That one album you wished you'd never bought
 

Everyone has one...that one album that you bought in a (possibly drunken) state of shameless buffoonery and now have staring at you from between your more favoured albums every time you observe your collection. You can't bare to part with it...nor can you bare to listen to it...it haunts your dreams and your waking thoughts...it is inside your very soul...stuck on repeat...a curse..

Mine is without a doubt Origin of Symmetry by Muse. For being a shameless bore of an album, with "Citizen Erased" as its only saving grace.

What's yours?

Back in 2001 when I was still figuring out what I liked I bought Papa Roach's debut album Infest (2000) on the assumption that all metal was nu metal. I got about halfway home before I turned around and took it back to the used record store. I only got $5 for it ($5 more than it deserves) but unfortunately I didn't have enough money to get something new so I walked away with a loss, but at least I didn't have that album stinking up my collection.

I actually kind of like that album. :cool:

Mark Eitzel - Candy Ass

Liz Phair's whitechocolatespaceegg...simply put, I overestimated the amount of Liz Phair I needed in my life. It's alright but it's so 'alright' that I rarely end up putting it on. I don't have that problem very often after buying albums, so it has always bugged me! I bought it new because I liked her previous albums well enough but was severely disappointed. I'll never get that eight dollars back!

Tracey Ullmann - You Broke My Heart in 17 Pieces

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This balladeering river of post-grunge poo retroactively tainted the majority of Soundgarden's catalog to my ears until a few years ago, especially their later stuff. Aside from two tracks (Never the Machine Forever / Applebite) I honestly couldn't listen to Down on the Upside for years because of it.

Just one, that's difficult.

I will have to go with Drawing Voices. It was in the Isis section of Amoeba Records, Hollywood and I threw it in my basket as part of a deliriously excited shopping frenzy. It turns out it is an experimental album of ambient noise made when people draw. "The hidden sound of mark making". A bit out there for me and bearing little resemblance to music at all.

This qualifies for the honour above so many other misfires because of the fact I wasted an Ameoba purchase on it. It's not like I get to go there every weekend.

sounds shamelessly ludicrous

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I found a vinyl copy at a record store in California and brought it back to the record store a week or so later. I couldn't stomach the first side, I didn't even attempt to flip the record and listen to the other side. Luckily, vinyl doesn't really cost that much, and this one was pretty beat up, so I only lost like...3 bucks or so.

Did you get the ad for the T-Shirt, Satin Jacket, and Jogging shorts with it?

I got it for a Dollar, and although the album was pretty bad, I'm still keeping it for the whole package. It's an ultimate cut out album, and best appreciated when one has a copy with the Saw Cut, shrink wrap with "Special" sticker, and Love Beach Jogging Shorts offer. I still wonder how many Love Beach Satin Jackets wound up at thrift stores after paying almost $70 for the damn thing. The album in great condition is just an added bonus - you don't have to play it more than once.

I hate to go on laughing about an album by a band that I actually like (the Debut, Brain Salad Surgery, and Tarkus were pretty good), but at least they survived that debacle. The second side actually had it's moments, but I can understand not even wanting to hear it after surviving songs like the title track and "Taste of My Love." The final track at the end of Side One hinted at Side Two's better moments, though.

I'm still deciding on my pick in this topic.

Definitely Fieldy's Dreams - Rock n' Roll Gangster. In middle school, when I got into a band, I had to have EVERYTHING they did - side projects and all. Korn's bassist put this out and even though I didn't like gangsta rap at the time, I gave it a chance. Not surprisingly, it blows. 2 plays and it became one of the worst albums in my collection. I still laugh a little when I see it. Apparently he has another album he hasn't released yet called Fieldy's Nightmares... Only it's a bass instrumental jazz/funk fusion.

Nah, I found it at a record store so it was just for the record. I would have held onto it if I ended up liking it at some point, but I have such limited space right now that it would have just picked up dust until I was in the mood to listen to it, which wasn't often enough to consider keeping it. Maybe i'll listen to it again in the future, because I love/have a couple other ELP albums on vinyl, which are fantastic.

I think I found the one that I actually kept in my collection...

Sha Na Na - Sha Na Now.

I never had an album by a group that had a cheesy but still memorable show, and now I actually have two, and both are strong disappointments that killed off my slight like of the show (Hey, it had The Ramones on one episode! You don't let go of childhood memories like that.). Their debut had a first side that had their live show, all energetic and fun, but a second that seriously dragged them into MOR. Imagine now that second side dragged on to a whole album. That's the anti-world of Sha Na Now.

Imagine traveling back to the Mid 70's (as this was 1975), meeting a car collector that once was cool, but then hit his Late 30's and went all Mellow on us while still keeping his cars and collector's group jacket while trying to hide the increasing beer gut. Or how about going to a 50's theme Hamburger restaurant and instead of the classics playing on the music system the customer gets a tame Bar Band instead. That's the feeling I got listening to it.

The epic ballad "Try a Little Harder" may be better than Barry Manilow (only slightly...still is crap), but it's only just due to the fact that the instrumentation is a little sharper.

A cheesy song about hosting a "Basement Party"? No thanks.

LAME covers of classics like "Runaway," "Party Lights," and "(Just Like) Romero and Juliet" that really want the listener to throw the record right out the window. A cover of "Braking Up is Hard to Do" that's soft enough that it makes Neal Sedaka's version sound Punk (There have been worse, but...).

Crap outsider or Producer-written originals like "Circles of Love" which employ light Disco beats.

A Disco-Lite Instrumental co-written by the Producer (Tony Camillo) called "Sha-Bumpin" that's actually the best moment on there as it has no vocals and is not a crap cover. It STILL is crap, anyways.

It's understandable. It tried to bring what's essentially a live attraction up to date with the times, that being the very crap Mid-70's. Still, with a cover of them still wearing that camp 50's style stage image, you would expect them to at least Rock out a little, but damn did they get mellow here.

The spirit that dissed the Hippies at the end of Side One of their debut was no longer there. At least their Best Of featured little from this album.

This actually charted in The US, #162. It was possibly thanks to those said Middle Age Car Collectors then.

I wonder if Jocko's album released around the time was the Rock and Roll that went missing from Sha Na Now.

Two that immediately leap to mind are;

Captain Soul - Beat Your Crazy Head Against The Sky. Without a shadow of a doubt, the worst album I've ever heard.

Martin Simpson - The Bramble Briar. Awful, cheesy, cringeworthy folk that had me envisioning a guy with one finger stuck firmly in his ear, crooning about 'a fair maiden he met whilst a-wandering'.

@Mr Dave: Aw, I loved Cornell's solo debut!

The first album that came to my mind was Muse's "Absolution". Just rubbish.

i often ask myself "What's Muse's appeal?" It all sounds like an attempt to make a musical of George Orwell's 1984 but it's not backed up by any actual activism.

Although i did enjoy Absolution

I have a box under my bed of about a hundred albums I wish I'd never bought. Maybe one day I'll listen to all of them and write scathing reviews of myself at age 16.

Hmmm... what kinds of albums were these?

I have near enough 200 CD's (which I think is alright considering I have never had a job :D ) and I don't regret any. Sure, some are a bit lame (Heathen Chemistry, Love Your Self Abuse) but on the whole they all receive at least a 3.0 rating on RYM, which isn't bad at all.

The vast majority are that popular-emo that we will look back upon with humiliation when it's retro, but there's a healthy number of pop punk, christian screamo, and nu metal albums under there.

Muse's The Resistance. I bought it on CD because I really liked Black Holes at the time (still do). I remember popping it in my car's cd player and being massively disappointed by the drive home. It has only gotten worse since then.

That was the last time I bought anything on CD.

Christian Screamo sounds kind of interesting. I imagine it's not as cool as it sounds.

I remember saying on here waaaaaaay back in either 2004 or 2005 that most of the poppy emo crap that was clogging up this place back then would be remembered as nothing more than the hair metal equivalent of the 00's and that people would be embarrassed by it in the future.

I got slated at the time but when was the last time you saw someone talk about Dashboard Confessional, Jimmy Eat World or Thursday on this forum.

I actually really liked Thursday a few years back. Wouldn't mind getting a hold of some of their albums actually, which I think I may do.

Heh. Well mankycaaant just named a Jimmy Eat World album his favorite album of all time so I guess my answer to that question would be... yesterday. :laughing:

^ Was going to say...

Glad to buck the trend lads.

To answer the Original Post;
Oasis's 'Stop the Clocks'

A few years back, got the compilation and having heard it quite a lot, it drained on me and I began to loathe the band.
To this day, won't touch any of their music, it's just terrible.

Mentioning an album that came out over a decade ago is one thing.
For a band that are still together when was there any serious discussion about them here. Maybe 2006?

You must have blocked Norg.

When I bought The Resistance I had the exact same reaction. On the drive home I was skipping through the tracks shouting "where's the ####ing riffs ?!" Never listened to it again.

Some candidates for the worst music I ever actually spent money on:

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Complete Euro-trash sings autotuned techno tracks about Playstation and blue aliens. Just horrible. Not even fun for the camp factor.

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Pretentious crap. Every song sounds the same.

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...no.

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I don't hate this as much as the other records on this list, but I was so excited when I bought the special edition. I even bought in Iceland. I was so pumped to hear it, and on the trip back from Iceland to Boston, I tried man. I. Tried. It was terrible and still is.

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Aside from the title track, this album is simply a dud. While it was recorded back when Britney had at least SOME vocal talent, the sappy production did not age well and my love affair with Britney didn't last longer than a couple of months.

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Weird to put my favorite boys on this list, but seriously now. What were they thinking when they erased all the melodies and musicianship from their sound? What made Duran Duran so special was the way they twisted synths and guitars to make a sound all their own. This was just adult contemporary crap. Decent vocals from Simon, though.

**BONUS** A free album I still ended up loathing:

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With songs like Can't Take My Eyes Off You and Anyone Who Had a Heart, I was pumped to hear this. But my God. These boys are dreary and zap all the personality out of some amazing tracks. The only piece of vinyl I've ever actually taken a box cutter to. Just for shiggles. At least it was free.

Hey, I like that one. It's nothing amazing, but I enjoy it or at least I used to enjoy it. I haven't listened to it in years.

I'm actually really surprised that anyone on here has even heard of those guys, but I guess it makes sense because the band is from Boston, I'm originally from there, and you apparently live there now.

Yeah, I found them in a local bin at the old Looney Tunes location in Harvard Square. I just couldn't get into them...

I think I ended up throwing it out because I couldn't sell it. :X Ooopsie.

I still have a copy of that Britney Spears album. My ex loved that Spears record. I occassionally dust it off for parties just so the radio friendly crowd can get jumping.

I love Duran Duran but even I knew that Liberty would not cut it for me. The last thing i bought was the single Ordinary World.

Heh. And I believe I got my copy at the old CD Spins on Newbury Street. Ah, memories. :beer:

I quite enjoyed that album as a kid, though I don't think i'd like it as much as I did if I decide to listen to it now. Maybe I would.

I tried to like this as well. I still like "Serious," though - They should have scrapped the album and kept it as a stand-alone single. Sounded like that they were trying to come up with ideas, but could not really get them through. Very blah, but there are a couple of moments.

Bought a Slave System vinyl off them this weekend. I can't use it now they shat in my record player though.