Biggest disappointments

That makes sense.

Engelbert Humperdinck's later work always fell flat, I thought. His raw early stuff just never panned out...

Yeah man - he was punk 10 years before McLaren finally got it....

Man, he was hip hop when Sugar Hill was Sugar Lump.

Let's not forget Buce Willis, I mean "Bruno."



He seemed like the real deal until he sold out and became a big time actor.

Yeah, I always thought Bruce and Keanu Reeves should do something together. Maybe with Kevin Bacon on guitar. That'd be sweet.

Time to revisit this old topic. I've been searching for Wappinchaw by Cindytalk forever thanks to a review in the Rough Guide to Rock which made it sound like the second coming.

It's not. Mostly dull noise with avant garde leanings. Incredibly disappointed. Thank the FSM the web has so many options to try before you buy these days. Although I quite like this track:

Hey, nice old topic.

Recently bought Music From the Big Pink. Never was really into the Band -- heard them do an accordian-heavy "When I Paint My Masterpiece" that I quite liked once -- but, you know, this album has that reputation.

I kinda find it dull.

Funny, given the thread -- I listened to Double Nickels a lot over the past winter. I'm not sure how I feel about the music, but it reminds me of California when I was a kid, so it felt good during the long dark Wisconsin freeze...

I've been going through a huge Band phase. I prefer their follow up, the "Brown Album," to Music from Big Pink, but dig both.

Have you seen The Last Waltz?. That's what got me on this Band kick.

Me too. I think it was on the cable a few months back. Dig the movie, dig the performance footage, just not fully into the studio album.

One album it seemed everyone was into when it came out was Joe Satriani's 'Surfing with the alien'.

Never got it still don't get it. It's pleasant enough (if a tad sterile white surfaces), but friends used jump over barbed wire fences to hear it.

I guess if your musical upbringing is whitebread pop Satriani sounds like he's found a new planet, but I had Blow by Blow, Trans Europe Express, Ricochet and ELP's first album when I was 12.