What's everyone consider the biggest letdown of 2006 so far? To me it would have to be Head Automatica - Popaganda. Other notables are The Sound of Animals Fighting and Saves the Day.

The Sound Of Animals Fighting. Thats the only real letdown in my opinion. I like Popaganda and I'm definitely not let down by Sound The Alarm. After In Reverie, I never expected them to put out another good album, but they never cease to amaze me.

TSOAF, but I didn't have expectations for that anyway...

Upon first listen, Muse; which is really disappointing.

I probably won't listen to the new Genghis Tron as much as I did the EP...

I have yet to listened to Head Automatica.


edit - Forgot the Warriors!

I'll agree with Head Automatica

i'd already given up on HA before this came out, so not a let down. in fact i don't think i've listened to it yet.

Saves the Day is the best album this year. ut I was definitely disappointes in TSOAF, and Thursday, i dont really like the new one.

Give Muse a few more listens. Favorite song so far is Maps of the Problematique.

the new bury your dead cd

Saves the Day. that album sucks.

New AFI.

i agree with the new AFI

the warriors new cd is horrible in my opinion. also TSOAF was the biggest letdown for me. i loved the first cd, but this one sucked ass.

TSOAF for sure.

TSOAF
AFI
Atreyu
From First To Last

Except for the fact that it's the best album to come out, saves the day or not, since Stay What You Are...

I guess that's your opinion. In Reverie I beleive is a far superior album to it in every way. The tone of the guitar, the absurdity of how bad his vocals have become, the whinyass lyrics, and the obvious exclusion of eben's influence into the band are all what made this album really crappy for me. I respect your opinion though, kind sir.


edit: I will say I like eulogy though because of the SWYA vibe I get from it.

That's your opinion.

Tally so far:

The Sound of Animals Fighting - 7
A.F.I. - 3
Head Automatica - 2
Saves the Day - 2
The Warriors - 2
Muse - 1
Thursday - 1
Bury Your Dead - 1
Atreyu - 1
From First To Last - 1

thursday? i thought the new album was awesome. and im suprised no one has mentioned ANGELS AND AIRWAVES.

Oh shit, I forgot about Angels and Airwaves. Yeah, huge letdown.

Thursday could have been better. A lot of the songs have the same droning formula going, despite a few songs in there that are great.

everytime i die

Yeah, A City By The Light Divided is definitely one of my favorite albums of this year. The only thing I didn't like about it was that it seemed to be mastered poorly.

isnt that 2005?

That was last year.

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my bad, it was still bad though

It was no "Hot Damn!", but I thought it was pretty good.

true

thats your opinion, i personally like last night in town the best

I still have yet to hear that album. I've requested it a few times in the past, but no one has upped it. Do you think you could up or send it to me?

X man 3

yeah im uping it right now

austin is building toll roads.... that sucks

oh and the TSOAF cd
i mean honestly i wasnt looking forward to some experimental middle eastern mixtape

i'll agree with From First to Last, Angels and Airwaves, and Matchbook's "Voices" pissed me off a lot. No one here seems to listen to them though. TSOAF's new one was disgusting but wasn't looking forward to it, i was just curious to see what the fuss was about. Apparently, weird noises and annoying chicks going SHOOLALALALALARIMBANG. i've had a bad night, sorry.

TSOAF sucks even worse if you really liked Tiger And The Duke, which most people here did.

In my opinion, Every Time I Die just keeps getting better and better. I liked Hot Damn! a lot, but Gutterphenomenon is just as good. Then again, this isn't the ETID thread and the biggest letdown is still TSOAF.

oh yea, the new Halifax cd is fucking horrendous.

I'm gonna agree on the TSOAF
FFTL was disappointing as well.

So far I've been really happy w/ 2006 releases/leaks

I'm with Ben. The new Saves the Day CD sucks. I gave it a listened and liked it, then listened to it again and didn't know why I did so I kept listening because I figured it was "one of those CD's" where you'd have to listen to it a couple more times to realize it's full awesomeness, but nope. Nothing.

Since then, I haven't even touched it.

FFTL (dear diary>>>>>>>>heroine)

Angels and airwaves is only a disapointment cos Tom couldnt keep his mouth shut. i dont mind it.

TSOAF and FFTL

some great releases that I wasnt expecting makes up for it though

Now that I think about it, Tiger And the Duke was a let down for me too.
Those fucking filler tracks are absolute trash.

I just listen to the demos.

you can't be serious, that album was probably the biggest let down of any album i've ever heard.

Nothing really let me down so far except the new AFI is pretty terrible in my opinion.

I was skeptical about the new Muse when I heard Supermassive Black Hole but after listening to the rest of it, I was pretty satisfied.

I'm with you. I was pretty let down by that too. I didn't like the intermissions or the fact that they used only the 4 songs they already had.

But I guess listening to their new songs, that was probably a good idea.

Updated Tally:

The Sound of Animals Fighting - 11
From First to Last - 5
Angels and Airwaves - 4
A.F.I. - 4
Saves the Day - 3
Head Automatica - 2
Warriors - 2
Thursday - 2
Muse - 1
Bury Your Dead - 1
Atreyu - 1
Matchbook Romance - 1

are we talking about the thursday demos? or did a full length leak? if so, i missed this.

what the hell, the actual album came out weeks ago.

uhhh, that cd actually came out...in stores. It came out like a month ago.