What has been your biggest album disappointment?

Boston - Third Stage

After waiting and waiting, what did we get? Drum Machines! Say it ain't so Tom! I've grown to like this album more over the years but at the time after Don't Look Back, big shock.

 

Yup, I bought that Kamirracrap Fagen record and had the same reaction. Actually the only track I really liked on The Nightfly was New Frontiers but I didn't actually own it. Definitely got stung on that one. And One Step Closer, after a solid record like Minute By Minute that was an aquired taste at first, this was a genuine "finish off the record deal" album, and what a waste.

 

My collection would be so amiss, if it didn't include "The Nightfly", which is clearly in my "Top 20" albums of all-time! It is a breeze of everything that I love about the Steely Dan albums, only a little more focused, with far less deep and dark sinister lyrics. In other words, a "fun" and "happy" Steely Dan album, if you will?

 

Def Leppard - Hysteria

Pyromania was a compromise I kind of went with, still not thinking it stood up to the previous 2 albums.

Then....Hysteria. Music by robots, vocals so processed, all humanity gone. One of the biggest misuses of technology in the history of rock. Sold like no tomorrow but so do TV dinners.

 

I love Steely, The Nightfly just couldn't get into. Sounded much like Gaucho, which after Aja, I had trouble adapting to.

 

I'm not a big GnR fan but the long wait for the release of Chinese Democracy was all hype and I was let down when I heard the lp.

 

For Those About To Rock
Undercover
Internationalists
The Joshua Tree
Pleased To Meet Me
Wish
Bone Machine
Four-Calendar Cafe
Standing On The Shoulders Of Giants

 

The Final Cut made me want to barf.

 

The final cut made me want to buy more Pink Floyd.

 

"Goodbye Columbus" escapes me

 

Even though Goat's Head Soup is a nice record, it had to be a bringdown coming after Exile On Main Street, and it was.

 

How Dare You - 10cc

 

Well at least you wanted to buy more PF which is a good thing.Odd though because TFC is so far away from most PF.

 

Invincible by Michael Jackson. We waited six years and endured countless delays to finally get a bunch of tracks MJ didn't even write -- after having written almost all of his material since the eighties -- and the songs he got from outside writers were either unpleasant, overlong, mechanical, repetitive, undanceable "uptempo" numbers, or banal R n' B ballads that could have ended up on a Brandy album. And some genius told MJ to do away with all of the classic MJ yelps and hiccups and "hee-hees", so it doesn't even have his classic vocal style.

Oh, and we only got one lousy video. What a fiasco.

 

Elton John - A Single Man

Ended my Elton fanhood. Though it was a steady decline from 1976-1978 nothing, not even Victim of Love (which I willfully ignored) could prepare me for this atrocity. Part Time Love has got to me one of the most banal pop songs ever.

You, me , everybody needs a Part Time Love.

 

The Who's Face Dances
Wings London Town
Stone Roses Second Coming
Pink Floyd's Final Cut
The Verve: Fourth
Stones Dirty work

Each of these albums have some merit but they came after albums that where either flat out better or that promised bigger things.

 

Ovaltine?

 

London Calling

 

Graceland. I was SO looking forward to it with my new Sony CD player and it was the first CD I ever bought. Loved "Rhymin' Simon" and the S/T album. Not only did I not like Graceland's music, the CD sounded like crap. I know it's regarded as a classic, but I still don't like it.

 

Just stop.

Might as well have named this thread name some of the greatest albums of all time. Exile, London Calling, Hot Buttered Soul. Next thing I bet someone will post Sgt. Peppers or Pet Sounds.

 

A note for note remake of a superior original, an overlong, one-chord ballad that is lyrically opposed to MJ's sensibility when singing love songs, and therefore feels fake and artificial, and a bland R n B number that could have appeared on Monica's album from the same period, with ad-libs lifted from The Lady in my Life.

Gee, thanks, Invincible!

 

In Utero

 

Listen Without Prejuduce by George Michael. I love the album now, but when itthe day it came out, I was dissapointed how depressing it is and how it was nothing like Faith, which was very upbeat.

 

Well, a "disappointment" (reread the post title) often has to do with heightened expectations. Pet Sounds would actually be a pretty good candidate, too.