Albums You Like, That Everyone Else Seems To Hate

[The Mark of Mark]

Here are my picks.

Lulu - Lou Read & Metallica - I can understand why people don't like it, but don't understand why they hate it.  I really don't know what people were expecting from it (not sure what I was expecting for that matter).  For me its really cool beat poetry backed by cool metal music.

Music From The Elder - Kiss - Another one I'm a little confused about why people seem to hate so much.  I guess the Music is underwhelming for a Kiss album, but a concept album like this seems right down Kiss' alley.

Results May Vary - Limp Bizkit - No, I totally get why people hate this one, and the band in general, but this is one of the only two albums I like by them.  In this album's defense, It was better than Chocolate Starfish.

Flush the Fashion - Alice Cooper - I think it was just people that I knew that hate this album, because it didn't sound like Alice Cooper.  I first heard it when I was 17, and I ate it up.  Of course, in my teenage years (and today for that matter) I'd eat up anything Alice Cooper.

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Lulu is an interesting one as it's far more interesting than the last decade and a half of Metallica's output, and certainly (as Lou Reed would ramble about at times) better than a lot of his most recent material. Overly long? Yes, but a solid and interesting album.

I am biting my tongue on not saying "most people like a lot of hated albums too, it's usually just a sound change/different focus on production and songwriting that makes people doubt newer releases" so I'll skip onto my choices, all of these will be from the last 15 or so years or I'll be here all evening:

Elastica's second album The Menace - admittedly I get why people dislike this, it feels like an album written by a partied out junkie. As it was. But I can relate to that and some songs are just beautiful, with some speed kicked pop oddities with mashed synths exploding in the background.

Therapy? - Shameless - one of the mold albums, it grows. Most of the songs on the album don't have the greatest hooks but somehow the songwriting hits me well these days. Nice production too, but I disliked it at first.

The Wildhearts - Endless, Nameless - for those expecting more epic glam rock...you get an album of white noise and gain. Soundog Babylon, the Dogs D'Amour cover of Heroin, Nurse Maximum...it is often my favourite WH album.

Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah! - it is nowhere near the debut album (a pop classic and something you should know about) but a strong enough album, Paul McCartney, I Don't Feel Like Dancin', The Other Side, I Can't Decide, and Intermission make the album well worth owning. Plus how could you not love the bass? I can go through it all just listening to that.

Clam Abuse - Stop Thinking - this can be said about pretty much every Antiproduct album n'all (not the US late 80s/mid 90s solid US punk band, the later more fun band), but an album written in rehab by ex-Enuff Z'Nuff, ex-Life Sex & Death, and ex-twenty more bands guitarist Alex Kane and The Wildhearts - Ginger Wildheart. An album with topics ranging from driving and getting lost in time, internet dating (in 2000), and with a cover of I Think I Love You. People tend to despise the production and how Alex voice rings out more clearly over Ginger (his fans can be unlikeable and treat him like a deity so...), and that it's not a typical hard rock product from two hard-rock cretins, but damn, it's good.

[Digital Witness]

Oct 22, 2014 10:24:44 GMT -5 @pauledraperously said:

Lulu is an interesting one as it's far more interesting than the last decade and a half of Metallica's output, and certainly (as Lou Reed would ramble about at times) better than a lot of his most recent material. Overly long? Yes, but a solid and interesting album.

I am biting my tongue on not saying "most people like a lot of hated albums too, it's usually just a sound change/different focus on production and songwriting that makes people doubt newer releases" so I'll skip onto my choices, all of these will be from the last 15 or so years or I'll be here all evening:

Elastica's second album The Menace - admittedly I get why people dislike this, it feels like an album written by a partied out junkie. As it was. But I can relate to that and some songs are just beautiful, with some speed kicked pop oddities with mashed synths exploding in the background.

Therapy? - Shameless - one of the mold albums, it grows. Most of the songs on the album don't have the greatest hooks but somehow the songwriting hits me well these days. Nice production too, but I disliked it at first.

The Wildhearts - Endless, Nameless - for those expecting more epic glam rock...you get an album of white noise and gain. Soundog Babylon, the Dogs D'Amour cover of Heroin, Nurse Maximum...it is often my favourite WH album.

Scissor Sisters - Ta-Dah! - it is nowhere near the debut album (a pop classic and something you should know about) but a strong enough album, Paul McCartney, I Don't Feel Like Dancin', The Other Side, I Can't Decide, and Intermission make the album well worth owning. Plus how could you not love the bass? I can go through it all just listening to that.

Clam Abuse - Stop Thinking - this can be said about pretty much every Antiproduct album n'all (not the US late 80s/mid 90s solid US punk band, the later more fun band), but an album written in rehab by ex-Enuff Z'Nuff, ex-Life Sex & Death, and ex-twenty more bands guitarist Alex Kane and The Wildhearts - Ginger Wildheart. An album with topics ranging from driving and getting lost in time, internet dating (in 2000), and with a cover of I Think I Love You. People tend to despise the production and how Alex voice rings out more clearly over Ginger (his fans can be unlikeable and treat him like a deity so...), and that it's not a typical hard rock product from two hard-rock cretins, but damn, it's good.

Ta-Dah! wasn't a terrible album, but it will always live in the shadow of that self-titled debut. Mary is still my jam.

[Eunös ✈]

In Flames "Reroute to Remain" - I think it's a much better album than people give it credit for, Anders vocals have changed a lot from the days of who race and Colony but I don't think it's all bad.

[fuzzywarble, squat cobbler]

Oct 22, 2014 11:05:20 GMT -5 Eunös ✈ said:

In Flames "Reroute to Remain" - I think it's a much better album than people give it credit for, Anders vocals have changed a lot from the days of who race and Colony but I don't think it's all bad.

I think 'Cloud Connected' is one of their best songs. It's one of the few In Flames songs I play on repeat.

[StuntGranny®]

- Metallica "Load" - I'm admittedly a huge Metallica fanboy, but I don't get the hate this album receives. Yes, there are some stinkers ('Thorn Within', 'Ronnie', etc.), but the majority of the songs are great. 'Bleeding Me' and 'Until It Sleeps', for example, are both excellent. I appreciate Metallica having the balls to do something different. I love both bands, but Slayer and AC/DC could afford to do something like this.

- Metallica "St. Anger" - Again, my blind fanboy-ism is at play here, so bear with me. For me, this album is just a beautiful mess. It perfectly reflects the state of the band at that time. I think of it like a dog that's so ugly that you can't help but love it. 'Unnamed Feeling' is one hell of a song that doesn't get enough praise. I will say that they should never let anyone else in the band write the lyrics ever again. While I don't hate the album, some of the lyrics are abysmal. Leave the lyrics to James, fellows.

[4real]

While I doubt everybody hates it the opinion seems to be that Iowa by Slipknot is their weakest.

Which is absolute poppycock! It's them at their best, massively over the top, relentless noise, anthem after anthem, just pure heaviness. I never get tired of it it's just perfect.

[MasonK565]

"The Next Day" by David Bowie

-Easily Bowie's best work in a long time. People will still talk bad about saying he is washed up but that album is amazing. One of my top ten favorite albums of his.

"Plastic Beach" by Gorillaz

A lot of people compare this to the first two albums and dismiss it, which is easy for them because Demon Days was such a hit. But I find this album to have some of the strongest tracks that Gorillaz has made. Damon Albarn is amazing.

"In Utero" by Nirvana

Nevermind is actually my least favorite album by Nirvana. In Utero was so much better.


And a lot of Tom Waits albums. I understand how it is hard for people to get into him but boy do I love him.

[rapidfire187]

ICP - The Great Malenko

[BK From WV]

It's not universally hated but I know some people hate 21st Century Breakdown by Green Day. I think it's a really solid album. It's not as good as American Idiot but I think it's really good. I'm not going to compare it to Dookie or Insomniac because it's different eras of Green Day. Of course, that's another reason people don't like it. It's not like Dookie or Insomniac.

[AFN: Judge Shred]

Oct 22, 2014 12:34:36 GMT -5 MasonK565 said:

"Plastic Beach" by Gorillaz

A lot of people compare this to the first two albums and dismiss it, which is easy for them because Demon Days was such a hit. But I find this album to have some of the strongest tracks that Gorillaz has made. Damon Albarn is amazing.

While I don't think it reaches the highs of the other albums, I think it is the most consistent and overall the best they put out.

Oct 22, 2014 11:48:27 GMT -5 StuntGranny® said:

- Metallica "Load"

- Metallica "St. Anger"

For better or worse, I think Load is the album that perfected pop metal. I love it, my favorite after S&M, but I udnerstand why there is so much hate for it.

St. Anger, the final product is a mess, but some of the Raw tracks sounded really good, then the production killed them.

[Long A, Short A]

Common-Universal Mind Control

[Raskovnik]

Brand New's Daisy. There are two types of Brand New fans, the kind who grew up with Your Favorite Weapon and Deja Entendu, music to help you get through high school, and then the others who got into the band through The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me, which is a heavy, dark, mature album, and completely different from their previous material, which was more tongue-in-cheek and they were wearing their hearts on their sleeves. I'm not saying every Brand New fan is either/or, but I've been around enough to know that's generally how it goes.

Then Daisy came out, and no one knew what to make of it. It was an even further cry from the older material and even the TDGARIM fans were confused. The album title and art alone put people off, with that strange photo of a fox, and that's without mentioning a complete departure from their old sound and themes. It got good reviews from people who weren't fans of the band, but among the fans themselves opinions were pretty split but negative for the most part. It's to the point that when the band plays songs from Daisy some people outright leave the show, which I think is f***ing absurd, especially with how hard it is to get BN tickets, but that's people for you. I love it, though. It's an odd, angry album, and you can't really tell what any of the songs are about with these cryptic, surreal lyrics, but that works in its favor.

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Oct 22, 2014 12:37:47 GMT -5 rapidfire187 said:

ICP - The Great Malenko

C'mon man, everyone likes that one, even non-Juggalos.

Okay, not EVERYONE, but it's probably the most popular Juggalo album.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

I rather enjoy "The Devil's Rain" by the Misfits. Yes, it sounds completely different from anything done with Danzig or Graves, but...why wouldn't it? I can't help but think a lot of the people who complain about it not sounding like the Misfits would have bitched that Jerry was just copying Glenn or Mike if it had sounded like one of the previous albums.

[Ken: The Hero of WWE]

Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. My favorite Modest Mouse album yet a lot of Modest Mouse fans hate it.

[Raskovnik]

Oct 22, 2014 15:20:52 GMT -5 Ken: The Hero of WWE said:

Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. My favorite Modest Mouse album yet a lot of Modest Mouse fans hate it.

The strange thing about that album is it has some of my favorite Modest Mouse songs, like Little Motel, People as Places as People, and Spitting Venom, but as a whole it doesn't really work for me. I feel that way about almost all of their albums though. I think Good News is their most solid and entirely listenable album, but it doesn't have the highest highs like The Lonesome Crowded West does even if I think that album is overlong and hard to listen to all the way through. I guess they're more of a song band to me than an album band.

[Ultimo Gallos]

Ramones-Acid Eaters

Even with hardcore diehard Ramones fans,they hate this album of nothing but covers. I love it.

Bad Religion-Into the unknown

Sure it is nothing like their other work. But I really enjoy their attempt at changing their sound.

[AFN: Judge Shred]

Oct 22, 2014 15:20:52 GMT -5 Ken: The Hero of WWE said:

Modest Mouse's We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. My favorite Modest Mouse album yet a lot of Modest Mouse fans hate it.

It is my favorite as well, and I had listened to them for years before that.


One of mine, "The Grey Race" by Bad Religion (and all the major label records following it). That album was smart, catchy, and awesome. I love the old stuff, but the major label stuff was more varied and interesting. Sure it didn't feel like BR sonically, and it didn't have Mr. Brett, but dammit they were all really good. The Grey Race takes the most flak, or did back then at least because it was the first. But I love it top to bottom and as a teen it expanded my vocabulary by about 30 words.

[Glitch]

The Glorious Burden by Iced Earth. People really crap on anything on Iced Earth done by Ripper. He is not Barlow but the man did do a good job if you look at the album objectively.