Worst Album You have Bought

Pocket full of Kryptonite

I mean I didn't even like the single after I'd heard it three times. I must have been mad.
 
Sheriff_John_Bunnell_ret said:
Kid A and Chinese Democracy. I've one of those Christian albums Dylan made in the 80s also can't remember it's name. It's supposed to be the good one.
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Kid A? Great album, just not alternative rock. National Anthem, what a bassline. Although Treefingers is pap.

Chinese Democracy, yes it's very, very, very, very poor.
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
Parachutes - Coldplay is absolute butt fumes.
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If you don't like Parachutes, you'll hate their later stuff :oops:

LowMoorBoro said:
My girlfriend accidentally bought it on my iTunes so I technically bought it, think it was Adele’s second album. Not my sort of music at all and hated every track, kept forgetting to delete it from my iTunes and any song would be swiftly angrily skipped if came on shuffle.
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When you've witnessed someone like you belted out in front of 300 people, then it's pretty hard to hate every track on her second album, even if it isn't your thing.

Brian Marwood said:
I’m with you on Marvin Gaye
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Now I'm old I really like Marvin, didn't get into it at all when I was younger though. Mercy, Mercy, Me (The Ecology) is way ahead of it's time in subject matter.
 
I did buy quite a lot of terrible landfill indie in the early/mid 00s. Hard Fi - stars of CCTV (or something like that) takes some beating.

There were some stinking Weezer albums during this period as well.
 
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I was genuinely gutted when I heard Kid A for the first time as it wasn't what I expected. I liked the change in direction from the bends to ok computer but my tiny mind couldn't comprehend kid A. However, I was only a kid at the time and I appreciate it much more now.
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
Thanks Flapjack, I've just read through the Wiki page on it. It was obviously a concept art thingy being in the Velvet Underground but it very hard to dance too or *acousticise it. (new word I've made up?)
However there are some good quotes -
** "The spin cycle of a washing machine has more melodic variation than the electronic drone that was Metal Machine Music"
*** As a statement it's great, as a giant **** YOU it shows integrity—a sick, twisted, dunced-out, malevolent, perverted, psychopathic integrity, but integrity nevertheless."

I never came across MMM until 1977, and bought it unlistened to from the HMV in Stockton, it actually broke down a barrier for me. The youth club I attended had a bunch of strange weird little gang of 4 oddballs. They dressed strange, stood together every night just inside the entrance, they never bothered with anybody else but their own little gang. I heard them talking about Lou Reeds Transformer. So got talking.

I swear these were the first Geek/nerds pre IT revolution on this planet. They were just there waiting for the nerd revolution to happen. I got to really like them and bothered with them until I was around 22, when they all seemed to disappeared to somewhere down south Dorkshire and no doubt have become successful. (Geeks/nerds always do).
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Also ... sounding like "the tubular groaning of a galactic refrigerator" and as displeasing to experience as "a night in a bus shelter"

I could have been one of those people you describe, except I stayed in my (late 1970s) bedroom listening to Cabaret Voltaire and never made it as far as the youth club.
 
The_Lizards_Jumpers said:
Another one from me.

Record shopping with my mate in Denver, CO after a heavy drinking session over breakfast and into lunch. Picked up a Sugarcubes 12" although I remember thinking I didn't recognise the cover but still stuck it in the rather large pile of records I was buying, and bought it.

Got it home a couple of days later, now sober, and I'd gone and bought a Sugarbabes 12' by mistake 😂
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If it was the Mutya, Keisha and Siobhan line up there's never a mistake in Sugababes. Obviously other rules apply later on.
 
SE4 Red said:
I was genuinely gutted when I heard Kid A for the first time as it wasn't what I expected. I liked the change in direction from the bends to ok computer but my tiny mind couldn't comprehend kid A. However, I was only a kid at the time and I appreciate it much more now.
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That’s exactly my thoughts on it. It’s probably an experience a lot of Radiohead fans had over the years. Ok Computer is one of me favourite ever albums and I think I was expecting something similar but it was too much of a change in direction for a 20 year old me.
 
I didn't buy it but, like millions of others, I woke up in 2014 to find myself the outraged owner of Songs of Innocence by U2. Bono had talked Apple into inflicting this audible turd on all iTunes users. I've tried deleting it from time to time but it still won't flush.
 
Linny said:
That’s exactly my thoughts on it. It’s probably an experience a lot of Radiohead fans had over the years. Ok Computer is one of me favourite ever albums and I think I was expecting something similar but it was too much of a change in direction for a 20 year old me.
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try it again as a fully formed adult, it's a great album but it probably took me a year or two to get it. Good book on that album putting it in the context of the world at the time it was written and released https://amzn.eu/d/3MQXtOz
 
JackG said:
I didn't buy it but, like millions of others, I woke up in 2014 to find myself the outraged owner of Songs of Innocence by U2. Bono had talked Apple into inflicting this audible turd on all iTunes users. I've tried deleting it from time to time but it still won't flush.
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I wouldn't know if it was any good, I was so bothered by them dumping it on me, that I just point blank refused to give it a spin
 
BoroMart said:
try it again as a fully formed adult, it's a great album but it probably took me a year or two to get it. Good book on that album putting it in the context of the world at the time it was written and released https://amzn.eu/d/3MQXtOz
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Yeah I do like it now mate. Only went back to it about 10 years ago, after it had been gathering dust on the cd shelf for many a year 🙂
 
mercury_redstone7 said:
Diamond Dogs I bought this as it came out.

I used to copy /tape borrowing his very early albums from mates older brothers (mainly hippies or grebos) I lent them in 1973/74 , early stuff like David Bowie (Images) 1968 and David Bowie (Space Odyssey) until I could afford to buy them. These early albums are fantastic writing and music for the time.

All his early albums were incredible and not really easy listening for Pop music fans, but as you growing in your teens, music seems to expand your horizons and your mind begins to appreciate - Cygnet Committee, Unwashed and somewhat slightly dazed, on later albums The Width of a Circle. Saviour Machine etc.

Although he could produce some good pop songs as well, I think he was quoted as saying he was just a pop song writer and singer. Playing himself down in a way really.

My disappointing album was Young Americans.

I think Bowie and his cohorts, are arguably the best Britain produced imho.

He largely played himself down describing himself as a pop song writer and singer, he always seemed an uneasy man being interviewed, but fantastic on stage.
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I’m with you there. Took me decades to give young Americans any AirPlay and only recently bought a secondhand copy.
Scary monsters is an all time favourite everything else is 80s and beyond is meh.
 
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