Nice Single, Shame about the Album

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Sid James

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Have you ever heard a song and thought wow! that's amazing!

The song stayed in your head for days, you turned up the radio whenever it was on and it hell, it even made you sing in the car/bath/shower etc....

Then you hear the good news. The Band/Artist in question were releasing an album.

OMG this will be brilliant. So you hand over your hard earned, for what promises to be a "moment" in your musical experiences.

Then, and only then do you discover the truth. Every track, bar the one you like is utter utter shyte.

Have you ever made this mistake?

I have and I never seem to learn ... Imagine buying a family bag of revels and they all turn out to be coffee flavour

Anyway here's two of mine
Band : Toploader
Piece of **** Album: Oncas Big Mocha
Sparkly Carrot Song: Dancing In the Moonlight

Band : Spin Doctors
Piece of **** Album: Pocket Full of Kryptonite
Sparkly Carrot Song: Two Princes

Warning this thread may not be relevant for those members who've only ever downloaded music and never waited patiently in the queue at woolies only to get home and find you've been quite royally conned and BBC Watchdog ain't interested
 

Band: Screaming Trees.
Album: Sweet Oblivion.

Single: Nearly Lost You.

The rest was utter herion induced-pap.
 
Pretty much all popular stuff at the moment. You here a song on the radio and your like, bit of a tune, I can see why grown men want to hear Lil Wayne 'rap' in his stupid voice about how many women he's ****ed. And then when you hear the album, it has about as much substance as a smackhead in rehab.
 
Although not to the same extent. I feel that the last two albums by The Strokes have been like that, a few really good songs followed by dreary album fillers that sound like they were written and recorded in half a day.
 

Sid James said:
Ha Ha, A music thread to you and Summerskin, is like blood in the water and sharks :)

Are you saying you've never ever liked a song by an artist and thought everything else they did was crap
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Being serious now, well, no... not really.

I don't listen to the radio though, so that's probably why. Radio-friendly music these days... well an artist can release one or two killer tracks, get some radio air play, complete the rest of the album with easy filler, and then still sell copies on the back of those killer tracks.

I'm more of an album purist though; I love listening to albums in the correct order, back to back. I find new music on the strength of reviews and recommendations by friends, so that allows me to skip a lot of the crap. Generally albums with one or two good tracks and a load of rubbish get bad reviews, both from critics and from my friends!

All of that said, I suppose The All American Rejects and 30 Seconds to Mars come to mind. Two bands which make completely killer/filler split albums. 30StM have more of a 50/50 split on their albums though, whereas AAR's albums usually have one or two killer songs and then a load of tosh.

tl;dr Not often, but I've found the All American Rejects to be guilty of it.
 
This happened to me with a band called The Drums. Heard one or two really good songs from them and decided to get a few mates together and see them live, was only a tenner or so at the O2 academy next to Lime Street.

I always enjoy gigs, they're just good fun and some of the stuff was good. Since then though I don't think I've listened to any of their songs even once, and when I do hear them now I can't help but cringe a little.
 

Good musicians are more than capable of making **** albums. Bowie has, Queen have and so have The Beatles.

Anyhow,

Single. Raincloud lighthouse family.

Album. Postcard from heaven.
 

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