Great expectations, disappointment

[M138]

The follow up to Rumours, Tusk, a double album that didn't have enough good songs to even fill a single album.
Sara is one of my favourite tunes but the rest of the 2 albums is very mediocre.
Anymore disappointing follow ups after a belter?

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Sandinista by the Clash.

Great band, horrible triple LP!

(Maybe 4 good tracks)

[2 sMoKiN bArReLs]

Completely off topic..

...but

My mate was walking through Nottingham main shopping street and there were buskers singing a Clash song. My mate thinks they are making a decent job of that. He looks a bit closer...it was the Clash!

How random is that?

[Super Sonic]

Bought 'draft 7.30'. Got home, put it on, started thinking "this is a long intro", skipped a bit, skipped a bit more, it was like it all the way through. Put track two, similar. Track three, listened for a few seconds, did the same with the rest of the album. Wasn't really sure what just happened. Tried again the next day, similar experience. Still haven't listened to a whole song at this point. Started listening to one track a day, all the way through. Got to the end and had no idea what was going on. Took it to a charity shop. A couple of days later I started getting these brief bits of music in my head but couldn't place them. Then it clicked. I couldn't get back to the charity shop til the weekend, and it was gone! I had to buy another copy. The opener, 'Xylin Room', is now one of my favourite tunes.

Edited by Super Sonic on Sunday 28th June 21:23

[Silverbullet767]

Daft Punk - Random Access Memories

Loved every other album that came before, and they released this....

A huge departure from the music that they were known for. The only redeemable song on the entire album was Contact, everything else was wk, arse and overly pretentious ste.

I remember giving it a first listen and being so disappointed it put me off Daft Punk for years. Absolutely shocking album.

What's even more baffling is that it's held up as their best work by critics. Did they listen to a different album?

I've tried to listen to again a few times since and it's still fking awful.

I own all their other studio albums on vinyl, but I can't bring myself to buy RAM to even complete the set. I can't do it.

[Antony Moxey]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Sandinista by the Clash.

Great band, horrible triple LP!

(Maybe 4 good tracks)

Yes, especially after London Calling. It would have made a decent two sided LP, with maybe twelve to fourteen tracks, but I defy anyone to say they've ever listened to sides four, five and six more than once.

[StevieBee]

Can we include gigs?

AC/DC - would have been late 80s at Wembley Arena. So looking forward to it but was and remains one of the worst gigs I've been to. Seemed to be one long guitar solo interspersed with a few drum solos and not much else. We bailed early and went for a curry.

I'd like to think that they were just having an off-night.

[M138]

2 sMoKiN bArReLs said:

Sandinista by the Clash.

Great band, horrible triple LP!

(Maybe 4 good tracks)

I think Joe Strummer and Lindsey Buckingham both let their ego run away with them in that they believed the fans would stomach any experiment their respective band put out, after London Calling and Rumours being so popular they could do no wrong.

[username_checksout]

Exciter by Depeche Mode. Does the polar opposite of what the name implies. Delta Machine is pile of arse as well.

DM are brilliant, but not consistently so.

[Skodillac]

The Joshua Tree - U2.

Queued up outside Our Price before school on release day to buy the vinyl. Oh wow, what a beautiful cover. Spent the whole day at school unspeakably excited to get home and play it.

Got home. Played it. Disappoint. Not a patch on The Unforgettable Fire, IMHO. Never was, never will be.

[Neil-nvaua]

Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

A double album is rarely a good idea, especially not one with 28 tracks on it. Pick 10-12 of those tracks and it could've been a half-decent album.

[vixen1700]

StevieBee said:

Can we include gigs?

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Had a weekend in Newcastle last year and incorporated going to see The Brian Jonestown Massacre on the Sunday night, was really looking forward to it.

Absolutely awful, lifeless, dull, slow and painful.

Walked out and went to a pub instead.

[franki68]

Pearl jams last 3 albums
Qotsa’s last 3 albums

Stone roses ‘second coming ‘

Radiohead ‘kid a’

[languagetimothy]

Bowie album "Tonight" one decent track "loving the alien" rest was crap... im a bowie fan and like pretty much everything else. I bought it new from a store that also did secondhand vinyl. I took it back after a few listens and exchanged for a couple of of used albums of other bands (cant remember what).

[Oberheim]

franki68 said:

Stone roses second coming

This. The first album an instant classic; we then had to wait several years for the follow-up, which turned out to be a John Squire wkfest

[Zag_a_muffin]

Skodillac said:

The Joshua Tree - U2.

Queued up outside Our Price before school on release day to buy the vinyl. Oh wow, what a beautiful cover. Spent the whole day at school unspeakably excited to get home and play it.

Got home. Played it. Disappoint. Not a patch on The Unforgettable Fire, IMHO. Never was, never will be.

At least you didn't do this for rattle and hum, i did and saw the zooropa tour

Unforgettable fire is peak imo

[INeedAHero]

Zag_a_muffin said:

Skodillac said:

The Joshua Tree - U2.

Queued up outside Our Price before school on release day to buy the vinyl. Oh wow, what a beautiful cover. Spent the whole day at school unspeakably excited to get home and play it.

Got home. Played it. Disappoint. Not a patch on The Unforgettable Fire, IMHO. Never was, never will be.

At least you didn't pay £1200 for 4 tickets at Twickenham in 2017. My gosh, the sound was awful. Screen was nice.


At least you didn't do this for rattle and hum, i did and saw the zooropa tour

Unforgettable fire is peak imo

[Panamax]

languagetimothy said:

Bowie album "Tonight" one decent track "loving the alien" rest was crap...

How about his final album everyone was worshipping?

[Super Sonic]

Panamax said:

How about his final album everyone was worshipping?

You're not allowed to say bad things about dead people.
(Except Hitler et al)

[rene7]

Plenty of examples IMO:
70's -
Wishbone ash - ARGUS - 4
Buffalo - VOLCANIC ROCK - Only want you for UR body
Budgie - NEVER TURN UR BACK ON A FRIEND - Impeckable
ZZ Top - TRES HOMBRES - Fandango
Yes - CLOSE TO THE EDGE - Topographic Oceans

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80's
Sade - DIAMOND LIFE - Stronger than pride
80's was a pretty Krap decade IMO all glam Pomp rock - NO REAL Rock - 'Sade' I'm surprised, I would not have expected to like, WOW what an album it is though.

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90's - Great ROCK decade!
Placebo - PLACEBO - Without you i'm nothing
Therapy? - Infernal Love - Semi detached
Kyuss - SKY VALLEY - Quotsa
Fear Factory - DEMANUFACTURE - obsolete
Alanis Morrisette -JAGGED LITTLE PILL - Supposed infatuation junkie
Metallica - BLACK ALBUM - Load
Prodigy - FAT OF THE LAND - EVERYTHING after

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2000's
Linkin Park - HYBRID THEORY - EVERYTHING after
2000's again lacking quality IMO -Hybrid Theory everyone must own