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progaardvark 
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 Topic: Albums You've Regretted Buying but Now EnjoyPosted: July 22 2023 at 14:12 |
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I'm curious about this new Popopoop album that's coming out next week.
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i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
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cstack3
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Posted: July 22 2023 at 10:47 |
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First Greenslade album. I went through a period where I bought ANY LP that had a Roger Dean cover (1973 or so). Some (Tony Kaye, "One Live Badger") were better than others ("Greenslade").
Folks on PA said they liked it, so I gave it a listen last night & still can't say I care for it much. Other than that, I pretty much only spent money on albums that I knew I'd enjoy. No regrets.
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I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!!
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moshkito
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Posted: July 22 2023 at 05:51 |
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Hi,
Times have changed ... a lot. 50 years ago, you only knew 5 or 6 things and if you went into the used LP bins in many places, if you got one of them you were very happy. You might not get any of them, but you were curious about that other one you got since it only cost $2 bux. Being that it was all "new" and "different", the illusion that it wasn't good was not an issue whatsoever, and sometimes I think that we're looking at 1970's as if it were today, where you don't have to buy it, just hear it first and likely sit on it and not buy it because you want the new Popopoop album instead which will be out next week. Nowadays, there is no reason for anyone to buy anything without knowing about it ... PERIOD. One would think that 50 years ago, it was easy to not like an album ... and goodness sakes ... I ended up close to 3K LP's and I could never consider one I didn't care about ... some I did let go too soon, because I "didn't get it", but it wasn't because I did not like it ... it just didn't click at that time. (Pretty Things/Pete Brown & Piblokto/Lol Coxhill/East of Eden) ... but today? No worries ... no reason to even consider something you don't know or ever heard!
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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bardberic
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Posted: July 21 2023 at 15:21 |
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Altar by Sunn O))) and Boris
Boris may be my favorite artist in the world right now, but I f**king hate Sunn O))). I did not know I hated Sunn O))) until I got this album. I didn't like the album at first because of that. It's grown on me tremendously, though, and I consider more one of the best done metal albums ever made. I still hate Sunn O))), but the Boris here balances them out. Edited by bardberic - July 21 2023 at 15:24 |
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Cambus741
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Posted: July 21 2023 at 14:41 |
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Not progressive rock but in early 1992, I was exposed to a snippet of Skyclad at the YMCA at Chelmsford as they were going to be the band playing there the following weekend. I popped into Our Price at the earliest opportunity to buy it. When I played it, I thought I may have made a terrible mistake as the first three tracks are just rubbish thrash metal. But the fourth track, 'The Widdershin Jig' is excellent.
I still think the first three tracks are rubbish, but I am glad I bought it as the 4th track and the last two tracks are excellent.
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Posted: July 21 2023 at 13:59 |
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I tend not to regret getting albums that don't really appeal to me. However, there was one album that made me feel cheated after having bought it unheard: Philip Glass - Music With Changing Parts. However, a recent listen actually had some appeal, though it still didn't get on my frequent play list.
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No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man.
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Posted: July 21 2023 at 10:17 |
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First Album I bought without hearing.... Yes - Tales from Topographic Oceans.
I now love it, as it is now my favorite Yes album
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The Wheel of Time Turns, and Ages come and pass. What was, what will be, and what is, may yet fall under the shadow.
Let the Dragon ride again on the winds of time... |
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I bought The Wake, in the early 90s, on the strength of a review in The Organ fanzine, a heavily Cardiacs influenced fanzine and very much the home of crusty,festy,pronky,psych bands. Loved the DIY sound of The Wake from first listen. On the strength of other reviews by Marina or Sean, who run (ran?) The Organ, I also bought the first Arena album (CD), Arkana by Asgard (CD), Nucleus by Anekdoten (CD), a double Isildurs Bane album (CD), the first Porcupine Tree album (LP), several Posioned Electrick Head albums on LP, Sidi Bou Said CDs, and much more all thanks to The Organ. Regrets? The one and only Flower Kings CD I bought.
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I had such a different experience than you with Weather Report. I first heard Heavy Weather but it did not appeal. Later I heard I Sing the Body Electric and loved it. That and the self-tiled debut are the WR albums that I care about. And I have like that Carmen. My choice is Mr. Bungle, or as I called it Mr. Bunghole. I got Disco Volante twenty years ago, and it did not appeal. I now really like it. It was with California, that is still my fave Bungle, that it clicked. One purchase that might now appeal that I rather had regretted is Thinking Plague’s In Extremis, my first TP. TP here means toilet paper, which comes in handy for Mr. Bungh.... But I did then get the earlier albums and loved those. And I like later TP, so I should return to In Extremis. I did buy some albums back then that will never be for me, but that I have expressed before in more than one topic (hint, A Spock’s Beard, Transatlantic and three “lesser” Gentle Giant albums. I was not careful with spending back then. |
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Watching while most appreciating a sunset in the moment need not diminish all the glorious sunsets I have observed before. It can be much like that with music for me.
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Posted: July 08 2023 at 08:52 |
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I have been racking my brains trying to think of a single album I have purchased and initially hated, which I have, over a period of time, come to love.... and I'm really struggling to find a good example.
I can think of quite a number I've not liked and sold on again and others I have thought were reasonably good, but grew on me significantly over time, but none have gone from one side of the spectrum to the other... |
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Posted: July 08 2023 at 08:34 |
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I loved Heavy Weather by Weather Report so I dive directly into their music by buying I sing the body electric, well, to this day I regret it, same with Fandangos in Space by Carmen. I know, not the spirit of this thread but I guess after 50 years of regret I needed to vent some steam...
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Long live Progresive music!
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Posted: July 08 2023 at 07:53 |
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Only one i can think of is Wings of Heaven by Magnum
I had it on CD for a fair while, but hadnt listened to it in years, i remembered it being an album that wasnt very AOR, but i was wrong. Fast forward to 2020, i found it on vinyl 2nd hand cheap, i bought it to sell on for profit, i proof listened to the record to make sure it had no skips or repeats in, then thought to myself "not AOR??, it very much is AOR, why did i remember wrongly?", then ended up buying it back on CD lol, i really love the song Wild Swan.
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Posted: July 08 2023 at 07:39 |
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Its a great album . "666"
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Posted: July 08 2023 at 07:37 |
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Hi octopus-4 . I really wondered that you remember me! Thank you . I really "Love" ZEIT and completely agreed. |
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Posted: July 08 2023 at 06:31 |
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IQ - Subterranea
I got into them in the Menel era and knew nothing about the first incarnation. With no internet I missed Ever, then saw an advert in The Independent for Subby, so bought it. It took me ages to appreciate it - who was this awful new singer?!!🤣 Edited by essexboyinwales - July 08 2023 at 06:31 |
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Posted: July 08 2023 at 06:19 |
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Hi,
I can't say that I got something that I didn't like and then started to like it ... though this had happened in my first listening to TD's Phaedra, but that is about the only one, and it wasn't bought, it was an evening in the apartment when Guy Guden played TD, Nektar and Genesis to me for the first time in 1972. All in all, with Guy's show on the horizon, and picking up a lot of used LP's, I was able to be selective and find the stuff I wanted, and since 1972 and the Hipgnosis Ingredients on the Cereal Box, I rarely bought anything that .. I did not like or had a poor reaction to ... there was so much to get, that getting the wrong one, I would suggest that we were not listening anymore, and were expecting something we did not get ... but by that time I had already had a lot of Frank Zappa, and different, far out and weird stuff did not scare me anymore, and 200 Motels, still is, by very far, one of the best things he ever did! And check out the version at UCLA later that Gayle was able to get done ... it was even better and that choir went out of the way to love it and then some ... absolutely magnificent and you couldn't ask for more! I don't buy by "preference", meaning that it is a sound, or something that I like ... and then find that it is not what I wanted ... since I had been already into artistic scenes via literature, the arts and film, rock music was bizarre, by rejecting so much art, after the psychedelic days ... thus my tastes were normally OK ... perfect example is Canterbury ... started with Caravan (For girls ... ) and never stopped and I had not even heard GONG then! All of it was fantastic, and you could not buy a bad album ... and I certainly was not interested in those cheap pistols.
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I do love Irene Papas on Vangelis' Rapsodies album though, so that kind of makes up for it.
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And we're talking about sounds from nobody less than Irene Papas which imo doesn't make it less remarkable. |
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quality over quantity, and all kind of PopcoRn almost beyond
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and I sincerely wish all those who purchase it, every happiness... I've just had a look and after over 1000 ratings for this site, I have only given a '1' star on 8 occasions (I really hate doing it, to be fair).... and I'm afraid, this is one of the 8....
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Music has always been a matter of energy to me. On some nights I believe that a car with the needle on empty can run 50 more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio. Hunter S Thompson
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Apparently it's going to be remixed using a real drummer for reissue in the next Jethro Tull/Steven Wilson 'book' edition series.
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