best: the song Wasted Years
Worst: lot of competition here
D666
Best: Unchain
Worst: wildfire
Mgla
Best: whtn
Worst: exercises
Malthusian
Best: first demo
Worst: debut album
Mourning Beloveth
Best: a disease for the ages
Worst: rust
Primordial
Best: spirit
Worst: redemption
Dead Can Dance
Best: spleen
Worst: spirit chaser
DI6
Best: nada
Worst: all pigs must die
Steely Dan
Best: scam
Worst: countdown
Ulver
Best: nattens
Worst: blood inside
I will stop now as this could go on all night and I need to get up and check on lambs in the morning :abbath:
Slough Feg
Best - Twilight Of The Idols
Worst - Digital Resistance
Seen as how I was listening to em today
Cannibal Corpse
Best: Kill.
Worst: Gallery of Suicide.
Despite a string of more recent bland albums, I think GoS is prob the most forgettable of the lot. From skin to liquid is class but the rest is just them plodding along imo.
Skeletal domain is prob my favourite personally, but Kill is a fantastically consistent record from start to finish. The old school stuff is ofc, great, but its hard for me to ignore how tight and consistent the playing is on the likes of kill.
QuoteBest: Kill.
Worst: Gallery of Suicide.
Nonsense
Cannibal Corpse - Best = First Four
Worst - Take your pick after Bloodthirst
Kill is a savage album but the albums 2 and 3 are another level.
Ill agree to disagree on the best ones so! ;) I discovered em somewhere around the wretched spawn release so retroactively absorbed the chris barnes era stuff. Theres alot to love there, and certainly the early albums moved the genre forward massively, so im conflicted. It almost seems like I should have done two lists, one for each era of the band :laugh:
Some interesting lists, especially around Iron Maiden, Slayer, Cannibal Corpse, Death
Hear 'n Aid
Best - Hear 'n Aid (An All-Star Album For Famine Relief)
Worst - Hear 'n Aid (An All-Star Album For Famine Relief)
Quote from: Jward on March 12, 2026, 09:40:56 AMHear 'n Aid
Best - Hear 'n Aid (An All-Star Album For Famine Relief)
Worst - Hear 'n Aid (An All-Star Album For Famine Relief)
:laugh: :laugh:
Quote from: Jward on March 12, 2026, 09:40:56 AMHear 'n Aid
Best - Hear 'n Aid (An All-Star Album For Famine Relief)
Worst - Hear 'n Aid (An All-Star Album For Famine Relief)
FFS, John... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Gonna have to dig out the 12" now for an ol' listen.
Quote from: jobrok1 on March 12, 2026, 12:22:36 PMQuote from: Jward on March 12, 2026, 09:40:56 AMHear 'n Aid
Best - Hear 'n Aid (An All-Star Album For Famine Relief)
Worst - Hear 'n Aid (An All-Star Album For Famine Relief)
FFS, John... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Gonna have to dig out the 12" now for an ol' listen.
I have Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" single
We'd have some night, bai!
All we need is that dodgy Swedish one Joey Tempest did... :laugh:
I kind of agree St Anger isn't Metallica's worst. Just from the fact it generates some entertainment in terms of, 'I genuinely can't believe how bad this is'. Every album after that generated absolutely zero feeling at all. Just completely dead music.
I've said this before on here, but Blood Mountain is awesome. Second behind Leviathan for me. I wonder why it doesn't hit for some people.
Soundgarden
Best: Badmotorfinger
Worst: Prob King Animal, though even it's not bad
Faith No More
Best: The Real Thing
Worst: Sol Invictus
Death
Best: Symbolic
Worst: Spiritual Healing
Motley Crue
Best: Shout at the Devil
Worst: Generation Swine
Husker Du
Best: Zen Arcade
Worst: Candy Apple Grey
Fugazi
Best: 13 Songs
Worst: End Hits
Foo Fighters
Best: Either Nevermind or GI
Worst: The rest
Spiritual Healing? ??? Is that a case of it just being the least best Death record?
Quote from: Thorn on March 12, 2026, 07:47:09 PMSpiritual Healing? ??? Is that a case of it just being the least best Death record?
Yeah. I mean in fairness, Soundgarden, Death, and Husker Du are all odd choices for this in that none of them really have any bad albums...
EDIT: actually add Fugazi to that list as well. Wtf was I thinking
I literally couldn't do Death. I don't even think there's one I listen to less than any of the others anymore.
Sepultura
Best: Beneath the Remains
Worst: Roorback
The album that definitively put me off checking any further Greene fronted stuff for years, which it turns out was a pity.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 12, 2026, 08:47:27 PMI literally couldn't do Death. I don't even think there's one I listen to less than any of the others anymore.
Sepultura
Best: Beneath the Remains
Worst: Roorback
The album that definitively put me off checking any further Greene fronted stuff for years, which it turns out was a pity.
Yeah Roorback wasn't great. Thankfully Andreas & Paulo came up with some absolutely savage stuff after.
Death is easy.
Best: Leprosy - the album that defines death metal for me. That opening riff is so heavy.
Worst: The Sound Of Perseverance - a return to the meandering nonsense of ITP (which isn't far behind it TBH) and Schuldiner's voice just wasn't there at that point. Unlistenable.
Quote from: Black Shepherd Carnage on March 12, 2026, 08:47:27 PMI literally couldn't do Death. I don't even think there's one I listen to less than any of the others anymore.
Sepultura
Best: Beneath the Remains
Worst: Roorback
The album that definitively put me off checking any further Greene fronted stuff for years, which it turns out was a pity.
Roots is far and away their weakest. Roorback isn't one of their best but it does have its moments.
I'd put Roots second worst.
Opeth
Best: Might have to go Still Life, but they have a few great records tbf.
Worst: Heritage, not because of the style change, the songs just aren't good enough.
Trouble
Best: Psalm 9
Worst: Plastic Green Head - still good, though I never listened to the post-90's stuff.
Quote from: Carnage on March 12, 2026, 09:22:48 PMDeath is easy.
Best: Leprosy - the album that defines death metal for me. That opening riff is so heavy.
Worst: The Sound Of Perseverance - a return to the meandering nonsense of ITP (which isn't far behind it TBH) and Schuldiner's voice just wasn't there at that point. Unlistenable.
I'll say it before and say it again - Bill Andrews' playing ruins Leprosy for me. Lacks the technicality that followed him, or the feral energy that preceded.
Spiritual Healing is ahead of it for me due the sonic gold of Murphy's leads vs. Rozz's "look Ma, I did another dive bomb".
TSoP was my favourite for a long time. Bit unweildy in places, but oft, that playing.
Ducky, I love you but Leprosy is fucking flawless. What Andrews does is exactly right for those songs. He's a far more capable drummer than Leprosy suggests, but he got it bang on for the times.
I was thinking about this today and the interesting thing I found with so many bands is that it's hard to pick the best album from a long standing band, as their golden era will likely have yielded a few contenders, but likewise, it's hard to pick the worst offender once things go to shit. In most cases it seems, when the magic is gone, it's really fucking gone.
Imagine being Metallica, Megadeth, Anthrax etc. and being tethered to a specific style and sound that you couldn't give a flying fuck about any more. Imagine the pulling teeth process of trying to come up with riffs when everything you play is so uninspiring! When you get one good riff or section it kind of builds a momentum and energy of its own that carries the process forward, but think of poor oul Kirk listening back to seven thousand shit riffs he's recorded on his phone, scrambling for one good idea. Just one! That's not too much to ask, is it? IS IT????
Imagine what's is like for MegaDave, thinking everything he puts out is the a best thing in the world and we are just too stupid to make him bigger than Metallica.
They all had their chance to break free.
Metallica after Load/Reload.
Anthrax could have kept the Bush train rolling after getting it back on track with WCFYO.
Mustaine should have just gone solo instead of resurrecting Megadeth after his hand injury recovery.
I think the reaction to St Anger impacted Metallica so hard that they were scared back to thrash evermore. I remember the press at the time of Death Magnetic, Rick Rubin had been hired as producer (ditching Bob Rock) and he was saying in interviews that he was trying to get them back in the headspace of Master of Puppets so they could write songs that sounded like it. What a completely uninspired, uninformed bullshit piece of advice. Probably contributed to ruining them for life. Speaking of has-beens, Rick Rubin is the producer version of the washed up bands mentioned.
Quote from: Mooncat on March 16, 2026, 03:24:11 PMRubin had been hired as producer (ditching Bob Rock) and he was saying in interviews that he was trying to get them back in the headspace of Master of Puppets so they could write songs that sounded like it. What a completely uninspired, uninformed bullshit piece of advice. Probably contributed to ruining them for life. Speaking of has-beens, Rick Rubin is the producer version of the washed up bands mentioned.
He did the exact same thing with Sabbath, forcing them to pretend it was 1970 again. Apparently Geezer fucking hated working with him, and a few different bands have said the same. Amazing he still gets work really
Yeah apparently he barely shows up to sessions anymore. Just rocks up once or twice, has a listen, give some direction, then fucks off again. There was a funny story about Slipknot, who were so frustrated by his absence, that they thought about cheekily listing him as something like 'assistant producer' on the album.
Quote from: Mooncat on March 16, 2026, 04:23:10 PMYeah apparently he barely shows up to sessions anymore. Just rocks up once or twice, has a listen, give some direction, then fucks off again. There was a funny story about Slipknot, who were so frustrated by his absence, that they thought about cheekily listing him as something like 'assistant producer' on the album.
They should have...
He completely lost the run of himself after doing the Johnny Cash albums.
Give me any Death album over Scream Bloody Gore. Not to say that it's bad, just inferior.
Quote from: jobrok1 on March 16, 2026, 05:50:55 PMHe completely lost the run of himself after doing the Johnny Cash albums.
He never had a run to begin with, he had the carny gift of self promotion and really good engineers.
Ya, total fuckin spoofer from the getgo.
Flotsam & Jetsam
Best - Doomsday for the Deceiver. Not just their best, but I'd say the best debut from an 80s US thrash band
Worst - Ugly Noise
Still think it's an absolutely shit band name though
Quote from: Trev on March 17, 2026, 03:41:18 PMFlotsam & Jetsam
Best - Doomsday for the Deceiver. Not just their best, but I'd say the best debut from an 80s US thrash band
Worst - Ugly Noise
Still think it's an absolutely shit band name though
I could think of at least.... oooh... a million worse though.
Quote from: Mooncat on March 16, 2026, 03:24:11 PMSpeaking of has-beens, Rick Rubin is the producer version of the washed up bands mentioned.
Quote from: jobrok1 on March 16, 2026, 05:50:55 PMHe completely lost the run of himself after doing the Johnny Cash albums.
Quote from: open face surgery on March 17, 2026, 03:31:10 PMYa, total fuckin spoofer from the getgo.
Henry Rollins has suggested/speculated over the years that Rick Rubin may have inadvertently been the reason that Rollins and his flatmate, Joe Cole, were held up at gunpoint outside their gaff with Cole being murdered by the thieves.
Rubin turned up at Rollins' gaff, which was in a shittier/more dangerous part of LA, to listen to a pressing of "The End Of Silence" and discuss working with Hank in the future. Rubin parked his Rolls Royce outside the house and had a conversation on a mobile phone at the porch for several minutes.
Rollins reckons that word got around after Rubin left that a rich "rock star" (Rollins) and an actor (Cole - who was nothing more than a bit player and erstwhile Rollins Ban roadie) were living in the area. Rollins even wrote in the particular day's entry of his journal that he reckoned someone in the neighbourhood was going to get the wrong idea and trouble was coming.
A few days later it all came to pass.
On that note;
Rollins Band
Best: "Weight"
Worst: "Nice" (but it does have "Whats The Matter, Man?" on it)
Suffocation.
Best - Pierced from Within.
Worst - Breeding the Spawn.
The production on the latter is unforgivably bad. Sure the boys have basically re-recorder the entire thing at this stage.