Worst of 2007

[KooL]

I hated the Weirdness the first time I heard it, but then it grew on me. Now I'd rather spend my time listening to the old classics instead. It's an OK album, but it gets old pretty quickly and their early stuff is just so much better. So why waste your time listening to it when you can listen to Fun House or Raw Power instead? Life's too short.

[skvorisdeadsorta]

luke said:

Era Vulgaris is the worst album I've heard this year. Pure shit.

Yeah, I'm a huge Queens fan and that record is also just dialed in crap. I concur, that is definitely going on my list.

[Paul]

skvorisdeadsorta said:

Exactly, ded. Exactly.

I just felt like the Beasties have been sort of treading water for a while and for the reasons that you mentioned, the background music thing, it just isn't good enough for what I'm used to with those guys. It could be a lot better......which makes it that much more frustrating for me to listen to.

I see what y'all are saying - Beasties should be much more than 'background music'. I guess after TT5B, and knowing TMU was all instrumental I didn't have extremely high expectations. I did think it would be a bit cooler than it is, and more experimental. Overall, I guess it is a bit of a disappointment. The BBoys claim that as soon as their 2007 tour is complete they're going back to the studio.

[Paul]

skvorisdeadsorta said:

luke said:

Era Vulgaris is the worst album I've heard this year. Pure shit.

Yeah, I'm a huge Queens fan and that record is also just dialed in crap. I concur, that is definitely going on my list.

Damn, the new QOTSA album sucks too? I have yet to hear anything from it, although I do bust out 'Rated R' quite often.

[maarts]

Seconded on Era Vulgaris, the Beasties and Kaiser Chiefs.

The worst album hands down is the new Peter Criss solo-album. Make sure you got plenty of buckets handy when that plays.

Also- The Klaxons. Unspeakable, utterly crap.

Disappointed but not quite crap- the new Chemical Brothers.

[KooL]

Oh yeah, I forgot the Chemical Brothers. Although there's a couple of tracks on it I really, really like. But overall it's a bit of a disappointment.

[Ryosuke]

I hate the Klaxons too, but new bands who are horrible to begin with don't really count, IMO.

I nominate the new Quruli album. That record is just pure shit.

[skvorisdeadsorta]

I, uh, would like to go ahead and nominate the new Kanye West, even though I haven't heard it yet. Welcome to the collegiate white boy's new Puff Daddy. Yuck.

Also, I really rue this whole reunion phenomenon. I wanted RATM and the Smashing Pumpkins to stay broken up, like FOREVER.

Also, that new Tom Morello records is a total piece of shit.

[luke]

Nice to hear someone agree on Kanye.

That Morello Nightwatchmen project is a huge joke. It was funny at Bonnaroo, all these fanboys were going apeshit over "Tom's solo project!" Cut to after the show, and you saw kids walking around with horrified, deflated looks on their faces. We even overheard someone saying, "That was the worst fucking thing I've ever seen."

I of course knew better and saw Hot Chip or something instead.

[Thorngrub]

lol, thas some funny shit there luke. Yeah, I'd'a skipped out on the Nightwatchman, too.

[skvorisdeadsorta]

Tom Morello and the Shitewatchman.

[skvorisdeadsorta]

Holy shit, say it ain't so. I can't stand this band and now I will be suffering through their "resurgance".

Michael Deeds of The Idaho Statesman reports: When CANDLEBOX decided to come out of retirement last year, the Seattle band was surprised not only by the size of its audiences but by the fans themselves.

CANDLEBOX knew its core demographic would be 25- to 40-year-olds looking to reminisce about grunge-era radio of the early '90s.

But who were all these teenage kids popping up at shows?

"They know who NIRVANA is," says singer Kevin Martin, who finds himself in the position of fronting an oldies band at the ripe old age of 38. "They know who PEARL JAM are. They're beginning to know who Chris Cornell is, SOUNDGARDEN.

"A very young generation — 18-year-old kids — are looking for music that's different than what they're hearing now, and they're finding that there's a real energy, a real aggressive type of music that happened in the early '90s. With that, they're finding the Seattle scene and whatnot. That's the only way that I can explain it.

"I'm just glad that it's working," he adds with a chuckle.

[Proud]

Lucy is the worst album in the history of mankind, imho.

I'd rather have Sponge.

[skvorisdeadsorta]

Ahhh.....let the early 90s nostalgia begin.

[Proud]

No need to begin it, sir. It is my every day.

Although Era Vulgaris is by far my vote for worst anticipated album of the year (I haven't heard The Weirdness... nor do I want to. If I'm going to fulfill my lifelong dream of recording with Steve Albini, I cannot, and MUST not, listen...), Voxtrot's selftitled makes me want to thrust my head through my bedroom wall. Raised by Wolves and Mothers, Sisters, Daughters & Wives were the cream of the crop of zop bop chop indie-pop (I've heard the Smiths and Belle and Sebastian comparisons, yes)... and then they made something rushed and confused, yet redundant. ... Blah!

Regardless, Era Vulgaris... and Era Vulgaris only... is the culprit who broke my middle ear bones. What a bunch of hookless crap Homme and the boys conspired to pull us through! Now I know how Hector would've felt if he was alive as the chariot draged him along. Phooey to the Queens!

_{The selftitled b-side to Era Vulgaris is greater than any album track... but the EV era is best not revisited after the damage hast been done.}