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Albums you wish you had never bought and don't play
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
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Eric the Half a Bee
No mention of Gina G?
Far too left field for me
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Eric the Half a Bee
No mention of Gina G?
He's not allowed too, as stipulated in the restraining order.
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The Darkness , second album , useless
Great live though
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Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel + Casino.
Really like all their other albums, but the above is dreadful in my opinion.
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Van Morrison too long in exile
Should have stayed there mate , hopeless nonsense
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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.
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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.
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SLUDGE FACTORY
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.
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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.
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tricks
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
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NYCBlue
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
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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.
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bobh
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
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the other bob wilson
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
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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
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motorhead , anything after ace of spades and the live album no sleep till Hammersmith don't even bother
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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.
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The Bloop
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
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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.
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the other bob wilson
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
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Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
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.
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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
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I once bought a Russ Conway album. I’ll leave it there.
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Regatta de Blanc by The Police
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SLUDGE FACTORY
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.
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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
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tforturton
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
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NYCBlue
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
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Floyd , The Final Cut
Burnt out band
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I bought the Hoosiers trick to life, listened to it once and threw it in the bin. absolutely woeful album
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Red Hot Chilli Peppers.
I tried to like them but just didn’t happen.
Pretty sure they were devastated :hehe:
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Bluebirdman Of Alcathays
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.
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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.
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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
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I've never bought a prog rock album.So if I had.I'd wish I hadn't.
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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
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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
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SLUDGE FACTORY
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.