[Closed] What's the worst album you ever bought?

Seth Lakeman..

I love his Kitty Jay album.

Nine Inch Nails Broken. Remember buying it as an obsessive Reznor fan in the early 90s.
Absolute shite

For me that, the downward spiral and the fragile are the best of his output. Awesome. Put "gave up" on loud!

I'm torn between;

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The manics one is probably worse.

Polyphonic spree
Monkees
Radio head - Kid A

Waderider - Member
Trout Mask Replica. What is that all about?

I've got a copy of that in the car.

Useful when people I don't like scrounge lifts - they don't often ask twice.

I'll also second 'Misery loves Co', bought it off the back of one single and the album was depressingly awful.

it wasn't 'My Mind Still Speaks' was it? Think I heard that on a Metal Hammer free CD or whatever. I really tried with the album, but... nope

Listening back now, the single wasn't that much cop either 😆

the miseducation of lauryn hill. All the cool kids liked her at the time and I suppose I must've bought at least one of the two I "own". Turgid, tryhard (to sound like you're not trying) formulaic shit

😯

chopchop - Member
'Pop Art' by Transvision Vamp.

Pubescent lust for the lead singer and (now) inexplicable appreciation of the 'I want your love' single led me to spend 2 weeks of paper round earnings on my first ever album.

I'm not ashamed to admit i bought Pop Art when I was 16.
I also have Trans by Neal Young, not his best work.

but Wendy James' vocals...

I bought her solo album. I thought it was pretty good at the time. It now resides in the loft. Might have to dig it out.

I liked the first Kate Nash album, but the second was rubbish.

"The Yes Album" by, er, "Yes".

Woppit wins! I'd rather listen to my soggy bedwetters indie June Brides crap 20 times than a Yes album once 😆

If you define the worst as the one you bought, only played once and then left it behind when you last moved because you couldn't be bothered to pack it, then mine would be:
(Whats the story) Morning Glory
I do like Wonderwall to be fair
Strangely enough, I play the Yes Album quite regularly. Ok it isn't their best but it reminds me of my youth.

Nine Inch Nails-Fixed. unlistenable.

Bonkers

Dizzy Rascal?

Dark days/light years - Super Furries
I do so love SFA but have never warmed to this massive pile of audio-poop
Love REM's Monster though

Radio head - Kid A

the worst album you ever bought? And the best?

Some euro ambient compilation thing. Parfum or something. Jesus it was bad.

2virgins by John lennon and yoko ono- i was15 and probably bought it for the cover.
hard to imagine how it got onto vinyl

doris5000 - Member
You're dissing Elastica?!
Outside pal.

Elastica were sinfully poor and that one song that people quite liked turned out to be a massive rip off that got them sued! Bin!

lesgrandepotato - Member
Clearly the answer to this is [s]the Spaghetti Incident[/s] every album released by Guns and Roses.

4 Non Blondes album, Bigger, Better, Faster, More... I bought it on the strength of the 'What's up?' single.

Absolute garbage, don't know what possesed me to buy it, but I haven't bought another record since on the strength of hearing just one track.

I got half way through it, took it off, never listened to it again.

[i]I like Elastica, saw them on their first tour, I still wear my Elastica tee shirt too[/i]
I saw them on that tour supporting Pulp, thought they were dull and plodding live. The album was better though, good pop album.

Nice thread, brought back memories of that Dog Eag Dog album being truly shit 20 years ago. Having bought that for full price on release day on student wages it really hurt - the record shop wouldn't change or take it back since already had box full of returns.
I actually dug out my cd collection from closets and threw away that album just now!

I'm going to get flamed for this, but the only album I've ever taken back was Radiohead's The Bends.
Really wanted to like it but found it to be depressing drivel.
To make up for it, I do love 'Burn The Witch'

Chopper you is flamed.

I remember not liking the Bends when I first listened. Wasn't foolish enough to take it back though! So many classic songs.

On the subject of RHCP, it seems from my Twitter feed, I'm not allowed to like them anymore. BUt Californication was ace, so up yours.

I did buy Stadium Arcadium though which ensured that I tend not to argue with people who slag them off.

To the person who said Arrested Development's album convinced them that hip hop wasn't for them; I love hip hop and I still took it back to the shop and swapped it for an Ice T album ( that wasn't up to much either tbf)

Most of the other bad stuff I have or had were gifts, honest Guv.

[i]The Holy Sound of American Pipe[/i] - Vermonster. Extremely obscure band bought on vinyl in an American record store for far too much money. Hard to even google this nonsense now - one guy sums it up as appealing to people who think Sister Ray by VU is way too accessible and structured.

Partial to a bit of Bruce Springsteen over the years but the early 90s were a career-low. Bought Human Touch from that time and it is garbage. He's hit an miss with his sound, IMHO, but you can rely on his songwriting. Not here - doubt there's anything that would crack his top 100 songs.

What the hell was i thinking?
https://www.discogs.com/Slide-Down-So-Long/release/1561908

And Mansun, wide open space, i had or may still have a remix by some Irish production god or other that i played quite a bit at the time, ill have a quick crate dig and if its on youtube...

Yerrr, i still have it, i quite enjoyed it so here ya go, endure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trouser_Enthusiasts

EMF: Schubert Dip

Bought because of "Unbelievable" which for me happened to apt for the rest of the album, unbelievably bad! 😆

I'm going to get flamed for this, but the only album I've ever taken back was Radiohead's The Bends.

I'm a big music lover and have tastes that span lots of different genres, but have just never gelled with anything Radiohead have done. Purchased or listened to all their stuff and it doesn't click. I'm exactly the same with Muse too. Appreciate that both bands can pen well constructed songs and display some fine musicianship, just not for me. Flame away!

It's your musical taste,how can people flame you for that? personal thing innit,though I must say anyone who has any super furry animals album among the worst they have ever bought clearly needs mental help :-).Oh and XX for me too(or is it the XX?).

leegee - Member
Nine Inch Nails-Fixed. unlistenable

No that's wrong, is a remix of Broken so helps if you know that, but i wire b like the happiness in slavery version on there

So I've just listened to my worst album agai, Pleasure by Girls at Our Best!, and it really is dross, Fast Boyfriends was the highlight and do be fair there was one other reasonable song the rest was just dire.

I have 2 copies of the miseducation of lauryn hill.

Make it 3, take mine.

Warbly wibbly melody-free dross.

I can think of a few...

Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish
Earth Crisis - Breed the Killers
Trapt - Trapt (I was a nu metal kid but this was utter drivel)
Taproot - Welcome

No doubt, there's many more in my CD collection that now resides in the attic!

I don't mind St Anger; the production is poo but there are a few good songs on there.

panzerjager - Member
4 Non Blondes album, Bigger, Better, Faster, More... I bought it on the strength of the 'What's up?' single.

Absolute garbage, don't know what possesed me to buy it, but I haven't bought another record since on the strength of hearing just one track.

I got half way through it, took it off, never listened to it again.

Ah well, I got that album, loved it and still listen to it from time to time. It and Soul Asylum's Grave Dancers Union have a special status for me, they were probably the first two albums I got where it felt like they were fully my own choices, rather than through tastes I'd picked up from friends or family.

I have plenty of the CDs mentioned above and still like them but

Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish

is the only CD in my largish collection spanning many years that I haven't ripped to MP3 and may never listen to again

I obviously have no taste in music as this thread has triggered multiple "oh must go listen to that again"s, I think the most let down I have been by an album purchase was It's 5 o'clock somewhere" by Slash's Snakepit, and even that sort of grew on me

Whoa there Pimpmaster - Phunk Junkeez?

I'm going to Spotify to see how rash I was.

Edit: nah, still awful. But they do remind me of this, which is a worthy addition to the thread:

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Two good tracks if memory serves. Why the Chilis allowed them to sample is beyond me.

I like Elastica, saw them on their first tour, I still wear my Elastica tee shirt too
I saw them on that tour supporting Pulp, thought they were dull and plodding live. The album was better though, good pop album.

I saw the king blues as support for headliners Hard Fi when they released Stars OF CCTV, they were worse than dire.
Saw the King Blues a couple of months ago and nowts changed

MR Mister, welcome to the real world.
I still have no idea why I did that?

As much as I love Elvis Costello his Brodsky Quartet album was dire. Critics liked it but Inthink I only ever played it all the way through once.

Radiohead's new album is terrible and as I bought it on iTunes I can't sell it even for a few quid.