Albums that completely lack feeling.

I was talking to my cousin a few days ago about the band Evanescence. I had bought their new "Open Door" album and it was quite catchy and I knew she enjoyed music like that.

After she listened to it, she said she didn't like it. Which was surprising since that is 'her' type of music. I asked her why and she said the album completely lacked feeling. She isn't a big music critic either, but I thought about it and listened to the album again and felt exactly the same way she described, it was just really empty. There were many catchy and good songs don't get me wrong, but there was nothing there that made me feel anything. Sadness/aggression/depression/happiness ect. I just sat there going 'yeah, that sounds pretty good' 'thats going to get stuck in my head after this is done'. It just didn't draw anything from me at all.

So I ask, how many albums have you listened to that just didn't get any emotion going through you?

Another album for me that didn't get any real emotion was Metallica "Black" album. It didn't pull anything out of me and I always just sat there bored most of the time listening to it. St Anger pulled more emotion out of me than the black album, enough emotion to almost make me cry after it was over because it was just so horrible and my ears would probably never forgive me.

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Originally Posted by knkwzrd

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Hur hur hur. :lolsign: And the great debate whether or not clean playing yields more emotion compared to sloppiness and bending strings.

There are actually alot of albums that don't make me feel much of anything, I just happen to enjoy them. I guess one would be Shadows Fall - Somber Eyes to the Sky. But I also don't dig it much because of the lack of production values and it's seemingly incoherantness.

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It's been so long since I bought an album without "previewing" it first that it's hard to think of any in my library. Sure there's albums I didn't like much after buying them, or some that I like less since my tastes have changed, but as for an album that's just plain empty?

Hmm...I guess Linkin Park's Meteora feels that way. After so much hype I was expecting more, but it wasn't just the letdown, it was the complete slavery to the lowest common denominator that the album personified. Being a fan of the band in general (and still a fan of Hybrid Theory), it took me a while to admit it, but Meteora really had that manufactured feel about it.

"Easier to Run" and "Nobody's Listening" are still good, though. =p

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Originally Posted by knkwzrd

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Originally Posted by guyinarubbersuit

Hur hur hur. And the great debate whether or not clean playing yields more emotion compared to sloppiness and bending strings.

Surely lyrical content has nothing to do with provoking emotions in music as long as you can hit those notes perfectly.

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95 percent of albums out lack feeling, truthfully.

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I agree with NP. Music is all about hooks, catchiness, trying to beat out everyone else and go "Hay look guys, we're more unique than THOSE guys, listen to our souuuund" nowadays.

However to be more specific, and put it in the context of "albums I was expecting to be full of feeling and were instead totally devoid of it" I'd have to say the newest Taking Back Sunday and Audioslave albums - and even Tool's "10,000" Days seems to fall a bit short on feeling when compared to their other albums.

Musically, they're all very decent in their own ways (though I'm sure some will disagree with me there) but the feeling just isn't there.

Conversely, some totally surprised me with how MUCH feeling there was. Idiot Pilot's "Strange We Should Meet Here" is probably my favorite example of completely unique sound with TONS of feeling.

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