It's probably happened to us every now and then. Have you ever been really stoked for a release from your favorite artist, only to be really disappointed with the final product? Or well, just going through their discography and discovering a turd among gems. They don't have to be shitty albums per se, but just something that stands out as being not as great among the others -- or it can be shitty. Vent if you need to. I'm all ears.
For me, I was really looking forward to Kings of Leon's Mechanical Bull back in 2013. They were building a lot of hype about the album and the drummer even said there was a song on there that 'is the love child of Crawl and Velvet Snow' which are two of my favorite tracks from them period. So needless to say, I was stoked so much in fact that I didn't even wait to get back home to go to Target to buy the album, I braved Walmart for it between classes. Did I like it? Well, yeah. I still like it. However there's something really disjointed about the whole album. It felt like quantity over quality (there are a shit ton of songs on there dude) and somewhat of a half-assed way to get back to their old sound. That's another thing, they were saying that was the aim of the album. And I should also mention their 2010 release, Come Around Sundown, was (and is, really) my favorite album of all time. Maybe the shoes were too big to fill. Maybe my expectations were too high? But it just didn't really cut it for me, aside from some really solid gems. But the album as a whole doesn't gel together. Some songs sound like they belong on a different album. Like they were leftover and didn't get released on time.
Well that's my rant on Mechanical Bull and honestly, I could say so much more -- and the thing is, I do not consider it a bad album by any means. But compared to their discography, it's the weakest. And with their recent release of WALLS, it stands out even more because WALLS is just so tight, short, and gets its point across.
I have other albums, but I'm going to save them for another post since this is already getting too long and this is just supposed to be a quick opening post...so much for that.
For me, I was really looking forward to Kings of Leon's Mechanical Bull back in 2013. They were building a lot of hype about the album and the drummer even said there was a song on there that 'is the love child of Crawl and Velvet Snow' which are two of my favorite tracks from them period. So needless to say, I was stoked so much in fact that I didn't even wait to get back home to go to Target to buy the album, I braved Walmart for it between classes. Did I like it? Well, yeah. I still like it. However there's something really disjointed about the whole album. It felt like quantity over quality (there are a shit ton of songs on there dude) and somewhat of a half-assed way to get back to their old sound. That's another thing, they were saying that was the aim of the album. And I should also mention their 2010 release, Come Around Sundown, was (and is, really) my favorite album of all time. Maybe the shoes were too big to fill. Maybe my expectations were too high? But it just didn't really cut it for me, aside from some really solid gems. But the album as a whole doesn't gel together. Some songs sound like they belong on a different album. Like they were leftover and didn't get released on time.
Well that's my rant on Mechanical Bull and honestly, I could say so much more -- and the thing is, I do not consider it a bad album by any means. But compared to their discography, it's the weakest. And with their recent release of WALLS, it stands out even more because WALLS is just so tight, short, and gets its point across.
I have other albums, but I'm going to save them for another post since this is already getting too long and this is just supposed to be a quick opening post...so much for that.
