Albums that disappointed you

[theguitarhero6]

DevilDriver's "Beast" was kinda pitiful, just as any one song would exite me, the chorus or verse or hook or anything would just throw it off.
Also "Black Ice" from AC/DC was just boring and redone and everysong sounded the same.
(IMO) (IMO)

 

[Luke5515]

Hmm... AcDc Black Ice. It was nice to have a new album, but it wasn't too great.
Metallica Death Magnetic. Definitely a step in the right direction compared to their three previous albums, but it was only alright.
Iron Maiden Final Frontier. I love maidens new stuff, this was just all long and drawn out. That's my only complaint though.

 

[CobraX]

21st Century Breakdown by Green Day. It had a couple of great songs on it, but it could have been way better.


Marilyn Manson past 2005-ish.....

Plastic Beach by Gorillaz. It's good and all but Demon Days is way better.

 

[chuckman1]

I have two that I can think of off hand:

Wrath-Lamb of God (pritty adverage for a highly skilled band and aweful in comparison to Sacrament)

Black Ice- AC/DC (the dieing spasms of a once great band)

These are my opinions so probably no-one will agree with me.

Ya I was really underwhelmed by black ice too.

 

[Maiestas777]

Daft Punk - Human After All (Although the songs are wonderful when used on Alive 2007, standalone I was left very disappointed, especially after the audio loving that was Discovery)

Kamelot - Poetry for the Poisoned (The band seems to have forgotten what I loved about them and just made a bunch of rather bland songs with very dull lyrics that I did not enjoy singing along with)

Lady Gaga - Born this Way (Yes, Lady Gaga. I loved her first two albums, but this is far too Madonna for my tastes)

Sonata Arctica - Unia (A fine album, and I enjoyed it at the time, but after listening to Days of Grays and more of their older stuff, this one just feels uninspired)

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

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.

Spoiler: *snip, cleverly nicking all of the legitimate reasons leaving me with nothing to work with!*

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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

Cheers for that, by the way!

I think my main gripe with St Anger (other than the questionable production quality) was the attempted change of direction it seemed to signal for Metallica. Now, I'm not against bands searching for that next sound, but with St Anger it all seemed rather desperate, as if (literally) a bunch of forty-something year old men decided to try and be seventeen years old again. And if that sounds like a subjective opinion to you, my standpoint is backed up by the regrettable Some Kind of Monster, which is a vid documentary that follows the band through the creation of St Anger and captures on film the mother of all mid-life crises. One sight I never wished to see and hope I never see again is James, Lars and Kirk sat around a table talking to a therapist discussing 'closure' and 'inner feelings'.

I know these aren't the best of reasons, but I see little point in repeating what [user]MiracleOfSound[/user] said and I feel I must back up my statement somewhat. Whether or not their attempt at a new direction was 'bold' or 'rash', the production 'raw' or just 'shit', St Anger is still the end product of the band's near self-destruction after the internal griefing that caused Newsted to leave - and you can tell. It was too rushed, too unpolished, and ultimately too poorly executed.