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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
tablejockey
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Just dropping back in, after playing side 3/4 of Exile-

Good rockin. I have a nice early run pressing,unmolested. That was after 3 purchases!

LIB to Exile is mandatory listening for any Stones fan.
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geoffkait
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On a good copy you can hear the amazing piano 🎹 work by Nicky Hopkins, Billy Preston and Ian Stewart. The piano gets lost in the mix on some tracks on inferior pressings/systems. 🔙
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mcslipp
124 posts
 
Completely agree about Ummagumma.

Completely disagree about Pearl Jam "10" and Tool.
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justmetoo
381 posts
 
"Kind of Blue" Miles Davis. 

First cut on Columbia re-issue LP sounds distorted when the saxophone comes on, plus some lesser issues further on. 

This is apparently a known issue, and for some reason no one ever was able (or willing) to fix it. 
By comparison the Sony re-issued CD from decades back, somehow is masking that error, making it less noticeable.
One excuse I learned is, that it's the inadvertent spitting in the sax's mouth-piece, that was causing the 'distortion'...  Really? 🤔 
Michélle 🇿🇦 
glupson
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You guys listened to the wrong format and wrong issue.
Strangely enough, German LPs pressing from about 1982 is bad. German CD from 1990, or so, is bad. U.S.A. CD (Virgin) from mid-1990s sounds almost the same except it is much more clear which reveals even more how poor of a sound quality/recording it is. The best amongst them is relatively recent half-speed master LPs. Which does not mean it is anything good. It is only less than entirely pitiful. I prefer that German pressing from 1982 but it is not because of the sound quality as there is none.

I have not heard the 1994 cassette, but, to paraphrase one of the lines in Roman law, what was not good from the beginning will not get better with time passing. Except maybe Ummagumma. Which does sound marvelous on an Italian cassette.
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