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’