Most unlistenable album you spent good money on...

EricTheWeary

...the one you look at and think ' that's a tenner I'm never getting back.'

I think I'm going to nominate Magic and Loss by Lou Reed. 

 One of his best selling and most acclaimed albums,apparently, I made the purchase when it was first released but I don't think I've ever managed to play all of it in one sitting, even as background. 

Philly_Q

I was going to say St Anger but it's not really totally unlistenable.

For some reason I bought a CD by a band called The Music.  It may not be that bad, I never listened to it all the way through, but I found the first couple of tracks unbearable and never played it again.

bigjon

Thrak by King Crimson. Paid too much attention to the accolades in Guitarist magazine concerning the skill of the individual musicians.

Samgb

Im probably going to get some flak for this, but...

Captain Beefheart : Trout Mask Replica

Now, thats not because i dont like The Captain - i like almost all of his other albums. But its his worst album by a mile and everyone raves about it. The spoken bits in between songs make it worse because he sounds like a right smart arse who thinks he is hilarious and he isnt. Put me right off him for a good few years until a mate set me straight. 

Samgb

EricTheWeary said:

...the one you look at and think ' that's a tenner I'm never getting back.'

I think I'm going to nominate Magic and Loss by Lou Reed. 

 One of his best selling and most acclaimed albums,apparently, I made the purchase when it was first released but I don't think I've ever managed to play all of it in one sitting, even as background. 

Oooh, i like that record a lot. I really dig modern Lou, even the shit ones.   

Col_Decker

Any of the Radiohead ones from Kid A onwards

mart

Arc by Neil Young. 

Fortunately I didn't buy it on its own, I bought the 3-disc Arc-Weld, and Weld is mostly good. But I pity the poor sods who paid £15 for just Arc.

RobDavies

I bought a second hand copy No Way Out by Gaskin in the mid eighties (from Sellanby in Harrow, if anyone remembers that place?).

They sounded like a non-comedy Bad News.

Plukky

Too many to list them all... Earth 2 by Earth springs to mind...

ICBM

Col_Decker said: 

Any of the Radiohead ones

Edited for accuracy .

Although I didn't buy any of them new, so I don't really count them. £2 in a charity shop is hardly 'good money' .

mart said:

Arc by Neil Young. 

Fortunately I didn't buy it on its own, I bought the 3-disc Arc-Weld, and Weld is mostly good. But I pity the poor sods who paid £15 for just Arc.

Arc is brilliant if you're in the right mood for it, but even I would question spending £15 for it alone without Weld.

For me: Maroon 5 - Songs About Jane. I thought I liked the first single a bit, whatever it was called - I knew nothing about the band at the time. I bought the album - in those days before easy online pre-purchase listening I did tend to. It's probably the only album I've bought that I have been unable to even stand listening to all the way through at the first attempt - I gave up after about two thirds of the way I think. Utterly dire. At that point I also realised I didn't even like the single…

Dopesick

Probably 'Supercharger' by Machine Head way back in '01.

bluechargeboy

The all-time worst album I ever bought was "The Future of War" by Atari Teenage Riot. They had one song on MTV that I liked, and it was not representative of the rest of the rest of the album.

If you don't know them, their musical genre is listed on Wikipedia as "noise".

EricTheWeary

Samgb;664397" said:

EricTheWeary said:

...the one you look at and think ' that's a tenner I'm never getting back.'

I think I'm going to nominate Magic and Loss by Lou Reed. 

 One of his best selling and most acclaimed albums,apparently, I made the purchase when it was first released but I don't think I've ever managed to play all of it in one sitting, even as background. 










Oooh, i like that record a lot. I really dig modern Lou, even the shit ones.   

Trying to song along to ' what good is cancer in April, why no good, no good at all...' has remained beyond me.

bingefeller

Zero Tolerance for Silence by Pat Metheny. 

equalsql

The Lost and Found by Gretchen Parlato.  I bought it off the back of hearing her version of 'Holding Back The Years' which was sublime, but the rest of the album is too droll to listen to. She's a one-trick pony

Samgb

EricTheWeary said:

Samgb;664397" said:

EricTheWeary said:

...the one you look at and think ' that's a tenner I'm never getting back.'

I think I'm going to nominate Magic and Loss by Lou Reed. 

 One of his best selling and most acclaimed albums,apparently, I made the purchase when it was first released but I don't think I've ever managed to play all of it in one sitting, even as background. 










Oooh, i like that record a lot. I really dig modern Lou, even the shit ones.   

Trying to song along to ' what good is cancer in April, why no good, no good at all...' has remained beyond me.

Yeah, thats not so good!

xSkarloey

Astral Weeks by Van Morrison.

Bought out of curiosity since it's always in those "50 albums you must hear before you have a dump in the morning" type lists.

Not to my tastes at all I'm afraid.

not_the_dj

Björk "Medúlla"

The (almost) all vocal one. I like the concept, but there's just some unpleasant noises on that CD.

Admittedly I've not listened to it in years, so maybe I'll revisit it and discover it's a misunderstood gem.

fretmeister

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Awesome bassist with Zappa's drummer. Utterly awful.

freakboy1610

A friend of mine used to be the backing "singer" in local grindcore exponents, Extreme Noise Terror. I made a couple of attempts at listening to the album he made with them. Whilst I consider that I have reasonably diverse tastes, I can't imagine anyone actually enjoying listening to it!

BigMonka

'Pop' by U2, and I remember being so excited buying it as a teenager but its really not very good at all :-(