The Bottom 5 (Current Most Critically Panned Albums)
These 5 albums are currently the critical "bottom of the barrel". These have the lowest scores on the review aggregation site Metacritic.com. If one critic says your music's no good, don't be discouraged, but if they all do, you have a problem.
Take my advice and don't try to defend these in public.
#1.
The Cosmos Rocks by Queen + Paul Rodgers
Label: Hollywood Records
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Charts: #47 The Billboard 200, European Top 100 Albums
Metacritic Rating (Scale of 100): 42
Listen to The Cosmos Rocks:
1. Cosmos Rockin'
2. Time To Shine
3. Still Burnin'
4. Small
5. Warboys
6. We Believe
7. Call Me
8. Voodoo
9. Some Things That Glitter
10. C-Lebrity
11. Through The Night
12. Say It's Not True
13. Surf's Up...School's Out
14. Small Repris
#2.
iSouljaBoyTellem by Soulja Boy Tell 'Em
Label: Interscope
Release Date: December 16, 2008
Charts: #43 The Billboard 200, #8 Top R&B/Hip-Hop
Metacritic Rating (Scale of 100): 45
Listen to iSouljaBoyTellem:
1. I'm Bout Tha Stax (intro)
2. Bird Walk
3. Turn My Swag On
4. Gucci Bandanna featuring Gucci Mane, Shawty Lo
5. Eazy
6. Kiss Me Thru The Phone featuring Sammie
7. Booty Got Swag
8. Rubber Bands
9. Hey You There
10. Yamaha Mama featuring Sean Kingston
11. Wit My Yums On
12. Go Head featuring Juney Boondata
13. Shoppin' Spree featuring Gucci Mane, Yo Gotti
14. Soulja Boy Tellem
15. Whoop Rico featuring The Showstoppas
16. I Pray (outro)
#3.
The New Game by Mudvayne
Label: Epic
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Charts: #15 The Billboard 200
Metacritic Rating (Scale of 100): 46
Listen to The New Game:
1. Fish Out Of Water
2. Do What You Do
3. A New Game
4. Have It Your Way
5. A Cinderella Story
6. The Hate In Me
7. Scarlet Letters
8. Dull Boy
9. Same Ol'
10. Never Enough
11. We The People
#4.
Take It To The Limit by Hinder
Label: Universal Republic
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Charts: N/A
Metacritic Rating (Scale of 100): 49
Listen to Take It To The Limit:
1. Use Me
2. Loaded and Alone
3. Last Kiss Goodbye
4. Up All Night
5. Without You
6. Take It To The Limit featuring Mick Mars
7. The Best is Yet to Come
8. Heaven Sent
9. Thing For You
10. Lost In The Sun
11. Far From Home
#5.
Dark Horse by Nickelback
Label: Roadrunner
Release Date: November 18, 2008
Charts: #2 The Billboard 200, European Top 100 Albums, #1 Top Canadian Album, #2 Top Internet Albums
Metacritic Rating (Scale of 100): 49
Listen to Dark Horse:
1. Something In Your Mouth
2. Burn It To The Ground
3. Gotta Be Somebody
4. I'd Come For You
5. Next Go Round
6. Just To Get High
7. Never Gonna Be Alone
8. Shakin' Hands
9. S.E.X.
10. If Today Was Your Last Day
11. This Afternoon
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Hinder are the most boring "bad boys" ever (seriously, attending a concert [very very] drunk is no longer shocking, just annoying).
Mudvayne is generic, and that album was full of "trying to be deep" junk. The problem is that none of their songs are memorable.
I have to agree w/ #5 though, it kinda sucks that Rodgers is in that album.
Just wondering though Robert, if its based on metacritic, how come "Results May Vary--Limp Bizkit" isn't here? Looking over metacritic, it got "33" compared to Queen's "46"...
That IS strange, as it showed up last week for me...
Oh, and by the way, I think that "Results May Vary" actually ranks as 3rd worst on Metacritic.
1. Playing With Fire-Kevin Federline 15/100 (WOW!)
2. Hefty Fine-Bloodhound Gang 28/100
3. Results May Vary-Limp Bizkit 33/100
4. Testify-Phil Collins 34/100
5. Juliana's Pony:Total System Failure Juliana Hatfield 35/100
5. One-Dirty Vegas 35/100
Its a tie!
Runner Ups:
Life on Display-Puddle Of Mudd 37/100
Slick Dogs and Ponies-Louis XIV 37/100
Fun Fact: Two albums with the name "One" rank low with a 3X/100:
One-Dirty Vegas 35/100
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(One)-The Panic Channel