(It’s time once again for Andy Synn‘s annual List Week here at NCS)
As always, I want to start off this article with a little explanation of the rationale behind it.
In general, as I’m sure you’re aware, it’s our prerogative here to only write about the bands and albums we actually like.
That doesn’t mean, however, that we shy away from providing constructive criticism when we think it’s warranted (at least, I don’t), as loving something doesn’t mean just ignoring its flaws.
And it’s in that spirit that my annual “Disappointing” article is written, not as an attempt to court clicks or controversy, but as a means of expressing the very simple idea that the bands we love aren’t perfect, and sometimes even the best of them stumble or fail to live up to the hype.
That’s not an excuse for people just to start shitting on bands they don’t like – we just tend to delete those sorts of comments without giving them a second thought – it’s more about providing a communal space to express our disappointment that something we were looking forward to didn’t, for whatever reason, measure up to our expectations and/or hopes.
Obviously there’ll be disagreements (I’m pretty sure that one or two of my selections here will upset a few people, though I need to stress again that I’m not trying to upset or provoke anyone, these are just my honest opinions) but I think that, if we can all remain civil, we’ll get through this together.
