What has been your biggest album disappointment?

I don’t get anything of King Crimson after their biggest hit album, In The Court of the Crimson King. They changed their music style and most of their members too. Maybe prog is not my melody after all.

 

Hey. It wasn't as bad as Dylan's Xmas album ...

 

Please do listen to Just One Victory again.

 

Smile.

 

Brian Wilson or The Beach Boys?

 

Bon Jovi - Keep The Faith

I was a huge huge fan in the late 80s + solo stuff of 1990 & 1991.

Of course they couldnt continue the way they were but still song-wise Keep The Faith was nowhere near their past accomplishments...if they'd mixed sambora's & bongiovi's solo efforts together and left out weaker songs, that would have been perfect and honest 90s Bon Jovi comeback record...

 

Bob Lind - Magellan Was Wrong

His comeback album, Finding You Again, released after a hiatus of 41 years, was excellent. This follow-up, though, sounds like the songs were just left over from that session. It's not that they are actually bad songs, just not that great.

 

Doesn't matter: same material. I know many here revere it, but, after lusting after Smile for decades, once it was finally in my hands, it sunk in to me that there just might have been a reason why it wasn't released in 1966 other than that Mike was a meanie.

 

Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night. Gave the CD to my dad.

 

Some bands would consider this the most damning indictment you could possibly deliver.

 

Well, there's still a big difference between the rendition of Brian Wilson and the revised version of the original Beach Boys tapes.

I like it a lot personally, but mind you, you're not alone saying that. The review in Rock n' Folk pretty much said the same thing when the Beach Boys version came out :according to the writer, it's unfocused, childish, idiotic, sketches of songs - and the same guy revers "Pet Sounds". It was the first time I'd ever read something negative about "Smile".

 

Obscured by clouds, Pink Floyd. It was the last one i get to know from them and got into it knowing that after that one there wouldnt be more Floyd álbuns to discover. Wanted it to be epic (something between meddle and dark side) and though it started well soon the desilusion arrived and was always the Ugly Floyd duck for me. High expectations, big disappointment.
Nowadays i can enjoy it, but more than 25 years gone bye.

 

Every Depeche Mode album since Ultra

 

I first heard SMiLE when I heard Brian Wilson perform it live in 2004. I really enjoyed the concert as a whole, but remember thinking I did not know what to make of the so-called "lost album".

However I remembered liking a couple of the songs, such as "Wind Chimes", so a few months later when I saw the album in a store I thought "What the heck".

When I played it I wondered what on earth I could have been thinking. Yes, I revere it; I'd say I revere it more than I do Pet Sounds. I can understand though why someone who expected an album that was basically a bunch of songs, each of which could have been a single, might have been nonplussed. Coming from a background of liking progressive rock, I am able to appreciate it better, because like many prog albums, it's a cohesive unit, and really loses something if you don't listen to the whole thing in full.

 

That's right, and this writer is notoriously anti prog, so it would make sense.

I agree about "Smile" being a whole piece. That said I am intrigued and will forever be : we only have a rough idea of how it would have been assembled had it been released in 1967 (would they have stuck to the track list on the back covers that were apparently printed when the project was dropped?).
Beach Boys albums are often very short, this one may have been the longest ever, but a single LP can't hold as much music as what was eventually released. So there's still a faint "what if" for me.

The last album is abysmal. Not that I was surprised (the previous one wasn't good either) but still painful.

 

A lot of the fault with their post Ultra stuff lies in the abysmal mastering: IMO Playing The Angel was a good album but an "ear bleeder".

 

Raging Slab, Sing Monkey Sing.

Dynamite Monster Boogie Concert was such a fantastic album, only to be followed by what is probably THEE worst album I've ever heard in my life.

 

Yep, that and the missing Alan Wilder

 

I've always liked this album I thought it was quirky great. Nothing but Flowers, Bilnd and Mr Jones were fantastic and made me smile when I heard them. Reading this has me wanting to listen to it again.

 

Those are my favorite tracks on that album. It wasn't a bad album, just not one I ever really fell in love with.

 

I guess one of my first major disappointments as a fledgling music aficionado in the early 80s was Squeeze's "Sweets From a Stranger".

I loved "Argybargy" and "East Side Story" to pieces, and the follow-up just fell flat for me.

 

I guess I'm like a lot of the world that started to tune out with the 4th Oasis album.

 

Yeah, "Good Vibrations" is just not your kinda song.

 

Two of my favorite albums. I appreciate your candor. We like what we like.

I find every Steely Dan album boring after Can't Buy A Thrill.