WORST ALBUMS OF 2023

2023 is almost over... Man, what a WEIRD year.
0:00 - intro
Dishonorable Mention 1 - 3:53
Dishonorable Mention 2 - 6:10
Dishonorable Mention 3 - 8:41
Dishonorable Mention 4 - 11:10
Dishonorable Mention 5 - 13:14
Number 10 - 15:49
Number 9 - 18:30
Number 8 - 22:38
Number 7 - 25:23
Number 6 - 28:48
Number 5 - 31:47
Number 4 - 35:30
Number 3 - 38:53
Number 2 - 42:26
Number 1 - 47:30
Don't say I didn't warn ya.
#top10 #worst #2023
CORRECTION: At around 5:00 during the first Dishonorable Mention, I accidentally used the wrong pronouns for the artist in question. They go by they/them pronouns. Honest mistake and I should have caught it in editing, but the goof is on me. Sincerest apologies there.
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[@CrashThompson]

CORRECTION: At around 5:00 during the first Dishonorable Mention, I accidentally used the wrong pronouns for the artist in question. They go by they/them pronouns. Honest mistake and I should have caught it in editing, but the goof is on me. Sincerest apologies there.

[@tylerbailey9329]

Good that you're being respectful even though you didn't like the music 👍

[@VinceWhitacre]

Correction appreciated... just please don't record a hick-hop song called "Accidental Misgendering" with Lil Uzi Vert.

[@tape-6]

​@VinceWhitacre i would like to offer a different point of view. you should 100% record a song called accidental misgendering with lil uzi vert

[@VinceWhitacre]

@@tape-6 fair

[@obzzidian94]

the fact that you went out of your way to clarify your own mistake shows that you're a legitimately nice dude, happy new year

[@thatkidwiththehoodie]

Can someone please tell the music industry to stop feeding the Imagine Dragon? He’s borderline obese now, this is just abuse at this point! You’re gonna give the poor reptile a heart attack!

[@RockedNet]

I agreed with a lot of these, but I mostly think that is the best t-shirt you have ever worn.

[@leehazell7633]

Ha! You shill sire! 🤣🤣🤣

[@tommoconstantly]

I was wondering if that was a shirt dedicated to your channel aha

[@user-pj3cm7uk8f]

SO FOR maniskin- Ive never listened to the album but the single "honey are you coming" is pretty catchy and is played non stop on my local alternative rock station.

[@marcen12]

Its like Fall Out Boy and 30 Seconds looked at his 2018 worst video and then only Fall Out Boy listened.

[@thetonytaye]

You KNOW you’re in a bad place when Pete Fucking Wentz has more humility than you. /hj

[@alinaisyou]

You can, in fact, never be too hard on U2

[@quentinm4967]

Not after they put their bum ass record on my phone without my consent back in ‘09

[@lucymorrison]

@@quentinm4967I find it so funny that Apple literally had to launch a U2 album recall program you could sign up for

[@Trace0805]

@@quentinm4967 '14

[@olivierb9716]

@@quentinm4967 perhaps, the music is the important thing. and the music is bad, and bone is a pretentious moron

[@inugamidalton8270]

You gotta have respect for any music critic that can use ‘Stradivarius’ as an insult. That is entering my lexicon now.

[@otakuofmine]

wait, the band? i must have missed that. than how/why?

[@plantain.1739]

​@@otakuofmine He used it as a way of calling someone pretentious because a song they like is complex.

[@twkreviews6683]

This might be the most chill you've ever been during a worst list and that's pretty rad. Glad you're choosing your mental health over forcing yourself to hear every popular bad album for the sake of views. Oh and it's not just fuck Hardy for ruining the Royal Rumble but WWE for hyping him up nonstop the entire night prior to his performance.

[@eliasmg9144]

This royal rumble better be good

[@twkreviews6683]

@@eliasmg9144 It has some pretty decent potential.

[@AdrianBelmonte96]

👏JUSTICE👏FOR👏BIG👏GAY👏HULK👏

[@ConvincingPeople]

I was not expecting that Crotchduster shoutout but I appreciated it immensely. In that spirit, I'll toss out a couple more recommendations for people looking for more music in that vein: Sigh, Unexpect, Don Salsa, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum, Faxed Head, Ved Buens Ende, Sculptured, Aborym, Gonin-Ish, !T.O.O.H.!, Clotted Symmetric Sexual Organ, Lunatic Gods, Contrastic-and that's just metal bands, really.

[@wolfgangervin2582]

One thing I love about Big Fat Box of Shit is that while most villain protagonists in concept albums are at least somewhat sympathetic, it goes out of it's way to make you HATE the members of Crotchduster as much as possible (even the cover shows you the kinda guys they are).

[@jeffhazen4416]

Your definition "a couple" needs work, but truthfully, I greatly appreciate these mentions and plan on checking these artists out. I love finding new music.

[@connorrivers995]

For the Morgan Wallen thing, I get it. My eyes widened when I saw the track list. 36 songs? Are you kidding me? There are Broadway cast albums with fewer songs on them and they have multiple artists and singers on them. The original version of "All Things Must Pass" has only half the amount of songs as this album and that was a triple album! "The Last Waltz" was shorter than this and at least that was a live album! 36 songs of new material?! You really think people are going to spend two hours listening to this Morgan? For fucks sake not even the longest albums in the 90's were this bloated. You couldn't have at least cut a third of this?!

[@ZeoR95]

I do have to correct you. Maneskin were never even pretending to do drugs, Damanio just had his head in his hands in such a way that it looked a bit like he was snorting coke.

[@lilo5437]

I watched it live and the aftermath was hilarious 😂

[@ZeoR95]

The President of France was trying to get them disqualified!

[@Ramonatho]

Maybe if they did drugs or even pretended to they would make something actually interesting

[@aliyai4000]

Let me also add that on the "omg they did drugs during esc" mess, it came from some french outlets trying to villanize Damiano for said action - it may come as a surprise (not) that France placed second just before Italy that exact same year. A few Maneskin fans tried to even attack Barbara Pravi (the singer that represented France) on that when she had literally nothing to do with it.

[@miticaBEP07]

@@aliyai4000 Damiano was so incensed he offered himself to do an anti-drug test to prove he had nothing at all to hide.

[@ElliYeetYT]

You know it’s great that Avenged Sevenfold ended up topping Crash’s list because I finally have something that I consider a guilty pleasure topping Crash’s worst list. Which the other number 1s have failed to do. I’m Guilty and I know it. 🤪

[@thetonytaye]

I still remember when Jared and company tied with Mania for worst record in 2018. I’ll admit that Fall Out Boy of all bands getting about 80% of their shit together (would’ve been higher but they just *had* to butcher WDSTF 🙄… and for some reason it charted) wasn’t on my 2023 bingo card.

[@eliasmg9144]

So... are those two albums officially eligible for a trainwreckords video?

[@SomeSong2]

Mommy said she bought dad a lollipop at the coffee shop something something UNHOLY was one of the most unintentionally hilarious pop train wrecks in recent memory.

[@riddypr]

The wait was absolutely worth it. What a great video; humour's still on point and the picks were explained well (with a few curveballs, gotta say). And yeah, 2023 was a WEIRD year for music... and thank goodness for that. Hell, even in the (mid-to-lower parts of the) American pop charts with regional Mexican music and afrobeats on the rise. It seems that the #1 album on here would fall under "respectable garbage"? Would that be an accurate label for it?

[@eliasmg9144]

This probably the happiest Crash's ever been on a worst albums list

[@ASLB247]

“Finland got absolutely robbed” I’m out of the Eurovision loop, but I can’t help but agree with you. #JUSTICEFORFINLAND! Update: I wasn't expecting this many likes, but thanks? I don't even watch eurovision, i just have a GF in finland...also i finally hit the mammal sauce, and all of my fluids leaked out. halp.

[@RiceShouldBeFluffy]

Patrick voice: "FINLAND!"

[@shadow-scope-fsm7165]

Yup, but I think it was kinda obvious why Sweden won. Every time they kept bringing up the 50 year anniversary of Abba winning Eurovision for Sweden, let's just say I smelt a rat.

[@Soulgambler57]

FOR THE THIRD TIME (justice for hatari, blind channel and Käärlja)

[@rubywest5166]

@@shadow-scope-fsm7165 Given that folks are calling to boycott Eurovision this year... All I can say is Karma

[@michaelavanessian8558]

Man, Avenged Sevenfold sure _bungled_ their Mr. Bungle impression, huh? ...I'll show myself out

[@angelbyyourzide]

I was passively listening to it... Until I heard "Eurovision" Well, taking about Måneskin, as an Italian I can't stand them. They are quite everywhere. I liked "Zitti e buoni" when it came out. Eurovision wise it's not bad. I don't like it now. Some songs from their new album are used here for ads. I don't want to hear them. Let's come back to Eurovision, why don't we? Well, you got my attention with Hatari, I like them. I like them a lot. I quite miss them. They had one album, some people say that it was published too late to be interesting for them... I feel bad for them but let's put that aside. For Käärijä I agree. I liked him so much. But it is what it is. We all know the problems with having juries that is, in the majority, specialised in pop or that are past Eurovision entries or that are just TV personalities. I just hope Käärijä will have a good career and support. I like him so much I made a crochet doll based on his look. Anyways, I really like your videos! Love from Italy!!

[@TheVoiceGamePlay]

Crash: 'I'm putting this [Morgan Wallen's "One Thing at a Time"] on the list because it's too long' Me: *Looks it up on Wikipedia while the video is still playing* ...111 minutes... 111 minutes over 36 tracks... Holy fuck, WHY!?

[@ArtemyMusha]

I'm still up for that HTGI on U2 - I still maintain that Pride (In The Name Of Love), Sunday Bloody Sunday and Sleep Like A Baby Tonight are great songs with regular rotation in my listening.

[@DirtyWorldRecords1]

i can't think of or listen to Pride without picturing some security guards beating up Homer Simpson at the backstage of a U2 concert

[@sammyauroraloves]

It keeps bumming me out that Macklemore will probably never make a song as awesome as "Can't Hold Us" or "Downtown" or even his feature on "Summer Days" ever again.

[@RiceShouldBeFluffy]

Why did you animate a glistening, sparkling line of coke onto every album cover?

[@CrashThompson]

Eh, green screen fuck up. Not intentional, just had some issues readjusting my lighting. I'll have that fixed by the next vid hopefully.

[@lilo5437]

Sparkling line of coke 😂

[@RiceShouldBeFluffy]

@@lilo5437 Well, obviously it doesn't really sparkle irl but maybe the man coulda been been making an aesthetic decision by having it sparkle. It was a green screen issue tho.

[@kiethveseyofficial]

All I have to say about Avenged Sevenfold... MORE SEX MORE POWER BUILD TALLER BUILD WIDER! You said that this record is going to be this generation's St Anger. But I can argue that this album’s going to be this generation's Lulu I AM THE TABLE! The other words, the album was really bad.

[@jeffreychandler8418]

I AM THE TABLE

[@PuddleOfPizza]

I'll say this regarding Lighting Up The Sky, It's not my favorite Godsmack album by any means but I do think it was probably the best result we could've gotten given the circumstances. Cause when you think about it, The album preceding it was extremely polarizing among the fanbase and turned away a lot of long time listeners as a result, Though in spite of its controversy, It also managed to be their most successful release since Faceless in 2003. With all 4 singles going straight to the #1 spot on the rock charts. So given this, I think the decision to not stray any further away from their core sound was a smart move. I mean really, If you took the song Red, White & Blue out of the tracklisting it'd probably be their fourth best album behind the first three. The writing on the rest of the songs is pretty solid and there's so many tiny details that give it much more personality than the previous two had. I don't think it'll ever have a proper reevaluation but I do think time will show that Lighting Up The Sky was a good send off. Or at least the title track itself, Say what you will about the rest of the album but the 3 song sequence of Best Of Times, Growing Old, and Lighting Up The Sky was just perfect. As for the rest the only other album I listened to last year was Puddle Of Mudd's Ubiquitous and it was so inconsistent that it made me appreciate Welcome To Galvania more. At least that album for all of its flaws actually tried.

[@devonosborne4698]

I'm down for a "How to Get into" video for U2. I already know where their latest album will head though. They're my dad's favorite band and he lost interest around 2009.

[@RApollos107]

55:30 you know what… fair enough. Calling this A7X’s St Anger is a reasonable. Especially when I think about it, both albums tried something different, but missed the target, and there’s some songs on their I don’t mind, some I do like *ducks*, and weirdly enough when both of them play some of the songs from those albums, they sound far better than they did on the albums.

[@TwistedMe13]

Ehh... I'd still listen to A7X at their worst (and this is definitely at their worst, most schizphrenic 1.5/5) over that cracked-out, coffee-can cocked-up pisstake (which I took the CD, epoxied to a clay pigeon and took it out for skeet shooting I was that furious) 0.25/5. I'd like to see Frog Leap cover the singles of this album and see if they can be improved.

[@alexddragame]

Great video and understandable picks. My worst of the year list is: 20-Ashnikko- Weedkiller 19-In This Moment- Godmode 18-Hardy- The Mockingbird and the Crow 17-Theory of a Deadman-Dinosaur 16-Owl City- Coco Moon 15-Jasiah-3 14-Rae Sremmurd- Srem 4 Life 13- Corey Taylor- CMF2. 12-Drake- For All the Dogs 11- Oliver Tree-Alone in a Crowd 10-Lil Pump- Lil Pump 2 9-Staind- Confessions of the Fallen 8-Nicki Minaj- Pink Friday 2. 7-Godsmack-Lightning up the Sky 6-Key Carson- A Great Chaos 5-Puddle of Mudd- Ubiquitous 4-Jonas Brothers- The Album 3-Avenged Sevenfold- Life is But a Dream 2-Destroy Lonely- If Looks Could Kill 1-Thirty Seconds to Mars- It's the End of the World But it's a Beautiful Day

[@maryannappiagyei4277]

Album worst of 2023 1. Royal Blood Back to the Water Below 2. Roger Waters The Dark Side of the Moon Redux 3. Owl City Coco Moon 4. AJR The Maybe Man 5. Jonas Brothers The Album

[@IcyMonkeyKing1]

if looks could kill 😭

[@m_agamer2730]

Okay i didnt listen to the morgan wallen record, but listening to the AI version of mater from Cars doing Last Night makes the whole record worth it imo

[@animal1439]

I feel like I'm the only one who actually really liked the new Maneskin record. I thought it was a fun sleazy party rock album that delivered on the sleaze and fun. Yeah Cool Kids is a dud of a song, but I thoroughly enjoyed the rest of the album and regularly revisit a bunch of those songs. Loved the video crash!!! Can't wait for your best of video!

[@simonzenn]

i don’t love it (nor do i particularly like it), but it’s definitely something i wouldn’t particularly put on a worst list, though that’s just my own opinion

[@KylieWilson]

I was NOT expecting a Hatari reference in this video xD BDSM industrial pop ftw 🤟🏻🤟🏻🤟🏻

[@JohannesVIII]

I burst out laughing when you played that Hatari clip, I wasn't expecting it at all. I love them so much

[@Ramblebar]

Good see you back Crash,have always enjoyed your work even if I don't agree with your musical takes and preferences but still thouroughly enjoy your videos and hope you stick around and don't go away this time as shitty as life can get at times keep up the good work dude!!!

[@Chrisshueppes]

If someone were to ask me to describe the vibe of your channel it would be “Imagine you know a guy that always has good recommendations for music and isn’t an asshole about it”

[@g.u.959]

I appreciate the Jones soda nod. Now I want one, dang it. Great seeing you back, Crash!

[@juliannaagoncillo6090]

I was thinking of St. Anger the moment you defended your points about A7X’s album And when you brought it up…. it’s like you read my mind; the prophecy has been fulfilled Congrats A7X fans!!! You now have your own St. Anger and the eternal, brutal discourse awaiting you👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@eddiii4030]

AND LIKE THE PHOENIX HE RISES FROM THE ASHES TO BRING DOWN ALMIGHTY JUDGEMENT Glad to see you back Crash :3

[@leonardogamboa1901]

Thanks for the video, Crash! Waiting for the best of the year list. Happy new year, all the best

[@jamalwest7658]

Glad to have you back, and Yes, do a U2 feature!

[@Ellthom]

Even as a Used fan I gotta agree with Used being here. It may not be as bad as Canyon but yea it isn't good. I did really love their last effort Heartwork too. At least they were experimenting a little more there. TP just comes across as taking two steps back

[@SongbirdKH]

I love you Crash!! Thank you for referencing A Mighty Wind!!!

[@alexandersobczak5266]

Finally someone mentions Crotchduster. Never heard anyone talk about them ever. 'Mammal Sauce' is one of the best songs ever made by a human being. And 'Stars Ingenious Cooter' fucking rocks too XD

[@cherryt8478]

Was looking forward to this. Hope everyone has a good New Year!

[@coltondillard7811]

Don’t know if you’ll see this crash, but man I’ve been a longtime fan, going all the way back to the worst album covers vol 1. It’s good to see you’re still doing it to it even with life being, well, life. Keep it up man, I’ll be watching em all🤘🤘

[@Benlovescheese]

Thirty secs even got the imagine dragons guy to write for them.

[@tylerhackner9731]

What a weird year for music fr. I expect a lot more of that in 2024

[@TheRareVideosXL]

Agree with the 30 Seconds To Mars and Avenge Sevenfold albums.

[@madisonnotmadi]

So excited to see A7X topping most of my fav critics' worst of lists of the year. Longtime fan, went through the whole ass five stages of grief listening to Life Is But A Dream, finally settled on baffled & vaguely disgusted hilarity. We're not laughing with the band anymore, now we're just laughing at them, holy shit. Incredible list. Can't wait to see that inexplicable Lil Yachty record make it onto the best list (bc I'm not gonna lie it's my AOTY).

[@gracecarpinter8623]

Hell yeah Lil Yachty. Still can't believe bro went from doing a super-doofy jingle for Chef Boyardee with Donny Osmond to dropping a pretty legit psych-rock record.

[@rosebomb]

just fyi Lil Uzi Vert uses They/Them pronouns

[@TheCamSays]

“Fuck you for ruining the Royal Rumble.” That Rumble showing was so bad that WWE themselves didn’t bother uploading it and likely edited it out of their archived showing for that Rumble show.

[@cherryt8478]

As as UK viewer, watching that at like 2 am, I was like “I woke up for this?”

[@harrigang]

The opening track off that Used album is awesome. It plummets significantly afterwards

[@jblazeby]

Yes please do a where to start with again Crash (U2 or not) as I love those.

[@ThirteenTrees]

I'm always going to love Waking the Fallen. One of my absolute favorites. The new one, I listened to it and instantly forgot it a day later.

[@eliasmg9144]

I haven't watched the full video yet, but my theme for worst albums of the year was artists trying to hold on to the past but failed miserably

[@timk6181]

If anyone here quite liked that Avenged Sevenfold album, I implore you to listen to Cardiacs. Only recently got round to it after years of hearing about them and it was one of those great 'oh' moments as a music fan when you suddenly realise where a whole bunch of bands you've been listening to for your entire life got their sound from. In this case Mr. Bungle and other Mike Patton side projects and, unexpectedly, early Brit pop like Blur and Suede. Fact is 'Life is But a Dream...' wouldn't exist without Mr. Bungle and Mr. Bungle wouldn't exist without Cardiacs. You might not like it, but if you are interested in seeing where these weird sounds come from it's worth listening to.

[@FMAkers-jq2kh]

"I don't want to hear [an album] for two hours straight!" BUT CRASH WHAT ABOUT "SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE" THAT ALBUM IS JUST TEN MINUTES SHORTER THIS IS A BRILLIANT COMPARISON TO MAKE I AM SO SMART

[@danielwhitingjr2854]

Hey Crash been following you since Weezer Everything will be all right in the end. Why it the album greenscreen bleed looks like a line of coke on every album on the list? Lol Love the content.

[@thomasanderson2757]

I hope when you do your best list you mention Council Skies by Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds aka the best album of the year

[@J.U.N.K.official]

I get why people think the A7X album can be viewed as art, but I think only in the way that someone spilling a bucket of paint can be considered art😂😂

[@chrislawuk]

I love you Crash. Also I just checked out Crotchduster. Actually brilliant. I normally hate … what that thing they do there is (would hate to spoil anything for any other weirdos) but they really make it work. Haha. You’re looking well man. Sending you my pervy love from the UK x

[@gentlesavage2068]

yo crash what did you think of so much for stardust by fall out boy? it was better than their last album mania in my opinion but still kinda average overall and half of the album felt very lazy.

[@thetonytaye]

FIMI Q1 2023 😉

[@nubbles9431]

Thanks for the content Crash.

[@jlm-qx8gd]

this is exactly how i wanted to round the year off - welcome back Crash !!!! ❤❤ and oh boy, I will be…doing some extensive listening 😶xx

[@jesuisunstroopwafel]

I had never heard a moment of Songs of Innocence before watching this video, in fact I had zero idea what it was about. ...and I was FLOORED by the Pride (in the Name of Love) rendition. It was one of the biggest WTF moments I had in a while, and not in a good way. Also kudos for the KISS comparison. The second makeup era was... not great to say the least.

[@hellonurd8957]

Nice video Crash! No joke when it got to that Nothing Burger part I was eating at McDonald's. Talk about a happy accident!

[@ch3rri]

roger waters and bono saw how much bank taylor swift was getting from her taylor's version schtick (granted i saw that swifties were sour on speak now and 1989's rereleases after they came out) and knew at least their fans had more disposable income than the swifties (most of them being under 35)

[@krisherdown]

Thirty Seconds to Mars played "The Kill" and some new song I think is called "Seasons" back to back on New Year's Rockin Eve. Even the Letos messing up the former shows just how little effort they're making in the last decade.

[@nickamars]

thank you for making videos i love you

[@freemonwicher3840]

Hey Crash good to see you back at it my dude, while I agree with just about everything on this list, your assessment of the new A7X was SPOT ON. I've been down with avenged since at least unholy confessions and city of evil still has some of my most favorite songs they've made and that new album was a hot steamy pile of suck. It was like giving a schizophrenic ADHD patient a mountain of cocaine and letting them record every hair brained idea and tossing all of it into a blender with no rhyme or reason or structure and being forced to slurp it all down while pretending that it's a genius innovation, like they had 50 songs all chopped to pieces and stitched together Frankenstein style. And yeah my first thought after 3 songs was exactly comparing it to a poor imitation of Mr. Bungle. Only when you put it at the top of the list did I finally realize it is pretty much number one worst for me too, if only because I really wanted to like it and wanted it to be good but was sadly disappointed. Still it's great seeing you again hope next year has some better music for you and the rest of us.

[@crazydud3380]

I am fine with people liking and defending it, but so many of them get downright offended if you disagree with them. The silliest argument is that it is too artsy for us. More often than not A7X fans have had little exposure to true experimental music, so this is silly to say in most cases. As Crash said, listen to the artists they said they were inspired by. They do it far better. You can be weird, unusual, and non-traditional while still being cohesive, rather than random and slapdash.

[@wheelsofmercury]

I honestly thought Asking Alexandria was gonna make this list because you showed the Psycho music video at the start.

[@elliesanders5525]

Why is there a white line near the bottom of every single album?

[@jdh21403]

Messed up greenscreen

[@jacinto1477]

Ngl, i completly forgot suicide silence was still a band after that last horrible album

[@edyoung2621]

I'm very happy to see that your ok. I hope that your break helped your mental health and your are doing ok. It's good to see you back crash. Great list also

[@alexstar9871]

Good to see you again Crash!

[@SuperDmath]

As I said in another comment, Godsmack was my choice for worst (again I didn’t listen to all of Hardy) but putting A7X at number one and calling it their St. Anger is my favorite take of the year. I fucking love it.

[@daveandgena3166]

Happy New Year, Crash!!

[@gothicadam6476]

Yay!!! Don't care what's on this list, just glad to see You back and hope You're doing well there 🙂 Right, let's watch the video😊👍

[@milophone8069]

WELCOME BACK! You've been dearly missed.

[@InkAndPoet]

Another thing to be pissed at HARDY for has to be that he wasted the potential of Jeremy McKinnon, Andrew Wade, and Cody Quistad on "RADIO SONG" (they all had writing/production credits on it while Jeremy also featured on it). It is, without a doubt, my least favorite song of the year.

[@CobaltT9]

Ehhhhh....This year's mainstream rap didn't grab me, so I'll go with Corny-Ass Macklemore and his Targetcore Hip Hop. With a bit of Staind on the rock side.

[@xXMachineGunPhillyXx]

*SIGH* … The Used-To-Be-Great

[@susan-meaaz4879]

Just glad you are back Crash

[@MACMAMI]

I'm soooooooooooo glad you showed no mercy and brought the hammer down on U2's "Songs Of Surrender". That was such a depressing slog of a listen and it is beyond me how U2, a band that used to grip me with every new release from the late 80s on through the early 00s...............have been one of the single most complacent, unimaginative acts in all of music and are in the midst of a two-decade-long losing streak beginning with shamelessly plagiarizing themselves with "How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb" and becoming even more uninspired and sanitized ever since. "Pop" was the last U2 album I enjoyed listening to from front to back. It may have been a hot mess of an album, but that's exactly why I enjoyed it: because they were swinging for the fences and were fearlessly willing to be experimental, and it made for a really interesting listening experience even as obviously imperfect as it was. Moreover, some of Bono's most personal, vulnerable songs EVER appear on that album with "Mojo", "Please" and "Wake Up Dead Man". One of my single biggest issues with U2 over these past two decades..............is Bono's OBSESSION with every lyric and every song NEEDING a big statement. When, really, I feel Bono is at his best lyrically when he gets more personal and vulnerable. And I'm just patiently waiting as a long-suffering follower of U2 for him to deliver more of that and for the rest of the band to revitalize that experimental hunger again. Until then, I'm awaiting with bated breath Todd In The Shadow's TRAINWRECKORDS episode on "No Line On The Horizon".

[@user-id6po7lw2o]

Happy New Year, Crash!

[@hossdosboss]

One thing about Water's voice, while yes he was never an amazing singer I think the clips you showed didn't do him justice, on songs like hey you, comfortably numb, and times where he was backing for Gilmour he did a good job and on hey you especially the final verse really has a desperate feel to it, not to mention those high pitched shriek's you showed I'd argue were a bit of a talent of his, not PRETTY obviously but on something like another brick in the wall pt2s intro its great Just a lil note I wanted to say, great vid and yeah that whole album is still an embarrassment, R.I.P Syd and Richard also your hoodie at the end looks like steve from blues clues :)

[@shadow-scope-fsm7165]

For me, I went into 'Life is But a Dream...' with lowish expectations, as the two lead singles were piss-poor, and for that, I can't say it disappointed me. The singles were some of the album's weaker moments, with songs like 'Cosmic' and 'Beautiful Morning' saving some face, but I'm honestly not sure which song would've been a good choice to sell audiences on the overall sound, as they were just all so radically different. I think beautiful mess is definitely the best way to describe that album.

[@thebends1029]

I have Your number one as my favorite album of the year, it hits all the spots for me, but i love your way of criticism for the album, its very well done, fair play to you man. Much love

[@fatdino6478]

You should do a video about Mr. Bungle.

[@ArmageddonisUnleashe]

Glad I wasn't the only one dumb enough to listen to the Roger Waters redux.

[@RiverOfWetness468]

Without spoiling anything (overtly) for those who are reading the comments but haven't watched the whole video, #1 seems to be like a redux of the situation with Suicide Silence's 2017 album

[@DeliRevv]

I’m surprised that Helmet’s “LEFT” didn’t make the list. It certainly made mine. What a disappointment.

[@dude123456m]

Its crazy that your number 1 worse is one of my absolute favorites of the year

[@lizzymalefic138]

Hey that being alive thing is really working for ya you should keep doing that

[@phyrexiancoffee6324]

49:30 THANK YOU CRASH! I wanted badly, so fucking badly, to enjoy this album. I listened to it about 5 times, each one really digging in to see any hidden depth and complexities. And they just WEREN'T THERE! Everyone I know really enjoyed this album, but I just can't get past the abysmal production and monotonous repetition in most of the songs. To the point that when I saw A7X at Louder Than Life, I had a whiplash of enjoyment. From pulse pounding highs, to literally bawling my eyes out over a friend gone far too soon during So Far Away. To just apathy during any of the LIBAD songs.

[@AD-ov5rt]

Man, you hit the nail on the head about why I dislike Sam Smith. They never do anything new with the formula and it's such a waste of their great singing voice.

[@VIRAX200394]

To this day, I still don't know what critics from magazines, media and all that shit saw in Life is but a Dream to give it rave reviews. They wanted that interview with M. Shadows THAT bad?

[@matthewdaub]

The biggest tragedy of a7x is that the stage was an absolutely incredible album. But we love you was absolutely terrible. Like it's so fucking bad!

[@lucymorrison]

Tegan and Sara didn’t release an album this year therefore I am entirely apathetic to every album released in 2023 (send help)

[@theuncannydag]

But did number 5 have a key change?

[@lilo5437]

As an old/og (maybe former is a better word) 30STM fan, it’s sad how little is left of the band they used to be. Their first 2 albums are good and I think the first one is pretty underrated, but the stuff they make now (or have been making for yearss) is just lazy and boring. Might as well call it quits, but you know that won’t happen anytime soon

[@MisbegottenFool]

I got into a7x sometime in like 05-06... I was only 3 years old... A7x is genuinely one of the only bands I can say that I have been a life long fan of, Nightmare is in my top 10 favorite albums of all time. And the wait for this new album was PAINFUL, so to get this pile of trash is not just disappointing, it's sad. Also I want to stress that as much as I love Avenged's earlier work, I also listen to a lot of prog, everything from Opeth to Mastodon to Porcupine Tree to classic stuff like Pink Floyd and Rush. But for whatever reason whenever A7x has attempted to go prog I just haven't been into it. Even The Stage was kinda off sounding, I only go back to a few tracks from that record. In all honesty I think the band should do either 2 things. 1, try to go back to their classic sound (CoE, self titled, Nightmare). Or 2, just stop, they've had a good run and I'd rather not watch them throw that away any further.