‘Never Let Me Down’ by Bowie is a fair one. Total dud. He knew it, though. But he rebounded with his next few albums - Tin Man, Buddha of Suburbia, and White Tie Black Noise were all solid. Even though the best song out of those records was a song Morrissey wrote for him and Morrissey’s version was still better (the original is sublime, though, so topping it was nearly an insurmountable expectation - Bowie’s cover is still fantastic.) Then 1. Outside and Earthling were both very good.
Mentions Bob Dylan - but no Self-Portrait (even though that album is allegedly intentionally and ironically bad) or Under the Red Sky? lol. Funny how he had 3 records come out at roughly the same time in the late 80’s - Down in the Groove, Oh Mercy, and Under the Red Sky - 2 of them terrible and then Oh Mercy sandwiched in between them was a classic. Dylan has released so much music that the chance of him hitting some duds was inevitable.
Even though U2 has had some weak records, they are at least tolerable - nothing atrociously bad, speaking as a whole. Even Leave Behind had Kite, Bomb had COBL, SOI had nothing great but a bunch of solid ones, SOE had The Little Things.
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