What was your most disappointing album purchase?


Since we have been listing “best debut albums”, I thought I might ask which albums members purchased, based upon one song, and with the expectation that other songs on the album would be good, but that album was a big disappointment.

I will start with the album by the group, Six Pence None The Richer, that had their big hit “Kiss Me”.   The rest of that album was trash!  Nothing I wanted to listen to and I found it hard to believe the same group had done the hit song.

This question might seem similar to “One Hit Wonders”, but I think it is different, as usually those groups made other music that was at least listenable.   My question refers to albums that had one listenable song, period!
bob540

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Oh, just thought of another one . . Shania’s album “Up”.  It came in two versions, pop and country, but there was one one good track on the entire album . . Gonna Getcha Good”.  I don’t think Mutt Lange’s heart was in that one.  It wasn’t even as good as Shania’s self-titled debut album from before she met Mutt, IMHO
@jsd52756, haha haha . . . now that’s a bad album!

I love Steely Dan, and I have read that some members here even like this one, but their album Gaucho is a snorefest.  Sounds like very depressing funeral music to me.

A friend had Billy Ray Cyrus’ album with Achy Breaky Heart.  Even she admitted that the rest of the album was meh . . she would play the hit track on repeat and I tell you it doesn’t get better with repetition.  smh
@slaw, Joan Osborne hasn’t come close to the quality of her debut album with her subsequent releases.  I want to say that she needs to stop doing cover songs and put out some original music.  But maybe that would require her putting the reefer down and recovering some ambition.  I have also considered that the magic of “Relish” might have had as much, or more, to do with Eric Bazilian than Joan.
@wturkey, Totally agree with you regarding those two Paula Cole albums.

One of the old records I was cleaning and listening to today was, “Its a Beautiful Day, Live at Carnegie Hall.” I could blame it on the recording, because the sound was weak. Even on their hit, “White Bird”, it was bad. Of course, maybe they were just one of many acts that sounded a lot better in the studio than live.
Don’t get me wrong . . I love Joan Osborne too.  It’s just after her debut album the others I have heard have been spotty.  

Have any of you listened to “The Flaming Lips”?   They might appeal most to teens, but from what I have heard of them they are like Saturday Night Live after the original cast left . . . more bizarre than entertaining.   I recall a title like  . . Yoshi Battles the Pink Robots (?).   I will pass.
Geoff, admit it, you never had to take anything to get stoned, you were born that way.  🥴