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The best lineup of one of my favourite bands back together again after years and they came up with something a million miles away from the likes of Machine Head.
Bought it when it first came out in 2005 (on the strength of the single King of the Mountain). Listened to it once (and once only), called it shyte not to my liking, and promptly gave it away to a colleague.
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Iron Maiden - No Prayer for the Dying. Coming after Seventh Son, which was one of the albums which got me into metal, anything was going to be a disappointment. This was, following the trend in metal at the time of releasing shorter more accessible songs (see also Metallica)
Mastodon - Once More Round the Sun. Horrible attempt to land a bigger audience, still cannot listen to it all the way through. Back on form with their most recent album
Metallica - Black album. Went from a brilliant exciting band who played really aggressive and technical thrash metal to a ploddy stadium rock band who have never recovered. Still remember the sinking feeling this 16 year old metalhead got listening to it for the 1st time
Guns n Roses - Use Your Illusion 1/2. Some great individual songs on these, but a lot of crap as well. Appetite remains the benchmark imo
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Just because you're paranoid, don't mean they're not after youI bought it the day it came out, on the strength of Absolution being one of the best albums I own (and I still think so), and Origin Of Symmetry being OK. I’d heard the first single - Starlight - which I liked, even if it seemed a bit lightweight. Sadly it’s the best song on the album.
The rest is just empty, style without substance, childish songwriting and very samey arrangement and production throughout. The last track isn’t bad but it was too late to redeem it - I gave it to a friend who I knew liked the band. She thought exactly the same.
I haven’t liked or bought anything they’ve done since either.
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I was a massive fan of ...And Justice with it's multi sectioned long but aggessive tracks. I know Bob Rock was employed to give them mass appeal but he stripped all the stuff I liked away in the process.
UYI is the sound of a very successful band spending a blank cheque without hearing any criticism. As has been discussed many times one good record could have been compiled from the sprawl.
I'll go for Oasis and Be Here Now. As above, really. The songs are ok but they're all dragged out for far too long. Some of the tracks are creaking under the weight of the 30 rhythm guitar tracks that got left on. Any track that has more than one "truck driver's gear change" is already too long... All Around The World has 12
Machine Head - Supercharger - After the disappointment that was The Burning Red, Robb Flynn was boasting that the follow-up would be a return to the old sound. In the end, it was ten times worse than The Burning Red. Haven't really been a Machine Head fan since.
Morbid Angel - Illud Divinum Insanus - First album back with Dave Vincent and it's a complete horror show of epic proportions. Ill advised attempts at industrial metal and awful lyrics throughout. There's a song called 'Too Extreme!' for fuck sake.
Strapping Young Lad - SYL - After Devin announced SYL were returning in 2002 I was shitting my pants with excitement. After all, City is one of my all time favourites. Then this came along and I felt really deflated. The apocalyptic industrial wall-of-noise sound had pretty much vanished, and was replaced with a plodding thrash metal record with keyboards.
Would add Motley Crue's eponymous effort after Dr Feelgood. Tried very hard to like it, but it's still not for me.
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I’m an Uber-fan and bought it on the day of release. In fairness, life was pretty bad around 2004 - so I perhaps wasn’t as willing to overlook its failings as readily as I might have done in better circumstances - but listening to it in the car on the way home I was overcome by disappointed. Half-arsed, cliched songs - with none of the emotional weight of their previous stuff.
Certainly not worthy of the eight year gap between it and its predecessor.....
Jon Spencer Blues Explosion - "Now I got Worry". I bought this on the strength of a rave review in one of the guitar mags and because RL Burnside is on it I even had to order the CD specially and waited a week (those were the days) for it to arrive. It was/is absolute rubbish in every respect.
The Raincoats "The Raincoats" another waste of time and money.
Annette Peacock "The Perfect Release" another I bought on the strength of a NME review (I should know better by now) how people can listen to this stuff and claim to enjoy it is beyond me, talentless pretentious crap.
Santana - "Festival" - I've seen Santana live and the BBC concert from 1976 is one of the best recorded live performances ever IMHO. The LP really is the biggest let down of all time. Santana just never got anywhere near their live sound in the studio, it sounds like a bad tribute act.
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"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein