RagingBull80

Sounds like something I need to look up.

Lipid

Lavender Diamond - Incorruptible Heart

Aside from about 3 songs, the entire album is average and forgettable.

nothingfails

hmmm, I personally loved The Idler Wheel and The 2nd Law

To me the big disappointments of 2012:
Scissor Sisters "Magic Hour". They followed up their best album so far with a generic dance-pop album

The Killers "Battle Born". Not 'bad' per se, but very mediocre and beginning to make me wonder if their first two albums were flukes as I didn't care for their third album either. Very paint by numbers

Madonna "MDNA". The Madonna up to 2005 wouldn't be caught dead recording songs like "I'm Addicted" and "Give Me All Your Lovin'"

d2cheer

Kiss-Monster
I love Kiss. But I just can't get into this one.

Dan1boy

THIS. On both fronts. Was sooo disappointed in the Scissor Sisters record. After their career high with "Invisible Light" - it was sorta to be expected.

Same with The Killers. Good lord what a mess.

cungar

I'm going to say Graham Parker and the Rumour - Three Chords Good because I was expecting something with some bite and it's kind of limp like much of his later work. Plus it has the worst album cover of the year, if not decade.

Supermallet

Oh man, I forgot that Scissor Sisters record came out this year. Terrible.

jdslater1

The new How To Destroy Angels was not as good as the first IMO.

I would also say there is an annoying trend in pop music were they say one line about 7-8 times in a row.

brokenhanger

This.

My biggest disappointment was the Dragonette album - their first self-produced one but it might as well be a Martin Solveig album. Almost all of it sounds like their collabs over the past few years with none of what made them special in the first place and it just makes me want to cry. Outside of "Untouchable" - which is one of the best things they've ever done, so of course they didn't do it on tour - I never really need to hear the rest again.

TAC

Tool-another skipped year

tellybox

I really wanted to like Co-exist from The xx but it sounded just like their first album, minus the haunting melodies. Real let down, considering Jamie xx has had some great remixes and such post that debut album (We're New Here with the late great Gil Scott Heron comes to mind).

Some Nights from fun. left a lot to be desired as well. It all sounded so generic and processed (is that what they were going for?).

Cusm

This is my feeling as well. I LOVE their first album, my favorite that year, thought they were great at Coachella (just a boring stage show) but I just can't get into the new one.

Tarantino

I also was disappointed in The xx.

somethingfast

i don't really buy "new" albums much anymore but i'd have to say megadeth's last one, 13, was pretty dang disappointing. listened to it a few times and don't plan on adding any of the songs to my m'deth comp...so there you go...

nothingfails

I couldn't really get into Coexist either. It was very monotone

Supermallet

I couldn't even bear to give it a few listens. One was bad enough.

Hokeyboy

I liked Fiona's album quite a bit Diff'rent strokes, I guess...

nothingfails

I actually wasn't even a Fiona fan until this album. The Idler Wheel is what made me interested in her earlier music as well. Until this album I thought of her mostly as that girl who did "Criminal" and had the pretentious speech at the MTV VMA's (one of the last years MTV was watchable)

Chrisedge

I finally listened to the new Muse. Wow that sucks. It would top my list, but I guess I wasn't expecting much after hearing the 2 songs I did (the Olympic song and Madness)

Rocketdog2000

For me, at least, I had the opposite reaction with Muse. In fact, I find the more I listen to it, the more I'm liking it. I have none of the issues others seem to with it. The dub-step elements didn't bother, and I liked the tunes the bassist (sorry, his last name escapes me at the moment) sang lead on.

danfindlay

You guys must not have expected much out of the new Aerosmith either. That album was shit.

Hokeyboy

Or perhaps no one bothered with it.

nothingfails

I agree. I don't like dubstep but the way Muse incorporated it didn't bother me in the slightest.

nothingfails

Haven't they all been since 1993? I didn't even bother when I found out it was loaded with ballads.

Supermallet

That was exactly what I expected.