Bad Choices

I probably would have, had I remembered. Not that I would have really expected to get it back.

An old schoolmate was in town for a show we were both going to see, and somehow I lent him my vinyl copy of Zappa’s Freak Out album because he said he wanted to make a t-shirt out of it. I didn’t have any contact info, and I haven’t seen him since. At least it wasn’t in great condition.

Wait,... actually I did run into him briefly at my 25-year reunion last year. But it didn’t cross my mind to bring it up, and even if it had, I think the statute of limitations has passed on that particular incident. That ship has sailed.

Aerosmith, GNR, tired of both much more rapidly than I thought would be possible.

siLLy puPPy wrote: I peed on an electric fence and didn't realize that the charge can travel up the stream of piss and shock me like a MF  Also, i got rid of my thousands of cassettes only to find after the fact that quite a few had never been released onto CDs. I did have a good vinyl collection but most of that got stolen in a storage unit theft which i regret ever setting foot in

I peed on an electric fence and didn't realize that the charge can travel up the stream of piss and shock me like a MF 

Last time I felt let down by a band was probably the last P Tree album. Not up to scratch guys, sorry. Lost it's focus (from the start)... the big magnum opus track was some autobiographical stuff from SW. P Tree had high standards and had they existed in the 70s they'd be venerated as one of the greats.

Now I always try before I buy. And I always want the complete album not the ones without the bonus cuts.

Glad someone mentioned Ramshackled earlier. I thought it was just me but I recall the album was, well, awful.

I liked Testaments Ritual (also mentioned earlier) but I was never thrash community material. I'd give it 3 stars which is all most albums can reasonably expect. There was another (title? Cover was some black hooded deathly types). Started with some nice Spanish guitar and then every track proceeded with same guitar sounds so everything sounded like everything else. Tedious. Mind you I loaned a copy of Scorpions Love drive to a pal who didn't like it cause th material was all different throughout. Funny old world.

Heard Heaven And Earth enough to know it won't be existing in the collection. Still not yet heard Open Your Eyes. Maybe one day. At least it has Anderson present. I don't mind different singers as such but writing is a very different matter. Stay at tribute band level.

Still wonder why people regard OK Computer as godly. God awful for me. It actually had me writhing putting up wit those awful guitars...

Oh yes, for once a disappointing Sabbath release. Forbidden. Everyone has a classic and Guilty As Hell works for me but for the most part... no.

And try as I might the last Rush album just blurs into a memory of over processed guitars. No dynamics, no tunes really. No wonder people like the last track. What a relief... (And I still really like Rush).

Somethings don't really take off (Rattle That Lock) but love On An Island. The album sequel to Fat Old Sun for me.

I had heard early Journey and thought they were great. I'd heard so much about Journey that a while back I should find out what the fuss was about. Alas I'll never know. 4 songs in to the compilation and I knew I could not take any more.

Oh I know. I shelled out once for the first two Tool albums. I now have 100,000 Days but those first two were exchanged for Camel CDs before I got the hump anymore. 

iluvmarillion wrote: Progosopher wrote: Another regret: Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree.  I liked InAbsentia pretty well and loved Deadwing, but found FoaBP either derivative or dreary.  So many reviewers on Prog Archives raved about the album I thought it had to be a winner.  Nope. Snooze-fest. Turned me off to the band almost completely and I never want to buy another album by them ever again, no matter what anybody might have to say. But if you ever got the DVD of Steven Wilson playing the music form Blank Planet, it's actually quite brilliant if you ask me. I also found the album a bit dreary as well, but the DVD is anything but...

Does anyone seriously expect P Tree to be anything but a minor key experience?

Progosopher wrote: Another regret: Fear of a Blank Planet by Porcupine Tree.  I liked InAbsentia pretty well and loved Deadwing, but found FoaBP either derivative or dreary.  So many reviewers on Prog Archives raved about the album I thought it had to be a winner.  Nope. Snooze-fest. Turned me off to the band almost completely and I never want to buy another album by them ever again, no matter what anybody might have to say.

Just saying I have nothing against boots as long as they offer something that hasn´t released before. I think boot-versions to original (I mean exactly same labels etc.) sucks. Because there are naive people like me, who automatically can´t understand from the price it´s boot (also I can think sellers who at least try to sell them as originals with high prices). The reason why I am not often buying boots is you never know the quality. Some of them has good reputation, for example Swingin Pig I already mentioned.