Your favorite band/singers biggest mistake
 

I'll start out with this:

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Don't know if these are mistakes, but...

The new one from Liz Phair
The new one from Belle & Sebastian
The newest one from Old 97s
The new one from OutKast

...were all pretty big disappointments for me. I'm sure there are plenty of others.

Matt Sharp leaving Weezer.

Never listened to Outkast before, and my wife and I love Hey Ya!


While not neccesarily my favorite bands, when Aerosmith and RHCP started doing the slow power ballads, I lost any respect I had for them.

dc Talk has been on "hiatus" as a group for nearly four years now.

Since then, each member has released 1 solo album (Tait's at two with his self titled band) which haven't sold too well. In the "interim", they've released as a group a greatest hits album, a re-release of "Free At Last" with a terrible remix, and two DVD's of older concert videos with no new content - when a 5.1 mix and other goodies were promised.

They still have one album left under their deal with Forefront, but it looks like it will never come out. We'll probably get a 10th Anniversary edition of Jesus Freak in two years before a new album.

Haven't heard the new Belle & Sebastian album, but the last two albums (<i>Fold Your Hands, Child...</i> and <i>Storytelling</i>) were pretty patchy, and I'd heard that this new one is more of a return to form...in short, the reviews I've heard were generally positive. Care to elaborate on your disappointment (as painful as that sounds)? :)

Sting...by letting P-shitty use Every Breath You Take and then showing up on stage to sing the chorus with that no talent suck bag.

When John Bonham choked on his own vomit...

Prince meeting Larry Graham.

[not that he doesn't have a ton of others...this was just the "biggest"]

Trent Reznor/NIN making "Deep" for the Tomb Raider soundtrack along with a retarted video.
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I agree that Storytelling wasn't very good... though I liked some of the instrumentals quite a bit... and "I Don't Want to Play Football" is hilarious. But I really like Fold Your Hands, Child... I think that's as solid an album as they've put out, with a lot of variety and plenty of their trademark wit. Keep in mind that album came out when I was just getting into good music. I know that was pretty recently, but for me that was about 400 albums ago... I heard Fold Your Hands, Child and Kid A and Exile in Guyville and Dummy all around the same time... and it kind of changed my life. So I could talk about instrumentation and musicianship and all that but really it comes down to nostalgia... situations and relationships and cities and such. So any new Belle & Sebastian album was probably bound to disappoint me at this point... just like any new Liz Phair album would. But even then, I don't think Dear Catastrophe Waitress is that clever, or that catchy... and Isobel is gone. I wouldn't say it's a return to form, since it's nowhere near as dark or tight as If You're Feeling Sinister. But there are a few nice songs.

Metallica not hanging it up as soon as Cliff ate it.


Robert Smith not retiring to the English country side after Desintigration.


Kiss taking off the makeup.


Kiss putting the makeup back on and charging $75 a ticket.


Shannon Hoon's hot shot.

R.E.M. appearing on Boston Public. Ugghh....after years of preserving their dignity and not selling out whatever prompted them to appear on this crap show singing 'losing my religion' on an episode about.......R.E.M.'s 'Losing My Religion'.

IMHO, this is worse than even 'Shiny Happy People'.

Trey Anastasio (of Phish) and Stewart Copeland (of the Police) thinking that, for some reason, forming a band (Oysterhead) and recording an album (The Grand Pecking Order) with Les Claypool was even remotely a good idea.

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This one is premature but I was telling my sister that I have a bad feeling about the evolving relationship between Gwen Paltrow and Chris from Coldplay. They already plan to both take a year off from work and with the baby and marriage, I just dont know whats gonna happen with CP. (I've got a baaaaad vibe from this

While they're not my favorite band, and this certainly was far from a willing "mistake," but Dream Theater released their CD "Metropolis 2000: Live Scenes from New York" on September 11th, 2001. As if that weren't bad enough timing on its own, this is what the cover looked like (Big Apple wrapped in barb wire, and Twin Towers aflame):

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I love Rush through and through....but any album that gives us such greatness as "I think I'm going bald". Well, it wasn't pretty.

Pete Townshend putting his credit card number into a kiddie porn site.

I was happy to find a copy of that in the a cd store a couple days after it's release. I don't think there are many copies with that cover available.

standing up against napster, although i agree with the fight, i just wish some other band had done it!

cool thread idea by the way!

wow, how polite. :rolleyes:

Led Zeppelin selling out 20+ years after the breakup of the band:

1. Jimmy Page playing with Puff Daddy for the Godzilla soundtrack. ?!?! WTF!

2. Cadillac commercials. How lame.

Well not my favorite band, but definately there biggest mistake...

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Marilyn Manson - The whole 'Mechincal Animals' fad.

Sunny Day Real Estate - Goin' for a more pop-sound with 'The Rising Tide', a total departure from 'How it feels to be something on?'.

Nin - 'Deep' and the Tomb Raider soundtrack. I'm a NiN fan, but I refuse to buy that crap.

David Usher - His second album, goin' against everything his first album got right.

grunter, you saw THIS...right?

Judas Priest - Turbo

Iron Maiden - Blaze Bailey

The Beatles - Yoko Ono (at least on John's part)

Motley Crue - for titling their boxed set "Music to Crash Your Car To"

The Cure - Wild Mood Swings

Perry Farrell - folding Janes Addiction to do Porno for Pyros

Randy Rhoades's pilot - 'nuff said

Ian Curtis - learning how to tie a noose

The guy who sold Kurt Cobain the shotgun

Metallica - Bob Rock, going after their fans over Napster, St. Anger (tie)

Ani DiFranco - believing her own hype and bullshit

agreed. 100% so on the first one. wtf?!

Going from the perfection of:
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To the ...ok-but-you-know-it's-shite-in-your-heart-of-hearts-of:
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It's all about the... ah, never mind.

they are not my favorite band, but I would have to say Metallica's biggest mistake was actualy several big mistakes.

First getting Jason Newsted as a replacement for Cliff Burton. Newsted was a giant step backward in the talent dept.

Hiring Bob Rock to become thier producer. This was, and still is a huge mistake.

Putting out the Black album. On a comercial level it was not a mistake, but for the die-hard fans of the time, it was a travesty. A toleralbe one at the time, because we original fans thought it would just be a one time thing in order to appeal to the sheeply mass's, but in hindsight it was a travesty. The begining of the end.

Thier biggest mistake was Load, Re-Load, and all the other B.S. they put out to suck $$$ from people's wallets during the 90's. Metallica still had a chance to keep thier entire fan base together, despite the fact that they sold-out, and went aginst everything they ever preached when they released the Black album. They also had a chance to save Metal music from that silly grunge fad. Instead they put out a radio friendly, slightly grunge sounding album, that makes any true/original fan of the band want to puke. It was a time when fans of Metal needed Metallica, and Metallica failed us all. They conformed, and turned to cheese, and joined in with all the other crap bands to make the 90's the worst era in music history. Metallica let thier original fans down all throughout the 90's. The very fans that got them to where they were before Bob Rock destroyed them. Without us(the original fans) there never would have been a Black album for all the sheep to enjoy.

Then there is the Napster issue. Bad idea, very bad idea. Even worse idea ot let your spokesmen be Lar$, and letting him bable on about sharing half a sandwich with someone as a comparison to file sharing.

The next mistake they madewas St. Anger. Need I say just how bad this album full of Nu-Metal crap sounds? It is by far the worst Metal album ever made, hands down. I feel sorry for the people who were foolish enough to buy this album. It's not even worthy of becoming a coaster for my beer.


Yat another band that made a big mistake was STYX, with the album Kilroy Was Here. What the hell were they thinking?!!!!!

That's all for now.

Fixed it for you.

I don't know about the album, but the Oysterhead show I saw was effing tremendous! Although it was pretty easy to tell who wrote which songs, the band overall was a solid jamming powerhouse. Ah, well. To each his own.

Aerosmith: "Just Push Eject"

Pink Floyd - Roger Waters = Big Mistake

You said a mouthful. He managed to lose the mainstream audience a bit here and there over the years. Mostly with the name change, but also by a horrible choice in picking singles to be released from his albums. Add in the fact that he went down the MJ road a bit, seeming just too damn weird for the mainstream. But I kept in as a fan for as long as I could, knowing there were gems in each release, even the flops. One by one each release had fewer and fewer gems, until it got to the point where his albums were just unlistenable. So sad. :(