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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
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The Major Works of John Coltrane. I thought it was a compilation album. Instead it was his later experimental stuff. I only had Giant Steps at the time and was trying to broaden my collection on a budget. I'm getting a headache just typing about it. I was a good customer at the record store; the owner gave me store credit and I walked out with Blue Train and some other LP.

   Coltrane is one of my favorite musicians. But I just don't get his last 2 years or so. I've tried a couple of times over the last 35 years but it's always the same result.
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Bob540

My darling wife introduced me to “It’s a Beautiful Day” artists and Lp in 1970. Studio version of White Bird is the only version worth appreciating. Agreed! Their album “Marrying Maiden” was good too. From there on they lost their way. 🇦🇺
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What was your most disappointing album purchase?
I bought a CD once. The center hole was too big for my turntable spindle and not big enough for the 45 adapter. It didn't even make a decent Frisbie.

You had me at "CD."
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Chris Cornell's collaboration album with Timbaland titled "Scream", after what he gifted to this world with Soundgarden, is one of the worst disappointments in my life, music or otherwise. 

volumizer
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I really LOVED Abraxas by Santana, so as a teenager, on the strength of hearing Abraxas, I purchased Santana's "The Swing of Delight."  

Not sure what he was thinking there.  Puke city.
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