What has been your biggest album disappointment?

Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by Ophelia, Apr 20, 2016.

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  1. Nowhere

    Nowhere Well-Known Member

    Radiohead’s Kid A was more perplexing than disappointing to me.. I’m surprised to see it get so many mentions here. Same with Amnesiac and Hail to the Thief, all classic Radiohead albums imo. I was a hardcore Radiohead nerd right up to King of Limbs. Eight tracks an album does not make if you ask me.. unless it’s some prog thing with like, 10 minute songs or whatever. I’m sure they have EPs with just as many on it. And just unlistenable, tuneless garbage. Thank god they bounced back with A Moon Shaped Pool.

    I reckon every Ty Segall album after Manipulator has been disappointing. I loved Twins, Sleeper, Slaughterhouse, Hair etc. but he kinda lost me after that. I don’t know if you can be THAT prolific for THAT long and still maintain quality of output..

    Also, though they’ve been mentioned already.. Antics by Interpol and The Invisible Band by Travis were both really disappointing after a couple of killer albums each.

    Oh, and the second Vines album, whatever that one was called. Don’t remember but I LOVED the first album.. what happened!?
     
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  2. Uncle Meat

    Uncle Meat Forum Resident

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    It ROCKS....
     
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  3. Uncle Meat

    Uncle Meat Forum Resident

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    With Pet Sounds... the backing tracks are killer.....at times I think the album works better without the vocals...
    Sgt Pepper is overrated, but still a very solid good album...I listen to the White Album more...
    Uncle Meat is the REAL DEAL !!!!
    and funny as hell as well...
     
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  4. sunking101

    sunking101 Forum Resident

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    The Cult's Choice Of Weapon probably, because they're my favourite band and it was such a colossal disappointment.

    I also remember being disappointed with the overblown Use Your Illusion LPs back in the day. I missed the more raw Appetite recordings.

    The last two Manic Street Preachers albums have been utter guff too and their previous catalogue is sooo good.
     
  5. carlwm

    carlwm Forum Resident

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    Pet Sounds & Sgt Pepper came with huge reputations but neither came close to being even mildly enjoyable for me. Wrong place, wrong time, probably.

    More recently, The War On Drugs sounded like a band that would tick a few boxes but the album of theirs I bought, A Deeper Understanding, was really hopeless. One of the few records I own that I couldn't even give 2/5 to. One for the charity shop, I fear.
     
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  6. davesmoked

    davesmoked Forum Resident

    You're spot on with Pet sounds...I've listened to the arrangements and it's quite impressive...Same for the Sgt. Pepper actually - especially strings and bass...wow
     
  7. Snow2

    Snow2 Forum Resident

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    1) Yes - Tormato (they were human after all)

    Not a particularly bad album but a real comedown from previous releases. I feel they never totally got it back again either.

    2) Porcupine Tree - The Incident
     
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  8. Spinmeout

    Spinmeout Forum Resident

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    London Calling
     
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  9. Spazaru

    Spazaru Angry Samoan

    Ha ha. You have to be joking. If you're not, I kind of respect it because I can think of few albums that I own that there's more universal agreement about it's greatness than London Calling.

    But as someone who has a lot of outlier opinions myself, I can dig it!
     
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  10. phillyal1

    phillyal1 Forum Resident

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    I was not a QMS fan , so this was my entry point for them. In retrospect, I can see why you would say that .
     
  11. Nielsoe

    Nielsoe Forum Resident

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    A Deeper Understanding hopeless?! Please please please please give it another chance!!
     
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  12. yarbles

    yarbles Too sick to pray

    Totally agree. Broke my heart after the first two. But I guess they had to tone it all down in order to break America, and so soon after being 'So Bored' with it to boot.

    Music for hipsters :righton:
     
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  13. John Porcellino

    John Porcellino Forum Resident

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    Replacements "Pleased to Meet Me"

    First listen I was sitting on the bed looking at the sleeve. When the horns in Can't Hardly Wait came on I chucked it across the room in disgust.
     
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  14. Blue Cactus

    Blue Cactus Forum Resident

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    Head East - Get Yourself Up.

    Bought it on release day after being blown away by Flat As A Pancake the year before.
     
  15. carlwm

    carlwm Forum Resident

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    Well, I haven't got rid of it yet!

    Curious to know what its plus points are for you.
     
  16. ponkine

    ponkine Senior Member

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    Villarrica, Chile
    From the last years

    Steven Wilson - To The Bone

    From such great artist, still can't believe how bad it is.

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  17. Nielsoe

    Nielsoe Forum Resident

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    Well, for starters I guess the reason for your dissapointment was the fact you like Lost In The Dream? Ok, so you could start off by sitting down in your favourite listening spot, put on Thinking Of A Place, turn it up loud, close your eyes and just listen. That’s about ten minutes of your life. When done, you tell if that’s not ten minutes well spent. The thing about The War On Drugs is that they take time. On first listen their songs kind of blend together in to one anonymous mass. You have to get past that and after that big rewards awaits the listener. Or maybe you just don’t like the album....
     
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  18. Ethan B

    Ethan B Forum Resident

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    Alice Cooper: Constrictor. Horrible heavy metal dross with the worst lyrics of his career. Tragic.
     
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  19. Tanx

    Tanx Forum Resident

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    I had the opposite reaction. My first listen was in the record store--it had literally just come in the door--and I was ecstatic. My favorite tour was off this album, too.

    My biggest disappointment, though, was "Don't Tell a Soul," which I think I mentioned in this thread a couple years ago....
     
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  20. bvb1123

    bvb1123 Rock and Roll Martian

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    My biggest disappointment in an album ever is R.E.M.'s Around The Sun. No melodies let alone harmonies. Purely made because the band needed new "product". They're still one of my favorite bands but my days of buying their albums on the day of release completely unheard were a thing of the past. I don't think the band ever really recovered from this pos.
     
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  21. Solitaire1

    Solitaire1 Carpenters Fan

    Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd.

    For years I'd heard how incredible and groundbreaking this album was so I finally decided to buy a copy. I've given it a few listens and I've never been able to get into it despite trying.
     
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  22. Leigh

    Leigh https://orf.media

    Now, now, just because you don't like it means it's bad. I get why some people don't like it but I enjoy it on par with just about all his stuff.
     
  23. carlwm

    carlwm Forum Resident

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    Thanks for replying. Really appreciate it!

    Truthfully, The War On Drugs were entirely new to me. Friends whose taste in music I trust, compared them (him?) to a bunch of singer songwriters that really I like, so with a Christmas record voucher burning in my pocket, I picked up A Deeper Understanding. I listened to it all the way through twice & it was a real struggle.

    However, I will take your advice and listen to Thinking Of A Place, then give the rest of the album another blast. You're right. In these day of instant impact we do dismiss things too easily. There's a whole bunch of bands I love that didn't connect on first listen . But back in the eighties we persisted!

    I'll let you know how I get on. If there are other albums to ease me in to their sound, I will gladly take your recommendations.
     
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  24. Jimmy Cooper

    Jimmy Cooper Forum Resident

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    Kiel, Germany
    THE STONE ROSES - Second Coming
     
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  25. ponkine

    ponkine Senior Member

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    Take a look at Progarchives mate :wave:

    worst ever rated SW album (not counting the mini album 4 1/2)

    1 - Raven & Hand Cannot Erase: 4.30 each one
    3- Grace for Drowning. 4.21
    4- Insurgentes. 3.85
    5- To The Bone. 3.65

    I LOVE Steven Wilson, but To The Bone is his worst effort, frankly
    :shake:
     
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