The Concept

I came up with the idea for this blog and then did a little pokin' around on the net to find that there had been a couple of top 10 lists on the subject but no in-depth research and no blogs devoted to the topic that I could come up with, anyways. The idea was largely inspired (stolen?) by Nathan Rabin's AV Club feature "My Year of Flops." Kudos goes out to my sis for encouragement.
The idea is this: even within the most impressive musical catalogs, there are bound to be some duds. Any artist or band who manages to stick around for a while will occasionally miss their stride and put out a clunker, a bomb, a reviled piece of crap. My aim with this blog is to revisit some of the least liked albums by the most liked rock artists/bands.
I acknowlege that the pronouncement of a bad album is subjective. I hope to look not only at the absolute lowest point in an artist's career, like, say, Empire Burlesque, but also at the albums that had high expectations that fell flat - Under the Red Sky, for example. So when selecting an album, I intend to look at the album's expectations, critical opinion, album sales, and, if available, the opinion of said album by the artist. I have sat down and created a list of albums to ingest, and if anybody out there has suggestions for me, I would be glad to take them.
First up: the aforementioned Under the Red Sky, by Bob Dylan.