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Guru |
I JUST posted in another thread that it takes time to grow on you. Keep listening to it. Before you know it, you won't be able to listen to anything else. (And no, I don't think it sounds like the bad songs on Gnarls... but maybe that's because after the first song, I don't see any value in that record.) ------------------------------------------------------- Awkwardness happening to someone you love! |
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"Forum Moderator" Super Bad-Ass Jedi |
Why do say this to me specifically? ----- If you don't love me, I'm sorry. |
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Jedi |
You seemed puzzled about TV On The Radio's first release; I gave you a link.  (What, hasn't everyone heard of OK Calculator? [/sarcasm]) |
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"Forum Moderator" Super Bad-Ass Jedi |
Oh ok, to be honest I had never heard of it. I think I am still puzzled, does an album that they record and sell count as a first release? Well, why not? It worked for Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (or CYHSY as the cool kids like to say.) ----- If you don't love me, I'm sorry. |
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Slacker First Class |
Peaches probably. The title promised great things, I kinda expected the electronic-dance feel of "Fatherfucker" but man! it was disappointing. This album probably had the lyrical buoyancy that we have come to expect from Peaches 'cos she's all explicit n says what she wants to say exactly how she wants to say it and pretty much leave no room for diverging interpretations unless u got some loon out there who thought "Lorelai speaks as much as she does to fill the voids in her life", however the music just ain't there.
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I think I've been most disappointed by the new Grandaddy album. There are a few songs like Summer It's Gone, Rear View Mirror, and Skateboarding Saves Me Twice that I find myself putting on repeat, but overall I have a hard time listening to the album. I think it got off on the wrong foot with me with the first song, What Happened to the Fambly Cat. It just gets on my nerves. I had high hopes because I love Sophtware Slump and Sumday to death.
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"Forum Moderator" Jedi |
I agree completely GrammaG. Really, I love all 3 Grandaddy full-lengths. The B-Side collection Concrete Dunes was pretty darn good too, as were the Signal to Snow Ratio EP and (especiallly) Through A Frosty Plate EP. I've also downloaded a bunch of rarities and unreleased songs which are pretty freaking awesome as well. I was pretty much shocked that they could release such a mediocre record.
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Apprentice Guru |
Beck - The Information
Beck is one of my favorite artists, and I've enjoyed his blending of folk, rock, hip hop, and other genres in the past. But, this collection didn't do it for me. This album just sounds like a tired white guy making some lazy rap music. Am I missing something? ________________ Fighting for peace, that's like screaming for quiet. "Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith)" - Todd Snider Peace Queer |
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Upwardly Mobile Participant |
some not so notables:
-tortoise and bpb (big time stinker) -cat power / jenny lewis (the neko case record absolutly smokes this fly by night stick-pin-cowgirl stuff) -mission of burma (decent record but runs out of steam fast) -flaming lips (ditto) |
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Guru |
Yeah, at first I was disappointed too. I came around to it though. It's a little slower and more cohesive than Guero. The sound effects are plentiful and give your ear lots of "candy" while you're listening. It's not as sad sack as Sea Change. I don't know, I think the beats are nice. I like when he's singing more than when he's rapping. I think some of his best songs are on the album (Cellphone's Dead, Dark Star, We Dance Alone), but it's also very bloated and hard to listen to all the way through. All in all I like it. Yes, I believe Beck can and will do better. |
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Slacker First Class |
Here are my 10 Most Disappointing Albums of 2006 (from least to most; but they're all disapointing). Apologies aforehand for massacring any sacred cows, which inevitably I shall:
10. Beck, "The Information" ("Strange Apparation" and a few others are fun, but the rest feels like filler. I'm glad to see a few others on this board agreeing with me. I can listen to it as background music, but it's just so loooooong!) 9. The Raconteurs, "Broken Boy Soldiers." (I saw them open for Dylan in November and their over-loud set just showed how masterful Dylan and his band are. Not a complete failure, but WAY overrated.) 8. Thom Yorke, "The Eraser." (Sorry, it's overrated. "The Eraser" is an album I can appreciate and even admire, but just not *enjoy.* I find it detached and soulless. Thom needs the band.) 7. The Flaming Lips, "At War With the Mystics." (Especially after the sublime "Yoshimi.") 6. Swan Lake, "Beast Moans." (I couldn't even make it past the 30-second clips on eMusic, and this is from someone who lists "Destroyer's Rubies" as the second-best album of the year.) 5. Belle & Sebastian, "The Life Pursuit." (Some fun, energized material here, but overlong and the songs start to sound alike after a while.) 4. Calexico, "Garden Ruin." (Another one that's more disspointing that 'overrated' per se. Yawn. And I really like Calexico, which is why it hurts me to write this.) 3. Golden Smog, "Another Fine Day." (After waiting 8 years since "Weird Tales," I had hoped for so much more.) 2. Tom Waits, "Orphans etc." (I will never understand the allure and acclaim that seems to accompany Old Gravel Larynx, even after seeing him live last year.) 1. Arctic Monkeys, "Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not" (Am I missing something? Immature and derivative. Don't believe the hype!) |
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Jedi |
Didn't you post this somewhere else? Or am I losing my mind?
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Apprentice Guru |
Haven't hear Swan Lake or Golden Smog, and just started Tom Waits, but otherwise, aside from Flaming Lips, which I personally prefer to the less muscular Yoshimi, agree with all your choices and the reasons why. |
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"Forum Moderator" Super Bad-Ass Jedi |
Completely agree with that statement about Yorke and yes the Arctic Monkey are getting lots of love for being a very mediocre band out of the U.K. You should really give Tom Waits as many chances as you can because he is one of the truly special musicians still making music today after such a long career. He isn't just riding his credibility, like a certain Bob Dylan is; he still makes consistently strong, very good albums. ----- If you don't love me, I'm sorry. |
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I understand that this is a personal list, and that these are the albums that you really think are disappointing, but in what way do you think this disappointing? I gather from your post that you have had earlier experiences of OGL (  ) and did not like them, so perhaps it is not so much the album itself as the artist that is the problem? Not that this makes the album any less disappointing for you, of course, I am just asking.For me, it is the Dylan album. I have all studio recordings, and quite a few live recordings as well, and in general, I love Dylan. The new album though, not so much. I will put it as my biggest disappointment, although there certainly are album I like much worse from this year, with artists I don't like at all (Joanna Newsome, Destroyer, Scott Walker). |
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Slacker First Class |
On Tom Waits (OGL) - Tell me what to listen to and I'm all ears. I'm willing to be a convert!
And yes, I posted this on the "Best of" list originally but no one weighed in, so I figured it belonged here instead. Thanks for the input. |
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Jedi |
I always recommend Small Change (1976) and Rain Dogs (1985), with Bone Machine (1992) added for good measure. |
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"Forum Moderator" Super Bad-Ass Jedi |
People won't always comment on lists unless they really have something to say, but don't fret, I am sure that it was looked at and people probably conjured up some thoughts, they just didn't get around to saying anything. For Tom Waits, there is so many things to recommend. To be honest, almost anything you pick up will cause you to "convert." Personally I really like Alice (which is pretty new, 2002) but you can always check out classics like Rain Dogs, Closing Time and/or Swordfishtrombones. Oh and Bone Machine is also great. ----- If you don't love me, I'm sorry. |
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Slacker First Class |
How could I have left off Paul Simon's SURPRISE from most disappointing of the year? Because it was! "Another Galaxy" was very nice, but Paul, please come back to our galaxy!
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Apprentice Guru |
I rather liked Surprise. I thought some of the highlights were "How can you live in the northeast?" "Wartime prayers" and "Outrageous" along with "Another galaxy". I especially thought that it was nice that, while other artists from the 60's and 70's were trying to reconnect with their fan base by tapping into their roots (Bob Dylan and Elton John come to mind immediately), Simon was trying something new by combining folk rock and electronica. ________________ Fighting for peace, that's like screaming for quiet. "Mission Accomplished (Because You Gotta Have Faith)" - Todd Snider Peace Queer |
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