Biggest letdown?

[Liam]

It can be CD, DVD, Film, whatever basically....

What has been the biggest letdown for you, entertainment wise? Maybe it was a CD you'd been waiting for for months, and it was wasn't very good? A film that looked great from the trailers but sucked much arse upon viewing? Etc etc, yadda yadda, you invent the scenarios....

Mine has to be (at the risk of some people's wrath) Reuben "Very Fast, Very Dangerous" off the top of my head. I love "Racecar is Racecar Backwards", and finally picked up "VFVD" and was just totally underwhelmed. It is alright, but yeah....just a big letdown considering what I'd hoped for.

I'll add more once I've had a thought about it.

[probablyoliver]

Mine has to be (at the risk of some people's wrath) Reuben "Very Fast, Very Dangerous" off the top of my head. I love "Racecar is Racecar Backwards", and finally picked up "VFVD" and was just totally underwhelmed. It is alright, but yeah....just a big letdown considering what I'd hoped for.

Fuck you, Liam. Fuck you in your big, fat, nigger loving ass. Uncool man, just uncool.

"OK Computer" by Radiohead has to be mine. It's been voted as the best album ever many a time, and so when I finally got it last Christmas I was extremely annoyed by the fact that I found it to be one of their weakest albums. It's got it's moments but it's dull, and is nowhere near the awesomeness of Kid A or the Bends. Just an all round disapointment that almost put me to sleep when I listened to it!

[Liam]

Mine has to be (at the risk of some people's wrath) Reuben "Very Fast, Very Dangerous" off the top of my head. I love "Racecar is Racecar Backwards", and finally picked up "VFVD" and was just totally underwhelmed. It is alright, but yeah....just a big letdown considering what I'd hoped for.

Fuck you, Liam. Fuck you in your big, fat, nigger loving ass. Uncool man, just uncool.

"OK Computer" by Radiohead has to be mine. It's been voted as the best album ever many a time, and so when I finally got it last Christmas I was extremely annoyed by the fact that I found it to be one of their weakest albums. It's got it's moments but it's dull, and is nowhere near the awesomeness of Kid A or the Bends. Just an all round disapointment that almost put me to sleep when I listened to it!

But it doesn't hold a candle to the first album, and I've wanted to get it for quite a while, so the mixture of the two just is too much for me.

Oh, and The Bends > OK Computer by a long shot for me, but I know that OK Computer is THE Radiohead album for many.

[Pesci]

Hmm... Probably Elephant by The White Stripes back when I was a decent person who bought music.

I heard Seven Nation Army and just thought it was the best thing ever, then a few of my mates went on and on about how awesome Elephant was, but when I got it at Christmas I was astonished at how much I hated it. Seven Nation Army was the only good song, and everything else sucked copious amounts of cock.

That's the reason I acquire my music through other means these days.

[tristy]

With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails.

Reznor went from masterpieces like The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, to a paint-by-numbers generic rock radio record.

It's disappointing.

[Liam]

With Teeth by Nine Inch Nails.

Reznor went from masterpieces like The Downward Spiral and The Fragile, to a paint-by-numbers generic rock radio record.

It's disappointing.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't like With Teeth. I just found it tedious and boring. Some of my NIN fan mates thought it was one of the best of 2005....shocking.

[fineintent]

Lostprophets - Start Something. Loved the first album, saw them live around 5 times between 2000 and 2004/5, then they released a really underwhelming follow-up. A couple of nice songs, but its over-produced and too focused on the American/comercial market.

And they all have shit hair now.

[Summers]

A few of the songs off of With Teeth are great, whereas overall, it was certaintly dissapointing.

[YI]

Mine has to be (at the risk of some people's wrath) Reuben "Very Fast, Very Dangerous" off the top of my head. I love "Racecar is Racecar Backwards", and finally picked up "VFVD" and was just totally underwhelmed. It is alright, but yeah....just a big letdown considering what I'd hoped for.

[K]

I really like Start Something. The first half is awesome.

[Fanku Kaibutsu]

Gorrillaz' Demon Days. The first Gorrilaz CD was amazing, I thought, and the single for Demon Days was really good. The problem was, that was the only good sound on the whole CD. All the other songs sound like they were made by an 8 year old with a "My First Synthesizer" kit.

[John Stones' Paint Trophy]

Probably Arctic Monkeys. If only because I had been listening to the demos all of the year before and I expected things to be a little different for the album whereas I had heard every song already and a lot of songs lost their energy.

[therockbox]

Anything by the Lostprophets, I loved Shinobi vs. Dragon Ninja and The Fake Sound of Progress but I can't think of anything else of their's I've not been bored to tears by.

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[VerbalPuke]

Probably when I was in 8th grade, it was Korn's Follow the Leader. I got it for Christmas expecting a pretty good album, and I ended up hating it. I should have known since I had never been a fan of them, and probably never will be. That was a letdown.

Minor Threat in general has been a letdown, especially after people suck their ass and claim them to be a great punk band. They're boring straight edge fucks, and the music isn't much for capturing my imagination.

[Guest Josef Stallion]

Black Label Society "Mafia"

I liked it at first but after a while it was just, blah..

[That Guy Mikey]

The Ducky Boys "War Back Home" was such a let-down after their previous cd "Three Chords and the Truth"

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Resident Evil movie

Amusing enough but really it COULD have been very good indeed.

[Bob Roberts]

I guess the obvious choice here would be "The Spaghetti Incident?"

Also I'd go with "10,000 days".

[Turbo Yannis]

If live shows count, The Academy Is live was a huge letdown.

[Steeb]

10,000 Days

Get Behind Me Satan

Popaganda

All of those are/were massive disappointments for me.

On the other hand, I think 'Start Something' is far superior to their debut, and that 'With Teeth' is a generally quality album.