Most disappointing albums you bought (or didn't buy)

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

Really??

Just couldn't get into it no matter how many times i tried...



(that would be three)

 

[Storer 68]

After the ineffable magic that is (and was)

this was very disppointing

a couple of really good tracks showed they could still cut it but mostly tosh

 

[catfish]

Pablo Honey by Radiohead - couldn't get into it at all apart from Creep.

 

[Peteinblack]

After the ineffable magic that is (and was)

this was very disppointing

a couple of really good tracks showed they could still cut it but mostly tosh

'Gates of Babylon' is superb.

 

[Pevenseagull]

TVOTR's second studio album, Return to Cookie Mountain, wasn't that great, thankfully they smashed it with Dear Science on the third attempt.

didn't they just ...... my favourite album of the millennium

 

[Super Steve Earle]

What album disappointed you, following a previous gem that had your hopes raised to the roof?

One I bought and promptly returned, was Led Zeppelin 'Presence'.

One I managed to hear first, so I knew it was shite, was Jethro Tull 'Thick As A Brick'

I did get Yes 'Tales of Topographic Oceans', which was well played instrumentally, but just wasted on long, laborious, rubbish compositions.

Selling England By The Pound was one I probably could have got along with, but after a few listens to friends raving about it I realised I only liked Foxtrot.

Magazine's 'Correct Use Of Soap' was disappointing, as Devoto was getting more indulgent as a 'leader' and not as a singer for a band.

I'm with you on all except 'Thick as a Brick'. Saw it live at the time and it get's a luxury 40th Anniversary Remaster this year by the guy who has just done a brilliant job on Aqualung. Ian Anderson apparently touring it solo in full this year. May be worth another listen?

 

[Super Steve Earle]

The name of the band on the cover should have been a warning to you there...

There's only ever been one word for Yes, and that's No!

Should have stopped after Fragile.

 

[Super Steve Earle]

Trouble was it cost me the price of two albums to find this out!

Doesn't he live in or near Lewes?

 

[Dave the OAP]

Tusk.....fleetwood mac


tripe

 

[CorgiRegisteredFriend]

Echo and The Bunnymen- All the releases after Ocean Rain.

 

[mune ni kamome]

Tusk.....fleetwood mac


tripe

Good call. Wasn't that the one after Rumours. What a let down.

 

[Dave the OAP]

Good call. Wasn't that the one after Rumours. What a let down.

yes that was the one

 

[NMH]

TVOTR's second studio album, Return to Cookie Mountain, wasn't that great, thankfully they smashed it with Dear Science on the third attempt.

Just listened to Dear Science, then Cookie Mountain on Youtube - have to say I am liking RTCM far more than DS.
Matter of taste, obviously

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Just listened to Dear Science, then Cookie Mountain on Youtube - have to say I am liking RTCM far more than DS.
Matter of taste, obviously

Fair play. If you can find a song called 'Satellite' off their EP (before their first album release proper) then that is EPIC. Still my favourite TVOTR song.

 

[shaun_rc]

Following a NSC recommendation I am sad to report that Ersatz GB 'The Fall' was a big disappointment.

This. One of the worst Fall albums of the zillions they've done.

The problem is that now Mark E Smith has achieved legend status (by still being alive, which is quite an achievement), you can't get a proper review anymore. And sorry Mark, you can't drag people off the street and pretend they are as good as Scanlon, Hanley(S), Burns and Hanley(P).

 

[jakarta]

What album disappointed you, following a previous gem that had your hopes raised to the roof?

One I bought and promptly returned, was Led Zeppelin 'Presence'.

One I managed to hear first, so I knew it was shite, was Jethro Tull 'Thick As A Brick'

I did get Yes 'Tales of Topographic Oceans', which was well played instrumentally, but just wasted on long, laborious, rubbish compositions.

Selling England By The Pound was one I probably could have got along with, but after a few listens to friends raving about it I realised I only liked Foxtrot.

Magazine's 'Correct Use Of Soap' was disappointing, as Devoto was getting more indulgent as a 'leader' and not as a singer for a band.

Nowt wrong with 'Presence' but the final Led Zep album 'In through the Outdoor' was f***ing awful, thankfully they only played one track from it when I saw them at Knebworth - I believe there were reasons (John Bonhams ongoing alcoholism, Jimmy Pages Heroin addiction and Robert Plants son dying) that meant that it is almost a John Paul Jones solo album......

 

[NMH]

Fair play. If you can find a song called 'Satellite' off their EP (before their first album release proper) then that is EPIC. Still my favourite TVOTR song.

.
Yep, already found that one earlier - it's the most psychedelic of their material so far, and I like that

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

The last (2nd) Klaxons album was utter shite. I buy a lot of music and have a very open not to mention generous mind but even I cannot find anything in this album.

 

[Herr Tubthumper]

Hot Space - Queen
Bows + Arrows - The Walkmen
Sam's Town - The Killers
Metallica - St. Anger
Everything by Editors

Sam's Town is a great album.

 

[sydney]

the last groove armada album black light , utter shit when put up against the previous album ,total sell-out.....urban anthems (nme) to dance floor filler (the sun) bollox.