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I saw Deep Purple a month ago and they played one or two of the tracks off it.
The disappointing one for me has been any of them from any incarnation of the band which doesn't feature Ritchie Blackmore... I've really tried to like the Tommy Bolin one and I just don't. Steve Morse is a great player but it just isn't Deep Purple.
On a similar theme - The Eagles, Long Road Out Of Eden. Without Don Felder - oddly, since he was never one of the main songwriters or vocalists, and wasn't actually the most 'rock' oriented member either - they went from being the definitive West Coast band to a third-rate country-rock band overnight.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Funnily enough, Steve Morse has been in Deep Purple longer than Ritchie Blackmore was; I really enjoyed the gig I went to last year.
Blackmore's playing could be a bit hit and miss; some of the Rainbow stuff was dire, though he did a decent job as Dio's backing band, and he's now running his own tribute act.
I loved (still do) their earlier albums up to Green, but they just seemed to throw in the indie-towel and go for hit singles. A few good things since then but largely 'meh'.
Took a few years before I finally got what it was all about.
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My own biggest disappointment: "One Way Ticket to Hell ...and Back" by The Darkness. Permission to Land was, and still is, one of my favourite rock albums ever. Their followup was the biggest flop. It flopped faster than an undercooked pancake!
Other notable disappointments include Dream Theater's "The Astonishing" (astonishingly boring!), MUSE's "The Resistance" coming off the back of Absolution/Black Holes...
Absolution and Black Holes are not even in the same universe! I never got The Resistance but it must be truly dire.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
Another band I've got a box set of is Status Quo; I find them utterly boring too.
Most disappointing albums - the second Kooks album was truely abysmal
REM - New Adventures In Hi-Fi
Arcade Fire's newest one
Spandau Ballet - Diamond. And every album after it.
The first one, Journeys To Glory, is a masterpiece of dark New Romantic electro-pop. Then they became a crap blue-eyed soul band...
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein