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    #26


    At the height of my Scott Walker obsession, I bought Looking Back With Scott Walker, which turned out to be a load of unlistenable doo-wop, possibly recorded in his bedroom. I don't think I played it more than once.

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      #27
      Originally posted by DPDPDPDP View Post

      Rogin, I made exactly the same mistake. No you tube or iTunes on them olden days to check things out first. Same for me- a fiver wasted.
      Ye gods man. Licensed to Ill is magnificent.

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        #28
        Back in the early-70s, a relative or family friend gave my mum a pound to spend on a Christmas gift for me. She decided to buy two singles, one of which was Gudbuy T'Jane, Slade being my favourite band at the time. The other choice was one that she liked, Long Haired Lover From Liverpool

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          #29
          I frequented record fairs almost every free weekend in my late teens and hoovered up all sorts, and once picked up What's Up Doc by Dr Feelgood and the Interns, which turns out not to feature Lee Brilleaux or Wilko Johnson like I had hoped it would. I don't think I listened beyond the second track on its first play, and haven't revisited it since. Pretty sure its still somewhere* in the collection though.


          * it will be filed towards the end of the D's, alongside actual Dr Feelgood.

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            #30
            A few albums by C-list industrial/EBM bands from Loughborough's Left Legged Pineapple in the late 80's. Fortunately the Left Legged lads were always generous with their part exchanges on returns.

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              #31
              While I had played every single album he until then had released over and over, I have never managed to listen through Naked Self by The The.

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                #32
                Originally posted by hobbes View Post

                Ye gods man. Licensed to Ill is magnificent.
                Yeah, that critique sort of tripped me up, too. That album was end-to-end essential listening for at least a year.

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                  #33
                  'That John C knows what he's talking about' I thought to myself. 'If he says it's great music then I should give it a listen'.

                  Forever Changes - Love

                  Never again.

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                    #34
                    Originally posted by Billy Casper View Post
                    'That John C knows what he's talking about' I thought to myself. 'If he says it's great music then I should give it a listen'.

                    Forever Changes - Love
                    And he was absolutely right.

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                      #35
                      I still have somewhere the CD single of "Because I Got High" by Afroman. I thought it was funny at the time.

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                        #36
                        Originally posted by WOM View Post
                        Yeah, that critique sort of tripped me up, too. That album was end-to-end essential listening for at least a year.
                        That might just have been the point.

                        The Beastie Boys improved immeasurably over the next decade or so.

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                          #37
                          Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post

                          That might just have been the point.

                          The Beastie Boys improved immeasurably over the next decade or so.
                          Then I've totally missed the point of the original post, the one supporting it, and hobbes' shocked response.

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                            #38
                            Oh, I don't think you have at all.

                            I was merely emphasising your perhaps-unintentional point that the 'novelty' of Licensed to Ill mightn't have lasted. (In DPX4's case, it barely lasted at all.)

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                              #39
                              Originally posted by Giggler View Post

                              Embarrassingly, I bought Pornograffiti by Extreme. Obvioudly, and even more embarrassingly, it’s the song that’s the staple of The Twat With The Acoustic Guitar at a house party, More Than Words.
                              One of the highlights of Donington 1994 was the deluge of objects thrown at Extreme when they sat on stools at the end of the ego ramp to sing that one. They were on after Sepultura and Pantera and the sea of shirtless fans who were making for the bar/home because they had no interest in Extreme and Aerosmith suddenly turning en masse to hurl abuse/shoes/worse at them was a sight to behold

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                                #40
                                Originally posted by Billy Casper View Post
                                'That John C knows what he's talking about' I thought to myself. 'If he says it's great music then I should give it a listen'.

                                Forever Changes - Love

                                Never again.
                                Amor de Cosmos to thread.

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                                  #41
                                  Yeh, like fucking hell. I just can't compute someone hating that album.

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                                    #42
                                    Originally posted by Jah Womble View Post
                                    Yeah, that aggravates me as well - seems also to be the deal with compilations these days. (Not that I often buy/download them.)

                                    In terms of returning music, I've never much done that either. On one occasion, having seen the band live and quite liking their Autocade single, I bought The Italian Flag by Prolapse in 1997. From memory, most of the tracks were wrecked by backing vocalist Mick Derrick yelling over them, 'Einar-out-of-Sugarcubes'-stylee. It didn't work for me, and I exchanged said CD at Virgin for Stereolab's Dots and Loops (which I still play regularly). Derrick became an archaeologist after Prolapse split up, which perhaps tells its own story.
                                    I remember hearing on the wireless what I'm guessing was a Peel Session track where the archeologist was Scottishly intoning "nil nil after FUCKING extra time" at the end of each spoken word verse, Motorik repetition and jaggy guitars. It really worked, in a sub-Arab Strap sort of way. This was my phase of sitting alone in my student halls taking acid though.
                                    Last edited by Lang Spoon; 08-04-2021, 21:27.

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                                      #43
                                      Originally posted by Greenlander View Post
                                      Not so much a purchase mistake, but back in the early 80s as just turned teenagers we were trying all sorts of alternative stuff out. Generally this meant picking up the latest Bauhaus, Killing Joke or Theatre of Hate, so one day my mate bought a Crass single, possibly Nagasaki Nightmare, just because the 'pay no more than 45p sticker' meant it was a free hit. Well that was a bit of a game changer so he broadened out and Neu Smell by Flux of Pink Indians became a bit of a favourite. I've not heard it for years but I reckon I could just about recite the poem even now, but anyway he just had to buy the album when it came out. Well, Strive to Survive was slightly more challenging but, most problematically for him was just about the incessant swearing. Eventually he could take no more so confessed to his parents he'd got this album that had loads fo rude words on it. They were absolutely livid and took to it with a hammer, put him on curfew for a few weeks and it was all he could do to stop his parents censoring his entire record collection.

                                      The fall out for me meant my mum flicking through my record box, she was a bit peturbed by the title of The Cure's Let's Go To Bed but that was about as bad as it got for me. Imagine though if they'd found out the title of the follow up album.
                                      The Top? Is that problematic?

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                                        #44
                                        Originally posted by Lang Spoon View Post

                                        I remember hearing on the wireless what I'm guessing was a Peel Session track where the archeologist was Scottishly intoning "nil nil after FUCKING extra time" at the end of each spoken word verse, Motorik repetition and jaggy guitars. It really worked, in a sub-Arab Strap sort of way. This was my phase of sitting alone in my student halls taking acid though.
                                        I can see that it might’ve had a mesmeric effect if one were tripping off one’s face.

                                        Cuss words on a John Peel session track, though? Seems a little unlikely that the BBC would authorise that. Unless you hallucinated the whole shebang?

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                                          #45
                                          Yeah maybe it wasn't a Peel session, maybe he was just playing it. Or it was Glasgow Uni radio. Only ever hallucinated while candy flipping.

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                                            #46
                                            I'd read about an album that was supposed to be good by a band call Soul Something or Something Soul, so I went to buy it. Apparently it was Soul II Soul, but I bought Three Feet High And Rising by De La Soul. Never regretted it; a great album.

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                                              #47
                                              GO, that's fantastic.

                                              I don't think I think of too many purchases as mistakes, because I have a pretty clear idea what I'm trying to find out about, even if it turns out to be rubbish. My dad had a good one: he bought Dylan's Bringing It All Back Home LP because he figured it would be most cost effective than buying The Byrds's 45 of "Mr Tamborine Man. He never really got into Dylan.

                                              The closest I can get is that the first Cabaret Voltaire album I bought was the smooth, Chicago house influenced Groovy, Laidback And Nasty. It's probably about as lowly rated as any of their albums.

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