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The most disappointing Album you have bought

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  • SamB09
    SamB09 Posts: 901
    SamB09 said:
    Slayer - reign in blood

    I think i was about 14 and had been getting into all the hard rock stuff that was in the chsrts in the early 2000s like linkin park, limp bizkit, blink 182, sum 41 ect.

    Someone reccomended slayer to me and a couple of others so went up to hmv in the broadway bought this slayer album and it was so disappointing. When people say metal is just noise i think albums like this  have cemented that reputation 
    LOL. Slayer aren't heavy. This is heavy: 😁
    https://youtu.be/qyYmS_iBcy4
    You may aswell go to a construction site it would be comparable to that!
  • SELR_addicks
    SELR_addicks Posts: 15,446
    Arctic Monkeys - Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino
  • An Prog Rock album I bought while going through my Kronenbourg 1664 stage of life.

  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,846
    edited November 2021
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    Utterly shit.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,846
    I remember on the way to a gig at the Borderline,  on Charing Cross Road. We we're talking on the train, and the next thing I'm lamenting the producer... Was he coming to the gig?

    A year earlier I'd got into Pixies, me and perhaps another CL subscriber, and some others - saw them play in summer 1988 across London, and the next year as they took over the whole scene - I was there, sort of thing...

    By spring 1989, the heavily trailed second proper LP was much anticipated. First broadcast on John Peel as  session tracks, I captured onto cassette and replayed ad infintum on Walkman ... slightly 6th form music weirdo but otherwise largely unnoticed. The gigs were another world. At each gig a new song was burned into our hearts. 

    I bleed, debaser, tame, hey ... they seemed were exclusive to cassette forever (about  6 months in reality, if that...) They were  figments of a vinyl dream. Not recorded, not released. Just for personal use.

    I had stolen from them from the radio, and I knew the future.

    An then at the club, Gil Norton wasn't there. A mate's sister was liaising (linking?) with him. He was in London, but not at the gig. Or maybe, he was hidden from me.

    You see I would've told him;  Doolittle is a pile of shit. What have you done? Why this watered down,  coffee table turd of an LP? How dare you temper the Pixies energy, swear ... why did you even think to get involved? Why not get Billy Joel to play some piano, you f...

    Luckily he wasn't there. (It was another night I got thrown out the Borderline.)

    And of course I still have my copy of Doolittle. With the 4AD cards and book thingy. Love the songs, hate the production. Bring back Albini!

    And I play the other Pixies LPs to the kids.

    There you have it kids, DON'T TAKE DRUGS!
  • Addickted
    Addickted Posts: 19,456
    Tangerine Dream - circa 1979

    Tangerine Dream - Rubycon 1975
  • In terms of long waits for a 2nd album after an epic debut, then abject disappointment:

    Stone Roses - Second Coming
    Donald Fagan - Kamakiriad
  • iainment
    iainment Posts: 8,039
    An album by It’s a beautiful day.

    Heard a track on a sampler album which I really liked. But the rest was cack.
  • SamB09 said:
    SamB09 said:
    Slayer - reign in blood

    I think i was about 14 and had been getting into all the hard rock stuff that was in the chsrts in the early 2000s like linkin park, limp bizkit, blink 182, sum 41 ect.

    Someone reccomended slayer to me and a couple of others so went up to hmv in the broadway bought this slayer album and it was so disappointing. When people say metal is just noise i think albums like this  have cemented that reputation 
    LOL. Slayer aren't heavy. This is heavy: 😁
    https://youtu.be/qyYmS_iBcy4
    You may aswell go to a construction site it would be comparable to that!
    See - that's the wrong attitude. People have different tastes. Just pointing out that what you considered 'heavy'... Really isn't that heavy. All music is just personal taste. Apart from The Beatles. They were shite. 
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  • Dazzler21
    Dazzler21 Posts: 51,344
    SamB09 said:
    SamB09 said:
    Slayer - reign in blood

    I think i was about 14 and had been getting into all the hard rock stuff that was in the chsrts in the early 2000s like linkin park, limp bizkit, blink 182, sum 41 ect.

    Someone reccomended slayer to me and a couple of others so went up to hmv in the broadway bought this slayer album and it was so disappointing. When people say metal is just noise i think albums like this  have cemented that reputation 
    LOL. Slayer aren't heavy. This is heavy: 😁
    https://youtu.be/qyYmS_iBcy4
    You may aswell go to a construction site it would be comparable to that!
    See - that's the wrong attitude. People have different tastes. Just pointing out that what you considered 'heavy'... Really isn't that heavy. All music is just personal taste. Apart from The Beatles. They were shite. 

    AGREE.
  • Addickted said:
    Tangerine Dream - circa 1979

    Tangerine Dream - Rubycon 1975
    I had that, I liked it...
  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Relayer by Yes.
    Sacrilege!

    First album I ever bought. Still play it today almost 50 years later 
  • Uboat
    Uboat Posts: 12,195
    Uboat said:
    Some people whose opinion I respect wouldn’t stop going on about The War on Drugs, so I bought one of theirs. First play, very disappointed. Gave it one more try and really tried to like it, but it’s just so boring. 
    Funny enough I love them. But if there were a thread about most disappointing live gig, theirs in Prague would be mine. But to be fair their second guitarist was missing, gone down with flu. 

    Which album was it?  "Lost in a Dream" is most fans' favourite. It's funny how they divide opinion. My wife thinks they're all a bit meh and samey. And the concert didn't help!

  • TEL
    TEL Posts: 10,100
    Being a Mike Oldfield fan, I automatically purchased both Heavens Open and Earth Moving to keep my collection up to date. 

    Both absolute drivel with no redeeming  songs to make it worthwhile keeping. Both condemned to the charity shop collection.

  • SamB09
    SamB09 Posts: 901
    SamB09 said:
    SamB09 said:
    Slayer - reign in blood

    I think i was about 14 and had been getting into all the hard rock stuff that was in the chsrts in the early 2000s like linkin park, limp bizkit, blink 182, sum 41 ect.

    Someone reccomended slayer to me and a couple of others so went up to hmv in the broadway bought this slayer album and it was so disappointing. When people say metal is just noise i think albums like this  have cemented that reputation 
    LOL. Slayer aren't heavy. This is heavy: 😁
    https://youtu.be/qyYmS_iBcy4
    You may aswell go to a construction site it would be comparable to that!
    See - that's the wrong attitude. People have different tastes. Just pointing out that what you considered 'heavy'... Really isn't that heavy. All music is just personal taste. Apart from The Beatles. They were shite. 
    Ok so slayer are heavy and lorna shore are very heavy, just my personal opinion ;)
  • Wake Up by the Boo Radleys

    Giant Steps is one of the best albums ever how they managed that as a follow up is a complete mystery.
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    Utterly shit.
    Love Ian Gillan but that is piss poor, definitely.  

    Biggest disappointment for me was Born Again.

    I was so looking forward to Sabbath with a great lead singer but it was drenched in bass and sounded like it had been recorded under water.
  • Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy....all that time/drama/production costs and Axl Rose served up that rubbish. 
  • SamB09
    SamB09 Posts: 901
    Guns N' Roses - Chinese Democracy....all that time/drama/production costs and Axl Rose served up that rubbish. 
    Some good songs on that to be fair. Better, street of dreams, there was a time.
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  • Shrew
    Shrew Posts: 5,749
    I really like a lot of Christy Moore songs, mostly heard live but the production on his albums is generally dreadful
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,006
    edited November 2021
    Stand Strong Stand Proud - Vice Squad
    I played it once and once only.
  • Boom
    Boom Posts: 1,679
    Bentley Rhythm Ace. Off it recommended it. Dog shit.
  • Off_it
    Off_it Posts: 28,846
    Boom said:
    Bentley Rhythm Ace. Off it recommended it. Dog shit.
    Nothing to do with me. Completely your choice.
  • Altered Images - Pinky Blue

    Bought it in a sale - truly dreadful.
  • cafckev
    cafckev Posts: 2,914
    Without doubt U2 Joshua Tree - I listened to it once, it gave me a massive headache and I never listened to it again!
  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,198
    cafckev said:
    Without doubt U2 Joshua Tree - I listened to it once, it gave me a massive headache and I never listened to it again!
    Some advice for listening to this album: turn the treble right down it takes the Edge off.
  • PragueAddick
    PragueAddick Posts: 22,145
    Uboat said:
    Uboat said:
    Some people whose opinion I respect wouldn’t stop going on about The War on Drugs, so I bought one of theirs. First play, very disappointed. Gave it one more try and really tried to like it, but it’s just so boring. 
    Funny enough I love them. But if there were a thread about most disappointing live gig, theirs in Prague would be mine. But to be fair their second guitarist was missing, gone down with flu. 

    Which album was it?  "Lost in a Dream" is most fans' favourite. It's funny how they divide opinion. My wife thinks they're all a bit meh and samey. And the concert didn't help!

    Ah, that one. It is a bit "impenetrable" as one rave review of their latest album wrote. 

    Try "Lost in a Dream", but maybe wait until a sunny Spring day for it.
  • thewolfboy
    thewolfboy Posts: 2,927
    'Shooting at the Moon' by Kevin Ayers. He was brilliant live at the time but this album was annoying in several ways. A much shortened 'Clarence in Wonderland' without its naughty lyrics and given a psychedelic spin, was nowhere near as good as his live version. The production had too much bass imo, and an eight minute 'Pissar Dans un Violon' should never have been included. The album was redeemed by his magnificent 'May I' and his lovely folk duo with Bridget St John singing 'The Oyster and the Flying Fish' plus some great solos by Mike Oldfield, so not all bad but overall, it left me very frustrated.
  • Child-In-Time-LPsjpg

    Utterly shit.
    Very poor production, some good tracks though, imo of course!