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    I found this quite challenging.
    Firstly I've named a number of artists that I have big gaps in my familiarity with their entire album catalog.
    Secondly, I no longer listen to albums, so I found it difficult to bundle tracks into album groups, unless it was something, like the latest Henley or Elbow album, that I listened to incessantly for a couple of weeks. Then there are many groups, such as Crowded House, that I've discovered through Greatest Hits Albums.

    Lastly, these are my favorite artists because I like the vast majority of their music. It's tough to call absolute favourites and even the albums I'm not so keen on will have a redeeming feature or two that I enjoy.

    Anyway, here's my shot. Sorry for the alternate format and lack of comment:

    Artist
    Fav
    Least Fav
    Joe Walsh
    Barnstorm
    The Confessor

    Eagles
    Hotel California
    Eagles

    The James Gang (with Joe Walsh)
    Rides Again
    Thirds (I don't know the post Walsh albums)

    Abba
    Super Trouper
    The Visitors

    ACDC
    They all sound the same don't they

    Andrew Gold
    All This And Heaven Too! (Halloween Howls is fun)
    Whirlwind (I'm not well up with his flood of later albums)

    CSN
    Daylight Again
    4 Way Street (I took it back to the shop!)

    Dan Fogelberg
    Netherlands
    Exiles

    David Lindley (Early)
    El-Rayo X
    Mr. Dave

    David Lindley (Late)
    Twango Bango II
    Live In Europe!

    Dire Straits
    Brothers In Arms
    On Every Street

    Timothy B Schmit
    Playin' It Cool
    Tell Me The Truth

    Randy Meisner
    One More Song
    Randy Meisner I

    Glenn Frey
    Strange Weather
    Solo Collection (the new songs were a real let down)

    Don Henley
    Cass County
    Inside Job

    Elbow
    Seldom Seen Kid
    The Take Off And Landing Of Everything

    ELO
    Out Of The Blue
    The further back you go the weaker they are

    Fleetwood Mac
    I like the hits and You And I Pt II
    I'm really only familiar with the Buckingham Nicks era

    First Aid Kit
    Stay Gold
    The Lion's Roar

    Genesis (Gabriel)
    The Lamb Lies Down On Broadway
    Tresspass

    Genesis (Collins)
    Invisible touch
    And Then There Were Three

    Jackson Browne
    Late For The Sky
    Lawyers In Love
    I haven't heard his later stuff
    but Standing In The breach is pretty good.

    Jay Ferguson
    All Alone in the end Zone
    Real Life Aint That Way

    Phil Collins
    Face value
    Testify

    Peter Gabriel
    So
    Peter Gabriel II

    Queen
    The Works
    Hot Space

    Richard Marx
    My Own best Enemy
    Rush Street

    Rod Stewart
    Every Picture Tells A Story
    Body Wishes (Ignoring the American Songbook stuff)

    REM
    Automatic for The People
    Reveal

    Spirit
    Spirit
    The 70s albums

    Stevie Nicks
    The Wild Heart
    Street Angel

    Status Quo
    Heavy Traffic
    The entire eighties

    Tom Kimmel
    Short Stories
    Shallow Water (it's got god songs on it)

    Tom Waits (Early)
    Small Change
    Nighthawks At A Diner

    Tom Waits (Later)
    Rain Dogs
    Frank's Wild Years

    Van Morrison (Early)
    Moondance
    Period Of Transition

    Van Morrison (Later)
    Enlightenment
    Pay The Devil

    Warren Zevon (Early)
    Warren Zevon
    The Envoy

    Warren Zevon (Later)
    Mr Bad Example
    Life Will Kill Ya

    I'm gonna work on a top three tracks for all my favourite artists. I hope it'll be easier... and I may be able to include a slightly wider range of artists, including some black guys and gals

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlreadyGone95 View Post
    Least favorite albums:

    Yes- any album without Jon Anderson. (He's Yes for me.) Of the albums with him, Relayer.
    I adore Jon Anderson but have you heard Drama? Even Jon Anderson said it's "bloody brilliant."


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    Quote Originally Posted by AlreadyGone95 View Post
    Least favorite albums:

    For most of the artists, I haven't heard all of their albums, so I'm only judging the ones I've heard.

    Bad Company - Fame and Fortune (The first album without Paul Rodgers. Bad Co Mk. II hadn't found their sound yet.)
    Eagles- Eagles ( The non hit songs aren't that good.)
    Glenn Frey- After Hours (I do like the album, but the music isn't my type.)
    Don Henley - I Can't Stand Still ( I just like this one the least.)
    Fleetwood Mac-Time ( This would make my list of overall worst albums. It's horrible compared to all of their other albums.)
    Free Free (Same as Don's, it's the one I like the least. Plus, I dislike the album cover.)
    Def Leppard-X ( too poppy)
    Iron Maiden - The 2 albums with Blaze Bailey ( Paul Di'Anno and Bruce Dickinson are much better suited for this band.)
    Van Halen - Van Halen III( Gary Chorone & Van Halen=not a good combo)
    Styx- Kilroy Was Here ( Dennis Deyoung got his way too much album.)
    Lynyrd Skynyrd-Gimme Back My Bullets( it's just not as good as the other 70s albums )
    Genesis - Wind and Wuthering ( Meh, Phil sounds too much like Peter. It's not as strong of an album compared to their others.)
    CSNY-CSN( has the least number of sings I like.)
    Stephen Stills- Right by You (uninspired and Meh. His best songs went to CSN's Daylight Again album.)
    Allman Brothers Band - Brothers and Sisters(not quite as good as their first 3 studio albums)
    AC/DC- Black Ice ( It doesn't hold up at all compared to their 70s and 80s albums.)
    Black Sabbath-Sabbath Bloody Sabbath ( I just can't into this one.)
    Led Zeppelin-Coda( Zep without Bonzo? No, Thank you.)
    Pink Floyd- The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (It's good, but I prefer the albums with David Gilmour.)
    Bob Seger- Like a Rock (boring and bland)
    Elton John - The Diving Board (I love the first 4 songs, but the others I don't like much.)
    Metallica- Does Lulu count? ( That collaboration album is horrible.) If not, I'll go with the other universally loathed album, St. Anger.
    Rush- Signals (Subdivisions is my favorite Rush song, but the rest of the album isn't of the quality of Subdivisions.)
    Yes- any album without Jon Anderson. (He's Yes for me.) Of the albums with him, Relayer.
    Judas Priest- Turbo (Turbo Lover? )
    Tom Petty - Hard Promises ( I don't like Petty's early 80s work much.)
    Thanks for posting your lists AG95 – I was really interested to read your comments on your least favourites because there are a few albums in there that I’ve listened to over the last couple of weeks or so which are not especially high up my own favourites list either.

    Brothers & Sisters is the only Allman Brothers record I own – it’s partly because I already knew and liked Jessica thanks to its use as the Top Gear theme so it seemed the obvious starting point to me (at the time I didn't really know about the tragedies that preceded its release). I don’t think it’s a bad record by any means, and I like the rock tunes – Ramblin’ Man, Jessica and Come and Go Blues – but I’m not really into the country-blues tracks like Jelly Jelly and Southbound.

    I definitely agree with you on Coda. To me the most unfortunate thing is that the record starts with We’re Gonna Groove, which is not just IMO the best song on the album but also a reminder of how awesome the band was at their peak. The three proper tracks on side two aren’t terrible, but I think having them on the same record as the songs from 1970 emphasises in particular how Robert’s voice had suffered over the decade (he was still a good singer and still had a distinctive voice, but had lost some of his power and range compared to the 1969-71 era when he was simply brilliant).

    I like The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, although I concur in preferring the records with David Gilmour. From that era I prefer A Saucerful of Secrets, which is also psychedelic in sound but somehow appeals to me more. The other weird thing is that there is one Roger Waters composition on the album (Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk), but I think it’s one of the weakest songs – he was probably attempting to write like Syd. On the plus side, Piper contains Astronomy Domine, which I think is their best pre-Meddle song, and there are two Waters/Gilmour/Wright/Mason studio albums that I prefer Piper to, these being the More soundtrack and the studio half of Ummagumma.

    WS82, I’m totally with you on Animals. It is a superb album from start to finish, and both Waters and Gilmour were at the top of their game – Dogs alone is testament to this. It’s my third favourite Pink Floyd album, behind only Wish You Were Here and Dark Side. I also found your comments about Yellow Submarine especially interesting, as they reminded me of my own thoughts about the More Soundtrack and to a lesser extent Coda.

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlreadyGone95 View Post
    Judas Priest- Turbo (Turbo Lover? )
    Priest are my second favourite band (after some Californian country rock outfit I forget the name of ), but I have to disagree with that last bit; Turbo Lover is one of the highlights of their live shows and one of the very few redeeming features of the album itself. I completely understand why Turbo would be your least favourite album since it's astronomically inferior to every album that preceeded it (bar perhaps Rocka Rolla) and has wayyyyyyy too much synth and general 1980s in it, but I think deep down everybody who listens to Priest has that little piece of them that loves Turbo Lover.

    Out of interest, how much of their work have you listened to?

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    Quote Originally Posted by thelastresort View Post
    Priest are my second favourite band (after some Californian country rock outfit I forget the name of ), but I have to disagree with that last bit; Turbo Lover is one of the highlights of their live shows and one of the very few redeeming features of the album itself. I completely understand why Turbo would be your least favourite album since it's astronomically inferior to every album that preceeded it (bar perhaps Rocka Rolla) and has wayyyyyyy too much synth and general 1980s in it, but I think deep down everybody who listens to Priest has that little piece of them that loves Turbo Lover.

    Out of interest, how much of their work have you listened to?
    Believe it or not. I actually like Rocka Rolla. Turbo Lover is one of those WTF? songs. I used to not mind it much until VH1 Classic played the video of it to death. Now, I can't stand it. The rest of the album is just so un- Priest- like.
    I've listened to all of to everything from Rocka Rolla to Painkiller and Redeemer of Souls.

    NMB, I haven't heard Drama. I'm a Yes purist, but I'll try to remember to listen to it over my school break.

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    Favorite Doors album: Waiting for the Sun
    Least favorite: The Soft Parade (but it has Shaman's Blues, which is worth the price of admission)

    Favorite Yes album: Going for the One
    Least favorite: Relayer

    Favorite Zep album: this is too hard. I can't choose.

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    Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers

    Best: "Into the Great Wide Open" and "Echo"--On a track-to-track basis, 'Great Wide Open' is as even a mix as you'll get with Petty. Several of the non-hit tracks are instant classics("King's Highway," "Dark of the Sun," "All or Nothin'," "Too Good to Be True," and "You and I Will Meet Again") in their own right.

    "Echo" often gets panned, but is also a shining moment in itself, containing some of my favourite songs of his("Room at the Top," "Lonesome Sundown," "Accused of Love," and the title track). Admittedly, you would have to be of a certain mind frame to appreciate this one.

    Worst: The aforementioned "Let Me Up(I've Had Enough)" and "Wildflowers"--LMUIHE has been discussed already, but "Wildflowers" is a bit of an unimpressive and uneven album. The hits, title track, and songs like "Time to Move on," "Hard on Me," and "To Find a Friend" are quite good. The rest of the songs are varying degrees of meh.


    Def Leppard

    Best: "Pyromania"-- Joe Elliott's raw vocal energy is really in top form on this one. Even the lesser tracks are worth a few listens.

    Worst: "Hysteria"--A lot of the songs sound like a lame attempt to cash in on the band's building momentum over the previous 5 years. Watered-down vocals and uninspired guitar and musical work co-conspire to make this one snoozer of an album. Only the title track is worth anything.
    All carrot, no stick.

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    No new additions to my list, but a couple more thoughts:

    Eagles: The more I look at this list, the more I think One Of These Nights looks out of place - it is more my 'seventh favourite' album than 'least favourite' as I enjoy the majority of the music and it has several very strong songs.

    Neil Young: If I had to pick one from my favourite Neil era - 1969-79 (from Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere through to Rust Never Sleeps) the album that I feel is least consistently strong is American Stars 'n Bars. I have to be in the right state of mind to really enjoy the country songs on side one, and Homegrown is a bit of a throwaway. However, there is the small matter of Like A Hurricane, an incredible song and a clear career highlight, so I can't dismiss it. It doesn't fit in with any of the other songs, but it stands out so much that it isn't an issue.

    Pink Floyd: Having listened to both Ummagumma and the More Soundtrack album in full - the two weakest Waters/Gilmour/Wright/Mason records IMO - in the last couple of weeks (the first time I'd listened to either in a good while) I would say that the Ummagumma studio album is the weakest recorded by this quartet. The instrumentals on More are rather unmemorable, but they are better than the frankly boring Grand Vizier's Garden Party and the novelty song Several Species of Small Furry Animals..., and all of the 'vocal' songs on there are pretty good. However, the live disc of Ummagumma is excellent and therefore as a whole record I think it comes out on top.

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