Dave Matthews Band - Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux King Late of the Pier - Fantasy Black Channel Matt & Kim - Grand John Frusciante - The Empyrean Peter Doherty - Waste/Graceland
This is easily the worst album Ive heard this year. It utterly lacks any kind of personality. It was so jaw droppingly bad that I listened to it the whole way through. Usually when I absolutly hate an album I give it about half a listen and I'm content to let it go. I just kept going with this one though, hoping that it was some kind of joke or satire and some level of humor would reveal its self. No such luck. Just an awful album.
Originally posted by golly_g_wiz: Most Dissapointing: Dan Deacon - Bromst
I saw him live last night and was, surprisingly and disappointingly, bored. I've heard really phenomenal things about his live show, and maybe I just had my expectations too high, but I didn't find it to be anything really amazing - essentially just a (very contained) rave with bits of audience participation here and there. Of course, it probably didn't help that I was right next to the Dan Deacon 16-year-old fanboys who were flinging themselves around without any consideration to anyone else.
Anyways, back on topic. It's maybe not the worst album of the year, but the certainly the most disappointing has been High On Jackson Hill, by Immaculate Machine. I wasn't expecting miracles, but Fables is just so good. Not only does the new album lose every scrap of energy and enthusiasm they previously had, it also sounds like it was recorded in a dorm room. AND Kathryn Calder only sings on 1 1/2 songs. I find her voice to be really lovely, and shoving her to the background was a grave mistake.
Posts: 149 | Location: Portland, OR | Registered: 30 November 2008
I saw Dan Deacon a year ago and was totally perplexed. This was before Bromst came out and I wasn't much of a fan of Spiderman of the Rings. I don't even know why I went. Anyways, he played some spaz music, then turned on all the lights, made everyone line up around the room (he played at a conference room at my university) then had people one by one run circles around the room, high-fiving people, which meant that they had to run also, until everyone was just running in a circle while he played more spaz music.
Interesting, not for me.
Posts: 117 | Location: Pasadena, CA | Registered: 24 September 2008
A classic case of a band stripping away everything that made them great and churning out the most beige, instantly forgettable dirge of the year. I don't want an album by a Spoon-tribute band, I want a White Rabbit's album.
Oh come now. The album is far more ambitious than American Idiot, has songs that are instantly more catchy (not to mention maybe the catchiest songs of the year), and holds together well as an album. The lyrics sag in some places, and a few of the songs are completely unnecessary, but it's still great for a mainstream record. To compare it to a hugely popular album from last year, it blows Viva La Vida out of the water, for sure.
Yeah the new Green Day is pretty good. If I have one complaint its that the album is a little too long, but whats there is all pretty uniformly excellent in terms of song writing.
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Posts: 557 | Location: Michigan | Registered: 27 February 2008
I happen to be standing with David Fricke and Rob Sheffield from Rolling Stone on this one: 21st Century Breakdown is Green Day's best album.
I agree with you though, LoS. The album could have stood to lose a few tracks. The final stretch of songs on the album really kills though (from "Horseshoes & Handgrenades" on, really)
