Most Disappointing Albums or Singles

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

Sickboy in Trainspotting had it right with his grand theory. "You have it, and then you lose it," and bands especially do this.  I think everyone has an album or new release they've waited for only to have it suck.

Dishonorable Mention

Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy 

It's best to just not mention this one.

U2 - All That You Cant Leave Behind

My parents liked U2. I listened to War and The Joshua Tree fairly young.  And was enough of a fan to see them (with my parents) and with Rage Against The Machine opening on The Pop Tour. I almost used Pop, but there were some interesting things on that album.

But they couldnt transition past the 90s. Maybe like Tool, they got too up their own fan glorified ass, but by 2000 they were only writing sappy wanna-be ballad crap.

There was A Beautiful Day, which might have been awesome from any other band, and its probably their last memorable song, but the rest?  I tried to listen to the Atomic Bomb one after that but when he Spanished the count of 1, 2, 3, 14, it was too late.

#3 - Radiohead - Kid A  

Tom York is a twat. I'm so sorry you hate the song that made you so much you won't play it, but deal with it, Creep is a great song,  Pablo Honey is a great album. OK Computer was a phenomenal album. Karma Police and Paranoid Android will go down as timeless classics, but it's like they went out of their way to piss on all the commercial success and I freaking hate The Lindsey Buckingham Complex. 

Like can really anyone name the Fleetwood Mac album that followed Rumors, No! But it shares the name of a cult movie nobody saw....

Kid A was "lets see how uncommercial and experimental we can be, and screw giving all but our truest fans (who get me) what they want to listen to!"

Kid A = The innovation of random noise and simple drum/bass crap with an atonal guy sorta singing. 

#2 Tool - 10,000 Days and Fear Innoculum

More the latter than the former. After the Masterpiece that was Lateralus it all went to hell.  While 10,000 Days has some high points like Vicarious and The Pot the rest started the collective ego trip where everything got increasingly up its own off timed ass.   Now it's, "Lets just make everything switch tempo 15 times and be 16 minutes long, and only appeal to pretentious music store guys and people in K holes. 

# 1 No Doubt - Return of Saturn

I waited... and waited... and waited for my next awesome girl power album, another Tragic Kingdom with more songs like Just A Girl, Spiderwebs, Excuse Me, Mr., and Sunday Morning, but what i got was Ex-Girlfriend.  Thanks, but you covered your breakup with the bass player with Don't Speak, we dont need its sequel.  And what happened to you doing the picking? It was completely different lyrically. 

It was like she'd pulled a Debbie Harry.

She started with One Way or Another, and then completely objectified herself with Call Me.

Just reduce yourself to "some guy's ex-girlfriend" and blow my illusion. I realize this is a nuanced, somewhat trivial thing to be nitpicking, but it's like if Gloria Gaynor followed  I Will Survive with a song titled, Okay, I Totally Forgive You, Now Lets Make Up Because I can't Live Without You.

In one zonk of a long awaited single. It was the fastest spiral into disillusioned ever,  with what once was, a distant memory... 

[Roma]

Yes - Big Generator

I was a huge Yes fan back in the day and this album (I believe the 2nd after getting back together) was a huge letdown for me.

[Airbulas]

Well, as a man in his late 40's, I couldn't even name a group or album from the last 20 years. Maybe there has been some great songs that have come out during this time, but even young kids know who Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Metallica, and even Wu Tang Clan! Music has gotten lost with the dawn of the internet. Maybe there is just too much music now to sift through and some bangers are being looked over. I get this ramble is fairly irrelevant to the initial conversation, but hey, at least I'm communicating. 

PS, I love Radiohead and was introduced to them during their early years, but I also love their later stuff. As a musician myself, creating song's that people latch onto is hard. Maybe if we never heard some of those bands first albums, we may have still liked them if their later stuff was introduced first.

Anyway's, I'm an OLD time ATS user who only today found this site. So I haven't rambled in a long time!

[BeyondKnowledge]

I think most entertainers do this but there are several reasons. It might be they are tired of what they are doing and change it to much. It might be they just get some bad advice and lose their audience.  It might be their success goes to their head and they think they know more than the audience knows about what it wants. 

The brightest stars burn out the quickest.

[putnam6]

Being of the MTV generation 

Mick Jagger's and David Bowie's cover of Dancing in the Streets was pretty irritating 

Aerosmith had a few stinkers Rock in a Hard Place was awful in 82, and the live concert was the worst ive seen

[BeyondKnowledge]

Being of the MTV generation 

Mick Jagger's and David Bowie's cover of Dancing in the Streets was pretty irritating 

Aerosmith had a few stinkers Rock in a Hard Place was awful in 82, and the live concert was the worst ive seen

You will have to explain that MTV was once a channel of music videos and not the disappointment it is now. Ah, another example of the disappointment of what was once great.

[putnam6]

You will have to explain that MTV was once a channel of music videos and not the disappointment it is now. Ah, another example of the disappointment of what was once great.

What's weird done right, it would probably work as MYT MusicYouTube stream

but do bands still do videos?

[BeyondKnowledge]

There is a YouTube Music service but that is only music. 

Yes, there are many bands on YouTube that do make music videos. Cybertronic Spree, Puddles Pitty Party, the Harp Twins just to name a few from the top of my head. There are hundreds if not thousands that are at least pretty good to really great.

[diamond age]

Kid A and Amnesiac (recorded during the same sessions as Kid A) are the two best Radiohead albums in my estimation. Creep is juvenilia which should never have been released. I'm so glad they completely dropped it from the live set. Typically it would be their most well known song in the US.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

I honestly think its a gender thing.  Boys do the pretentious deep cuts shit way more often...  Especially shunning the nice commercial sellout relationship themed songs.

Like Kiss is a great example.. 

Boys will like deep cuts, but for hits, it's a lot of Detroit Rock City, Cold Gin, Lick It Up, and Strutter....  Where as the girls almost always will go with...




And you want a talk about a disowned or hated album?

I think Creep is like that song.  The band might come to cringe at it, but who's screaming to hear it?  

And thank you for your addition to my thread!