disappointing 2004 albums so far

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i'm bored. what were yours? i'm expecting to see alot of liars (though i think it's alright). for me it was hella.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:31 (twenty years ago)

the devil isn't red i mean.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:33 (twenty years ago)

pj harvey for me bigtime

― cinniblount (James Blount), Saturday, 4 September 2004 15:56 (twenty years ago)

I gotta go with To the Five Boroughs.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago)

"Fly or Die" - NERD

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:03 (twenty years ago)

Libertines - some great high points (well, 2 or 3) but overall it felt thrown together haphazardly (maybe that was the point, but there's way too much filler)

Von Bondies - great single but mostly a half-assed collection of Stooges covers

Interpol - much lighter and more pop oriented, loss of any deep emotion that made the debut special

Kool Keith's Undertakerz (though he made up for it with Diesel Truckers)

The Liars - I thought their ambition was admirable, but the final product was poor

― Space Is the Place (Space Is the Place), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

Mario Winans (I should have heeded everybody's warnings)

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:45 (twenty years ago)

new fly pan am is easily the most dissaopinting for myself. all groove and rythmn replaced with crap

― twelve, Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:48 (twenty years ago)

Hayden. The Liars record is treasure.

― Rubberband Man (Rubberband Man), Saturday, 4 September 2004 16:59 (twenty years ago)

Vast Aire's solo album is fucking awful.

― djdee2005, Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:00 (twenty years ago)

That Morrisey album about how americans are fat and he dislikes taxmen, of course.

New Magnetic Fields wasn't really BAD, and there was really no reason to expect more of it than what was given...I guess it's more a case of finding out the limitations of a band, and that being in itself disappointing.

Cee-Lo just shouldn't sing (still an ok album, tho)

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)

Morrissey was really disappointing if I forget about Maladjusted.

Magnetic Fields isn't disappointing if I forget about 69 Love Songs.

PJ Harvey isn't disappointing in the sense that I usually only like 1/3 to 1/2 of her albums a whole lot, but is disappointing in the sense that I liked the better half of her 2000 album a whole lot more than the better half of the new one.

― manthony m1cc1o (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I didn't have high expectations for any albums really. Clinic, perhaps?

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:49 (twenty years ago)

I expected more from the Mum album. Parts of "Finally We Are No One" were gorgeous. "Summer Make Good" is just boring.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 4 September 2004 17:52 (twenty years ago)

gotta agree with the clinic album - i know that you can't expect some radical departure from a patented sound but the melodies aren't strong enough this time to back it up.

same with banhardt's nino roja and sondra lerche's two way monologue i guess.

― phil turnbull (philT), Saturday, 4 September 2004 21:29 (twenty years ago)

Magnetic Fields - now that "I Thought You Were My Boyfriend" has been disco-fied & released as a single, I've got no use for it.

― etc, Saturday, 4 September 2004 21:36 (twenty years ago)

the mum album is great, it's better than the last one.
magnetic fields sounds kinda rote, he needs to get a bit more ambition soundwise.

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 4 September 2004 21:42 (twenty years ago)

beta band

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:57 (twenty years ago)

to be perfectly honest almost every band i'm a fan of who put out a new record this year put out a sub-par one

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago)

(exceptions: air, dizzee, streets)

― jess (dubplatestyle), Saturday, 4 September 2004 22:58 (twenty years ago)

I'd hoped Ghostface would be a lot better, more coherent.
Morrissey has 3-4 really good songs, the rest is dreck.
The Cure album is hopeless...really. Give up.
I thought Afuken's Fabric mix would be more interesting than it was.
The streets felt like a gimmick originally. The new album felt like a swindle.

(maybe start a separate thread, but libertines, cormega, masta killa, vik vaughn all pleasantly surprised)

― paulhw (paulhw), Saturday, 4 September 2004 23:26 (twenty years ago)

!!!
Fatboy Slim (but only the second half)
Zero 7 (biggest let down since 100th window. hugely disappointing)

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Cee-Lo just shouldn't sing

Daniel, can you feel the psychic vibes of me disagreeing with you?

― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:13 (twenty years ago)

chalk up another for !!! - not all of it, but...especially after what they'd done up to now, oh guys...

dare i say The Streets too? hehe.. Some great bits, but the other two thirds were such a let down, it even bored me (lyrically & musically) in more than the odd place..?! After the joy of the 1st record I felt cheated...
The latest Múm lp hasn't touched me whatsoever like the first two, either. And I daren't put any hope in the Cure's being a return-to-form. But that could work in its favour when I do get to hear it...

― pete badmusik (pete badmusik), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago)

oh my god that Cee-Lo album was garbage. I can't quite register it as disappointing because I paid $3 for a used copy on a whime, but I expected a little more.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 5 September 2004 00:55 (twenty years ago)

Disappointed in Lerche's Two Way Monologue? Say it isn't so!

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 5 September 2004 01:58 (twenty years ago)

hives - "tyrannosaurus hives" has been a major dissapointment to me. i do have high hopes for the new hot snakes disc coming this october though.

― william (william), Sunday, 5 September 2004 02:08 (twenty years ago)

Fennesz: Endless Summer had 2 or 3 ideas in each song. Venice only has 2 or 3 ideas on the whole album, and one of them's a bad one, namely shoegazing.

Phoenix: It's pleasant enough but really lacks any standout killer tracks.

― Bidfurd, Sunday, 5 September 2004 07:41 (twenty years ago)

"Everything is Everything" doesn't do it for ya?

― jaymc (jaymc), Sunday, 5 September 2004 07:43 (twenty years ago)

Its no "Too young" or "If I every feel better" though it is good yeah.

― Bidfurd, Sunday, 5 September 2004 07:45 (twenty years ago)

i still find ir hard to get my head around the fact that jess actually had expectations of the bta bnd rcd

― gaz (gaz), Sunday, 5 September 2004 08:20 (twenty years ago)

interpol
liars
delgados new one
pj harvey
bjork
beastie boys

― dfhgg, Sunday, 5 September 2004 09:49 (twenty years ago)

driveby truckers
northern state
tim mcgraw

― chuck, Sunday, 5 September 2004 10:12 (twenty years ago)

delgados? jeez! how high were your expectations? It's grand!

― edward o (edwardo), Sunday, 5 September 2004 13:25 (twenty years ago)

Superpitcher

― BbetaA, Sunday, 5 September 2004 13:33 (twenty years ago)

Months after it's released, I'm still underwhelmed by Sonic Youth's Nurse.

― Jeff K (jeff k), Sunday, 5 September 2004 13:43 (twenty years ago)

The Mclusky one didn't do much for me.

― Fergal (Ferg), Sunday, 5 September 2004 14:33 (twenty years ago)

I can kinda see where you are coming from Fergal, Does Dallas is better but the new one is not bad.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Sunday, 5 September 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)

Beastie Boys
PJ Harvey
Spektrum
Soulwax
Klang

― Sami (Sami), Sunday, 5 September 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago)

Sarah Harmer
The Mountain Goats

― Catherine (Catherine), Sunday, 5 September 2004 15:00 (twenty years ago)

(maybe start a separate thread, but libertines, cormega, masta killa, vik vaughn all pleasantly surprised)

I just started that thread :

2004 albums -- pleasant surprises that exceeded expectations

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 5 September 2004 21:14 (twenty years ago)

Is finding the new Interpol disappointing before it's been properly released kosher?

I listened to an awful-quality-preview-edition of Antics and I'm just, well, hoping against hope studio magic will save it...

Fine, I'm pathetic.

― nader (nader), Sunday, 5 September 2004 22:00 (twenty years ago)

i listened to that diplo album once and then trashed it.

― Mil (Mil), Sunday, 5 September 2004 23:31 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure its good.

― djdee2005, Monday, 6 September 2004 00:02 (twenty years ago)

Beastie Boys - just terribly boring.
FatBoy Slim - even worse than i expected
NERD,
Soulwax

― Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Monday, 6 September 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago)

THE STREETS

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 6 September 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Akon, "Trouble." Heard it was amazing, bought it, and it's a piece of crap!

― shookout (shookout), Monday, 6 September 2004 11:33 (twenty years ago)

relative disappointments considering how much i love their other stuff:

drive-by truckers
ted leo
iron and wine
rilo kiley

just outright disappointing:
method man
wilco
beastie boys
libertines
the streets
junior boys

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 6 September 2004 13:36 (twenty years ago)

Method Man is a good one.

― djdee2005, Monday, 6 September 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago)

For this thread i mean. THe album is awful.

― djdee2005, Monday, 6 September 2004 13:44 (twenty years ago)

Beta Band, totally.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 6 September 2004 13:48 (twenty years ago)

oh god ted leo so so otm

― jess (dubplatestyle), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Did John Cale's new one come out this year? I wouldnt have expected anything normally but I guess I fell for the hype..

― Baaderoni (Fabfunk), Monday, 6 September 2004 15:32 (twenty years ago)

the ted leo's fine though yeah nowhere near the last. big big dittos to diplo and fennesz though.

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 6 September 2004 20:07 (twenty years ago)

Big & Rich :(

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 6 September 2004 21:58 (twenty years ago)

what's otm mean? i don't get webernet slang.

― seahorse genius (seahorse genius), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:32 (twenty years ago)

On The Money.

― Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Monday, 6 September 2004 22:34 (twenty years ago)

I suppose Victor Manuelle's new one, though I hadn't totally bought into the hype.

― Rockist_Scientist (rockist_scientist), Monday, 6 September 2004 23:14 (twenty years ago)

felix!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 14:29 (twenty years ago)

Tortoise top the list, though I'd have to give some thought to who else made the list.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago)

I had high hopes for the new Mum and Savath and Savalas albums, but disliked both of them. The NERD was disappointing as well.

― Jonathan (Jonathan), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:23 (twenty years ago)

whoops. How did I forget Wilco? blech.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:24 (twenty years ago)

another shout for the streets.
and one more interpol.

― piscesboy, Tuesday, 7 September 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

fennesz on the money. venice seems dead compared to plus forty seven degrees... or endless summer or live in japan or the second fenno'berg. im pretty sure he hasnt lost his muse or anything. this new album just wasnt the one for me.

― peter smith (plsmith), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:03 (twenty years ago)

I wouldn't say I was disappointed by Fennesz inasmuch as I was hoping for something that didn't sound so much like his other stuff. Maybe those were unreasonable expectations on my part.

Agreed that "Live In Japan" is more of mindfuck, although tracks such as "Circassian" do capture that feeling quite well.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:24 (twenty years ago)

(plz ignore the shitty grammar in my first sentence)

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Tuesday, 7 September 2004 17:25 (twenty years ago)

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