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

[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.

[elytillidie]

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]

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]

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]

all the early fall albums , not my thing at all

Code Selfish onwards bloody great and well produced

[SLUDGE FACTORY]

Thin Lizzy Renegade

Thin Lizzy Thunder And Lightning

A sad end to a great band

[elytillidie]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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