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Genuinely Horrible Albums by Great Artists

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A Matter of Trust by Billy Joel Is a Bad Album

Billy Joel is the bridge 1986. It's just tapped out. Number 49, you know what this really is a bad album. Big Man on Mulberry Street was all I remember liking but the arrangement of Lacking doesn't work. And then number 48: The Abortive David Lee Roth Reunion at the VMAs. But yeah, the actual album. Eddie Van Halen said that this was the first album he wrote sober. There were a lot of twists and turns to Van Halen during this period.

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