music purchases you made years ago that horrify you now

Dunno if any actual purchses, but in my early teens I would dub copies of anything, so I somehow ended up with copies of live Dire Straits albums, none of which I would actually listen to.

kula shaker

i bought a gunbunnies cassette once

The new pollution by Beck?

about 1000 indie cd singles

Basically everything before age 20.

Seam - Are You Driving Me Crazy?

Kriss Kross--Totally Krossed Out (I got it after it was out of vogue too!)

Snoop Dogg's Paid the Cost to be the Boss. seriously, the dude's been on a streak of bad albums that goes back to the 90s and I seriously thought I would like this? I actually put it on ebay the moment I got home after purchasing it--the one spin in my car was it.

Motley Crue - New Tattoo

that goddamn Loop Circuit album

what the hell was I thinking?

Silverchair--Neon Ballroom

I heard "Counterfeit" by Limp Bizkit on prime time commercial radio. It was really way too heavy for the timeslot or the station. So I went and bought their first album for $1 from my buddy at the record store.

For $1, I learned that I don't like them at all. It pains me to know that I bought that record for any price.

To my surprise, I'm still pretty happy with my purchase of Significant Other.

I bought a Pennywise CD one time around 1995.
Years later I bought the green Weezer album when it came out.
both were hurled from my speeding car before long.
Oh my god, i just realized that I bought the second CIV album too.
just knowing it exists somewhere in a landfill is unsettling

pretty much everything from the period before I finally realized that there's precious little indie rock I can listen to and I should stop trying - typified by the Amazon order w/ one Azure Ray album and a pair of Decemberists CDs.

an Atmosphere CD I bought on the recommendation of a cute record store clerk

Basically everything before age 20.

-- Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:59 (5 hours ago) Link

yerp

both were hurled from my speeding car before long

Litterbug.

Nothing springs to mind that actually horrifies me. Rather more disappointing experiences, especially during times when I was in-between er, personal paradigm shifts or whatever (i.e., relied on U.K. music magazines and their reviews replete with references to alleged influences that ended up seducing me at the time, but never lived up to the promise...e.g., claiming that ILX fave Junior Boys were some electronic update of Prefab Sprout. Years later, I still don't get what all the fuss was about).

Or, to cite an example wherein I can't damn the U.K. music press, when I was thirteen years-old or so, and had come off of a hip-hop phase, and was still a few months away from properly delving into hardcore punk stuff, I ended up with "License to Ill" and "Little Creatures" in my hands within the same week. Neither satisfied. Coming off of the Beasties' "Hard Rock" 12", "License" was enormously disappointing at the time (though I've since come to enjoy it), and to this day I doubt my capacity to ever really, really get down with most Talking Heads stuff. The contemporary indie rock bands who are supposedly influenced by them don't help matters much...

I bought each post-Black Album release by Metallica (with the exception of Re-Load) under the Phantom Menace premise: The urgency of continued improvement, or at least upheld standards, fixated upon a once-cherished ideal. In each case, I made apologetic leaps of faith on the behalf of these pockmarks, only to realize (along with the critical mass, it seems - 5 fucking stars for St. Anger in Rolling Stone..) that, in the end, it was not alright, it was.. just shite

I used to own not just one but three Metallica albums (And Justice for All, the black album, Load) back in the nineties, because every teenager was supposed to dig Metallica back then. I've gotten rid of two of them, but I think still have Load somewhere because it has some nice pop tunes ("Hero of the Day"!) and sounds better than any other Metallica album I've heard.

eww Load sucks.

and yea, St. Anger getting 5 stars is akin to Happy Gilmore being added to the Criterion Collection. Nobody would have given a shit about that album if it didn't have Metallica's name on it and there were about maybe two songs that were even listenable on it.

i remember special ordering the first marilyn manson cd

Basically everything before age 20.

-- Oilyrags, Saturday, 8 December 2007 02:59 (11 hours ago) Bookmark Link

Triumph the Comic Dog's "Come Poop with Me".

character is hilarious on television but man they were real stretched to find 60+ minutes worth of material. I laughed at "I Keed" only.

jeez i dunno, so much stuff really.
i bought 'the wild life' by slaughter as a kid because of the cover, which is fuckin horrid by the way (the album AND the cover. the thought of the music on the record horrifies me, though i'm not horrified at myself for the purchase, since i was a kid and all, and not equipped to make well informed choices in record stores.

anybody remember that time in the 90s when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles went on tour and put out that cd that was distributed by pizza hut?

Yea..I still have that cassette.

WE'RE THE TURTLES....YOU CAN COUNT ON USSSSSSS!

hahah damn. don't recall that. i did buy that first simpsons cd though. released in 1990 or something, coinciding with those ancient episodes that weren't funny, had dodgy animation and moralistic storylines

The Simpsons Sing the Blues? hahaha I still have that somewhere

"Look at all those idiots!
An office full of morons!"

hahah that's the one. i think my copy got lost during one of my moves. um, damn.

pavement

brian eno

jesus and mary chain

Slash's Snakepits first album was zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz and I don't remember why I bought it.

it was probably bargain bin. i don't own it, but i'm sure it's better than 'believe in me' and 'pawnshop guitars', both of which i own(ed). i was loyal to izzy's solo output and do actually like a lot of it, but i stopped tracking down his discs once he became one of those weird, 'only big in japan' artists a la marty friedman.

Toto's Greatest Hits, mostly for Africa, but the rest of the material ranges from guilty pleasure to BLECH.

it's funny tho cuz they recorded 4 new songs with this new vocalist on the tape so when the first song began I thought someone placed an r&b group's tape in the cassette holder

the first two Decemberists albums, before they went all prog/suck

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Fourthed or Fifthed on the "everything before age 20" comment. I'm always envious of people with cool older siblings or parents who got them listening to good stuff at an early age. All I had was my older sister, and the result was 311 and The Offspring. Thanks, sis.

There was a kid with a pre-pubescent voice register who would come into a record store where I used to work and buy the most ridiculously great albums for a person his age. I'd ring him up for Lust for Life and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and say "FUCK YOU, KID" in my head repeatedly.

Alapalooza
"Barney Rubble laughing like a hyena
Barney Rubble, what a little weiner"

When I saw the title in New Answers I was all ready to get self-righteous, bla bla no point in being horrified by yr less musically snobbish past, embrace all the music you've heard and rejected as a learning experience and a path to where you are now (oh no, I'm turning into my father), but

about 1000 indie cd singles -- electricsound
Basically everything before age 20. -- Oilyrags

For a short time when there were fewer bills to pay I went out every Monday and bought a bunch of new release CD and 7" singles, some of the cheaper ones unknown to me but just looked vaguely interesting, from the thankfully slim pickings of my local record shop. I guess I got some gems this way but, ouch, what a lot of shit, all with absolutely no resale value.

the day i bought Martin Grech - Unholy* and Biffy Clyro - The Vertigo Of Bliss, apart from that I've had a fairly good record, touch wood.

*this album may yet grow on me, or it may continue to be dull

See, to me, inside the answer to the question "What was I thinking?" lurks an interesting piece of writing or conversation-- I'd rather hear people get at what was appealing about 311 when they were 14 or whatever. Still a fun thread, just tossing that out there. "Good" or "cool" music isn't nec. more interesting to talk about IMO.

I blame my 311 purchase (Transistor, ugh) on

i. My sister, whose music collection was so bad that "Down" off of the S/T 311 was actually a highlight
ii. Modern Drummer magazine, which did a cover feature on Chad Sexton the month Transistor came out and fooled me into thinking he was one of the great creative forces in history.

I bought a Hold Steady album once.

An Eazy-E solo album...

The Simpsons Sing the Blues? hahaha I still have that somewhere

"Look at all those idiots!
An office full of morons!"

-- Bo Jackson Overdrive, Saturday, 8 December 2007 15:14

lolol i have this somewhere

Heart - Greatest Hits
and
Pink Floyd - The Final Cut

the final cut is great!

Well I was young and it didn't rock. I still don't think I can listen to it because the guy's voice. There's a couple songs I like on it though.

actually, no, I still hate it

Heart's Greatest Hits is like 10x better than Jack Kerouac's collected writings.

lol

a shit-ton of Pearl Jam.

otherwise, I think I did pretty okay

I don't feel ashamed of anything I've purchased, though owning a Coal Chamber CD comes close, I suppose

once owning, that is

The single "Pop Ya Collar" by Usher - still don't know WTF I was thinking...

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an Atmosphere CD I bought on the recommendation of a cute record store clerk

-- milo z, Saturday, December 8, 2007 6:18 AM

lol i have done this also

All those worthless Pink Floyd interview bootlegs

LOL

i am saddened by the lack of love for marilyn manson and weird al! i still own albums by both of them!

i am, however, moderately ashamed of the fact that in eighth grade i really, really loved both dave matthews band and the barenaked ladies. to be fair, i also really, really loved david bowie and the stones and was starting to get into thee indie rock, but still! i was hopelessly uncool at the time. which is sort of the point of middle school.

Love Missile F1-11 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik. I thought they were the revolution when they first appeared. By the time their second single came out, I'd already changed my mind.

Oh and everything Pseudo Echo released AFTER "Autumnal Park". Oh christ that cover of Funkytown was shit.

i like it how weird al is trying to kill two birds with one stone with that cover. he get both a lollapalooza gag AND a jurassic park one with very minimal correlation between the two

Sigue Sigue Sputnik are great, though! But, I'm thinking that at the time it was first released I probably wasn't interested in their music, and also thought they had commited some unforgivable sin for having included commercials on the record.

oooh forgot about Coal Chamber, I bought their debut and really shouldn't have.

Love Missile F1-11 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik. I thought they were the revolution when they first appeared. By the time their second single came out, I'd already changed my mind.

-- Trayce, Sunday, December 9, 2007 2:12 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Link

The 12" is fucking great!

Angel Dust's Enlighten the Darkness or whatever it was called. Lots of peopel loved the album, I couldn't stand it. no doubt they're talented musicians but the songs were just uber-lame.

Alapalooza has Frank's 2000" TV on it, so it can't be all bad.

There is nothing wrong with Weird Al. You might outgrow him, but his comedy is still constantly OTM.

I know it's old now, but his "All About the Pentiums" still cracks my shit up.

Yeah, I wouldn't be ashamed of buying an Weird Al record.

I still like most of the records I bought as a teenager. Besides whatever rap was popular back then I mostly listened to electronic and dance music. Some of it sounds very dated and cheesy today, but I still have lots of fun listening to my old trance and rave compilations, because after 10-15 years many of those tunes are quite interesting, maybe because I have a quite different approach to listening them as I had when I was 15. I'm only ashamed of those Metallica records because I let this sort of mass mentality get over me and bought them even though I've never really been interested in metal at all.

An Eazy-E solo album...

-- smurfherder, Saturday, December 8, 2007 3:41 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

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album i bought when i was 12 that i do not regret: usher- my way

actually i was 9. i also remember having jagged little pill...

You were 9 in 1997? Whoa, I feel old, and I'm not even that old.

Moreno Veloso +2 - Music Typewriter

He has his father's voice and that's pretty much where it ends.

Kriss Kross--Totally Krossed Out (I got it after it was out of vogue too!)

WTF?! "Warm It Up" is my anthem! And "Jump" is A+

Third Eye Blind.

When I bought it, it was sold with some sort of "if you don't like this album we'll give you the money back" guarantee, but I doubt that'll work now. Plus Virgin Megastore in Oslo closed several years ago anyway, so....

Matchbox 20 - Yourself or Someone Like You

Eighth grade. I dunno, I think "Damn" might still be a decent song, and I can't bring myself to hate the singles. I totally don't regret getting the Fastball album as a gift around the same time - about half of that album holds up really well.

all that Pop Will Eat Itself stuff I bought circa age 15-16

New Kids on the Block- "Hangin' Tough" cassingle.

Even back then I tried to hide that I had snatched this up from Sam Goody while no one was looking. My older sister found out anyway and made fun of me accordingly.

i owned a mark knopfler solo album once. some late-'90s shit, too.

knopfler had a dinosaur named after him

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Decemberists Castaways & Cutouts.

So far the running theme of this thread is "Fuck the Decembrists"

haha, i also bought castaways and cutouts, and sold it about a week later. i'm not horrified by the purchase and i've got nothing against them, but i really wasn't into the record.

A bunch of late-90s "big beat" music including bad compilations and such. Some of this stuff is actually pretty good, but as a whole, horrible.

Anything I bought during the period I first started seeing a lot of bands live during college and felt obligated to pick up an album if I thought they sounded pretty interesting live. Then I figured out that many bands are at least somewhat interesting live, but that doesn't mean you want to listen to their album at home.

All the music from long ago I'd never buy now is such a rich world of confused emotional triggers, it's too interesting to dismiss. It's an insight into the golden truthes of my twelve year old worldview, a combination of historic right and current wrong that burns my brain so good like curry.

when i first saw this thread, i was like "wowww way too many to choose from." but now that i think of it, i'm not really horrified by as many as i initially thought. i mean, why would i be horrified that the fact that i liked hootie and the blowfish in 4th grade? i was in 4th grade, come on! so part of me is kinda thinking this:

bla bla no point in being horrified by yr less musically snobbish past, embrace all the music you've heard and rejected as a learning experience and a path to where you are now

but.... there are some that are pretty terrible, including, of course, my aforementioned hootie:

age 11, counting crows, august and everything after, maybe? i loved "'round here", it seemed so profound and introspective in 4th grade. i also loved that candlebox song, "far behind." i imagined myself in the music video, singing all angsty and deep and serious.

age 14, reel big fish, i can't remember the album title. awful. why was i into so much, at age 14? i don't know. i do remember playing air-trombone to this, though.

age 14: metallica, load.

ages 16: RAGE, the battle of los angeles. i'm not horrified about buying the first two RATM albums, as i was 13 or so and i can see why those would appeal to a 13 year-old. but with BOLA, it horrifies me because i was old enough to realize that RATM's shtick was kind of lame, that their rap-rock wasn't far at all from limp bizkit's rap-rock, but i still bought it and tried to like it.

age 16: cake, fashion nugget.

age 17: weezer's green album.

ages 13-18: lots of bad trance. paul oakenfold. sandra collins. paul van dyk. my friends were also into tiesto, and I was quite close to buying one his albums, i just didn't know which one. But I liked him enough to be horrified by it now. i remember telling one of my friends, "the best thing about techno is that the most famous djs are actually the best djs, too." haha!

there's more. next time I go home to cleveland, where all my rejected cds are (the ones that are too beat-up to sell, as i treated all my cds like shit until i was 21 or so), i'll revive this thread.

there are many amazing albums that i've bought during these so-called musical lost years, ages 11-18 or so, most of them classic rock (e.g. beatles, hendrix, floyd, etc.) and jazz (coltrane, miles, dave holland - bought 'conference of the birds' in 8th grade, somehow), other stuff that i still consistently listen to now. how is it possible that i could enjoy fuckin' dave holland's avant-jazz masterpiece at age 14 and simultaneously find reel big fish appealing? i was more innocent, i guess. there was no taste barometer that kicked in and made me scoff at much of anything. no distinguishing of quality. RAGE and john coltrane both kicked ass.

About 14, for some reason I really got excited by Candy Flip's cover of Strawberry Fields. For about two months they were my favourite band, and I bought a bunch of 12-inches of their earlier mediocre dance tunes that I made myself love. The follow-up single, This Can Be Real, was, I soon realised, plodding bog-standard hippie shit, but briefly it sounded like a classic. I remember being really excited listening to the chart rundown, waiting to find out where it got to. Got up to number two, no word of them, and thought, "Holy shit! Straight in at number one!"

bought 'conference of the birds' in 8th grade, somehow

!!!

A whole clutch of formulaic, headache-inducing and dull-as-ditchwater late 1990s "banging" mix CDs, and several too many 2000-era chill-out comps. Heaps of limp early 1990s Britsoul knock-off cover versions with the "Keep On Moving"/"Back To Life" rhythm slapped underneath them. And Annie Lennox's Medusa.

xpost - we had this music software cd-rom program on our family computer, which allowed you to just sample random stuff. it was pretty cool. i heard holland's 'conference' through that. the sample was the title track, i think, and i thought it sounded neat, so i bought it. one of the first jazz albums i ever heard and still one of my favorites.

I bought that Second 2 None album on the strength of Quik's production weeks before they embarrassed themselves on Yo! MTV Raps by saying they didn't freestyle.

i had quite a few albums from the moonshine label in the mid-90s.

eh i don't know what else. i'm so old that a lot of the stuff i was ashamed of buying in my teens when i was in my 20s are considered cool again.

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Even a HOOS has to grow up sometime but don't ditch the records too soon 'cause 20 years from now you will wish you didn't.

yeah i do kinda wish i still had this one insyderz album

in lean days i sold a bunch of decent vaguely grungy xtian rock

OK, you won't miss that.

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and oh how i listened to it

yeah shit was first against the wall xp lol

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all of my friends owned this, bar none

for a period there i used to buy stacks of new release singles from new aussie groups (mostly cheapo promo copies, but still... what a waste).

yeah i went through a thing where i'd go to amazon and sort by "used: low-to-high" and just buy the bottom 15 CDs, usually all under $1. i got a nice one or two powerpop albums out of it, but so much crap.

cassette singles of every popular artist from 1990-1993, including Snow. especially Snow.

audio bullys

This is everything before my freshman year of high school. My freshman year I bought Lifted by Bright Eyes and even though that is still shameful its better than the Dave Matthews and Dashboard I was rocking before that. God, I was terrible.

My first CD was Enema of the State by Blink 182 in 6th grade, followed closely by Californication.

I think I owned every nu-metal cd ever. That was before I gained access to the internet, though, so it shouldn't count against me. Right?

My punk rock band in high school opened for the OC Supertones! I really felt famous that day!

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The Von Bondies Pawn Shoppe Heart. In fairness, I don't think I liked it all that much then. Pile of suck

I have a hundred-odd CD singles, most of them Eurodance, house, and techno. I'm less
horrified by the music on them (some of which I still really enjoy, albeit nostalgically) than
by the way they serve to remind me of the directionlessness of my early 20s... waaaaay
too much time spent rummaging through CD shops when I should have been studying
or making job connections...

Tantrum The Cat = Anti-ILMer

Huh?

My punk rock band in high school opened for the OC Supertones! I really felt famous that day!

-- Whiney G. Weingarten, Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:13 AM

!!!

A load of Wax Trax!/industrial rock albums. Played the shit out of that Wax Trax! boxset in particular. That was a big investment for a pre-workforce teen. I actually kinda miss a lot of that stuff now, so I guess it doesn't entirely count. I also had some "EBM" stuff like Wumpscut and Haujobb that's a little more embarrassing.

A bunch of crappy Epitaph/Fat Wreck type skatepunk stuff in high school. Don't really miss that, save an album or two.

First Limp Bizkit album, an Our Lady Peace album, that Orgy album with the Blue Monday cover, some Pantera stuff. I don't know, 'Horrified' is a strong word.

Probably an Ozric Tentacles album that I don't remember the name of ('Live Underslunky' I think). Huge gatefold vinyl sleeve.

Couple of Dreadzone 12"s too.

nah i think i always had good taste. you might say johnny hates jazz, i would disagree.

I bought a Hold Steady album once.

-- Alex in Baltimore, Saturday, December 8, 2007 1:30 PM (3 months ago)
It probably rules.

An Eazy-E solo album...

-- smurfherder, Saturday, December 8, 2007 2:41 PM (3 months ago)
It probably rules.

ages 16: RAGE, the battle of los angeles. i'm not horrified about buying the first two RATM albums, as i was 13 or so and i can see why those would appeal to a 13 year-old. but with BOLA, it horrifies me because i was old enough to realize that RATM's shtick was kind of lame, that their rap-rock wasn't far at all from limp bizkit's rap-rock, but i still bought it and tried to like it.

-- Mark Clemente, Monday, December 10, 2007 3:10 PM (3 months ago)
I bought this when I was 18. It rules. Got nothin on the s/t, obv.

I bought a few 311 albums between 15 and 17 (I've still got a nostalgic little soft spot for Grassroots). Owned a Limp Bizkit album. I bought that Ugly Casanova album. :\ In fact there's a decent number of indie recs from the late 90s, or around 2000 to 2003 I could say that about. And a decent number of them I couldn't. I think I bought a Pearl Jam album once. Hmm.

an Atmosphere CD I bought on the recommendation of a cute record store clerk

-- milo z, Saturday, December 8, 2007 12:18 AM (3 months ago)

Ha! Ain't that how it goes? I'm from Minnesota and everyone around here tweaks out about this crap. Or at least the used to a few years ago.

*"they"

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I remember seeing a video for "Daddy Freddy's in Town" and thinking it was so cool how it sounded like reggae! and rap! and it sampled Led Zeppelin! I just look at the CD now and think, what the hell was I thinking...?

Actually bought Kriss Kross - Da Bomb, on cassette. I liked Jermaine Dupri's production work at the time. It wasn't even half bad. But I'm certainly embarrassed to still own it, somewhere...

Stone Temple Pilots No. 4. I could have just downloaded Sour Girl and called it a day.

'church on tuesday' is sort of ok if it weren't for the fact that the chorus is repeated about 79 times at the end

Any $10 CD picked up after local jam band and punk shows. I could've saved that money up and bought 4c1d.

Others I've thought of:
-Blink 182, Take off Your Pants (one of the singles wasn't bad)
-Atmosphere, Seven's Travels (thank you, alt weekly music reviewers!)
-Bright Eyes, I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning (ditto)
-311 (I don't know which one - it was bad okay?)

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you must have bought that one because of the cover

I could've saved that money up and bought 4c1d.

Or a clue...

No. It was 2 Live Jews - As Kosher As They Wanna Be. It was sixth grade, and I bought the tape with money stolen from my dad's wallet. Disgusting savage, I know. But the most embarassing part was when I was playing it for a friend, and he looked at me and said "you know, they aren't really old Jewish men." I hadn't known.

2 Live Jews is great....

Comedian Eric Lambert, who played MC Moisha and was the co-writer on the first album with then partner Joe Stone, is not Jewish and broke off affiliation with the project after the first two albums. "It was kind of a one joke thing to me," says Lambert. "I can't believe they're still making those albums."

It's embarrassing to be a 2 Live Jew.

about 1000 indie cd singles

― electricsound, Saturday, December 8, 2007 2:41 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark

This is the same for me. I recently went through all my singles and threw out hundreds of CD's by bands I have no idea what I ever saw in them.

Bennet, Dweeb, 18 Wheeler, Jocasta, Ether, Boutique, Kula Shaker, Space, Posh, Mover, Nilon Bombers, Spacehog, Ballroom and many others I have blocked out or just forgotten.

I was really obsessive about collecting them too so I had loads of 2 CD sets of the same awful single. I had a lot of their albums too

I'm embarrassed I bought the Macarena.

Little u s steel, all listening to the Macarena alone in his room?

Lots of post Jane's Addiction, maybe the do maybe they don't soundalike metal bands like Warrior Soul, Saigon Kick, Tripping Daisy or Last Crack, all terrible.

A brief affection for smooth jazz in the mid-80s had me selling the merits of Al Jarreau's cover of "Since I Fell For You" to any new acquaintance. Small wonder that I was so celibate at the time.

I still like some stuff from both bands, but Duran Duran - Arena and Styx - Caught in the Act were particularly horrible live albums.

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i'm not proud.

THREE albums by 311, wtf me

and RUSTED ROOT babadisaybabadeyon

Yeah I actually have 2(!) Rusted Root albums floating around here. Also, The Why Store. WTF was I thinking?

one of the first things I bought from the iTunes store was the first Gay Dad album

I still quite like the Gay Dad album.

I bet you didn't buy the second album though.

the song 'Black Ghost' is pretty good, rest is pretty :/

have not gone near the 2nd album

Hmm, probably Live's throwing copper but I kinda hated that after a half dozen listens anyway. Still, I can't disown any album I had completely. Not even my Bros Xmas boxset (probably because I never really played it).

Sofatruck it's OK you're not alone. I not only had the album, I had a Nelson poster hanging in my bedroom. I was about 10 though and I'm not ashamed. The video for after the rain is pretty spectacular. Was always kinda pissed that Gunnar and Matthew didn't come alive in my poster and whisk me away to a rock dreamland.

I too had 3 311 albums

have not gone near the 2nd album

― louis do not fuck achewood (acoleuthic), Friday, March 12, 2010 10:09 PM (9 minutes ago) Bookmark

Wish I could say the same thing, it's a worse album than Menswe@r's second one... Yes I bought that too.

^^^hero

i was ten years old, the first album i bought with my own money was Barry Manilow - tryin' to get the feeling.

do i win?

radiohead, the bends and kid a....they're still on the shelf but i cringe when i see them

Even a HOOS has to grow up sometime but don't ditch the records too soon 'cause 20 years from now you will wish you didn't.

Or even just 10...

See, I sold the Bends & Kid A and I really wish I hadn't.

You can tell a music purchase is really "horrifying" (as per this thread) when the record store won't buy it back from you.

you can have em. send me a check back for the postage and they're yours

i think (at least for the older posters) a lot of the regret on this thread is magnified by the amount of free music we have access to in this age.

just imagine the things yr misguided purchases subsidised amirite

I bought a lot of fairly bad/generic acid jazz stuff back in the mid-90s. I was into hip hop, was just getting into jazz, it seemed like a good idea at the time... that Young Disciples album is terrible tho (on the plus side I learned about Eddie Harris, Lou Donaldson, Donald Byrd, Grant Green, tons of great stuff I still dig. But the revivalist/newer stuff urggh)

bought "pushing the salmonella envelope" by jimmie's chicken shack after seeing them on mtv's oddville when i was 13 or so.. horrors

I will see your 311 and Rusted Root and raise you one

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/7/7c/5MCD12.jpg

Even looking at the album cover makes me angry.

loool

man what were record labels on in the 90s? the whole fat-guy head thing with moe, matchbox 20...

for some reason I own every album by the dan reed network.

I hate when a band pulls some punctuation bullshit like moe. did.

i was ten years old, the first album i bought with my own money was Barry Manilow - tryin' to get the feeling.

do i win?

― If you can believe your eyes and ears (outdoor_miner), Friday, 12 March 2010 23:31 (Yesterday)

No, because my first music album was Barry Manilow I and I was twelve.

(I say "first music album" because I already had a dozen or so comedy albums--Bill Cosby, Spike Jones and Monty Python. I was much hipper comedically than musically.)

Oh, and "Could It Be Magic" is still a great song.

Haha I own 4 moe. albums. That was a regrettable portion of my pseudo-hippie phase in college, at least when Phish weren't touring. It seemed like moe. played Champaign all the time.

I feel okay, more or less, about my youthful jam band proclivities, but moe. was just a step too far.

I always pretend that I'm not ashamed of any of my musical choices but there can be no excuse for buying the follow up to I'm Free by the Soup Dragons. Or Don't You Want Me? by The Farm. Or the London Funk Allstars album.

Or a novelty rave 12" based on the theme music to Magic Roundabout.

Sofatruck it's OK you're not alone. I not only had the album, I had a Nelson poster hanging in my bedroom. I was about 10 though and I'm not ashamed. The video for after the rain is pretty spectacular. Was always kinda pissed that Gunnar and Matthew didn't come alive in my poster and whisk me away to a rock dreamland.

― t(o_o)t (ENBB), Friday, March 12, 2010 5:17 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

Did you have the Voices that Care single? It was a We Are the World type deal to support soldiers in Desert Storm. Anyway, there was this shoutout track, where celebs just show their support for the soldiers, and Nelson plus their sister had one:

"Hello, this is Tracy..."
"...this is Matthew..."
"...and this is Gunnar..."
ALL: "Nelson!"
"Flags are flying high."
"Yeah, we're seeing a lot of yellow ribbons."
"What you're doing really means a lot."

I mean it's not exactly "Erica, come away to rock dreamland where we shall play Love and Affection for you all the day," but it seems like something a true Nelson fan should at least know about, even 20 years later.

Turns out I'm not a true Nelson fan.

The only true Nelson fans I ever knew were these twin girls back in eighth grade and they both had long blonde hair just like Nelson. It was pretty weird, tbh.

Holy shit, one of their names was Erica too!

Trying to think of stuff for this thread has actually made me remember some songs that have held up surprisingly well considering today's rock scene. Like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nBgmC_USeoM (Lyrics aside)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QK0GgLKUU_I
That said, there was a point in my life when I owned 3 Bush albums (AND A SINGLE!!)

xp - Bush were my favourite band for about 6 months. I had the red one (16 Stone?) on CD *and* cassette, and also the next album which wasn't very good. I'm more embarrassed by Everclear now.

x-post - I don't remember that charity single so maybe I wasn't as big a Nelson fan as my poster choices at the time seemed to indicate. I am, however, pretty impressed by the fact that you can still remember that shoutout. Also lol at Nelson's sister being included on it.

Bonham's song is pretty fun! She married (and divorced) the drummer of Soulwax (2ManyDjs rock band).
see, if you dig deep enough, you're ALWAYS cool! ;-)

You can tell a music purchase is really "horrifying" (as per this thread) when the record store won't buy it back from you.

I once begged the store owner if I could just leave the recs. He refused. lololol

I'm pretty sure I had the worst taste of music of anyone on this thread. I'm talking Escape Club, solo Phil Collins, Stevie B, etc. The worst part is I still have them boxed up somewhere, hidden away from the world.

Oh, and in high school, I kept buying Dave Matthews Band albums because my friends all listened to him. After every listening to every new album, I couldn't figure out why I just couldn't get him, LOL.

pretty impressed by the fact that you can still remember that shoutout

I used it on a mixtape, spliced in between two sections of "Tourette's", by Nirvana. : )

Oh man, fucking moe. I too had an unfortunate rather non-discriminatory jam band phase in college and this probably typifies it. I saw them live once with a bunch of hippie acquaintances and hated it - they really didn't "jam" at all, just played a bunch of shitty songs in 4/4 with long noodly solos. It kind of wiped the scales from my eyes and made me realize that I was wasting time and money on shitty second rate hippie bands.

I can always tell the horrifying shameful purchases because they exist as CDs in my basement that will never be ripped to my hard drive.

I'm thinking Vampire Weekend and Dirty Projectors will be the forebears of whatever fills the niche of the jam rock scene 20 years from now.

If the status updates of all my hippie homies on Facebook are any indication, the niche that is the jam rock scene is not empty. Phish is still touring, fucking Further is out there, and a bunch more that I don't know because I'm no longer involved in that scene.

Two words: Jam Cruise

http://www.jamcruise.com/2010/home.php

What could possibly make a cruise worse than being a cruise? Shitty jam bands isn't necessarily what I would have guessed first but damned if it isn't probably the best answer.

good lord just imagine the odor

What could possibly make a cruise worse than being a cruise?

1. Norwalk virus
2. Ghost pirates
3. Jam bands

I mean, I look in my basement and see about $20,000 worth of stuff that I could probably get for free these days...

i had snobbish (or rockist tbh) tendencies pretty young and was all about kinks/stones/beatles/dylan starting around 12-13. but even when i fell prey to hair metal or grunge crazes, i can't say I'm altogether embarrassed by the stuff I purchased. or that i remember purchasing. i could proabably still get down with some cinderella "long cold winter" and some alice in chains "dirt"

i think i bought those first 2 ben harper cds. but i still can't say i'm embarrassed by them

i had plenty of other things outside of my music purchases to be embarrassed by though. believe that.

my 1st two years in college i read dave marsh's "zine" "rock and rap confidential." sometimes i bought CDs at their recommendation, and sometimes i spent time trying to convince myself those awful CDs were good. all of them ended up being sold off by my junior year in college. a few samples:

soul asylum - let your dim light shine
anything by dan bern
really shitty 1990s steve earle albums

probably could think of others.

- my first music purchase ever was a tape of the Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch album.

- a year or so later I bought Blind Melon's SECOND album. I have yet to meet anyone else who can say the same (and for good reason).

- in the 8th grade I got into the Downward Spiral and immediately started picking up some appalling industrial pop - Stabbing Westward, Filter, Gravity Kills, urgh. thank God I managed to discover the Talking Heads and the Who around this time ( during unrelated flights of exploration, obviously). oh, and to whoever it was upthread who talked about envying the prepubescent kid with the taste to buy stuff like Crooked Rain and Lust For Life, if that kid was anything like me he probably bought those albums out of slavish obedience to CMJ and ended up throwing them under his bed in favor of listening to Spacehog.

- as a high school student on the east coast in the 1990s I of course spent high school in an apocalyptic ska/punk phase. I think at one point I owned like %90 of Moon Ska and Hellcat's respective catalogues; now literally all I have left is the first three Slackers albums. also during this phase I blind-bought a copy of some Five Iron Frenzy album solely due to (a) mild name recognition and (b) finding the CD in the ska section only to go home and learn within the first two songs that I had purchased a CHRISTIAN SKA ALBUM.

- oh I definitely owned multiple swing revival albums. wait why am I admitting this on the interne-

- finally a few years ago I wrote for a celebrity tabloid, which paid really well but annihilated any trace of self-esteem I ever managed to accrue. therefore I choose to view the literal hundreds of mid-2000s British indie rock singles I used to order practically on spec from Piccadilly and Rough Trade as a creative form of commercial self-flagellation because at least 95% of them are awe-inspiringly shitty. thankfully (I guess) a lot of these had print runs of like 500, so if any of this tedious crap ever comes back into vogue I'll laugh all the way to the bank, but until then I would rather violate my urethra with a football than put them in my DVD player.

now where did I put my hemlock

...so what do you listen to now?

Steely Dan. I got better.

hey now 2nd blind melon album is pretty good

Classic rock impulse-obligation buys when I was 13...The Doors, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Cream, Dylan. Got a lot of weird looks from clerks.

But my 16 year old indie rock authenticity-stan would balk at me buying ABBA: Gold and Rumours at 18. This was around the time I discovered ILM.

hey now 2nd blind melon album is pretty good

I'm a fan.

im trying to think back to my embarrassing purchases...left the dud CD's at home when I moved up to London for uni.

I remember being REALLY psyched about borrowing Let's Do It for Johnny! by Bowling for Soup off a school friend. My mum saw the case in my room when I was out, looked at the tracklisting and saw "The Bitch Song" on there and confiscated it.

Also remember buying stuff by the D4 on 7" 'cus I used to subscribe to NME and believed EVERYTHING they told me. So I really did believe that The Beatings, The Von Bondies and the D4 were the NEW ROCK REVOLUTION.

When I was teen I really got into The Cranberries when "Linger" came out, and for a while their first album was one of my favourite things ever. I bought the second album too, and even though it was a bit too "rock" for my tastes, I remember liking it too - even "Zombie". I've long since gotten rid of those records, though IIRC the first album wasn't that bad. The second one though...

1. Kriss Kross, Totally Krossed Out
2. Spin Doctors, Turn It Upside Down
3. Stuck Mojo, Rising
4. Tesla, some compilation from a garage sale
5. Whitecross, Flytrap

jack johnson

hey now 2nd blind melon album is pretty good

Just want to second this, even though I probably haven't heard in it 10 years now.

soup? i've always meant to check that out.

I used to rock the Spin Doctors "Pocketful of Kryptonite" tape in high school, back when I was a Rolling Stone subscriber. I'm glad that I somehow managed to avoid Blues Traveller and others from NYC's hot Wetlands scene.

Speaking of, concert ticket purchases that I made years ago that horrify me now would include tickets to the Horde tour, feature Phish, Blues Traveler, and the Spin Doctors.

http://img704.imageshack.us/img704/7213/3558615548f46fa21510.jpg

I've got a coupla Blues Traveler albums and am not ashamed at all, even tho I haven't played 'em in a decade.

I'm a bit sheepish about Urban Dance Squad. And I surely didn't need the ENTIRE Dead Kennedys catalogue.

what!? of course you need the entire dead kennedys catalogue! (apart from the sub-par cash-in crap of recent years)

1-20. the albums it took me too long to noticed followed the same formula of enjoyable single + good nme review still doesn't make it worth my money on a whim and is actually embarrassingly bad. usually by bands no-one can remember such as The Holloways, The Wombats, Klaxons etc.

Definitely ashamed of Cake...should I be ashamed of R.E.M.? Night Swimming still does me dirty, but I'm not sure if thats because its good or I just want it to be...

Anyone else have the Spawn soundtrack?

xxxpost - OK, "horrified" is too excessive a reaction. But Bedtime For Democracy was pretty goddamn dire.

Ha! If this thread didn't specify music purchases, I would have included a Jello Biafra spoken word triple-cassette. : )

I'm way more horrified by some of the fashion choices I've made over the years (Clara Bow wig, I'm looking at you) but music? I'm not horrified by much of anything I've bought (which is a shocking amt over the years), and i have regrets for spending $$ on some things, but i only have very slight shame re:

PM Dawn "set adrift on memory bliss" cassingle

i was 14 or 15 years old and an insufferable music snob.
i knew better than to buy the whole album, but for some reason i couldn't live without this song.

Misread this as 'hornify you now'. Need that hour of sleep back.

Anyone else have the Spawn soundtrack?

No, but I played the shit out of the Judgment Night soundtrack and I AM NOT ASHMED.

Several ILXors own(ed) it, it this thread is any indication:

Spawn (1997): I think this might be one of the worst filns I've ever seen

I even had the "special edition" with the cover pic taken from the comic, which had a bonus tune by Apollo 440 & Morphine, but I traded it with some friend years ago. I don't think it was completely awful though, the bonus track and the Goldie and Roni Size tunes were at least pretty dope.

(Never saw the movie though, and judging by the initial handful of issues of the comic that I read, it was one of the worst 90s superhero books ever.)

which had a bonus tune by Apollo 440 & Morphine,

must. hear. now.

xxxpost - OK, "horrified" is too excessive a reaction. But Bedtime For Democracy was pretty goddamn dire.

― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 15 March 2010 14:20 (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think this is a pretty good album - it maybe isn't a great success as a cohesive bunch of songs but there are loads of great individual moments on it imo

As for purchases, the first two Spin Doctors albums and 'Stacked Up' by Senser are prob about as bad as it gets... there's plenty of stuff I don't listen to at all anymore but tbh I would not be averse to seeing how eg 'Grave Dancers Union' by Soul Asylum holds up, or the Alice In Chains stuff I had maybe

stacked up is still decent. AiC definitely is as awesome as it was back then. Dirt is a classic.

Pop Will Eat Itself. ugh.

For me this is either Balaam & the Angel, Wang Chung or Stevie Ray Vaughan.

My Life Story.

PM Dawn "set adrift on memory bliss" cassingle - a badge of honor imo

I think this is a pretty good album - it maybe isn't a great success as a cohesive bunch of songs but there are loads of great individual moments on it imo

― Markelby's Greasy Spoon (DJ Mencap),

The "Rocky & Bullwinkle" parody was pretty funny, the "USA For South Africa" bit too.

i'm not all that horrified about it now, but i was at the time
pretty sure i am incapable of horrifying myself at this point

i remembered about an hour ago that i also bought a terrible Consolidated cassette once too
http://onealbumaday.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/album-cover-friednly-fascism-facism-consolidated.jpg

Oh man, I always wanted to hear Consolidated when I was a kid! No good, then?

i knew as soon as i bought it that it kind of sucked. boring and humorless, imo but i honestly haven't even thought about it since 1995 or so?
i wonder where it went? maybe i still have it in a box somewhere.

I'm a bit sheepish about Urban Dance Squad. And I surely didn't need the ENTIRE Dead Kennedys catalogue.

― Half lies and gorilla dust (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, March 15, 2010 4:16 AM (13 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

the dead kennedys are such a great band once you finally accept that they only had like around 15 great songs

I've flirted with some bad genres.. there was a few Jon Spencer CDs that kind of horrify me now (though I sold them probably 12 years ago), and some broken beat/acid jazzy stuff that is pretty painful.

the dead kennedys are such a great band once you finally accept that they only had like around 15 great songs

I'll concede that bedtime for democracy is a little shaky, but every other album is solid start to finish.

there was a few Jon Spencer CDs that kind of horrify me now (though I sold them probably 12 years ago)

Why then this PR news I got today is for you:

THE JON SPENCER BLUES EXPLOSION
DIRTY SHIRT ROCK N’ ROLL: THE FIRST TEN YEARS
Album released 24th May 2010 on SHOVE RECORDS
Full back catalogue reissue plans throughout 2010

Oh man, I always wanted to hear Consolidated when I was a kid! No good, then?

They were pretty good for 2 albums, then sort of became humorlessly awful. Their first album The Myth of Rock is the one you should go for IMO.

also I just ripped the Spawn soundtrack into my iTunes library this weekend, lol

i still like JSBX, russel simins is a great drummer

which had a bonus tune by Apollo 440 & Morphine,

must. hear. now.

― mark e, Monday, March 15, 2010 10:55 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i have this, it's pretty dope -- let me know if your ilx account goes to your actual e-mail and i can send you a link

You know I half thought I could disprove Dan's statement about Consolidated, but looking at the tracklistings (up to Dropped which, for shame, I still have somewhere) the only song I have any hankering to listen to is Dysfunctional Relationship.

i have this, it's pretty dope -- let me know if your ilx account goes to your actual e-mail and i can send you a link

yes, it's a real email address. much appreciated.