Albums You Regret Buying

[howyousawtheworld]

What albums do you look at and think "WOAH! Big mistake" or "What a waste of my money"?

For me it's an easy choice. The first two Kaiser Chiefs albums are without doubt my most embarrassing buys. In fact it's got so bad that I've removed the two albums from my album collection in to a separate pile of its own. I don't want their name alongside the likes of U2, The Beatles, Coldplay, Oasis, The Smiths, Elbow, Embrace etc.

BAD TIMES!

[Chessie34]

hannah montana... don't ask.

[TechnicolorGreenEyes]

LOL @ Embrace being a classic band

I don't regret any of mine, my tastes change, I look back on my old music with fond memories

[LibbyMew]

Ages 8 through 14. Actually begged my parents to buy Hilary Duff and Lizzie McGuire CDs. Even the soundtracks to her movies and TV shows. From a younger age Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, N*SYNC, KidzBop and any other KidzBop type "kids singing pop songs that suck" records. Pink... And I only liked her for that week. And sometimes even now I act too impulsive. Because I liked one song (basically because my friends forced it on me) I allowed myself to buy an album of this God awful "musician". I can't even say the name or album title. it's THAT bad.

I used to like Fueled By Ramen (the record label) So I was big into Paramore, Fall Out Boy, The Academy Is... and Panic! at the Disco. Those CDs are laying around somewhere on a dirty floor. I ditched all these CDs either after the first listen or years later after I came to my senses.

EDIT: As for bands and musicians I like that have let me down... There's one Sigur Ros record I will never listen to again.

[ariadnasquire]

Xuxa and Bom Bom Chip
it was the music kids liked when i was 8 here, my parents bought it just to annoy me and as they thought it was the "normal or good" music a kid that age should listen.
as hey did with the Barbie a year later. :\

back then i already listened to artists as The Police and Mike Oldfield (from my dad's collection), but seems nobody believed that or something or they tried to check me and bring me to mainstream garbage music :dozey:

[howyousawtheworld]

LOL @ Embrace being a classic band

I don't regret any of mine, my tastes change, I look back on my old music with fond memories

Yeah....I want to believe you but somehow because it's you I just can't......ok Mr Meldrew?

[squareone13]

The first two Kaiser Chiefs albums

Ditto (apart from the song 'Ruby' - quite like that one - but the rest are pants!)

plus.. Be Here Now - Oasis. Complete waste of effort...

and the most embarrassing... G4

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/0/0c/G4debut.jpg/200px-G4debut.jpg

:uhoh:

[LibbyMew]

I just remembered I use to LOVE My Chemical Roomance and was VERY disappointed with their "Parade" album. :inquisitive: Other than that I don't really like Kid A by Radiohead. And I know some people will call me crazy but the Bends wasn't all that good. :rolleyes:

I also liked the Kooks a lot for a while. I loved their first album and so I had to get their second. That completely put me off their music for life. The third Interpol album, I also didn't like. Now I don't care for them at all.

[i♥C.MART]

Baha Men when I was like 7. :uhoh::facepalm:

[LibbyMew]

Baha Men when I was like 7. :uhoh::facepalm:

I just laughed out loud. :lol:

But that's still not as bad as owning Spice World (Spice Girls Movie Soundtrack). I have a history of buying crappy music.

[i♥C.MART]

hahaha :lol:
i'm not even gonna lie to you, i can rock out to some Spice Girls. :P
but yes, me too. my sisters always laugh at me about how bad my taste in music used to be. i had A-TEENS, American Juniors (lmao), Hannah Montana, Hoku... gahh. :rolleyes:

[squareone13]

And I know some people will call me crazy but the Bends wasn't all that good. :rolleyes:

You're crazy..!

:P

I'm not a massive RH fan, but The Bends is just perfection..I love it. :)

I was disappointed by Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes, but then I don't remember actually paying for it...so...who cares..;)

[LibbyMew]

@ i♥C.MART - I listened to all of those artists. I remember watching American Juniors, singing along to Hoku and learning A*TEENS dance moves. :shame:

@ Paula - I don't know why I dislike the bends. :stunned: what on Earth is wrong with me?

[TechnicolorGreenEyes]

The Bends isn't THAT good, it's my 2nd least favourite Radiohead Album

[LibbyMew]

I'm so glad you agree. At least I don't seem so crazy. :uhoh:

[Spoon]

Coldplay - X&Y

[LibbyMew]

I didn't want to confess to that here but same with Paul. :thinking:

[coldplay.obsessed]

Well I think I regret buying pretty much every single album once I get tired of listening to it...

[Spoon]

I didn't want to confess to that here but same with Paul. :thinking:

:lol:

[heresjohnny]

X&Y is a hit and miss for coldplay fans i think. I love it myslef the one album i regret paying ANYTHING for is In Rainbows. Not saying its not good, but i regret paying anything for it.

[coldplay.obsessed]

Couldn't you like download it for free?:thinking:

[deaths_friend]

Minutes to Midnight - Linkin Park

i waited 4yrs for this album. out of the 200-odd albums i have listened to over the last few years it is by far the worst. the band was my favourite band in the world by a long way before this release. now i can hardly remember the last time i put in one of their cd's.

[Julie]

There's too many to keep count of :lol:

[LibbyMew]

X&Y is a hit and miss for coldplay fans i think. I love it myslef the one album i regret paying ANYTHING for is In Rainbows. Not saying its not good, but i regret paying anything for it.

In Rainbows was nothing special to me. I wouldn't have paid for it.

[dreamt_too_late]

The soundtrack put out for Twilight... :rolleyes:

[heresjohnny]

oh and any rap album i bought a few years back.

[deaths_friend]

In Rainbows was nothing special to me. I wouldn't have paid for it.

enough with the radiohead bashing. you're going to give howyousawtheworld an orgasm.

luv ya mate :laugh3:

[Famous Old Painter]

Evermore

[the_gloaming09]

the greatest hits of Kiss

[Twizted Logik]

the greatest hits of Kiss
How can they have a Greatest Hits if they didn't have any good songs? :confused:

[LibbyMew]

I Laugh'd out loud at the Greatest Hits of Kiss thing. Wtf...?

But I can't be one to judge. I sang along to ABBA's greatest hits along with Best R&B hits of the 80s.... don't ask...:ashamed:

[The Escapist]

i regret getting "Walking on a dream - Empire of the sun"

[staring elf]

The Killers - Sam's Town
Coldplay - Viva La Vida

[The Gutless Wonder]

Vega 4's one. Utter rubbish apart from two songs.

[mc_squared]

Michael Jackson's "Invincible", which sucked big-time!:angry:

[Cobalt]

Minutes to Midnight - Linkin Park

i waited 4yrs for this album. out of the 200-odd albums i have listened to over the last few years it is by far the worst. the band was my favourite band in the world by a long way before this release. now i can hardly remember the last time i put in one of their cd's.

Hail deaths_friend and his awesome insight - THISSSS.

The soundtrack put out for Twilight... :rolleyes:

Err, that was recently...

i regret getting "Walking on a dream - Empire of the sun"

I have to agree with this - apart from the single, it seemed pretty meh.


Also, someone said Evermore's latest, which constitutes an obligatory sadface from me.

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[Crests of Daylight]

Big Shiny Tunes 10. :sick:
Sawdust - The Killers
Sams Town - The Killers.


These albums all suck.

[howyousawtheworld]

The Killers - Sam's Town
Coldplay - Viva La Vida

Are you being ironic??

[Plug_in_coldplaying]

I obviously do not pay for what I do not like.

[howyousawtheworld]

I'm surprised no one's put The Killers Day & Age album here.

[deaths_friend]

maybe we realised it was going to be shit from the first single Human so no one got it. but i guess i could put a vote down for my mate who was a massive fan until DAY&AGE came out. hardly a day goes by without him complaining about wasting his money on that record.

[RadioMad]

I'm surprised no one's put The Killers Day & Age album here.

Well, I didn't buy that one.

I have the other three Killers albums, but Day & Age just sucks.

But granted, they tend to get worse by the album.
Even Hot Fuss wasn't that good. Some tunes are wicked though, but they have yet to make a great album.

[LibbyMew]

My friend made me download DAY&AGE. I had listened to some songs from their other albums. I bought Hot Fuss and thought it was 'OKAY'. And after downloading D&A (my friend raved about some song on their about losing touch) I hated all of them. My God... It was just awful. I regret being talked into downloading it when I never really liked them to begin with and started caring less and less over the years for their singles. :angry:

[squareone13]

Awwwww, what's with all the D&A hatred...? I really like that album...plus one of my fave Killers tracks has to be Losing Touch......:uhoh:

:escaping:

[Crests of Daylight]

I used to think I liked the killers.

I was wrong. :sick:

[LibbyMew]

I feel bad for Paula because of the D&A hatred, she reminds me of that friend I have who also likes that song and the Killers. Everyoen else he knows hates them too... :confused:

But I bursted out laughing for no reason at Crests comment. :lol:

[Spoon]

The Killers suck.

[Crests of Daylight]

:lol: :smug:

[squareone13]

Bah, far too mainstream for you cool kids, I suppose...?

:P

[Christa1]

not a one

[Spoon]

:dozey: :lol:

They butchered Shadowplay.

[Crests of Daylight]

yes.

[Spoon]

we can.

[nihcoldplay]

i regret buying Freaky Styley - Red Hot Chilli Peppers. I love the band, but not this album.

[LibbyMew]

When the fuzz did they release and album with THAT name? :thinking: Not a big RHCP fan so I wouldn't know.

[Corkus]

Day & Age took a few months to grow on me (I even expressed my disappointment here upon first release), but now I prefer it to Sam's Town. It's hard to compare to Hot Fuss since it is admittedly much different, though.

Sawdust, on the other hand, is a piece of garbage. Aside from a few bright spots that were still rightfully B-sides in the first place, it's not worth the price of a full album. And yes, Shadowplay is a poor cover that gets a surprising amount of love it doesn't deserve.

[nihcoldplay]

Haha, it's really old! It's from 1985. Ok, just try. I don't recommend it though, you might be disappointed.

[LibbyMew]

Haha. I was hoping it wasn't a new album with that title. I can remember RHCP albums from the early 90s so it didn't sound familiar. :P

[nihcoldplay]

Actually I went to the store and I decided to buy a RHCP album, some years ago... I think that I didn't have much money, so I decided to buy the cheapest one :P And now I regret buying it :dozey:

[nkydickson]

@ Corkus -I agree 100% about Sawdust !
I must also admit I was on of those people who loved Britney Spears, N'Sync, Fall Out Boy.. etc. Now I have matured into ALOT better music
Album I regret buying: Lindsay Lohan's Speak and both Fall Out Boy albums ugh :confused:

[LibbyMew]

Well you've come to the right thread! :D

At least you can only name one, I've probably named 20 since I first posted here. :uhoh:

[LibbyMew]

@ Corkus -I agree 100% about Sawdust !
I must also admit I was on of those people who loved Britney Spears, N'Sync, Fall Out Boy.. etc. Now I have matured into ALOT better music
Album I regret buying: Lindsay Lohan's Speak and both Fall Out Boy albums ugh :confused:


I also bought Speak. It was also my favorite song on the album. I used to think I was bad-ass rock 'n' roll listening to that, Hilary Duff's second album and Fall Out Boy... If you had asked me at ages 15 and younger, I'd have thought they'd be in the rnr hall of fame. (fall out boy, that is) :stunned:

[nihcoldplay]

EDITED :embarassed:
very embarassing album!

[nkydickson]

I also bought Speak. It was also my favorite song on the album. I used to think I was bad-ass rock 'n' roll listening to that, Hilary Duff's second album and Fall Out Boy... If you had asked me at ages 15 and younger, I'd have thought they'd be in the rnr hall of fame. (fall out boy, that is) :stunned:

ha lmfao same ! I used to swear by them !!! Thank God I am out of that stage !
btw I am Nikky

[nkydickson]

I have to confess that I also bought Millenium - Backstreet Boys :embarassed:
I was younger and I used to dance their songs at school.

you are not alone !! My friends and I went as far to dress up as them for Halloween although if I do hear a Backstreet Boy song I will still dance and laugh

edit: Damn double post

[nihcoldplay]

^ops, I edited the post... You were not supposed to read it!

[LibbyMew]

Hi Nikky! :)

And don't be ashamed you guys. My first concert was Britney Spears opening for Backstreet Boys. I learned the N*SYNC "Bye, Bye, Bye." Choreography and not only did I watch 7th heaven to see Lance Bass on the show. I was FURIOUS and JEALOUS he made out with one of the daughters on the show. :shame:

And if you look at my previous posts here, it's been worse than THAT. :stunned:

[nihcoldplay]

EDITED TOO :D

[Spoon]

Hi Nikky! :)

And don't be ashamed you guys. My first concert was Britney Spears opening for Backstreet Boys. I learned the N*SYNC "Bye, Bye, Bye." Choreography and not only did I watch 7th heaven to see Lance Bass on the show. I was FURIOUS and JEALOUS he made out with one of the daughters on the show. :shame:

And if you look at my previous posts here, it's been worse than THAT. :stunned:

My first concert was Radiohead. :dozey:

[nihcoldplay]

My first concert was Keane, this year.

[Spoon]

Very :dozey:

[LibbyMew]

Awesome. :shame:

[Spoon]

Yeah, I'm a snob like that. :dozey:

[squareone13]

Haha Britney, NSync, Miley blinking Cyrus...Spice Girls

Jeez - I'll never be ashamed of that Rick Astley album ever again...:lol: *wonders if anyone here is old enough to know who Rick Astely is...* ;)

And you all had the nerve to have a pop at the Killers...!

:P

[Spoon]

:shame:

[LibbyMew]

RICK ROLLED o:

Never gonna give you up, never gonna dadada, Never gonna tell a lie. AND HURT CHOO!!!

[Spoon]

:sick:

[Spoon]

My snobbish father says I'm not allowed to visit this thread anymore.

[squareone13]

RICK ROLLED o:

Never gonna give you up, never gonna dadada, Never gonna tell a lie. AND HURT CHOO!!!

Aw, that takes me back....

;)

[LibbyMew]

Oh yeah. That red headed wonder boy. :stunned: The one who had two hits. "never gonna something..." and.... ".....something."

[squareone13]

I had his poster on my bedroom wall...I was a perv at a young age.. ;)

[LibbyMew]

So was I. How old was I when i first got into the music i used to like. *does math* 9. Crazed over Boy Bands. I once kissed a picture of Aaron Carter's ALBUM. Not of him, I mean his face was on it... but still... pretty creepy. :uhoh: But I'm sure I was at least 11 then to make up for that. :P

[Mig-El]

Spiderman's Soundtrack, I was much younger and didn't know anything about music hahah

[Yellow Hill]

Barney etc.

[Malcolm-Edge]

No Line on the Horizon

[crawlinwithin]

limp bizkit - insignificant other

[staring elf]

Are you being ironic??


I wasn't being ironic at all. Sam's Town just didn't do it for me. Perhaps I expected something more from them after Hot Fuss.

As for Viva La Vida, I'd have to say I'm completely an ex Coldplay fan now thanks to this album.

[bellynelly]

my tastes change all the time, well, at least every 4 or 5 years or so, and if I hadn't bought certain albums, then I wouldn't have the taste I have now.

[Litany]

The U2 Boy/October/War remastered Deluxe Edition. Very disappointing.
No issue really with the albums themselves, just that the remastered versions didn't seem very polished at all.

[deaths_friend]

^^

Can you tell the difference between the originals and the remastered version.

i recently got the remastered version of Pearl Jam's Ten, well the so-called Redux version of the album. listening to it on your regular stereo you could never tell the difference. but i dont regret buying it because the album itself was excellent as was the MTV unplugged dvd.

[Litany]

^^

Can you tell the difference between the originals and the remastered version.Not really, no. I could tell of a bigger difference between the remastered Joshua Tree than the remastered versions of Boy, October and War. Namely that JT's remastered seem to be much louder than the original, which was a blessing because the original recording seemed so bloody quiet! You get more with that remaster set than you do with the early remasters, so that one was definitely worth at least more than half of the price sticker.

[howyousawtheworld]

The U2 Boy/October/War remastered Deluxe Edition. Very disappointing.
No issue really with the albums themselves, just that the remastered versions didn't seem very polished at all.

I've got an original War album but remastered versions of Boy and October and I wish I had the War remastered because it doesn't seem loud enough to me! Got JT remastered as well although I don't have Unforgettable Fire remastered - just an original, that's if there is one available. Are you sure they're not an improvement?

[deaths_friend]

i think on alot of those remastered editions. you won't be able to tell the difference on a simple stereo but if you put it up on a 5.1 channel system it might become more obvious. just a thought, im not 100% on it.

[Litany]

The Unforgettable Fire hasn't been remastered yet, as far as I know. It's the only album from the 80s that hasn't been except for Wide Awake In America (which is really just a live EP thingy.) and Rattle and Hum which isn't so much an album as it is a compilation of leftovers from The Joshua Tree and live tracks from performances on said tour across the country (USA). I am highly anticipating it, as it is my favourite U2 album.

As far as improvements go, I noticed a bit of one on the JT remaster, but little on the other three. I mean, yeah, they do sound slightly louder and a little more crisp, but imo, not worth the price tag. The bonus discs were kind of a rip off too. Especially the War one. It's filled with different versions of New Year's Day! Like we didn't hear the studio version enough on the radio. :snore:

And you probably will notice the improvements best if you have good headphones, or a good stereo system ... one thing is for certain, I'm not the only one who thought there was not much of an improvement between the remasters and originals. The price tag for the deluxe edition was ridiculous, even though yeah, you do get bonus discs each housed in little hardback books and a poster ... but at least the deluxe JT remaster came with a live DVD and the Under a Blood Sky remaster also has the option of coming with a DVD of Red Rocks!

I wish I hadn't bought the remastered set ... it's too much for not much quality.

[howyousawtheworld]

The Unforgettable Fire hasn't been remastered yet, as far as I know. It's the only album from the 80s that hasn't been except for Wide Awake In America (which is really just a live EP thingy.) and Rattle and Hum which isn't so much an album as it is a compilation of leftovers from The Joshua Tree and live tracks from performances on said tour across the country (USA). I am highly anticipating it, as it is my favourite U2 album.

As far as improvements go, I noticed a bit of one on the JT remaster, but little on the other three. I mean, yeah, they do sound slightly louder and a little more crisp, but imo, not worth the price tag. The bonus discs were kind of a rip off too. Especially the War one. It's filled with different versions of New Year's Day! Like we didn't hear the studio version enough on the radio. :snore:

And you probably will notice the improvements best if you have good headphones, or a good stereo system ... one thing is for certain, I'm not the only one who thought there was not much of an improvement between the remasters and originals. The price tag for the deluxe edition was ridiculous, even though yeah, you do get bonus discs each housed in little hardback books and a poster ... but at least the deluxe JT remaster came with a live DVD and the Under a Blood Sky remaster also has the option of coming with a DVD of Red Rocks!

I wish I hadn't bought the remastered set ... it's too much for not much quality.

I personally fail to acknowledge Rattle and Hum as a U2 "album" as well.

[deaths_friend]

^^

yeah i'm with you on that. has anyone ever asked the band themselves whether they consider it as an album?