Worst Albums of the Decade

Mars Volta - Bedlam In Goliath

Prog rock is just fine by me. I don't mind epic jams filled with intricate time signatures and odd ball musical arrangements. However when The Mars Volta stretch 10 out of their 12 songs on Bedlam in Goliath over the 5 minute mark it becomes tiresome and exhausting. The band tries too hard to be avant-garde and be prog for prog's sake.

Chris Cornell - Scream

Chris Cornell has fronted two high profile bands in Soundgarden and Audioslave. However 2009 saw the aging grunge icon turn some heads when he teamed up with hip-hop producer Timbaland for Scream. Every song on the album bleeds directly into the next making the album seem like one continuous 40 minute song in which Cornell tries so sing like a rocker over monotonous R&B beats. You know the record will suck when Cornell sings "That bitch ain't a part of me" in the opening chorus. Looks like talent is not a part of Scream.

Nickelback - All The Right Reasons

Songs so cliche and so typical it's as if you've heard this album a million times before - which you probably have. Hard Rock got mundane and insipid in the nauties and no one was more wretchedly awful and loathsome as Nickelback.

Soulja Boy - souljaboytellem.com

Hip-Hop, like any genre of music, is an effective tool when used correctly. Soul Ja simply embodies the current trend where a young artist simply cashes in on a fad for the quick and accessible, yet stupid and disposable, ring tone single. Any album named after your own website can't bode well.

Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

Probably one of the worst album titles ever, Chocolate Starfish is the fastest selling rock album of all time pushing 1.03 million copies within the first week of its release. But Larry the Cable Guy and the Transformers movies made money too. Fred Durst plays your typical pissed off frat boy who says he's angry simply because he needs an excuse to "break stuff". The low point on the album comes when Durst rhymes "here" with "here".

Daniel Powter - Self Titled

There is incredibly good music as well as incredibly bad music. However the only thing worse than either of those options is incredibly bland music. Daniel Powter crowned himself the king of mediocrity with his second self titled album in 2007. He sang about having a bad day. Should have called it a bad album.

James Blunt - Back To Bedlam

He sure knew how to make the ladies weak at the knees. Well... maybe the one's who were just as vein as Blunt himself. Mr. Blunt took his own music too seriously when the ends didn't justify the means. "You're beautiful it's true...." really? That the best ya got?

Jimmy Eat World - Chase This Light

I should have seen this album coming like a train crash - but I guess hind sight is always 20/20. Each album from JEW's career has progressively gotten more "soft" and "introspective" which translates into "boring" and "a waste of your money". The only interesting thing about this record was the cover. At least it's more colorful than the tunes.

Shiny Toy Guns - Season of Poison

While the Shiny's 2006 album We Are Pilots was a strong debut and nominated for a Grammy, the band decided to write the book on how to kill a promising thing. All you have to do is kick out your best singer, replace her with another woman who can't sing and write a bunch of songs that try too hard to rock, too hard to be gothic, and too hard to make you dance at the same time. Too bad all the songs are often too much of one and not enough of all three.

Weezer - Raditude

I always thought there was no way Rivers Cuomo would make an album as bad, or worse, than 2005's Make Believe, but I guess he just had to prove me wrong. Raditude is an album so scatter shot and disoriented it features a Lil' Wayne cameo, sitars, party songs (translate: dumb songs) love songs (translate: dumb songs) and songs co-written with the All American Rejects (translate: really dumb songs). Cuomo must get a smile on his face whenever he tramples on his past glory.

Eminem - Relapse

Rappers and comeback albums don't mix. Eminem's desire to relive past glories was the oil while his results were water. Yes it's good to see him clean and sober. But the passion and anger that made him great ten years ago has faded out and died. I'm fine with retrospective music, however when Slim Shady tries to sing about killing people on "3 A.M." it sounds wrong and terribly out of place.