Bands Whose Last Album is Their Worst

[LoathedVermin72]

Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung

[E.H. Ruddock]

Thank God Lightning Bolt came out otherwise I'd have to put PJ on this list.

Metallica
U2
Ben Harper

[Dev]

soundgarden

[tragabigzanda]

soundgarden

Absurd.

[epilogue]

Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung

And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?

[bodysnatcher]

Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung

And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?

i think just bc it was a collection of unused tracks from previous albums. but, yeah, i think it counts

[epilogue]

Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung

And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?

i think just bc it was a collection of unused tracks from previous albums. but, yeah, i think it counts

Ah. Sure. I guess that's something that could be argued. But I think it absolutely counts.

[bodysnatcher]

Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung

And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?

i think just bc it was a collection of unused tracks from previous albums. but, yeah, i think it counts

Ah. Sure. I guess that's something that could be argued. But I think it absolutely counts.

it's basically PJ's next album

[Jorge]

Outtakes collections shouldn't count as albums! Just like Greatest Hits compilations aren't albums

[BurtReynolds]

Coda doesn't count, but Lightning Bolt sure does, and the album suuuuuuuuuucks.

[epilogue]

Interpol
Sleater-Kinney
Led Zeppelin (not if we count Coda, though)
White Lung

And why wouldn't we count Coda, though?

i think just bc it was a collection of unused tracks from previous albums. but, yeah, i think it counts

Ah. Sure. I guess that's something that could be argued. But I think it absolutely counts.

it's basically PJ's next album

[epilogue]

Outtakes collections shouldn't count as albums! Just like Greatest Hits compilations aren't albums

I don't actually know anything about the background of Coda. It's the only Led Zeppelin "album" I haven't heard. What was the intention of the album? Was it more like Lost Dogs or more like Let it Be?

[Jorge]

It's like Lost Dogs if Lost Dogs had been released 12 years after Pearl Jam broke up.

[epilogue]

It's like Lost Dogs if Lost Dogs had been released 12 years after Pearl Jam broke up.

Ah.

Then, yeah, that shouldn't count.

[matt reeder]

A couple of special cases:
The Clash
Smashing Pumpkins

Both of these are under the name of a once-great band, but produced by pretty much the lead singer, and not the rest of the band. So it's debatable as to whether they should could - I say yes.

[Rangi Guy]

Metallica

Death Magnetic worse than St Anger? Seriously?

[LoathedVermin72]

Deftones

[Kevin Davis]

Sonic Youth?

And PJ for me, easily.

[tragabigzanda]

I'd say Sonic Youth if we're separating song albums from noise albums. Otherwise, no.

[Leatherhead]

Thank God Lightning Bolt came out otherwise I'd have to put PJ on this list.

Metallica
U2
Ben Harper

Death Magnetic is pretty good.