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!

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.

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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.