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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!
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glupson
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"Marcel Marceau's Greatest Hits.Not a track on it worth listening to."
Come on, the applause was so realistic...
glupson
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geoffkait,

Not at all.

Learn to swim with big fish 🐟. You may learn how to catch a worm 🎣.
glupson
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geoffkait,

"Oh, geez, glubson with his theories of reality again."
Don't you hate it when someone knows more than you do? I actually own all of those Exile On Main Street copies I mentioned above. How about yourself? I own Ummagumma cassette, too. And multiple SONY Walkmen. Don't be jealous. Some guys are just better.
glupson
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You guys listened to the wrong format and wrong issue.
Strangely enough, German LPs pressing from about 1982 is bad. German CD from 1990, or so, is bad. U.S.A. CD (Virgin) from mid-1990s sounds almost the same except it is much more clear which reveals even more how poor of a sound quality/recording it is. The best amongst them is relatively recent half-speed master LPs. Which does not mean it is anything good. It is only less than entirely pitiful. I prefer that German pressing from 1982 but it is not because of the sound quality as there is none.

I have not heard the 1994 cassette, but, to paraphrase one of the lines in Roman law, what was not good from the beginning will not get better with time passing. Except maybe Ummagumma. Which does sound marvelous on an Italian cassette.
glupson
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I have listened to Exile On Main Street many times and have multiple issues of it, but I do think it is overrated. It may be because there is always a story about it. Recorded wherever, recording sessions were whatever. It is never about the music. It always has something else attached to it. It became mythical. Lots of stories, a few good songs, many fillers, horrible sound quality.

glupson
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"Hard to decide betweeen Kajagoogoo or Wang Chung."
I think you are just Too shy, shy, to admit that Kajagoogoo is still as good as it was then.
glupson
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uberwaltz,

"Not Quite sure what that is saying about you Glupson... lol."
That I like Prog Disco.
glupson
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I Bought Ummagumma cassette #2 (they were sold separately) because I liked the name. It started as something unlistenable, not even one song was passable, but nowadays I truly enjoy it.

There is something to be said about tastes. Unlike pjr801, I have been enjoying Emotional Rescue by the Rolling Stones ever since. It may still be the only album I ever put on "repeat". Not a bad song on it. Go figure.
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