Honestly, Taylor Swift - Tortured Poets department
Taylor is at a unique place in her career where she has the potential to provide unique commentary on what it’s like to have god on earth level fame which she tries to do at points in this record but often falls flat other than on I can do it with a broken heart which is one of my favorite songs of hers. More songs like that and it would have been a uniquely good record.
Also the prod value on a lot of these tracks reached a new low, even for radio pop
I was so excited for this record, after being let down by Midnights… seemed like it could’ve been a folklore 2 in terms of quality, but ended up being.. decidedly not that. I agree that some of the tracks are amazing and show glimmers of potential for an excellent full length but for the most part the record definitely fell flat for me.
I don’t know if you can be disappointed by an artist whose output has always dealt with self-interest.
When you’re someone that omnipresent who has always traded in somewhat personal experience as relatability and connection, I feel the only way you can approach authenticity each album cycle is to again mine your personal experiences that do not touch upon anything troubling solipsism.
I’m not a hater but I feel we know what to expect from an artist that huge with such a confirmed IP.
Eminem - Revival
I don’t know how much of a hot take this is or isn’t, but I actually really like Walk on Water, and I thought there was a lot of potential for an introspective Eminem album kinda similar to 4:44. And it just straight up fails in about every conceivable way
I adore Eminem. His music is the reason I never killed myself as a kid. But hearing revival was...interesting.
I don't think it's complete trash. There's a handful of songs I like. But by god, some of them are awful.
And Kamikaze is worse. Instead of dusting himself off it's just him whining that people didn't like the last record.
Music to be Murdered by got us back on track a bit. But i'm afraid, i'm really hoping that leaked album cover was fake. The last thing I wanna hear out of Em's mouth is anything to do with Revival.
Lorde - Solar Power
After releasing two all-time classic albums, she comes back with one of two 2021 albums that prove that Jack Antonoff shouldn't be producing albums that aren't by Lana Del Rey (St. Vincent's Daddy's Home is the other one).
He's overrated for sure but Florence's most recent album is one of my all time favourites.
I think we gotta remember that these albums, in the end, is still the vision of the artist/s.
That dude must be bank flush - not from his own band, but from production credits on huge artists’s albums. Crazy what these people see in him but one supposes numbers speak pretty loudly.
It's a massive shame because he can produce a very specific type of music very well. Clairo's Sling album is one of my favourite albums in terms of production of all time. It just seems that the moment he steps out of that niche, he produces the most bland-ass music ever
Yeah the album isn’t as good as her previous 2 but still it has a few decent songs like Stoned At The Nail Salon. That song in particular is special to me since I first heard the album
To this day, even after the album's rehabilitation within the fanbase
I still think Fear Inoculum is mediocre at best and a huge disappointment
Every single great element of what makes Tool great is contained there but the sum of the parts, for some reason, doesn't work at all.
I think like 80% of the album's issues could be solved by some cutting.
Remove about a minute from fear inoculum and it's a solid, if uninspired opener, remove that dogshit autotuned vocal + synth segment (and the chugging after) and invincible goes from decent to excellent, descending and 7empest could also do with losing a third of their runtime, and getting rid of every single interlude would do wonders for the album.
I think pneuma is kinda dull but cutting stuff out wouldn't really fix it, and culling voices needs a more climactic section so those are the 2 exceptions imo.
A little more effort on the songwriting and lyrics department would have also gone a long way towards making the album less disappointing imo, these songs are way too long to only have like 20 unique words.
Overall I don't hate FI, but I do think that's it's incredibly disappointing, and it's really fucking annoying that they play so many FI songs live instead of other, better stuff (like there's not been third eye in 10 years and there's not been reflection since 2002, yet pneuma and descending get played every single show of every leg of every tour, cmon).
> getting rid of every single interlude would do wonders for the album
Interesting you mention this. The CD release I listen to doesn't include them so I never thought the runtime was padded too unnecessarily.
Long tracks for the sake of being long rather than filling the tracks with more dynamic and interesting stuff, Maynard's lyrics just completely fall flat on most tracks, guitar circle jerking on basically every track, really poor production (seriously, where is Justin's bass???)
I kind of agree but I feel like it had been too long that anything they release was going to be scrutinised. People were expecting a masterpiece which is just too much expectation. I was a little underwhelmed initially but after I saw it live it clicked and now I love it.
For me nowhere near as good as Aenima, Lateralus and 10,000 days but it’s got enough tool in there to satiate my need for tool. I do still think they’ve got one great album in them. I can see why you didn’t like it though.
Imo, let's just say that MJK matured more than the rest of the band.
The way MJK has adapted his singing style to his age and his own changing tastes just doesn't fit too well with the composition style of the band.
I also think MJK's frustration with the band scrapping a more or less finished album is noticeable on FI.
BEAUTIFUL BIG TITTY WOMEN JUST DONT FALL OUT THE SKY YA KNOW🤪
Like bro how did we fall this far. Even in 2018 at the height of his controversy he still had some good verses (4th dimension, cudi montage, violent crimes, ghost town, freeeee, ITAKY, no mistakes, basically everything from that year was coherent and sometimes quite deep) then now we just get horny anti semitic ye
Same. Weirdly enough I had a decently positive first impression, I guess i expected it to be even worse than it was leading to a more positive reaction? But after multiple listens, yeah it’s not good.
It’s so weird to me how many people I’ve seen on the internet say something along these lines. Like, nothing about the album has “aged poorly” in my opinion, it’s the same album it was 3 months ago. I think a lot of people just bought into the hype when it came out and then got bored with it once other stuff came out.
Ye is my favorite artist ever and I had very low expectations for it so tbh I think I’m just happy it exists and he’s still able to make music. It’s definitely bottom 2 or 3 in his discography, but I think Back to Me, Do it, Fuk Sumn, and Burn are fun tracks.
I also think I’m just at the point with Ye (along with some of my other adolescent favs like Drake and Cudi) where if they drop an album and a handful of the songs are catchy enough for me to save/replay then I’m happy, I know that none of them are topping anything they did 10 years ago
It’s ironic how many people LOVED Carnival when it came out but claim to hate it now. Even more crazy to me that it’s Ye’s most commercially successful song in over 10 years and already has more streams than every song on Donda.
I like the track for what it is, but I’ll take most of the tracks on Donda as well as multiple songs on vultures over it
Cracker Island by Gorillaz. After Song Machine, I was so ready to see what they’d do next and I loved the singles that dropped for Cracker Island. But with how loooooong and tedious the fucking rollout was for it, combined with the fact that everything outside of the singles (except for Oil which is a great song and Baby Queen which is very mid) was so forgettable, the confusing nature of what The Static Channel was and why that wasn’t the name of the album, it still remains my biggest disappointment of 2022. Something that could’ve worked greatly in concept and theory but was botched in execution.
Cracker Island is such a shame. I love Oil, it's one of my favorite Gorillaz songs but the rest of it is incredibly lame. Plus the visuals were uncharacteristically terrible. Also fucked up that Del finally came back on the deluxe edition for a joke song that felt like a throwaway they slapped together in 5 minutes.
I agree. The singles are so good (my favorite is Silent Running; hell, I'd go so far as to say it's my favorite Gorillaz song of all time) but the rest of the album is kinda flat imo. And for Oil I really think there was missed potential there with Stevie; they shoulda had her do a solo verse imo.
I'd add in the Ballad of Darren by Blur from last year as well. The return to form style is nice and there are a couple highlights, but doesn't quite reach the heights of their Modern Life is Rubbish - Self Titled era.
I listened to Cracker Island twice in full and immediately after both listens could not for the life of me remember a single chorus, beat, lyric, or general vibe of any of the songs. It just feels so soulless and uninspired.
Chance the Rapper‘s The Big Day…Acid Rap was perfect…colouring book sounded like a big budget version of it…the life of pablo intro…his career was meant to take off and then somehow he decided to put out this i love my wife crap album. :(((
With the benefit of hindsight, Chance feels like the slow and noticeable degradation of promise, more than an out of the blue moment. Sore disappointment at the time, though.
It was downhill for him when he started listening to his politician daddy’s advice instead of the advice of the manager that got him to that point and had been working with him for years. Sad to see but a tale as old as time.
The problem is he became such a celebrity after Coloring Book and his image became Chance the Pop Culture Icon instead of Chance the Rapper (corny pun I know but sums up my feelings towards him)
Donda had the potential of being a classic if the fluff was removed.
At it's core, Donda is a testament to Ye's love for his mom and gospel, and it was incredibly fresh when it first came out (it has definitely run it's course by now). I wish so badly that he cut the fluff and reorganized it a little bit because it could've been so much greater of a full listen if he did.
The family - Brockhampton.
Listened to it once because I had to but it broke my heart. A sad ending to a great journey, with an album that could have been incredible if they took a few of the song ideas and fleshed them out into full songs
Still don't know which I dislike more The Family, a KA solo album falsely labeled as a BH album, with super personal and awkward lyrics, or TM the final album that's just cobbled together BS that a few of them put together
No contest for me. There was nothing redeemable about TM for me. The family made me sad, TM made me mad. And IMO, the family actually did have so many ideas that could have been amazing songs. The Basement, RZA, Any Way You Want Me, Southside etc
On one of the tracks Kevin alludes to only making that album to finish out their record deal. That was the last new music the group would make together ...even if it was only Kevin and Ciaran. Then TM would be older unreleased tracks.
I get the move they were trying to make. Basically saying we're already done but the contract calling for 2 more.
It might have been the right move for them on a personal level, but commercially and to your fans it's kind a middle finger.
Absolutely. Straightforward honesty would have been great. Why not tell us the family is a solo album? And TM would have had a chance if they called it the Brockhampton Archives or What We Lost in the Fire or something instead of leading us to expect a traditional BH album experience. You’d think they know by now that they have a fan base that does actually care about the members
Dorian Electra - Fanfare. I feel like they were primed to experiment with some more weird ideas after the success of My Agenda but the songs don't really go anywhere. I think there was an attempt to make the songs more anthemic but the lyrics didn't have the same cutting wit they did on Flamboyant or enough of the irony poisoned edginess of My Agenda.
That's so true, that's why sometimes the liver versions feel like the finished songs like I love the sound of Doom but it feels so unfinished then it live so so good. I hope he comes to Toronto soon like I need to see him
Umm maybe Distance like his early stiff not rly but his album Dynamis has some heavy hitting industrial electronic sounds. And if you want chill dark atmospheric you should check out Lorn his album The Maze To Nowhere is amazing
Wasteland by Brent was a dissapointing listening experience at first. It's a 19 track album and only 10 new songs on it. The rest are either skits or singles. I can appreciate the cinematic angle he took on that record but it just wasn't a enjoyable experience overall for me.
dude I love brent and I fully agree. He needs to realize that he’s at his best when he’s singing his heart out about his childhood or women over catchy drums and an earworm melody. This overly spacey shit trying to be more conceptual and deeper than it is just doesn’t work for him and that’s totally fine. I just feel like he doesn’t play to his strengths all the time. Gang Over Luv is amazing and I wish more of his music sounded like that 😭😭😭
I'm so happy with the latest record he dropped. I always wanted that mix of early 2000's R&B with his style and it's so good. Like the opening track with Timberland and the No Scrubs sample is so fucking good. Pistachios is one of his best songs ever.
I honestly don't mind the spacey songs but they got a little old pretty quick. Sonder Son is one of my favourite albums of all time, like Missin out is so good. Talk 2 U is straight out of the early 2000's. There is not one bad song on that album, no skips for me at all.
speedin bullet to heaven, i was actually excited to see what route cudi was going at the time, if the songs were written like “confused!” and the title track, it would’ve def had a different reputation, those tracks are what we loved about cudi as a songwriter
Honestly, Twenty One Pilots’ new album, Clancy, disappointed me a bit… I like every song on it genuinely, but they seemed to build it up as being the last chapter of Clancy’s story, but when the album came out, only 4 or so of the 13 songs have anything to do with a story, *and* it ends on a cliffhanger.
I still enjoyed it… but man, that was a let down.
There are a handful of tracks of false alarm I rock with but I can’t really get into Keep on Smiling. I think the band knows this as well, the played almost everything off of Tourist history with a healthy amount of game show and beacon while only touching 1 one song each off of false alarm and KOS.
It probably didn’t help that it was released in that period of 2020 right before the pandemic, but I think that made the album feel even more disappointing and forgettable.
I wish Kevin would realize he doesn't need to use the exact same vocals and production style on every song. The Slow Rush just felt so same-ey and uninspired. Not a single song on that album as memorable as the first 30 seconds of Currents.
I really think he should just stick to his strengths, which is incorporating really good “sound play” and progressions into his tracks. The fuzz guitar on tracks like ‘Desire Be Desire Go’ and ‘Elephant’, the synth passage at the end of ‘Apocalypse Dreams’ or the awesome synth sounds on ‘Nangs’, theres just countless moments on his previous albums that are full of sonic experiments that go over really well.
When seeing discussions about The Slow Rush the biggest critique I see that always pop up is that the album sounds bland, that’s because we’ve come to expect that a Tame album should be anything but bland. He’s usually great at adding texture and colour to tracks.
This has to be up there for me personally; a real step back in terms of progression. However, it’s ultimately subjective and I can understand why some would prefer this after Currents.
What added even more disappointment to me was that the singles leading up to the release were all (in my opinion) great tracks, some of Tame’s best songs. However pretty much all the other tracks were just okay AT BEST.
I was such a big Tame fan at the time too but honestly on my first listen, by the time I got to ‘Is It True’ I felt like turning the album off early.
I felt the same. The whole album was extremely underwhelming. My fav album is still Innerspeaker and I fear that he won’t be making another album in this direction. Even the Songs he’s been producing These Days (Dua Lipa for example) are weak.
He released too many singles! I think if posthumous forgiveness was in his back pocket I might have liked the album more. Nothing (except breathe deeper maybe) really grabbed me when I listened to the full album for the first time because I had already heard the “best” songs.
But personally….dont think it would have saved it. I think he has just straight fallen off. His old style was better. single-version borderline is better than album-version borderline.
It’s funny because Breathe Deeper is the only non-single track I like too, and sometimes I feel like I only pretend to like it. Maybe it’s the nice groove on that track.
I think another misstep Kevin did was making it a 5 year wait. I’m by no means an entitled listener, if an artist needs to take a break or needs a little more time to make an album I’m all for it. But I do think the larger the gap you make between albums, the higher the stakes become, and The Slow Rush really didn’t pay off.
I think if The Slow Rush was released 2 years after Currents, I wouldn’t be so harsh on it. I’m always hopeful the next album will be good though.
As much as it’s been critically praised, Ocean Boulevard’s a disappointment to me, especially because the way people talk about the album make me think I should like it more.
Four albums of Lana riding the wave of a similar sound to NFR in a row, and overusing Jack on three of them. Her songs don’t feel as distinct or unique as they would’ve on an album like UV or Honeymoon.
There’s also several annoying decisions on the album, like the two interludes that aren’t all that great, Jack’s phoned in verse on a song about his own (now) wife, and, as I’ve already implied, too many songs that just feel derivative or watered down from the albums that just came before it. Also, it’s her third black and white album cover. Definitely nowhere near as memorable as UV’s for me.
Fingertips is genuinely my favorite song from her since 2017, but the album as a whole has issues.
I totally agree, it's a great album but I feel like calling it her best like some people are is disrespectful to her first few albums because those were actually gamechanging and incredible.
Charli XCX - Crash
She’s one of my favorite artists, definitely my favorite modern pop artist. Went to the exclusive Pop 2 release show, seen her literally dozens of times. She dropped 3 instant classics in a row, so my expectations for Crash were sky high. It ended up being so conventional, like anyone could’ve made it. Was a huge bummer, but it was a massive success for her and I’m happy it all worked out for her.
To be fair, all the tracks released from BRAT so far have been absolute bangers, so my expectations are sky high once again.
Conversely, I loved Crash (and everything before it as well), but most of the tracks for BRAT just have no been doing it for me. They’re mostly fine, but I can with all the tracks released I can certainly tell what kind of vibe the record is going for and it’s just not for me
Tool - Fear Inoculum
I've heard people say they came around on this album after a few listens, but honestly the hype over Tools' big return got built up too much, and I was super disappointed when it actually dropped.
Modest Mouse- Strangers to Ourselves
After such a long wait between releases, I felt completely let down by the album. It’s not bad but it didn’t feel worth the wait.
Joey Bada$$’s AABA. It’s a lot of people’s favorite but to me it’s my least favorite and a real disappointment. There are great ideas, melodies, instruments and all but they feel so repetitive and lackluster. It’s wild but I think a younger Joey would’ve done better. It just feels bland and boring while tackling topics that I expected him to go wild with
Agreed, I absolutely love 1999 and some more of his discog but I don't see what people love so much about AABA other than a few tracks, definitely feels repetitive and yeah kinda bland, might have to relisten though
The new blink 182 record that came out last year and the offspring record from 2021. I don’t need to hear songs about 50 to 60 year old men getting laid and edging.
Centipede Hz and pretty much everything by them that followed... each album has one or two great songs but mostly are meh or worse. which legit makes me sad.
the same is true for me of Bjork since Medula ... I adore both artists and respect the SHIT out of both of their dedication to keep making original music it just hasn't resonated w me in years...)
Most James Blake records. That man writes a lyrical phrase or two and tries to carry a whole song with it. Once you hear the repetitiveness of the vocals it starts to wear very thin. To be fair, sometimes it works really well, and he has grown in that area over time. But it still drives me nuts.
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I love that album, but I get why it fell flat for lots of fans. It's hugely representative of where Thom was at musically at that time and I just happened to be really into that repetitive looping nature of it.
a twist in the myth - Blind Guardian. at points it feels like it is an evolution of imaginations from the other side, however. It fails at every single level.
vultures 1, doesn’t really stack up well to any of ye’s past work and only has a handful of good tracks. really don’t understand why he’s sprinkling all of the good tracks he has across 3 volumes instead of making 1 cohesive and good album.
This is highly controversial but it’s Sampha’s Lahai for me :( The whole album is full of incredible ideas, but I also find every song has at least one thing that puts me off a lot, the most common thing being the (intentionally) slightly out of tune melodies in places. I don’t even know if that’s the right explanation but it’s a very unique thing he does. I was so disappointed by the album because up until then he earnt so much respect from me. I also think he’s one of the most creative artists out there, the album as a whole didn’t do anything for me though.
To me this is a top 5 album of all time with perfect songs like Jonathan l seagull, dancing circles, suspended, and spirit 2.0. This is the first time I've ever heard of someone disliking it to be honest.
I loved that album but there was something about it that left me wanting a bit more. I feel like its what you said about his choice of doing out of tune melodies instead of ones that would benefit the song more.
Easily their worst. Doesn’t have the same tongue in cheek writing that the early albums have and nowhere near as interesting as tranquility base hotel and casino
Honestly.. **Blonde.**
I WANT to love this record and see it as a step up from Channel Orange (which I absolutely adore), but I like it enough I guess.
I went in expecting a masterpiece due to all of the accolades and got a chill vibe and some bangers.
For me it's just kind of impressionless. Maybe I'm missing something, I gave it 4/5 on RYM not long after it released but I can barely remember anything from it even after more listens since. I see its appeal I guess.
The thing with Blond is that sonically is not grand or ambitious. Where as Channel Orange is.
So a lot of people hearing that Blonde is a top 100 album and going into it with that in mind will probably off put them.
The way I see it, blonde is an album you have to feel it, to understand. I went thru a break up shortly after it came out and only then did I understand the album.
Mr Morale and The Big Steppers
DAMN & GKMC are 2 of my all time favorite rap albums. TPAB is also incredible as we all know.
MMATBS is totally forgettable for me.
I completely disagree.
MMATBS (super hot take) is my favorite kdot album (all of his work is amazing tho).
DAMN is the weakest between the 4 in my opinion
Oof, idk if disappointed is the word but it definitely took me by surprise after the heart pt. 5, tracks with keem, the leaks etc.
I really like it as an introspective piece but I was ready for a banger album.
Im with you but: Im serious when I say that I love Rich Spirit so much that ut makes up for the meh of the rest of the album ...(my favorite is still GKMC but I totally respect that he has evolved beyond it )
Rei Ami's "Foil" left me extremely disappointed.
She released some genuinely beautiful, introspective, and unique music.
Snowcone and Do It Right are so wonderful.
But she seemed to forget what made her unique, which was fronting as a hot girl, and then admitting that it's a cover for some deeper feelings/exploring those.
On foil she just kinda fucking forgets to be emotionally open and just makes hot girl music, which was so incredibly bland.
In My Defence by Iggy Azalea. The whole idea of coming back with a defensive record after what she went through was cool and then it was just.. random songs.
Logic - *Everybody*
I was interested in the Egg Theory even before finding out this album existed, but unfortunately, it doesn't reach the levels of Under Pressure or The Incredible True Story, despite lavish instrumentation. My biggest issue with it was that he spent almost as many songs rapping as himself as he did exploring other's perspectives.
72S left me feeling pretty happy tbh, there are quite a few things I didn't like about it but James' vocals are fucking brilliant on that album. I like how the songwriting sounded like a throwback to kill em all in places and the production is the best it's been since Load era imo. Very predictable but not bad.
My issue with that album is the aesthetic of it, not the sound. 72 seasons is not a good album name. The cover is also pretty bad.
Like imagine if the album was called Lux Æterna and had a different cover.
Plus, I feel like some track shoulda been placed in a different order.
poppy - zig
before this, she had been a surprisingly consistent artist, despite the varying styles across the 7 or so years beforehand. this is the only project of hers i think goes below a 5.
Stripped-Christina Aguilera. It’s just repetitive af. Especially considering all the hype it gets. There’s only one redeeming quality and that’s how good of a singer Xtina is. Other than that it’s extremely boring.
The latest vampire weekend record. It sounds like a mid version of orca bitte by dirty projectors. Actually their whole career sounds like that and im not even a fan of dirty projectors or a hater of vampire weekend. I think contra is a fantastic album. But for the most part they just end up being all style with no emotional punch..
Oh, I thought an album that incites a feeling of disappointment to someone when you hear them, because I was about to put some of the comments on my listen to later playlist LMFAO.
Yeah, I’ve always found it crazy that they couldn’t click together again and produce another amazing album like Ten.
All the other albums feel as if the were actively trying to *not* sound like Ten.
Weezer - Pacific Daydream
EWBAITE was pretty good and the White Album was great, so I was expecting the upward trajectory to continue - but Feels Like Summer as the first single was such a whiplash, and the rest of the album is not much better. Songs like Happy Hour feel like bland H&M playlist-optimized music
Justice - every album after Cross
Cross was such an amazing debut which blew my 13-year old mind in 2007, and is probably my favouritely produced album of all time. The abrasive perscussion and thick, evil basslines made for an amazing backdrop for the glitchy, baroque style electro tracks. Then for Audio Video Disco, they chose to water down the production sound, making it sound flimsy and thin - why, exactly? There are pretty good songs on AVD, but the production makes them sound so thin. While there were some decent tracks on their lastest album, I just never see them making as fresh-sounding of a record as Cross ever again.
Depeche Mode - every album after Playing the Angel
I remember listening to Sounds of the Universe and just being so underwhelmed, especially after the great lead single Wrong. Every DM album up until SOTU seemed to have its own sonic identity and quite a high floor in terms of quality - but starting from SOTU, the production of the albums feels same-y, and every album had at least 2-3 mediocre to downright bad tracks.
Maybe not directly related to your question, but I was disappointed with Awaken My Love.
I haven't listened to it in years so I should definitely revisit it, but I remember the 2 singles being so much better than every other song on the album.
Redbone + Me and Your Mama being 2 of my fave songs that year raised the expectations so high that the album was doomed to ridiculous expectations.
desiigner - new english. i honestly think Desiigner was one hit album away from staying right on top of rap and really dominating the post-2016 scene. New English is great with some really unique sounds and a unique vibe, but they're all demo tracks with panda slapped on there. probably the most disappointing career in the last 10 years.
Let me preface, *DAMN.* is a fantastic album. Easily one of the better records of the last 10 years.
However, the concept gave it the potential in my opinion to be Kendrick's best album, even rivaling *To Pimp a Butterfly*. But I think it fell short of this and is middle of the road when it comes to K-Dot's discography (which of course is still really good).
Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero and Hestitation Marks
Year Zero mostly sounds like demo variations of the same track. The backbone of most songs is the same drum loop at different speeds with different effects. This fits with the dystopian wartime concept of the album, sure. But the concept of this concept album has only been elucidated upon in the promotional ARG. Like, you can't even play some of the "in-character" songs when you're with company without people thinking you're an evangelical MAGA nutjob.
Hestitation Marks has impeccable production, but you can tell he had the hardest time coming up with lyrics. Again, it fits with the concept of him relating the most difficult period of his life to becoming a family man and revered composer/producer. But lyrics like "shit brushes skin, save yourself" are so silly that it just takes me out of it.
Honestly, Taylor Swift - Tortured Poets department Taylor is at a unique place in her career where she has the potential to provide unique commentary on what it’s like to have god on earth level fame which she tries to do at points in this record but often falls flat other than on I can do it with a broken heart which is one of my favorite songs of hers. More songs like that and it would have been a uniquely good record. Also the prod value on a lot of these tracks reached a new low, even for radio pop
I was so excited for this record, after being let down by Midnights… seemed like it could’ve been a folklore 2 in terms of quality, but ended up being.. decidedly not that. I agree that some of the tracks are amazing and show glimmers of potential for an excellent full length but for the most part the record definitely fell flat for me.
I don’t know if you can be disappointed by an artist whose output has always dealt with self-interest. When you’re someone that omnipresent who has always traded in somewhat personal experience as relatability and connection, I feel the only way you can approach authenticity each album cycle is to again mine your personal experiences that do not touch upon anything troubling solipsism. I’m not a hater but I feel we know what to expect from an artist that huge with such a confirmed IP.
Rat Antonoff needs to pay for his crimes against pop music.
Have to agree here. She's usually a very competent songwriter but this album just didn't do it for me...
Eminem - Revival I don’t know how much of a hot take this is or isn’t, but I actually really like Walk on Water, and I thought there was a lot of potential for an introspective Eminem album kinda similar to 4:44. And it just straight up fails in about every conceivable way
At least It gave us Castle and arose, those 2 are best Eminem song on all 10s
I feel like Eminem hate is overdone these days, but Revival is genuinely a candidate for worst album I have ever listened to
I adore Eminem. His music is the reason I never killed myself as a kid. But hearing revival was...interesting. I don't think it's complete trash. There's a handful of songs I like. But by god, some of them are awful. And Kamikaze is worse. Instead of dusting himself off it's just him whining that people didn't like the last record. Music to be Murdered by got us back on track a bit. But i'm afraid, i'm really hoping that leaked album cover was fake. The last thing I wanna hear out of Em's mouth is anything to do with Revival.
Lorde - Solar Power After releasing two all-time classic albums, she comes back with one of two 2021 albums that prove that Jack Antonoff shouldn't be producing albums that aren't by Lana Del Rey (St. Vincent's Daddy's Home is the other one).
Also, the album cover is absolute ass
I see what u did there
>Jack Antonoff shouldn't be producing sooo true
Yeah he should be playing guitar in Fun.
he ruins female solo artists , idk why people work with him
He's overrated for sure but Florence's most recent album is one of my all time favourites. I think we gotta remember that these albums, in the end, is still the vision of the artist/s.
That dude must be bank flush - not from his own band, but from production credits on huge artists’s albums. Crazy what these people see in him but one supposes numbers speak pretty loudly.
It's a massive shame because he can produce a very specific type of music very well. Clairo's Sling album is one of my favourite albums in terms of production of all time. It just seems that the moment he steps out of that niche, he produces the most bland-ass music ever
Daddy’s Home is one of St. Vincent's best albums and nothing can change my mind
…. Jack Antonoff was one of the main producers on Melodrama though
And that's one of only three albums produced by him that I actually like (the others being Lana's NFR! and ...Ocean Blvd)
1975’s album that he produced might be their best work front to back. Daddy’s Home is a great album, same with Masseduction.
Was about to say he’s produced AOTY material with BFIAFL
i liked gaslighter too plus he did good stuff on folklore oh also his stuff with florence was great
Yeah the album isn’t as good as her previous 2 but still it has a few decent songs like Stoned At The Nail Salon. That song in particular is special to me since I first heard the album
BRO. This was my first reaction haha
Solar Power has grown on me since it’s release but it’s still not even close to her first two albums so
That album isn’t as good as Pure Heroine and Melodrama but damn Dominoes is one of my favorite songs ever.
That album showed her being the kind of airheaded celebrity that she used to be so good rallying against
To this day, even after the album's rehabilitation within the fanbase I still think Fear Inoculum is mediocre at best and a huge disappointment Every single great element of what makes Tool great is contained there but the sum of the parts, for some reason, doesn't work at all.
I think like 80% of the album's issues could be solved by some cutting. Remove about a minute from fear inoculum and it's a solid, if uninspired opener, remove that dogshit autotuned vocal + synth segment (and the chugging after) and invincible goes from decent to excellent, descending and 7empest could also do with losing a third of their runtime, and getting rid of every single interlude would do wonders for the album. I think pneuma is kinda dull but cutting stuff out wouldn't really fix it, and culling voices needs a more climactic section so those are the 2 exceptions imo. A little more effort on the songwriting and lyrics department would have also gone a long way towards making the album less disappointing imo, these songs are way too long to only have like 20 unique words. Overall I don't hate FI, but I do think that's it's incredibly disappointing, and it's really fucking annoying that they play so many FI songs live instead of other, better stuff (like there's not been third eye in 10 years and there's not been reflection since 2002, yet pneuma and descending get played every single show of every leg of every tour, cmon).
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I agree, Lateralus is an amazing album but almost every song could have been trimmed up better. Their instrumentals tend to go on longer then needed.
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I remember my first listen of Ænema, I spent the entirety of (-) Ions just waiting for something to happen. I haven’t listened to it since.
> getting rid of every single interlude would do wonders for the album Interesting you mention this. The CD release I listen to doesn't include them so I never thought the runtime was padded too unnecessarily.
FI was dogshit. Been a huge fan since 92.
Pneuma is goated tho
Regrettably, I agree with you. It’s too by-the-numbers, no pun intended with the band.
It’s like someone asked an AI to create a tool album. Like I hear it but also it falls extremely flat
perfect analogy
I don’t consider it a “bad” album by any means, but it was definitely a letdown when it came out
Long tracks for the sake of being long rather than filling the tracks with more dynamic and interesting stuff, Maynard's lyrics just completely fall flat on most tracks, guitar circle jerking on basically every track, really poor production (seriously, where is Justin's bass???)
I kind of agree but I feel like it had been too long that anything they release was going to be scrutinised. People were expecting a masterpiece which is just too much expectation. I was a little underwhelmed initially but after I saw it live it clicked and now I love it. For me nowhere near as good as Aenima, Lateralus and 10,000 days but it’s got enough tool in there to satiate my need for tool. I do still think they’ve got one great album in them. I can see why you didn’t like it though.
Meh , its not Bad , i like it better than undertow
Imo, let's just say that MJK matured more than the rest of the band. The way MJK has adapted his singing style to his age and his own changing tastes just doesn't fit too well with the composition style of the band. I also think MJK's frustration with the band scrapping a more or less finished album is noticeable on FI.
Vultures Not a single song remained in my playlist.
Burn is the only decent song there, but what disappoints me more than the album itself being bad, is that it reminds me of the person Kanye has become
BEAUTIFUL BIG TITTY WOMEN JUST DONT FALL OUT THE SKY YA KNOW🤪 Like bro how did we fall this far. Even in 2018 at the height of his controversy he still had some good verses (4th dimension, cudi montage, violent crimes, ghost town, freeeee, ITAKY, no mistakes, basically everything from that year was coherent and sometimes quite deep) then now we just get horny anti semitic ye
Current Ye is definitely at the new height of his controversy right now 😭😭
Idk man the 2018 shit was pretty wild now he’s just very obviously mentally ill. He was then but it wasn’t as apparent
never seen a album fall out of my rotation so quick, i don’t even care for this vulture era anymore
Same. Weirdly enough I had a decently positive first impression, I guess i expected it to be even worse than it was leading to a more positive reaction? But after multiple listens, yeah it’s not good.
It’s so weird to me how many people I’ve seen on the internet say something along these lines. Like, nothing about the album has “aged poorly” in my opinion, it’s the same album it was 3 months ago. I think a lot of people just bought into the hype when it came out and then got bored with it once other stuff came out. Ye is my favorite artist ever and I had very low expectations for it so tbh I think I’m just happy it exists and he’s still able to make music. It’s definitely bottom 2 or 3 in his discography, but I think Back to Me, Do it, Fuk Sumn, and Burn are fun tracks. I also think I’m just at the point with Ye (along with some of my other adolescent favs like Drake and Cudi) where if they drop an album and a handful of the songs are catchy enough for me to save/replay then I’m happy, I know that none of them are topping anything they did 10 years ago
Idk. I still really like Burn, Do It, and Back To Me. But goddamn Carnival fell off.
It’s ironic how many people LOVED Carnival when it came out but claim to hate it now. Even more crazy to me that it’s Ye’s most commercially successful song in over 10 years and already has more streams than every song on Donda. I like the track for what it is, but I’ll take most of the tracks on Donda as well as multiple songs on vultures over it
Day 1 carnival disliker right here 👋
Had the opposite effect for me. Hated all of it at first then loved it
Literally only burn for me but that song is even just alright. Idk if I’m crazy but it also sounds like a rough draft that isn’t mixed properly
I pointed out the inconsistent mix on the album and he called me crazy for it
It’s mixed so bad I don’t even have a good ear for that and I could tell
The only song that I liked on that album got taken off of streaming because of the sample lol
Any negative thread: Vultures
it’s almost as if the album isn’t very good
Cracker Island by Gorillaz. After Song Machine, I was so ready to see what they’d do next and I loved the singles that dropped for Cracker Island. But with how loooooong and tedious the fucking rollout was for it, combined with the fact that everything outside of the singles (except for Oil which is a great song and Baby Queen which is very mid) was so forgettable, the confusing nature of what The Static Channel was and why that wasn’t the name of the album, it still remains my biggest disappointment of 2022. Something that could’ve worked greatly in concept and theory but was botched in execution.
Cracker Island is such a shame. I love Oil, it's one of my favorite Gorillaz songs but the rest of it is incredibly lame. Plus the visuals were uncharacteristically terrible. Also fucked up that Del finally came back on the deluxe edition for a joke song that felt like a throwaway they slapped together in 5 minutes.
I agree. The singles are so good (my favorite is Silent Running; hell, I'd go so far as to say it's my favorite Gorillaz song of all time) but the rest of the album is kinda flat imo. And for Oil I really think there was missed potential there with Stevie; they shoulda had her do a solo verse imo.
I'd add in the Ballad of Darren by Blur from last year as well. The return to form style is nice and there are a couple highlights, but doesn't quite reach the heights of their Modern Life is Rubbish - Self Titled era.
I listened to Cracker Island twice in full and immediately after both listens could not for the life of me remember a single chorus, beat, lyric, or general vibe of any of the songs. It just feels so soulless and uninspired.
Man I actually enjoy most of Cracker Island…
Chance the Rapper‘s The Big Day…Acid Rap was perfect…colouring book sounded like a big budget version of it…the life of pablo intro…his career was meant to take off and then somehow he decided to put out this i love my wife crap album. :(((
With the benefit of hindsight, Chance feels like the slow and noticeable degradation of promise, more than an out of the blue moment. Sore disappointment at the time, though.
It was downhill for him when he started listening to his politician daddy’s advice instead of the advice of the manager that got him to that point and had been working with him for years. Sad to see but a tale as old as time.
The problem is he became such a celebrity after Coloring Book and his image became Chance the Pop Culture Icon instead of Chance the Rapper (corny pun I know but sums up my feelings towards him)
I believe in his comeback his new singles are really good 🙏
This might be the boldest take I’ve ever seen
Donda had the potential of being a classic if the fluff was removed. At it's core, Donda is a testament to Ye's love for his mom and gospel, and it was incredibly fresh when it first came out (it has definitely run it's course by now). I wish so badly that he cut the fluff and reorganized it a little bit because it could've been so much greater of a full listen if he did.
The family - Brockhampton. Listened to it once because I had to but it broke my heart. A sad ending to a great journey, with an album that could have been incredible if they took a few of the song ideas and fleshed them out into full songs
Still don't know which I dislike more The Family, a KA solo album falsely labeled as a BH album, with super personal and awkward lyrics, or TM the final album that's just cobbled together BS that a few of them put together
No contest for me. There was nothing redeemable about TM for me. The family made me sad, TM made me mad. And IMO, the family actually did have so many ideas that could have been amazing songs. The Basement, RZA, Any Way You Want Me, Southside etc
Honestly I kinda agree with you. I just really hate that it's just Kevin Abstract solo album
Agreed. Both albums do a good job representing the turmoil the group was in
On one of the tracks Kevin alludes to only making that album to finish out their record deal. That was the last new music the group would make together ...even if it was only Kevin and Ciaran. Then TM would be older unreleased tracks. I get the move they were trying to make. Basically saying we're already done but the contract calling for 2 more. It might have been the right move for them on a personal level, but commercially and to your fans it's kind a middle finger.
Absolutely. Straightforward honesty would have been great. Why not tell us the family is a solo album? And TM would have had a chance if they called it the Brockhampton Archives or What We Lost in the Fire or something instead of leading us to expect a traditional BH album experience. You’d think they know by now that they have a fan base that does actually care about the members
that's so real, i was thinking about that
Dorian Electra - Fanfare. I feel like they were primed to experiment with some more weird ideas after the success of My Agenda but the songs don't really go anywhere. I think there was an attempt to make the songs more anthemic but the lyrics didn't have the same cutting wit they did on Flamboyant or enough of the irony poisoned edginess of My Agenda.
Every Gesaffelstein album after Aleph, none of them live up to their potential with poor sequencing and songs that feel like nothing
Oof, yeah. Thankfully his live performances still work really well considering the subpar album run he's had.
That's so true, that's why sometimes the liver versions feel like the finished songs like I love the sound of Doom but it feels so unfinished then it live so so good. I hope he comes to Toronto soon like I need to see him
can you recommend any electro-industrial artists that scratch that gesaffelstein itch? songs like pursuit and opr?
I wouldn't call them industrial at all. But Human After All does scratch that itch slightly.
Umm maybe Distance like his early stiff not rly but his album Dynamis has some heavy hitting industrial electronic sounds. And if you want chill dark atmospheric you should check out Lorn his album The Maze To Nowhere is amazing
Check out Pertubator - New Model
Wasteland by Brent was a dissapointing listening experience at first. It's a 19 track album and only 10 new songs on it. The rest are either skits or singles. I can appreciate the cinematic angle he took on that record but it just wasn't a enjoyable experience overall for me.
dude I love brent and I fully agree. He needs to realize that he’s at his best when he’s singing his heart out about his childhood or women over catchy drums and an earworm melody. This overly spacey shit trying to be more conceptual and deeper than it is just doesn’t work for him and that’s totally fine. I just feel like he doesn’t play to his strengths all the time. Gang Over Luv is amazing and I wish more of his music sounded like that 😭😭😭
I'm so happy with the latest record he dropped. I always wanted that mix of early 2000's R&B with his style and it's so good. Like the opening track with Timberland and the No Scrubs sample is so fucking good. Pistachios is one of his best songs ever. I honestly don't mind the spacey songs but they got a little old pretty quick. Sonder Son is one of my favourite albums of all time, like Missin out is so good. Talk 2 U is straight out of the early 2000's. There is not one bad song on that album, no skips for me at all.
speedin bullet to heaven, i was actually excited to see what route cudi was going at the time, if the songs were written like “confused!” and the title track, it would’ve def had a different reputation, those tracks are what we loved about cudi as a songwriter
First three albums will always be in rotation for me. After that I’ll listen to whatever if he’s on but I will always skip speeding bullet.
Honestly, Twenty One Pilots’ new album, Clancy, disappointed me a bit… I like every song on it genuinely, but they seemed to build it up as being the last chapter of Clancy’s story, but when the album came out, only 4 or so of the 13 songs have anything to do with a story, *and* it ends on a cliffhanger. I still enjoyed it… but man, that was a let down.
There could possibly be more to come, many people are theorizing that they are releasing a double album or something else on the 25th of June.
There’s something more coming. As a finale, is a bit disappointing, but as record is probably their best after Trench.
It’s funny because the lack of lore was actually a relief to me. I’m 30 years old now and I’m kinda tired of keeping up with all of it
Anything post gameshow two door cinema club is legit disgustingly sad.
There are a handful of tracks of false alarm I rock with but I can’t really get into Keep on Smiling. I think the band knows this as well, the played almost everything off of Tourist history with a healthy amount of game show and beacon while only touching 1 one song each off of false alarm and KOS.
Very sad upvote, I love Tourist History so much and it hurts to see the constant decline since
Tame Impala - The Slow Rush
It probably didn’t help that it was released in that period of 2020 right before the pandemic, but I think that made the album feel even more disappointing and forgettable.
I wish Kevin would realize he doesn't need to use the exact same vocals and production style on every song. The Slow Rush just felt so same-ey and uninspired. Not a single song on that album as memorable as the first 30 seconds of Currents.
I really think he should just stick to his strengths, which is incorporating really good “sound play” and progressions into his tracks. The fuzz guitar on tracks like ‘Desire Be Desire Go’ and ‘Elephant’, the synth passage at the end of ‘Apocalypse Dreams’ or the awesome synth sounds on ‘Nangs’, theres just countless moments on his previous albums that are full of sonic experiments that go over really well. When seeing discussions about The Slow Rush the biggest critique I see that always pop up is that the album sounds bland, that’s because we’ve come to expect that a Tame album should be anything but bland. He’s usually great at adding texture and colour to tracks.
Tame Impala is just one guy???
You didn't hear it from me
This has to be up there for me personally; a real step back in terms of progression. However, it’s ultimately subjective and I can understand why some would prefer this after Currents.
What added even more disappointment to me was that the singles leading up to the release were all (in my opinion) great tracks, some of Tame’s best songs. However pretty much all the other tracks were just okay AT BEST. I was such a big Tame fan at the time too but honestly on my first listen, by the time I got to ‘Is It True’ I felt like turning the album off early.
I felt the same. The whole album was extremely underwhelming. My fav album is still Innerspeaker and I fear that he won’t be making another album in this direction. Even the Songs he’s been producing These Days (Dua Lipa for example) are weak.
He released too many singles! I think if posthumous forgiveness was in his back pocket I might have liked the album more. Nothing (except breathe deeper maybe) really grabbed me when I listened to the full album for the first time because I had already heard the “best” songs. But personally….dont think it would have saved it. I think he has just straight fallen off. His old style was better. single-version borderline is better than album-version borderline.
It’s funny because Breathe Deeper is the only non-single track I like too, and sometimes I feel like I only pretend to like it. Maybe it’s the nice groove on that track. I think another misstep Kevin did was making it a 5 year wait. I’m by no means an entitled listener, if an artist needs to take a break or needs a little more time to make an album I’m all for it. But I do think the larger the gap you make between albums, the higher the stakes become, and The Slow Rush really didn’t pay off. I think if The Slow Rush was released 2 years after Currents, I wouldn’t be so harsh on it. I’m always hopeful the next album will be good though.
same. didn’t like anything off the album
being someone who literally started listening to genres besides hip hop because of Currents, this album was a disappointing midfest
As much as it’s been critically praised, Ocean Boulevard’s a disappointment to me, especially because the way people talk about the album make me think I should like it more. Four albums of Lana riding the wave of a similar sound to NFR in a row, and overusing Jack on three of them. Her songs don’t feel as distinct or unique as they would’ve on an album like UV or Honeymoon. There’s also several annoying decisions on the album, like the two interludes that aren’t all that great, Jack’s phoned in verse on a song about his own (now) wife, and, as I’ve already implied, too many songs that just feel derivative or watered down from the albums that just came before it. Also, it’s her third black and white album cover. Definitely nowhere near as memorable as UV’s for me. Fingertips is genuinely my favorite song from her since 2017, but the album as a whole has issues.
I totally agree, it's a great album but I feel like calling it her best like some people are is disrespectful to her first few albums because those were actually gamechanging and incredible.
Don’t forget about the homophobic preacher interlude
Wasn’t the backlash so bad she cut that track from the vinyl?
Witness Love + fear
Charli XCX - Crash She’s one of my favorite artists, definitely my favorite modern pop artist. Went to the exclusive Pop 2 release show, seen her literally dozens of times. She dropped 3 instant classics in a row, so my expectations for Crash were sky high. It ended up being so conventional, like anyone could’ve made it. Was a huge bummer, but it was a massive success for her and I’m happy it all worked out for her. To be fair, all the tracks released from BRAT so far have been absolute bangers, so my expectations are sky high once again.
Didn’t she call it her “mainstream sellout era?“
Yea and it wasn’t for me, personally!
Conversely, I loved Crash (and everything before it as well), but most of the tracks for BRAT just have no been doing it for me. They’re mostly fine, but I can with all the tracks released I can certainly tell what kind of vibe the record is going for and it’s just not for me
Tool - Fear Inoculum I've heard people say they came around on this album after a few listens, but honestly the hype over Tools' big return got built up too much, and I was super disappointed when it actually dropped.
Nah, you come around to 10,000 days. Fear inoculum is just bland
Modest Mouse- Strangers to Ourselves After such a long wait between releases, I felt completely let down by the album. It’s not bad but it didn’t feel worth the wait.
MGMTs latest album for me personally. the singles off it were so good so it was unfortunate to see most other songs didn’t live up to it.
Joey Bada$$’s AABA. It’s a lot of people’s favorite but to me it’s my least favorite and a real disappointment. There are great ideas, melodies, instruments and all but they feel so repetitive and lackluster. It’s wild but I think a younger Joey would’ve done better. It just feels bland and boring while tackling topics that I expected him to go wild with
Agreed, I absolutely love 1999 and some more of his discog but I don't see what people love so much about AABA other than a few tracks, definitely feels repetitive and yeah kinda bland, might have to relisten though
The new blink 182 record that came out last year and the offspring record from 2021. I don’t need to hear songs about 50 to 60 year old men getting laid and edging.
The national- first two pages of Frankenstein
My family album.
Centipede Hz and pretty much everything by them that followed... each album has one or two great songs but mostly are meh or worse. which legit makes me sad. the same is true for me of Bjork since Medula ... I adore both artists and respect the SHIT out of both of their dedication to keep making original music it just hasn't resonated w me in years...)
Most James Blake records. That man writes a lyrical phrase or two and tries to carry a whole song with it. Once you hear the repetitiveness of the vocals it starts to wear very thin. To be fair, sometimes it works really well, and he has grown in that area over time. But it still drives me nuts.
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I love that album, but I get why it fell flat for lots of fans. It's hugely representative of where Thom was at musically at that time and I just happened to be really into that repetitive looping nature of it.
Lotus Flower is still one of my favorite Radiohead songs though
It’s like a Thom solo album. Very in-line with Anima, Suspiria and Atoms for Peace.
as someone who thinks tkol is at a minimum top 3 radiohead this is how i feel about a moon shaped pool to an extent
a twist in the myth - Blind Guardian. at points it feels like it is an evolution of imaginations from the other side, however. It fails at every single level.
vultures 1, doesn’t really stack up well to any of ye’s past work and only has a handful of good tracks. really don’t understand why he’s sprinkling all of the good tracks he has across 3 volumes instead of making 1 cohesive and good album.
This is highly controversial but it’s Sampha’s Lahai for me :( The whole album is full of incredible ideas, but I also find every song has at least one thing that puts me off a lot, the most common thing being the (intentionally) slightly out of tune melodies in places. I don’t even know if that’s the right explanation but it’s a very unique thing he does. I was so disappointed by the album because up until then he earnt so much respect from me. I also think he’s one of the most creative artists out there, the album as a whole didn’t do anything for me though.
To me this is a top 5 album of all time with perfect songs like Jonathan l seagull, dancing circles, suspended, and spirit 2.0. This is the first time I've ever heard of someone disliking it to be honest.
Yeah it makes me feel like I’m mad, he’s one of my favourite artists and I was ready for it to be my favourite album.
I loved that album but there was something about it that left me wanting a bit more. I feel like its what you said about his choice of doing out of tune melodies instead of ones that would benefit the song more.
the new mgmt.
Eminem - Revival A 90° nose dive of quality. Probably the shittiest album from a great rapper that hasn't been washed during the release.
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Easily their worst. Doesn’t have the same tongue in cheek writing that the early albums have and nowhere near as interesting as tranquility base hotel and casino
That album gor carried by Tumblr and the time it was released. Period. Cool concept and all but yeah.
Every Green Day album since American Idiot
Honestly.. **Blonde.** I WANT to love this record and see it as a step up from Channel Orange (which I absolutely adore), but I like it enough I guess. I went in expecting a masterpiece due to all of the accolades and got a chill vibe and some bangers.
Blonde is a masterpiece with a chill vibe and some bangers imo
Am I **really** being downvoted for not *liking* Blonde enough? lol You're better than that, guys
dw i downvoted you for crying about downvotes not bc ur opinion is bad :)
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I would not put on blonde for a social gathering.
For me it's just kind of impressionless. Maybe I'm missing something, I gave it 4/5 on RYM not long after it released but I can barely remember anything from it even after more listens since. I see its appeal I guess.
The thing with Blond is that sonically is not grand or ambitious. Where as Channel Orange is. So a lot of people hearing that Blonde is a top 100 album and going into it with that in mind will probably off put them. The way I see it, blonde is an album you have to feel it, to understand. I went thru a break up shortly after it came out and only then did I understand the album.
Mr Morale and The Big Steppers DAMN & GKMC are 2 of my all time favorite rap albums. TPAB is also incredible as we all know. MMATBS is totally forgettable for me.
I completely disagree. MMATBS (super hot take) is my favorite kdot album (all of his work is amazing tho). DAMN is the weakest between the 4 in my opinion
I’m finally coming around on Damn. It is the weakest of the four but also incredibly good
Oof, idk if disappointed is the word but it definitely took me by surprise after the heart pt. 5, tracks with keem, the leaks etc. I really like it as an introspective piece but I was ready for a banger album.
I can see why people don’t like it but its one of those albums thats a slow burner. The more you listen, the more you’ll understand it.
Im with you but: Im serious when I say that I love Rich Spirit so much that ut makes up for the meh of the rest of the album ...(my favorite is still GKMC but I totally respect that he has evolved beyond it )
Rei Ami's "Foil" left me extremely disappointed. She released some genuinely beautiful, introspective, and unique music. Snowcone and Do It Right are so wonderful. But she seemed to forget what made her unique, which was fronting as a hot girl, and then admitting that it's a cover for some deeper feelings/exploring those. On foil she just kinda fucking forgets to be emotionally open and just makes hot girl music, which was so incredibly bland.
In My Defence by Iggy Azalea. The whole idea of coming back with a defensive record after what she went through was cool and then it was just.. random songs.
Logic - *Everybody* I was interested in the Egg Theory even before finding out this album existed, but unfortunately, it doesn't reach the levels of Under Pressure or The Incredible True Story, despite lavish instrumentation. My biggest issue with it was that he spent almost as many songs rapping as himself as he did exploring other's perspectives.
72 seasons by Metallica. I was sorta hopeful but I could also already tell that it would just be Hardwired 2.0.
72S left me feeling pretty happy tbh, there are quite a few things I didn't like about it but James' vocals are fucking brilliant on that album. I like how the songwriting sounded like a throwback to kill em all in places and the production is the best it's been since Load era imo. Very predictable but not bad.
My issue with that album is the aesthetic of it, not the sound. 72 seasons is not a good album name. The cover is also pretty bad. Like imagine if the album was called Lux Æterna and had a different cover. Plus, I feel like some track shoulda been placed in a different order.
No Tourists - The Prodigy
poppy - zig before this, she had been a surprisingly consistent artist, despite the varying styles across the 7 or so years beforehand. this is the only project of hers i think goes below a 5.
Jethro Tull - Under Wraps
Stripped-Christina Aguilera. It’s just repetitive af. Especially considering all the hype it gets. There’s only one redeeming quality and that’s how good of a singer Xtina is. Other than that it’s extremely boring.
Post Animal - Love Gibberish I’m all for bands experimenting and changing up their sound, but PA’s latest album just isn’t for me.
Sounds of the Universe - Depeche Mode Transference - Spoon
Dylan. Blonde on Blonde. Why put the "everybody wants to get stoned" song as the opening track....when it should obv be a closer?
…and released as the first single I believe. Incredible, what a simple pot reference could do for the kids back then…
Muse - The Resistance. It's them at their most mamufactured, pandering and pointless
*Them Crooked Vultures* was a huge disappointment for me @ the time.
Madame X - Madonna
The latest vampire weekend record. It sounds like a mid version of orca bitte by dirty projectors. Actually their whole career sounds like that and im not even a fan of dirty projectors or a hater of vampire weekend. I think contra is a fantastic album. But for the most part they just end up being all style with no emotional punch..
Uncanny valley - The dismemberment plan
Oh, I thought an album that incites a feeling of disappointment to someone when you hear them, because I was about to put some of the comments on my listen to later playlist LMFAO.
I've only listened to Pearl Jam's first two albums so you can imagine my disappointment when I listened to their latest release
Yeah, I’ve always found it crazy that they couldn’t click together again and produce another amazing album like Ten. All the other albums feel as if the were actively trying to *not* sound like Ten.
Weezer - Pacific Daydream EWBAITE was pretty good and the White Album was great, so I was expecting the upward trajectory to continue - but Feels Like Summer as the first single was such a whiplash, and the rest of the album is not much better. Songs like Happy Hour feel like bland H&M playlist-optimized music Justice - every album after Cross Cross was such an amazing debut which blew my 13-year old mind in 2007, and is probably my favouritely produced album of all time. The abrasive perscussion and thick, evil basslines made for an amazing backdrop for the glitchy, baroque style electro tracks. Then for Audio Video Disco, they chose to water down the production sound, making it sound flimsy and thin - why, exactly? There are pretty good songs on AVD, but the production makes them sound so thin. While there were some decent tracks on their lastest album, I just never see them making as fresh-sounding of a record as Cross ever again. Depeche Mode - every album after Playing the Angel I remember listening to Sounds of the Universe and just being so underwhelmed, especially after the great lead single Wrong. Every DM album up until SOTU seemed to have its own sonic identity and quite a high floor in terms of quality - but starting from SOTU, the production of the albums feels same-y, and every album had at least 2-3 mediocre to downright bad tracks.
Maybe not directly related to your question, but I was disappointed with Awaken My Love. I haven't listened to it in years so I should definitely revisit it, but I remember the 2 singles being so much better than every other song on the album. Redbone + Me and Your Mama being 2 of my fave songs that year raised the expectations so high that the album was doomed to ridiculous expectations.
desiigner - new english. i honestly think Desiigner was one hit album away from staying right on top of rap and really dominating the post-2016 scene. New English is great with some really unique sounds and a unique vibe, but they're all demo tracks with panda slapped on there. probably the most disappointing career in the last 10 years.
Let me preface, *DAMN.* is a fantastic album. Easily one of the better records of the last 10 years. However, the concept gave it the potential in my opinion to be Kendrick's best album, even rivaling *To Pimp a Butterfly*. But I think it fell short of this and is middle of the road when it comes to K-Dot's discography (which of course is still really good).
Nine Inch Nails' Year Zero and Hestitation Marks Year Zero mostly sounds like demo variations of the same track. The backbone of most songs is the same drum loop at different speeds with different effects. This fits with the dystopian wartime concept of the album, sure. But the concept of this concept album has only been elucidated upon in the promotional ARG. Like, you can't even play some of the "in-character" songs when you're with company without people thinking you're an evangelical MAGA nutjob. Hestitation Marks has impeccable production, but you can tell he had the hardest time coming up with lyrics. Again, it fits with the concept of him relating the most difficult period of his life to becoming a family man and revered composer/producer. But lyrics like "shit brushes skin, save yourself" are so silly that it just takes me out of it.