Albums You're Not Digging

aliciacc · 07-13-2011, 03:22 PM

Vampire Weekend Contra. After loving their first album off, I onlyliked a few songs off Contra, even though it had the same sound.

Also I wish I liked Ty Segall's Goodbye Bread more, but I am just NOT feeling it.

~~killcreek~~ · 07-15-2011, 04:07 AM

alice cooper goes to hell

Blarobbarg · 07-15-2011, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by killcreek

alice cooper goes to hell

Listen to it a few times, it's a grower.

Although the song "You Gotta Dance" isn't very good, and comes outta no-fricken-where.

PoolGuy · 07-15-2011, 04:34 PM

The new Silversun Pickups album. One good song, the rest is pretty ehhh.

Zer0 · 07-15-2011, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by PoolGuy

The new Silversun Pickups album. One good song, the rest is pretty ehhh.

It's hardly new if it was released over 2 years ago.

LoathsomePete · 07-19-2011, 06:20 PM

Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See (2011)

Maybe it's a grower, but after my first listen I was pretty less than thrilled. The only song that really stood out was "Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair" and the rest just kind of blurred together into an incomprehensible haze until it ended. Maybe this is a "laying down and listening to it with headphones" type of album, but that just seems backwards for the Arctic Monkeys who have always been energetic and exciting. I'm beginning to get a little worried for them now, this is two albums in a row that failed to enthrall me in the same way that their debut and their magnum opus Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007) did, but at least Humbug (2009) held my attention and did its best to fuse their debut and FWN together into something that pleased both factions. Suck It and See (2011) just seemed to piddle about not really doing anything or showing any growth in the band as musicians or songwriters. At this point in time I think it's time to shelve the Arctic Monkeys and put out a new Last Shadow Puppets album Alex.

TockTockTock · 07-19-2011, 06:57 PM

To be honest... I've always thought of The Arctic Monkeys as being a fad. They have always struck me as simply being an average-sounding indie rock band who happen to get a lot of hype from music critics.

LoathsomePete · 07-19-2011, 07:05 PM

I certainly wouldn't totally disagree with that statement, I definitely think the band kind of earned a free pass for their next few albums after how big they got with their debut. Still I think that they really tried to grow up and evolve their sound on Favourite Worst Nightmare and were met with a lot of fan backlash that forced them to compromise that evolution for pumping out another album like Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006). Stuck between a rock and a hard place.

jackhammer · 07-19-2011, 07:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Jack Pat

To be honest... I've always thought of The Arctic Monkeys as being a fad. They have always struck me as simply being an average-sounding indie rock band who happen to get a lot of hype from music critics.

They have suffered from this countries need to jump on anything new and play/praise them to death so the hype is rarely justified and everything else the band release just seems like another disappointment. However this is usually proved correct with each Arctic Monkeys album being worse than the previous. I think I have played their last album Humbug twice at the most whereas their debut (although not musically original) DID have a youthful exuberance and quality hooks that still merits a listen.

I usually find the bands that grow into a musical maturity and find their identity over a couple albums more preferable to a band that doesn't think beyond their debut album although in the fickle nature of popular music it is is just enough to get an album out I guess.

**Janszoon** · 07-19-2011, 11:01 PM

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Originally Posted by LoathsomePete

Suck It and See

Maybe it's a grower...

Is it wrong that I found this combination of text hilarious?

07-15-2011, 04:34 PM	#304 (permalink)
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LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	Arctic Monkeys - Suck It and See (2011) Maybe it's a grower, but after my first listen I was pretty less than thrilled. The only song that really stood out was "Don't Sit Down 'Cause I've Moved Your Chair" and the rest just kind of blurred together into an incomprehensible haze until it ended. Maybe this is a "laying down and listening to it with headphones" type of album, but that just seems backwards for the Arctic Monkeys who have always been energetic and exciting. I'm beginning to get a little worried for them now, this is two albums in a row that failed to enthrall me in the same way that their debut and their magnum opus Favourite Worst Nightmare (2007) did, but at least Humbug (2009) held my attention and did its best to fuse their debut and FWN together into something that pleased both factions. Suck It and See (2011) just seemed to piddle about not really doing anything or showing any growth in the band as musicians or songwriters. At this point in time I think it's time to shelve the Arctic Monkeys and put out a new Last Shadow Puppets album Alex. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

07-19-2011, 07:05 PM	#308 (permalink)
LoathsomePete Cardboard Box Realtor Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Hobb's End Posts: 7,648	I certainly wouldn't totally disagree with that statement, I definitely think the band kind of earned a free pass for their next few albums after how big they got with their debut. Still I think that they really tried to grow up and evolve their sound on Favourite Worst Nightmare and were met with a lot of fan backlash that forced them to compromise that evolution for pumping out another album like Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006). Stuck between a rock and a hard place. __________________ Last.FM 101 Albums That May Not Change Your Life, But I Really Like And You Might Too

07-13-2011, 03:22 PM	#301 (permalink)
aliciacc Groupie Join Date: Jun 2011 Posts: 8	Vampire Weekend Contra. After loving their first album off, I onlyliked a few songs off Contra, even though it had the same sound. Also I wish I liked Ty Segall's Goodbye Bread more, but I am just NOT feeling it.

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07-19-2011, 06:57 PM	#307 (permalink)
TockTockTock They/Them Join Date: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,914	To be honest... I've always thought of The Arctic Monkeys as being a fad. They have always struck me as simply being an average-sounding indie rock band who happen to get a lot of hype from music critics.