Disappointing Albums of 2012


So far (in the order of disappointment) from Jan 1, 2012 - Jun 10, 2012 are:

1. Great Lake Swimmers - New Wild Everywhere
2. Kathleen Edwards - Voyageur
3. Lucero - (giving up on these guys after this debacle. This one is way worse than "1372 Overton Park")
4. Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Americana (Comparing it to NEW MULTITUDES beautiful interpretations of unpublished WG songs these "re-interpretations" sound less like new interpretations and more like Neil just droning on singing the songs we all (american kids) hated to sing (speaking for myself).
5. Bruce Springsteen - Wrecking Ball (time to take a break Boss. Last 3 albums have been big disappointments. Bye Bruce...)
6. Joe Walsh - Analog Man (he's rippin off his own guitar licks)
7. Van Halen - A Different Kind of Truth (Yeah they still suck)
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Rush shares as weakness with Cheap Trick. They are a very good band when they have good material to play, but overall, songwriting is their major weakness.
I'm a big Springsteen fan going way back, and I am disappointed in Wrecking Ball. I love the music (and lyrics) on Magic, BTW (but not the compressed sound).
I just picked up Grace Potter and the Nocturnals latest release because there last album I thought, had a few pretty good tunes.

Well this new release was recorded way too loud and most of the songs have little value.

The only good thing is, the CD also came with a Live DVD from a concert of there previous songs and that was quite good.

Watching that DVD, the lady is very pretty and has some very long legs...

But back to the new CD, I will probably never play it again.
Florence & the Machine, Unplugged. Nice hall reverb on the entire set kills her voice. Awful. Terrible production (and Ludwig mastered it, so it must have been terrible to begin with)