10 Rock Albums That Get Way Too Much Hate
Better Than You Remember.
The fandom around musicians has never been known to mince their words. If they don't like something, they are going to let you know, and if you royally screw it up, you're going to become a punching bag for the rest of your days. When the dust all settles though, is it really fair to call all of these records terrible?
That's not to say that these albums don't have some really big problems though. On most of these, you can see how the band was trying to either reinvent their sound or experimenting with something and it just didn't come together very well. If you just throw all of it out though, you're leaving behind some songs that have potential to be great, even some that are among the best in the band's catalog.
If you sit with these records aside from the anti-hype they were given, these are some fairly decent rock and roll albums that come just a little bit short of hitting the mark they were aiming for. That doesn't mean they're bad...it just means that they failed in just one aspect of the recording process. These albums may not have cleared the bar with flying colors or anything, but they don't deserve to be buried under mountains of hate either. It's time to see if all that hate is warranted.
10. Uno - Green Day
There's no disputing that the Green Day trilogy is far from their greatest work. Even if you were to take the best of every single album and make your ideal version of what these albums should have been, they weren't going to give Dookie or even Nimrod a run for their money any time soon. Still, the amount of hate that gets thrown at the first entry in the catalog tends to get a bit overblown.
Looking back on it, Uno remains the moment that most people realized that the trilogy was going to be a bad idea, with more than a few filler tracks to go around right out of the gate. If you were to ignore some of the more tepid cuts like Angel Blue though, there's still a quality rock album in here somewhere, like the punk thrashiness of Let Yourself Go or the power pop styles they were cribbing from on something like Nuclear Family.
It doesn't help matters that the album is paced pretty unevenly, like when all of the momentum is sucked out of the record on Kill the DJ or making Oh Love the closer of the record. As it stands today though, Uno seems to be hated more for what it stands for in Green Day's discography rather than what it actually is. If you take it as just a solid collection of power pop tunes though, this is far from the worst thing the band has ever done.