OT - Album you regret buying

[Deb]

Bon Jovi's "This Left Feels Right". Worst POS I have ever purchased. Terrible, TERRRRRRIBLE album. WHAT were they thinking??

Totally agree........and this is coming from a major Bon Jovi fan. I watched the dvd and listened to the cd once when I first bought it and haven't touched it since. LOL, but did play a few hands of poker with the boys in the extra features on the dvd.

[SusieP]

Did you guys get The Clash over there in the 80's/90's? Wealthy sons of Diplomats etc pretending to be lower working class lads.

They were pretty huge over here, and I remember loads of people saying to me, 'Oh you really should get some of their stuff, they're fantastic' etc etc.
So, I spent some hard earned cash on the album which was out at that time, it was called "Give 'em enough rope" and my God what a dreadful pile of wombat's do's THAT was. I binned it imediately. Well, after I'd cried for wasting what little money I had on the bloody thing.

I never did get into that band except for "Rock The Casbah."

And I still resent wasting my money on that load of old tosh.
IMO Clash should have been renamed Trash.

Ouch! Accurate, but ouch!

I'm not bitter, though...............................................much.

[stevew2]

What can I say, it was the 80's! LOL! It sucks! Got rid of it in a yard sale.

That's a great album, no need to be ashamed about owning that. I had that and "Fantastic" (The Japanese version).

I agree w/ GB. This is a great album. "Everything she wants" is one of my guilty pleasures. If I have to choose between this album and the "Music from the Edge of Heaven", I chose the former. Careless Whisper made Brooke Shields drop her panties for George Michael. If only I have the power to write a song that will make a chick do that...

I doesnt matter if Brooke Sheilds would drop her panties for George, he named his group Wam, cause he liked to to be wammed in his poop chute

[SusieP]

What can I say, it was the 80's! LOL! It sucks! Got rid of it in a yard sale.

That's a great album, no need to be ashamed about owning that. I had that and "Fantastic" (The Japanese version).

I agree w/ GB. This is a great album. "Everything she wants" is one of my guilty pleasures. If I have to choose between this album and the "Music from the Edge of Heaven", I chose the former. Careless Whisper made Brooke Shields drop her panties for George Michael. If only I have the power to write a song that will make a chick do that...

I doesnt matter if Brooke Sheilds would drop her panties for George, he named his group Wam, cause he liked to to be wammed in his poop chute

There is just NO way to respond to that!

[PowerChords]

What can I say, it was the 80's! LOL! It sucks! Got rid of it in a yard sale.

That's a great album, no need to be ashamed about owning that. I had that and "Fantastic" (The Japanese version).

I agree w/ GB. This is a great album. "Everything she wants" is one of my guilty pleasures. If I have to choose between this album and the "Music from the Edge of Heaven", I chose the former. Careless Whisper made Brooke Shields drop her panties for George Michael. If only I have the power to write a song that will make a chick do that...

I doesnt matter if Brooke Sheilds would drop her panties for George, he named his group Wam, cause he liked to to be wammed in his poop chute

There is just NO way to respond to that!

No kidding...

[JohnH]

I agree, Frank. This is why I'm still baffled why Journey chose to re-do their "Greatest Hits" with their last release! If it's not broke...don't fix it!


John from Boston

I still think the retreads on Evolution are an embarassment. I love the 'live' feel of be good to yourself on the retread disc....but other than that one aspect, the rest of the disc is complete and utter shite. It should have never been done...and all it has done is carve in stone Arnel's inferiority to Steve Perry....a very unwise move by them. Pinoy pimps and apologists can argue left and right about their assumption that Perry can't sing this material anymore and another assumption that arnel today is better than Perry today...

However, the fact remains that by rerecording these songs for revelation, they've carved in stone a direct comparison between arnel today and perry of yesterday.....and that's like bringing an exacto knife to a 50 caliber machine gun fight...

Agreed....Arnel is great on his own-the retreads are useless. That discs sits here on my desk, I'm not sure what I want to do with it. I should just throw it in the fucking street.

[SusieP]

I agree, Frank. This is why I'm still baffled why Journey chose to re-do their "Greatest Hits" with their last release! If it's not broke...don't fix it!


John from Boston

I still think the retreads on Evolution are an embarassment. I love the 'live' feel of be good to yourself on the retread disc....but other than that one aspect, the rest of the disc is complete and utter shite. It should have never been done...and all it has done is carve in stone Arnel's inferiority to Steve Perry....a very unwise move by them. Pinoy pimps and apologists can argue left and right about their assumption that Perry can't sing this material anymore and another assumption that arnel today is better than Perry today...

However, the fact remains that by rerecording these songs for revelation, they've carved in stone a direct comparison between arnel today and perry of yesterday.....and that's like bringing an exacto knife to a 50 caliber machine gun fight...

Agreed....Arnel is great on his own-the retreads are useless. That discs sits here on my desk, I'm not sure what I want to do with it. I should just throw it in the fucking street.

I still haven't played the re records.
As you say Arnel is great on the new songs. They are his own.
I'm just not interested in hearing the others - and if they hadn't been part of the new CD package I would not have them on my shelf.

[X factor]

Did you guys get The Clash over there in the 80's/90's? Wealthy sons of Dilomats etc pretending to be lower working class lads.

They were pretty huge over here, and I remember loads of people saying to me, 'Oh you really should get some of their stuff, they're fantastic' etc etc.
So, I spent some hard earned cash on the album which was out at that time, it was called "Give 'em enough rope" and my God what a dreadful pile of wombat's do's THAT was. I binned it imediately. Well, after I'd cried for wasting what little money I had on the bloody thing.

I never did get into that band except for "Rock The Casbah."

And I still resent wasting my money on that load of old tosh.
IMO Clash should have been renamed Trash.

Susie, . GEER wasn't terribly good, but I absolutely LOVE London Calling- I think it's one of the finest albums ever made. I know you Hair metal folks will flog me for that, but great music is great music, no matter what the genre.

HOWEVER- I actually bought the Clash's CUT THE CRAP on the same day I bought Blue Oyster Cult's CLUB NINJA!
WORST two purchases ever, and I made 'em on the SAME DAY!!!!

[SusieP]

Did you guys get The Clash over there in the 80's/90's? Wealthy sons of Dilomats etc pretending to be lower working class lads.

They were pretty huge over here, and I remember loads of people saying to me, 'Oh you really should get some of their stuff, they're fantastic' etc etc.
So, I spent some hard earned cash on the album which was out at that time, it was called "Give 'em enough rope" and my God what a dreadful pile of wombat's do's THAT was. I binned it imediately. Well, after I'd cried for wasting what little money I had on the bloody thing.

I never did get into that band except for "Rock The Casbah."

And I still resent wasting my money on that load of old tosh.
IMO Clash should have been renamed Trash.

Susie, . GEER wasn't terribly good, but I absolutely LOVE London Calling- I think it's one of the finest albums ever made. I know you Hair metal folks will flog me for that, but great music is great music, no matter what the genre.

HOWEVER- I actually bought the Clash's CUT THE CRAP on the same day I bought Blue Oyster Cult's CLUB NINJA!
WORST two purchases ever, and I made 'em on the SAME DAY!!!!

Hair metal? Me?


I did not listen to any more Trash, erm, sorry CLASH albums after I wasted my money on Give em Enough Rope.
I know the song 'London Calling' and to be fair, I think that is ok.
And I won't flog you for liking it - we all like what we like.

[Rocker Chic]

Hands down, it has to be Dokken's "Shadowlife". Being a long-time fan of theirs, tickled to death that they were back together, and I enjoyed the previous one "Dysfunctional", I bought it blind. It was after that first listen of that turd of an album, that I swore to never... EVER... buy without listening first again.

An absolute, bloody awful album!

Debbie

[Just Mindy]

Susie, . GEER wasn't terribly good, but I absolutely LOVE London Calling- I think it's one of the finest albums ever made. I know you Hair metal folks will flog me for that, but great music is great music, no matter what the genre.

Love that one (London Calling)!

[JohnH]

Starting to regret Jorn Lande's new album. I just can't get going with it. Too many slow mid tempo songs. Wish he would do more fast stuff. The songs seem to be rewrites of the stuff on the Duke...which was a great album. I can't remember anything from the new album and I've played it several times. I might get it later..there's albums I've bought that I've fallen love with much later. His albums never have any bass guitar up in the mix either. It's like it's non-existant.

John

[Hollywood]

Metallica - St Anger. What a piece of garbage. When they actually tried to defend it the sound quality by saying that's what we were going for. You don't pay Bob Rock millions of dollars to make a record sound as if it was recorded in a trash can. I think Oscar the Grouch could have made a better sounding record.

Songs are better on the new one, but it's been compressed to hell and back and sounds loud and flat. The Guitar Hero version is better than their own album. These dudes have lost their way. Jason saw it coming which is why he bolted.

[conversationpc]

Metallica - St Anger. What a piece of garbage. When they actually tried to defend it the sound quality by saying that's what we were going for. You don't pay Bob Rock millions of dollars to make a record sound as if it was recorded in a trash can. I think Oscar the Grouch could have made a better sounding record.

Songs are better on the new one, but it's been compressed to hell and back and sounds loud and flat. The Guitar Hero version is better than their own album. These dudes have lost their way. Jason saw it coming which is why he bolted.

I don't know about the new album but everything since the Black Album has been crap compared to what came before it.

[G.I.Jim]

This will piss several of you off, but here it goes...

SOUL SIRKUS!!!

I wanted to like it so bad because of Neal, but I think it was just a bad album. It seemed to me that the most distracting thing were the vocals...it's like they tried to see how many words they could cram into every line, and it didn't leave any room to get a feel for the music. JMHO, but I think it sucked! I seriously haven't even seen the cd since the first day I played it.

I'm also worried about the collaberation with Lukather...I hope that one doesn't turn out anything like this, but I'm not holding my breath!

[Jana]

I regret buying "A Closer Look" by Babyface. "For The Cool In You" was just a fantastic album, and I thought maybe he was like Freddie Jackson, who cannot make a bad R&B album in my eyes. A Closer Look was a major disappointment in every way, songs, sound, mix. Never got through the second listening of it.








"Arnel makes me a better guy just knowing him" - Jonathan Cain

[Just Sara]

Rod Stewart Gold & Rod Stewart "Out Of Order"

[FishinMagician]

This is a softball question! My coffee mug has been sitting directly on top of this suck-ass CD since about 10 minutes after I listened to it. I still think Journey should give their fans refunds for perpetrating that fraud of a cd!

What do you mean a refund. They gave it away at the shows. Remember? Cmon John, it's not ALL bad. Some of it sucks but some is pretty good. Crappy production though.

better production than revalation

[brywool]

GENERATIONS, The Cars Panorama, The album Billy Squire made after 'Dont Say No' & Peter Frampton - I'm In You.

Two huge musical disappointments.

The real question is, does Journey regret making this VERY VERY poor CD.

I'M IN YOU! How could I forget that?? God, that sucked. After Frampton Comes Alive was such a great rock record and then that one... ughhgghghghghghgh!
I DO remember it having a good Stevie Wonder song on it thought, but that was IT.

Asia... were they EVER any good? Blech!

Never 'got' The Clash either. I'm probably still pissed by their line about "phony Beatlemania" (hey, nobody disses the fabs!)

[scarygirl]

The last Bon Jovi. It was just one long song. played it once. I don't even know where it is.

You don't know where your copy of Lost Highway is either? I swear to you I played it once halfway through on my car stereo and tossed it in my backseat. I haven't seen it since.

[finalfight]

This is a softball question! My coffee mug has been sitting directly on top of this suck-ass CD since about 10 minutes after I listened to it. I still think Journey should give their fans refunds for perpetrating that fraud of a cd!

What do you mean a refund. They gave it away at the shows. Remember? Cmon John, it's not ALL bad. Some of it sucks but some is pretty good. Crappy production though.

better production than revalation

No way.

[finalfight]

The last Bon Jovi. It was just one long song. played it once. I don't even know where it is.

You don't know where your copy of Lost Highway is either? I swear to you I played it once halfway through on my car stereo and tossed it in my backseat. I haven't seen it since.

Perhaps it bounced out the window and actually got Lost on the Highway...?

[Deb]

The last Bon Jovi. It was just one long song. played it once. I don't even know where it is.

You don't know where your copy of Lost Highway is either? I swear to you I played it once halfway through on my car stereo and tossed it in my backseat. I haven't seen it since.

Perhaps it bounced out the window and actually got Lost on the Highway...?

Actually I only played mine a couple of times after I first bought it..........haven't played it since either. Wish they'd go back to at least their Keep the Faith or These Days type stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w85AkC-q5Mo

[7 Wishes]

I can't believe I actually spent ten hard-earned bucks on this one:




And the tour was an unmitigated disaster, what with John Tesh's keytar and xylophone solos getting mixed up with the taxi depot's radio at the Capital City Train Station Lounge....

[Ftloperry]

Jeff Golub Soul Sessions.....wasted $14.99