Top Ten disapointing moments in the music industry

[chefcraig]

I really enjoyed going through the Sandinista! album at the time, as it was pretty fascinating material. I can see how people that loved the straight forward tunes of London Calling would be confounded by the album's reach, which really was sort of loopy in places.

And yes, Cut The Crap was unlistenable. Then again, the Clash started to lose me with Combat Rock anyway.

[BITEYOASS]

Digital studio recording

and Pro-Tools

[twonabomber]

It's also sort of amusing how they all claim similar influences though, despite killing off the other genre.

i still think the labels killed hair metal, instead of the popularly held opinion that grunge killed hair metal. by the time the labels signed the third or fourth wave of hair metal acts, they were so weak (Trixter and Firehouse always come to mind) that the genre was dead. or as some would say later, played out.

oddly enough, this happened to "alternative" as well. the labels all wanted to have "their" version of Nirvana, Soundgarden, etc. and again, that's when things went to shit.

[wolfsbane]

1. Far and away number one is the death of Stevie Ray Vaughan.

2. Townshend's absence from the Who 1983-1995.

3. The Stones after Tattoo You.

4. Metallica after Cliff dies.

5. David Lee Roth's album output after ALAE.

6. The non-release of the original mix of Skyscraper.

7. Most Clapton Albums.

8. Axl Rose after 1994.

9. Sammy Hagar was great before joining VH. Horrible with them.

10. KISS live.

[Seshmeister]

I would have thought you would have mentioned the production on the first wolvesbane album.

[Dave's Bitch]

8. Tupac and Biggie die

4. Kurt Cobain's suicide

Replace these two with Dio and Eric Carr's deaths and i would agree with you for the most part.These two however, i just cannot class as disappointing moments in the music industry

[Dave's Bitch]

10. KISS live.

How so?

[78/84 guy]

1 Loss of Hendrix
2 Loss of original Skynyrd
3 Loss of Bon
4 Loss of Bonham
5 Loss of Randy
6 Loss of Moonie
7 Dave leaving Van Halen
8 Hip Hop !! Shit still FUCKING SUCKS
9 Top 40 heavy metal stations
10 Aerosmith after 85
Lossing Stevie Ray, Dio & Morrison are up there also !! All of those guy's were way to young.

[sadaist]

4. Metallica after Cliff dies.

I kinda disagree. And Justice For All was a great album and very heavy. I think what got to them was being millionaires for too long. The longer a musician is rich, the worse their music gets. They lose their hunger, their rawness, drive, motivation. They are more involved with their new house in Malibu and vacationing in Italy sipping wines than sitting in a crappy studio jamming out new tunes and drinking beers.

[Green Manalishi]

The advent of rap /hip-hop covers all 10 moments for me . That , and the death of Elvis .

[Anonymous]

The advent of rap /hip-hop covers all 10 moments for me . That , and the death of Elvis .

Elvis had died long before he died... dude didn't deserve to be surrounded by all those shit stains that were only interested in getting on his good side so they could leech off of him. Made him have a fucked up vision of the world that was pure fantasy.

If only someone had slapped the fried banana out of his sandwich, things could've been different.

He had so much, but deserved so much, much more.

Heard an interview of when he came home after serving in the army. In spite of his success up to that point, he just sounded like a well educated boy, referring to everyone as sir or madam. He was so respectful & humble that it even made me cringe while listening to that shit.

Far from the kung fatso that shot Alice.

cheers! :bottle: