Lou Reed - Metal Machine Music - 1975 classic it ain’t
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It’s a masterpiece though.
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As did I.
On the other hand, I do not care for floating points other music, but I love this super laid back album, where Saunders fits in perfectly. My favourite passage is where the orchestra kicks in.
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I agree Steve. It was a sad way for the great man to go out – wishy washy New Age pap with some sax parps on top.
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After finding much to like in every one of Jean-Michel Jarre’s albums since 1976’s Oxygène, I was (and remain) dismayed by 2000’s Metamorphosis. I was very happy in 2015-16 when I finally felt he’d regained his mojo with the Electronica pair of albums.
Mark
On the right system it’s mesmeric and, arguably, a fantastic way for him to go out as it brought more attention to him and his catalogue than anything he himself had done in decades. I’ve friends who now rave about stuff like Karma when they’d not even heard of him until the Floating Points album. I’m no fan of Floating Points or All Music but I do think their review of the album is spot on and it’s quite insulting to the man to assume the album was anything other than what he wanted to be doing at that point. Also gotta be amused that people love those later Talk Talk album (as do I) but will happily slaughter this despite it essentially being exactly same thing.
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Anything from Rod Stewart after Blondes Have More Fun (which it’s self was marginal), all rubbish imo.
Whilst we are here talking about Pharaoh Sanders’s last recording, I was reminded of Miles Davis’s last studio album Doo Bop, which I found cringe worthy at the time. I think I played it a couple of times before consigning it to the third row in the CD cabinet.
I wonder if the great man would of sanctioned the release of this awful disc, cobbled together after his death and including pieces constructed from tapes recorded five years earlier on three tracks.
Is this thread about music you dont like or bad production/recordings?
I dont often listen to stuff i dont like but since getting the Naim system i have a number of cds that sound horrible. Havent really noticed this before on lesser hifi. There are probably all bad recordings/production.
Both. Also recordings that just should never have been made 
, eg. Jingle Bells by the Rolling Stones (false example, I think)
Well in that case. Anything by mariah carey…
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Dylan’s 3 American Songbook albums. In general I wish pop/rock stars would stay away from the Songbook. Leave it to Sinatra.
In fairness, Dylan doesn’t do them a great deal worse than many others. That said, they should all leave those songs to Sinatra / Bennett / Crosby.
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Interestingly the first of the 3, which I bought, received almost universal acclaim with 5 star reviews aplenty. If that’s 5 stars how many stars are his true classics worth? Then again Rough and Rowdy Ways, which I also bought, was a 5 star magnet. It’s a good album but nowhere near his genuine 5 star albums imo. There’s a lot of bandwagon jumping in music reviewing. Anyway, I digress.
The first track is one of my all time favourites 
I guess this means that you won’t be interested in “Still Barking”. The 17cd/3dvd boxset coming out later in the year!
Too right
As a Miles Davis completist, this is one that I have never bought !
One supposed ‘Stinker’ that comes to mind is the infamous Chick Corea ‘Smurf’ album (I think it is called ‘Friends’). The cover has always put me off but apparently it is not too bad musically.
And astonishingly, people were raving about it at the time of release, including bigged up reviews of that London concert.
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