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

Yep: state of the world address was a cracking album.

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This was pretty awful.

[i]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.[/i]

There's been a recent reissue of New Gold Dream - it was given a rave positive review by Uncut, saying it hasn't dated! What?! 👿

Gun's & Roses Greatest Hits.

A couple of months ago as I needed change for the photo booth.

Not aged well.
Some ok songs ruined by Waxl's voice and awful production.

Add my name to the list of disappointed Pocketful of Kryptonite owners. And that Limp Bizkit one. And the second Kula Shaker (I liked the first)

But the worst for me was the New Radicals - they had that one hit ("Get up what you give" or some such garbage). Not good.

And One Hot Minute is the last interesting thing RHCP did really - Californication sounded okay at the time but with hindsight was the start of them becoming mind-numbingly dull. And yes, different guitarist - Dave Navarro, better known as guitarist for Jane's Addiction.

Yep: state of the world address was a cracking album.

honestly guys, go back and listen to 'Five Blocks To The Subway' (hey, it's Friday night). Listen to the lyrics. It's just awful!

I liked it at the time. I even paid extra to get the limited orange CD case. But I was wrong. 😆 There's a lot of 90's metal that hasn't aged well (see also: Fear Factory) but that one's particularly bad!

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...

this is my position on One Hot Minute too. But I should probably listen again, it's been a while. I won't be listening to Californication in a hurry though...was so disappointed when I got that home (on the day it came out!)

Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern

I quite liked it.

Iron Maiden - 7th Son has not aged particularly well at all.

Aphex Twin's 'Druqks' was a benchmark in audience contempt.
Menswear's album was hideous. I'm not sure what I was thinking. I was at university, though.

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.[\quote]

There's been a recent reissue of New Gold Dream - it was given a rave positive review by Uncut, saying it hasn't dated! What?!

I think that for Simple Minds, 'New Gold Dream' was the high water mark. It has some very good songs on it.....the later stuff did devolve into pomp rock, very true.
*fires up [i]'The Hunter and the Hunted'[/i] on Spotify*

This ............

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I bought El Rayo X by David Lindley on the strength of 'Mercury Blues', expecting a full album of slide guitar-based fast-paced rock.

I ended up with a piss-poor reggae album 😕

Iron Maiden - 7th Son has not aged particularly well at all.

Rubbish. It's still a great 5/5 album.

I still listen to Druqks and still very much enjoy it.

I also owned the Mense@r [?] album, I was 14. I didn't know any better.

Listen to the lyrics

You could say that about any Biohazard album, and there were much worse to come.

Personally, I never bought a Biohazard album for the lyrics.

unklehomered - Member

One Hot Minute by the Chili Peppers

Seriously?

Yup. Gave it as many listens as I could stand but it didn't work at all for me. I was never a Chilis purist though, I don't have anything pre Blood Sugar Sex Magik and the Californication/By The Way era was probably the point that I liked them most. My interest in them has certainly waned since then, but I'd be surprised if that resulted in an increased appreciation for One Hot Minute compared to the other albums.

Seth Lakeman...

Y'know, I thought I'd give it a go.. I tried. Being a fan of Kate Rusby and a few other Folkies' I just thought I'd try to expand my musical taste, I think I found my limit, sorry Seth.

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gobuchul - Member
Antony and the Johnsons - I am a bird now.

Dreadful.

Really? Love that, still listen to it regularly. My eldest hates it though, sot it gets more plays than it normally would 😆

Will someone just post the Mal/butwhateerohforgetit .gif and we can move on from this "when RHCP went shit" bit 😉

You could say that about any Biohazard album, and there were much worse to come.

Personally, I never bought a Biohazard album for the lyrics.

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no me neither - in fact I very rarely even notice lyrics - but there's something about that album that just really winds me up!

I always enjoyed Drukqs though.

Iron Maiden - 7th Son has not aged particularly well at all.

I reckon it's the production on that. Soft keyboards, shiny big-budget arrangements - it totally lacks the ragged edge of the pre-85 era. But on a song level, I think 7th Son is up there with the likes of Ancient Mariner. Saw them do it live a few years back actually, and in a concert setting it was much better than the album version 😀

Didn't buy it, but was subjected to it daily in the car by an ex-girlfriend-

"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" by The Cranberries.

My. God. Just...that woman's voice. Sounded like she was alternately stifling a sob and/or trying not to spew. As was I.

Basic 3-chord guitars with awful lyrics.

Shudder.

The best of Dexy's Midnight Runners. What can I say? It was Britannia Music Club and I had to buy something that month.

[quote=codybrennan ]Didn't buy it, but was subjected to it daily in the car by an ex-girlfriend-
"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" by The Cranberries.
My. God. Just...that woman's voice. Sounded like she was alternately stifling a sob and/or trying not to spew. As was I.
Basic 3-chord guitars with awful lyrics.
Shudder.

Yet sold millions and millions of copies.

Absolutely abysmal. She's obscenely rich as a result 😕

Something by Clawfinger in the 90's. RATM were a brilliant band, but in a similar vein to PJ are kind of responsible for a flood of truly horrendous copy cat bands 🙁

Yet sold millions and millions of copies.

Absolutely abysmal. She's obscenely rich as a result

Feel comforted that this sort of travesty can never happen again, what with artists receiving 0.00000001p per play, from spotify. Or something like that.

Literally the first record I ever bought:

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Chosen over this:
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I will carry that regret to my grave.

Didn't buy it, but was subjected to it daily in the car by an ex-girlfriend-

"Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?" by The Cranberries.

My. God. Just...that woman's voice. Sounded like she was alternately stifling a sob and/or trying not to spew. As was I.

Basic 3-chord guitars with awful lyrics.

Shudder.

Something by Clawfinger in the 90's. RATM were a brilliant band, but in a similar vein to PJ are kind of responsible for a flood of truly horrendous copy cat bands

like Biohazard? 😉 😆

I had a couple of Clawfinger albums on tape. One of them had that track 'N*****r' which doesn't really merit being named in full here. They were crap. But at least I didn't pay for them 😀

Swedish rap-rock attempting to deal with American social and political issues. What could possibly go wrong? 😆

Clawfinger never did a good album but Biggest And the Best and Do As I Saw were tunes.

Mine is a Miles Davis compilation I bought in an attempt to broaden my musical experience. I guess it did broaden it inasmuch as it redefined awful. Basically every other album I owned gained 2 stars as a result of the recalibration required.

I had a couple of Clawfinger albums on tape. One of them had that track 'N

That's the one, paid £14 for it too!

It's only the fact I've never bought an album by the pub singer bitch that any of Adele's albums aren't on here.

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Swordfish Trombones, the title should have warned me off! 😉

Rollin by the bay city rollers (I was only 10 in my defence). As a grown up songs from Ally McBeal by Vonda Shepherd is hard to defend.

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My disgust knows no bounds....

I've bought a fair few howlers myself - probably more than most. However, this thread is a real tonic!

I bought the Milli Vanilli album.....I had been a fan of Boney M too,but only bought their singles.
Btw ,I think raceface clinches the win with Bros!

i really wanted that Bros album!

In the music shop one Saturday morning and I hear this fantastic instrumental jam with astoundingly good bass guitar.
Thinking that it must be a new release by Rush, I enquire as to the group being played and the proprietor (Gandalf) points to a cd by a German prog rock combo called 'Spocks Beard'.

I happily hand over the cash and head back home.

maybe he pointed to the wrong cd, because this had to be the most dreary, dismal, and turgid cd I've ever experienced.
No super duper bass work, and as far as I recall, it was a double album!

Roger Waters, Amused to Death.

Hated it, even after listening to it a few times.

A week later, I had a tune in my head, it was off the album, but which song, I listened again...

This repeated itself over and over until I finally realised what an awesome album it is.

Whoa there Pimpmaster - Phunk Junkeez?
I mean it's got some pretty guff tracks on it and I'm sure it's a disappointment after watching Kranked 2... (Wow there's some seriously good tracks on that!)

But no way the worst ever...

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Dr and the Medics. A full album.
Oh lordy.
I'm sure there's more in the attic of similar quality.
I feel cleansed now 🙂

I have 2 copies of the miseducation of lauryn hill. All the cool kids liked her at the time and I suppose I must've bought at least one of the two I "own". Turgid, tryhard (to sound like you're not trying) formulaic shit IM(not very cool)O

Also, the eponymous crime against music by the hindu love gods - another review inspired bucket-o'-shite

and, if I'm honest, whatever the first suede record was called

Dr and the Medics

And what makes it worse I still have the Vinyl somewhere

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Septic Death - Now That I Have The Attention What Do I Do With It, if anyone wants to look it up.

Some Brecker Brothers new age jazz carp. Awful. Never played again.

Trout Mask Replica. What is that all about?

Seth Lakeman...

Just giving it a listen on spotify, I really like it.

Proving that art is in the eye of the beholder.#

So my Friday EDL is home made turkey burgers, real ale and Seth Lakeman

'Spit' by Kittie, a truly awful all female 'nu' metal group, I've regretted it ever since. I'll also second 'Misery loves Co', bought it off the back of one single and the album was depressingly awful.

Nine Inch Nails Broken. Remember buying it as an obsessive Reznor fan in the early 90s.

Absolute shite.

Whitesnake - 'Trouble'.

Grievous. I was a teen and just really liked the badass cover art. It belied the soft poncense within.

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Nightfreak and the sons of becker by The Coral.

acoustic toxic effluent.

On CD so initially caused me great dispair that it couldn't even be turned into somthing half useful such as an ashtray like you could with an old LP until I realised that it made a handy coaster for my coffee mug. I left it in an office in Turin.

'Pop Art' by Transvision Vamp.

Pubescent lust for the lead singer and (now) inexplicable appreciation of the 'I want your love' single led me to spend 2 weeks of paper round earnings on my first ever album.

McAlmont & Butler on the strength(?) of the single that I can't even remember the name of!
Terrible, played it twice at most

Worst I have, but I don't think I paid for was a record being flogged by people from ISKCON[Krishna consciousness]. This hot hippie chic was flogging the records, and she flogged it to a mate, I came away with a copy not sure if it was his copy or if I blagged a copy.
It's a very bad record. I may have to get it out and play it, probably hasn't been played since 1975, may be it's got better!

"The Yes Album" by, er, "Yes".

Weirdly, really liked it at the time, but listening again after all these years courtesy of Qobuz, I have to ask myself "WTF was I thinking"?

Still got a soft spot for "Close To The Edge", mind... 😳

Seth Lakeman..

I love his Kitty Jay album.

Nine Inch Nails Broken. Remember buying it as an obsessive Reznor fan in the early 90s.
Absolute shite

For me that, the downward spiral and the fragile are the best of his output. Awesome. Put "gave up" on loud!

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The manics one is probably worse.

Polyphonic spree
Monkees
Radio head - Kid A

Waderider - Member
Trout Mask Replica. What is that all about?

I've got a copy of that in the car.

Useful when people I don't like scrounge lifts - they don't often ask twice.

I'll also second 'Misery loves Co', bought it off the back of one single and the album was depressingly awful.

it wasn't 'My Mind Still Speaks' was it? Think I heard that on a Metal Hammer free CD or whatever. I really tried with the album, but... nope

Listening back now, the single wasn't that much cop either 😆

the miseducation of lauryn hill. All the cool kids liked her at the time and I suppose I must've bought at least one of the two I "own". Turgid, tryhard (to sound like you're not trying) formulaic shit

😯

chopchop - Member
'Pop Art' by Transvision Vamp.

Pubescent lust for the lead singer and (now) inexplicable appreciation of the 'I want your love' single led me to spend 2 weeks of paper round earnings on my first ever album.

I'm not ashamed to admit i bought Pop Art when I was 16.
I also have Trans by Neal Young, not his best work.

but Wendy James' vocals...

I bought her solo album. I thought it was pretty good at the time. It now resides in the loft. Might have to dig it out.

I liked the first Kate Nash album, but the second was rubbish.

"The Yes Album" by, er, "Yes".

Woppit wins! I'd rather listen to my soggy bedwetters indie June Brides crap 20 times than a Yes album once 😆

If you define the worst as the one you bought, only played once and then left it behind when you last moved because you couldn't be bothered to pack it, then mine would be:
(Whats the story) Morning Glory
I do like Wonderwall to be fair
Strangely enough, I play the Yes Album quite regularly. Ok it isn't their best but it reminds me of my youth.

Nine Inch Nails-Fixed. unlistenable.

Bonkers

Dizzy Rascal?

Dark days/light years - Super Furries
I do so love SFA but have never warmed to this massive pile of audio-poop
Love REM's Monster though

Radio head - Kid A

the worst album you ever bought? And the best?

Some euro ambient compilation thing. Parfum or something. Jesus it was bad.

2virgins by John lennon and yoko ono- i was15 and probably bought it for the cover.
hard to imagine how it got onto vinyl

doris5000 - Member
You're dissing Elastica?!
Outside pal.

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!

lesgrandepotato - Member
Clearly the answer to this is [s]the Spaghetti Incident[/s] every album released by Guns and Roses.

4 Non Blondes album, Bigger, Better, Faster, More... I bought it on the strength of the 'What's up?' single.

Absolute garbage, don't know what possesed me to buy it, but I haven't bought another record since on the strength of hearing just one track.

I got half way through it, took it off, never listened to it again.

[i]I like Elastica, saw them on their first tour, I still wear my Elastica tee shirt too[/i]
I saw them on that tour supporting Pulp, thought they were dull and plodding live. The album was better though, good pop album.

Nice thread, brought back memories of that Dog Eag Dog album being truly shit 20 years ago. Having bought that for full price on release day on student wages it really hurt - the record shop wouldn't change or take it back since already had box full of returns.
I actually dug out my cd collection from closets and threw away that album just now!

I'm going to get flamed for this, but the only album I've ever taken back was Radiohead's The Bends.
Really wanted to like it but found it to be depressing drivel.
To make up for it, I do love 'Burn The Witch'

Chopper you is flamed.

I remember not liking the Bends when I first listened. Wasn't foolish enough to take it back though! So many classic songs.