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SLUDGE FACTORY
06-04-21, 20:42
Yes , Drama ........a complete pile of horse dung
White Stripes .......first album .......rubbish
The Strokes .......student nonsense
Suede ........see above
Pink Floyd ......Division Bell .......burnt out cobblers
Pig Destroyer ......Prowler In The Yard ...........I like my guitars but that was dreadful
Today Is The Day ......an hour of feedback , growling vocals and gut wrenching bass
Swans ......almost every one of their albums is unlistenable , I quite like avant garde stuff but this lot are barking mad
Kiss ......every album after Dynasty , a great pop glam rock band in their day but washed out by 1980
Black Sabbath ....13 .......riffing by numbers , only played it 3 times
Eric the Half a Bee
06-04-21, 20:43
No mention of Gina G?
SLUDGE FACTORY
06-04-21, 20:46
No mention of Gina G?
Far too left field for me
No mention of Gina G?
He's not allowed too, as stipulated in the restraining order.
SLUDGE FACTORY
06-04-21, 20:53
The Darkness , second album , useless
Great live though
valleys caveman
06-04-21, 20:53
Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino.
Really like all their other albums, but the above is dreadful in my opinion.
SLUDGE FACTORY
06-04-21, 20:58
Van Morrison too long in exile
Should have stayed there mate , hopeless nonsense
I’ve got Swans’ Holy Money Sludge. I play it when I want some me time. Mrs opens the door, says what’s that racket and leaves. Simples.
Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
06-04-21, 23:00
Albums were often a rip-off. Like one song? Here's 11 more you won't like. That'll be £13 please. No wonder sales dwindled. Trying to get rid of a stack now but even Music Magpie doesn't want half of them.
Yes , Drama ........a complete pile of horse dung
White Stripes .......first album .......rubbish
The Strokes .......student nonsense
Suede ........see above
Pink Floyd ......Division Bell .......burnt out cobblers
Pig Destroyer ......Prowler In The Yard ...........I like my guitars but that was dreadful
Today Is The Day ......an hour of feedback , growling vocals and gut wrenching bass
Swans ......almost every one of their albums is unlistenable , I quite like avant garde stuff but this lot are barking mad
Kiss ......every album after Dynasty , a great pop glam rock band in their day but washed out by 1980
Black Sabbath ....13 .......riffing by numbers , only played it 3 times
I think I listened to that Sabbath album once. I listened to the last MBV album once too. I just bought an album by Jane Weaver on the strength of one song (and previous albums) and I have to say it's a little disappointing. I can't say I really regret buying any of them though.
I didn't buy it, but about 20-25 years ago I received a present of Duran Duran's Greatest Hits.
Not sure where it is now, but I think it still has the cellophane on it.
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 06:55
I’ve got Swans’ Holy Money Sludge. I play it when I want some me time. Mrs opens the door, says what’s that racket and leaves. Simples.
Dreadful stuff
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 06:56
I think I listened to that Sabbath album once. I listened to the last MBV album once too. I just bought an album by Jane Weaver on the strength of one song (and previous albums) and I have to say it's a little disappointing. I can't say I really regret buying any of them though.
my shelves are creaking
Its time for a cull
the other bob wilson
07-04-21, 06:57
There’s not much music that I really dislike, but that’s how I feel about the Strokes and I’ve never really been sure why. Maybe it’s because of annoyance at me being taken in by the music press’ “next big thing” hype which persuaded me to buy their first album without having heard anything by them.
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 06:57
I didn't buy it, but about 20-25 years ago I received a present of Duran Duran's Greatest Hits.
Not sure where it is now, but I think it still has the cellophane on it.
I will stamp on it for you
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 07:02
There’s not much music that I really dislike, but that’s how I feel about the Strokes and I’ve never really been sure why. Maybe it’s because of annoyance at me being taken in by the music press’ “next big thing” hype which persuaded me to buy their first album without having heard anything by them.
they were crap
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 07:06
whitesnake slide it in
Whitesnake were a superb rock band until coverdale decided to turn them into a poodle haired fake metal band , mixed in with dreadful power ballads
Love hunter, Come and get it , great albums
Anything after that , throw in the bin
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 07:08
motorhead , anything after ace of spades and the live album no sleep till Hammersmith don't even bother
A few years ago I bought the David Bowie Singles collection. Never really been a big fan but thought he was someone I should to listen to and appreciate.
I've tried, but after 1 or 2 tracks I'm just bored and switch it off. The odd song in isolation is fine, but a whole album, no thanks.
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 08:20
A few years ago I bought the David Bowie Singles collection. Never really been a big fan but thought he was someone I should to listen to and appreciate.
I've tried, but after 1 or 2 tracks I'm just bored and switch it off. The odd song in isolation is fine, but a whole album, no thanks.
I am like that with Bowie, Dylan , Springsteen , Elton John , Abba
Even Rod Stewart I have a greatest hits collection of
Having a collection of these artists albums would not interest me
Same as Zappa
Far too self indulgent but strictly commercial is fine , all his accessible stuff on one cd
Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
07-04-21, 09:38
I bought Tilt by Scott Walker which is a loooong way from his crooning days. Experimental, squeaky gate music (as Ian McMillan calls it). I thought it might be worth sticking on ebay but many have had the same idea.
There’s not much music that I really dislike, but that’s how I feel about the Strokes and I’ve never really been sure why. Maybe it’s because of annoyance at me being taken in by the music press’ “next big thing” hype which persuaded me to buy their first album without having heard anything by them.
Rich kids helped along by daddy's modelling business. Attractive women at gigs = Record contract.
They were just a fairly standard Cars/Velvet Underground rip off, though their most recent album is pretty good. Most of those US post-punk revival acts are pretty over hyped imo, Interpol head and shoulders above the rest of them
Bobby Dandruff
07-04-21, 10:22
Albums were often a rip-off. Like one song? Here's 11 more you won't like. That'll be £13 please. No wonder sales dwindled. Trying to get rid of a stack now but even Music Magpie doesn't want half of them.
Precisely.
The record companies and in particularly the publishers made a lot of money off people like me (and then unbelievably again from some people when CDs came around!!!) so their demise with the arrival of file sharing and now streaming was long over due and to be welcomed.
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 13:41
Tygers Of Pan Tang .....The Cage .......one good song , love potion number nine ......which they didn't even write ....the rest all garbage
Micheal Schenker Group .....Assault Attack .......drivel
Rush after Presto ........kept churning out the albums , the odd good moment but should have knocked it on the head
Des Parrot
07-04-21, 14:42
I once bought a Russ Conway album. I’ll leave it there.
Moodybluebird
07-04-21, 14:44
Regatta de Blanc by The Police
tforturton
07-04-21, 18:11
I am like that with Bowie, Dylan , Springsteen , Elton John , Abba
Even Rod Stewart I have a greatest hits collection of
Having a collection of these artists albums would not interest me
Same as Zappa
Far too self indulgent but strictly commercial is fine , all his accessible stuff on one cd
What? Bowie, Dylan, Springsteen, John are of no interest? Maybe Abba, but even that is questionable. The first four have been some of THE most influential musicians over the last fifty years. You may as well chuck in The Beatles, the Stones, and Zeppelin, and just ignore everyone.
Some disappointing albums:
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
The Damned - Anything
The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
The Jam - The Gift
Technical Ecstasy - Sabbath
Be Here Now - Oasis
Tonight - David Bowie
Tin Machine - Tin Machine
Victorialand - Cocteau Twins
Mother Juno - The Gun Club
Most Nick Cave records
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 22:29
What? Bowie, Dylan, Springsteen, John are of no interest? Maybe Abba, but even that is questionable. The first four have been some of THE most influential musicians over the last fifty years. You may as well chuck in The Beatles, the Stones, and Zeppelin, and just ignore everyone.
not interested in buying albums by Bowie, Dylan , Springsteen or Elton John ......greatest collection fair enough
Beatles , Zep, Cream , Hendrix , yep
SLUDGE FACTORY
07-04-21, 22:31
Some disappointing albums:
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Through the Looking Glass
The Damned - Anything
The Dandy Warhols - Welcome to the Monkey House
The Jam - The Gift
Technical Ecstasy - Sabbath..............its rubbish
Be Here Now - Oasis...........can't stand that band
Tonight - David Bowie
Tin Machine - Tin Machine...........liked the metal like guitar on that
Victorialand - Cocteau Twins
Mother Juno - The Gun Club
Most Nick Cave records.........nick cave bores me
SLUDGE FACTORY
08-04-21, 12:47
Floyd , The Final Cut
Burnt out band
I bought the Hoosiers trick to life, listened to it once and threw it in the bin. absolutely woeful album
Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
I tried to like them but just didn’t happen.
Pretty sure they were devastated :hehe:
Taunton Blue Genie
08-04-21, 16:01
Albums were often a rip-off. Like one song? Here's 11 more you won't like. That'll be £13 please. No wonder sales dwindled. Trying to get rid of a stack now but even Music Magpie doesn't want half of them.
Many bands and artists were pressurised by the record labels and/or management to add a 'commercially-sounding' track to their albums and for a single to be marketed - and which resulted in the single being atypical of the music on the rest of the album.
One great example was Elvin Bishop's 'Fooled Around and Fell In Love', a middle-of-the-road pop ditty with a good guitar break in it.
If you buy the album (as I did) you find out that he is more a country bumpkin who is into country music.
Lost Johnny
08-04-21, 16:06
It's A Beautiful Day. They're a psychedelic folk rock band formed in San Francisco around 1967 and their music is based around David LaFlamme's violin playing.
They made a brilliant song called White Bird and on the basis of that I bought their debut album, unfortunately the rest of the tracks are dated and rather tedious.
It's a matter of taste but i'll go with my own personal choices
Uriah heep- high and mighty
Genesis- then there were three
Goldie- saturnz return
all of the above i thought were garbage when i bought them but have since thought that they were ok
dandywarhol
08-04-21, 19:30
I've never bought a prog rock album.So if I had.I'd wish I hadn't.
SLUDGE FACTORY
08-04-21, 21:04
Metal Machine Music , Lou Reed
Straight in the bin , dreadful
To be fair I think he was off his head on heroin , speed and coke
Swiss Peter
08-04-21, 21:29
I have loads of krautrock vinyl, which I now find unlistenable. Neu!, Cluster, Amon Duul, Popol Vuh, Ash Ra Tempel, Faust.
I never listen to most of them, but the Sad Skinhead - from Faust VI still gets the occasional outing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtkOXbmuChE
Lost Johnny
08-04-21, 21:37
Metal Machine Music , Lou Reed
Straight in the bin , dreadful
To be fair I think he was off his head on heroin , speed and coke
Apparently Joy Division's Ian Curtis genuinely loved Metal Machine Music and played it over and over.
Not sure whether Lou was trying to make an innovative ambient punk noise here or just annoy his record company. At the time RCA were forced to withdraw MMM from shops after matter of weeks.
elytillidie
08-04-21, 22:00
Can ~ Tago Mago, recommended by many, leapt in and bought the 40th Anniversary edition, so there's even more for me not to like, same with Performance: Rocking the Fillmore by Humble Pie, opted for the complete recordings, not my cup of tea, love Steve Marriot's voice from his Small Faces stuff, but 'Umble Pie, no thanks, should sample this stuff on YouTube I suppose.
Swiss Peter
08-04-21, 22:11
Can ~ Tago Mago, recommended by many, leapt in and bought the 40th Anniversary edition, so there's even more for me not to like, same with Performance: Rocking the Fillmore by Humble Pie, opted for the complete recordings, not my cup of tea, love Steve Marriot's voice from his Small Faces stuff, but 'Umble Pie, no thanks, should sample this stuff on YouTube I suppose.
There are two sides of Can's Tago Mago that stand - alongside the Future Days album - as some of my favourite music of that decade. The other two sides - when they go off on one - yes, unlistenable drug-fueled self-indulgence.
SLUDGE FACTORY
08-04-21, 22:34
Can ~ Tago Mago, recommended by many, leapt in and bought the 40th Anniversary edition, so there's even more for me not to like, same with Performance: Rocking the Fillmore by Humble Pie, opted for the complete recordings, not my cup of tea, love Steve Marriot's voice from his Small Faces stuff, but 'Umble Pie, no thanks, should sample this stuff on YouTube I suppose.
Can Future Days is a great trip into the mind
But most of their stuff is arse
SLUDGE FACTORY
08-04-21, 22:35
all the early fall albums , not my thing at all
Code Selfish onwards bloody great and well produced
SLUDGE FACTORY
08-04-21, 22:37
Thin Lizzy Renegade
Thin Lizzy Thunder And Lightning
A sad end to a great band
elytillidie
09-04-21, 02:41
There are two sides of Can's Tago Mago that stand - alongside the Future Days album - as some of my favourite music of that decade. The other two sides - when they go off on one - yes, unlistenable drug-fueled self-indulgence.
Yeah, Tago Mago started off okay, but after listening to one track in particular, 17 minutes of someone groaning, I binned them. I also bought an extended album by Young Marble Giants, really wanted to like them, and half a dozen tracks are okay, but it was too much for me. I'll never knock people for their musical tastes (I do frequently) because I used to wonder what people saw in Joy Division, now I genuinely love them. I'd like to like Captain Beefheart, but he's definitely one step beyond.
dandywarhol
09-04-21, 12:08
The Fall's drummer was on the chase the other night.
Got to 7k but, was knocked out.
He's in IT now and doing an open uni degree
Mr Soul '68
09-04-21, 13:48
Thin Lizzy Renegade
Thin Lizzy Thunder And Lightning
A sad end to a great band
All Lizzy's albums once Robbo had left weren't much cop. Around about this time Philo, of course, got it drugs bigtime and his writing and creativity suffered accordingly
Mr Soul '68
09-04-21, 13:58
One of the worst LP's I ever bought was ' Knee Deep In The Hoopla' by Starship. Love Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship too. Two of the finest bands to have come out of the USA, but that album is a pile of bland dogs turd. Grace Slick should be ashamed of herself.
SLUDGE FACTORY
09-04-21, 20:20
One of the worst LP's I ever bought was ' Knee Deep In The Hoopla' by Starship. Love Jefferson Airplane and Jefferson Starship too. Two of the finest bands to have come out of the USA, but that album is a pile of bland dogs turd. Grace Slick should be ashamed of herself.
A right beauty in her day
SLUDGE FACTORY
09-04-21, 20:22
All Lizzy's albums once Robbo had left weren't much cop. Around about this time Philo, of course, got it drugs bigtime and his writing and creativity suffered accordingly
Black Rose , Chinatown were ok but in general after bad reputation that was it
Taunton Blue Genie
09-04-21, 20:32
Thin Lizzy Renegade
Thin Lizzy Thunder And Lightning
A sad end to a great band
I preferred Thin Lizzy in their early Eric Bell days. Infused with a touch of things Celtic before they went a wee bit more commercial.
The Fall's drummer was on the chase the other night.
Got to 7k but, was knocked out.
He's in IT now and doing an open uni degree
Which drummer?
Steve Hanley, the bass player was in the Fall for almost 20 years and now works as a school caretaker.
Which drummer?
Steve Hanley, the bass player was in the Fall for almost 20 years and now works as a school caretaker.
School Caretakers are always a bit ****ing odd.
The Fall, perverted by language is ace and 10? Years before code selfish.
SLUDGE FACTORY
09-04-21, 23:47
The Fall, perverted by language is ace and 10? Years before code selfish.
I like code selfish
Infotainment
That era
Heavier sound
SLUDGE FACTORY
09-04-21, 23:49
Which drummer?
Steve Hanley, the bass player was in the Fall for almost 20 years and now works as a school caretaker.
Great drummer
Code selfish tour
Best line up in my opinion
Great Glastonbury performance
Steve was bass. Brother was drums. Around 1983-85 ish. They had 2 drummers then. Karl burns was the other. Steve is back in the band now with brix.
SLUDGE FACTORY
10-04-21, 08:38
Steve was bass. Brother was drums. Around 1983-85 ish. They had 2 drummers then. Karl burns was the other. Steve is back in the band now with brix.
Blindness live is my kind of sound from the fall , more rock less punk
SLUDGE FACTORY
10-04-21, 08:43
Steve was bass. Brother was drums. Around 1983-85 ish. They had 2 drummers then. Karl burns was the other. Steve is back in the band now with brix.
https://youtu.be/09Z3Ww94IUk
Great drums and bass , prefer later fall 👌
Rattle That Lock - Dave Gilmour
I bought it believing (wrongly) that it would be a sort of one man Pink Floyd, sadly wrong.
The Electric Prunes - The Electric Prunes
An American 60's psychedelic rock band. Two really good tracks, the rest fillers of a dire standard.
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