What Was The Last Record You Were Wrong About?

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This is about the tenth thread in a row I've started with no idea of what my own answer is so I won't lead by example, but the question is pretty clear I think. Oh actually, no "I was wrong to buy [record], hur hur", I want to know about the last record you formed an opinion about and then changed your mind on.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 8 December 2003 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i thought the cody chestnuTT album was some sort of lo-fi soul, lost-genius type thing, then after a few listens i realised it was actually half-baked misogynist garbage.

fuck a chestnuTT

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 8 December 2003 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Publicly, Giddy Motors's "Make It Pop" LP - I love that record now but you'd never know it from the bad review I gave it.

― roger adultery, Monday, 8 December 2003 01:54 (twenty-one years ago)

The first Javine single... thought it was like a J-Lo cast-off at first. But no, 'tis a very enjoyable pop tune and I love her voice - it's really strong and confident.

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 8 December 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

How is it misogynist?

Not trying to be argumentitive, I really want to know, I haven't heard it.

― David Allen, Monday, 8 December 2003 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

lyrically, he talks about fucking women with his "big black dick" a LOT. and not in a kind way...

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:05 (twenty-one years ago)

That's awesome

― roger adultery, Monday, 8 December 2003 02:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've had no desire to listen to Mars Volta in ages.

― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 8 December 2003 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

The first time I heard the Interpol album I wrote them off as Joy Division to the Strokes' VU/GbV. After badgering from various trusted friends I listened to it enough not to care about its obvious inspiration.

The first time I listened to Phantom Power I thought FSA may have finally recorded an album worthy of their live show. But then I haven't listened to it since.

― otto, Monday, 8 December 2003 02:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Steve burns' dust mites album. I mean it's alright, but the day after I bought it (at full price) my roommate brought it home from the radio station.

― A Nairn (moretap), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Earlier this year, I argued passionately for Northern State being a literate, intelligent, fresh new hip-hop voice that combined a Beasties-esque playfullness with a progressive feminist conscience.

Now I realise that they're just annoying.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Cody ChesnuTT album is awesome.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:12 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason I hated The Raincoats The Kitchen Tapes for ages and when I listened to it recently it sounded better than their second and third albums.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally realized how neat Roxy Music is/was pretty recently. I blame rewatching Velvet Goldmine. Looking back now I'm not entirely sure what had prejudiced me against them in the first place. Whatever it was though, I was completely wrong.

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:27 (twenty-one years ago)

The new Rufus Wainwright album is grandiose symphonic over-the-top genius! No, wait, it's boring as fuck!

― Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Two recently that were far better than I remember: Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain and Elvis Costello's greatest hits. I had always loved specific tracks off both, but now both seem to have some consistency that I never saw before.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

On the other side of that, Hail to the Thief seems to get worse every time I hear it.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Monday, 8 December 2003 03:57 (twenty-one years ago)

last album: i'm sure there was one more recent, but probably gold teeth thief. thought it was more eclectic, splatterbreaks-idm-noise-hiphop-world music "creative mixing". i'm not sure it's not, but it's a damn good record nonetheless. i think i damned 2 many dj's for similar reasons (although for different sounds) and that's one of my favorite albums ever.

last single: that i can remember, "grindin". hated all summer; thought the neps had hit self-parody. heard it in the context of the album (and the dancehall mixes) and it sounded fucking great.

― fiddo centington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm never wrong.

― Stupid (Stupid), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:15 (twenty-one years ago)

definitely hail to the thief, which at time of release i liked quite a bit

― mark p (Mark P), Monday, 8 December 2003 04:19 (twenty-one years ago)

My Morning Jacket - It Still Moves.

I gave it a too-enthusiastic review mainly b/c i was so stoked to finally hear on CD all the songs that had been kicking my ass live. And maybe it's not their fault, but it just doesn't hold up nearly as well as their earlier stuff, I'm much more certain now that I prefer At Dawn and even Tennessee Fire.

― Josh Love (screamapillar), Monday, 8 December 2003 05:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Just a couple hours ago, I heard Yo La Tengo's Summer Sun in a coffee shop and thought, "Why this is lovely!" I think if it didn't have YLT's name on it (i.e., with precedent and expectations), I would've really liked it, instead of dismissing it as sleepy and indulgent. I'll also join the club of Hail to the Thief champions who now never listen to it -- which is really bothering me now, as I prepare a year-end top 10 list. I think I only really figure out my favorite records of the year two years later.

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 8 December 2003 06:05 (twenty-one years ago)

I have never been wrong. I used to work at a record store.

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Monday, 8 December 2003 06:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, well, if we're talking about records that we went crazy about upon their release and never listen to now, shit, that's a whole 'nother thread. Mercury Rev's last two, Stories From The City Stories From the Sea, man there are tons from 2002 alone. Why does this happen? Why are records with 'staying power' an increasing rarity? And what IS that magic special ingredient that makes you keep coming back to a record?

― roger adultery, Monday, 8 December 2003 06:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Album I was wrong to like - The Rapture - Echoes - Thought it was fun indie-dance-punk, but it doesn't doesn't have enough indie, enough dance, or enough punk. Just kinda boring.

Album I was wrong to hate - Blood Brothers - Burn, Piano Island, Burn - I was really, really, annoyed by this at first, but I think I just had to be in the write frame of mind.

And I was the opposite on the Interpol front. I was an apologist for them when all the Joy-Division-ripoff snickering first started, but now that album just kina bores me as well.

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Monday, 8 December 2003 06:34 (twenty-one years ago)

he, right frame of mind that is

― dieblucasdie (dieblucasdie), Monday, 8 December 2003 06:35 (twenty-one years ago)

When I first heard Interpol, they were on the top of my 'to-buy' list. Since, they have relentlessly moved down until they fell off. The songs are decent, but they don't seem like much more than a flavor-of-the-month when I listen to them now. Which I don't do very often, seeing as how I didn't buy their album.

Seeing them live in DC last October, touring with the horrible group Elephant, I realized I had made the correct decision.

― webcrack (music=crack), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:43 (twenty-one years ago)

haha - lil stevie malkmus - pig lib

― cinniblount (James Blount), Monday, 8 December 2003 08:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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