Albums that you bought, despite it obviously being a bad idea?

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Melvins - Electroretard
I don't know why I ordered this, some sort of completist compulsion I suppose - which is something I used to think I was above. It's basically some crappy remakes of older songs, plus a bunch of covers.
The covers are quite nicely played and all, but if a duck accidentally broke the CD, it wouldn't feel like a big loss.

Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force
"Man, that's pretty cheap! Maybe it's time I give him a proper chance, eh?"
ARrrrgh! Well, there's one really cool riff in there, but yech.

new albums by Destruction, Kreator and Sodom
Woooh, the teutonic trio all release new albums within a few months! Wow, I've sold two of them and am trying to get rid of the last one now. Kreator lost the plot long ago, Sodom seemt o just be waddling around with decent-ness (ie their albums are fair enough to listen to, but who cares) and the Destruction was surprisingly good; alas couldn't stand many listens. Why was it obviously a bad idea? Well, has-been metalbands RARELY do something good any longer, though there are exceptions like Candlemass' "From the 13th sun"

King Crimson - VROOOM
I already owned Thrak at the time I purchased this. Hrmph.

Thor's Hammer - From Keflavik, With Love
In the middle of the damn "Iceland sure is cool" trend, this ol' compilation of beat songs got issued; and for some reason I got pulled in and bought the damn thing. I'll plead some ignorance though,as I'd heard a Thor's Hammer song that I liked, but it turned out to have been the Danish band.

XTC - Wasp Star (Apple Venus Volume 2)
Sort of like the Sodom/Kreator/Destruction thing. Another example of a band that lost my spirit long ago. I know a lot of people love this though, which is what convinced me that I should give it a shot.

Hooray for negative threads!

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:53 (twenty-three years ago)

Psycho Circus by Kiss. I mean, I really should've known better.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:55 (twenty-three years ago)

In retrospect, Metallica's St Anger wasn't ever really going to be a return to thrash greatness was it? Oh dear.

― M Carty (mj_c), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:57 (twenty-three years ago)

I owned and loved all the other Faith No More albums, I didn't see any reason why I wouldn't like Introduce Yourself, and thus I bought it. Enter Chuck Mosley into my listening consciousness. Exit Introduce Yourself from my collection.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 13:59 (twenty-three years ago)

Supergrass, "Life on Other Planets."

I had a feeling this might tickle my fancy. I was dead wrong.

― Raymond Cummings (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:06 (twenty-three years ago)

'Frosting on the Beater' by...fuck I can't even remember. Maybe if I heard it now I'd like it.

― dave q, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:10 (twenty-three years ago)

...if a duck accidentally broke the CD, it wouldn't feel like a big loss.

― Kris (aqueduct), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:16 (twenty-three years ago)

- first Ocean Color Scene
- Morganized - Morgan (bought it because of the Delakota link)
- Darkside

― daarkbee, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Ashanti

― Vic (Vic), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Richard Ashcroft's solo record. Made me wish he'd lifted another Stones sample to spruce this baby up a bit.

― Nom De Plume (Nom De Plume), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:33 (twenty-three years ago)

The last Troubleman sampler.

― Tom Breihan (Tom Breihan), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:42 (twenty-three years ago)

The Cure's "Bloodflowers". The guiding lights of my teen years reduced to a boring parody of themselves. I tried to like it.

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan and I could object on this last point, but that thread was done to death. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry, Ned. & Dan.

I'm still gonna buy the Trilogy DVD's, though ; )

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:53 (twenty-three years ago)

You are wise. And you can DEEPLY enjoy the Bloodflowers section like you ought. ;-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:54 (twenty-three years ago)

Dan and I could object on this last point, but that thread was done to death. ;-)

Again! Again! < /tellytubbies>

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 15:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Straightjacket Fits- Blow
The title gives you the warning. Not worth the $1 I paid for it.

― brg30 (brg30), Tuesday, 5 August 2003 22:44 (twenty-three years ago)

Yanqui UXO by G!YBE (I think that's how they spell it these days or it could be GY!BE, BE!GY or even !CUNTS.) Even though I loved the first two records, I found the third one to be turgid pish and knew it was all over for them, but despite their nauseating self-righteousness I still got suckerd in by that Constellation packaging. D'oh.

― Ben Dot, Tuesday, 5 August 2003 23:59 (twenty-three years ago)

(1) Glow by Reef- alcohol influenced purchase, album was still worse than i expected.
(2) Cold House by Hood - I had only heard one of ther songs (Home Is Where It Hurts) and wasn't impressed, so it was a bad idea to buy this album - but i bought it because the reviews compared it to Radiohead, who were my favourite band at the time. It became one of my favourite albums.

― peter james, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 01:13 (twenty-three years ago)

I second Supergrass. I bought "We're In It For The Money" at a used cd store in a college town. I put it in and rolled the windows down and started smoking a cigarette. I realized after about a minute that I was driving around a college town listening to music that sounds like something a dickhead college student with horrible taste would listen to. The feeling the music gave me was sickening.

― James Morris (HorrayJames), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 01:24 (twenty-three years ago)

Bad Ideas in Restrospect:

KISS - Psycho Circus, Carnival of Souls, Hot in the Shade, Creatures of the Night, the 4 solo albums (though I enjoy a few songs here and there)... okay any post 83 KISS album, save Unplugged
Metallica - Load, Re-Load
Queen - The Crown Jewels Bought it, didn't like most of the songs on the first 8 albums, so I got read of it. NOW I wish I had it back...
Mercyful Fate - Melissa (A cool Metallica medlee doesn't equal a good band)
Flotsam and Jetsam - S/T A decent enough album, but listened to it maybe 5 times, I'd say once after the first week
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Extended Versions $6 or not, WHY does it exist and WHY did I own it and love it for all those years
Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Mood I just DON'T like that album anymore, I really don't...
Nirvana - Incesticide Sure I got it used, but thats a sucky bunch of suckiness
Aerosmith - (whatever that first compilation was) God I think they're overrated, but it was $6 in the store and I was young and stupid
The Very Best of England Dan and John Ford Coley I'd Really Love to See You Tonight, but I'm never going to listen to any of your other songs, and then trade you in for the same $3 that I paid

― Bryan Moore (Bryan Moore), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Pretty & Twisted (post - Concrete Blonde Johnette Napolitano)

I really wanted to like it. Didn't happen.

― Orbit (Orbit), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 04:13 (twenty-three years ago)

hot hot heat -make up the breakdown
marilyn manson -last tour on earth

― reo fordecor, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 04:22 (twenty-three years ago)

Yeah!

What's up with that Cold House record - "life's a glitch, and then you cry" - whatever. So they used glitches, big deal - how about some songs please?

― Michael Dieter, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 04:54 (twenty-three years ago)

I think this is the best post I've ever read.

― M Carty (mj_c), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 07:17 (twenty-three years ago)

Mercyful Fate - Melissa (A cool Metallica medlee doesn't equal a good band)

Wow, I absolutely love that album! That and Don't Break The Oath are classics for me, I sort of wish they wouldn't have reunited though.
I used to have a bad habit of singing songs from Melissa whenever I got drunk; which is even worse than it sounds, as I couldn't even hit those high notes!

― Øystein Holm-Olsen (Øystein H-O), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 08:22 (twenty-three years ago)

I have never purchased an album and subsequently regretted having wasted my money on it < /lie>

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 08:32 (twenty-three years ago)

I so own this thread

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 08:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Constant purging and selling keeps the wheat/chaff ratio on my CD shelves relatively high. But Sheryl Crow's Tuesday Night Music Club somehow is still sitting there. Don't ask me why.

Then again, I liked Bloodflowers, esp "Where The Birds Always Sing."

― zaxxon25 (zaxxon25), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 13:02 (twenty-three years ago)

Construction for the Modern Idiot by the Wonder Stuff. They lost it on Never Loved Elvis, really, by loyalty kept me coming back.

Likewise everything recorded by the Mission from Children onward. Children had the odd track to recommend it ("Tower of Strength" and "Beyond the Pale", notably), but they never made a truly decent record after that, despite the fact I kept inexplicably buying them.....like a dick.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 13:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Molasses - Slow Messe
Two discs! Beautiful packaging! Straight from the label! "Drudgy folk" = what I like! But - not good. Have only listened to it twice or three times.

Anyone want to trade for it? If there are extra copies of Cold House floating around...

― Sean M (Sean M), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 13:32 (twenty-three years ago)

last week i bought a scorpions best-of for 2 bucks, it's pretty awful. dave q's fault i bought this piece of crap!

― unknown or illegal user (doorag), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 13:35 (twenty-three years ago)

Frosting on the Beater (by the Posies) is AWESOME.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:31 (twenty-three years ago)

Terre Thaemlitz "Oh No! It's Rubato!"

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Sea Change.

― J (Jay), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 16:56 (twenty-three years ago)

Will Oldham's Odes record.
I think it put me off him altogether.
Even though I don't think I actually BOUGHT it. I think it was my free one (at my local rekkid shoppe, reg. customers get a free one every 10 purchases). Still. I haven't bought a WO record since.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 17:00 (twenty-three years ago)

lupine howl.

― anahata, Wednesday, 6 August 2003 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

A Mickey Mouse rap album. I'm never buying another album ironically ever. EVER.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 21:38 (twenty-three years ago)

cold house is beautiful. their next album will be amazing. probably, maybe.
for me itis pale saints 'slow buildings', ian masters was gone, he was the pale saints for me, meriel ugh! but man she's made a nice record with mapstation.

― keith (keithmcl), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

slow buildings was far from being rubbish, it's actually got some really good moments. it helps if you treat it like it's a totally different band..

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 August 2003 23:48 (twenty-three years ago)

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