What albums that you do like that critics and fans hate? -

[Idiot Asshole]

Judas Priest's Turbo. A very controversial album in the bands history ever since.

Turbo Lover, Locked In and Reckless are my favorite tracks off that album.

I'd go as far to say that if you haven't screamed along to the chorus to Reckless while blaring down the open highway in the countryside you aren't a real Judas Priest fan.

 

[Ron Jeremy Stan Account]

I'd go as far to say that if you haven't screamed along to the chorus to Reckless while blaring down the open highway in the countryside you aren't a real Judas Priest fan.

Some of the material from the Turbo glam era was actually great and I regularly play them when driving. Around the time of Turbo or Ram it Down, they recorded a song called "All Fired Up" which went unreleased but eventually got featured on a special re-release in the 2000s. It's one of their best from that era but sadly wasn't a hit.

 

[66andtwothirds]

 

[McMitch4kf]

Curse of The Hidden Mirror by Blue Oyster Cult is widely considered to be one of their weakest albums, if not their worst. It underperformed painfully and was apparently a reason they stopped recording albums altogether, making 2001 the last year they released an album. This held true for almost twenty fucking years until The Symbol Remains came out last year.

To this day I have no idea why even the fans seem to dislike the album so much. I honestly love the first five or so tracks, Pocket is probably one of their best songs, and the rest of the album is about as good as their regular fare.

Privately I assume 9/11 happening very shortly after the album came out might have had an effect on the album's success. I bet a lot of people had other things to worry about. Pocket also might have not gotten the air time it deserved because it has a very ominous lyric ("Overhead a rumble, its not thunder, its a 747") that might have been interpreted as "insensitive" in the aftermath. Considering they did stupid shit like restrict the Jerry Lee Lewis song "Great Balls of Fire" from the airwaves for like a year afterwards this is well within the realm of possibility.

I mean, everything that came out after they wrote “In Thee” was just a rehash of “In Thee.” On top of that, when ever they attempted to return to their heavier sound, it seemed to lack the quirky flair that was damn near ubiquitous to their earlier stuff. Mirrors was right at that point where they were running out of steam, and by Club Ninja they had gone completely creatively bankrupt (Imaginos having an objectively worse version of “Astronomy” is a good example of that).
That being said, the fact that I couldn’t even find Curse of the Hidden Mirror on iTunes says a lot about that fucking album, so to each his own I guess.

 

[Epic Fedora Man]

Jethro Tull's 'Under Wraps' is one of my favorite albums in their discography.

Also the album Abominog by Uriah Heep is well received but HATED among Prog Rock critics for not being prog enough.

Ironically it's the only album of theirs I go back and listen to.

 

[Damien Thorne]

AC/DC’s Ballbreaker.

It would have received a far more loving reception if it were released in the ‘80s.

 

[StevieLasVegas]

Just posted this in the "What I'm Listening To" thread, but it bears repeating. I only started listening to Dissection a few years ago, but I really don't understand why this album is hated by the fans.

"It's too clean!" Dissection barely distorted their sound to begin with since Jon always preferred a more melodic sound akin to the bands he listened to. And if it's a case of having better production, so what? By that point, other black metal bands from around the 90's were upping their production too.

"Jon sings differently!" Well it's not surprising for a singer to start sounding different over the course of a decade or to adjust their style to preserve their performance. James Hetfield did it and became a better singer (ignoring Metallica's drop in quality). Blackie Lawless had to prior to forming WASP because he could've lost his voice entirely. But despite that, Jon's voice still worked for the music as the live footage from the Reinchaos tour shows. If it's because he was slightly easier to understand compared to the first two albums, again, he was still easy to interpret vocally. No one gave Satyr or Shagrat shit when they started singing in a more understandable format.

"It's not as dark or Satanic!" God of Forbidden light is literally a song about Lucifer. Dark Mother Divine is about getting the demon Lillith's dark blessing. Maha Kali is essentially Jon's suicide note and worshipping Khali since it intrigued him while in prison. Most of the rest is about space/cosmic ideas.

 

[round robin]

Pablo Honey. It's only hated by Radiohead fans because they're all hyper-hipsters that hate anything that isn't in 23/16 time and played on terrible synthesizers in keys that should not exist. It's completely serviceable 90s alt rock with several great tracks, if amateurish at times.

 

[Staffy]

St Anger by Metallica. It's the best background music, and that's not meant to be an insult. It's one of the few albums with songs that really keep me focused compared to others.

 

[DocAwe]

I'm honestly 1 of the 3 people who like St. Anger.

 

[CiaphasCain]

I'm sorry but I unironically like Chocolate Starfish And The Hot Dog Flavored Water. Limp Bizkit is probably one of the most hated artists and this album was especially hated because of how quickly he produced it after his last album, Significant Other was successful.