...by an artist or band you loved despite your high expectations for it?


Ratt's Out Of The Cellar was one of my favorite pop-metal albums in 1983 and I waited patiently with high hopes for their follow-up Invasion Of Your Privacy which came out about a year and a half later....

I remember feeling so cheated because it was so disappointing in comparison except for perhaps one song (Lay It Down). At the time I just couldn't understand how this could have happened. For the most part, what a let down.


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i'll say that since 2000 it's been the waxwings "shadows of the waxwings" and everthing else since.

the stone roses.second coming

and before swiateck yells at me, no...it's not bad by any means. it was just a HUGE letdown for me after waiting 5 years for a follow up to the "record that changed my life".

i loved "invasion..."

Stone Roses - Second Coming

Kinda the archetypical shitty followup from my teen years.

probably pearl jam's vitalogy. for some reason it just didn't grab me like their first two records, which had been on constant rotation throughout my 5th and 6th grade career.
but the biggest disappointment for me was weezer's green album. such a half assed glossy crap pile of an album. it's hard to remember how high expectations were in those few years between pinkerton and green, when their only output was a respectable cover of "velouria" on that pixies tribute record. with rivers sucking it up more on each subsequent album, it gets more embarassing to admit my adolescent devotion to that creepy pederast.

yeah, Low to the Ground was pretty much perfect, so it was pretty impossible to improve on that.

Also, Ice Cube's Lethal Injection..though I grew to love it, songs like "Cave Bitch" are only good in the funny/ironic/I love Black Power sense...

There are probably 100 rap albums that fit this bill, tho...

I think this is the best example. I actually like the Second Coming, so it wasn't absolutely disappointing, but it was relative to their debut.

I can only think of () by Sigur Ros and Walking with Thee by Clinic. I'm sure there are others, but those are the groups that I bought their first major release and was disappointed by the second one.

I can't remember the first, but The Cure's last album was really disappointing considering how much I love Bloodflowers.

Can't forget Medulla either.

Huey Lewis and the News - Small World

it was ok, but didn't have as many great songs.

Pearl Jam, Vs.

SP, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Crapness, which would have been greatly improved if it had been culled to a single disc.

Oh yeah, this would be my other choice. As a single disc this would have been fantastic. Speaking of which, I should cull it down for the ipod and make it so.

stylus ran a playing god feature on mellon collie awhile ago that made it into a pretty decent single album. as for myself, i guess ive never really been dissapointed, but the closest ive come was our lady peace's second album. i was a huge fan of their first album(and still am, for that matter), but they went way to poppy for their second and watered it down far too much for my taste.

Air.10,000 Hz Legend fits this category for me as well.

I LOVE that album!

I'm not sure what was the first, but these were three of my biggest disappointments:

for me this was one of the bigger ones, and eventually led to an exile of this band until a few months ago for me. I now am kind of mad at myself that I wrote them off so easily and missed out on some high points in their career.

i am probably going to catch heat from this but....

Kid A then even worse Amnesiac

I happen to disagree, but don't think you are completely wrong and understand where you are coming from. I actually thought Hail to The Thief was a little more of a disappointment for me. Amnesiac is a really weak album, but I think the best tracks on it are better than the best on Hail to The Thief.

I gotta go way back to bands like Scritti Politti and A Flock Of Seagulls to answer this ol' question. Probably further if I thought about it harder.

I actually spent more time with Kid A and Amnesiac than with Ok Computer. Its true. Not that I didn't like OK Computer, it just didn't rock me like it did to others. Late bloomer perhaps. HttT was a pretty big dissappointment, although perhaps not RH's fault. I was onboard (unfortunately) when the leak happened of the unmixed tracks came out and listened to it constantly for like 2 wks and was spent on it by the time it came out. Reason #21382 why I don't dl album prior to release.

i'm going to assume that i didn't need to have (bought) the 1st album upon hearing the 2nd. if so, then i'll say "go on..." by mr mister, again showing how lame of tastes i had back in the day.

the bends and ok computer are unfuckwitable STELLAR albums....now that i think about it - how can one really top those albums to begin with.

but going from ok computer to kid a was a big leap downward