[Closed] What's the worst album you ever bought?

someone bought me a santana album, and tickets to see them. god knows why i went....... 🙁

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God knows what I was thinking.

Somebody bought me Candy O by The Cars, which was a terrible moment as well. Not least unwrapping the somewhat risque album cover in front of my nan.

Martinhutch has it. I saw them on the second stage at Glastonbury the year before that came out and they were amazing – I couldn't understand why they were first on in the morning with such skills. Then they released that and now I know.

The XX

They played Skipton Auction Mart recently. From Glasto to a concrete bunker covered in cow poop. Pop - it's a shit business, as Les McQueen would say.

Sahara Hotnights, thought they were ace at a festival at 10am once.

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Yeah, I thought the same about Kate Nash. Having heard the first single from it, I didn't even bother listening to Metallica's Lulu, never mind buy it

REM Monster.

Bought it after hearing What's The Frequency Kenneth and thinking they'd got good again.

Rest of the album was sh!t.

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This. I blame Q magazine.

One of the sad things about the way we stream music now is that younger people will no longer experience spending £12 or so on a crap album.

The OP's story is a familiar one, 1 or 2 good singles get released and you think it's worth a punt. Or maybe a radio DJ or The NME rated it. Either way, you're wrong, there are 2 good tracks on the entire album. I reckon I've got 50 CD's that fall into that category.

The Seahorses album springs to mind, terrible album, the single wasn't even that good in hindsight.

There's a Death in Vegas album that fits the same bill, terrible album, 1 good track.

Alisha's Attic - Alisha Rules The World. Just ****ing dreadful.

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Occassionally, back in my NME reading days, I'd take a punt and buy something based on a review. These were the days when I could only afford 1 album a month... I was so pissed off when I listened to this limp-wristed drivel -
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Also, I remember buying Ice-T's rock album, "Body Count" (slight contrast to the above!). Took it back to HMV. "Why do you want to exchange it?" "Cos it's horrible crap" "Fair enough".

REM Monster.

Bought it after hearing What's The Frequency Kenneth and thinking they'd got good again.

Rest of the album was sh!t.

Funny, it's one of my fave REM albums. In fact, I still remember purchasing the CD at HMV Hounslow in 1994.. (have it on vinyl now also).
Strange Currencies, Crush with Eyeliner, Star 69, Kenneth, Bang and Blame, all really good tracks.
Granted, a departure from earlier style, but I like the fuzzy feedback feel.

Anyway, my vote (among many contenders): Len - You cant stop the bum rush.

Sang Steal my Sunshine one night at karaoke, had fun, bought the album. A low point of my musical life.

lots of dodgy 90s metal - key contenders would have to be

Anthrax - Stomp 442
Misery Loves Co - Misery Loves Co
Biohazard - State of the World Address

but the winner, which I am mortally embarrassed to admit to buying, was Manowar - Triumph of Steel. Diabolical stuff. God knows what I was thinking - in my defence, I was about 13....

edit: That Biohazard album really was ****ing dreadful though. My god.

someone bought me a santana album, and tickets to see them. god knows why i went..

😯

Kanye West - College Dropout. I bought it, around 2005 'cos I liked All Falls Down & Jesus Walks. Rest of the album is rubbish, as is virtually everything else I've heard from him since.

Gorillaz first album - Gorillaz, mainly because I liked Clint Eastwood. Dirge.

(sorry, the request was for worst album, but I couldn't decide).

Idle Race, nearly fifty years ago. The details are forgotten, the hurt lives on.

Kaiser Chief's first album (Employment?).

Very, very average.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time by Cornershop. One of those purchases under the impression that Brimful Of Asha was quite a catchy tune, the whole album would be the same. It wasn't. Unbelievably I don't own the album anymore and since I never throw music away but sell quite a bit, that must mean someone else actually bought it from me!

When I Was Born For The 7th Time by Cornershop

IIRC they moaned that nobody understood them and that people were only really buying their single because Fatboy Slim did a remix.

To be fair they might have had a point.

Anyway, back on track.

Babylon Zoo, can't remember the title. It was utter tosh.

I feel slightly ashamed.

Pocket full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctors, on the strength of Two Princes, dreadful

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...in so many ways!

I have an SACD capable player, so have been keeping my eye out for purchasing an SACD for some time. Finally found this in a store in Delft. Of all the SACDs it was the only one I thought I'd not hate. I didn't know what it was, but I figured I'd at least enjoy the experience of discovering the DSD encoding sound.

First I had to deal with the owner who was a tosspot. Next I had to pay quite a significant sum. Then I travelled a couple of hours home to discover the disc was not in the box. I wasted several days to receive the disc (which he did at least post out FOC), and discovered that my player is only going to read the CD layer of the dual format disc, no matter what I do.

Lastly- it's ducking [i]awful [/i], pretentious twaddle! Ok they're clearly skilled but hell's bells juat play something with some semblance of a tune, please sometimes, would you?

Not been this annoyed since.... Well, the Chili's post Californication.

When I Was Born For The 7th Time by Cornershop.

Thanks for reminding me about that,I forgot it's in my collection..
It's all subjective,I've never been a U2 fan but I bought Joshua Tree when it was all over the airwaves,I reckon I've played it twice.The second time to confirm my doubts... 😥

Pocket full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctors,

Pocket full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctors, on the strength of Two Princes, dreadful

I've got that, it's not masterpiece but as a harmless bit of 90s poppy college rock it's not too bad. IMO, obvs 🙂

3 Years, 5 Months & 2 Days in the Life Of... by Arrested Development. On cassette.

It was the first album I ever bought with my own money. Quite liked Mr Wendal, but the rest was shit. Made me realise that hip-hop/R&B wasn't for me 🙂

Next albums purchased were Aerosmith's Get a Grip and Metallica's Black album, still two of my all-time favourites.

Maverick A Strike by Finley Quaye - bought on the back of someones recommendation, not one of my wisest choices. Stick to what you know and like.

+1 on the Cornershop garbage. Post Achtung Baby U2 - In fact U2 were the reason I stopped trying to impress girls by liking their music. Glasgow, Celtic Park concerts back in the early 90's. Unfortunately not the night PJ Harvey was supporting. All it did was give me sore feet and a disdain for stadium rock

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This is a close second. I understand he was threatened with torture if he didn't write it, so it is somewhat understandable that the experience is so tortuous. This at least was only a couple of quid.

WRT Toploader, I think that they, muchlike Rootjoose probably wasted their talent on vast quantities of grade-A ganja.

Rootjoose's [s]first[/s] album was still [i]amazing[/i] 😛

jagged little pill - alanis morrisette.

played it once. bloody awful. still not sure why i bought it.

So bad it was almost funny

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Pocket full of Kryptonite by Spin Doctors,

+1 that Was the first thing that sprung in to my head.

But as it's been done already how about:

Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern

or

Dog Eat Dog - All Boro Kings

Brimful Of Asha was quite a catchy tune

That song is my worst ever earworm.

I bough Busta Rhymes Genesis as loved Break Ya Neck, can't listen to the rest really - some of it's a bit rude too....

Spartacus by The Farm. Bought it on the day of release, gave it away the following day.

Dog Eat Dog - All Boro Kings

Crap, forgot about that......jesus there was some bad music in the 90's

I've got that, it's not masterpiece but as a harmless bit of 90s poppy college rock it's not too bad. IMO, obvs

The Outsider - DJ Shadow - truly awful

Collision course by linkin park and jz- was really into linkin park, but that was such a piece of crap! All the good songs cut up and destroyed...

Neither Fish nor Fowl by Terence Trent d'Arby...
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I heard "The Simple Life" by Chamberlain on the Odd Man Out soundtrack, awesome song even now, makes me think of snowboarding in powder whenever I hear it.
I was in London with work one day, popped into Tower Records and they had the album so I bought it on a whim. It was a US import, nearly £20 back in '98 and it was rubbish. One good song, which I already had....:-(

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First one that came to mind..
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At the time I was tempted by 'Do you Realize'(which now annoys me,if I hear it).
Pretentious pile of poo.

the winner, which I am mortally embarrassed to admit to buying, was Manowar - Triumph of Steel. Diabolical stuff.

Ha, you must be a follower of false metal. Or something.

Yoshimi... is fantastic.

Another shamed owner of Pocketful Of Kryptonite here, but I think my worst offender might be...

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...I have NO idea how and why I bought that.

Girls at Our Best - Pleasure. Bought the album after hearing Fast Boyfriends.

The rest of the album was a huge disappointment to a 15 year old 'punk'. Think I played it once.

I still have it if anyone would like to buy it off me 🙂

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In a World of Babybird, Kula Shaker, the Electric Soft Parade and Elastica, I cannot believe that people are having a go at the seahorses album.

Headmusic by Suede still kills me now. Such a let down after the genius of its predecessor.

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You're dissing Elastica?!

Outside pal.

At the time I was tempted by 'Do you Realize'(which now annoys me,if I hear it).
Pretentious pile of poo.

Yoshimi is a brilliant album. This however:

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Coming after Deserter's Songs and All Is Dream, was an enormous let down.

Yoshimi is a brilliant album

The Vice Squad one, is that not the cover of Last Rockers EP. I can't remember what they even sounded like, might listen to that EP tonight.

jagged little pill - alanis morrisette.
played it once. bloody awful. still not sure why i bought it.

Odd. That is definitely in my top 20 albums, possible the top 10. The acoustic version is awesome on a hangover.

You're dissing Elastica?!

Outside pal.

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Elastica were sinfully poor and that one song that people quite liked turned out to be a massive rip off that got them sued! Bin!

The Vice Squad one, is that not the cover of Last Rockers EP.

oops may have posted the wrong one... it was their 1st album maybe No cause for Concern? The production was shocking, real shame as I was really looking forward to it coming out, got it home & it sounded rough as a badgers 🙁

Ha, you must be a follower of false metal. Or something.

I never did work out what False Metal was.

Heard a good anecdote about at one festival, Manowar insisted on being able to ride Harley Davidsons onto the stage for their big entrance. Cue a huge palaver getting the bikes shipped in, loaded backstage etc, for the band to ride them about 10m at a walking pace, before a load of roadies had to come and wheel them off again 😆

(they later held everyone up from leaving when the merch stand - which they had supplied with 2,000 t-shirts - then had to count back in and account for 1,997 unsold Manowar shirts)

Seahorses were ok but listening to it these days I'm kinda glad they sacked it off after 1 (and a half, kinda) albums. Such middle of the road, easy listening, Squire self indulgent crap. Its almost as bad as the Brown self indulgent crap that he came out with. At least that was so electronically altered you could hardly make out it was him 'singing'.

kula shaker....I'd wiped them from my memory..thanks for that... 😆

Oooooh, just remembered another seeing the St Anger Metallica post...

Death Magnetic by Metallica...

I honestly haven't listened to the whole thing because the production of it is so awful. It's like they pushed all the dials into the red by accident & only realised too late in the day. It's a widely reported issue, which apparently doesn't appear on the Guitar Hero versions of the tracks because they were done separately from the CD release.

I saw an interview with Lars Ulrich where he says that it was supposed to be like that and (to paraphrase) the haters don't know what they're talking about.

Waveform image from Wikipedia (by Stormwatch)
The top one is the CD waveform compared to the Guitar Hero tracks.

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[i]I still have it if anyone would like to buy it off me[/i]

Tempted..!

[i]how about:

Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern[/i]

Oh crikey, that was bad - it was his voice! Awful. The first few singles were ok (Wide Open Space), but a whole album of it Sheesh! Apparently they have a devoted fanbase who still have Mansun conventions and stuff. Sad bastards.

the features (who?)

Saw them support kings of leon and they were amazing, one of the best supports i've ever seen. I thought these guys are going to be massive. bought the album immediately... it was awful. middle of the road mush. no tunes. no hooks, no ideas, meh. I still can't explain the disparity. i wasnt even drunk.

Either.

An album I cant remember the name of by The Juliana Theory. It was recommended to me by Amazon back in the day, and they'd got a couple right but my god it was a bag of ass. I think I listened to half of it before I put it back on the shelf. It's still there now.

Or

The better Life by 3 Doors Down, off the back of the song from American Pie the Wedding, utter drivel. According to Wikipedia its Post Grunge, but it's just shit.

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Roger Waters
Music from the body

Just dire

Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now.

Dreadful.

I've bought a few albums over the years that I've taken a punt on and not been impressed by, but I always took it on the chin and - in a money-wasting kind of way - it was part of the fun.

The Outsider - DJ Shadow

^THIS, however, was a huge and genuine disappointment, even after tempering my high expectations.

Every Foo Fighters after the 1st. The next few albums had a few decent singles with the rest being absolute sonic magnolia. The latest albums have been just bland beyond all belief.

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*sigh*

"I Speak Because I Can" by Laura Marling.

I quite liked the poppy folky "Alas, I Cannot Swim" but ISBIC was just depressing, boring, self-indulgent shite.

I know someone who would've bought this -
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Hey Retro83, im with you on ISBIC, however she redeemed herself significantly with the Live From York Minster release that was included with A Creature I Don't Know...

Clearly the answer to this is the Spaghetti Incident by Guns and Roses.

One Hot Minute by the Chili Peppers. I already had and liked Blood Sugar Sex Magik, Californication and By the Way so I thought I should fill in the gap. Thankfully I got it from Fopp who had a generous returns policy.

Runners up include BMRC by Black Rebel Motorcycle Club (Whatever Happened To My Rock 'N' Roll was not typical of the album), some album by Alannah Myles (Black Velvet was OK, the rest of the album far below it) and Fear Yourself by Daniel Johnston (bought because it was produced by Sparklehorse's Mark Linkous, but almost impossible to listen to all the way though).

I got the Weezer album, coz I liked Hash Pipe

the rest of the album did not float my boat

Another vote for DJ Shadow - The Outsider. I don't think I even made it through three songs.

Can't believe someone was dissing Biohazard though. State of the World Address is a classic.

limp bizkit. 😳

I loved them when i was 15. I bought the first album as a US import for £23.99 - still the most expensive album i've bought.

I just looked at an inflation calculator and that's £38 today. 38 quid. 😯

although i also bought the rest of their output, and it only got worse. So probably their later stuff.

I loved Offramp by Pat Methany.
I saw Song X and bought it. I found I don't like free jazz. Well not at the price I paid for it.

jagged little pill - alanis morrisette.
played it once. bloody awful. still not sure why i bought it.
Odd. That is definitely in my top 20 albums, possible the top 10. The acoustic version is awesome on a hangover.

Genuine LOL sorry!

As a callow 18 yr old I loved simple minds new gold dream. I then bought sparkle in the rain. Urgh. Awful. I saw them for what they were, pedlars of pomp.

A Sandy Denny live album. She was pissed and inaudible. The only truly audible sound she made was falling off her stool.
Titter they did not. I think most of the audience had left already.

As a teenager I bought a lightening seeds album having heard a song on the radio.

By the gods it was dreary and awful.

One Hot Minute by the Chili Peppers

Seriously? not listened for a while but I consider that the last truly good album they did, as Califorificawhatsit was sowing the seeds of a decline into mediocrity that still seems to be going to this day... (different Guitarist though IIRC so had a very different feel)