The Band(s) That Let You Down The Most

[pillota]

Green Day - I don't need to say much here. They were great when they were talking about smoking weed and insomnia. There's nothing worse than a punk band that goes political.

If you don't like a punk band for being political, punk's not for you

Yes,but compare Green Day's working class hero and The exploited's Fuck the Usa.There is a huge difference my friend

 

[Galletea]

Metallica redeemed themselves for me with death magnetic.
Green day on the other hand.......
I like muse but I already own a couple of albums and I haven't heard them do owt different since.
Radiohead, didn't like the last two albums they did either.

 

[Milkatron]

Sonata Arctica. Their most recent album, a foray into prog was awful, just awful. Should have stuck to what they knew best.

Nightwish after Tarja, well you just have to listen to their new stuff.

You have to be fair to Nightwish, they had to revamp their style a bit with the new singer, and they HAD to get of Tarja. She was becoming a huge *****.

Arctica, I think it's good. It ain't Ecliptica or Silence. Or Reckoning Night. But it could be much worse.

The band that let me down the most is probably Boston. Those second and third albums were just not up to par.

 

[Pepperlander]

i'd have to say taht Beethoven lets me down the most.....

 

[sneakypenguin]

but don't try to be political and all that

It's their music; an expression of what they think. Why wouldn't they want to be political?

Because their first two cds where not political in the least, and while I understand changing your music and all that. Going from a alt. rock group with a tinge of rap to a political slower sadder sound is just meh.
Seriously going from Somewhere I belong, Paranoid, In the End,Numb, Points of Authority,Faint,Runaway, Crawling. To slow sad (and occasionally)political stuff like In Pieces, Leave out all the Rest,Hands Held High, valentines day, Shadow of the Day.That change is just to drastic for a fan oof meteora and Hybrid theory

 

[Veekter]

Job For a Cowboy, what the fuck happened to the pig squeals. and no one really likes death core anyway

 

[Dr Spaceman]

Yes,but compare Green Day's working class hero and The exploited's Fuck the Usa.There is a huge difference my friend

Oh man, I hope you did not just attribute "Working Class Hero" to Green Day. Oh no. John Lennon wrote that song. Incidentally, his version is also far superior.

 

[motokemu]

but don't try to be political and all that

It's their music; an expression of what they think. Why wouldn't they want to be political?

Because their first two cds where not political in the least, and while I understand changing your music and all that. Going from a alt. rock group with a tinge of rap to a political slower sadder sound is just meh.
Seriously going from Somewhere I belong, Paranoid, In the End,Numb, Points of Authority,Faint,Runaway, Crawling. To slow sad (and occasionally)political stuff like In Pieces, Leave out all the Rest,Hands Held High, valentines day, Shadow of the Day.That change is just to drastic for a fan oof meteora and Hybrid theory

I changed my opinion on that btw. Few posts back.

 

[Jobz]

Green Day - I don't need to say much here. They were great when they were talking about smoking weed and insomnia. There's nothing worse than a punk band that goes political.

If you don't like a punk band for being political, punk's not for you

Sorry, I should have said a non-political punk bad who randomly decides at some point in their career to go punk. There's nothing wrong with political music if you know what you're talking about and actually do something about it other than whine.

Billy Joel just wants to be Bono, simple as that.

 

[Xazetuf]

Linkin Park-Minutes To, the end of "screamo's" sh*ttist album.

System of a Down -unfortunately they left for hiatus on a bad note with Hypnotize.

Trivium- may as well have turned out to be a metallica tribute band.

 

[Galletea]

i'd have to say taht Beethoven lets me down the most.....

Hold on right there, Beethoven made some of his most amazing music in his later life.
Or are you being facetious?

 

[The_Deleted]

System of a Down: mesmerise and hypnotise are their worst albums. and they came right after their best, toxisity, so my expectations were high

I am sure that if you give these two albums a second chance,you'll get to like them.When i was 14-15 i thought they sucked,but with every listening i found some trully nice tracks like Soldier side,Holly Mountains,Radio/Video,Cigaro...you get my point

They could have had a classic if they'd shown a bit of restaint and quality control.
Even compared to Steal This Album it falls short with waaay too much filler.

 

[pillota]

Yes,but compare Green Day's working class hero and The exploited's Fuck the Usa.There is a huge difference my friend

Oh man, I hope you did not just attribute "Working Class Hero" to Green Day. Oh no. John Lennon wrote that song. Incidentally, his version is also far superior.

I know he did it in the first place But you still get my point-in the beginning,Greenday had lyrics like "when masturbation lost its fun";when i heard "The saints are comiiing" i wanted to bash my head in the tv screen.

 

[AuntyEthel]

Dunno if anyone here likes Tiger Army, but their latest album was an absolute pile of steaming cow shite. Psychobilly-punk aping Joy Division is not, not, not cool.

 

[wewontdie11]

The Foo Fighters are a band who I think will, in the near future, be consigned by me to this thread. Although they are, and probably always will be, my favourite band, they peaked very early at The Colour And The Shape which in my mind is the greatest album ever created. From then their stuff still hasn't been bad, but it seems to be getting progressively worse, and losing a lot of the energy and catchy riffs or tunes that the earlier stuff had in buckets.

 

[Ophiuchus]

There's this one band... I'm not even going to bother naming them because nobody will know who they are. That's not meant to sound snobby and I apologise if it does - it's simply that their career was short and fairly inconspicuous, certainly having no chart success or much recognition at all outside of their (mainly local) fanbase.

Anyway. So, their first mini-album was a joy, whereas their first proper album was nothing short of life-changing. There is absolutely no exaggeration when I say that my love for this band, or more specifically someone I met through my love for this band, has completely shaped every last detail of my life over the past six years. The songs from that album became anthems, answers, guidance and in-jokes... which is why it was such a massive cockslap when their second album was absolutely fucking atrocious. It split the fanbase right down the middle - half of them loved the new sound whereas the other half thought it was a complete shambles, even to the point where people regard the first album as their ONLY album, completely disowning the second as if it were another band entirely - a wise move, perhaps, since time has since shown that it was actually just the singer having too much of his own way. They split up soon afterwards but not before releasing one final single (curiously omitted from said second album) that harked back to the sound of their older material. Perhaps they thought it'd fix the relationship with their alienated fans but all it did in reality was upset people even more with the knowledge that they still had the magic but were simply choosing not to use it.

The epilogue, I suppose, is in the fact that the singer is currently ploughing the solo singer-songwriter furrow that he seemingly tried to develop on the aforementioned disastrous second album. Sad thing is, while I still can't get over my anger towards the whole situation and still hold him personally responsible for destroying one of the most meaningful things in my life, I can't help but like what he's putting out these days. I guess it's different when it's not under the band's name.

So... yeah, that's how a band can let you down, even if you're not a member.

Sorry, I should stop ranting and be less emo. Or something.

 

[pillota]

Sorry, I should stop ranting and be less emo. Or something.

No such thing dude

 

[haveyouseen_mywallet]

the offspring, used to be one of my favorite bands but this last album, not too good. metallica this past decade has been pretty disappointing, but i do like death magnetic. afi has softened up, megadeth has gone right wing kiss up and the foo fighters have completely sold their soul for a gold record. all in all the music business as a whole has basically gone belly up. in other news kurt cobain is still dead.