Albums that disappointed you

[w9496]

Well you've saved me from saying it. I didn't think things could get any worse after that rancid pile of sh*t, but then they went and released the Some Kind of Monster DVD. Uurgh.

I think I may have typed that wrong, I ACTUALLY LIKE THAT ALBUM. I like the sound of the snare, the fast riffs in songs like Frantic, Lars went back to double bass, and to me it seemed like they actually had emotion behind their songs and their lyrics.

I can see why some may not like it, or to go as far as to hate it.

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Well, I won't argue with that - the songs definitely had emotion behind them. But to me the delivery was just pathetic.

My reasons I hate St Anger:

a) The production
I mean - it was so muddy, with no power or sonic energy. like they tried to do Nu-metal and just ended up with brown sludge.

b) The drums
sounded like Lars drunkenly falling around in a restaraunt kitchen banging pots and pans together. I admire that he wanted to thrash his kit again but he just isn't a very good drummer and this really shows when the drum is this raw and unpolished.

That snare sound was cool when Helmet did it but it just became noise when pounded in thrash rhythms.

c) The songs
Song structures were just endless repetitive, droning riffing cut and pasted in Pro tools into something resembling overly long structures - none of the great dynamics they used to be so good at, and none of kirk's solos or inventive little flourishes

d) The lyrics and James's voice

'hard to see clear
is it me, is it fear?'

'i want my anger to be healthy'

'it's my world you can't have it'

'God I feel like it only rains on me'

SO... much.... cringe.... I mean, this is the man who wrote 'Unforgiven' and 'Wherever I May Roam'! And what was up with his voice and all those nasty squeals and whines?

Anyway... lol. I felt I should at least give a few valid reasons for hating it

Those are pretty good reasons, and I'm not going to pretend is even close to their best album or anything, I just think it gets a worse rap than it deserves.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Those are pretty good reasons, and I'm not going to pretend is even close to their best album or anything, I just think it gets a worse rap than it deserves.

That's totally fair, I understand. I wanted to love, it, believe me. I wanted to even just like it... but it just wouldn't let me!

 

[Flabbagazta]

the white album. it's quite good, but it's not the great Beatles masterpiece that it's often made out to be

The masterpiece? No. Because they released five masterpieces (Rubber Soul, The White Album, Revolver, Abbey Road, and The Magical Mystery Tour) that all had varying sounds. I don't know which is my favorite (it's between Rubber Soul and The Magical Mystery Tour), but asking five people what the best Beatles album is will yield you twelve answers.

sorry if that was confusing but I didn't mean it's often considered their only masterpiece. I meant it's often considered their best, or one of their absolute best. also while you're right that there's no consensus about what the best Beatles album is, I'm glad to meet another person who'd nominate Rubber Soul.

Oh, I get your meaning now. I'm a folk musician at heart. Rubber soul is right at home for me.

the white album. it's quite good, but it's not the great Beatles masterpiece that it's often made out to be

A part of me died seeing that left out...


thought of two more

1. Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords was bland, BLAND!!! Say what you like about Aphex he is NEVER bland, although it would be just like him to release a bland album for the sake of it.

2. The Easy All Stars - Radiodread and Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Dub Band, Dub Side of the Moon was/is fucking amazing the rest is nowhere near up to that standard, if you are going to remake classic albums you HAVE to do them justice, Dub Side did, the other two didn't

The masterpiece? No. Because they released five masterpieces (Rubber Soul, The White Album, Revolver, Abbey Road, and The Magical Mystery Tour) that all had varying sounds. I don't know which is my favorite (it's between Rubber Soul and The Magical Mystery Tour), but asking five people what the best Beatles album is will yield you twelve answers.

6... you forgot Sgt Pepper

And that was unacceptable of me. Apologies, Sgt Pepper!

 

[Flabbagazta]

1. Aphex Twin - Chosen Lords was bland, BLAND!!! Say what you like about Aphex he is NEVER bland, although it would be just like him to release a bland album for the sake of it.

2. The Easy All Stars - Radiodread and Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Dub Band, Dub Side of the Moon was/is fucking amazing the rest is nowhere near up to that standard, if you are going to remake classic albums you HAVE to do them justice, Dub Side did, the other two didn't

oops misposted

 

[Blue_vision]

lots of hate for a thousand suns but i really love that album (waiting to get flamed)

Don't worry, I did too. I thought it was quite amazing, actually.

I was really disappointed by Shiny Toy Guns' new album that they released in 2008, mainly because We are Pilots was just so amazing, and they kicked their old female singer for that new cheer leader bullshit queen. Thankfully, I heard that they're getting together with their new singer for their new album, so I'm pretty excited for that.

And other than aforementioned Screaming Bloody Murder (I liked their old stuff AND Underclass Hero and it's just bland,) I don't really get that excited for music, and I never get an album unless I'm sure I'll like it, so I usually don't get disappointed.

 

[KingCrInuYasha]

For me:

Lumpy Gravy - I'm sorry, but, outside the main theme, most of this is just bad. Zappa did the crazy avant-garde thing better with the "Help I'm A Rock/It Can't Happen Here/Return of the Son of Monster Magnet" sequence, and the craziness thing better with Absolutely Free and We're Only In It For The Money.

Filmore East: June 1971 - Another Zappa album. My dad said this was good, but to me it's just a boring comedy sketch album. You're better off popping in Joe's Garage.

Magician's Birthday - It's okay, just not as good as Uriah Heep's previous two albums. The worst of the lot has to be the title track, which is just a cheesy prog-epic.

 

[Lionsfan]

Airbourne's album No Guts No Glory, I know just compared to their previous two albums I was pretty disappointed by the majority of it. That's the only one I can think of now

 

[let's rock]

Journey's Generations. I'm like "yay more steve perry singing for me to listen to, of goody good, wait, JOURNEY HAS A NEW LEAD SINGER, nnnnnnnnnoooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Then I had a friend throw it up into the air so I could shoot it with my 12 gauge.

Other than that, basicly 90% of all Punk rock albums signed to a major label.

 

[Sephychu]

Newest Arcade Fire album, "The suburbs", also disappointing.

REALLY?
I mean, I agree with your other choices, save maybe for the Tron soundtrack, but the Suburbs was an excellent album!
I just went to see them and those songs are some of my favourites.

I was massively disappointed by all the recent stuff that Judas Priest and Halford himself have done, despite still playing an awesome live show.

Sure, I'll post this again for another person who didn't read the thread.

Suburbs is a pretty good album, it's got 4-5 great tunes, but IMO it's not even close to Funeral. Not even close.

I read the thread, I'm just surprised.
I thought it was as good.

 

[are.you.the.god.its.me.vader]

Bob Mould's Modulate...man, I adore that man, but his "disco" phase really didn't agree with me.

 

[Tharwen]

Disturbed's latest album, Asylum. It has pretty artwork, but it's just not very good. "We're being a lot more open in our music" meant "We're losing all semblance of subtlety in our messages", and the riffs were just not very interesting.

 

[Arachon]

I got to admit, I was a bit disappointed by Astral Projection's Trust In Trance 3. I mean, Kabbalah, People Can Fly and Still Dreaming are all awesome tracks, but the rest were just... bland...

 

[Klarinette]

Metallica - Death Magnetic

It was Christmas. It had been forever since St. Anger, and many people were still snickering about that unforunate ... thing. All I kept saying was, "They're going to redeem themselves! Everything is going to be okay."

We listened to it all the way through on the drive out East. Twice. At first, I was happy about it and thought it was great, mostly because it was heavy, there were guitar solos, and there were a couple that I liked within the first ten seconds.

Eventually that wore through and I realized it was pretty mediocre, actually. The more I listened, the less I liked it. I went to see Metallica some time later that year, but being the Death Magnetic tour, all the new Metallica fans had a better time than I did. No Bleeding Me, no Memory Remains, not even anything off the Garage albums. No high-fives at all.

Metallica, I am disappoint.

...oh, and the White Album. I mean, really? Everyone's all HOLYFUCKTHEWHITEALBUM, but it's so hit-or-miss. I give it a resounding meh.

 

[sam42ification]

The Foo fighters - Wasting light

It's probably just a grower, but besides "White limo" and a few other songs, it's not quite got the same kind of awesome that appealed to me in their older albums.

I was reading through all the comments just to see if any one said wasting light. It was extreamly dissapointing to me. I know they were trying to do somthing different and experiment which i love but i like the old foo fighters way of writing music. Evolution is a good thing but it didn't evolve in a good way.

I like white limo, rope and bridge burning but it just didn't really sound like the foo fighters and you can't compair those songs to their old ones.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

I feel like I'm gonna get a LOT of shit for saying this, but...

I mean, there were some really good songs on the album. "Back in Black", "You Shook Me All Night Long", "Shoot to Thrill", "Rock and Roll Ain't Noise Pollution", and maybe a couple more, but as an album, it was just meh. The songs were way too similar to each other, it was almost hard to differentiate one song from the others. The best way for me to explain it is that the album isn't so great, but the songs contained in it are awesome.

I think that sums up AC/DC in general. The good songs are awesome, the rest aren't even worth listening to.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

Avenged Sevenfold's self-titled one. It was nowhere near their usual level of awesomeness.

(I feel like I'm going to get shit for saying I like A7X, but whatevs...)

That album has some gems. I guess you could say parts of that album are like little pieces of heaven....

c what i did thar?

and ya, i double post and i ain't even mad about it.

o mai gawd i see way u did thar

I will admit I USED TO like Avenged Sevenfold, keyword "USED TO". Until I heard their shitty ass cover of walk by Pantera. Its like Chinese Democracy Guns N' Roses Bad.

Eh? It's pretty much a note for note cover. Sure, it's not nearly as good as the original, but it also wasn't on any of the studio albums, and I fail to see how a single one-off song could make you dislike a whole band...

I'm gonna say pretty much anything recent by any "classic" metal band. Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, for some reason it seems like 60 year olds can't make music as heavy and energetic as 20 year olds...


Except for Megadeth, they can do wrong. Except for, well, you know...

 

[Mr.Mattress]

"Time To Pretend" by MGMT. I prefer "Congratulations", which is far superior, and that's what actually got me into the band. Time To Pretend has basically 3 good songs and then everything else is forgettable.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

OT:Well, the two Eminem releases above. Apart form that, A7X album last year. I had heard a rumour that they were going back to their heavier sound. It was better than their self-titled album, but so is passing a kidney stone.

Really, the new album is "heavier" than Sound the Seventh Trumpet, it's just that he growls and screams on that one. Harsh vocals make harshness, not heaviness.

Airbourne's album No Guts No Glory, I know just compared to their previous two albums I was pretty disappointed by the majority of it. That's the only one I can think of now

Previous two? I thought they only had one...

Amazon, have you failed me again?

 

[Lionsfan]

Previous two? I thought they only had one...

Amazon, have you failed me again?

It was an EP called Ready to Rock [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ready_to_Rock], independently released, there's only like 1000 copies. I found some songs on Youtube and Limewire a couple years ago, which, to my knowledge, is the only way to hear the songs since they haven't re-released any of the songs digitally or redone the album