Most Disappointing Albums of 2005

Re: Most Disappointing Albums of 2005 December 29, 2005 at 06:55 PM UTC #

Originally posted by kosmo vinyl:

Originally posted by Sir HC:

Originally posted by Barcelona:
Got the Bloc Party album the other day and my first reaction after listening to it one time is that it is pretty boring. Now, I need to listen to it a couple more times before sending it to the trash. I remember the first time I listened to a Pogues song, A Pair of Brown Eyes, I couldn't understand how people could like it (now I am flying 2500 miles to see them in DC).
Give it some more listens. I am beginning to like it after intitially having the same reaction as you. My biggest gripe is that the album is so heavily compressed, the vocals are way too in your face like the Red Hot Chili Peppers.
the production on this record is being to annoy me, the frantic playing just sounds contrived, live they loosely up a bit which is why the band will be worth further listens. i actually like the remix album in part because the vocals are a bit more subdued on it.

the more i think about it, other than "16 Military Wives" and "The Sporting Life" the new Decemberists just wasn't that compelling. My current tops of 2005 would definitely be revised by the end of next year.

Funny I had to get over the production to listen to it. It reminds me of one of the guys who works at Phase studios talking about a band who he recorded. After they got the thing mastered, it was so compressed and squashed out that he was bummed, made him sound like he couldn't record.