Hmm... hard to pick just one. There are a few that come to my mind: Black Sabbath - Technical Ecstasy Didn't sound like Sabbath to me. I was going to put Forbidden here, but it's just "Illusion Of Power" that went sour. Accept - Eat The Heat They were trying to go to a hard-rock route with a new singer and all... it didn't feel like Accept here.I liked "Generation Clash", and liked it even more when they re-recorded it with Udo in Death Row. The first 3 albums were more rock-oriented and didn't stand out to me. They got their trademark sound starting from Restless and Wild. ATB - Dedicated Sounded cheesy to me, listening to this in 2014. Gotthard - Homerun Another dated album. Too many ballads for me. I liked when they go for that lush 90s sound that a lot of bands did at the previous decade, taking it to a more U2 territory, like in "End Of Time". Fancy - Get Your Kicks The title track is the only thing you can salvage from here. Cheesier than cheesy. Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity Pop, conceptual Kraftwerk singing about radioactivity didn't tickle me fancy. Computer Love was a conceptual album too, but the arrangements were better made IMO. Moby - Destroyed and Innocents I didn't like this "new ambient" phase. This comes from someone who loved Ambient. Here, things sound too stale for me. Diamond Head - What's In Your Head All Will Be Revealed was a good album, the new singer did a good job, Death & Progress was awesome (Sean Harris FTW), but this one... was just bland. Basically, the quality has dropped here. Loser - Just Like You This album hasn't been released officially, and thank goodness for that. John 5 is awesome, his work here is great. The problem is the singer he teamed up with at the time, who makes the whole thing sound like a heavier Nickelback clone. Now, an album that wasn't bad, just very unusual: Chris Cornell - Scream I liked that he teamed up with Timbaland, but this album's production was very weird. The songs were cut right in the middle, and some drum tones, like in "Part Of Me", are just off. If I had to pick the worst of all, Get Your Kicks, hands down.
My live reaction to the first song on Fancy's Get Your Kicks: Colder than Ice having never heard it before. Snyth everything. AshleyR is a god damned idiot. This is fantastic. Like Dead or Alive but slower. Oh, his voice. Now I get it. It's like Copa Cabana for 80s kids. It's coming back around for me. They lost me when they hit the chorus. It's like a talent show at a high school. Just gently speaking into the mic. Repeating dumb little lyrics about some blonde girl who is not nice. In fact, she is so not nice, that she is colder than ice. It's an 80s pop ballad with a lame chorus. Absolutely forgettable. I'm waiting for it to be over already and I've literally only had these two minutes of my life in which to experience it. In case you forgot, she is colder than ice. Why does he even like her? Because entice rhymes with ice, that's why. --I had to pause this to break up with a girl that just called me. Just wasn't working for either of us.-- Fuckin' more chorus? This is something that the 2000s taught us. Verse, Chorus, Verse, Refrain Chorus, Out. Not 80s pop, which is verse, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, fade out. Back to just the synth. Strong finish. Also, I'm drunker than when I started so there's more dancing. Not much, but more.
Hahahahaha! That's how I felt when I first listened to this album, except for this: Here's some yummy synths for you:Fuckin' more chorus? This is something that the 2000s taught us. Verse, Chorus, Verse, Refrain Chorus, Out. Not 80s pop, which is verse, chorus, verse, chorus, chorus, chorus, fade out.
The first one immediately reminded me of this one. Thank you for that! I remember listening to that song on my Grandma's record player. Because fuck it, I'm old. Also, one of my favorite new pop songs/videos. Even though by now it's a few years old and you probably know it. Despite this, their new album sucks balls. Make the Girl Dance - Kill Me