In the world of music taste, quite often disappointments arise that you just wish didn’t happen. In some cases it may be an artist simply not producing enough such is the case with
Driftwood, whose music whilst only producing few songs was brilliant. In some cases you’ll download a song by an artist and think hey, this is really good, I’ll download more, only to find that all there other songs are unappealing to you and not as good as the first song you downloaded. This is the case with
Novaspace whose remake of Time After Time was very good, and other songs of theirs just weren’t up to standard. In some cases a long time artist stops releasing music and has periods where they don’t bring anything out for a long time such as
Metallica, who have brought out one album this decade. In other cases artists can change their style and never be as good as they used to be such is the case with
Robert Miles, whose early instrumental piano work was changed significantly with dominant lyrics.
However, all things said these four artists are not even in my top big disappointments, so these five artists have created the biggest disappointments for me.
5.
Silverchair
In the early days of Silverchair they were fantastic and quite an angry and expressive style of rock, then what happens? Someone called
Paul Mac comes along and all of a sudden they turn into happy pop music. Sure, this happy pop music can be good, but is it Silverchair as we know it? In my opinion, no.
4.
Linkin Park
After the first two Linkin Park albums, the
Jay-Z collaboration and Mike Shinoda’s offshoot project
Fort Minor all being brilliant, I was one of the many rushing to the stores to claim my copy of
Minutes To Midnight especially after liking the different but great release song What I’ve Done. However, when I started listening to it and reading the cover they talk about reinventing themselves as a group and their new album definitely sounds different in a bad way. It’s not the Linkin Park, people are used to unfortunately.
3.
The Rasmus
After being thoroughly impressed with all three of The Rasmus’ English release albums
Into,
Dead Letters and
Hide From The Sun, I was searching for some of their older stuff, which is very rare outside of Finland. Then one day I find a copy of
Hell of a Collection which is a collection of their greatest tracks before Into, however I was unimpressed. The style is substantially different with even in some cases jazzy style music and not one song that compares to the great songs from the three later albums. Had this been the other way around, with an album after the three albums I previously owned of that quality, The Rasmus would’ve been number 1 of this chart.
2.
Basement Jaxx
Basement Jaxx was one of the first bands that changed my focus on music from chart rubbish, to my current tastes. With brilliant songs like Where’s Your Head At?, Red Alert, Plug It In and a string of great releases, I was shocked when I heard the first single off their most recent album
Crazy Itch Radio, Hush Boy and then following on from this Take Me Back To Your House, both these and all other songs I’ve heard off this album have disappointed me massively as its simply nothing short of rubbish compared to their past.
1.
Gouryella
Gouryella definitely has not disappointed me with their releases of Gouryella, Walhalla, Tenshi and Ligaya as well as the various lyrical versions, but was the combination of
Dj Tiesto and
Ferry Corsten too good to be true? Four fantastic songs and no further work makes this the number one disappointment.
I really hope I’m proven wrong on these disappointments, but always in the music world with every enjoyment can come disappointments unfortunately.