I think they are both very good albums. The second doesn’t come close to being labeled a “dissapointment “
I like Done With Mirrors, but THAT was a step down. At its worst, Night In The Ruts was on par with Draw The Line, but overall the Ruts album rocked more with six great rockers plus their trademark ballad. But if people don't want to like it, how are you gonna stop them? On topic: The Rolling Stones Steel Wheels.
I agree that Hot was a step in the right direction after all of those generic hair-metal albums they’d put out after the awesome ‘Creatures of the Night.’
I’ve read a LOT of love for Goats Head online lately. I actually used to like it enough, but now I feel like it’s one of their worst. The band sounds exhausted and bored. I’m not quite old enough to have heard it and Exile as they were released (I first listened to their albums out of sequence starting shortly after ‘Steel Wheels’s release), but it’s hard not to imagine Goats being a crushing disappointment as a follow-up.
Dissapointments for me? Well, being a great Status Quo fan I am very dissapointed with some of their albums. 1+9+8+2 - The first nail in the coffin for the Frantic 4. No real drummer, lack of emotion. "This ain't my band of yore!" I cried. Neither would be years after. Most of the 90s albums. Real cash-ins with absolutely no innovation, no wow factor, and horrendous songs. Honorable mention to Thirsty Work's Restless. Compare it with, say, Quo's Backwater. A shadow of themselves, really.
Elton John- "The Union" and "The Diving Board". Both severe disappointments following "The Captain and the Kid" Queen- "Hot Space" Sting- "Brand New Day" Paul McCartney- "Press to Play" Steve Miller- "Circle of Love" The Who- "Endless Wire" David Gilmour- "On an Island" Boz Scaggs- "Other Roads"
Iron Maiden - No Prayer For The Dying After that great run of albums from the debut to Seventh Son, then I heard the first single (the asrse puckering bad) Holy Smoke.........very average album by Maiden standards
Radiohead's "Hail To The Thief." Went to the midnight release party at my local (which, oddly enough, I now am employed at), took it home and immediately put it on. Tragic. I wonder if it's aged well, because coming fresh off of Kid A/Amnesiac it sure seemed like a step back.
Going to have to go with my standard response... Creedence Clearwater Revival "Mardi Gras"... it was so bad I was embarrassed for the band. Better title would have been "Merde Gras"...
The second ABC album. The Lexicon of Love was everything to me, and I blasted that thing in my car for the whole year! I was so amped for the follow up, and when I heard Beauty Stab, I was disconsolate...
I do like a lot of tracks on there but there was too much chaff. Did you know that they padded it out to a triple album, thinking that CBS would count it as three albums off their contract obligation. CBS took it as one LP because it wasn't a getefold sleeve .
I thought that was a myth, and that they had purposefully released it as a triple to stick it to CBS?
After a youth full of classic rock, prog, new wave and alternative I fell in love with White Ladder by David Grey...a new musical direction for me to explore? His follow ups did zero for me...and I did a deep dive into the Dead!
After the twin triumphs of Demon Days and Plastic Beach, I've been disappointed with the recent lackluster Gorillaz efforts. What was once a creative, one-of-a-kind pop art project just seems to be phoning it in lately.
