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I was given 60 albums all in pretty good condition or no scratches just the inner sleeves all needed to be turned 90° a basic mistake anyway one of them is hooked on number ones by k-tel just 20 secs by all star cast. It's getting wrapped as a secret santa present for someone lucky
Another album I bought years ago spoilt by pubescent girls screaming The Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl
Is your post encrypted?
It makes no sense to me.
Bad album: Black Star by Bowie.
That free U2 one that nobody wanted and kept restoring itself to itunes every time you deleted it.
Bad album you say?
Travelogue by The Human League. Delusions of adequacy. Should have been called Pissing About With a Prophet 5.
Hooked on number ones think "stars on 45" remember them? over 100 songs on one album no breaks just 20 seconds then onto the next one. It is really bad
Bad album: Black Star by Bowie.
You’re ****ing kidding, right? #rollseyes
Gomez 2nd album (liquid skin), such a disappointment after Bring it on
And Arctic monkeys trying to reinvent themselves
I know music is subjective, but I would put Black Star in the top 5 Bowie records.
That Metallica & Lou Reed thing
I have this album in my collection
The sleeve notes are worth the price of admission alone - a lengthy surreal badly translated essay that midway through proclaims the album is 'the ideal music for dull parties' and ends with he statement that 'even stiff dolls will unbend'
The Longpigs second album. First was ace and became part of the soundtrack to my teenage so I couldn't wait for the follow up only to be crushingly disappointed at how terrible it was.
Deep Purple - Come Taste the Band, horrible! Bought it on impulse aged 17, a life lesson in disappointment!
Black Star by Bowie a bad album,?! One of his finest pieces of work, even more powerful given the circumstances under which it was written & recorded.
'Bigger, Better, Faster, More' by Four Non Blondes...absolute garbage, bought on the strength of one track. Never made that mistake again.
The final Credence Clearwater album, Mardis Gras?, was dubbed Fogerty’s Revenge, due to John Fogerty letting the other members of the band have some input ... with dire results.
I've just given Black Star another listen. Still a big fat no from me.
It's definitely not one of his finest outputs.
It's not very well produced / engineered either.
Gomez 2nd album (liquid skin), such a disappointment after Bring it on
Hard album to follow up, but it does have some of their best tracks on, Bring It On, Blue Moon Rising, Rythym and Blues Alibi and one of my favourites Devil Will Ride is a masterpiece.
I bought Bigger, Better, Faster, More!, really liked it and still listen to it. One of the nice things about music is how subjective it is.
There a few albums that are ruined by jokes and novelties.
Sound on the outgroove - like on Sgt Pepper for instance. Interesting once - but gives you a really good reason not to listen to that album as an album
Similarly on the CD release of Second Coming by the Stone Roses there a jokey plinky plinky daft bit of music that comes on a long time after the album ends. "Lolz". But to achieve that theres dozens of short silent tracks between the last song on the album and that gag - so if you wanted to shuffle the tracks on a CD player you just got lots of chunks of silence.
Funny you should say that, but "Second Coming" by the Stone Roses. Turgid rock fantasy. Awful, awful.
I quite like some of the albums mentioned above! (Stone Roses, Gomez)
Biggest disappointment for me was Random Access Memory by Daft Punk. The Get Lucky Single was promising, then came the album, filled with mediocre disco cheese
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Funny you should say that, but “Second Coming” by the Stone Roses. Turgid rock fantasy. Awful, awful.
Amen, brother. So bad I took it personally.
But I do have sympathy with artists who make something transcendentally brilliant early on in their careers and then go on to have everything else they ever do trashed by the same people who loved the early thing because it isn't exactly the same as the early thing.
DJ Shadow - someone who knows plenty about that phenomenon - articulated it well on Romesh Ranganathan's podcast a little while ago, it was a thoughtful way of looking at it.
That Metallica & Lou Reed thing
They should offer a degree course in the decline of metallica. The constant flitting between trying to create something new and then immediately trying to revert back to their original fan base with some formulaic tosh is fascinating.
Be Here Now. Been Played Once.
I really liked Second Coming !
Crash Test Dummies third album, A Worm's Life was tragic compared to their debut and somophore offerings.
Ah, Second Coming.
What cocaine psychosis actually sounds like. 🙂