The Stinkers Thread - The Sphere Edition
Share your musical abortions here.
The low point of Jamie Christopherson's "Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Vocal Tracks" video game soundtrack from 2013. Horrible stuff!
Leave it to two terrible sh*t-wipes of songs to ruin what would've been my entryway album to industrial metal:
I admit that Test isn't very good, but I absolutely love Dream Song. It was this experimentation and variety that made early Ministry so amazing. Definitely more hits than misses.
It's interesting to me that you still give the album 4.5 stars, even though you feel two tracks are stinkers. Your rating system is obviously very different to my own.
Yeah, those other 7 songs are some of the best industrial metal tracks I've listened to, but the album's perfection was ruined by those two stinkers and that caused me to vote for Godflesh's Streetcleaner (also 4.5 stars and I respect it as the starting album of the industrial metal genre) in the DIS vs DAT Sphere Thread: https://metal.academy/forum/15/thread/354?page=1#topic_5375
Leave it to two terrible sh*t-wipes of songs to ruin what would've been my entryway album to industrial metal:
I agree that "Test" is the clear weak point of the album as the rap vocals were misguided & drag an otherwise vibrant & electric track down significantly. It gradually builds in intensity & climaxes in a pretty epic crescendo though so I still don't mind it. "Dream Song" on the other hand is a wonderfully dark, majestic & transcendental way to finish the album & sits amongst my all-time favourite Ministry material. The Dead Can Dance & 80's industrial influences are beautifully synchronized & I have no hesitation in awarding it the full 5/5. I'd ask what drugs you're on with that call Andi although I fear it's probably more about what drugs I'VE taken to be honest.
Songs of Love and Hate is indeed an album full of songs to love and hate, with this sh*tter being a suitable addition to the latter category:
The hip-hop instrumental approach in Us and Them does not work well for me, now that I gave the album a clear listen for a review. Here's an example of how awful it can get at times:
Really struggled with this sloppy drum & bass/industrial metal hybrid. The metal component sounds uninspired & phoned in.
Probably the absolute worst of those Dawn of Ashes remixes, far more suitable for the dance-floor than an extreme metal moshpit:
I thought there would never be a remix as atrocious as that Dawn of Ashes stinker above, but I was wrong:
Awful Marilyn Manson-sounding bullsh*t:
Nothing but a sh*tty lengthy rant from a foul-mouthed cop:
This one starts as a slow serene ballad, but the horrible auto-tuned singing ruins everything:
Seriously, why would they ruin something sounding potentially good by f***ing hiding it too deep in the mix!?
They just had to taint an otherwise perfect album with some f***ing rap metal sh*t:
The metal covers I like are ones that metalize the original song, but this sh*tty attempt at a Nirvana cover is so not the way to do it:
Forget any claims I've made about that Nirvana cover being Fear Factory's lowest point of the career, this is f***ing worse:
Distorted sh*t that shouldn't have existed:
A dull sh*tter that doesn't please me at all:
A sh*tty slow trainwreck (no pun intended, maybe):
Another sh*tty trainwreck that shouldn't have f***ing existed: