Comments on: Explaining My Disappointment

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 04:54:17 +0000

dude the long blondes broke up because the guitarist had a stroke and can’t play guitar anymore…

By: jjazznola

jjazznola — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 08:22:22 +0000

Except for maybe The Verve, I wouldn’t have thought any of these cd’s would be very good. Ryan Adams continues to get more boring with each release. How many Dead/Neil Young ripoffs can he put out? CSS - are you kidding me? There is plenty of great Brazilian music, just not them! Primal Scream ran out of gas years ago. The Breeders are and always have been very overated and I love Kim Deal but you could fit all their decent songs on one cd. The Black Kids: don’t believe the hype! Same goes for Nas. Bauhaus, whose music I grew up with, stunk the last time I saw them a few years back. You’re right - I was thinking I would have rather been at a Love & Rockets show. And Kanye West just plain sucks. There is plenty of great music out there. Look past pop/rock/hip hop and indie and you’ll find it.

By: mike

mike — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:52:17 +0000

I flew to London from CA to see the Verve reunion at the roundhouse and it was amazing. The band seemed into it. The crowd was nutzo and I cried (I would like to blame it on jetlag and alcohol abuse but I think it was hearing “On our own” with Nick and Richard merely ten feet away). So going through all of that my expectations were bound to be let down.The album is a beefed up Ashcroft solo album. A little spacier and wankier but in the end just bland. A descent pop record for me, an aging britrocker. In ten years time Richard will do a covers album of sixities and seventies hits dressed in a suit lounged over a comfortable chair. “Tricky dick sings the hits”and we will all ask maybe he will sing Al Green or Sam Cooke but instead we get The Monkees and ABBA. I’m not saying they had ever changed the face of music but they were solid and made some great tunes.Not to mention a pretty good group of hair.

20. G n r had one great album and some decent covers. Who cares if Axl was to release a loop of badger farts? Again who cares?

19. The Black Kids, they fit the indie mold, young, unexperienced but well influenced. Their early recordings were good enough to be noticed and bad enough to be fun but when gussied up in some slick production it just strips the fun out and focuses in on their mediocrity. Too bad.

Now I can speed up a bit: 18:Firemen, who cares? 17:Weezer, at this point, If you still have any expectations, you sir, are braver than I.

16.NAS, ehhh shrugs shoulders.
15.Bahaus, GO AWAY.
Nevermind, I guess the only other one I looked forward too was The Breeders. I actually enjoyed Title TK and this one sort of came off like its junkie little sister who’s to depressed to get her sh*t together. Sound familiar. I feel the same way with them as you do the mars volta. Kinda cool BUT NEVER AS COOOOOOL!!!!

By: holmes

holmes — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:01:53 +0000

agree with you on most of the list, especially with the breeders’ inclusion. i never thought i’d dislike a kim deal album but it finally happened. i tried really hard to like it, but it just wouldn’t come to me. here’s hoping the flop paves the way for a new pixies album.

i will disagree with you on metallica, though. i expected such little out of the band that gave us that awful “some kind of monster” DVD. seriously, this band was really set to implode. instead, they gave their fans what they wanted - a metal record filled with 10 minute songs that have kirk’s solos back and are crammed with tons of complex riffs. it’s by no means perfect, but they did exactly what weezer has yet to do: they pleased their stalewart fans.

By: John Rosa

John Rosa — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 16:02:50 +0000

I agree with the Albert Hammond Jr. Record 100%. The band sounds like a pre ‘Is This It’ Strokes with the addition of an unnecessary guitar player.

You could have included the Subways on here. I thought the first album was fantastic but their newest was lacking. Just more of the same but not as good. Kind of what happened to The Vines, although i do think “Melodia” could be on a list for Top 20 “Surprisingly Pretty Good” Albums of the year.