Most of these, save for that I at least liked (but didn't love) Intellectual Property and Toxic Positivity. However some of the stuff Bradtaste streamed I gave a few extra listens to (Fake Type, Melanie Martinez) were even worse.
Teezo Touchdown and Gorillaz were two artists who had pretty disappointing releases. One of them was way worse than the other, but neither of them cracked my worst list at all.
Yeah, it’ll always baffle me that this is the same band that put out one of the best rock songs of the 2000s with The Kill but now it’s just fucking weird…
@ishaanbhattacharya9405 Why are people still surprised? I thought it was common knowledge that both musically and acting Jared is living off good will from one good song and movie from over a decade ago.
I'll never forget the time I was in Vegas while the "When We Were Young" concerts were happening. I was in the area for a different event at the time, but my hotel was close to the stadium. I happened to walk outside at one point while 30 Seconds to Mars were performing. Its insane just how bad of a live performance it was: Jared took so much time introducing himself and his brother before he instructed the audience in how they should cheer or make noise during the first song coming up. They finally started playing music from their older album, but during the chorus, Jared stopped the show and said how the audience reaction/response to the chorus was weak. He then had the tour band do the song over again and I guess the crowd finally did enough to appease him since they went through the whole thing finally. By then I had just walked off to a different place and when I came back, The Offspring were just starting their performance. I promise you this all happened and just confirms that Jared's ego is that bad.
Thank you for affirming my decision to see Simple Plan while I was at that festival. I knew Jared was gonna do the older songs, but I had no idea if he was gonna do it right. I honestly felt bad not catching "The Kill" for the last song at the time 😅
Don't worry about the When We Were Young festival in 2024; 30 seconds to Mars aren't coming back for that. The only bands that are performing there are bands with classic albums (My Chemical Romance, The All American Rejects, Coheed and Cambria, Jimmy Eat World, etc) and they will be performing their classic albums back to front for their setlists.
Haha I don't think anyone would doubt your story, I've never followed the band or been a fan of their music (no dispresect to anyone that is 🙂) but I've seen a few videos pop up in my algo of Jared, stopping songs midway through, because a single member of the audience was either seated or not being enthusiastic enough for him. I believe in one of the videos, he zeros in on one person who he sees is sitting in their seat. He demands they stand up immediately, show him the respect he thinks he's owed or the person would be kicked out and the show wouldn't continue until either the person stood up or left the venue. I believe their may even have been a threat of him coming down to kick their ass but I could easily be mistaken, as it's been a while since I've seen the video. I'm racking my brains now trying to remember what the person did, but I think they might have just walked out when Jared started getting the rest of the crowd to start shouting shit at them etc. I don't think I've ever seen anything like it before lol, it's not that the person was doing anything that warrented them being removed from the show. They were simply just sitting down and prob enjoying the show until being singled out and ridiculed for not showing his holiness the respect he feels he deserves 😂 I hope the person was at least able to get a refund lol.
Lol. Intellectual Property is about religious trauma and dealing with belief in a higher power while at the same time struggling with guilt. Yeah, it doesn’t sound anything like Double Dare, but I like that they’re experimenting with new sounds, Awsten seems to be very happy with his music, and they’re a blast to see in concert.
So THIS is how I find out that Dream made an album!? Crazy. I never really cared much about him, which probably tells me that I shouldn't have... but still. This is how I found out.
10,000 Gecs was pretty fun IMO. It had a dud (Frog On The Floor), but I found the rest of it really fun and much more listenable than their previous album. Doritos & Fritos is easily my favorite. I was previously iffy about 100 Gecs, but the new sound of this album won me over.
There seems to be a theme that repeats across all the albums on this lists and it’s the refusal of some of this musicians to grow up and mature, and it’s very sad to listen to
Metallica is like the SpongeBob series. Their early seasons and albums (ironically enough) are among the best in history. But after the peak, they went on a rough downhill streak of really bad moments before coming back to make some better late era seasons… and now they’re getting mediocre again.
I heard "The Tornado" for the first time on shuffle a few weeks ago, i didn't know that was from Owl City's most recent album. I thought it was an early song because nobody that age should be singing that much out of their range. He's old enough to know what his voice can and can no do. Sad.
Listening to some of these on stream the other night, I found myself kind of forgetting they were even on, and I was left thinking "I mean I don't know, I guess those weren't TOO bad" because they were just so nothing to me. But then I re-listened to Unreal Unearth the next day and was like oh yeah THIS is what a good album is supposed to sound like! The songs aren't SUPPOSED to all sound the same!!
The only one i disagree with is Metallica's 72 Seasons album. I thought that album was pretty fun and it didn't help with the fact that i saw them live last year, and it was the best concert i've ever gone to. It's not their best album by a long shot, but I guess i'm more on the forgiving side where i'm like, "It can't be worse than St Anger or Lulu."
Can we make *IT’S MY BODY, I CAN FUCK WHO I WANT TO* from Coi Leray’s album a meme? It’s so hilariously awful, I think I just about spit out my drink the first time I heard it
Personally thought 72 seasons was a step up from Hardwired. I think it draws from more styles and it draws from their Load and Reload days a bit. I still think this album has great riffs and some good instrumental passages even if they pad out the song. Probably the worst part of the album was the solos, they’re very one note. Overall it’s still a solid album not amazing but it doesn’t really need to be.
Thanks for including 72 Seasons. I'm not one to complain about other people making top 10 lists, but it's impossible to handle with an album this mediocre getting slapped on those by mass publications, even knowing that they have to do it to appease to a mass market audience. Album is so lame, so tedious, and yet bound to get called above average by virtue of the Metallica tax. Go to sleep, Metallica. And these publications are also the same ones that will ask why metal as a genre is so stagnant and old - well, try promoting something other than the generic spawn of legacy acts.
Ehh, 72 seasons was disappointing but I for sure wouldn’t put it as one of the worst albums of the year it was just mediocre when you put it up against everything else that got released this year
Yowza, the fact that Nothing But Thieves and Royal Blood, two of my favorite bands of the last few years and ones you’ve helped increase my love for, were on your Dishonorable Mentions this year… that’s freaking WILD!
Oof... Difficult to hear you hate on Coco Moon (especially Sons of Thunder, as that song has really helped me as an autistic Christian), but even I have to admit "Contemporary Cocomelon" is a sick burn!
Completely disagree with NBT. It is a bit of a dropoff from their previous two albums but that just shows how good Broken Machine and Moral Panic were.
@@matthewduncan572 yeah to me it is their worst, but I don't think it's BAD. Just not my cup of tea overall, I think it's got some great tracks but not consistent as a whole
My biggest issue with Waterparks is that you obviously know the members are extremely talented. Double dare, Entertainment and even Fandom are very solid albums hell double dare is probably one of the best pop punk albums of the 2010s in my opinion. But it just feels like since Greatest hits they’ve slowly become a shadow of what they used to be. I’m not saying everything they do now is bad there actually are songs on the new album I do like but it’s really starting to feel like less of a band and more of just a Awsten Knight solo project with how little it feels like Geoff and Otto have been doing.
ARTV and Grady Smith getting award for most tardy OTY vids among my fellow reviewers 😄 Great things are worth waiting for. Also lol to “toxic positivity”
This is one of the cases when I honestly disagree with you - Whilst the 72 Seasons may be predictable and sort of playing it safe. I still think that it's an okay album. I also liked Hardwired more but it this certainly isn't something I would put that low. It's... passable. Besides that, fair enough. Keep it up, man!
I’ve been a 30 Seconds to Mars fan since the early/mid 2000s and man. America disappointed me, this one I was just completely numb while listening to it. I still legitimately really like their first three albums (self titled is very underrated imo) but the decay has been a sad experience. Completely agree on the Shanon comments too, dude is an amazing drummer but barely is a presence anymore.
'Contemporary Cocomelon' 🤣🤣🤣 my top 3 worst would be: 3. Tiësto - Drive (generic, run of the mill half-assed house music with no substance at all. it's sad how big this album became, considering he had so many great trance songs back in the day) 2. Alice Cooper - Road (insultingly boring. his recent comments about the transgender community don't help whatsoever.) 1. 30STM - It's the End of the World (self-explanatory. wtf ever happened to the same band that crafted those great first two albums.. screw Jared Leto.)
Listening to some of these on the stream the other day, I knew which ones were going to be contenders. I, wholeheartedly, agree with that Anne Marie one. Just a big bag of NOTHING. Also, it’s sad to see how far Waterparks and The Used have fallen in quality. Had some quality debuts, good/great second albums, and fell down from there.
The two for me were definitely 72 Seasons and whatever the hell Jared Leto called that project. 72 Seasons snore inducing that was way too long and couldn't support the repetitive, recycled and uninspired nature of songs. I will always mention it when I get to, the self titled 30 Seconds to Mars album is AWESOME. I still love that project, it's a favorite of mine and if you haven't checked it out, please do. It's sad that Jared Leto doesn't acknowledge the existence of it anymore.
I still have to sit through the later half of Metallica's '72 seasons' and i knew i couldn't be the only one that thought 'Well yes but when is this going to get good?'.
Coco Moon was actually my favorite album last year and Tell Me I'm Alive was also a favorite album of mine as well, but I can understand why someone would have problems with music they grew up with or really enjoyed for a long time sounding different than what they knew. I just like the fact that everyone has a different opinion on certain music because they're passionate about it. No one's right or wrong! They just like different music!
I enjoyed Toxic Positivity, but not as much as their other material. I will say that songs like I Hate Everybody and Dancing With a Brick Wall is some of their weakest songs in the catalogue. I do hope on the next record, they pull themselves together and get out of the rut they were on this album.
I honestly loved 72 Seasons, it was one of my favourite albums of last year and I even played Lux Æterna for one of my final guitar lessons for college back when the song had only been out for like two weeks, I also got to catch one of their Texas shows over the summer when it was playing at my local movie theatre and loved it (plus my older brother recently gave me the vinyl of it as a late birthday present) so I was definitely a fan of the album. However I can also understand why some other people aren’t too big on it either, but of all these albums I will never fucking fathom 30 Seconds to Mars’ incredibly weird shift in sound and I know it’s been said a bunch of times and I apologize for sounding like a broken record but seriously…
I expected to see Metallica being Album of the Year, but Depeche Mode beat them to it by a month. Such a remarkable and very dark themed album. Plus I saw them live and they were fantastic 😊 However my criticism of Metallica is that they should shorten down the songs to at least 50 minutes. Our time span isn't up there with us anymore. 2023 was a great year for older legendary bands. The Rolling Stones, Rancid, Blink 182, Foo Fighters, Alice Cooper. What more can I say? Such a great year. And just now, we got Green Day, Neck Deep, Saxon, Alkaline Trio and Sleater Kinney releasing new albums in January. And they're all awesome! Can't wait til we get Sum 41 and Judas Priest in March.
Successful TH-camrs Try Not To Have A Mediocre Music Career Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE) Seriously, you'd think Onision's terrible music would make more content creators realize they need talent to make good music.
I listened to a lot of albums in ‘23, both old and new; but I gotta hand my worst to Ice Spice’s EP “Like? I made the mistake of buying this on vinyl (yes I know), and could barely stand more than 30 seconds of each song. Such irritating, obnoxious cacophony of sounds.
Here's my top 10 worst albums list! 10. ReMark - The Sound Of Dead Hope (I feel kinda bad for this one since an AOTY user made it, but yea... its not good.) 9. Marshmello - Sugar Papi 8. Anne-Marie - UNHEALTHY 7. Burger King - You Rule. Jingles (yes, this is real) 6. Ice Spice - Like..? 5. Destroy Lonely - If Looks Could Kill 4. Dream - To Whoever Wants To Hear 3. Lil Pump - Lil Pump 2 2. Wyatt James - Fuck Eating On The Weekend 1. 6ix9ine - Leyenda Viva I haven't listened to the Melanie Martinez album yet (I planned to at the very end of 2023, but was too lazy to do it), but I have a VERY strong feeling it would be close to #1 after listening. I've heard snippets, and they've been repulsive.
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
@@maryannappiagyei4277 you changed #5? Ok. Well that's the weakest Jonas Brothers album by a longshot. Half hour long albums are a thing now thanks to Tik Tok. Half hour long albums were back in the 50s/60s and punk rock. But 30 minutes for a pop album? No. I think it should be at least 40 minutes long for an album. In fact, our attention span is gone at this point, due to people only wanting to use their cell phones all the time.
Yeah, 72 season was SUCH a slog and as an ADHDer, well that certainly didn’t help but that album is SO unnecessarily long when it doesn’t need to. Agreed with the rest except for LIBAD and Intellectual Property which I actually enjoyed more with repeated listens lol
Coco Moon, which is genuinely my favourite Owl City Album aside, I agree with basically every pick on this list. TBH, I woulda put The Anne Marie album at #1, her music is abhorrent.
The song Cuckoo genuinely made me angry when I heard it on stream. Anne-Marie spent the entire song claiming she's "cuckoo" because she has anxiety and OCD, and I found it disrespectful to just about anyone with mental health struggles.
Rock worst of year 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. Thirty Seconds to Mars It's the End of the World, But It's a Beautiful
Metallica's not going to hang their instruments up at all. Megadeth came out with an awesome album in 2022. Slayer is out unfortunately and never will come back. Sepultura is going on a farewell tour. But we are expecting new albums from Testament and Exodus this year. For classic metal, Saxon just released their new album, and it's awesome. Judas Priest will release theirs on March 8. I'm just waiting for Deicide to release a new one as well.
intellectual property is definitely waterparks’ weakest project, but i definitely don’t think it’s one of the worst albums of this year. I think there’s definitely some misses on it, with End Of The Water easily being my least favorite song by them, but songs like Closer and Brainwashed really make me enjoy the LP. It’s not perfect from front to back, but i definitely wouldn’t rank it below some of the other releases this year
Here's my rapid fire evaluation of the top 10 10: Weezeritis claims another victim 9: Worst Metallica album since St Anger 8: Pale Waves knock-offs, and just like them, they put me to sleep within five minutes 7: Not familiar with these guys, but I imagine this would suck 6: Owl City's gone from singing about fireflies, to singing about god knows what 5: This album only enhances my excitement for the day she falls into irrelevance 4: Also don't know much about them, either 3: TikTok sadboycore: The album. At least the runtime is legitimate 2: Further proof sampling for the sake of nostalgia does not make you cool (I blame David Guetta) 1: Heard it's only 30 seconds to Mars, but it took even less to lose my mind to this grotesque LP.
I know right. I'm surprised he put it on the dishonourable mentions, but not FOB's So Much (for) Stardust which he seemed to rip into a lot more in his review of that.
this is how I learned that Dream is trying a music career. If you want *good* music from a prominent Minecraft TH-camr, check out Lovejoy, which is a band fronted by Wilbur Soot.
Despite not being crazy about Wilbur Soot's music, he seems like someone who actually has passion for being a musician, and enjoys making music with his band, which is something I can't say about Dream at all.
The 30 seconds to mars album is the only right choice for worst of the year. Even if there was an album that was technically worse I would still hate the 30 seconds to mars one more
I definitely was disappointed by the new Citizen album too. I just felt like it was missing something for sure. Hoping there will be more stuff I love this year.
I remember a few years ago my top three favorite bands for a long time were All Time Low, Paramore and Waterparks. Paramore is still my favorite, but the other two just fell off so hard for me (especially with their new music). It's like I grew up and they (ATL and Waterparks) never did, at least from what the "maturing" of their new music these last few years shows. ATL's album was so cringe and boring that I couldn't finish it, and Waterparks's was just such an angsty trainwreck that I kept listening to it out of curiosity for where it could possibly go next after each song. I also really really wanted to like the Nothing But Thieves and Mitski albums and just couldn't.
Metallica is my favorite band. I enjoy 72 Seasons when listening to it in it’s entirety but I sorta wonder if there’s a reason why I rarely think to put it on
I notice your comment about how it’s insane that Royal Blood didn’t have Supermodel Avalanches on the main album. In a similar vein, Nothing But Thieves just released the song Oh No :: He Said What?, and I asked myself the same question: how did such an awesome track like that miss the initial release of the album?
I like Metallica, and liked Hardwired to Self Destruct, but I listening to this album and thought it was mediocre for them. I wish it was better, all the songs sounded the same from start to finish and that is why it dragged for me.
My worst listen was Fake Type- Fake Swing 2. Found it from Brad Taste in Music and that was my worst migraine I had in 2023. Melanie Martinez, Owl City (tornado was the only song i liked lmao), Hardy, Destroy Lonely, 30 Seconds to The Exit, Trippie Redd ALLTY5 and Tom MacDonald with his little buddy Adam. Thank god there were a lot better albums than bad in 2023.
The one-take (mostly?) dishonorable disappointments section was clean 🔥 Only disagreements i'd have was the A7X album and NBT (though that album did have its disappointments, especially with the slow ballads. Looking forward to the bonus track this Monday tho!)
@@thereverse-flash9942 I certainly did. I thought it was going to be album of the year, but it came out a month too late. Depeche Mode's Memento Mori was released at that time and I loved it. Even after the death of Fletch, Depeche Mode decided to continue on with the duo of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore. Their best album they did in nearly 20 years. I got a chance to see them in November and they are still as good as they were 30 years ago. Can't wait to hear what comes next. But they definitely won me this year. Metallica did great as well. I loved it too, but I think Hardwired.... to Self-Destruct is better, but 72 Seasons is great as well. Happy to see Metallica doing awesome. However, it's number 3 because of The Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds that came out in October. I listened to it all the way through and believe that this is the best album from a classic rock band late in their career. It's a no skips album, listen to it all the way through. Cannibal Corpse's Chaos Horrific at 4 and Queens of the Stone Age's In Time New Roman at 5 respectfully. 2023 was a great year for older legendary bands. We already got Green Day, Saxon, Neck Deep, Sleater Kinney and Alkaline Trio so far this year. Can't wait to hear more new music this year! Oh and Metallica aren't going anywhere. Neither will Megadeth, but Sepultura will be going on a farewell tour this year unfortunately.
Even with Toxic Positivity being as bad as it is, (I enjoyed their Heartwork album), I still think think The Canyon is their worst album. I don't think they should hang it up though. I do tend to think Used still has some good in them, otherwise I wouldn't have stuck with them for so long despite some of their worst efforts. I think they still have a bit to offer, but they got to get on board with the right people in my opinion.
I'm actually quite surprised to see Nothing but thieves DCC in the dishonorable list since it's got some good ones in it..Keeping you around, Tomorrow is closed are good..
Ngl I kinda liked intellectual property but I’d definitely love to see Waterparks take on a more mature record at some point soon. Also surprised no AJR but wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t listen to it lol
Avoided a lot of these cause I don't want to lose myself mentally, but 72 Seasons was easily the most disappointing. Way too long, lazy guitar solos and predictable song structures. Being honest, if St. Anger didn't exist, this would be my least favorite Metallica album. Coco Moon wasn't horrible, but it just sounded like Adam Young was trying a bit too hard to reclaim the glory days of Owl City with none of the charm that made it appealing. Some of the nostalgic aspects did win me over a few times, but the lyrics being kinda cringeworthy didn't help much. I feel the whole "imaginative/wonder" type themes Adam has done over the years have gotten very old, especially coming from a 37 year old man.
My thoughts 10. Not surprising to me 9. No opinion as I'm not a proper Metallica fan 8. Based on the song you played, I get it 7. Already knew you weren't gonna like this one after I found out Blackbear featured on one of the songs 😂 6. Adam's decline genuinely makes me so sad 5. 2002 nailed her music not being for me. Mostly feel bad for retail workers that had to suffer through that 4. Don't listen to them but based on what you played, I get it Dishonorable Mentions: Don't listen to any of the artists properly 3. This sounds awful so yes, deserves this ranking 2. Yeah, I get this being here. Players was *WAY* too overplayed and I genuinely over people using sampling too much 1. Genuinely justified. Jared Leto's ego is *OUT* of control based on what I've seen
Coco Moon is probably my favorite album of the last decade. Owl City has always been a very love-it or hate-it artist, and only continues to be as time goes on. Coco Moon is, in my opinion, a real (and positive) evolution on Owl City. It reminds me of Ultraviolet more than anything, only less digital and almost folky. Just about every song on hear reads like a fable, both timeless and modern. A lot of people won't like it. If they are even moderately cynical, they might think it's cheesy. A lot of people, such as myself, love it. Albums like Coco Moon are like a litmus test. Not positive or negative, just a difference in world view.
I haven't heard the new japanese house yet but i liked the singles, it being on the list makes sad and nervous. But i do agree with critcism about it feeling like matty/george solo project.😊
I feel like there's a certain Eurovision band you should've included, but I realize you were probably just trying to avoid the ire of their completely psychotic fans lol
72 Seasons cracked my end-of-2023 top 10. However, I will admit that I found the deep cuts stronger than the singles. In my opinion, it was the other way around with Hardwired.
Ok, I feel validated by the Mitski feature in the dishonorable mentions. I'm glad she's successful now, but her output hasn't been all that engaging to me for a while--and this is coming from someone who *adored* her music 5-7 years ago.
Tasteless Please remember this is not intended as an objective list, just my LEAST favorites of 2023.
What albums disappointed you this year? 🤔
Most of these, save for that I at least liked (but didn't love) Intellectual Property and Toxic Positivity. However some of the stuff Bradtaste streamed I gave a few extra listens to (Fake Type, Melanie Martinez) were even worse.
Teezo Touchdown and Gorillaz were two artists who had pretty disappointing releases. One of them was way worse than the other, but neither of them cracked my worst list at all.
Evile The Unknown disappointment
Worst OTEP GOD SLAYER
The downfall of 30 Seconds to Mars is insane. Last two albums being absolutely dreadful
Expectef from jared leto
Yeah, it’ll always baffle me that this is the same band that put out one of the best rock songs of the 2000s with The Kill but now it’s just fucking weird…
@ishaanbhattacharya9405 Why are people still surprised? I thought it was common knowledge that both musically and acting Jared is living off good will from one good song and movie from over a decade ago.
If you think about it. A Beautiful Lie was his Requiem For A Dream while America is a Suicide Squad and It’s The End Of The World is a Morbius.
@@Chelaxim nah there was several good songs. The Kill, From Yesterday, Closer To The Edge and This Is War are great. It all went downhill after 2009
One day there could be a deluxe edition of a 30 seconds to Mars album with 200 songs. A truly terrifying prospect.
I'll never forget the time I was in Vegas while the "When We Were Young" concerts were happening. I was in the area for a different event at the time, but my hotel was close to the stadium. I happened to walk outside at one point while 30 Seconds to Mars were performing. Its insane just how bad of a live performance it was: Jared took so much time introducing himself and his brother before he instructed the audience in how they should cheer or make noise during the first song coming up. They finally started playing music from their older album, but during the chorus, Jared stopped the show and said how the audience reaction/response to the chorus was weak. He then had the tour band do the song over again and I guess the crowd finally did enough to appease him since they went through the whole thing finally. By then I had just walked off to a different place and when I came back, The Offspring were just starting their performance.
I promise you this all happened and just confirms that Jared's ego is that bad.
Thank you for affirming my decision to see Simple Plan while I was at that festival. I knew Jared was gonna do the older songs, but I had no idea if he was gonna do it right. I honestly felt bad not catching "The Kill" for the last song at the time 😅
@@WhiteAsylumMindi saw them do the kill on the carnivores tour. it was absolute ass unfortunately
Don't worry about the When We Were Young festival in 2024; 30 seconds to Mars aren't coming back for that. The only bands that are performing there are bands with classic albums (My Chemical Romance, The All American Rejects, Coheed and Cambria, Jimmy Eat World, etc) and they will be performing their classic albums back to front for their setlists.
Haha I don't think anyone would doubt your story, I've never followed the band or been a fan of their music (no dispresect to anyone that is 🙂)
but I've seen a few videos pop up in my algo of Jared, stopping songs midway through, because a single member of the audience was either seated or not being enthusiastic enough for him.
I believe in one of the videos, he zeros in on one person who he sees is sitting in their seat.
He demands they stand up immediately, show him the respect he thinks he's owed or the person would be kicked out and the show wouldn't continue until either the person stood up or left the venue.
I believe their may even have been a threat of him coming down to kick their ass but I could easily be mistaken, as it's been a while since I've seen the video.
I'm racking my brains now trying to remember what the person did, but I think they might have just walked out when Jared started getting the rest of the crowd to start shouting shit at them etc.
I don't think I've ever seen anything like it before lol, it's not that the person was doing anything that warrented them being removed from the show.
They were simply just sitting down and prob enjoying the show until being singled out and ridiculed for not showing his holiness the respect he feels he deserves 😂
I hope the person was at least able to get a refund lol.
Maybe that’s why he’s trying to look like Jesus
I’m glad you put Jared Leto‘s most cringiest picture on the thumbnail.
Had to!
Jared Siwa
Lol. Intellectual Property is about religious trauma and dealing with belief in a higher power while at the same time struggling with guilt.
Yeah, it doesn’t sound anything like Double Dare, but I like that they’re experimenting with new sounds, Awsten seems to be very happy with his music, and they’re a blast to see in concert.
So THIS is how I find out that Dream made an album!? Crazy. I never really cared much about him, which probably tells me that I shouldn't have... but still. This is how I found out.
Same
I actually liked 10,000 Gecs, mostly because of Billy Knows Jamie. The last 50 seconds of that song is one of the heaviest things I've ever heard.
10,000 Gecs was pretty fun IMO. It had a dud (Frog On The Floor), but I found the rest of it really fun and much more listenable than their previous album. Doritos & Fritos is easily my favorite. I was previously iffy about 100 Gecs, but the new sound of this album won me over.
@@ASCENSiON_that's one of the BEST songs.
I like the pop-punk feel this album had. I didn't like their first album very much@@ASCENSiON_
Frog On The Floor is pretty fun lmao@@ASCENSiON_
There seems to be a theme that repeats across all the albums on this lists and it’s the refusal of some of this musicians to grow up and mature, and it’s very sad to listen to
Most of the pop/alternative/rock scene after 2019 is like this, unfortunately. An absolute dumpster fire.
Metallica is like the SpongeBob series.
Their early seasons and albums (ironically enough) are among the best in history.
But after the peak, they went on a rough downhill streak of really bad moments before coming back to make some better late era seasons… and now they’re getting mediocre again.
The SpongeBob comparison, I cannot
That's a perfect comparison god damn
Kinda spot on
I mean, i've heard worst. COUGH St Anger and Lulu COUGH (and for the record, i think Lulu is worse than St Anger)
I heard "The Tornado" for the first time on shuffle a few weeks ago, i didn't know that was from Owl City's most recent album. I thought it was an early song because nobody that age should be singing that much out of their range. He's old enough to know what his voice can and can no do.
Sad.
The Tornado nearly blew out my eardrums when I first heard it. Genuinely awful song lmao
Its a great song tbh @@ASCENSiON_
We as a society need to stop giving industry plants clout.
Listening to some of these on stream the other night, I found myself kind of forgetting they were even on, and I was left thinking "I mean I don't know, I guess those weren't TOO bad" because they were just so nothing to me. But then I re-listened to Unreal Unearth the next day and was like oh yeah THIS is what a good album is supposed to sound like! The songs aren't SUPPOSED to all sound the same!!
Exactly! 😆‼️
The only one i disagree with is Metallica's 72 Seasons album. I thought that album was pretty fun and it didn't help with the fact that i saw them live last year, and it was the best concert i've ever gone to. It's not their best album by a long shot, but I guess i'm more on the forgiving side where i'm like, "It can't be worse than St Anger or Lulu."
Can we make *IT’S MY BODY, I CAN FUCK WHO I WANT TO* from Coi Leray’s album a meme? It’s so hilariously awful, I think I just about spit out my drink the first time I heard it
I didn't even know Owl City made an album this year.
I really like watching both you and Mic The Snare, so it’s funny to see that In The End It Always Does ended up on your worst list and his best list
OMG THEY SERIOUSLY WERE ON WHEEL OF FORTUNE! I'm sure my Grandmother was like WHOOO?!?😂
Personally thought 72 seasons was a step up from Hardwired. I think it draws from more styles and it draws from their Load and Reload days a bit. I still think this album has great riffs and some good instrumental passages even if they pad out the song. Probably the worst part of the album was the solos, they’re very one note. Overall it’s still a solid album not amazing but it doesn’t really need to be.
Thanks for including 72 Seasons. I'm not one to complain about other people making top 10 lists, but it's impossible to handle with an album this mediocre getting slapped on those by mass publications, even knowing that they have to do it to appease to a mass market audience.
Album is so lame, so tedious, and yet bound to get called above average by virtue of the Metallica tax. Go to sleep, Metallica.
And these publications are also the same ones that will ask why metal as a genre is so stagnant and old - well, try promoting something other than the generic spawn of legacy acts.
Im once again begging 30 seconds to mars to change their name. Those first 2 records dont deserve to be associated with the last 3 30STM albums
Preach it!!!!
Ehh, 72 seasons was disappointing but I for sure wouldn’t put it as one of the worst albums of the year it was just mediocre when you put it up against everything else that got released this year
30 seconds to mars was accurate though and that description was pretty funny
Yowza, the fact that Nothing But Thieves and Royal Blood, two of my favorite bands of the last few years and ones you’ve helped increase my love for, were on your Dishonorable Mentions this year… that’s freaking WILD!
Oof... Difficult to hear you hate on Coco Moon (especially Sons of Thunder, as that song has really helped me as an autistic Christian), but even I have to admit "Contemporary Cocomelon" is a sick burn!
Completely disagree with NBT. It is a bit of a dropoff from their previous two albums but that just shows how good Broken Machine and Moral Panic were.
Yeah like it's definitely their weakest work but not a bad album by any means
@@matthewduncan572 yeah to me it is their worst, but I don't think it's BAD. Just not my cup of tea overall, I think it's got some great tracks but not consistent as a whole
I'm surprised the Anne-Marie album isn't even higher. Completely wretched album
Agreed. Especially Cuckoo 🤬
My biggest issue with Waterparks is that you obviously know the members are extremely talented. Double dare, Entertainment and even Fandom are very solid albums hell double dare is probably one of the best pop punk albums of the 2010s in my opinion. But it just feels like since Greatest hits they’ve slowly become a shadow of what they used to be. I’m not saying everything they do now is bad there actually are songs on the new album I do like but it’s really starting to feel like less of a band and more of just a Awsten Knight solo project with how little it feels like Geoff and Otto have been doing.
ARTV and Grady Smith getting award for most tardy OTY vids among my fellow reviewers 😄 Great things are worth waiting for. Also lol to “toxic positivity”
Almost everything you said about 72 seasons is exactly how I feel about the new Green Day album.
Preach.
Dream classifed under Kids Bop
LMAO. Indeed.
This is one of the cases when I honestly disagree with you - Whilst the 72 Seasons may be predictable and sort of playing it safe. I still think that it's an okay album. I also liked Hardwired more but it this certainly isn't something I would put that low. It's... passable. Besides that, fair enough. Keep it up, man!
I’ve been a 30 Seconds to Mars fan since the early/mid 2000s and man. America disappointed me, this one I was just completely numb while listening to it. I still legitimately really like their first three albums (self titled is very underrated imo) but the decay has been a sad experience. Completely agree on the Shanon comments too, dude is an amazing drummer but barely is a presence anymore.
Life is But a Dream is my favorite album of the year so I'm so glad it didn't make the main list XD
'Contemporary Cocomelon' 🤣🤣🤣
my top 3 worst would be:
3. Tiësto - Drive (generic, run of the mill half-assed house music with no substance at all. it's sad how big this album became, considering he had so many great trance songs back in the day)
2. Alice Cooper - Road (insultingly boring. his recent comments about the transgender community don't help whatsoever.)
1. 30STM - It's the End of the World (self-explanatory. wtf ever happened to the same band that crafted those great first two albums.. screw Jared Leto.)
massive disagree on the Japanese House making this list
Listening to some of these on the stream the other day, I knew which ones were going to be contenders. I, wholeheartedly, agree with that Anne Marie one. Just a big bag of NOTHING. Also, it’s sad to see how far Waterparks and The Used have fallen in quality. Had some quality debuts, good/great second albums, and fell down from there.
I remember when the first single off 30 Seconds to Mars dropped. I didn’t even make it through the song so I sure as hell didn’t listen to the album
The two for me were definitely 72 Seasons and whatever the hell Jared Leto called that project.
72 Seasons snore inducing that was way too long and couldn't support the repetitive, recycled and uninspired nature of songs.
I will always mention it when I get to, the self titled 30 Seconds to Mars album is AWESOME. I still love that project, it's a favorite of mine and if you haven't checked it out, please do. It's sad that Jared Leto doesn't acknowledge the existence of it anymore.
Anne-Marie's music consistently tests the limits of how bad a conventional pop song can be. What is her appeal? Why does she continue to have success?
I still have to sit through the later half of Metallica's '72 seasons' and i knew i couldn't be the only one that thought 'Well yes but when is this going to get good?'.
Coco Moon was actually my favorite album last year and Tell Me I'm Alive was also a favorite album of mine as well, but I can understand why someone would have problems with music they grew up with or really enjoyed for a long time sounding different than what they knew.
I just like the fact that everyone has a different opinion on certain music because they're passionate about it. No one's right or wrong! They just like different music!
I enjoyed Toxic Positivity, but not as much as their other material. I will say that songs like I Hate Everybody and Dancing With a Brick Wall is some of their weakest songs in the catalogue. I do hope on the next record, they pull themselves together and get out of the rut they were on this album.
It's always a great day when ARTV uploads
I'm utterly shocked the the new AJR album isn't on this list 😂
Why? I announced awhile back I’m done listening to their albums 😜
I honestly loved 72 Seasons, it was one of my favourite albums of last year and I even played Lux Æterna for one of my final guitar lessons for college back when the song had only been out for like two weeks, I also got to catch one of their Texas shows over the summer when it was playing at my local movie theatre and loved it (plus my older brother recently gave me the vinyl of it as a late birthday present) so I was definitely a fan of the album. However I can also understand why some other people aren’t too big on it either, but of all these albums I will never fucking fathom 30 Seconds to Mars’ incredibly weird shift in sound and I know it’s been said a bunch of times and I apologize for sounding like a broken record but seriously…
I expected to see Metallica being Album of the Year, but Depeche Mode beat them to it by a month. Such a remarkable and very dark themed album. Plus I saw them live and they were fantastic 😊 However my criticism of Metallica is that they should shorten down the songs to at least 50 minutes. Our time span isn't up there with us anymore. 2023 was a great year for older legendary bands. The Rolling Stones, Rancid, Blink 182, Foo Fighters, Alice Cooper. What more can I say? Such a great year. And just now, we got Green Day, Neck Deep, Saxon, Alkaline Trio and Sleater Kinney releasing new albums in January. And they're all awesome! Can't wait til we get Sum 41 and Judas Priest in March.
Successful TH-camrs Try Not To Have A Mediocre Music Career Challenge (IMPOSSIBLE)
Seriously, you'd think Onision's terrible music would make more content creators realize they need talent to make good music.
What?? The Japanese House album is amazing, fkng love that The 1975 sound!
Yeah ikr I fucking love that album
I listened to a lot of albums in ‘23, both old and new; but I gotta hand my worst to Ice Spice’s EP “Like? I made the mistake of buying this on vinyl (yes I know), and could barely stand more than 30 seconds of each song. Such irritating, obnoxious cacophony of sounds.
Here's my top 10 worst albums list!
10. ReMark - The Sound Of Dead Hope (I feel kinda bad for this one since an AOTY user made it, but yea... its not good.)
9. Marshmello - Sugar Papi
8. Anne-Marie - UNHEALTHY
7. Burger King - You Rule. Jingles (yes, this is real)
6. Ice Spice - Like..?
5. Destroy Lonely - If Looks Could Kill
4. Dream - To Whoever Wants To Hear
3. Lil Pump - Lil Pump 2
2. Wyatt James - Fuck Eating On The Weekend
1. 6ix9ine - Leyenda Viva
I haven't listened to the Melanie Martinez album yet (I planned to at the very end of 2023, but was too lazy to do it), but I have a VERY strong feeling it would be close to #1 after listening. I've heard snippets, and they've been repulsive.
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
This is how I find out 6ix9ine is releasing more trash 🤢
Mostly agree with this list
@@maryannappiagyei4277 you changed #5? Ok. Well that's the weakest Jonas Brothers album by a longshot. Half hour long albums are a thing now thanks to Tik Tok. Half hour long albums were back in the 50s/60s and punk rock. But 30 minutes for a pop album? No. I think it should be at least 40 minutes long for an album. In fact, our attention span is gone at this point, due to people only wanting to use their cell phones all the time.
Yeah, 72 season was SUCH a slog and as an ADHDer, well that certainly didn’t help but that album is SO unnecessarily long when it doesn’t need to.
Agreed with the rest except for LIBAD and Intellectual Property which I actually enjoyed more with repeated listens lol
Coco Moon, which is genuinely my favourite Owl City Album aside, I agree with basically every pick on this list.
TBH, I woulda put The Anne Marie album at #1, her music is abhorrent.
The song Cuckoo genuinely made me angry when I heard it on stream. Anne-Marie spent the entire song claiming she's "cuckoo" because she has anxiety and OCD, and I found it disrespectful to just about anyone with mental health struggles.
Actually, I would’ve put Anne Marie at number 1 too tbh. I didn’t think there would be a worse album than 30STM’s shitshow but she proved me wrong 💀
Rock worst of year 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. Thirty Seconds to Mars It's the End of the World, But It's a Beautiful
Oh yeah! Roger Waters! Why did he do that album? WTF was that! Just go to the original Dark Side of the Moon!
I thought "People Are Vomit" was okay, but I was pissed off when I found out it was a B-side for Toxic Positivity
10:38 why the fuck did they put out a 31 minute album as a DOUBLE LP
I'm OK with music that sounds like The 1975 but doesn't have the embarrassment Matty Healy as a frontman
Tbh, this
What does that mean? If anything TJH honors the 1975 sonically. George has no production credits 😭😭
I disagree on you about 72 Seasons but all the rest i agree, even tho i only know half of the albums 😅
Metallica's not going to hang their instruments up at all. Megadeth came out with an awesome album in 2022. Slayer is out unfortunately and never will come back. Sepultura is going on a farewell tour. But we are expecting new albums from Testament and Exodus this year. For classic metal, Saxon just released their new album, and it's awesome. Judas Priest will release theirs on March 8. I'm just waiting for Deicide to release a new one as well.
@@takodabostwick8507 Yeah Megadeth's album is great too, not my style tho... Sepultura kinda sucks since Max Cavalera left
@@takodabostwick8507I would say 72 seasons and Megadeth’s album are around the same good but not awesome.
@@Owen_plays_music1049 my comment on Slayer aged like milk.
intellectual property is definitely waterparks’ weakest project, but i definitely don’t think it’s one of the worst albums of this year. I think there’s definitely some misses on it, with End Of The Water easily being my least favorite song by them, but songs like Closer and Brainwashed really make me enjoy the LP. It’s not perfect from front to back, but i definitely wouldn’t rank it below some of the other releases this year
Idk how Waterparks get wrose with their albums. They use to be a good band.
Here's my rapid fire evaluation of the top 10
10: Weezeritis claims another victim
9: Worst Metallica album since St Anger
8: Pale Waves knock-offs, and just like them, they put me to sleep within five minutes
7: Not familiar with these guys, but I imagine this would suck
6: Owl City's gone from singing about fireflies, to singing about god knows what
5: This album only enhances my excitement for the day she falls into irrelevance
4: Also don't know much about them, either
3: TikTok sadboycore: The album. At least the runtime is legitimate
2: Further proof sampling for the sake of nostalgia does not make you cool (I blame David Guetta)
1: Heard it's only 30 seconds to Mars, but it took even less to lose my mind to this grotesque LP.
Dead Club City is soooo good.
I dont understand ANY of the hate
Glad you’re digging it so much. I definitely don’t hate it, Do You Love Me Yet?, Members Only, Pop the Balloon… there’s still some bangers there!
I know right. I'm surprised he put it on the dishonourable mentions, but not FOB's So Much (for) Stardust which he seemed to rip into a lot more in his review of that.
labeling the genre of the dream album as "Kidz Bop" is prolly the best thing I've seen anybody ever do
this is how I learned that Dream is trying a music career.
If you want *good* music from a prominent Minecraft TH-camr, check out Lovejoy, which is a band fronted by Wilbur Soot.
Despite not being crazy about Wilbur Soot's music, he seems like someone who actually has passion for being a musician, and enjoys making music with his band, which is something I can't say about Dream at all.
The 30 seconds to mars album is the only right choice for worst of the year. Even if there was an album that was technically worse I would still hate the 30 seconds to mars one more
I definitely was disappointed by the new Citizen album too. I just felt like it was missing something for sure. Hoping there will be more stuff I love this year.
I remember a few years ago my top three favorite bands for a long time were All Time Low, Paramore and Waterparks. Paramore is still my favorite, but the other two just fell off so hard for me (especially with their new music). It's like I grew up and they (ATL and Waterparks) never did, at least from what the "maturing" of their new music these last few years shows. ATL's album was so cringe and boring that I couldn't finish it, and Waterparks's was just such an angsty trainwreck that I kept listening to it out of curiosity for where it could possibly go next after each song. I also really really wanted to like the Nothing But Thieves and Mitski albums and just couldn't.
Completely agree the new Citizen album was disappointing, especially after Life in your Glass World being such a fantastic record.
Metallica is my favorite band. I enjoy 72 Seasons when listening to it in it’s entirety but I sorta wonder if there’s a reason why I rarely think to put it on
I notice your comment about how it’s insane that Royal Blood didn’t have Supermodel Avalanches on the main album. In a similar vein, Nothing But Thieves just released the song Oh No :: He Said What?, and I asked myself the same question: how did such an awesome track like that miss the initial release of the album?
Going into the Thirty Seconds to Mars album, I expected it to be bad ... and it was somehow MUCH worse than I expected.
I smiled when you mentioned the song Supermodel Avalanches. If the whole album had the bite of this song, then i would have enjoyed it a lot more
I like Metallica, and liked Hardwired to Self Destruct, but I listening to this album and thought it was mediocre for them. I wish it was better, all the songs sounded the same from start to finish and that is why it dragged for me.
fuck it i like tell me i’m alive, it might be boring but it’s fun 😭
My worst listen was Fake Type- Fake Swing 2. Found it from Brad Taste in Music and that was my worst migraine I had in 2023. Melanie Martinez, Owl City (tornado was the only song i liked lmao), Hardy, Destroy Lonely, 30 Seconds to The Exit, Trippie Redd ALLTY5 and Tom MacDonald with his little buddy Adam. Thank god there were a lot better albums than bad in 2023.
I didn’t listen to the Royal Blood album but based on their last one and the songs I did hear, I didn’t have high expectations
The one-take (mostly?) dishonorable disappointments section was clean 🔥 Only disagreements i'd have was the A7X album and NBT (though that album did have its disappointments, especially with the slow ballads. Looking forward to the bonus track this Monday tho!)
I loved 72 Seasons lol
Yeah. I feel like people would enjoy it more if they didn’t try to think about it too much. It’s just a fun metal album by a legacy band.
@@thereverse-flash9942 I certainly did. I thought it was going to be album of the year, but it came out a month too late. Depeche Mode's Memento Mori was released at that time and I loved it. Even after the death of Fletch, Depeche Mode decided to continue on with the duo of Dave Gahan and Martin Gore. Their best album they did in nearly 20 years. I got a chance to see them in November and they are still as good as they were 30 years ago. Can't wait to hear what comes next. But they definitely won me this year. Metallica did great as well. I loved it too, but I think Hardwired.... to Self-Destruct is better, but 72 Seasons is great as well. Happy to see Metallica doing awesome. However, it's number 3 because of The Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds that came out in October. I listened to it all the way through and believe that this is the best album from a classic rock band late in their career. It's a no skips album, listen to it all the way through. Cannibal Corpse's Chaos Horrific at 4 and Queens of the Stone Age's In Time New Roman at 5 respectfully. 2023 was a great year for older legendary bands. We already got Green Day, Saxon, Neck Deep, Sleater Kinney and Alkaline Trio so far this year. Can't wait to hear more new music this year! Oh and Metallica aren't going anywhere. Neither will Megadeth, but Sepultura will be going on a farewell tour this year unfortunately.
I didn't even realize you haven't posted a Worst Albums of 2023 weeks ago.
Better late than never!
I love 72 Seasons. But I respect your opinion, I admit it took a while to fully get into it.
Agree with the all time low album. The three songs you mentioned are good but i forget and dont listen to the rest. Still very immature lyrics too
Even with Toxic Positivity being as bad as it is, (I enjoyed their Heartwork album), I still think think The Canyon is their worst album. I don't think they should hang it up though. I do tend to think Used still has some good in them, otherwise I wouldn't have stuck with them for so long despite some of their worst efforts. I think they still have a bit to offer, but they got to get on board with the right people in my opinion.
I'm actually quite surprised to see Nothing but thieves DCC in the dishonorable list since it's got some good ones in it..Keeping you around, Tomorrow is closed are good..
7:56 The Tornado being worse than All My Friends???
Nah but it's a close second, maybe
@@artvjon Ah good 😊 I personally liked The Tornado but I 100% understand why people don't like it.
@@artvjon In your opinion, do you prefer Cinematic or Coco Moon?
As a polite Canadian I loved Coco Moon 😭
Ngl I kinda liked intellectual property but I’d definitely love to see Waterparks take on a more mature record at some point soon. Also surprised no AJR but wouldn’t blame you if you didn’t listen to it lol
Avoided a lot of these cause I don't want to lose myself mentally, but 72 Seasons was easily the most disappointing. Way too long, lazy guitar solos and predictable song structures. Being honest, if St. Anger didn't exist, this would be my least favorite Metallica album. Coco Moon wasn't horrible, but it just sounded like Adam Young was trying a bit too hard to reclaim the glory days of Owl City with none of the charm that made it appealing. Some of the nostalgic aspects did win me over a few times, but the lyrics being kinda cringeworthy didn't help much. I feel the whole "imaginative/wonder" type themes Adam has done over the years have gotten very old, especially coming from a 37 year old man.
I liked 72 Seasons man... I just didn't like the fan favorite 'Inamorata'
My thoughts
10. Not surprising to me
9. No opinion as I'm not a proper Metallica fan
8. Based on the song you played, I get it
7. Already knew you weren't gonna like this one after I found out Blackbear featured on one of the songs 😂
6. Adam's decline genuinely makes me so sad
5. 2002 nailed her music not being for me. Mostly feel bad for retail workers that had to suffer through that
4. Don't listen to them but based on what you played, I get it
Dishonorable Mentions: Don't listen to any of the artists properly
3. This sounds awful so yes, deserves this ranking
2. Yeah, I get this being here. Players was *WAY* too overplayed and I genuinely over people using sampling too much
1. Genuinely justified. Jared Leto's ego is *OUT* of control based on what I've seen
intellectual property is really not that bad😭😭😭 i love real super dark
Oh damn. Surprised to not see Hardy’s album in here 😂
Refused to hear it lol
I shocked that A7X isn't on here. That album was hilariously bad. Like AI generated prog.
My friend, your mustaches should start a new southern rock band🫂
Coco Moon is probably my favorite album of the last decade. Owl City has always been a very love-it or hate-it artist, and only continues to be as time goes on. Coco Moon is, in my opinion, a real (and positive) evolution on Owl City. It reminds me of Ultraviolet more than anything, only less digital and almost folky. Just about every song on hear reads like a fable, both timeless and modern. A lot of people won't like it. If they are even moderately cynical, they might think it's cheesy. A lot of people, such as myself, love it. Albums like Coco Moon are like a litmus test. Not positive or negative, just a difference in world view.
9:04 thank you for saying English and not British 🎉 finally USA gets it
I haven't heard the new japanese house yet but i liked the singles, it being on the list makes sad and nervous. But i do agree with critcism about it feeling like matty/george solo project.😊
I feel like there's a certain Eurovision band you should've included, but I realize you were probably just trying to avoid the ire of their completely psychotic fans lol
I used to love Anne Marie when she was with rudimental sad that she is like stuck
72 Seasons cracked my end-of-2023 top 10. However, I will admit that I found the deep cuts stronger than the singles. In my opinion, it was the other way around with Hardwired.
Ok, I feel validated by the Mitski feature in the dishonorable mentions. I'm glad she's successful now, but her output hasn't been all that engaging to me for a while--and this is coming from someone who *adored* her music 5-7 years ago.
Im surprised that Godsmacks latest (and thankfully last) album wasn't on here.
Great list
Oh man lol I feel the EXACT same way about the Japanese house album but I wasn't expecting anyone to SAY it lmao