Best Ever Albums

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Graeme — Mon, 24 May 2010 08:13:34 GMT

Author: Graeme

Posted: 05/24/2010 12:13

Stadium Arcadium was the most dissapointing album I've bought.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

telefunker — Sat, 22 May 2010 10:17:56 GMT

Author: telefunker

Posted: 05/22/2010 14:17

the following songs by sonic youth are absolutely fantastic:

teenage riot
dirty boots
kool thing
sugar kane

if you've heard some of the others and you don't like them, chances are you won't like most of their stuff. it's mainly noisy feedback. when they write something melodic though, it really works

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

SquishypuffDave — Fri, 21 May 2010 21:47:23 GMT

Author: SquishypuffDave

Posted: 05/22/2010 01:47

Umm one of my biggest disappointments was The Incident by Porcupine Tree. It wasn't a bad album by any means, but from the samples I'd heard I was expecting conceptual prog greatness with a really dirty sound. What I got was more akin to Coldplay's Viva La Vida (also not a bad album per se). Ovapoduced! Disappointingly sterile sounding, especially after hearing Steven Wilson's Insurgentes.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Cryptozoologist — Fri, 21 May 2010 16:47:38 GMT

Author: Cryptozoologist

Posted: 05/21/2010 20:47

I really like Antichrist Superstar, actually. It's my guilty pleasure.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

videoheadcleaner — Thu, 20 May 2010 07:31:19 GMT

Author: videoheadcleaner

Posted: 05/20/2010 11:31

Arctic Monkeys - Favourite Worst Nightmare
The Cure - The Top
The Triffids - Black Swan
David Bowie - Earthling

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

thomas697 — Thu, 20 May 2010 01:40:20 GMT

Author: thomas697

Posted: 05/20/2010 05:40

Alot of U2 is disappointing

Im not a beatles fan .. but wasnt Abbey Road considered a pretty big disappointment when it came out?

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

richardmbeaverii — Wed, 19 May 2010 05:27:05 GMT

Author: richardmbeaverii

Posted: 05/19/2010 09:27

The album that comes to my mind the most is Joshua Tree by U2. I was really expecting a masterpiece.
No offense to those who love it, but for me, it's just a fine album. Nothing great.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

thomas697 — Tue, 18 May 2010 20:22:00 GMT

Author: thomas697

Posted: 05/19/2010 00:22

The Gollux wrote:

Cryptozoologist wrote:

I don't get what people dislike about Hail to the Thief, that was an amazing album.

Any Marilyn Manson album after Antichrist Superstar disappointed the hell out of me.

i was quite the manson fan twelve years ago, back when i was an angsty teen. i even saw him a couple of times in concert. i returned to these albums a few months ago to see how theyd aged with me. your right...with the exception of antichrist superstar, they are pretty unlistenable. and even antichrist is no gem. i think its mostly trents production that makes it worth a listen.

The only manson album I can listen to is mechanical animals, and I used to be a really intense fan. I cant actually stand Anti christ superstar.

And to Cryptozoologist, I dont think hail to the thief is crap, I listen to it often, but after Kid A and Amnesiac, I was hoping for something like what In Rainbows was.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

The Gollux — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:40:31 GMT

Author: The Gollux

Posted: 05/18/2010 15:40

Cryptozoologist wrote:

I don't get what people dislike about Hail to the Thief, that was an amazing album.

Any Marilyn Manson album after Antichrist Superstar disappointed the hell out of me.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Cryptozoologist — Tue, 18 May 2010 11:30:31 GMT

Author: Cryptozoologist

Posted: 05/18/2010 15:30

I don't get what people dislike about Hail to the Thief, that was an amazing album.

Any Marilyn Manson album after Antichrist Superstar disappointed the hell out of me.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

thomas697 — Tue, 18 May 2010 09:03:07 GMT

Author: thomas697

Posted: 05/18/2010 13:03

Radiohead - Hail to the Thief
Thom Yorke - The Eraser
Michael Jackson - Bad
Eminem - Encore
Pink Floyd - Everythign after the wall
Led Zeppelin - Presence
Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
Pixies - Bossanova
Bjork - Vespertine
Bloc Party - A weekend in the city
Gorillaz - Plastic beach
*****The Winner******
Chinese Democracy - Guns n Roses .. didnt have much expectation .. but thought something would have been achieved in the ample years of work on it!

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Anonymous — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:25:40 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/04/2009 02:25

This isn't as shitty as some of the other albums that have been pointed out, but Rage Against the Machine's RAGE cover album was a kind of annoying after three great albums.

Personally, I also think the Pixies Bossanova is a serious drop in quality. I love Come On Pilgrim, Surfer Rosa, Doolittle, and Trompe le Monde but after a while Bossanova sounds a little generic to me. Again though, not nearly as shitty as some of the other albums mentioned.

Also, the Butthole Surfers are a real hit or miss group; I love Life's Brown and Locust Abortion Technician but I remember getting an album from them that was folky/ western/ dorky stuff and then another where I was completely disinterested.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Anonymous — Thu, 3 Dec 2009 21:20:07 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/04/2009 02:20

Yeah, personally I think I like Sister the best after Daydream Nation. But outlaw, give Dirty, Goo, EVOL, The Eternal, and Murray Street all a try. They're all pretty good, but if you find you don't like Sonic Youth... I would wait a month or two and then give Daydream Nation a listen and then follow that up with Sister, then EVOL, and then Dirty; to give them a fair shot.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Mr. Shankly — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 18:56:38 GMT

Author: Mr. Shankly

Posted: 12/02/2009 23:56

an_outlaw wrote:

Norman Bates wrote:

an_outlaw wrote:

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (I brought this on the cover alone, found out about its acclaim when I got home... then I pressed play...)

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Sonic Youth - Sister 🤬

Wow. I love those. Do you like other Sonic Youth albums or do you discard Sonic Youth altogether ?

I have yet to listen to any other albums by Sonic Youth but I'll give them a go. 😜 I still have copies of Daydream Nation and Dirty that I have yet to play lol

Sonic Youth is one of those bands that is very unique, and you either connect in some way with their music or you don't, but I would just say give them a few listens at least (and the key word is listen. They are not something you put on as background music).

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Anonymous — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 10:56:38 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/02/2009 15:56

Norman Bates wrote:

an_outlaw wrote:

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (I brought this on the cover alone, found out about its acclaim when I got home... then I pressed play...)

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Sonic Youth - Sister 🤬

Wow. I love those. Do you like other Sonic Youth albums or do you discard Sonic Youth altogether ?

I have yet to listen to any other albums by Sonic Youth but I'll give them a go. 😜 I still have copies of Daydream Nation and Dirty that I have yet to play lol

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

cartoken — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 06:59:12 GMT

Author: cartoken

Posted: 12/02/2009 11:59

* don't agree with room on fire, not as good as is this it? but a superb album too !

for me the most disappointing 2nd release is: Sam's Town - the Killers, one of the worst album of the decade !

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Norman Bates — Wed, 2 Dec 2009 03:41:26 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 12/02/2009 08:41

an_outlaw wrote:

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (I brought this on the cover alone, found out about its acclaim when I got home... then I pressed play...)

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Sonic Youth - Sister 🤬

Wow. I love those. Do you like other Sonic Youth albums or do you discard Sonic Youth altogether ?

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Anonymous — Tue, 1 Dec 2009 16:48:22 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 12/01/2009 21:48

Bon Iver - For Emma, Forever Ago (I brought this on the cover alone, found out about its acclaim when I got home... then I pressed play...)

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Sonic Youth - Sister 🤬

Kate Bush - Aerial (I might not have listed this one if I hadn't paid £18 for my copy. Somewhere In Between and King of the Mountain are the only good songs)

Tool - Lateralus

Suede - Suede/Dog Man Star x2cd (Not one song I liked between them)

Laura Marling - Alas, I cannot Swim

All of the above were purchased with high expectations either because of internet recommendations (all before I found this site), critical acclaim, NME (now learned not to trust them), other work by the artist or having a cool album cover. 🙄

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Ironic Karma — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 23:09:24 GMT

Author: Ironic Karma

Posted: 08/12/2009 03:09

Led Zeppelin - Presence - The boys of the British sensation lost their knack after Physical Graffiti. The only thing impressive on Presence was "Achilles Last Stand" with Jimmy's long guitar solos, everything else was not Zeppelin.

Oasis - Pretty much everything after Morning Glory, I mean the first two albums by these guys was amazing. Only went down hill from there. There latest album, Dig Out Your Soul was promising with a more psychedelic and experimental feel, but it disappointed.

Weezer (Green album) - Nothing new from these guys, after great two first albums, Pinkerton and Blue Album, Green was awful, just mashed up guitar tracks with a whiny Rivers Cuosmo crying over losing his girlfriend. "Hash Up" and "Island In the Sun" were good though...

The Doors - Waiting For the Sun and The Soft Parade - both awful albums after the strong debut and Strange Days. Definately the worst days of The Doors, you could tell that Jim Morrison didn't give a fuck on those albums, only after getting an album named after him and getting a beard gave him the will to go on.

Re: Most Disappointing album ever.....

Richie Hunt — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:56:37 GMT

Author: Richie Hunt

Posted: 07/31/2009 14:56

eMotiVe - A Perfect Circle
Radiohead Hail To The Theif

Also, Fleet Foxes had many good reviews at the time so i tried it and found out that it was some crap which belonged to an ancient period of time. I have a church over the back fence, 90+ yolds are singing more rocking hymns on Sunday mornings than this boring rubbish. Next time i will ignore the reviews. Same sort of thing can be said for Arcade Fire albums.