Real Stinkers

Roy Wood - are you sure? :)

I will second St. Anger. Counting Crows folow up to "August and everything after" is funny in that everything after sorta really sucked!

Energiser, "none of the band members have any personality"?!?!? Are we talking about the same band?
Learning to play a song, and actually writing it, are two completely different things. A child can be taught to play Beethoven. Does that make them his equal?
Mick Jagger is one of the best rock frontmen in the business. Whether you like his voice or not, is subjective. He's also a wry lyricist, and an excellent harmonica player. Not to mention, a great businessman.
The four albums I mentioned, are widely lauded as classics. There is a reason for this.

Have never subscribed to the "if you can't say anything nice..." cliche, but a record is not a real stinker just because someone can't decipher it. Lark's Tongues In Aspic, Starless And Bible Black and Red are hugely influential recordings that marked a fertile period for all the participating players.
A real stinker might be Bluejeans and Moonbeams or Unconditionally Guaranteed by Captain Beefheart who spit these records out quickly to get out of a recording contract.
I'm a little surprised that Van Vliet, (Beefheart) who just passed on (and was a real genius if ever there was one) got no R.I.P. thread on this music forum while other comparatively tiny artists who recently died got a send off.

so a lot of people worship the stones.And keith richards is not one of the great guitarists.How do you know what Jagger wrote? ELVIS WAS GIVEN CREDIT OF WRITING MOST OF HIS SONGS WHEN IN FACT THIS WAS IN ERROR.no not bashing Elvis.If you like the stones fine,but i do not, nor do i have to by any one standard.