Most disappointing albums you bought (or didn't buy)

[Twinkle Toes]

I was 3/4 at the time, so don't know if this counts, but the latter two Pixies albums were disappointing, by their standards anyway.

Good shout (although I think Trompe le Monde has a few great moments). Can't stand Bossanova though & really wish I hadn't bought it tbh. Hey ho.

 

[JamesAndTheGiantHead]

Can't stand Bossanova though & really wish I hadn't bought it tbh. Hey ho.

Best song on an other wise unforgettable album, coupled with perhaps the worst music video of all time:

 

[Twinkle Toes]

Thanks for going to the trouble of the youtubery biz, James. Sadly, I'd rather eat my own footwear than to witness that load of ol' toilet again. What WERE they thinking?

 

[Peteinblack]

The name of the band on the cover should have been a warning to you there...

There's only ever been one word for Yes, and that's No!

The self-indulgent musical-noodlings and hippy-mystical lyrics that was Tales from Topographic Oceans was probably one of the main reasons for the rise of Punk !!! For that reason, and that reason only, it was worth it

 

[Barrow Boy]

These two, seduced by the cover artwork, musically IMHO, they were both crap.

 

[Peteinblack]

Good shout (although I think Trompe le Monde has a few great moments). Can't stand Bossanova though & really wish I hadn't bought it tbh. Hey ho.

Agree. Trompe Le Monde was good in parts ('Alex Eiffel', 'Head On'), but not in the same ball-park as Surfer Rosa or Doolittle.

 

[Peteinblack]

These two, seduced by the cover artwork, musically IMHO, they were both crap.

Good ol' Roger Dean; his art-work appeared on some appalling albums in the 1970s; in fact, it it had a Roger Dean album cover, you learned not to buy it

 

[xenophon]

He's such a ponce nowadays that it shouldn't really 'disappoint' me to be fair

 

[KZNSeagull]

The Top by The Cure
Pretty much every REM album after Document
Movement by New Order was a tad disappointing, but that may not count
Victorialand by Cocteau Twins

 

[Barrow Boy]

Good ol' Roger Dean; his art-work appeared on some appalling albums in the 1970s; in fact, it it had a Roger Dean album cover, you learned not to buy it

Trouble was it cost me the price of two albums to find this out!

 

[Trufflehound]

Good ol' Roger Dean; his art-work appeared on some appalling albums in the 1970s; in fact, it it had a Roger Dean album cover, you learned not to buy it

So I'll wipe my snot on the arm of your chair
As you put another Roger Dean poster on the wall.

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[loz]

Dreamtime and Ten - the last two Stranglers albums before Hugh Cornwell wisely jumped ship; he realised they had totally run out of ideas and inspiration.

Listen to these two piles of aural excrement, and you would not believe this was the same band which had produced classic singles like 'No More Heroes', 'Nice and Sleazy' or 'Duchess', or albums like Rattus Norvegicus or The Raven.

Although the last two albums were verygood. The Norfolk coast and then suite 16, in fact the latter album is their best since The Raven, IMHO. I would actully say that suite 16 could have sat inbetween No more heros and the Raven, back in the day.

 

[loz]

Give us enough rope, The Clash very disapointing.

And after the classic that was, Dirk wears white socks, the nightmare of, Kings of the wild frontier. By Adam and the Ants. Although KOTWF was OK it was a masive change in direction. ( a bad direction )

 

[Trufflehound]

Give 'em enough rope, The Clash very disapointing.

Interesting. Considering what a tough act it had to follow, I think it stands up really well.

 

[loz]

Interesting. Considering what a tough act it had to follow, I think it stands up really well.

I just thought it was over produced and lacked the raw spirt of punk....in saying that I was into the UK subs by then, so it would have been!

Over the years I have got to like a few tracks on it but as they say "first impretions" and all that.

 

[The Buttery Biscuit Base]

Hot Space - Queen
Bows + Arrows - The Walkmen
Sam's Town - The Killers
Metallica - St. Anger
Everything by Editors

 

[Gritt23]

Terrance Trent D'arby - Neither Fish Nor Flesh.

After a superb first album, I was full of expectation, and played it over and over again, to see if I'd just missed something, or whether it would grow on me. Nope it was just GASH.

 

[Peteinblack]

So I'll wipe my snot on the arm of your chair
As you put another Roger Dean poster on the wall.

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Nigel Blackwell - Britain's most under-rated lyricist:

Did you play in the Garden of Eden
Were the goal keeper’s gloves to you tossed?
Coz it seems to me you’re the reason;
You’re the reason why paradise lost.

Well we’ve all seen you personalised reg plates
And it’s not the worst crime I agree
But we both know full well that it really should spell
“T” “W” “A” “T”, “O” “N” “E”

 

[Peteinblack]

I just thought it was over produced and lacked the raw spirt of punk....in saying that I was into the UK subs by then, so it would have been!

Over the years I have got to like a few tracks on it but as they say "first impretions" and all that.

The over-production owing much to the fact that the producer was Sandy Pearlman; better known at the time for producing Blue Oyster Cult.

That said, I thought the first three tracks on 'Rope' were (still are) brilliant -Safe European Home, Drug-Stabbin' Time and English Civil War.

 

[Trufflehound]

That said, I thought the first three tracks on 'Rope' were (still are) brilliant -Safe European Home, Drug-Stabbin' Time and English Civil War.

First three tracks are Safe European Home, English Civil War, then Tommy Gun, surely?