Ever been disappointed with any of their albums?

Hugh Freaking Dillon

goldrush wrote:

No, i have never been disappointed with any of their albums. I have bought every album on release day, played them to death for the first few weeks and still love them.
Sure, there are some that I play less frequently than others these days (hello 'Vs') but that's purely down to whatever mood I'm in.
The closest I've ever been to disappointed was 'Binaural' - the songs are all great but the production is woeful!

VS IS MY FAVOURITE RECORD!! Ten is what I am drawn to emotionally because of what it did for me at the time, but if I just want to listen to music for the music itself, VS is above all else. No comparison for me. Vitalogy is a close second.

CJMST3K

paulonious wrote:

goldrush wrote:

No, i have never been disappointed with any of their albums. I have bought every album on release day, played them to death for the first few weeks and still love them.
Sure, there are some that I play less frequently than others these days (hello 'Vs') but that's purely down to whatever mood I'm in.
The closest I've ever been to disappointed was 'Binaural' - the songs are all great but the production is woeful!

VS IS MY FAVOURITE RECORD!! Ten is what I am drawn to emotionally because of what it did for me at the time, but if I just want to listen to music for the music itself, VS is above all else. No comparison for me. Vitalogy is a close second.

I agree about the first 3 albums. VS is for me the best follow up album, AND the best album by any rock band, period.

The Champ

Some of the songs on Binaural are pretty shitty and quite disappointing..

broloco

No.

I personally don't think that they'll ever put out a really disappointing record. They just care too much about the music and to us (to a degree) to ever put out shit. But it's a fact of life that bands' later albums don't match their earlier outputs. Just a fact of life. Like every great band that ever was/is.

Same as the other posters have been saying, some of their lps are/will be more classic than others, that's all.

PJSEMPRE

Zoso wrote:

the album that I'm most disappointed with would be the avocado album apart from that I love every other album. I like parts of S/T but overall I don't think it lived up to it's initial hype. From what I've heard of Backspacer it will be a much superior effort.

Agree with you.

pjamaholic

capecodriot wrote:

i was pretty depressed after the first listen through of riot act and i think s/t has alot of great songs but terrible album order/cover/and lack of a cool album name if the jacket was the cover it would've looked a hell of a lot cooler, the avocado is just terrible

For me, no I have never been disappointed with a PJ album and probably never will. Some albums took a little longer for me to get used to than others, but once I know all the songs and have heard them several times, I generally end up falling in love with the album. Please explain why you think the Avocado is terrible? I cannot comprehend why any fan of PJ's would think this, so enlighten me! It is as good as any of their others, imo.

Thoughts_Arrive

What I love is that they always evolve and have a new sound and atmosphere to each album.

Spencer

Zoso wrote:

the album that I'm most disappointed with would be the avocado album apart from that I love every other album. I like parts of S/T but overall I don't think it lived up to it's initial hype. From what I've heard of Backspacer it will be a much superior effort.

I wholeheartedly agree with everything in this post.

katellis

i wouldnt say i was disappointed by riot act, maybe a little bit, but it is by far by least fav pj album.
that being said there are still a lot of great songs on RA.

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

i stopped listening to them after Riot Act, got back into them on the strength of Gone demo and Severed Hand, but then was very dissappointed in Avocado too.

the heavy handed and obvious lyrics kill both for me, but musically i can appreciate them.

luckily, they are still great live, even the songs from those two albums.

Spencer

MrSmith wrote:

i stopped listening to them after Riot Act, got back into them on the strength of Gone demo and Severed Hand, but then was very dissappointed in Avocado too.

the heavy handed and obvious lyrics kill both for me, but musically i can appreciate them.

luckily, they are still great live, even the songs from those two albums.

Give Riot Act another chance, it really grew on me over time to the point where I love it now (still don't like the S/T album at all).

LikeAnOpeningBandForTheSun

Spencer wrote:

MrSmith wrote:

i stopped listening to them after Riot Act, got back into them on the strength of Gone demo and Severed Hand, but then was very dissappointed in Avocado too.

the heavy handed and obvious lyrics kill both for me, but musically i can appreciate them.

luckily, they are still great live, even the songs from those two albums.

Give Riot Act another chance, it really grew on me over time to the point where I love it now (still don't like the S/T album at all).

its ok for me now. at first i hated it. my real problem isnt the songs, but their performances on the album. I love many of these songs live. just seems to me Eddie was having a bad day or something.

Gibson

Binural let me down when I bought it, ONLY to the fact that I overhyped it. Toronto 98 was my first show, and no album after that could live up to the expectations I gave it in my own head. It took about 3 years, but I simply love it now.