We've all bought albums that we wind up hating and we let them collect dust. What are yours?

Here are mine:

New Power Soul- Prince

Sacrifice- Gary Numan

Machina- The Smashing Pumpkins

Scull & Bones- Cypress Hill

Rave Un2 The Joy Fantastic- Prince

Strange Little Girls- Tori Amos

Untouchables- Korn

Wonder What's Next- Chevelle

Sinner- Drowning Pool

The Cinderella Theory- George Clinton

I mostly sell 'em when I hate 'em and then I block them out of my memory...so I couldn't really tellya.

Though the last Shelby Lynne album "Love, Shelby", is about the most hideous pile of flop I've ever had the misfortune to purchace. And in a related topic, Fischerspooner put out a good album, but man o MAN was going to see them an experiment in torture...if Stymie wasn't there to mock them with me, I would have been TRULY trapped in hell!!

Nikka Costa - Everybody Got Their Something

Bootsy Collins - Play With Bootsy

Common - Electric Circus

Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

Alanis Morissette - Under Rug Swept

I know there are more, but can't remember them all...

hey man those prince ones aren't that bad. i like rave a lot and nps has some ok cuts on it...but i know you've heard that all before...


so...

i regret buying...

1. Candy Dulfer - sax a go go (what was i thinking?!)
2. Paula Abdul - forever your girl (even though i bought it for $1 - what was i thinking?!)


that's all, really because other than those i am a Man of Incredible Taste and everything I own is cool.

mrdespues said:

you were thinking "this is a great dance pop album and everyone should own it, so now i will too"






Right The Wrong, biatch!

Xpertlover said:

damn those are good albums, actually, especially common's. not great, but good.

AaronUniversal said:

haahahaha! right on.

EvilWhiteMale said:

1. Conscious Daughters - Gamers
2. E-40 - The Element Of Surprise
3. Natalie Imbruglia - Left Of The Middle
...the rest were so bad that I've successfully blocked them out of my memory.

I don't ever buy bad albums. If I don't like it, then I won't buy it.

mrdespues said:

Nah, they truly suck.

I bought that Robbie Nevil album when it came out, the one with "C'est La Vie" and "Dominoes" on it...at the time I thought it was cool, but it really wasn't.

It wasn't cool at all.

Oh..

NWF said:

True dat. Most of my sh*tty album purchases were before the advent of Napster. Post-Napster & online file sharing THE ONLY albums I buy are good albums. I test them online first and if I love them I'll purchase 'em.

I test the music first also, but before downloading we just had to take the risk. I'm sure everyone has shit they despise in the CD collection.

Anxiety said:

hey, i have his second one and love it!!!


id have to go with, uhhh...the only album I ever gave away was Guns N Roses "Appetite for Destruction"...Some good stuff on it but I am just not a rocker at heart...but then i was like 14 so maybe I should give it another try now...hmmm..

the only album i ever returned was Vanessa Williams follow up to "Comfort Zone"...it was all quiet storm on my arse when i wanted "The Right Stuff" and "welcome to the comfort zone...da duuu dom"


remember when you could return listened to music at The Warehouse?

there's just a few that I truly detest/regret buying:

Paula Abdul-Forever your Girl & Spellboud(a few songs on each are listenable though)
4 non blondes-I forget the name of the album, may have been self-titled (complete abuse to my ears)
Morris Day-Guaranteed ()
Madonna-Music(horable, just horable, except for "don't tell me")
Mariah Carey-Rainbow (the beginning of the end)
Apollonia's self titled album (what was I thinking?)
Vanity-Wild Animal (even back in my prince obssessed days I thought this album sucked)

Ma$e presents Harlem World takes the cake for all 10 albums. I sold it back in a matter of 45 minutes after buying it.

The Jacksons - Victory...what a piece of crap.

Madonna - The compilation with all the ballads on it. I don't know what I was thinking...never been a big fan of Madonna's outside of her looks and Like A Prayer.

Prince - 1999 The New Master...Listened to once...now its in the corner of a closet with all my old 45's.

Paula Abdul - The one with U on it. Man, what a waste of $$...bought it for the Prince song...sold it about a day later after realizing the Prince song was ok and the rest of the album sucked ass.

lovebizzare said:

Oh I here U on that 1. I 2 had lost my mind with that purchase.

Joey McIntyre - Stay The Same - Kill me, kill me now. I sold it anyway

Madonna - American Life - Keeping it for the collection, but the dust has already settled.

Paula Abdul - Spellbound

Alien Ant Farm - ANThology

Fun Lovin' Criminals - Mimosa

Fun Lovin' Criminals - Loco

Dannii Minogue - Love & Kisses

Janet Jackson - All For You

Sheryl Crow - C'mon C'mon

Karyn White - Karyn White

Will Smith - Born To Reign

Tasmin Archer - Bloom

Mary J Blige - No More Drama

Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes - Supanova

Yeah, those are all pretty bad.

When I was 11, my musical world consisted of two CDs which came with my first system - Jon Bon Jovi's Blaze of Glory and Meatloaf's Bat Out Of Hell 2.
A herd of wild horses couldn't drag my ass to the play button for those records now.

EvilWhiteMale said:

Not me!!! CDs have to pass a three song rule for me to even buy them.

Xpertlover said:

You should check you pulse.

dayum! ya'll puttin some G O O D cds up in here.


my pick is Loverboy-Get Lucky

sinisterpentatonic said:

For real, tho'. But I may be a little biased with Com being from Chicago and having met him and his mom.

I dont have that many...

Pearl Jam- Vitology

Mazzy Star- Among my Swan ** On the contrary.. "So tonight that I might see" was AN AWESOME album..

Prince- Rainbow Children

Dave Matthews Band- Under the Table and Dreaming (with the exception of the song Satellite)
[This message was edited Wed Oct 22 12:01:33 PDT 2003 by LittleMissMuffin]

LittleMissMuffin said:

jthad1129 said:

No More Drama - Mary J Blige

This is who I am - Heather Headley (I like 1 or 2 cuts)

Lenny - Lenny Kravitz

More than a Woman - Toni Braxton

sinisterpentatonic said:

I'll second that one. 'Electric Circus' blew my fucking mind.


Anyway, back 2 the main question - I have bought nearly 400 albums and I can honestly say I have only fucked up once. It was Stabbing Westward's debut album. Can't remember what is was called but I really remember feeling shafted.

Apart from that, I've been really lucky. I've got a really good shopping instinct & very broad musical tastes. Stuff like 'N.E.W.S.' (abstract jazz) or 'Rainbow Children' (gospel soul) go down a treat because I've got other stuff like that in my collection which I love (along with death metal, avante garde classical music, techno, house, Afrobeat, hip hop, country, blues, et-fucking-cetra).

However, since I became a music journalist, I have been bombarded with shit CD's but that doesn't count because I didn't buy so I've not counted the stockpile of rubbish.

Anyone got any good recycling tips for CD's that ebay can't shift?