Eminem - Encore: One of two albums the Detroit rapper has publicly disowned, the immature, gross-out humour of Encore failed to go down well with Em's fans. "When I was making 'Encore,' my addiction took on a life of its own. I remember going to L.A., recording with Dre and being in the studio high, taking too many pills, getting in this slap-happy mood and making songs like 'Big Weenie' and 'Rain Man' and 'Ass Like That'," he admitted to Vibe. He dissed the record (alongside Relapse) extensively on 2010's Recovery. Considering Em's previous releases at the time of Encore were the critically acclaimed The Eminem Show and The Marshall Mathers LP, it was always going to be difficult to meet very high expectations.

Oasis - Be Here Now: "Massive amounts of drugs and bad vibes", according to producer Owen Morris, contributed to the bad feeling that permeated Oasis' bloated third album, released in 1996. The relationship between the Gallagher brothers was fast unravelling, and cracks were starting to appear. A huge amount of hype surrounded the record after the release of the band's genre-defining first two albums, and Be Here Now ultimately failed to deliver. Initially well reviewed, the album is now derided as the band's worst. "It's the sound of a bunch of guys on coke," Noel Gallagher now reflects. "All the songs are really long and the lyrics are shit." We're inclined to agree with you there, Noel.

The Strokes - Angles: After a five year hiatus, The Strokes returned with a new electronic-tinged sound in 2011 with Angles, which featured jaunty lead single 'Under Cover of Darkness'. Critics were less than impressed with the New York band's new direction, however, and guitarist Nick Valensi admitted making the record was "awful", adding: "I feel like we have a better album in us, and it's going to come out soon". Julian Casablancas later dubbed Angles "Operation Make Everyone Satisfied". Unfortunately, 2013 follow-up Comedown Machine wasn't up to much either.

Foxy Brown - Brooklyn's Don Diva: Whilst serving time in jail in 2007, New York rapper Foxy Brown was excitedly anticipating her triumphant return to hip hop when she got out. Unfortunately, upon her release she discovered her label had rush-released her still-in-completion album Brooklyn's Don Diva - and it was terrible. The rapper was forced to apologise for the mess. "Unfortunately, during my incarceration, this CD was compiled without my approval. I heard this CD in its entirety, for the first time, just days ago and was devastated," Brown said. She hasn't released an album since.

REM - Around The Sun: Michael Stipe and co's 13th album was a flop with fans and critics. Around The Sun is possibly the band's most poorly-recieved album and the band agree - guitarist Peter Buck perfectly summed up what was wrong with the forgettable record: "It seemed like we'd turned into one of those bands that just book like a million months in the studio and just beat it to death," he said. "The last record, for me, just wasn't really listenable, because it sounds like what it is, a bunch of people that are so bored with the material that they can't stand it anymore."

Eminem - Relapse: The second of Eminem's albums on the list that he hates, Relapse is possibly more disliked by the rapper than the aforementioned Encore. On follow-up Recovery's cut 'Not Afraid', Em rapped: "Let's be honest, that last Relapse CD was "ehhh"/Perhaps I ran them accents into the ground". Relapse definitely wasn't Em's finest hour, but in a world full of inflated egos and saving face, his honesty is rather refreshing. "Relapse was the first album and first recordings that I did when the lights went on and I was sober. I was still trying to figure things out," Eminem later reflected.

Jay Z - Kingdom Come: Let's face it, Jay is never going to totally slate one of his own records - however, whilst ranking his discography from best to worst, Mr Beyonce did place his 2006 "comeback" album last, admitting it was his "first game back - don't shoot me." That's as much of an admission of failure as we're going to get from Jay, so we'll take it. That said, Kingdom Come was by no means a critical or commercial failure - however, we fail to remember ANY songs from it, which says it all. Follow up American Gangster fared better.

David Bowie - David Bowie: Whilst icon Bowie has never publicly decried his frequently forgotten and critically-panned debut, he's made a point of never quite acknowledging it - most of us know the starting point of Bowie's career as the seminal Space Oddity. Released two years later, the psychedelic, experimental prog rock of Space Oddity is a far cry from the uninspired, tepid Kinks-style pop rock of his eponymous debut. Bowie's biographer David Buckley has described it as "the vinyl equivalent of the madwoman in the attic". Best we leave her well alone.

Manic Street Preachers - Lifeblood: Certainly the band's most critical and commercial failure, Lifeblood abandoned the band's usual stadium punk anthemics for a colder synth-pop sound. The more scathing of the reviews called it 'miserable and insipid'. While it contains some wonderfully inspired moments ('1985', 'Song For Departure' and 'Solitude Sometimes Is'), it is ranked lowly among many fans - and the band themselves. They often curse it at gigs, and frontman James Dean Bradfield has said "that album didn't work. We kind of disconnected from that thing of being organic and being in the same place when we made the music", with Nicky Wire hailing certain moves around the LP as "a fuck up"

Foo Fighters - One By One: Foo Fighter's fourth album was a critical and commercial success thanks to the strength of lead singles 'All My Life' and 'Times Like These', and even won a Grammy. However, troubled studio sessions lead to raised tensions within the band, and Dave Grohl and co grew to regard the record with disdain. "Four of the songs were good, and the other seven I never played again in my life. We rushed into it, and we rushed out of it," Grohl told Rolling Stone in 2005. Indeed, the band rarely include material from One By One in their setlists, only occasionally airing the aforementioned singles.

The Killers - Battle Born: It got mixed but mostly positive reviews at the time, and saw the band top the charts and even headline Wembley Stadium. However, frontman Brandon Flowers isn't so wild about it - saying that the LP "wasn't good enough" and "we all know it".