Spinner.com has an interesting list of the twenty-five most monumental flops in music history. Flops of all kinds are always interesting if only because of what they say about our culture in general ... and what we end up liking or disliking or just flat-out hating.

Just a few observations about some of what's on the list:

I never can get used to the idea, generally accepted by everyone, that U2's album Pop is a flop. I think that there are several good songs on there, and that some of them are very good. Flop? Maybe commercially, but it's not a bad record.

Green Day's Warning was actually the last album that they did that I thought was any good at all. Not that it was that good.

Should the Kevin Federline album really be on this list? I think it lived up to everyone's commercial and artistic expectations. Who really expected this thing to do well? I mean, other than Federline and Britney?

Wendy really likes Altered Beast, Matthew Sweet's supposed flop.

I didn't know the Knack even did more than one album.

I'd forgotten that Paul's Botique flopped at first. At least with regard to album sales. It is a good album, though.

Why does Robbie Williams keep flopping? His stuff is at least as good as the stuff that actually gets played on top 40 radio.

Paris Hilton's album. Ha ha!

In my opinion, the album ranked at number two on this list should really be number one. It's shocking that a singer who had never had a commercial misstep did something this phenomenally stupid.

How can Otis's favorite album not be included on this list? It was a GIGANTIC flop! You can buy it at Amazon for a penny, fahcryinoutloud!

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