Ten albums that were dramatically dissed by the artists who made them

Nirvana - Nevermind

Sometimes you can understand the honesty and comments when it’s clear an album is not the artist's best work by any means. But occasionally, they are being hypercritical of a highly rated record. Kurt Cobain, for example, had a controversial view of Nirvana’s huge-selling album Nevermind.

Cobain seemed to prefer the rougher sound from their follow-up release In Utero. Cobain claimed to be embarrassed by it, as NME reports, he complained it wasn't as punk as he’d like. "It's closer to a Motley Crue record than it is a punk rock record.". 

Foo Fighters – One By One 

And while we are on Nirvana, drummer Dave Grohl went on to lead Foo Fighters. One of the Foo’s big album successes was the 2002 release One By One. It isn’t an album that sat comfortably with the band, well, Dave Grohl anyway. 

That’s surprising for a platinum-selling release. And one which picked up the Grammy Award for Best Album in 2004. Perhaps the memory of some argumentative and disappointing studio sessions turns Grohl off the album. He later spoke of it as four good songs and seven others he has never played again since. To be fair, those four include “All My Life” and “Times Like These,” so whatever your view, he was right with a couple, at least. 

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