Recommendations of the Editorial team
The most disappointing albums of all time (21): The Stone Roses – “Second Coming”
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 (21): The Stone Roses – “Second Coming”
The Stone Roses are one of the big “what if” stories in rock history. What if the British Alt Rock quartet were to tour America intensively after the publication of its flawless, self-titled debut from 1989 instead of ignoring it completely?
The most disappointing albums of all time (21): The Stone Roses – “Second Coming”
If you kept your ego in the check, put the drugs off and manage to stay friends? What if you hadn’t waited five and a half years to publish your second album? If this album were just a quarter as strong as its first record?
Not long after they dissolved
They could have gotten as big as Oasis or even radiohead if they had stayed on their original way and continued to write titles such as “I am the Resurrection” or “I Wanna Be Adored”. Instead, they were so brazen to name their second LP “Second Coming” as if they were literally Jesus.
When the album appeared, the Brit pop was in full swing. And not a single song on the album was strong enough to get someone aside to put their blur or oasis albums aside and to listen to the album more than just once. Not long after they dissolved.