Why in the hell did I buy that album?
 

Do you ever go through your music collection and happen upon an album whose purchase, in retrospect, is totally inexplicable? You literally utter an inward groan of disgust at your own bad taste?

A few of mine:

Venus Hum
Pedro the Lion
Luscious Jackson
French Kicks
Jets to Brazil
Alkaline Trio
Far
Semisonic (this deserves self-flagellation)

There are surely many more, but I suspect I'm mentally repressing them.

Ahahaha semisonic. Well yeah I got a stack of about 8 or 9 ones that I got in the early 90's that I wonder why I ever bought. Probably cause I was 11

Veruca salt
Sponge - Rotting Pinata
Metallica - Load

Korn in general

To be honest their isn't many I regret buying.

I barely have any :). I just got really into music recently and I went through the whole pop punk phase pretty fast!

TATU
Backstreet Boys
Brittany Spears

I never listened to it.


Also, some live Black Sabbath album with some shitty singer, as well as every Rolling Stones album I have ever bought. Add Abbey Road to that list too, my little siblings have played the shit out of that album and I hate it now.

temple of the dog? audioslave? local h? live?

all collecting dust from my formative years of taste.

I thought about starting a thread like this but forgot about it.

I have so many CDs I regret buying. I have a ton of hardcore/metal stuff that I can't stand anymore. I have a Good Charlotte CD that I still don't think is that bad. Music is music.

Nothing wrong with audioslaves first album or temple of the dog.

Hell, I'd keep that album just for its cover and title.

I won't comment on the Rolling Stones. You're wounding me.

I also own a live Steppenwolf.

*Hangs head in shame*

Franz Ferdinand.

nothign at the moment but in my foolish youth i owned these

on cassette


on cassette, not sure if they ever made it to america but it's kind of an english version of kenny g


Oh dear I thought this was from around '95

BTW truncated, I love your new avatar

I have an EP by Inspiral Carpets that I know is damaging my cred just by being in my house.
A few of Zappa's more cheesy efforts
Oho- Vitamin Oho

More recently, that Virgin Insanity reissue LP.

some in my cassette collection were purchased back in high school through the columbia house club, so there's a bunch of marginal '80s music there.

all of the cds i would be embarassed about have been sold and new and better cds have taken their place.

iron butterfly
metal church
bel biv devoe(i was 9)
mili vanilli(9)
dinosaur jr-without a sound

i bought some singles by some shit bands back at the height of britpop. i had a single by each of these bands: menswear, ocean colour scene, cast, kula shaker. i can't remember which ones they were though. blame impressionable youth and naivety towards journalistic hyperbowl.
it's kind of a weird question though, because i could probably tell you exactly why i bought every single record i own, even the ones i don't like.
being an avid music buyer is often about taking calculated risks in the search for the gold.

i can't think of anything i was particularly into that now i find awful though. aside from that one summer (1992) that i was into guns n roses.

most of the cure cds i have (i like some of tyhem, but sometimes I iwsh i didn't have so many of htem)
kiss-destroyer
super furry animals-phantom power
elliot smith, basemnet on a hill
every deatch cab album (some are good, but i bough tmost of them during 2 weeks when i was on a kick)
bright eyes, too much bright eyes

Alkaline Trio
Blood Brothers
Haste the Day

That's about it. I don't think I'd heard any of the bands when I bought the cds.

I actually like Alkaline Trio :rolleyes:

Ramones Greatest Hits Live is a CRAP cd.

I used to be into death cab a lot, but not so much anymore. I gave my CD's away, but really I didn't mind "we have the facts and we're voting yes" that much. Ben Gibbard has a nice voice, but the style is way overdone and his lyrics aren't too good.

milking of the cash cow...

Definitely haha.
I bought it with Air Miles point hahha.

where do i start?
albums by oasis,beck,goldfrapp,some add n to x,primal scream,ride etc.
Myriad singles that i flogged to friends,family,work collegues,charity shops and the occasional passer by

what's wrong with add n to x, or do you need a slap?

Calm down,calm down!It was only an album of theirs that i didnt like.They're hardly Broadcast though are they?

which add n to x record was it? i guess their last record sucked and their other ones were nothing like broadcast.

If memory doesn't fail me i think it might be the one that came out just after Avant Hard(wich i really like).It was a case of me thinking that they started sounding like a joke that outlasted its welcome.
''Little black rocks in the sun'' is still top notch though!

oh, ok. i was going to say if you haven't heard avant hard then you really should, and if you'd said that it was avant hard that you hadn't liked i would have called you an ambulance!
by the way, i tried to send you a PM but it got bounced back because your box is full.

Arcade Fire (Took a chance, hadn't even heard them before. Yawn. Sold it.)

Wow, if you guys don't want those add n to x or jets to brazil records, I'll take em off your hands..

worst cd I ever bought was blood brothers - burn piano island burn. heard a song, thought it was cool, all my friends thought it was an awesome cd, saw it cheap, bought it, hated it.. really really listened to it a few times and picked up on a few cool things but the singers are just so goddamn awful. horrible album.

Also, Inhuman, it's nice to see you like sigh.

Sorry! I hadn't noticed that.My inbox is now ok if you wanna pm.

Yeah I sent you a PM saying cool songs.

Ah shit!Send again if you feel like it.

i have a few:

*powderfinger, got it at a used store in ny and bought it because i read a good review, heard it twice, i wish i never heard it at all
*u2 - the joshua tree (no need to explain)
*finch - something with the word "burn" in the title, i heard a couple of songs from their ep and got the full lenght, crap.
*apartment 26; heard it was geezer butler's kid playing electronica, when it was just nu metal
*filter - title of record, would think it was a pirate copy
*every time i die - hot damn, only one song is good.
*children of bodom - follow the reaper, only one good song, too much wanking
*avenged sevenfold - waking the fallen, i heard one song, thought it was fun, then got the record, didn't make it to the whole record. saw a picture of them and realized why it sucked so much.
*molotov, a couple of songs are ok and barely funny but most of it is crap.

and sigh are fucking awesome!!!

usaully stuff i pick up at pawn shops for the shear cheap price. Ill buy cds, listen once, then thats it. They just make the collection look bigger.

I really like ETID - Hot Damn! They put on a fantastic show.

A few years back I bought a lot of random crap like Staind, Linkin Park and Deftones. Definitely regret those. Oh, and I just bought the new RHCP album. No idea why, it was just one of those stupid impulse purchases when I was in Costco one day. It must have been the strange combo of all the free samples getting to my head.