10 Terrible Albums By Legendary Music Bands

10. Ummagumma - Pink Floyd

There's definitely a clear split in Pink Floyd's discography from their psychedelic sounds to the prog rock gods. In the time when Syd Barrett left the band, you can hear the band trying to cope with his loss in whatever way they can, whether that's going on long tangents or writing songs that try to capture that same type of whimsy that Syd could. Progressive music is all about taking risks though, and before we got songs like Echoes, we had to give everyone their own right to be weird on Ummagumma.

While the first half of this record plays as a pretty decent live record with songs like Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun, the back half is where everything gets thrown out the window, with every band member contributing their own avant garde rock piece into the mix. This may have been on their minds after performing different shows with Frank Zappa, but the actual music here is the wrong kind of experimental, as songs like Sysyphus and Several Species of Small Furry Animals sound like the band trying to make noise than write an actually coherent song.

Even though David Gilmour's contribution on this album is a decent look at avant garde sounds, he doesn't have very much warm feelings towards this record either, thinking that they didn't have enough time in the studio to actually make something decent. The loss of Syd was not going to be easy, and this is basically an album's worth of growing pains stretched across almost an hour and a half.