Just stupidly bought a few new albums and they have all been binned.
New Saturdays album purchased as a few of their first album tracks were catchy and cheered me up.
New album has one hit tune and the rest is dross!
Pixie Lott, on a friends advice. He has now been shot as the album is as boring as watching Cheltenham Town play football.
Ian Brown My Way has Stellify and thats it. Everything else is just his normal drone.
Somebody bought me he latest killers album a few months back....pants
Ian Brown album gets better after a couple of listens but is by no means a classic.
Killers album is poor, agreed
new Doves album is just the sound of them treading water, they don't seem to have stepped up like Elbow did...shame really.
The killers are offensive.
The Temper Trap on the back of Sweet Disposition. Definately the strongest track on the album in my opinion.
Same as MM! Was a guilty pleasure really as I knew it was U2/Coldplay MOR bullshit. Good song though 🙂
Arctic Monkeys 'Humbug' was a really disappointment.
Need to listen to Mumford & Sons before making mind up... really like 'Little Lion Man' single (heard on Radio6) but rest of album a little tame in comparison.
Pitchshifters 'www.pitchshifter.com' went straight back to the shop after 30 seconds of each track.
(I mean, growers are always the best, but I physically couldn't listen to that - & I've got a couple of Nile albums! Had similar experience with 'Squid & The Whale' dvd...)
New Saturdays album purchased as a few of their first album tracks were catchy and cheered me up.
New album has one hit tune and the rest is dross!Pixie Lott, on a friends advice. He has now been shot as the album is as boring as watching Cheltenham Town play football.
Are you and your mate 14 year old girls?
Not overly blown away by Dead Weather. Just sounds like the Kills, which isn't that surprising as it's the same singer.
The new Marmaduke Duke album, their first rates as one of my faves of all time but the new one just can't even nearly compare!
The new Muse album 🙁
nothing mentioned here so far would disappoint me, because i'd expect them all to be sh!te anyway...
The best albums take time to be appreciated. Yes Humbug is not the Arctic Monkeys of old, but imo is up there with the best!
Please please please tell me you're referring to a band I haven't heard of called "New Saturdays" and not who I suspect you're referring to... 😯
Disappointed by the new Alice in Chains album. I guess I was expecting another Sap or Jar of Flies.
Didnt think much of new manic street preachers album with nickys lyrics either.
i hated "humbug" at first but after listening to it a bit out of the spite i spent £8.40 on it in a shop, i actually quite like it now
the most recent Mogwai and Isis albums. I can persevere with the former but can't stand to listen to Wavering Radiant any more. Thank God for Spotify!
nothing mentioned here so far would disappoint me, because i'd expect them all to be sh!te anyway...
Well perhaps when you've found your way back out of your bean crusted arse 😉 you might like to tell us what has disappointed you. Or are you just so much on the pulse ❗ that you'd never buy anything that could be remotely close to the possibility of being shit.
I was really looking forward to A Brief History of Love by the Big Pink. It's OK, but not what I was hoping for after Velvet and Dominos promised so much. Heard good things about them live though.
Spotify is your friend. Its saved me a fortune in buying over hyped pap. latest U2 album being one example.
hmm, well you see darcy i've not really bought (or even listened to) a great deal of new stuff over the past year or so, and the things i have heard i've not been disappointed by... that latest dinosaur jr LP, algernon cadwallader LP, bridge and tunnel "east/west" LP, what price, wonderland? "it is true, it is shaky" LP, battle of wolf 359 LP... for example.
i don't really get the tone of your post though; surely this kind of thread is absolutely subjective in the responses it generates so i didn't feel the need to add "in my opinion" to my initial answer; i'm sure plenty of people like the records mentioned so far, but personally i'm not a fan of any of the bands and so had i heard the records mentioned i don't think i'd have been disappointed. i didn't personally insult anybody, did i?
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the most recent Mogwai and Isis albums. I can persevere with the former but can't stand to listen to Wavering Radiant any more. Thank God for Spotify!
I havent listened to the new ISIS album properly but theres a song on there called Ghost Key that has a nice melody in it - just what I was after.
Latest deerhunter album wasnt much cop.
I havent downloaded much recently but should probably get back on it.
Dont have spotify but maybe I should get it. I heard it has adverts between songs which sounds a bit toss if you want to listen to an album properly.
Agree with Househusband. I saw Mumford & Sons in May when they were supporting the Maccabees and they were just amazing. But I suppose it was the novelty and now the album is all kind of one dimensional.
haha, my beard is bigger than that... but seriously, all those bands i mentioned are real bands.
It does sometimes seem a bit pretentious to say you listen to slightly obscure bands. I usually dont even bother mentioning alot of band names if someone asks me what music Im into, just cos you end up getting some numb reply like "who the **** are they? Dont you like the Foo Fighters?"
The thing that puzzles me though is that music is one of the best things in life yet these morons are all to happy to just listen to whats on radio 1 and not even bother looking for some interesting music
I'm with surfr,
New Alice in chains album is meh...
My brother rants on about it, can't see why. 😕
oh yeah, i heard that new foo fighters song the other day. i wouldn't say it disappointed me but it is utter rubbish though, i've just had no expectations from them since their second LP... still, it doesn't matter because sunny day real estate's reunion live stuff that i've seen so far has been incredible so hopefully nate mendel will sack off grohl's has-beens for good and keep on doing his original and far superior band instead!
I know they are xherbivorex, well two of them anyway 😉 I don't know much about the genres of music I see you post about, perhaps one day I will investigate.
I guess what puzzles me is you saying you're not a fan of any of the bands mentioned and had not listened to any of the albums yet expected them to be shite 🙂 Seems a bit harsh, although maybe you have a tight definition of what you like?
I've had my eyes opened a few times where I'd pidgeonholed bands or written them off as something I wouldn't like. Someone's subsequently played it and it was completely different to what I expected! Always a nice surprise.
my wife downloaded that temper trap album and is playing it over and over
I can't stand it - sounds like someone trying to turn Bon Iver into stadium rock
The thing that puzzles me though is that music is one of the best things in life yet these morons are all to happy to just listen to whats on radio 1 and not even bother looking for some interesting music
There is some great music on Radio 1. Not mainly during the day, granted. Doesn't make people morons, they just aren't particularly interested in music. Their loss IMO, but don't you enjoy introducing people to music they haven't heard of?
59 times, thankyou for introducing me to deerhunter 🙂
I like spotify - the adverts are maybe every 4 or 5 songs for me, I think it's very well worth it
I hate 95% of music these days, not bought an album for about 4 years and haven't downloaded any either. Just not into it anymore. Used to be fairly into my punk rock and heavier type stuff, but find myself relaxing to some really old-guy-ish stuff these days, simon and garfunkel really chill me out and make me think about things.
Their loss IMO, but don't you enjoy introducing people to music they haven't heard of?
59 times, thankyou for introducing me to deerhunter
Yeah I do enjoy introducing people to music they havent heard of and I enjoy people telling me about music I havent heard of.
Just seems alot of people arent really that interested which is a bit dissapointing in a way.
I'm quite taken by the new album by Richard Hawley - Truelove's Gutter.
Beautiful. Featuring a musical saw too, for something a little different.
That aside, I rarely buy new albums due to a sense of being jaded by hype and feeling that, at my middle-age, I've heard it all before.
I find that the music mag free cds, such as those from The Word, and Mojo, are good ways of introduction to new sounds and invitations for further investigation on such resources as Spotify or Last.fm. If suitably impressed, then Fopp ahoy, or Monorail, or Amazon.
I'm a bit like coffeeking, I reckon with regards to music.
Used to be quite into it & bought perhaps 3 albums/month or so. These days there is very little that I enjoy enough to go & buy the album - although I have just bought The Wildhearts latest album, Chutzpah. Should arrive by Friday.
Most disappointing albums bought in the last couple of years are probably Kanye West's album with Gold-digga on it (mate reckoned it was excellent) and the Gorillaz album with the jeep on the front. Metallica's album Death Magnetic was also a bit take it or leave it, but perhaps it's a grower.
I seem to always end up whizzing through my music collection & stopping at the stuff that's 5-10yrs old or more. The new stuff doesn't really get much of a look in.
err gorillaz is many years old.
I'm loving the resistance and noline on the horizon, but each to their own - taste is personal after all!
Music is subjective though
At the moment IMO there's loads of decent music about. Passion Pit, Friendly Fires, some really good D&B if thats your bag (Hospital Records are gold at the moment!). I even like the new JAY-Z album.
As for dissapointing albums, Bat for Lashes and Royksopp are up there but DeadMau5 was the one I was least impressed with.
And the Killers are rubbish. Barr their first album
Muse = tosh (unless you loved queen)
David Gray = no explination needed/should have known better
The new Editors album is a step in the wrong direction. Thank god for spotify (although it didn't stop me pre-ordering AM's 'humbug', d'oh!)
miaowing_kat - Memberthe most recent Mogwai and Isis albums. I can persevere with the former but can't stand to listen to Wavering Radiant any more. Thank God for Spotify!
Wavering Radiant, meandering b0ll0cks more like! After having high hopes about it, its such a let down. Don't suppose they'll ever touch the greatness that was Panopticon.
The new Clutch album, Strange Cousins From The West, is another let down, especially as it was billed as a return to form. I want to like it but repeated plays are doing nothing for me, great packaging though...
A.F.I's new album. WHAT THE ****? Have they mellowed too much?!!
Fu Manchu's latest offering's havent been as good as what they should have been - let's hope next week's new album will be...
Kate Bush's last album, Ariel: Pretentiousness and self-indulgence are fine if you end up with a "The Kick Inside" or a "Hounds of Love", but this crap is inexcusable. And it's a double CD!
DNRiviera....yep, I know the Gorillaz is quite an old album. But, as I bought it in the last couple of years, it was erm....new to me when I bought it, even if it wasn't newly released. Erm....something.
Super Furry Animals - Dark Days Light Years
Eels - Hombre Lobo
both a bit of let down, don't and won't get played much.
Kev
Funny that, I am loving the new super furries album!
Spotify is a wonderful invention, I have saved lots of spending and/or downloading by finding albums less than good.
Recently I have been disappointed by the new Plaid album. And also despite being a huuuge fan, I wasn't that taken with the new Muse one either 🙁
Keva - MemberEels - Hombre Lobo
I always find that with Eels albums, and then he'll release a live album with the same songs on and they sound like classics. I haven't listened to Hombre Lobo much, but then I have to be in a certain mood to listen to E. 🙁
Why is it considered pretentious to suggest music by artists that others may not have heard of? Surely that's the whole bloody point! Otherwise they just have to listen to Radio 2. 6Music and The Word are my constant sources of new music, I'm constantly making notes of new artists. Fanfarlow, First Aid Kit and Taken By Trees are just three I've heard recently, plus Henry Thomas, a black blues singer from America, who's song Bulldozer Blues was covered by Canned Heat. It was recorded in 1927...
Bought Mumford & Son last weekend, and I'm loving it, but Sweet Billy Pilgrim's album was disappointing, and I have taken albums back over the last year or so. Can't remember names now, tho'
AFI Crash Love is brilliant, totally love it.
New Brand New album Daisey is also brilliant.
Waiting on the new Skunk Anansie album, can't wait especially as I am seeing them in November.
I have to admit to not even bothering with the new Isis album. I have been a big fan of theirs from their very first e.p. and album, and to begin with they evolved with each and every release but around Panopticon, they began to stagnate and ...absence of truth was a little dull.
Personally I love the new Alice in Chains.
I think the biggest let down for me is the new Clutch, but their albums tend to be growers so I'll reserve judgement
On reflection, 10,000 Days is easily my least played Tool album, nowhere near the 'journey' experience of previous albums.
Find most Green Day albums start off great, play twice, then never again- no staying power!
Not exactly impressed with The Cribs.
Fortunately I'm liking Noah and the Whale (got them both at the same time...)
Keva - MemberEels - Hombre Lobo
I always find that with Eels albums, and then he'll release a live album with the same songs on and they sound like classics. I haven't listened to Hombre Lobo much, but then I have to be in a certain mood to listen to E.
Hombre Lobo was a grower for me, although I'm always disappointed when he does another "just guitars"-type album instead of a more samples-type one... if you see what I mean!
Not new, but the last GnR album was a real cackfest
Haven't been that disappointed since I bought Deep Purples "Come Taste The Band"
Its wishy-washy though? (compared to their old material). Even his voice has lost some of its old timba'Dimmadan - MemberAFI Crash Love is brilliant, totally love it.