Albums you wish you had never bought and don't play

[Bluebirdman Of Alcathays]

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.

[City123]

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]

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]

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]

I once bought a Russ Conway album. I’ll leave it there.

[Moodybluebird]

Regatta de Blanc by The Police

[tforturton]

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.

[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
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]

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]

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]

Floyd , The Final Cut

Burnt out band

[Feedback]

I bought the Hoosiers trick to life, listened to it once and threw it in the bin. absolutely woeful album

[Majorblue]

Red Hot Chilli Peppers.

I tried to like them but just didn’t happen.

Pretty sure they were devastated

[Taunton Blue Genie]

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]

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.

[ToTaL ITK]

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]

I've never bought a prog rock album.So if I had.I'd wish I hadn't.

[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

[Swiss Peter]

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]

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.