Lulu - Metallica and Lou Reed..... so bad :(
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!
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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I was talking about this online with friends recently. Back in the day when we used to really pay for music, not have entire catalogues available at a click, you'd wait for NEW Bowie or Led Zep or Elvis stuff to come out and listen to an album side in its entirety because, A) you paid serious 70's bucks. B) there wasn't any remote control and I was too high to get up and cross the room to skip the lousy track. Ultimately, it was easier to find what was good about an album...and there are songs in languages I don't speak that I can sing in full. That wouldn't have happened with a remote. You gave lots of music a seriously fair chance. I find I discard way more music in the digital world. Even without the sheer, mindblowing volume of 'stuff', the digital musical disappointments are way more frequent. |
feeling nostalgic, picked up Keith Moon’s “Two Sides of the Moon” recalling the album cover artwork...unfortunately there actually was an album in there that I had to spin...despite the incredibly talented support musicians listed therein, the main attraction just never showed up...quite possibly the WORST album ever ! |
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. |
The Charlie Parker Story, Savoy MG has to be by far the poorest compilation and engineered recording ever produced. Shorts and excerpts of tracks that have been cut and dubbed to the point I only keep it for the soul purpose of setting up my turntable cartridges. Every time I even notice it while thumbing through my collection I am amazed they produced this garbage. A real discredit for such an amazing musician. |
There are some DREADFUL albums listed here! " I love Steely Dan, and I have read that some members here even like this one, but their album Gaucho is a snorefest." bob540-I have for the longest time tried to like that album. That album seems to be a "must have" for some reason, especially audiogeeks. It has the "80’s sound" which I lump in with the awful "smooth Jazz" which also became popular. SD to me is pre Aja, though I still enjoy pulling out my AB1006 "stamper" copy now and then. Six Pence None the Richer-OUCH!another band in the dead zone(1980-present). I found the Seattle scene the only genre that saved the period. Kajagogo- my girlfriend at the time, had a little sister who was in love with Lamahl. I was in a serious "Classic R&R" mourning period. All my heroes were getting old and stale. https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/weird-news/limahl-budgie-world-champion-budgie-2901973 Comments on noted albums- I take offense to Who’s Live at Leeds getting the thumbs down. Perhaps it wasn’t played LOUD enough? Keith Moon- yeah, just bad. King Crimson-I have a plain old domestic press and kept in context, sounds good. Just proves its the pressing, and a crapshoot. Victim of Love- What the heck happened after GYBR? Stones- I gave it some time to warm up to it. Compare it to their 80’s run, then it clicks. |
Anything by Radiohead ok...OK Computer, is the only one I bought. I was told they were ’The next Pink Floyd’, and that was the album to get. Bought it with great anticipation, and waited a few months, cracked that $35-$40 double album open..and..nothing. Nothing at all. Just...bleh. Trying to be relevant, it was...but...failing miserably to be anything but warmed up 10 day old over-salted watery soup. |
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. |
"Kind of Blue" Miles Davis. First cut on Columbia re-issue LP sounds distorted when the saxophone comes on, plus some lesser issues further on. This is apparently a known issue, and for some reason no one ever was able (or willing) to fix it. By comparison the Sony re-issued CD from decades back, somehow is masking that error, making it less noticeable. One excuse I learned is, that it's the inadvertent spitting in the sax's mouth-piece, that was causing the 'distortion'... Really? 🤔 Michélle 🇿🇦 |
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. |
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. |