Albums that disappointed you

[Purple Shrimp]

the white album. it's quite good, but it's not the great Beatles masterpiece that it's often made out to be

The masterpiece? No. Because they released five masterpieces (Rubber Soul, The White Album, Revolver, Abbey Road, and The Magical Mystery Tour) that all had varying sounds. I don't know which is my favorite (it's between Rubber Soul and The Magical Mystery Tour), but asking five people what the best Beatles album is will yield you twelve answers.

sorry if that was confusing but I didn't mean it's often considered their only masterpiece. I meant it's often considered their best, or one of their absolute best. also while you're right that there's no consensus about what the best Beatles album is, I'm glad to meet another person who'd nominate Rubber Soul.

 

[Flabbagazta]

the white album. it's quite good, but it's not the great Beatles masterpiece that it's often made out to be

The masterpiece? No. Because they released five masterpieces (Rubber Soul, The White Album, Revolver, Abbey Road, and The Magical Mystery Tour) that all had varying sounds. I don't know which is my favorite (it's between Rubber Soul and The Magical Mystery Tour), but asking five people what the best Beatles album is will yield you twelve answers.

6... you forgot Sgt Pepper


was really disappointed with 10,000 Days, every Tool album sounds entirely different but 10,000 Days sounded the same as Lateralis.

At War With the Mystics by The Flaming Lips, their previous two albums are their best (The Soft Bulletin and Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots), Mystics really didn't live up to those

Jurassic 5 Feedback/DJ Shadow - The Outsider/Blackalicious - The Craft... Quannam was once the BEST hiphop label going these 3 albums SUCKED all released around the same time all really geared for wide consumption, things haven't gotten much better, just listen to Lyrics Born's new stuff then his old stuff you will get the picture

Shpongle - The Ineffable Mysteries of Shpongleland, it was meh, the previous album ...But Nothing is Lost is one of the most (if not the most) finely crafted electronic albums of all time. Still amazing live though

Imma stop I could go on for hours

 

[MiracleOfSound]

I'm just gonna say this right now, I'm getting my rage face on for St. Anger.

I was hoping someone would bring that shit-infested bulbous wart on the asshole of music into this thread.

 

[MiracleOfSound]

Illud Divinum Insanus by Morbid Angel


Awful, awful, awful album. Biggest disappointment in years for me

Ahahhhaha its a joke of an album. Made me laugh.

Dont know what Vincent and Trey had in mind when they wrote it, whatever it is, i hope it never sees the light of day again..

That album is pure genius!

The life if a radikult member is just too extreme for you guys!

You're not morbid enough!

Not like like me! I am super morbid! So morbid so that I put it in the lyrics because I'm totally secure in my death metal morbid manliness and totally not out of touch with the spirit of death metal!

Ahem.

[small]it was pretty awful alright[/small]

 

[Astoria]

MCR's Danger Days. I was hoping for it to be a new version of Revenge but....yeah, big let down.

 

[Sephychu]

Newest Arcade Fire album, "The suburbs", also disappointing.

REALLY?
I mean, I agree with your other choices, save maybe for the Tron soundtrack, but the Suburbs was an excellent album!
I just went to see them and those songs are some of my favourites.

I was massively disappointed by all the recent stuff that Judas Priest and Halford himself have done, despite still playing an awesome live show.

 

[Tragedy's Rebellion]

Dark Passion Play from nightwish.
its not bad its just not awesome.

Yeah, it's not BAD, but it's not particularly good either.

 

[Kenami]

Weezers Raditude.

I never wanted to jump out of a window before but that album definitely made me want to after track 3.

You could probably extend that to every Weezer album after Pinkerton.

I actually really enjoyed Make Believe and Red Album. I found them enjoyable and well made, nowhere near what Pinkerton achieved but I never expect Weezer to make a record like that again, I think Pinkerton was a happy (and brutally emotional ) accident.

 

[Mr Shrike]

Wrath-Lamb of God (pritty adverage for a highly skilled band and aweful in comparison to Sacrament).

I find myself agreeing with you there. The mixing (to me) was rough and unpolished in comparison to Ashes of the Wake and Sacrament.

Hell, I pre-ordered that album and saw them in Brixton, UK for the Wrath tour, and the songs was amazing live (especially Grace), but I find that when I'm listening to the studio versions, they're rubbish.

Ok, maybe "rubbish" is a strong word, but certainly not as good as its predecessors.

OT: Dimmu Borgir's album In Sorte Diaboli. By all means a listenable album, but it just lacked the passion of their previous works that made them so great.

 

[Kenami]

The album that destroyed me when I was younger was "The Open Door" by Evanescence. I loved Fallen, but when Ben Moody left the band, he took the band with him.

absolutely. I used to love that first record to bits and The Open Door was a massive let down! Nothing but incredibly dull self-indulgent tracks by Amy Lee. The lack of song writing from Ben Moody was highly apparent.

And you weren't joking...he literally did take the band with him.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Are_the_Fallen

 

[ScoobyDizzle]

Lupe Fiasco - L.A.S.E.R.S.

 

[Grouchy Imp_v1legacy]

I'm just gonna say this right now, I'm getting my rage face on for St. Anger.

Well you've saved me from saying it. I didn't think things could get any worse after that rancid pile of sh*t, but then they went and released the Some Kind of Monster DVD. Uurgh.

 

[WalrusPowers]

Pretty much 80 percent of ACDCs stuff after the Bon Scott era.

and also, St Anger. Although, that kinda need not be mentioned.

 

[0_Insomnis_0]

Night Train by Keane. Very disappointing.

 

[Xelt]

The new one by Norther Change of singer really changed them too much.

 

[Professor Lupin Madblood]

Korven Kuningas by Korpiklaani. They're a really obscure Finnish folk metal band, you've probably never heard of them.

/hipster

In all seriousness, though, their first two albums were excellent, combining elements of classic headbanging metal and genuine musicianship with Finnish folk tales and fiddles.

Korven Kuningas was an hour and 13 minutes of music that all sounded the same and was mostly in Finnish. Guys, I get that you're a Finnish band and I don't mind it when you decide to speak in Finnish (Keep on Galloping from Koren Kuningas is still good despite 90% of it being incomprehensible to my Canadian ears), but when your albums so far have been almost entirely in English, it's not the sort of thing you just go around changing.

And I'm not going to get into the title track, which I thought was going to be a 22-minute epic the likes of which I had not heard since Niflheim by Adagio (obscure French band because that's how I roll). It ended up being a song like any other one on the album, but with 15 minutes of THE SAME THREE DRUM NOTES REPEATED UNTIL THE END OF THE SONG.

Good God did that ever annoy me.

EDIT: Hah! My 42nd post and it's about obscure European metal. Awesome. Read more Douglas Adams if you don't get why 42 is a significant number.

 

[SuperNova221]

Every David Bowie from the 80's onwards.

 

[w9496]

I'm just gonna say this right now, I'm getting my rage face on for St. Anger.

I was hoping someone would bring that shit-infested bulbous wart on the asshole of music into this thread.

I think I may have typed that wrong, I ACTUALLY LIKE THAT ALBUM. I like the sound of the snare, the fast riffs in songs like Frantic, Lars went back to double bass, and to me it seemed like they actually had emotion behind their songs and their lyrics.

I can see why some may not like it, or to go as far as to hate it.

I'm just gonna say this right now, I'm getting my rage face on for St. Anger.

Well you've saved me from saying it. I didn't think things could get any worse after that rancid pile of sh*t, but then they went and released the Some Kind of Monster DVD. Uurgh.

and since you quoted me about this too, there ya go.

 

[smithy_2045]

The new Arctic Monkeys album, "Suck It And See".

I'll agree on the first two. The last two Arctic Monkeys albums haven't been very good (but they'll always have those Your Favourite Worst Nightmare and Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not.

IMO, Humbug was their best album yet. But I definitely agree Suck It and See was a let down.


Bloc Party's Intimacy had some really good songs, but also some utter crap.

Franz Ferdinand have never matched the height of their debut album.

Interpol's self-titled wasn't as good as their earlier work.

Jet's Shine On was pathetic.

The Killer's Day & Age sucked.

MGMT's Congratulations lacked everything that made Oracular Spectacular good.

Muse's The Resistance was too much filler.

That's all I can think of for now.

 

[standokan]

The last U2 album, I know it's dated but still, didn't love it.