Bands that ultimately disappointed you.

Which bands at their start made you interested in their music and then let you down?

U2 gets much criticism here. Some deservedly so....some not. At the start of U2's career they were very much a creative talented band. Somewhere along the way the fame became the driving force instead of the music and as such they chased every shift in music trying to stay relevant. The went from alternative to adult alternative now. Yes...they can still write a good catchy song. But overall their music is uninteresting and boring. This saddens me as they had such promise in the 80's.

One other band that peaked with the first album is Pearl Jam. Though PJ is still one of my favorite bands...they haven't duplicated Ten. Still Black is a must have song for anyone's MP3 player. If you don't have it on yours.....I recommend you get it.

Anyway....which bands disappoint you and why?

Creed. Need I say more?

There are tons, but I will stick to recent memory: 1. AFI 2. Breaking Benjamin (sucked after 2nd cd) 3. Chevelle 4. Disturbed (sucked after 1st cd) 5. Evans Blue 6. Five Finger Death Punch 7. Smile Empty Soul 8. Soil 9. Three Days Grace All the bands listed, unless otherwise listed, released utter crap albums this year. -I used to like all of them BTW- My theory is that all of these bands put so much emotion, hate, and angst into their albums at the start of the careers. That is easy to have when you are a struggling musician and mad at the world. It is hard to maintain when you are a successful, wealthy musician...hate to hate when life is great That or some have just gone for the money grab Needless to say, this year is so full of disappointrawsavon

[QUOTE="rawsavon"]There are tons, but I will stick to recent memory: 1. AFI 2. Breaking Benjamin (sucked after 2nd cd) 3. Chevelle 4. Disturbed (sucked after 1st cd) 5. Evans Blue 6. Five Finger Death Punch 7. Smile Empty Soul 8. Soil 9. Three Days Grace All the bands listed, unless otherwise listed, released utter crap albums this year. -I used to like all of them BTW- My theory is that all of these bands put so much emotion, hate, and angst into their albums at the start of the careers. That is easy to have when you are a struggling musician and mad at the world. It is hard to maintain when you are a successful, wealthy musician...hate to hate when life is great That or some have just gone for the money grab Needless to say, this year is so full of disappointLJS9502_basic

True in some cases, but you can just "feel" the lack of emotion in others (emotion that was present in previous entries)...if that makes any sense -does that mean that they got "fat and happy", so to speak -or does it mean they went for a money grab...don't have the answerrawsavon

Scorpions. Easily.

Their albums as late as 1990's "Crazy World" ranged, imo, from decent to amazing.

From 1993 and onwards their albums were complete let-downs, a bunch of mediocre songs of no substance. A fortunate "break" from this situation was 2004's "Unbreakable" but they decided to become unineteresting again with 2007's "Humanity: Hour 1". Way to go Scorps. >___>

Scorpions. Easily.

Their albums as late as 1990's "Crazy World" ranged, imo, from decent to amazing.

From 1993 and onwards their albums were complete let-downs, a bunch of mediocre songs of no substance. A fortunate "break" from this situation was 2004's "Unbreakable" but they decided to become unineteresting again with 2007's "Humanity: Hour 1". Way to go Scorps. >___>

Teenaged

[QUOTE="rawsavon"] True in some cases, but you can just "feel" the lack of emotion in others (emotion that was present in previous entries)...if that makes any sense -does that mean that they got "fat and happy", so to speak -or does it mean they went for a money grab...don't have the answerLJS9502_basic

[QUOTE="Teenaged"]

Scorpions. Easily.

Their albums as late as 1990's "Crazy World" ranged, imo, from decent to amazing.

From 1993 and onwards their albums were complete let-downs, a bunch of mediocre songs of no substance. A fortunate "break" from this situation was 2004's "Unbreakable" but they decided to become unineteresting again with 2007's "Humanity: Hour 1". Way to go Scorps. >___>

LJS9502_basic

So basically.....:

1972 - 1990 = Great

1993 - now = Disappointment (with the exception of Acoustica (which is not a studio album so it doesnt really count) and Unbreakable)

Nickel Back. The repetitive tracks only changed by lyrics is soo annoying, that I stopped listening to my favorite station after they kept playing there songs ALL THE TIME.

I'd probably go with Saxon. The first song I heard by them was Killing Ground, which I thought was pretty godly. The singer wasn't too bad;a little high, but he still sounded decent for metal, and the guitar more than made up for it. Then I go look up some of their other stuff...the singer sounds like that guy from Journey,. D= These guys are supposed to be metal, and I'm not a fan of Journey's singer at ALL, so I was a little more than disappointed...D=

Deicide's latest album was dissapointing. Every song sounds the same, and the lyrics aren't satanic anymore.

Jimmy Eat World. But not quite in the sense sought in this thread.
I heard their song "Just Tonight..." years ago and I absolutely loved it and still do.

The once now I decided to check out more of their stuff only to realize they're the kind of a soft-emo-rock band. Gah..

That single song is one of my all time favourites but the rest of the band was rather disappointing.

Them Crooked Vultures right now. IMO, Josh Homme ruined it with his unclear vocals. You can't understand a word he is saying in most of the songs.Zeldafan221

The kinds of letdown...Metallica. God their last 4 albums have been horrendous and the last two are just embarrassing. :(

Pearl Jam's new album, Backspacer, is amazing. The songs are great and full of energy. Dethshoot

While I do agree that Pearl Jam Ten hasn't been re-created, and probably never will, I feel like Pearl Jam can still put out good music. Backspacer was awesome IMO.

Them Crooked Vultures right now. IMO, Josh Homme ruined it with his unclear vocals. You can't understand a word he is saying in most of the songs.Zeldafan221

To stay on topic: I was quite disapointed with Muse's album this year, although they redeemed themselves somewhat when I went to see them live.

Soilrawsavon

Jimmy Eat World. But not quite in the sense sought in this thread.

I heard their song "Just Tonight..." years ago and I absolutely loved it and still do.

The once now I decided to check out more of their stuff only to realize they're the kind of a soft-emo-rock band. Gah..-eddy-

Anyway, my vote goes to Linkin Park. They were great with Hybrid Theory and Meteora, but changed their sound and totally turned me off to them.

Cryptopsy and Dissection are probably my biggest disappoints.

There are tons, but I will stick to recent memory: 1. AFI 2. Breaking Benjamin (sucked after 2nd cd) 3. Chevelle 4. Disturbed (sucked after 1st cd) 5. Evans Blue 6. Five Finger Death Punch 7. Smile Empty Soul 8. Soil 9. Three Days Grace All the bands listed, unless otherwise listed, released utter crap albums this year. -I used to like all of them BTW- My theory is that all of these bands put so much emotion, hate, and angst into their albums at the start of the careers. That is easy to have when you are a struggling musician and mad at the world. It is hard to maintain when you are a successful, wealthy musician...hate to hate when life is great That or some have just gone for the money grab Needless to say, this year is so full of disappointrawsavon

3 Days Grace opened for the Foo Fighters, they were very enjoyable live, I was very suprised

Radiohead has dissapointed me with their latest offerings.

Days Grace opened for the Foo Fighters, they were very enjoyable live, I was very suprised

Anarchy4hire82

Their 1st 2 albums were good, just this last one that sucked so bad.
They were excellent when I saw them live as well...but they had not blown up yet...performed before about 100 people in a bar in Lubbock, Texas

I was so excited when I heard Billy Corgan and Jimmy Chamberlain would be teaming up with Paz Lenchantin and David Pajo to form a supergroup. What went wrong was that Zwan turmed out to be crap. I never quite worked out whether the Christian rock angle was tongue in cheek, but if it was, the irony went over my head. I'm still reeling from that one.

Deicide's latest album was dissapointing. Every song sounds the same, and the lyrics aren't satanic anymore.

dracula_16

There are tons, but I will stick to recent memory: 1. AFI 2. Breaking Benjamin (sucked after 2nd cd) 3. Chevelle 4. Disturbed (sucked after 1st cd) 5. Evans Blue 6. Five Finger Death Punch 7. Smile Empty Soul 8. Soil 9. Three Days Grace All the bands listed, unless otherwise listed, released utter crap albums this year. -I used to like all of them BTW- My theory is that all of these bands put so much emotion, hate, and angst into their albums at the start of the careers. That is easy to have when you are a struggling musician and mad at the world. It is hard to maintain when you are a successful, wealthy musician...hate to hate when life is great That or some have just gone for the money grab Needless to say, this year is so full of disappointrawsavon

Really, I consider Dear Agony the best album Breaking Benjamin has released and One X still the best 3DG has released, different strokes I suppose, I agree on AFI, their latest CD was quite disappointing.

[QUOTE="dracula_16"]

Deicide's latest album was dissapointing. Every song sounds the same, and the lyrics aren't satanic anymore.

aaronmullan

I liked Modest Mouse back when they were on K Records and Up Records, and I didn't mind their first album with Sony, but everything after Moon and Antarctica has been garbage in my ears.

[QUOTE="rawsavon"]There are tons, but I will stick to recent memory: 1. AFI 2. Breaking Benjamin (sucked after 2nd cd) 3. Chevelle 4. Disturbed (sucked after 1st cd) 5. Evans Blue 6. Five Finger Death Punch 7. Smile Empty Soul 8. Soil 9. Three Days Grace All the bands listed, unless otherwise listed, released utter crap albums this year. -I used to like all of them BTW- My theory is that all of these bands put so much emotion, hate, and angst into their albums at the start of the careers. That is easy to have when you are a struggling musician and mad at the world. It is hard to maintain when you are a successful, wealthy musician...hate to hate when life is great That or some have just gone for the money grab Needless to say, this year is so full of disappointsensfanVone

Really, I consider Dear Agony the best album Breaking Benjamin has released and One X still the best 3DG has released, different strokes I suppose, I agree on AFI, their latest CD was quite disappointing.

The Mars Volta.
All of their albums (even Amputechture) were 10/10s, but Octahedron was a 9/10.

OMER BETRAYED US BRING BACK JON ROBBLE ROBBLE ROBBLE. jaydough

The Human Abstract: They put out an AMAZING debute with Nocturne, but then it comes out their incredible guitarist, AJ Minette, is leaving as he simply does not want to play metal anymore. Their follow-up, Midheaven, was then just a big dissapointment.

Drowning Pool: This one is understandable. They debuted with Sinner which was great, but then their singer Dave Williams died and it has become apparent that Williams was what made that band. He was a great vocalist and it seems he was also responsible for their nu-metal sound which they ditched after he was gone.

Earshot: Their first two albums are great all-the-way through. Their latest however only had a couple songs that caught my attention.

[QUOTE="jaydough"] The Mars Volta.
All of their albums (even Amputechture) were 10/10s, but Octahedron was a 9/10.

OMER BETRAYED US BRING BACK JON ROBBLE ROBBLE ROBBLE. Darth-Caedus

Smashing Pumpkins - First 3 albums were all incredible, but not a huge fan of much after that. a couple of songs from Adore were good though.

Radiohead has dissapointed me with their latest offerings.

fiscope

Don't laugh but I liked Green Day, All-American Rejects, and even Fall Out Boy *gasp* Green Day had some decent older music and at the time I loved American Idiot, but thier new album is crap and I now I realize they get much more attention than they deserve, which I guess goes for most bands that appear on MTV nowadays...SoNin360

[QUOTE="SoNin360"]Don't laugh but I liked Green Day, All-American Rejects, and even Fall Out Boy *gasp* Green Day had some decent older music and at the time I loved American Idiot, but thier new album is crap and I now I realize they get much more attention than they deserve, which I guess goes for most bands that appear on MTV nowadays...C-Lee