I Trawl The Megahertz by Paddy McAloon. This album is critically acclaimed. Bought it on release day but just didn’t get it, even after a few listens and ended up giving the album away. That was then and hopefully I have matured a bit with age and plan to repurchase the album to see if my tastes have changed. I Trawl the Megahertz - Wikipedia
I LOVED the first two Tori Amos albums so much. I bought Boys For Pele the day it came out. I listened to it twice - the second time only because I thought maybe I just had too high expectations - and haven’t played any song from it since. Just unlistenable.
This is SO TRUE. I thought 2 was fantastic in HS (Make Me Smile was their first hit, IIRC) . The I bought the first one. DAMN
In Through The Out Door. After Presence, I thought they were going to a harder rock sound, they didn't. Still my least favorite Zep.
It seemed like the LP reissue of Shawn Colvin's A Few Small Repairs took forever to come out and when it did it was terrible. I only listened to it once so maybe I was tired or in a bad mood. Anyway, I've gone back to the CD which sounds great.
A runner up for me was Weekend Warriors from Ted Nugent. He had just put out 3 hard rock studio albums and a double live album that was the soundtrack to my senior year in high school. Derek St Holmes and the magic were both gone.
Hawks & Doves fits the criteria for me of rushing home in excitement with the album newly released only to be massively disappointed. However, I have warmed up to quite a bit in the last couple of years.
These discussions highlight how one man's meat is another man's poison - eg Walking Man is one of my very favourite albums.
Quicksilver Messenger Service -Just For Love; so much talent and such amateurish production Son Volt Straightways -big sophomore slump King Crimson; the Construktion of Light Macca-Press To Play The Byrds-Byrdmaniax
Expectations vs reality? Tossup between Beatles Yellow Submarine and Let It Be, but I'll go with Let It Be. In the '60s a new Beatles album was always something to look forward to with great anticipation. Released after Abbey Road, and basically knowing it would be the last Beatles album, I expected to hear something brilliant and amazing. Every previous album (other than YS) had been a step forward from the previous one. Let It Be left me with no joy and actually a little depressed. I've come to appreciate it a bit more over the years, but it remains a great disappointment to me.
Grateful Dead...Live At Red Rocks didn’t live up to the pre-release hype...’78 gets my vote for least amount of magic in the pre-Mydland years.
Down In Albion - Babyshambles. The Killamangiro single was great. The album - 'produced' by Mick Jones, presumably under a Mount Kilimanjiro of coke - was not. What a waster...
Guns N' Roses ~ Use You Illusion 1&2 After a classic debut album and a strong EP, I purchased these on release day and couldn't believe how tuneless these songs were. Outside of the tracks released before the album, I searched and searched for an earworm, to no avail. To this day I can't cull a single album out of both of these that even matches up to Lies, let alone Appetite. I was extremely disappointed on release day, and the following days, until I decided to use the cassettes as blanks and record some Hendrix bootlegs over the top of the GnR.
