Most Disappointing Album: Part II

[miklman]

There's been plenty of disappointment since the last thread, so i figured I'd bring it back. Remember, this is supposed to be a thread about albums you thought you were going to love, but ended up completely hating or at the very least not liking. Without any further ado, my list:

Kanye West - 808's And Heartbreaks

I know people are going to flame me for this one, but I just think the whole album is one big, long, auto-tuned POS.Did he forget he is a good rapper? He probably should have tried...rapping.

Survive Atlantica - New Songs

Formerly known as We're Not Superheroes Anymore, this band was one of my favorites. With the name change came a style change. The music isn't really...bad, it just isn't the same. :(

Panic(!) At The Disco - Pretty. Odd.

This gets on my list solely because my expectations were already not very high, and it still managed to completely disappoint...it was pretty. Terrible.

Linkin Park - LP Underground v8.0: Sweet Hamster Like Jewels From America!

Finally, another b-side album! ...oh wait, it's terrible. Will admit, however, 26 Lettaz In Da Alphabet made me laugh. Oh well, my fault for expecting HT quality content.

This Providence - My Beautiful Rescue (Renovated)

I love the original song. In fact, it's been my ringtone for well over a year. But i think the original was very vocally/lyrically driven, and this version is just not the same spirit, but I think this one is just due to my taste.


Your turn! :-d

[miklman]

You expected good things from Linkin Park?

Expect that to be the bulk of responses.

First rock band I ever listened to. Will always have my heart no matter how bad they get. X-)

[Getup and Dance]

You expected good things from Kanye?

[Getup and Dance]

Also, Kanye was never a good rapper.

[wewascontenders]

you expected good music from any of these jokes?

[harveyn590]

I did not like Panic's first album, but I actually enjoyed Pretty. Odd. I think i may be the only one. lol

I liked the arrangements of most of the songs and loved the mixolydian were so starving into nine in the afternoon.

[caLLmEnOoNe]

I did not like Panic's first album, but I actually enjoyed Pretty. Odd. I think i may be the only one. lol

I liked the arrangements of most of the songs and loved the mixolydian were so starving into nine in the afternoon.
nah i liked it better too

[El_Jeffe]

Billy Bragg - Mr. Love & Justice
i hoped for something different than what i got. my own fault there really

Dezarie - Eaze the Pain
actually an album i enjoy hugely, & one of my favourites of last year. it's just that since her flawless debut not a lot has changed on the last couple albums, she has so much potential & a voice so pure

Béla Fleck & the Flecktones - Jingle All the Way
bluegrass/jazz fusion goes... christmas? such a waste

Victor Wooten - Palmystery
so lackluster for such a renowned talent. i hate to say it, but it's almost as if he set out to make the ultimate cafe background album

Michael McDonald - Soul Speak
covers, all covers. some were "nice". but i really wanted more than nice, & perhaps something original for the first time in what feels like ages mike

[miklman]

<3 trolls. Guess the members of this site have become elitist since the last thread. :D

you expected good music from any of these jokes?

I'm sure everyone thinks TP is a joke. :rolleyes: Go act like you're the shit somewhere else.

[steviestare]

Chase This Light, felt it was a step down from JEW's stuff that came before.

[miklman]

Chase This Light, felt it was a step down from JEW's stuff that came before.

Really? I've yet to listen to it but my brother likes it a lot. I think I heard the single, though, and was unimpressed.

[El_Jeffe]

yea that's a good one. i'm one of those annoying people who isn't feeling much jimmy eat world has done since clarity haha. but at least they were going somewhere with their albums, up until the last, which sounded like a major regression. but each to their own

edit: wait, wasn't that '07?

[miklman]

I wonder how people feel about The Classic Crime's new album.

[Jumpoff]

Never really enjoyed Jimmy Eat World.

1. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
I can't put my finger on it, but the album is missing something. I have recently been on a huge transatlantacism/photo album binge and it makes this album even more of a letdown. I expected at least something new after the first single but it honestly turned out to be a poor rehash of their last two albums.

2. Protest the Hero - Fortress
Say what you will, but I really enjoyed Kezia. This album seemed good at first but I quickly grew tired of it. They pretty much removed all aspects that I enjoyed about them on the first album.

3. Mars Volta - Bedlam for Goliath
They toned down any of the more "out there" parts of their music for a far less enjoyable album than the previous three in my opinion.

4. Bon Iver - Bloodbank
The vocals completely ruin it for me.

[Hey Kevin]

Never really enjoyed Jimmy Eat World.

3. Mars Volta - Bedlam for Goliath
They toned down any of the more "out there" parts of their music for a far less enjoyable album than the previous three in my opinion.
maybe the grateful dead quiet jam parts but Omar experimented a lot with harsh noise which i found entertaining
idk Frances the Mute was ok but i could care less for half that album and after that

[steviestare]

Really? I've yet to listen to it but my brother likes it a lot. I think I heard the single, though, and was unimpressed.

Listen to Futures and then Chase This Light. You'll see what I am talking about.

[Jumpoff]

maybe the grateful dead quiet jam parts but Omar experimented a lot with harsh noise which i found entertaining
idk Frances the Mute was ok but i could care less for half that album and after that

I think the main thing that botheredme was that Wax Simulcra song. Regardless of the fact that Pridgen is a really fucking amazing drummer, it sounded like an average The Fall of Troy song to me. And no song really stood out to me anyway.

[Hey Kevin]

I think the main thing that botheredme was that Wax Simulcra song. Regardless of the fact that Pridgen is a really fucking amazing drummer, it sounded like an average The Fall of Troy song to me. And no song really stood out to me anyway.
its like the DEP dude in Coheed
great drummer
wrong band

[harveyn590]

Never really enjoyed Jimmy Eat World.

1. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
I can't put my finger on it, but the album is missing something. I have recently been on a huge transatlantacism/photo album binge and it makes this album even more of a letdown. I expected at least something new after the first single but it honestly turned out to be a poor rehash of their last two albums.

2. Protest the Hero - Fortress
Say what you will, but I really enjoyed Kezia. This album seemed good at first but I quickly grew tired of it. They pretty much removed all aspects that I enjoyed about them on the first album.

3. Mars Volta - Bedlam for Goliath
They toned down any of the more "out there" parts of their music for a far less enjoyable album than the previous three in my opinion.

4. Bon Iver - Bloodbank
The vocals completely ruin it for me.


Wow see I disagree with you.

For me Narrow Stairs was better than Plans. I really liked the return to tape and I really thought this album has their most upbeat stuff to date. I love Bixby Canynon Bridge. The building structure, fuzzy guitars, noisy filters and lyrical content. Long Division's synth got me and so did No Sunlight. Transatlanticism is still my favorite, but I thought this album hit alot of different colors than their past albums.

I thought Bedlam was good, although you are right, it was more straight-ahead. Goliath is jammy and some of the sax stuff is pretty crazy, but its still my least favorite. I really enjoyed the crazy shit in their past albums, its what hooked me. I may be in the minority, but i love Amputechture, minus the mixing, but i think alot of the negative feedback really prompted the more toned down and song aproach to this record. But if Wax Simulcra was your problem, well its 2 and a half minutes of a 70 minute album. And common that killer soprano sax at the end.

You are correct about Protest The Hero though. Kezia was fantastic and although they got harder and more technical, they got less memorable. I loved when they would mix in those anthemic choruses but sadly, there are not many of those on this record. I really thought they could have gone some place special, which they kind of did with Kezia, but instead they just reafirrmed my feelings about metal.

Don't know Bon Iver, will give it a listen.

[harveyn590]

its like the DEP dude in Coheed
great drummer
wrong band

You're right about Chris Pennie, but I like Thomas Pridgen in TMV. His singal pedal and ghost-note crazziness is great for the band.

Plus, and it became very evident seeing them live, but I think Thomas Pridgen is kinda of the epicenter of the band. Obviously Omar is writing, creating and directing the band, but the energy now is kinda built around the drums. I don't thats my opinion, I feel its a more balanced band now.

[Hey Kevin]

You're right about Chris Pennie, but I like Thomas Pridgen in TMV. His singal pedal and ghost-note crazziness is great for the band.

Plus, and it became very evident seeing them live, but I think Thomas Pridgen is kinda of the epicenter of the band. Obviously Omar is writing, creating and directing the band, but the energy now is kinda built around the drums. I don't thats my opinion, I feel its a more balanced band now.
Jon Theodre did the gnarliest beats though man (as well as using single pedal)
idk anyone is better than that old balding dude that i saw them play with on their Frances the Mute tour
god damn he had awful fills



and Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie was just on Scrubs
i remember how good Plans was

[harveyn590]

Jon Theodre did the gnarliest beats though man (as well as using single pedal)
idk anyone is better than that old balding dude that i saw them play with on their Frances the Mute tour
god damn he had awful fills



and Follow You Into The Dark by Death Cab For Cutie was just on Scrubs
i remember how good Plans was

Ya i saw video of him and was really wierd. Sucked really. How did Omar let him in the band?

And Follow You into the Dark was perfect for Scrubs. I'm glad, it looks like this season will be good.

[Jumpoff]

Wow see I disagree with you.

For me Narrow Stairs was better than Plans. I really liked the return to tape and I really thought this album has their most upbeat stuff to date. I love Bixby Canynon Bridge. The building structure, fuzzy guitars, noisy filters and lyrical content. Long Division's synth got me and so did No Sunlight. Transatlanticism is still my favorite, but I thought this album hit alot of different colors than their past albums.

I thought Bedlam was good, although you are right, it was more straight-ahead. Goliath is jammy and some of the sax stuff is pretty crazy, but its still my least favorite. I really enjoyed the crazy shit in their past albums, its what hooked me. I may be in the minority, but i love Amputechture, minus the mixing, but i think alot of the negative feedback really prompted the more toned down and song aproach to this record. But if Wax Simulcra was your problem, well its 2 and a half minutes of a 70 minute album. And common that killer soprano sax at the end.


Nothing about the Volta album was memorable to me. I loved Amputechture too haha.

I liked Plans more than Narrow Stairs. Narrow Stairs definitely starts off strong and I was happy for the first few songs but it goes downhill very fast.

[miklman]

I completely agree with Narrow Stairs. It just didn't do it for me.

[chipdip18]

Also, Kanye was never a good rapper.

Not even Graduation? I heard that album was worth a listen and/or some attention.

By the way, how do yo like Brother Ali?

[TreyForest]

1) narrow stairs - deatch cab
i like a bunch of the songs but just as a record it didnt work for me, plans and translantacism are much better in my opinion

2) Iempire - ava
thought the first cd was really good, definatly still play it but iempire just didnt work. It wasnt a smooth play through and i thought the guitar work was really rushed

3) Louder Now - taking back sunday
really doesnt need much of an explanation, i thought it would just be better then it turned out to be

4) all time low
i renenber my friend sent me the first 2 songs from there ep and thought it was some catchy popwerpop but then i played through the full length and it was just songs for 12 year olds that werent nearly as catchy as the ones i got from the EP. It was so genric there completly off my radar

5) Appeal to Reason - Rise Agaisnt
this is one which i was dissappointed but wasnt really that surprised. With each album theyve gotten more radio friendly and poppier which i dont disrespect at all, there just trying to make a living. However appeal to reason i feel just sounds really strange to me because its the lead singers raspy punk voice with lguitar riffs that be taken from fall out boy for many of the songs. just sounds really uncomforatble to me

[lolliot]

1. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
I can't put my finger on it, but the album is missing something. I have recently been on a huge transatlantacism/photo album binge and it makes this album even more of a letdown. I expected at least something new after the first single but it honestly turned out to be a poor rehash of their last two albums.

Wow, I can see how someone can not like Narrow Stairs as much as some of the other albums, but not because it's a rehash of any of them. It's very different from their previous stuff in my ears, especially compared to Plans.

I'm not sure which I prefer the most myself, only that none of them measure up to Transatlanticism.

My biggest disappointment of recent times was Kings of Leon - Only By The Night. It wasn't bad, I just expected a hell of a lot more. After Because Of The Times I was certain that they were going to be my favourite band ever, because I loved it from start to end. Now they're not even close.

[Getup and Dance]

Not even Graduation? I heard that album was worth a listen and/or some attention.

By the way, how do yo like Brother Ali?

He is a better producer than rapper, most of his stuff is hit or miss.

[TSLROCKS]

I loved Pretty. Odd.
Agree with JEW disappointing with Chase This Light. It was alright but was a complete step backwards for them

[Jumpoff]

Not even Graduation? I heard that album was worth a listen and/or some attention.

By the way, how do yo like Brother Ali?

Graduation is his worst album, as a rapper at least.

[chipdip18]

He is a better producer than rapper, most of his stuff is hit or miss.

I see. I have one of his albums that i enjoy. What has he produced?


Graduation is his worst album, as a rapper at least.


Haha i see. Maybe Graduation isn't the well recieved album i'm thinking of, maybe College Dropout?

[Chromefox]

I'm one of those people who actually likes the releases that disappoint everyone else.

[Jumpoff]

I see. I have one of his albums that i enjoy. What has he produced?





Haha i see. Maybe Graduation isn't the well recieved album i'm thinking of, maybe College Dropout?

College Dropout is well received. I enjoy it, but even then he was always a weaker rapper than producer. He produces all of his songs, and he has produced for a lot of other people..

[chipdip18]

College Dropout is well received. I enjoy it, but even then he was always a weaker rapper than producer. He produces all of his songs, and he has produced for a lot of other people..


Alright i see. I didn't know that he produced himself.

[.:Maxx:.]

Bullet for my Valentine - Scream, Aim, Fire

Their old sound was SOOOO much better.
The new album just seemed....i don't know....too manufactured maybe? And to classic rockish.

Ugh...people are gonna get pissed at me for saying that i bet XD

[Jumpoff]

Bullet for my Valentine - Scream, Aim, Fire

Their old sound was SOOOO much better.
The new album just seemed....i don't know....too manufactured maybe? And to classic rockish.

Ugh...people are gonna get pissed at me for saying that i bet XD

To be honest, not to be mean or anything, but noone will care.

[alert=danger]

I wonder how people feel about The Classic Crime's new album.



There first album is such a great album. Full of energy, and it was exciting.
The silver Chord was just very very dissapointing. Nothing Like i wanted it to be.

[Hey Kevin]

Bullet for my Valentine - Scream, Aim, Fire

Their old sound was SOOOO much better.
The new album just seemed....i don't know....too manufactured maybe? And to classic rockish.

Ugh...people are gonna get pissed at me for saying that i bet XD

how could you say that!
you arent a trv fan!

[miklman]

1) narrow stairs - deatch cab
i like a bunch of the songs but just as a record it didnt work for me, plans and translantacism are much better in my opinion

2) Iempire - ava
thought the first cd was really good, definatly still play it but iempire just didnt work. It wasnt a smooth play through and i thought the guitar work was really rushed

3) Louder Now - taking back sunday
really doesnt need much of an explanation, i thought it would just be better then it turned out to be

4) all time low
i renenber my friend sent me the first 2 songs from there ep and thought it was some catchy popwerpop but then i played through the full length and it was just songs for 12 year olds that werent nearly as catchy as the ones i got from the EP. It was so genric there completly off my radar

5) Appeal to Reason - Rise Agaisnt
this is one which i was dissappointed but wasnt really that surprised. With each album theyve gotten more radio friendly and poppier which i dont disrespect at all, there just trying to make a living. However appeal to reason i feel just sounds really strange to me because its the lead singers raspy punk voice with lguitar riffs that be taken from fall out boy for many of the songs. just sounds really uncomforatble to me

I have to agree with this post. Although I may not have been looking forward to AVA or All Time low.

[UnderMyDreams]

1) narrow stairs - deatch cab
4) all time low
i renenber my friend sent me the first 2 songs from there ep and thought it was some catchy popwerpop but then i played through the full length and it was just songs for 12 year olds that werent nearly as catchy as the ones i got from the EP. It was so genric there completly off my radar


I really never can understand how people say "Oh that's a pretty good band with catchy songs." off of one CD, and then when they release the next everyone sits and says "Wow I hate this CD that band sucks! I don't pay any attention to them anymore!" It's kinda sad... All bands make a CD or two people don't like. So to count someone out just because you didn't like some of the songs on their CD, even though you liked other ones is crazy.

I love so wrong its right, and I think the songs are pretty damn catchy.

[game2go]

Pretty. Odd. wasn't too terrible, but I can't listen to it as much as A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.
I actually thought that Fast Time as Barrington High by TAI was terrible. Their albums before that were very good and Fast Times was like the band had taken 10 steps backwards.

[stayforawhile]

Way To Normal- Ben Folds
I thought it was good don't get me wrong but I thought it would be a lot better.

[miklman]

Pretty. Odd. wasn't too terrible, but I can't listen to it as much as A Fever You Can't Sweat Out.
I actually thought that Fast Time as Barrington High by TAI was terrible. Their albums before that were very good and Fast Times was like the band had taken 10 steps backwards.

You liked Santi? x.X

[MusicBox24]

1. Death Cab for Cutie - Narrow Stairs
I can't put my finger on it, but the album is missing something. I have recently been on a huge transatlantacism/photo album binge and it makes this album even more of a letdown. I expected at least something new after the first single but it honestly turned out to be a poor rehash of their last two albums.


Agreed. For me, Narrow Stairs is one of the most disappointing albums ever.

Although, I enjoy Grapevine Fires.

[headinthesand]

Nothing about the Volta album was memorable to me. I loved Amputechture too haha.


I thought Bedlam was good, although you are right, it was more straight-ahead. Goliath is jammy and some of the sax stuff is pretty crazy, but its still my least favorite. I really enjoyed the crazy shit in their past albums, its what hooked me. I may be in the minority, but i love Amputechture, minus the mixing, but i think alot of the negative feedback really prompted the more toned down and song aproach to this record. But if Wax Simulcra was your problem, well its 2 and a half minutes of a 70 minute album. And common that killer soprano sax at the end.




Bedlam definitely disappointed me. Most if it just sounds like noise and for the first time of listening to Volta the vocals started to get pretty irritating.