Most Disappointing Al***?
Posted by: Gavin B on 14 February 2002
In a vein similar to that of the 'Worst Song' thread, which album has disappointed you most on first (and any subsequent) listen?
This doesn't have to be because the music was bad, but could be just not what you expected to hear.
Me, I'm going for Midnite Vultures by Beck. This represented too much of a change in direction from his previous albums which I loved (although much of the first album is pretty unlistenable)
A close second would be Phantom 51 by the North Mississippi Allstars. Music is fine, but I think the standard of their debut album (Shake Hands With Shorty) was too much to live up to.
Posted on: 15 February 2002 by Former member
Wow - the kids must be doing something right.
Just the sort of reaction I would have loved from some old koot.
Back to your old Glen Miller then eh
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Just what was expected - ignorant insults.
Prove me wrong then - List the talent.
I see Robbie Williams just got caught out for ripping off Loudon Wainwright and he's nowhere near as bad as those DJ's who cut and paste and then go home puffed up with how great they are.
Steph
Posted on: 16 February 2002 by Alex S.
Others who started well and at best rested on their laurels, or at worst produced an endless pile of kak thereafter, include UB40, Enigma, Deep Forest. . .
Alex
Posted on: 16 February 2002 by Chris Brandon
Two that spring to mind are...
1. Terrance Trent D'Arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh
But it's the one where he does a kind of Yoko Ono "thing" all the way through it (...Yoko's not on my favourite artist list either). I think that the album flopped cos I picked it up V cheap not long after it was released.
2. Linkin Park - Papercut - I can't find anything on this album that I like (...I usually find something I like in most things I listen to,but so far,not this one)
Regards
Chris
[This message was edited by Chris Brandon on SATURDAY 16 February 2002 at 10:53.]
Posted on: 16 February 2002 by throbnorth
The first S'Express album, 'Original Soundtrack' was a magnificent hi-energy rushy sort of a thing that made me want to shake my booty furiously, whereas the second, 'Intercourse' was dull, turgid and made my booty want to do something entirely different....
Posted on: 17 February 2002 by Former member
Jagged Little Pill was brilliant because the songs were so good and were performed with the right amount of bile, attack and wistfullness.
Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie was just a bitter, self-pitying, self-important, self-righteous rant without two good notes to rub together.
Her new one is supposed to be back to the form of the "Pill", but I've heard record company hype before. We'll see.
Posted on: 18 February 2002 by Robby
Jackson Browne's Lawyers in Love was pretty dire - all his albums after the Pretender seemed to slide to this all time low.
Posted on: 18 February 2002 by Former member
Dummy - Weird, groundbreaking stuff.
Portishead - Yawn.
I find it quite hard to put into words exactly what went wrong between the two albums, but I find "Portishead" such a boring album...
Posted on: 18 February 2002 by Former member
RichardN,
With u on the Portishead albums. Second one really crap, more embarrasing cos I live there!
Posted on: 18 February 2002 by dvdkeogh
One of my favourite songs is "I dont want to talk about it" performed by EBTG. I even like the Tod Terry remix of Missing. However, Temperamental just doesn't do it for me. It sounds like it was produced by a school pupil for there exam coursework...
It is just doensn't generate any enthusiaism in me, I guess maybe I just miss its point...
Dave
Posted on: 18 February 2002 by Gavin B
I suppose this thread could be extended into another that has been on my mind for quite a while.
How about bands that delivered a great debut, then went onto commercial success with subsequent albums that are much worse than their debut.
My observations here include
Smashing Pumpkins - Gish
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
PJ Harvey - Dry (although this has been spoilt to some extent by Songs From...)
Pixies - Surfer Rosa (if I'm allowed to include the mini album with this)
Guns'N'Roses - Appetite for Destruction (although this doesn't strictly adhere to the pattern since it was huge in itself)
Any more in this vein? Dire Straits mentioned somewhere above certainly would.
