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PopMatters: Worst Albums of 2011
WORST ALBUMS OF 2011:
20. She & Him - "A Very She & Him Christmas"
19. The Human League - "Credo"
18. Cage the Elephant - "Thank You, Happy Birthday"
17. Beady Eye - "Different Gear, Still Speeding"
16. Wiz Khalifa - "Rolling Papers"
15. Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death - "Some of Us Are in This Together"
14. Tori Amos - "Night of Hunters"
13. Foreigner - "Feels Like the First Time"
12. Spank Rock - "Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a ****ing Liar"
11. Nickelback - "Here and Now"
10. Owl City - "All Things Bright and Beautiful"
09. LMFAO - "Sorry for Party Rocking"
08. Red Hot Chili Peppers - "I’m with You"
07. Lady GaGa - "Born This Way"
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This turkey opens with “Marry the Night” (in which Gaga calls herself a “warrior princess”, presumably with a straight face) and only gets more ridiculous from there. Gaga has little sense of originality and so the regurgitated dance beats from previous chart hits and words from the Island of Misfit Lyrics are hardly a surprise, though they certainly are grating. The Cher retread title song wouldn’t be so offensive if it were, say, used as background music in a shampoo commercial and not passed off as real music, the way that you’ll take free samples of budget pizza at the grocery store but would never actually buy it yourself. The patchwork lyrics and styles are further examples of an artist who tries to be all things to everyone, whether on the torpid, turgid Madonna rip-off “Bloody Mary”, “Highway Unicorn (Road to Love)”, or the plain stupid “Heavy Metal Lover”. All this would be much easier to take if she had named herself Lady Dada as the absurdity, the sheer mindlessness of her music, would be easier to take. Painfully disposable. Jedd Beaudoin
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06. Morbid Angel - "Ilud Divinum Insanus"
05. Limp Bizkit - "Gold Cobra"
04. Tyler, The Creator - "Goblin"
03. Lupe Fiasco - "Lasers"
02. Chris Brown - "F.A.M.E."
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One of the entertainment industry’s most consistently interesting plotlines is that of the teen sensation’s transition into adulthood. So many have either crashed and burned spectacularly or disappeared from the spotlight that it’s hard to avert your eyes as the evolutionary period begins. Somewhat disappointingly, Chris Brown has found a way to get stuck in between success and bombastic failure, and his music has been struggling uselessly as a result. F.A.M.E. improved slightly on the atomically awful Graffiti, but only by moving away from attempting to garner sympathy for his despicable, abusive relationship with pop queen Rihanna. Musically it’s as garish as ever, an emotionless amalgam of synths, Auto-tune and autosoul that’s designed for world stadium tours in which Brown dancing and feigning sexual acts with random audience members is the attraction. The ballads are laughable as love-declaring soundtracks and the dance tracks as generic as they could possibly come. While peers such as Trey Songz continue to grow and—perhaps most importantly—mature in the songs they choose to sing, Chris Brown appears stuck in his glory days, unable to understand the difference between a seventeen year old singing these songs and a 22-year-old. David Amidon
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01. Lou Reed & Metallica - "Lulu"
POPMATTERS' 25 LOWEST RATED ALBUMS OF 2011:
25.Seapony - "Go With Me"
24. LMFAO - "Sorry for Party Rocking"
23. Kaiser Chiefs - "The Future is Medieval"
22. Incubus - "If Not Now, When?"
21. Joss Stone - "LP1"
20. Trivium - "In Waves"
19. Lil Wayne - "Tha Carter IV"
18. David Guetta - "Nothing But the Beat"
17. Spank Rock - "Everything Is Boring and Everyone Is a ****ing Liar"
16. Coldplay - "Mylo Xyloto"
15. David Lynch - "Crazy Clown Time"
14. Yelawolf - "Radioactive"
13. T-Pain - "rEVOLVEr"
12. Chris Brown - "F.A.M.E."
11. The Human League - "Credo"
10. The Rapture - "In The Grace of Your Love"
09. Jane's Addiction - "The Great Escape Artist"
08. Gospel Music - "How to Get to Heaven From Jacksonville, FL"
07. Rihanna - "Talk That Talk"
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Is Talk That Talk actually an album? It's certainly a CD with a booklet and some music.
We always knew she was much more commercial brand than a musical artist, but Talk That Talk portrays her as such an assembly line product there’s almost no way to react to it emotionally. As a musical product, it feels completely at odds with itself, one of those awkward moments when an album seems like it would have no reason to exist if not for SoundScans, board executives and iTunes Top Ten bragging rights.
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06. Wiz Khalifa - "Rolling Papers"
05. Gomez - "Whatever's On Your Mind"
04. Viva Brother - "Famous First Words"
03. Triumph of Lethargy Skinned Alive to Death - "Some of Us Are in This Together"
02. Lupe Fiasco - "Lasers"
01. Lou Reed & Metallica - "Lulu"
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