sorry the rolling stones but everything you do bores me to tears except exile on main st. which I listen to p often
― puff puff post (uh oh I'm having a fantasy), Monday, 7 May 2012 04:39 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― get wolves (get bent), Monday, 7 May 2012 04:48 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 7 May 2012 08:21 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― instant coffee happening between us (a passing spacecadet), Monday, 7 May 2012 09:26 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 7 May 2012 09:40 (twelve years ago) link
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
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 7 May 2012 09:55 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 7 May 2012 09:58 (twelve years ago) link
2 Lou Reed albums i've ever bothered owning = Metal Machine Music and Take No Prisoners; i'm good thanks
― like Joe Pasquale and Gandhi (Noodle Vague), Monday, 7 May 2012 09:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― Sick Mouthy (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 7 May 2012 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― fishermen are coveted by whores & stoners (Pillbox), Monday, 7 May 2012 10:59 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― beachville, Monday, 7 May 2012 11:09 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― da croupier, Monday, 7 May 2012 11:10 (twelve years ago) link
Gentle Giant, I should never have traded away your live album. I feel terrible.
― clemenza, Monday, 7 May 2012 11:18 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 12:36 (twelve years ago) link
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.
― You Don't Throw Oranges On An Escalator (Deric W. Haircare), Monday, 7 May 2012 12:41 (twelve years ago) link
I consider Interpol's 2nd album considerably better than their first tho
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 7 May 2012 12:48 (twelve years ago) link
^^i never stuck around to find that out, sorry interpol
― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 May 2012 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
I'm not apologizing to bands whose output was clearly best on singles - those comps are some of my favorite things!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Monday, 7 May 2012 13:27 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry Matthew Sweet
― President Keyes, Monday, 7 May 2012 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
sorry Accept
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Sorry Richard James. Selected Ambient Works 85-92 changed my life like few other records but nothing you released subsequently has held my attention.
― fit and working again, Monday, 7 May 2012 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
Ladybug Transistor: Sorry, I thought your self titled album was pretty good, but never got around to picking up any of your other records.
― 'scuse me, while I Rim the Sky... (snoball), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:53 (twelve years ago) link
oh man, you should at least check out Transformer and/or Coney Island Baby
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:18 (twelve years ago) link
plus, he spends half of Take No Prisoners doing Velvets songs iirc
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:19 (twelve years ago) link
I finally checked out Street Hassle a couple years ago and it knocked me out.
― Trip Maker, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link
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
― Euler, Monday, 7 May 2012 14:24 (twelve years ago) link