10 Biggest Album Disasters Of All Time

7. Self Portrait - Bob Dylan

Ever since the '60s, music critics have been aching to fawn over Bob Dylan's lyrics with a fine-toothed comb. From the beginning stabs of The Times They Are A-Changin and Blowin in the Wind, Dylan's role as the Voice of His Generation has put him on far greater a pedestal than your average rock star would be. That role isn't for everyone though, least of all Dylan himself.

Looking to give his critics and audience a bit of a curveball, Self Portrait is one of the most fractured moments in Dylan's discovery, as he strips his sound down over two discs of vinyl. For as much as some of the songs may be fairly nuanced in their construction, this is the warts and all Dylan fans didn't know they wanted, as he works through versions of Paul Simon songs as well as weird standards like Blue Moon.

Although Dylan would end up re-igniting his artistic fire just a few years down the line with albums like Blood on the Tracks, fans were outraged and confused on first listening, leading one critic's review to start with "What is this sh*t?." Looking back on it, Dylan had expressed his desire to shake off his legendary reputation with an album like this. Considering how much rancor has been thrown its way, Self Portrait almost delivered on that promise.