Thread for apologizing to bands you didn't get into enough even though you liked the one record you had

Sorry to The Sundays for never trying your later records. Are they anywhere near as good as the debut?

ooh, melt banana is a good one.

Love Melt Banana, love the Sundays, get it all, get it all.

Sorry, James Brown. Live At The Apollo is great, and obviously your singles are also great, but your discography is intimidatingly huge. So I will probably just content myself for a while longer with impersonating you as I sing songs about pedestrian things ("HYAY! Brusha my teeth, now! Gonna brush 'em good! UNH! UNH! HYAY!").

(It's kinda doubly shameful, as I've delved pretty deeply into the discographies of any number of other soul/funk/r&b acts from around the time he was at his prime.)

sorry the rolling stones but everything you do bores me to tears except exile on main st. which I listen to p often

and when I do people tell me to turn it off because its boring

it's soooo not boring but i can see why people say that. it was a grower on me.

Sorry, Pixies - I certainly should've given Doolittle more than 3-4 listenings, rather than giving up on you so easily just becasuse it didn't immediately grab me like Surfer Rosa, one of my 5 favourites of 1988. Maybe if I did, I'd have actually checked out and liked their '90s (and beyond) music - of which I still have yet to hear note one. It's just really unfortunate timing that '89 was the year of the personally-disappointing followup (Kings of Noise, Key Lime Pie, Cloudland) and subsequently the year in which I lose interest in most new pop/rock, basically forever. It's not you, it's me.

The Sundays here too. Also Melt Banana, but I do have 2 of their LPs, and I just went to look at their discogs and saw they don't have as many releases as I thought they did and several different titles have been recommended to me personally as "the best one", so I might have to dig back into that catalogue.

Sorry to every band I've loved an album by, somehow decided I was sooo over by the time the next one came round, and then a decade later heard that that next album was their amazing masterpiece. I'll be back on this thread to post your names as I remember them.

Initial instinct is that I do this all the time, but I can't think of a single actual example off the top of my head. I shall ponder.

Sorry, Pixies - I certainly should've given Doolittle more than 3-4 listenings, rather than giving up on you so easily just becasuse it didn't immediately grab me like Surfer Rosa, one of my 5 favourites of 1988.

^^^ exactly me, too - I bought the "Monkey Gone to Heaven" 12", liked it quite well, heard Doolittle at a friend's house and said to myself, yeah, they're still pretty good but I think I'm kinda more into Megadeth right now and that was kinda it for me & the Pixies

sorry Pixies hope you are not way bummed

Screaming Trees and Morphine kind of fit this; I own a second album by each, but only ever listen to Dust and Cure For Pain.

2 Lou Reed albums i've ever bothered owning = Metal Machine Music and Take No Prisoners; i'm good thanks

Interpol's debut. Liked it quite a bit, didn't want more.
Gang Starr - Step In The Arena. Never went further. Dunno why.
Coil - Love's Secret Domain. Likewise.
Isolee - We Are Monster

Probably lots more.

hi Hüsker Dü. I really really wanted to get into you guys, and the songs on New Day Rising had some great hooks, but everything was so super-trebly and tinny sounding that I just couldn't hang with you for the long run.

Screaming Trees, I got your Change Has Come ep right after Nevermind hit because it was on SubPop. that was my favorite record for a summer and your song on the singles soundtrack was fresh too. But everytime I try to play catchup with any of your other records, it's one of those cases where I download it (sorry again) then put it on and just walk right out of the room or something. I dont even fucking know, but Uncle Anaesthesia isn't gonna sit around taking up hard drive space on my laptop if I'm not gonna listen to it.

The Bats' Daddy's Highway has been one of my most-played albums since i bought it in high school while on a family trip to NY. 15 or so years later, I now have Daddy's Highway and like 3 tracks from Couchmaster.

Gentle Giant, I should never have traded away your live album. I feel terrible.

Interpol's debut. Liked it quite a bit, didn't want more.

Yeah, I definitely felt like an album's worth of that shtick was just about all I needed.

Chrissie Hynde, I wanna apologize. The Pretenders' debut is amazing, and I don't know why I've decided that the handful of decent post-debut singles are all of your latter-day material I need to hear.

Yeah, I definitely felt like an album's worth of that shtick was just about all I needed.

I consider Interpol's 2nd album considerably better than their first tho

^^i never stuck around to find that out, sorry interpol

I'm not apologizing to bands whose output was clearly best on singles - those comps are some of my favorite things!

Sorry Matthew Sweet

sorry Accept

Sorry Richard James. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 changed my life like few other records but nothing you released subsequently has held my attention.

Ladybug Transistor: Sorry, I thought your self titled album was pretty good, but never got around to picking up any of your other records.

2 Lou Reed albums i've ever bothered owning = Metal Machine Music and Take No Prisoners; i'm good thanks

oh man, you should at least check out Transformer and/or Coney Island Baby

plus, he spends half of Take No Prisoners doing Velvets songs iirc

I finally checked out Street Hassle a couple years ago and it knocked me out.

sorry Joe Ely, I've loved Honky Tonk Masquerade for a long time & you've lots of other records & something about the Clash (actually sorry the Clash too, dig London Calling but that's as far as I got, it's a pretty epic album & enough to sink into for years).

also sorry Doug Sahm, I love your Atlantic greatest hits but it's pretty sprawling & works for me & I kinda fear the rest of what is no doubt a massive & chaotic discography