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mandown

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Transylvania 90210
What album do you have bitter regrets about, purchasing it because a single sounded promising, only to find 11 tracks of filler crap :confused:


30/30-150 sounded good to me, then I was left with a CD full of regret.
 

Serial Midget

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Led Zeppelin - CODA, never heard a single song before buying it a month or two after buying Physical Graffiti. I was 17 and making $3.35 an hour and felt totally ripped off. :monkey:
 

HAB

Chelsea from Seattle
Apr 28, 2007
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Bad Religion's Into the Unknown. Even though it was their second album, I got it relatively late. The stuff that came before and after it is great, but I really didn't like it.
 

IH8Rice

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Bad Religion's Into the Unknown. Even though it was their second album, I got it relatively late. The stuff that came before and after it is great, but I really didn't like it.
blasphemy
there is no such thing as a bad Bad Religion album
 

HAB

Chelsea from Seattle
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blasphemy
there is no such thing as a bad Bad Religion album
It's not a terrible album, but I don't think it's NEARLY as good as a lot of their other stuff. It's disappointing for that reason.

Nice avatar, btw.
 

IH8Rice

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It's not a terrible album, but I don't think it's NEARLY as good as a lot of their other stuff. It's disappointing for that reason.

Nice avatar, btw.
this is true. everything before Suffer had a rawer sound to it.
anything from Stranger Than Fiction and later are my favs
 

HAB

Chelsea from Seattle
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this is true. their earlier work had a much more raw sound than anything after Suffer
:facepalm:


Into the Unknown is their second album, but it's almost prog rock. More produced sounding, too much synthesizer stuff, etc. They don't like it either, and it doesn't sound like their other early work, ie How Could Hell Be Any Worse and Suffer.
 

IH8Rice

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Aug 2, 2008
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:facepalm:


Into the Unknown is their second album, but it's almost prog rock. More produced sounding, too much synthesizer stuff, etc. They don't like it either, and it doesn't sound like their other early work, ie How Could Hell Be Any Worse and Suffer.
like i said, i wasnt a big fan of their earlier work, especially b/c they all sound so young (which they were obviously.)
everything after Suffer sounds much different than their first 3 albums
 

H8R

Cranky Pants
Nov 10, 2004
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Rush - Presto

I didn't buy it, it was given to me. I regretted even accepting it as a gift.
 

HAB

Chelsea from Seattle
Apr 28, 2007
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Soundgarden - Down on the Upside
I think I'm in the minority on this one, but it's got a few songs I really like. And a bunch of filler, to be sure, but it's not an album without merit. I'd argue that Pretty Noose, Burden in my Hand, Tighter and Tighter, and Overfloater are all good songs. Pretty much everything else on it is forgettable.
 

Pesqueeb

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Feb 2, 2007
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Bad Religion's Into the Unknown. Even though it was their second album, I got it relatively late. The stuff that came before and after it is great, but I really didn't like it.
I'm gonna have to agree with this. I love Bad Religion but Into the Unknown is crap. I like Chasing the Wild Goose, and Billy Gnosis is alright, but the rest sucks.
 

Jim Mac

MAKE ENDURO GREAT AGAIN
May 21, 2004
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blasphemy
there is no such thing as a bad Bad Religion album
Have you ever heard that album? Do you see it around? I rest my case. And this is coming from a guy who loves most of their albums and "followed" them around the northeast on their No Control tour.

This is my version of "Into the Unknown":


This was such a turnaround that at their show in NY at the Ritz (1st day of Discharges Grave New World Tour), they were pelted with garbage and full beer cans. The Bad Brains were trying to dump garbage cans full of water from the balcony onto them. I was a stunned witness!
 

KavuRider

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What album do you have bitter regrets about, purchasing it because a single sounded promising, only to find 11 tracks of filler crap :confused:


30/30-150 sounded good to me, then I was left with a CD full of regret.
I actually liked most of that album...
 

Jim Mac

MAKE ENDURO GREAT AGAIN
May 21, 2004
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:stupid:

Hear Nothing, See Nothing, Say Nothing > then listen to this turd.
The guitars on Hear Nothing...are amazing. I am still in awe of their sound. They took the Crucifix "sound" and quadrupled it. Then 1986 rears its head and they go all glam metal. My most memorable moment of their show - Cal almost got hit with an empty can then said (in his glammiest voice), "Oh, you know I like it rough". Then, almost in slow motion, I see a full unopened can of bud fly into the spotlight and clock him in the temple...sweat explodes as does the crowd with laughter!
 

nelsonjm

Monkey
Feb 16, 2007
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I accidentally picked up Cory Smith - The good life

I though it was an Elliot Smith cd. The Cory Smith CD has been stuffed into a box along with some bike cranks and is on it's way for delivery to some poor guy now.
 

mandown

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Jun 1, 2004
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Transylvania 90210


i'm a huge manson fan, but man, this pile of seaming apples left me feeling bad that i paid for it... oh wait, i didn't pay for it; a bud burned me a copy, but i still feel like i got ripped off.