What's the biggest disappointment you've ever recieved from a record?
Sorry for the negative thread. I'm thinking particularly pre-mp3 era when you'd wait excitedly for a release date or you'd rush home with a new purchase, excitedly tear off the celophane, stuff it in your stereo and then slowly die a little inside as you realised that it wasn't actually that good.
For me it was 'Tweez' the first Slint album. I'd been a massive fan of 'Spiderland' and waited patiently for 'Tweez' to arrive in the post from the USA. And then.... it's not that great ('Carol' excepted).
Free 1 million indie points to whoever says they like 'Tweez' better by the way.
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I like both the slint albums equally
they're both quite different in my mind so compliment each other well. Errm, well I don't tend to listen to loads of stuff b4 I buy it, I'm willing to put my faith in reviews alot more than I perhaps should. That way I pay more attention to the given artist then.
A recent 1 I can think of is the flipper reissue of generic. I love it now after a few more listens but I'd never heard flipper and for some reason I'd got it into my head that they were/are alot more noisey than what they sounded like to me. But it was good, just disappointing as they didn't sound the way I hoped they would.
I think I come across as harsher on Tweez than I mean
It's certainly not a bad album. But if you are expecting another 'Good Morning, Captain' or 'Don, AMan' to come busting out of the speakers then you are going to be disappointed aren't you?
I think it's all about expectations, like if you think you're going to have a pizza and you're all set up for pizza and then someone gives you fish and chips you'd be a bit put out.
This honour is probably won for me by
The Sights, for their frankly atrocious third album called 'The Sights', a name that reflects the amount of thought an effort they seemed to put into the record itself. Which is a shame, as the second album was wonderful.
Honorary mention to Worlds Apart by Trail of Dead. That album can kiss my poo.
new
converge.
awful
Really?
I suppose the cheese-metal riffing in the first song takes a little adjusting to, but if you can live with that then it's a blinder I think.
it's metal all the way through
and it's got three different endings each of which could/should close the album
i like it but i'd say its their weakest in years
i love this album
although it took me a while to get my head into it
i think it's their best since jane doe actually.
sunbaked wtf where you been?
I'm a Yellow Swans fan now ya big dope
It's brilliant
I reckon. About time they deviated from the formula and they've done it really well.
for me it was quite recent
Tubelord album innit.
Brighter than a Thousend Suns by Killing Joke,
Devastated when I first played it and it's got no better since. Fortunately subsequent releases restored my faith in them.
Agree with Worlds Apart as above.
I'm really enjoying the Tubelord one
Although I've never really delved into them much prior to it (apart from Propellor), so I didn't have many expectations.
the Manic's Know Your Enemy for me
apart from a couple of songs, immediately thought it was shit and have always hated it. They were my favourite band by some distance back then too, which only made it worse.
totally know what you mean here
I remember a lot of excitement about it being 'a new Generation Terrorists' which only made it worse when you listened to it.
Same thing happened with the Cure and Bloodflowers. "It's the new Disintegration!!!". No. It. Isn't.
the same applies to all Cure albums after Wild Mood Swings...
...their self-titled follow-up to Bloodflowers was awful and I didn't even bother with last year's release.
Oh god I'd forgotten about the The Cure's self titled...
They were my favourite band for so long then they went and did THAT.
Papa Roach - Infest
Where's the trombone player, you nu-metal fucks.
:D
Old Friends from Young Years 4 lyfe
Potatoes For Christmas
is clearly where it's at.
Check us out, referencing self released Papa Roach stuff.
im not sure what dis thinks about them
buti thought kings of leon's second and thrd album were very solid and then i bought there latest and it coudnt have been worse so boring, dry and empty in all ways, i even dont keep it in my general cd pile where my cd's are on display its that bad
^ this
Although I didn't buy it, I got the feeling it was going to be shit and decided to download it first. My suspicion was correct. Awful, empty, bland, boring, devoid of soul, inspiration, character,....and all that after I loved all their previous work.
Sell out of the decade.
SFA - Rings Around the World
Trail of Dead - Source Tags
Comets on Fire - Avatar
Source Tags and Codes? Really?
I think it's their best!
A recent disappointment for me is Maps new album Turning The Mind, loved the debut, this one's a pretty turgid affair.
My favourite SFA album!
I quite liked Avatar
Then someone on here described it as 'Elton John-esque' which kind of pissed on my parade. It's hard to shake such an awful description.
Dogwood Rust is a great start
Does trail off a bit - certainly no Blue Cathedral.
I just listen to Field Recordings these days
and whatever bootlegs and jam tapes I find floating around.
He he, Elton John
I quite like it now but was just expecting something different at the time.
Elton John...
sometimes pretty goood!
I like Avatar very much big time.
Shock p0st
MMJ - Evil Urges
Agreed
Played once and never really had the inclination to play again
Mansun's third Album
I love Grey Lantern, Six blew my mind, then that?!?
I used to be pretty good at deluding myself into thinking a lot of 'big'
comeback albums were good (took me a year to acknowledge Know Your Enemy was shit), but Little Kix's shitness was just painfully obvious, not least because I Can Only Disappoint U was so obviously better than the rest of it.
Also the third Sleeper album, though with hindsight the first and second weren't all that.
Maybe Meteora by Linkin Park...
Pushing The Senses by Feeder....
AWITC by Bloc Party.
Interpol - Our Love To Admire....
just so bloody bland, I'd be extremely suprised if they ever manage to recover, it showed they were short on ideas.
maybe the best Interpol yet- loved it from the start
Agreed
Broing as fuck, seriously lacking inspiration.
Not a bad album, but for me a bit of the 'Intolerable Cruelty' effect
to explain:
if anyone else had made that film, you would have thought... "yeah, that's pretty good". But it wasn't anyone! It was the Coens!
OLTA has about 4 or 5 great songs, but its not enough - Interpol can (and will, fingers crossed) do better.
The Great Escape by Blur probably.
More recently though: Wincing The Night Away by The Shins.
Both solid shouts.
Be Here Now is too obvious to list, isn't it?
Wincing is a great album
don't be daft. They just changed their style a bit and upped production, but not at the expense of the music IMO.
my favourite Blur album
not the "biggest" by a long shot, but one that springs to mind
is the Beta Band's first album, after the Three EPs. I put it on, and The Beta Band Rap came out at me. Absolute WHAT THE FUCK??!!? moment.
i know its quite recent but 'Snowflake Midnight' by Mercury Rev
horrible, just really horrible.
Mobile home by the Longpigs.
So rubbish it hurt, especially after such a long wait.
Incredible album
I dismissed it at first on the basis of:
Shiny inner sleeve (sell-outs!)
Use of the word 'ass' instead of 'arse' in a transparent attempt to make it in America
Didn't have 'Jesus Christ' on it
the verve - forth
come on
really, what did you expect?
Bedlam in Goliath. Kind of expected it to be wack anyway.
Cosmic Egg is a huge disappointment and I haven't even heard it yet
Uh, the greatest let down of all time has to be:
"THE WEIRDNESS"
Not if you expected absolutely nothing from it.
Then it delivered very nicely.
even factoring in zero expectations it delivers poorly
I love the title of the album but it is just bad, bad, bad on the whole. Hard pressed to find one decent song coming from a band that I was formerly hard pressed to find one bad song.
As an official document it stands but as a viable record from a hugely influential rock band- it's a travesty.
probably In Blue by The Corrs
It has to be...
Down's 3rd album or Tool's 10,000 days
Both were great bands gone sour.
I STILL don't understand the grief
directed at 10000 days.
What's wrong with it? I mean fair enough if you don't like tool, but why single that one out?
I was the biggest TOOL fan know to man.
Far as I was concerned it just wasn't TOOL. They took a bad direction. It's almost like they stopped taking drugs or something. It's horrible. Art work is amazing though.
I still don't get it
I mean, I like tool but I don't love them (maybe that's the problem) and I think the songs on 10000 stack up ok next to those on Lateralus or whatever.
I agree with Ichor tbh
it seemed like at least 2/3rds of the album was composed of eerie sounding soundscapes rather than actual songs.
I also don't really understand the hate directed at 10,000 Days
I've loved Tool since 1993 and Undertow, and although I admit it's not up there with Lateralus or Aenima I still give it regular spins and love it! I adore the atmosphere of the title track and really liked the direction Maynard took with his voice.
It's just substandard. It's that simple...
Tool have a strong fan base and that album disappointed alot of people. Aenima will always be my favourite. Pushit extended version will always be my favourite song.
Got to agree with you about Aenima
it's my favourite too, just flawless! I must have listened to it hundreds of times since it came out and I never get tired of it!
"Oh My Gawd" by The Flaming Lips
I'd had Clouds Taste Metallic and Transmissions From The Satellite Heart.
Good Grief
Dinosaur Jr - Without a Sound
Or
Sonic Youth - Experimental Jet Set TRASH TRASH TRASH TRASH
Or
Metallica - Load
Or
Wu Tang Clan - Wu Tang Forever
Or
Gza - Beneath the Surface
Or
Flaming Lips - Yoshimi
Or
Grandaddy - Sumday
Music: a constant disappointment
Oh, and
Soundgarden - Down on the upside
Wu Tang forever
is really good. Some of my favorite Wu material. Although I guess in comparison to 36 Chambers, a bit of a let down was inevitable. You can only change the game once.
That's just it though.
Several of the albums I listed aren't terrible by any stretch, just couldn't come close to the genius that came before.
If WTF had been a single album it could have been incredible.
Seconded
Some great tracks and some very very odd ones... Wu Revolution anyone?
Smile - Brian/ Beach Boys
Just didn't live up to all the myths
Just ONE good song
Cold War Kids - Loyalty To Loyalty
And I really liked Robbers and Cowards too :(
Make Believe
I really rated Maladroit (not in the same way as Blue/Pinkerton obvs) and so I really wasn't prepared for such a shocking drop in quality.
Others off the top of my head: Get Behind Me Satan, Working On A Dream, You Could Have It So Much Better..., Cassadaga, the second Libertines record, First Impressions Of Earth, Winning Days.
I'll have a bit of Get Behind Me Satan
I always like Satan, although it isn't that good comparitively.
And yeah, MB had just Perfect Situation, the rest was embarassing.
I'd heard Blue Orchid loads of times before I got the album and was wild with excitement.
I was actually going to say Pinkerton, but couldn't be arsed with the abuse.
I personally loved You Could Have It So Much Better
loved it loved it loved it. still do, less so than when I was 13 mind.
Avey Tare's whole backwards album fiasco.
It pissed me off to see such a brilliantly creative guy wallowing in such willfully childish nonsense.
Oooh
Head Music by Suede
Revelations by Gene
This is a load of bollocks please buy it by Manic Street Preachers
They all came out in about a week of each other and made me the moody bellend I am today.
Well it's good to know there's a reason I suppose.
hmmm
a lot of my biggest disappointments stem from hearing people rave about things and then getting my hands on them and HATING THEM..:
Charalambrides
Sigur Ros ()
MBV Loveless
A swift mention for silversun pickups' 'swoon' which I was aghast and almost in tears such was the disappointment on the first couple of listens, it's now one of my albums of the year though, so all good :)
I can JUST about understand not liking 'Loveless' - it is an acquired taste.
But how can anyone not love () - I'm not including hipsters concerned with losing indie points for liking an album by a popular band here by the way - I just don't get it. There's this one bit that sounds like he's standing on the moon watching the earth rise and singing about how everything he knows is so far away and yet looks so beautiful from this distance... shit I don't know.
I find () really boring.
There, I said it. And Sigur Ros were hardly popular when it came out.
I'm going to nominate druqks by Aphex Twin,
and Lift Your Skinny Fists by GY!BE.
Both were hotly anticipated in the wake of their previous releases, both were seen as the opportunity for the acts to really break through, both of them came out to loads and loads of hype, and then it turned out that they were retreads of everything that had come before. Great as a sampler of what they were about, pretty dull if you were a massive fan looking for their next leap.
this shouldn't be here.
Thanks DiS.
I agree
Lift Your Skinny Fists is excellent, you charly.
The Verve - Urban Hymns
They were on an upward trajectory from the start. The first two albums were bold and ambitious, and they were one of the best live bands around.
That UH starts with the still-immense Bitter Sweet Symphony only furthered the sense of anticipation. Is there any other case where you can chart the demise of a band by the very tracklisting? After Track 1, it's like they stepped off a fucking cliff.
Urban Hymns sounds like a Eurovision entrant trying to play Oasis. It is sterile to the point that even Ashcroft's only-ever cogent lyric about his dad dying made me want to puke for its custardy, Curtis Stigers posturing.
That the world loved this, and that it all seemed sincere and intentional on the band's part mean I haven't been able to listen to much of the earlier stuff since. This felt like betrayal.
And this
shouldn't be here :-D
The green album
And every subsequent weezer album (I've never given up hope)
Angels & Airwaves
What? I was 15 and loved Blink. Too bad Tom Delonge decided to develop a Bono-sized ego and start making music about how good love is.
The Red Album.
Make Believe sounds like a masterpiece beside it. Make Believe isn't really an astonishingly terrible album - 'Beverly Hills' is fun to bounce along to and 'We Are All On Drugs' is actually a really, really, really good song. Yeah, overall it sucks a big one, but it's kind of listenable, because the rest of the songs are bad Weezer songs.
The Red Album, however, is made up of bad songs - just really bad songs. Rivers' vocal delivery sounds quite cocky and self-aggrandising on some songs on their previous albums, but on The Red Album he's completely let go to The Whine. I saw a video in which Rivers talked about writing 'The Greatest Man Who Ever Lived' and it was really painful to sit through. He was talking really sincerely about how had 20 feet of paper with notes on the song and how he thought it was the best thing he'd ever written, but in the end the song sounds like a fucking mess, and it's like "Give it up, Rivers."
Make believe is underared
Sure it's still rubbish but not as bad as green or maladroit (their worst by far) perfect situation and hold me are pretty good, never gave red much of a chance
Make Believe > Maladroit?!?!?!!!11
People like you belong on a register.
If you support my campaign to revoke ThingsThatFly's licence to breathe then 'This' this.
That's the shit I'm talkin' 'bout
Maladroit is just nothing
Cut and paste fragments of lyrics that don't add up to anything
Shit - NOT ^this
Maladroit's actually really good, I don't get the hate - Dope Nose, Take Control, Fall Together, Keep Fishin', Burnt Jamb - all amazing songs. Better than Green I reckon. I stopped bothering after Make Believe, it's just silly to the point that I'm embarrassed to call myself a Weezer fan now.
A couple that come to mind without thinking are:
Guillemots - Red and Futureheads - News and Tributes.
The loss hit me harder because I was younger and because those 2 albums are so, so, so much worse than the debuts before them.
I'll give you Red
But I disagree on News and Tributes. It's different to the first one (which I also love), sure, but I think it's a much fuller record. Burnt is one of the best songs they'll ever do, and there's some real brilliant loud stuff on there like Cope and Favours for Favours.
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible.
A bloated load of tacky fart for the most part.
Also, Patrick Wolf's entire post-Lycanthropy output. Largely abominable.
new Muse album
kinda knew it was going to be shit, holding out for something decent, endured two listens but the production was awful and I have no real inclination to return to it
from back in my nu-metal days
'Life Is Peachy' by Korn, aside from 2/3 tracks it sounded really average and the debut was just so much better.
On the Korn front "Issues" killed my liking of them
They played a blinder at Download tho, and to think I'd written them off
The 3rd Cooper Temple Clause album
the first two records are brilliant, and it was an age until the third came out and when it finally did i got it the day it came out (this was before i had regular internet access so i had only heard Damage beforehand).
Oh man...such a let down. I sat and listened to it and my love for the band just ebbed away with the ending of every song. By the end of the album i just wanted to break the cd. It just sounded so forced, like they had thought to themselves "right, lets do a Snow Patrol and make lots of money, fuck trying to make anything interesting and with any coherency".
I'm glad they split up, 2 out of 3 good albums plus an album's worth of b sides isn't a bad legacy to have.
To be honest,
I don't think it was so much wanting to make a radio-album, I think they genuinely didn't have any better ideas. I agree that they were a sad shadow of their former glories though. Nothing can compare to the excitement of their early gigs
i blame the band, but
also the producer who tried to make them write songs in a more traditional way.
that along with them being dropped by their label probably made them think 'fuck we better grow up.' the result? really poor songs.
also didz didn't help by joining that pub rock band
The next My Bloody Valentine album
The Black Dog - Music For Adverts
Absolutely worthless, along with everything "The Black Dog" (minus 2/3) released after it. Once Plaid left, Ken Downie's total lack of talent was on bold display.
I was pretty sad about Mew's new CD "No More Stories, blah, blah, blah, ..." after the brilliance of "And the Glass-Handed Kites". Deleted!
Saw Killing Joke's "Brighter Than A Thousand Suns" mentioned earlier. I love that record! :-)
The last two black dog albums have been great
I was initially disappointed with No More Stories...
but I persevered and I now really like it, looking forward to see them in Leeds next week!
crack
the label read "unbreakable" & I broke it ... maybe it meant it would never get played on the radio...
I'm gonna upset a lot of people with this one
Radiohead - Kid A
Man, I was so excited by this and when I put it on I couldn't believe the garbage coming out of my stereo. I've tried to listen to it a few times since but it always makes me want to vomit.
Shock p0ast
*consults DiS Community user manual*
Right Matt, I' afraid one of those fingers have to go. You can decide which one.
get out
Thats its
I'm going to club you to death for even hinting that album is anything but amazing.
Joan of Arc
Every single album. On paper they should be great. On record (if we are all honest) they are pap.
Boo Human is great
Glasvegas
Glasvegas debut.. I'm still angry about it. I'm not normally sucked in quite that shamelessly at hype around a new artist, but I really did believe that if everyone bigged them up that much then they must be awesome. everyone was wrong.
has anyone heard the new Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam album thats out this week?? before I go falling for hype again (though I do expect this new album will actually be good)
The right answer
is Broken Records, there EP was brilliant, the Out of Water EP was great, the album was rushed pile of dung..
a weekend in the city
i was looking forward to it SO much after silent alarm. heard the prayer and though "pretty good, especially since lead singles aren't usually the best tracks on the album". luckily they streamed it on myspace in full. i must have listened twenty times trying to like it, but in the end didn't buy it and totally lost interest in the band.
it was probably the album i've most looked forward to hearing.
This
And then I did it all over again with Intimacy. Surely I would have learnt!
Violent Femmess - Freak Magnet
And also...
Metallica - Load (gave up on them for good)
The Cure - Wild Mood Swings (gave up for good)
Stone Roses - The Second Coming
Megadeth - Youthanasia ( I was 14, I loved thrash at the time and Mustaine reduced me practically to tears with that horseshit, gave up for good)
Smashing Pumpkins - Adore (didn't give up, like a fool, went and bought Machina as well. After listening to Machina I decided I needed to smash it on Corgan's bald head, and I haven't had the opportunity yet to accomplish this feat, so it still sits somewhere in my album collection a decade later, like a malignant evil leech, sending out bad vibes and contaminating the other innocent records around it)
And oh, Morrissey, I wouldn't know where to start, so many albums, so much disappointment...
I think the worst disappointments happened when I was still at school in the early/mid 90s and could only afford to buy one CD a month with my pocket money, so after spending four hours trying to choose the perfect one at the store, I'd go home, listen and then bang my head on the wall knowing it would be another month until I could afford something else.
if you cut the filler Adore is a classic
Wings - At The Speed Of Sound.
I'd loved 'Venus & Mars' and had waited for ages. And it was SHIT! 'Silly Love Songs' and all that crap.
The next week I bought Rattus Norvegicus by The Stranglers and the world changed...
These really disappointed me...and still do:
Blue Album - Orbital
In Rainbows - Radiohead
Heroes to Zeros - The Beta Band
Francis the Mute - The Mars Volta
The Information/Modern Guilt - Beck
Volta - Bjork
Human After All - Daft Punk
9 - Damien Rice
Plans/Narrow Stairs - Death Cab for Cutie
The Outsider - DJ Shadow (This one hurt a lot.)
At War With The Mystics - The Flaming Lips
Everything Ecstatic - Four Tet
Go Go Smear The Poison Ivy - Múm
The Devil, You + Me - The Notwist (Not that this is bad...I just love Neon Golden so much.)
Voyageur - Enigma
Bowie - Let's Dance...Tonight...Never Let Me Down
In hindsight, it's probably better Scary Monsters didn't go straight to the awfulness of Never Let Me Down because I might have considered suicide.
Most recently
'Volta' by Bjork. I heard 'Innocence' and thought "fuck me, this is going to be great!"...and i was wrong.
some time ago
But Unfun by Jawbreaker was bloody awful after 24 hour revenge therapy.
I guess at the time I was pretty underwhelmed by The Second Coming although that view is somewhat tempered now
WTF?
Unfun was their first LP and was released four years before 24 Hour Revenge Therapy.
Are you getting it confused with their final LP, Dear You?
That would be strange though because Dear You is amazing.
Plans by Death Cab for Cutie
HORRIBLE
Also, the Travis Morrison solo record. Wow.
Sonic Youth - Rather Ripped
very disappointing after the brilliant Sonic Nurse.
I agree, the drop in quality was pretty marked, but Rather Ripped
has really grown on me lately. I think it's one of those albums that you can't dip in and out of though.
yeah bloc party's second sucked
but have you guys given INTIMACY enough listens? some of their best stuff on there i think.
daft punk's 3rd album is the default answer for this question for me. from the 90s probably the aforementioned great escape by blur.
Back to the Manics again....
...I thought they really had jumed the shark with "This is my truth, tell me yours.."
Everything that was special about them was lost after that album.
Strangely, I still felt I had to go and get it autographed by them at a signing. Fool!!
Maths + English by Dizzee Rascal
Always the first one that comes to mind. Just WTF? I know most people would consider Boy In Da Corner to be stronger than Showtime, but seriously, Maths + English was one of the weakest albums I've ever heard and I was looking forward to it stupid amounts. Not even gonna go into what I think of him these days.
maths + english was half shit
maybe more than half shit, Showtime wasn't quite BIDC but still solid... I like a few tracks on M+E it still... World Outside, Sirens, Where's Da G's. Pussy'ol was alright I guess, it sure was a disapointment though. No comment on the new one, I've not heard it and I doubt I will any time soon. I'm just glad he's still suporting grime with his label and getting Newham Generals out there more which made them release an album and get on stuff like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgKhmbwsd4w
Peter Bjorn and John
2nd album was a pile of tripe. utterly terrible in every possible way