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Old 22-11-2009, 14:51
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Best:
Lady GaGa: The Fame
Sugababes:Catfights and Spotlights
Rihanna: GGGB
Micheal Jackson: Off the Wall
Janet Jackson: Control & Rhythm Nation
Madonna: Ray of Light & Confessions On A Dancefloor
TLC: Fan Mail
Kanye West: College Drop Out & 808s and & Heartbreaks
Usher: Confessions

Complications:
Supremes
Dusty Springfield
The Beatles
Ella Fitzgereld
Kate Bush
Andy Williams
Madonna

Worst:
The Saturdays: Chasing Lights - Repetitve boring electro pop drone
Leona Lewis: Spirit - Samey sounding predictable ballad tracks
Beyonce: I Am Sasha Fierce - Four good songs (Disappear, Sweet Dreams, Single Ladies, Radio) the rest OTT, and boring
Pussycat Dolls: PCD - A bunch of low rate covers

I have more, I just can't be bothered to think of them right now.....

What are your best and Worst albums?
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Old 22-11-2009, 15:07
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Best -

Wordshaker (The Saturdays), plenty of choice for singles. Majority of the tracks are far better than the lead single for it. The title track and 'Not Good Enough' are belters.

Battlefield (Jordin Sparks). Love every song. How this didn't get top five is just frustrating.

The Fray (The Fray). Beautiful songs. 'Never Say Never' is highly recommended.

I Am....Sasha Fierce (Beyonce). Love this album. The five UK singles and 'Smash Into You' are fantastic. Prefer the "I Am" section, though.

Worst -

Evacuate The Dancefloor (Cascada). I was hoping that with the single being a bit different from their previous stuff, the album would be good. Unfortunately it wasn't. Same old tripe as the last album.

Relapse (Eminem). Big let down compared to his older stuff.
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Old 22-11-2009, 15:13
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Best

RIOT - Paramore
Brand New Eyes - Paramore
Chasing Lights - The Saturdays
Wordshaker - The Saturdays
Autobiography - Ashlee Simpson
Bittersweet World - Ashlee Simpson

Worst

Spirit - Leona Lewis
Confessions - Usher
Dangerously In Love - Beyonce
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Old 22-11-2009, 16:03
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Best -

Too many to list but here's a selection:
All of Britney Spears' albums
Both The Saturdays' albums (Chasing Lights and Wordshaker)
Pussycat Dolls - PCD and Doll Domination (seriously underrated album IMO)
Sugababes - Change/Overloaded: The Singles Collection
Little Boots - Hands (my current favourite)
and many more...

Worst -
Aqua - Aquarium - plastic, generic music
Sugababes - Catfights and Spotlights - not up to their usual standard and style IMO
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Old 22-11-2009, 18:45
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Best:

Good Girl Gone Bad- Rihanna (every single on this album could have been a single... Oh I think it was lol)
Angels with dirty faces- Sugababes
I've been expecting you- Robbie Williams
Where we belong & A different beat- Boyzone
Playing my game- Lene Marlin
No angel- Dido
Read my lips- Sophie Ellis Bextor
Fallen- Evanescence
Greatest- Duran duran
Hot space & Sheer heart attack- Queen
Westlife- Westlife
Toto IV- Toto
The a list- a1
The marshall mathers lp- Eminem
The final- Wham!

I can't think of any bad ones at the sec

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Old 22-11-2009, 18:55
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Best: Disintegration ~ The Cure
Worst: Bring It On ~ Gomez
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Old 22-11-2009, 18:56
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Best:
Lady Gaga - The Fame

Worst:
The Saturdays - Chasing Lights - a album mostly full of rubbish
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Old 22-11-2009, 19:03
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Best -

Beyoncé - I Am..Sasha Fierce and B'Day
Shakira - She Wolf
Mariah - The Emancipation Of Mimi


I can't think of any bad ones.
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Old 23-11-2009, 02:20
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Not including compilations and greatest hits


Best album I bought knowing it was going to be great:

The Queen is Dead (The Smiths)


Worst album I have bought thinking it was going to be great:

Summer days and summer nights (Beach Boys)




Best album I bought without knowing anything about it first:

Valley of the damned (Dragonforce)


Worst album I bought without knowing anything about it first:

The others (The others)



Best album I hadn't heard before and given to me unexpectedly as a gift:

Flood (They might be giants)


Worst album I hadn't heard before and given to me as a gift:

I haven't been given many so this is a small list but it has to be "A night at the opera" by Queen (sorry queen fans but other than BR and the prophet's song I think this album is poor)
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Old 24-11-2009, 07:18
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I’ve bought/have been given too many good albums to list here.

But……..

The worst album I’ve ever bought was Bigger! Better! Faster! More! By 4 Non Blondes. I bought the album after listening to their chart single What’s Up which I thought was brilliant (the slower version on the CD single was even better). The album was complete and utter rubbish. I can listen to most music irrespective of the genre it belongs to but that was just dire. I gave it away to a friend (LOL!) after playing it about twice. He said it was rubbish too. God Shuffled His Feet by the Crash Test Dummies was another album I thought was crap.
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Old 24-11-2009, 07:26
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Best album I've bought is:

And Then (Joe)

Worst album I've bought is:

Steptacular (Steps)
Willennium (Will Smith)
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Old 24-11-2009, 13:22
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Best: (and avoiding Greatest Hits)

Definitely Maybe - Oasis
Parklife - Blur
Nevermind - Nirvana
Different Class - Pulp
Absolution - Muse
One By One - Foo Fighters
Eyes Open - Snow Patrol
Fat Of The Land - The Prodigy
8 Legged Groove Machine - The Wonderstuff
First & Last & Always - The Sisters Of Mercy
Word Gets around - Stereophonics
Life On Other Planets - Supergrass
Jagged Little Pill - Alanis Morrisette
..and many more I can't recall right now

Worst:

Alannah Myles - Alannah Myles - bought it on the strength of 'Black Velvet', but the rest of the album is squeaky screechy AOR of the worst kind

Runners Up:

Spin Doctors - not as annoying but nearly as bad
The Fray - Apart from How To Save A Life, it's all deadful maudling rubbish
Maroon 5 - Songs ABout Jane - 'Harder to breathe' is fab, the rest is...not
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Old 24-11-2009, 17:08
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Best-
I am... Sasha Fierce
B day
E=MC2
Spirit
GGGB
Fame monster
JLS
Overcome
Confessions

Worst:
Paramore
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Old 24-11-2009, 20:22
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best is car wheels on a gravel road, lucinda williams

worst or perhaps i should say most disappointing, was tift merritts another country, i loved her first two, saw her a couple of times, then she basically changed from her country/americana style to a mish mash of im not sure what
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Old 24-11-2009, 20:25
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Best:
Lady Gaga - The Fame

Worst:
The Saturdays - Chasing Lights - a album mostly full of rubbish
Have to say i agree. I love 'the fame' and the new 'fame monster'. But Chasing Lights wasn't too great and i don't like their new one either .
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Old 24-11-2009, 22:57
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The Fame, - Lady Gaga, I do like every song on that album, same with...
INMITY- Lily Allen.
Girls Aloud 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th studio albums.
Trick to Life - Hoosiers. Brilliant to sing along to, upbeat but can also be very deep

Though its not a studio album, Queens Platinum Collection. Such amazing music, and so much of it.

Worst.

From this year, La Rouxs album. Nothing I liked apart from 3 songs. My cousins mam bought me a Boyzone album once, wasnt impressed.
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Old 25-11-2009, 02:21
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Best Album I've bought: Achtung Baby - U2

Best Album I've Been Given: The Queen Is Dead - The Smiths

Worst Album I've Bought: Be Here Now - Oasis (I loved the first two albums but was really disappointed with this one)

Worst Album I've Been Given: Back To Bedlam - James Blunt (saying that, I've never actually listened to it, as I can't stand his voice and absolutely hate the songs I've heard from it, so it might be a brilliant album but I'll never know).

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Old 26-11-2009, 18:47
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Come across another 'worst' one:

The Fame - Lady GaGa. Not all of it is bad, but it's all electro, and I can't listen to an album full. Just Dance, Poker Face, Beautiful Dirty Rich, Money Honey, Bad Romance (I know this is Fame:monster), Brown Eyes are good tracks...but BoysBoysBoys ("in the morning, buy me eggs" Why?!? What does that even mean?!?! don't know why they lyric is there, maybe just because it rhymes with the previous line. ), Paper Gangsta, Summerboy and others, I just don't get.

This won't be a popular choice of 'worst album' to most on DS
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Old 26-11-2009, 18:51
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Best :-

Triumph - The Jacksons ( better than all of Michael's solo
efforts - honest )

Cool for Cats - Squeeze
Breakfast in America - Supertramp ( no weak tracks )
Discovery - Daft Punk


Worst :-

Gold - Prince
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Old 03-12-2009, 11:15
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Best:

Good Girl Gone Bad (Reloaded) - Rihanna
Blackout - Britney Spears
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Old 03-12-2009, 13:19
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back in the days before people knew better than to buy me music
Best (bought for me)- Wedding Present "Bizarro"
Worst (bought for me)- Tanita Tikaram- "Ancient Heart" (which I gave straight back)
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