You need that just for Jailbait, and that’s not because it’s a good song, so much as it’s evidence. Seriously, though, while Ted’s always been a jackhole, that really seems to be his jump the shark album.
There have been a few although I usually try to give most albums a 2nd chance. Some that spring to mind are Boston's 2nd album, Essence by Lucinda Williams, the two Kiss albums someone loaned to me. I am a huge Neil Young can but Deadman didn't get a repeat.
There are likely others but the one that springs immediately to mind is Lazer Guided Melodies by Spiritualized. I have the 2x12" 45 rpm double vinyl album, just looked at Discogs and saw the prices asked for it, perhaps I should sell it.
John Coltrane-A Love Supreme Live in Seattle. I normally give any album at least a couple of chances to move me, but this turkey was off the turntable forever halfway through side 2. Terrible recording, terrible performance that brought nothing new or worthwhile to Coltrane's legacy. Just another cash grab by a greedy record label and/or the artist's money grubbing heirs.
The advantages of a digital (non-physical) library: I just took John's tracks from both Double Fantasy and Milk & Honey, added the "stripped" tracks from Double Fantasy and kinda created a new ... Single Fantasy.
Oh, please keep trying. I did not enjoy it to start with but it's a great album. Just one you need to live with
Faith No More - Sol Invictus Just doesn't pack the punch of their previous albums, and besides "Superhero" there wasn't really anything I needed to hear again.
I've mentioned it before but I have no problems with Metal Machine Music or Trout Mask Replica. Put on a Housemartins record and I'll have a sudden urge to play frisbee though...
I think this is viewed as more of a historical or museum-piece type of release (and I agree with you on the cash grab assertion). I think the placement of the mic's is what made the recording so poor. But hey, for the DR Number Fetishists out there: Interludes 3 & 4 (bass solos) are both a 20! (as Wayne and Garth would say: "Schwing!")
Ditto. No point in keeping anything that I am never going to play again. As a collector of vinyl, I need all of the space that I can get!
Three came to mind, because they are by artists I love, and all are Christmas albums. Peter Paul & Mary's A Holiday Celebration; Carole King's A Christmas Carole; and Aretha Franklin's This Christmas. The Aretha album I knew right from the start was going to be trouble when I read the liner notes in the car after I bought it. I usually will give an album several spins to make certain I have given it a chance. But these 3 I was just not inclined to play again ever. It was such a strong reaction to them that I finally removed them from my collection of Christmas cds to make room for others.
I'm not sure I have ever only given an album one shot..... If I did, it would have been possibly Tori Amos - Strange Little Girls Quarterflash .... first album, awful, dull. I'm not a fan of Metal Machine Music, but it has been given a chance .... Trout Mask Replica is an interesting one, because I would put it on for folks that came over to partake of the magic 'erb, purely for the reaction of the unfamiliar .... but I ended up starting to really like it. I haven't partaken of the 'erb for years, but I still enjoy Trout when I put it on. In fact Frownland is among my favourite Beefheart tracks.
Oh The first time I did that it was an early Joan Baez album...Folksingers 'round Harvard Square (but I had the cheap reissue, "The best of Joan Baez"). I listened to it once and not even the whole album because I was bored out of my mind. Sold it a few months later for literal pennies, as part of a lot. Took store credit because they'd give me more money that way and bought Nick Cave's "No More Shall we part".
