A new list to rip to shreds: Maxim's 30 Worst Albums of all Time.

not really, just JOKING around as usual do u see blah blah...

Otherwise, like Alex said, these are all quite easy targets. I mean, c'mon, who's gonna jump to the defense of a Yanni/John Tesh album or a Leonard friggin Nimoy album? Sheesh.

and they spent months hyping "Yellow Ledbetter" and then they DIDN'T put it on the friggin' record! What was up with THAT!

blurbs still are sorta fun tho.

Well, not this Nimoy album anyway. But The Touch of Leonard Nimoy is absolutely sublime. His version of "I Think It's Going to Rain Today," makes me cry. That does not diminish your point, however. This list ranges from easy targets to just plain nonsense. You think anyone on the staff of Maxim has ever even listened to Onobox? Or is it just funny and cool to dismiss Yoko Ono's entire career by sticking her collected works on some idiotic "worst of" list? (To be fair, I've never read Maxim. But I'm pretty sure it sucks.)

If I Were a Carpenter is terrific, and includes my favorite Sonic Youth song ever -- "Superstar." And plenty of other records on here are just fine.

The whole damned list is a pretty easy target.

To me, hating music is a non-starter.

I don't know if it's on that album, but that Bilbo Baggins song is off the hook.

"No, here at Maxim we prefer to remember the late Karen Carpenter just the way she was—on her knees in the kitchen, face-down in the dog food bowl."

anyway i still think lad-mag music reviews (as opposed to hit-pieces) generally have a less rockist and more lifestyle outlook in the u.s., whatever sinkah's impressions of the english ones are.

Michael Jackson - HIStory
Poison - Look What the Cat Dragged In ...
Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
Ace of Base - The Sign
Ricky Martin - Ricky Martin ...
Hanson - Middle of Nowhere
Debbie Gibson - Electric Youth /
Tiffany - Hold on Old Friend's Hand

have they never read american psycho?

If I'm not mistaken, this album has both Aerosmith's take on "Come Together" and Alice Cooper's rendition of "Because," both of which should redeem the album from such a list.

grrrrr.

is this the american maxim ?
either way somebody tell the twunts that diaz with her
fingernail in her mouth isn't sexi *at all*.

that pic of her twatted coming out of a niteclub
that was sexier.

I'm guessing that's because, like Tom said above, this list is all about flattering the magazine's readership.....who invariably own albums by all the "artists" you just mentioned. It's meaningless.

im just wary of chuck's self-congratulatory let's-hyberbolically-enthuse-over-what-we-imagine-others-think-is-utterly-disposable shtick, is all. it's like he's adopted a certain rhetoric for the sake of argument (and i wouldn't argue its usefulness in a certain context) and after he's won the argument he just. won't. stop.

Same question for Metal Machine Music, The Flowers of Romance, ..

..and Jim Capaldi's "Daughter of the Night" , Elizabeth Barraclough's "Hi", Trickster's "Find the Lady", ..etc...

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I liked Monster. It is what it is. I traded an old roommated Siamese Dream for it and have never looked back since.

i prefer comic sans though

btw my browser overrides your helvetica font also

NOTHING BUT SWEET BEAUTIFUL ARIAL hehe ;-)

also btw my html book says tt stands for 'typewriter text'

oh wait

we used to talk about this lots back in the infancy of ilm.

And what about Mandy Moore "So Real", "The Flying Nun" soundtrack, and "Kids Bop".

i still like this review.

So much of Maxim's list consists of the most routine targets of the rock critics - Milli Vanilli, Hanson, Air Supply (#10 on Blender's "50 Worst Artists Of All Time"), Ricky Martin, Debbie Gibson, Tiffany. The albums by Dylan, the Stones and R.E.M. date from after they "sold out" or lost relevance.

Many critics really don't see grunge as actually relevent nowadays, so Pearl Jam is no tough target either.

Though he really does not attack tough targets, the intelligent amateur "janitor-x" (see "http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/cm/member-glance/-/A2AXIWOCL9XOMM/ref=cm_aya_ac_longdesc/102-0267016-6736903?see-more-desc=1") does realise how irrelevant people today understand these super-soft targets of Blender and Maxim to be. "janitor-x" believes the idolisation of the 1960s to be quite unrealistic and a betrayal of the roots of rock music. For him, the worst artists ever are U2, the Beatles, the Cure, R.E.M. (all eras), Rage Against The Machine, the Smiths, the Clash and Pavement. His views on music might be seen as rather narrow, but his intellignce betrays popular assumptions about metals fans - for one thing.

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gangstagangsta, January 12, 2001
Reviewer: A music fan

I'll say I was impressed with them's collection of songs. Perhaps the best gangsta rap album of 1965 this one must be picked up. the beats are so fat. Its all over now fet. Van Morrison is so phat. peace out ya'll

None of these albums are bad.

I remember liking <i>Fore!</i> "Doin it all for my bayyba" That song is funny.

I mean Fore!

All this talk about Conor Oberst upthread. That’s someone who fits the “Whose artistic legacies have declined in the past ten years?” thread like a glove.

There has never been a good “Worst Albums Ever” list.

Wow, what a dumb list. I mean it's Maxim, but still.