Oh - and I forgot to make mention of RS's placement of RHCP on this list. I argue that the categorization of them as a 'Great Band' is a massive overstatement... although One Hot Minute is an easy-in as a 'Worst Album.'

They are an abomination!

I also object to Aerosmith on the list, as everything they did post-Dream On has sucked beyond suckage.

And I can't believe they put Diver Down on there! Have they never heard "Little Guitars"??? Oh yea, but it's Rolling Stone... so who effing cares?

Also, way to include a complete pile of relic bands with only a couple artists representing the past like, three decades, RS. Gack!

Yes...I think David even knows that 'Tonight' was not his best.. nor was much that he did with Tin Machine, IMO. BUT otherwise... I ADORE HIM!!!!!!!!

is an interesting experiment; the band realized they had to tie then current hard rock into rock and roll history (hence doing Orbison, etc.) -- and they also did a lot of eclectic covers, something hard rockers hadn't done much on a studio LP. Roth's vocals have a great amount of Jewish soul, too ... this was a nasty swing by RS, a passed along notion gone unchallenged.

And "Down in the Groove" instead of "Self-Portrait" or a few other of his 80s records? Does it really sound that bad against a half dozen other Dylan releases? (That's actually a real question; I gave up on Bob after 'Infidels' and picked up again on 'Oh, Mercy.')

Most fans don’t recognize “Cut The Crap” as a true Clash album. For all intensive purposes “Combat Rock” was the last true Clash record. And “Face Dances” wasn’t great, but it wasn’t terrible either.

Re: Costello -

Mighty Like A rose has a few great songs but it's pretty uneven, like a number of his albums are. But it's better than his 'country' effort "Almost Blue" and light-years better than that piece of crap he did with Burt Bacharach. God that is one unlistenable retch-fest.

Mad Dog

The Pixies are a great band. I nominate Trompe Le Monde as a crappy album by a great band. UMASS? A JAMC cover? Puleeeze.

Oh - I like U-Mass! But I do think that the Pixies reforming is on the list of "Worst actions by great bands."

Their whole tour / release rumors / movie was for themselves - not for the sake of their legacy / music / fans. They were just going through the motions on that tour and ruined them in my eyes. Watching the Quiet Loud movie made me feel kinda dirty and used.

They should have gone with "The Raven".

I thought he was dead for years then all of the sudden he showed up at Bumbershoot, ambled on stage like a zombie coming down from a 3 day 'brrraaaains' binge, and read the entirety of Poe's The Raven over dissonant guitar fuzz for what seemed like 34 hours, to a mostly unenthusiastic crowd.

How the mighty have fallen.

Add to the list, in my opinion:

"How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb" by U2
"Time Bomb" by Blur
"England, Half English" by Billy Bragg (and the Blokes)
Whatever the last Weezer album was called, that's just how bad it was...
Btw, I like "Trompe Le Monde". And being from Massachusetts, we all like Um-Ass. Oh sorry, U-Mass.

Costello: "Goodbye Cruel World" is worse than "Mighty Like a Rose." Not by much, but it's worse.

Bowie: "Never Let Me Down" is worse than "Tonight."

Dylan: "Under the Red Sky" is absolutely positively the worst piece of shite he even made, far worse than "Down in the Groove," which is saying something since "Groove" features the Grateful Dead on two tracks. (And has everyone at RS forgotten about "Self-Portrait"?)

Neither RHCP nor CSNY belong on a list of great bands.

Neither does Led Zeppelin in my opinion but I'm pretty alone on that one.

Will snark for food.

Oh, man, was that Billy Bragg album wretched. It was barely "adult contemporary".