Recommendations of the Editorial team
The most disappointing albums of all time: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Let me up (i’ve had enough)”
A strand of success cannot last forever. And if you are a successful recording artist with a long career, the moment in which fans and critics are disappointed is inevitably disappointed.
This can be because a large experiment has not paid off as hoped for. The taste changed quickly. One is suddenly dismissed as relic of the past. That you have created something so bold and innovative that your genius will only be recognized in the coming years. Or that you simply produced a dud, due to a combination of physical and creative exhaustion. The unbearable stress of wanting to exceed yourself. And maybe the influence of certain chemical substances.
For really great artists, a disappointing album can only be a little bump on the way to a long, successful career. Bob Dylan has many albums that can confidently describe as “disappointing”. And they only made the successors more impressive and interesting. The same could be said of David Bowie, Madonna, Jay-Z, Stevie Wonder, the Rolling Stones and other artists whose careers include several generations.
Evaluation: also depending on the time
The American Rolling Stone has put together a list of the 50 most disappointing albums in music history. Some important reservations have to be made before different fan armies make plans to set fire to set fire. Or to let go of SWAT teams on our houses. We absolutely love some of these albums. An album can be considered disappointing the moment it comes out. And later re -evaluated forever.
This has to do with the time and critical consensus at a certain point in time. And an album that is considered a B+/A- is still disappointing when it follows a series of A/A+albums.
In addition, a disappointing album would be viewed as a masterpiece by an incredibly talented artist such as Radiohead or U2 if it had been published by almost everyone else. (We made the decision to record “The King of Limbs” and “Songs of Innocence” here, but made it really difficult. But ultimately they recorded.)
(And if you storm our houses because we have picked up your favorite band here, you can at least do it during the day? It’s annoying when you storm in the middle of the night. “The King of Limmbs” is also damn good. Tear together, radiohead army.)
The most disappointing albums of all time: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Let me up (i’ve had enough)”
As the title “Let me up (I’ve had enough)” says, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers burned out in 1987. At that point, they had taken pictures for about a dozen years and were on tour and urgently needed a break.
But they returned to the studio without their long -time producer Jimmy Iovine and produced this below -average album called “Let me up (I’ve had enough)”. The first single “Jammin ‘Me” is a strong piece (despite the incredibly outdated allusions to Vanessa Redgrave and Joe Piscopo) that from Bob Dylan was wrote down. But then the album collapses.
The most disappointing albums of all time: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers – “Let me up (i’ve had enough)”
Songs such as “All Mixed Up” and “Runaway Trains” are not terrible, but they simply do not correspond to petty’s usual standards. And none of them helps the cheesy production of the late eighties. Apart from “Jammin ‘Me”, very few of these songs were ever played live after the eighties. And none of them appeared on the album Greatest hits from 1993.
However, the album “Let me up (I’ve had enough)” was not a total loss. It convinced Petty to make a big change next time. The result was Full Moon Feverthe most successful album of his long career.