Your worst purchase in music

I forgot to say that these albums also were a big disappointment when I bought them:

Genesis: the "Genesis" album from 1983. Sounds like a "contractual obligation album". Their worst album, IMO.

Genesis: "Calling All Stations". Only a bit better than the "Genesis" album.

YES: "Tales from Topographic Oceans". Great cover design. But the best songs of this album are "The Revealing Science of God" and  "The Remembering", IMO. "The Ancient" and "Ritual" have some good parts, but are mostly noisy. So, one good L.P. for the price of two.

Nipsey88 wrote: In prog terms, the most disappointing was Season's End by Marillion. I bought it when it came out, and being the generally uninformed sort, I had no idea they had switched vocalists. As I was a HUGE Fish fan, I was just so crushed, I couldn't bring myself to listen to it for months. Gradually, I got to the point where I thought it was OK, but that initial disappointment was one of the biggest album let downs for me. As far as non-prog, I was a huge Kiss fan when I was young, and I saved up my allowance for weeks so I could buy Dynasty when it came out. I got it home and was like, "What the hell is up with this disco album in my Kiss record sleeve?". Within a few months, all my Kiss posters came down and were replaced with Rush not a year or two later.

I bought "Seasons End" after I listened in a FM Radio Station the song "Easter", which is  great, IMO. So when I bought the album I knew that Fish wasn`t Marillion`s singer anymore. There are 2 songs from that album that I don`t like very much:"Berlin" and "The Space...". But it is a good album in comparison to "Holidays in Eden".

One day I was curious to see KISS discography in the Internet. So I found a website :http://www.kissfaq.com/  I never have been a fan of them but I had curiosity about their long discography. I read there that in "Dynasty" the drummer in most tracks is Anton Fig, not Peter Criss, who had a that time some health problems and a car crash. In their next album "Unmasked" he doesn`t appear at all:he left the band. But his "Cat" make-up appears in the "comic" which is in the cover of the album. IMO, KISS is a very successful  bussiness machine. There are some KISS albums from the 90s that were made only by Gene Simmons with a little help from Paul Stanley, and other albums done by Stanley with a little help from Simmons.

Tormato by Yes springs instantly to mind - so uninspired after the brilliant Going for the One.

A more obscure one is Rough Diamond - I bought their LP because it had Clem Clempson (ex-Colosseum) and David Byron (ex-Uriah Heep) on it, which seemed a pretty reliable pedigree. Little did I expect the thoroughly bland and unambitious 70s rock it contained. It's years since I heard it so I don't know if time has improved its appeal.