RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Media Disappointed

I just bought an album that has a fantastic pedigree. Musically, it's everything I look for in a post-punk rock band. It's produced by Matt Talbot, lead singer/guitarist for one of my favorite bands, Hum, as well as a pretty good new band called Centaur.

On top of it all is a huge underlying science fiction theme throughout the album, the music, the artwork and lyrics (music, it seems, is the only way I can stomach sci-fi).

They're called Hopesfall, and by God I was excited to listen to this thing.

Then I heard the "singer".

Definitely of the hardcore/death metal variety, which if you hear the actual music, makes you wonder how the fuck it fits together. I play the first track and am confronted with this earsore. I cringe, and attempt to make my way through it. I can't.

Track two, again, starts off musically superior to everything on mainstream FM rock radio. There's a new singer. Excitement builds. He's got a nice smooth voice.

Then he goes away, and MonkeyRaper returns to turn my brains to ooze.

Needless to say, the rest of the album pretty much follows this formula.



So.

What albums do you have that you regretted buying the instant you heard it?

Jewel

on the videos she sounded nice and upbeat but on the cd the same songs are sung with only a guitar sounding like country music garbage with the beat you would play on a funeral. cant remember any more disapointments.

The second albums by Sven Gali & Wildside were both pure shit!
They both had fantastic old school 80s sounding hair metal debut albums but followed them up with grunge style shite which wasnt even good grunge!
Needless to say neither released a third album!

Back in the 80s, when I was a wee lad buying tapes with my allowance, I bought a particular album by a band that today would fit the category of "hair-metal". I had heard their first single on the radio and liked it. Then I heard the name of the band. Though I was young (somewhere in my early-teens) the band's name struck a chord. It had a pedigree - I knew that with a name like that the album had to be great...

The band? Bonham (Yes, named after Jason Bonham, drummer and son of John Bonham - yes, THAT John Bonham). The album? The Disregard Of Timekeeping.

I listened to this album. Then, when the tape was over, I took it out of my boom-box, took it into the backyard, and smashed the shit out of it with a hammer. It was awful. Screechy and crappy. Without any artistic merit. The blatant cashing-in of a name.

I went into a rap-phase soon after. But I created a rule called the "Bonham Law", which goes like this:

1) No album will be bought unless there are at least three track heard and deemed good.

2) If the singles heard on the radio or seen on MTV are the very first ones on the album/CD OR are grouped together one directly after the other, the album requires further investigation.

3) No album will be bought on name recognition alone. Children of geniuses rarely turn out to be geniuses themselves. Elijah Blue, Sean Lennon, and Jason Bonham are great examples.

Yeah, me too. I steal music because I'm angry at what they did to Mr. Nobody.

I think everyone should be angry at anything bad that happens to me. The world would be a better place if my anger was all-encompassing.

Yes I am angry for things that have happened to you.
I am angry that you were born,for instance!

Dad?

...but I thought nowhereman was my dad!!!

Damn it, do you mean to tell me Nobody and I are brothers?

...does that mean I can link my band's website on Nobody.sh?

I'm not sure what I was thinking when I bought '40 More Reasons To Hate Us' by Anal Cunt. The songs had amusing titles but most of them are about 30 seconds long and sound identical to one another. There are some good tracks - 'I Noticed That Your Gay' and a couple of others - but three good songs out 42 is a poor strike rate.

And why did no one stop me from buying 'Metal Machine Music' by Lou Reed - One hour and four seconds of grating white noise.