10 Delayed Hard Rock Albums That Weren't Worth The Wait

If the Stooges had decided to just never reunite after the early '70s, they would have gone down in history as one of the most legendary bands in hard rock. With just three albums to their name, the intensity that Iggy Pop displayed across each album paved the way for everything from punk to alternative music later down the line. When the nostalgia bug caught them though, the nightmare that went into the Weirdness was more than most fans could handle.

For most of these albums, you can normally point to one member making a bad decision or a project being doomed by a bad production job. Where the Weirdness falls flat is the oldest excuse in the book: if you don't use it, you lose it. While Iggy could still deliver on the live stage every time he went on, the amount of chaotic noise on this album just feels amateurish rather than something actually fun to listen to.

Even having the inclusion of legendary bassist Mike Watt wasn't really enough to save this album, with most of the lines being either indecipherable or too lackluster to even care about for more than a few seconds. As much as every band deserves a second chance, you need to make sure that whatever gets in your way prevents you from sounding like this.