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What was your most disappointing album purchase?

Since we have been listing “best debut albums”, I thought I might ask which albums members purchased, based upon one song, and with the expectation that other songs on the album would be good, but that album was a big disappointment.

I will start with the album by the group, Six Pence None The Richer, that had their big hit “Kiss Me”.   The rest of that album was trash!  Nothing I wanted to listen to and I found it hard to believe the same group had done the hit song.

This question might seem similar to “One Hit Wonders”, but I think it is different, as usually those groups made other music that was at least listenable.   My question refers to albums that had one listenable song, period!
bob540
bobauch
28 posts
 
Yeah it was. But I kind of had my purchases mixed up. I bought Major Works in the early 90s.I gave it away to someone who actually appreciated it soon after. 
    My original disappointing album was Ascension I'm pretty sure,  but might have been Om. Either way it went back.
     I will have to give the solo by Tyner a try. Thanks. 

coffee-jerk
73 posts
 
Hard to decide betweeen Kajagoogoo or Wang Chung.  
It was a dark period, and I had to claw my way back.
jgreen19
30 posts
 
Lulu - Metallica and Lou Reed..... so bad :(
aewarren
658 posts
 
I don't get people who don't get Coltrane.
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gents
113 posts
 
I was talking about this online with friends recently. Back in the day when we used to really pay for music, not have entire catalogues available at a click, you'd wait for NEW Bowie or Led Zep or Elvis stuff to come out and listen to an album side in its entirety because, A) you paid serious 70's bucks. B) there wasn't any remote control and I was too high to get up and cross the room to skip the lousy track. Ultimately, it was easier to find what was good about an album...and there are songs in languages I don't speak that I can sing in full. That wouldn't have happened with a remote.
You gave lots of music a seriously fair chance.
I find I discard way more music in the digital world. Even without the sheer, mindblowing volume of 'stuff', the digital musical disappointments are way more frequent. 
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