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

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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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link

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

clemenza, Monday, 7 May 2012 11:18 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link

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

cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 7 May 2012 12:48 (eleven years ago) link

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

call all destroyer, Monday, 7 May 2012 13:02 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link

Sorry Matthew Sweet

President Keyes, Monday, 7 May 2012 13:39 (eleven years ago) link

sorry Accept

TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 7 May 2012 13:51 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link

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

Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 7 May 2012 14:18 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven 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 (eleven years ago) link


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