arnie said on January 30, 2009 18:24:

1. Any hip hop album
2. Any bosa nova album (rubish ...)
3. Any latin melodic crap act (Luis Miguel, Cristian Castro and all that crap music!!!)
4. Any girl/boy band album
5. Any reggaeton album

Invisible_man said on January 31, 2009 23:57:

come on Spice Girls were not that bad... I am not a big fan, but they did have some catchy tunes

and boy-bands were not that bad, I liked a lot of Backstreet Boys songs, especially the slower ballads were very nice..... I actually miss those times, they were so much better than that solo stuff from Timberlake or Timbaland or whatever

I don’t like rap produced in US.... but some dance music from Europe that has rap I enjoy :-)

roxtexanet said on February 5, 2009 02:37:

I assume that lots of albums I’ve never heard (like the Black Eyed Peas’ albums, Fergie’s album, Pussy Cat Dolls’ albums etc.) must be awful because the singles - which, in theory at least, should be the best the album has to offer - are absolutely awful. So, I’m going to interpret this question as the Most Disappointing albums of all time - the ones I got tricked into buying because of one or two good singles and then never listened to again. For me, these are:

1. Lisa Miskovsky - “Falling Water.” Boy, did I get tricked with this one... “Lady Stardust” was an amazingly-good lead single from an album that I honestly couldn’t finish listening to all the way to the end.

2. Cranberries - “Everyone Else Is Doing It, So Why Can’t We?” An early 90s classic, followed by a string of albums I positively love, even the less-popular ones like “Bury the Hatchet” and “Wake Up and Smell the Coffee”... but I just don’t get this album. I’m so sick of “Linger” and “Dreams” because radio still plays them incessantly, but even still, they are the only songs on the album I like. I really want to like this album!

3. Cardigans - “Grand Tourismo.” I realize that everyone in the world except me loves this album, but I just don’t get why. The singles are pretty good, especially “My Favourite Game” but the rest of it doesn’t do much for me. I love the two albums they released after this one, but I don’t dare try anything earlier given how disappointed I was in this one.

4. Annie Lennox - “Bare.” It’s not *bad* exactly, just... disappointing. I still listen to “Diva” all the time and “Medusa” is an old favourite too, but this one hasn’t made its way back to my CD player since a few weeks after it was released. I passed on the new one because I was so disappointed in this one.

5. Keane - “Under the Iron Sea.” Loved the first album, can’t remember even one song from this one. Oh wait! “Crystal Ball.” There. One song. Given how popular the new one is, I know I’m in the minority here, too.

Honourable mention: Chantal Kreviazuk - “Ghost Stories.” This album is unlistenable, but I don’t own any of her other ones even though I quite like her, so it’s not quite as disappointing as the ones listed above.

One of the things I love about Roxette is their consistency... even their worst songs are only bad in comparison to the others because there is a staggering number of good songs to compare with. Nobody else for me has that kind of track record, which is why I will guaranteed buy whatever either Per or Marie puts out next without even listening to it. There’s no need, it will become a favourite like everything else (-: