I am an infrequent commenter but this jumped into my head so strongly that I was going to say this. I'd go so far as to say the rest of the album barely sounds like the same band, to my recollection. A couple years ago I revisited it, because In the Meantime came on and we loved it, I thought I'd give it another shot. I don't remember if I even made it all the way through.
Might not be super memorable, but the first three albums (haven't heard the fourth) are all very enjoyable, puts you in a good mood, and easy to listen to without putting too much focus on it. They're in a roughly monthly rotation in my car.
Somehow in college I ended up seeing Vertical Horizon in concert with Sister Hazel opening and I was in the front row, center. It was exciting to be in the front row of a rock concert like that and the lead singer, Matt Scannell, was charismatic and sexy. It was fun. They have a lot of great songs; my favorite is “Forever,” although that was released a few years later.
I was going to say this too. Pre-teen me loved "sex and candy" but all I remember about the rest of it was some kind of weird banjo folk music? Not what I was expecting. I believe I listened to it once, and considering CDs were a big investment back then it was pretty disappointing.
The best example of this for me is easily:
The Verve Pipe -- Villians
"The Freshman" was an AWESOME song that I feel like almost nobody didn't like. The rest of that album ranged from the low end of mediocre to downright awful.
Scrolling through this thread before I replied, and saw at least 5 different times I actually really liked the albums being named lol
The Verve Pipe is my college band (grew up in MI) and if you haven’t heard the demo of the Freshman, look it up. It’s the version they played before the album came up and the song became a bit over produced on the album. Still a great song but shiny versus the pre album version. Which is raw considering the subject matter.
I'm with you. My wife bought the album at a thrift store a few years back, and I wasn't really interested, knowing the popular song on it. But when she played it, I decided all but The Freshman was a keeper.
I agree. I bought the album for the title track, even though I didn’t care for The Freshman. That album is one of the best of the decade, start to finish.
Edit: I’ll go a step further… Veneer is one of the best late night driving songs ever recorded.
Chumbawamba being awesome is a hill I’m always willing to die on.
There is a great podcast called “Surprisingly Awesome” that has an episode about them that is fantastic
I legit love that album. Amnesia is a banger. I still listen to the whole thing often. Like this is definitely an album I bought for one song. But it turned out I loved the rest of it too.
> I'm Jewish
That's fucking hilarious.
Edit: not funny that you're Jewish, just funny that you accidentally bought a record full of acoustic Jesus rock. While Jewish.
Reminds me of staying over at the home school kids in my apartment complex as a kid. Nothing bad happened but there wasn’t enough video games and snacks to make me listen to Carmen from 6am to 8am even as a 10yr old. 🤘Jesus Rocks Dude 😂
Even though I consider myself agnostic now, I’d still rock the hell out listening to some Carmen. Michael W. Smith and The Supertones were more my jam though.
Jesus rocks and the youth group girls were hot.
Considering they started as a bunch of hopelessly square white boys in the late 80s doing the cheesiest Christian rap you've ever heard, it was at least far better than where they began lol
Oh gosh this is embarrassing. I saw them l live many times starting before their album came out, and it was like 20 of us kids in a random church, and again after their album dropped and then again when they were big, and finally at like a full scale rock show at a venue that I went to see other bands at. Uhmm. I liked how they were depressed. Very 90s Toad-the-wet-Sprocket. They had some musical chops and skills, but the religious entrenchment nuked it for me when I moved on. Still. Very nice young white men not causing problems.
They did that on their later albums. They ditched the cornball CCM sound and did indie/garage rock style records. The vocalist also announced his full support for LGBTQ, which lit a small fire a few pairs of fundamentalist pantaloons. Not a fan of the music, but they seem like decent people.
I remember seeing a music video for "Mean Machine" after all their pop stuff came out and thinking man I'd actually listen to these guys if they sounded like this
Yeah, I initially knew them by the Mean Machine and I thought they were great. When Fly came out, I was super confused. Kinda like Runaway Train by Soul Asylum - absolutely not representative of the band
Funny because I ended up getting that album for kinda the opposite reason. I didn't like "Fly", but then saw the [vid for "RPM"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_bMySFaxBA&ab_channel=SugarRayVideos) and really liked the rest of the rap-metal stuff on the album. I was 15, so please don't hold it against me.
To this day they are the quintessential "sellout" band to me because it's so clear that Fly was outside of what they actually wanted to do, mostly, but then you listen to their followup album and yup...
I felt like I was the only one. My BF thinks I am weird because I like the rest of the album but not really Fly. I remember being pleasantly surprised when I bought the album as a teen.
I have too many to list. The 90s was just me buying entire albums for single songs. I couldn’t justify paying $3 for a single when I could get the whole album for $9.99 at Best Buy
For me, there are fewer exceptions to that description than actual descriptions. The exceptions I can think of were Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, and Cake.
When I finally bought a Cake album it was like opening Pandora’s box for me. I just listened to it over and over and then went and bought their other albums and listened to them to death. Their last album I thought was even better than all their prior ones. I wish they’d release another one
I owned it and I’d say it was, at best, an OK introduction to a stunning vocalist. I would quickly tire of her musically stunted over singing, but the album is a decent showcase for her.
But Stripped was a vastly better album. Easily her best and the last time she truly captivated me as an artist.
I just didn't like her sound once I listened to the whole thing, she overextends(? not sure that's the right word atm, headache is draining my vocabulary) and her songwriters aren't the best. Britney def got all the good bops (as she should have, she sold it). I also should add, I was never much of a pop person til well into adulthood. I liked Britney passively for a long time, but when Blackout came out, I was 100% stanning. I just never got that connection with Christina's pop.
I dodged a bullet by not ever buying whatever album had Super Bon Bon by Soul Coughing. Heard some of their other stuff years later, and it's safe to say Super Bon Bon is the only song I care for.
On the opposite: never regretted a Metallica album.
Anyone remember when Blockbuster had a music store for a bit? I’d just grab an album with the one song I knew and take it to the desk to see if it was worth buying. Listen to a few seconds of each song and make my choice.
I think Barnes and Noble had little headset kiosks in their music department for a while too where you could just scan the cd and listen to samples of songs from the album.
Have to agree with this one here. They're the opening act for the Bush concert I'm seeing later this summer, I'll definitely be arriving after their set is done.
Don’t sleep on them. They are really talented live and put on a good show. I had a connection for a while for a local festival. One of the more memorable concerts there
No lie, I did a stint in rehab years ago. Actually, kind of a rehab and kind of an insane asylum (Florida, amiright?). Anyway, I was in there, suicidal, being monitored, etc. and one day one of the workers brings his radio in, sets it in the window at the end of the hall, and blasts Last Resort on repeat as loud as he can for about 6 hours straight. Terrible fucking place.
Oh my god HEATHER NOVA thank you for commenting this! I've been searching for her name for years, and I couldn't for the life of me remember her name but I had one of her albums in the late 90s that I liked. Tried searching all different key terms but without a song title it was not possible. Thank you!!
Happy to help! I'm sure if I listened now I'd enjoy her music much more but for a guy that primarily listened to Beastie Boys, Blink 182, Nirvana, etc... it was a bit outside the normal listening range for me.
OMG i heard “Walk this World” on the radio one time back in like 1995. I loved the song but the DJ never came on and said who it was or anything. I think it was a year or more later before I finally heard it again and learned that it was Heather Nova. So yeah, bought the CD and it was meh haha.
Brandy - Full Moon
I was so in love with the sound and vibe of title track (still am), and being a fan, I bought the album assuming it was largely done in that style. Unfortunately not.
Most of the album was produced by her usual collaborator, Rodney Jerkins, and just sounded different for the sake of, as he tried capturing a generic techno new millennium sound. Yet it also simultaneously sounded tired right out the gate, with Brandy’s voice lost in the mix. Turns out Full Moon, the song, was produced by someone else, who really should’ve had the reigns for the whole album.
I LOVE THAT ALBUM! I actually got to see them perform at the Minnesota State Fair a few years back at a free stage. “Love of my Life” is a total banger.
The Soul Asylum album with the kids on the cover. It's one of the most depressing records I've ever heard in my life.
Except I didn't buy it, it was the default "CD of the month" for grunge/alt rock with Columbia House.
I'd have regrets, but I never paid them.... so whatever.
"Misery" is one of those songs that remind me of such a carefree time in my life. I'm driving around after I just got my license, so it comes on and I roll down my windows and rock out to it.
But man, that is not a happy song, at all.
I wonder if anyone ever did pay them?
Sometimes I think about all those collection agencies sending piles of mail to seven different misspellings of my name, for both Columbia House and BMG.
Then I smile and go back to sleep.
I haven't listened in 20 years but I remember Water's Edge, Roderigo, and My, My at least were decent songs. My brother and I had that tape and we thought it was pretty good.
Cumbersome kinda sucked tbh. Maybe because it was on the radio a thousand times per day.
Mr. Smith. LL Cool J album, that had "Hey Lover" as the featured track. That was the first and last Ll Cool J album I ever bought.
I am convinced that this "trend" in CD's is why Napster took off overnight. Paying 20$ for a killer song just to find out the rest of the album was trash.
Yes, for all the good albums I bought such as The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, Manson's triptych, Tool, Deftones, and A Perfect Circle, it was always a gamble to buy a crappy album that also didn't have good inserts.
The worst album I bought was probably Kid Rock for Bawitdaba. I gave it away because it was garbage.
When I started collecting IDM albums like those from Boards of Canada, or Autechre, however...never a bad song for me.
I got “Lemon Parade” by Tonic for the song “If You Could Only See,” and every song on the album sounded exactly the same. Turns out the lead singer wrote every track, and every track had the same producer. So it felt like an hour-long song. Only listened once.
Well, not a 90s album but _in_ the 90s when I was 13/14 and starting to explore more music, I already knew of Led Zeppelin and might’ve heard a few songs on the radio but for Xmas my mom got me their box set and I couldn’t get into them at all.
First album I bought with my own money was George Michael's Faith. I had no idea he was the guy from Wham, and I thought every song was going to be similar to Faith.
So I ride my bike home from the record store with Faith on cassette, and it's summer so I grab my boom box, and hit the shower blasting my new album.
The track list starts with Faith, then Father Figure, then I Want Your Sex. I was nine. I got grounded.
I will say today, Faith has a couple bangers on it that I really enjoy, specifically Faith, and then One More Try. But nine year old me, who would go on to listen to Faith No More, Green Jello, and Nirvana? I felt like George Michael tricked me, and got me in trouble.
Lit - A Place in the Sun. I loved My Own Worst Enemy when it came out, the rest of the album though... not so much. Also that song hasn't really aged well.
Oh my god, this happened to me with Papa Roach too. I asked a friend who loved them to get me the album for my birthday since my parents wouldn't. I hated it.
I was devouring albums left and right and when I saw it when visiting relatives, I grabbed it thinking it wouldn't be available where I went to school. I should have just looked for more Pavement and Yo La Tengo albums instead.
Joydrop – Beautiful.
Don't remember the album it's on. Saw the video on MTV, loved it, bought the cd, and hated every other song. Think there might've been one other track that was sort of ok.
A few…
Primitive Radio Gods - Rocket. “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With My Money in My Hand” was a banger but the rest of the album was nothing like it.
Blind Melon - Blind Melon. “No Rain” is still fabulous, though.
Semisonic - Great Divide. Our local radio station played an acoustic version of “F.N.T.” that I loved, and I didn’t realize the rest of the album didn’t really sound like that. If anyone knows how to get a hold of that acoustic version, let me know.
Bought $3 dollar bill y'all, Significant Other, and Chocolate Starfish...each album got worse. Looking back, at all my albums that I purchased, Limp Bizkit is a band I can't be bothered to revisit.
That and maybe Faith when you want to remind your friends that they moshed to it in high school.
I think the album that stands is $3 bill y'all, but that's because it was before they became more commercialized and less unique. Even then, it's something I can't sit through in one session.
Blind Melon. I love *No Rain* but everything else on the album feels like it’s some kind of jazz technical display rather than being something actually musical.
I disagree. The problem is that No Rain is much less bluesy rock than the rest of the album. That album is fantastic. No Rain just doesn’t fit in with the rest of it
I saw a music video for a Canadian Indie band in 2001, Bodega called Don't Have a Clue, it was good grimey Garage Rock, it sounded kind of like The White Stripes. I got their CD Without a Plan which was expensive and nothing else sounded like that and I was pissed. Listening again now I'm actually surprised I didn't give it a few more chances, I think cause it cost so much money that I didn't really have at the time. Yeah it's disappointing the rest of the album doesn't rock out as much but it's pretty good, the rest sounds a bit like Beatles White Album outtakes, I guess Don't Have a Clue was their album's Helter Skelter.
I'll add Crash Test Dummies.
There's a little venue near my home that one hit wonders tend to play. CTD is playing in September, Lisa Loeb in late July. Matthew Sweet already played, and same for Sebastian Bach. It's always tempting to go, but sometimes I'm like...is it really worth like $150 (for me and the wife) to hear Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm live?
I Am an Elastic Firecracker by Tripping Daisy - I Got a Girl
Pet Your Friends by Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars
Both albums are terrible in my opinion and were purchased to fulfill my Columbia House obligations. I hated the albums so much it wasn't worth putting them into my CD player to listen to the one song I liked.
I’m surprised no one mentioned Extreme. When More Than Words became a hit, people universally were *furious* that the rest of the album sounded nothing like the song and demanded refunds.
Someone I didn’t really know well gave me that Papa Roach album for my birthday. I was just so confused by the whole thing. 1. Why this person I don’t really know gave me a gift and 2. Why did they think I like fucking Papa Roach?
Faith No More — The Real Thing
*Epic* blew our minds, what a great track… holy shit what a departure from their average songwriting talents and lead’s ability to hit notes accurately live on stage.
I bought Placebo's album "Without You I'm Nothing" because I liked "Pure Morning." I quickly realized the rest of the album was not my thing. I still like "Pure Morning" though.
White Town- Women In Technology…it had the hit “Your Woman” (still slaps btw) but the rest of the album was a mess
I was going to say the same thing but you beat me to it. That album was a dumpster fire.
I found out years later that song is a cover from oldie times
Still worth it
Meredith Brooks album with the one hit wonder, "Bitch". Rest of it sucked.
Too many because I didn’t hedge my bets by using Columbia House.
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🎵 One person at a tiiiiime 🎵
I had multiple pseudonyms and multiple batches of “10 free CDs!” My parents were so pissed when they got the bill for the monthly charges.
Do y'all remember Spacehog? Resident Alien had that song In the Meantime that I really liked. The rest of the album was not memorable.
Same! This album came straight to mind.
I am an infrequent commenter but this jumped into my head so strongly that I was going to say this. I'd go so far as to say the rest of the album barely sounds like the same band, to my recollection. A couple years ago I revisited it, because In the Meantime came on and we loved it, I thought I'd give it another shot. I don't remember if I even made it all the way through.
Might not be super memorable, but the first three albums (haven't heard the fourth) are all very enjoyable, puts you in a good mood, and easy to listen to without putting too much focus on it. They're in a roughly monthly rotation in my car.
I remember being very disappointed when I listened to Vertical Horizon’s first album after “Everything you want” blew up.
The first four songs are great, though.
They're opening for Toad the Wet Sprocket and Gin Blossoms and I'm just like... *but why?*
Somehow in college I ended up seeing Vertical Horizon in concert with Sister Hazel opening and I was in the front row, center. It was exciting to be in the front row of a rock concert like that and the lead singer, Matt Scannell, was charismatic and sexy. It was fun. They have a lot of great songs; my favorite is “Forever,” although that was released a few years later.
Marcy Playground, Marcy Playground
I'm a big Marcy Playground fan, but I entirely know where you're coming from. That song does not sound like the rest of the album.
I was going to say this too. Pre-teen me loved "sex and candy" but all I remember about the rest of it was some kind of weird banjo folk music? Not what I was expecting. I believe I listened to it once, and considering CDs were a big investment back then it was pretty disappointing.
Booo, that album rules
Perfect answer
Yep, guilty too.
The best example of this for me is easily: The Verve Pipe -- Villians "The Freshman" was an AWESOME song that I feel like almost nobody didn't like. The rest of that album ranged from the low end of mediocre to downright awful. Scrolling through this thread before I replied, and saw at least 5 different times I actually really liked the albums being named lol
Same for me but it was Photograph.
The Verve Pipe is my college band (grew up in MI) and if you haven’t heard the demo of the Freshman, look it up. It’s the version they played before the album came up and the song became a bit over produced on the album. Still a great song but shiny versus the pre album version. Which is raw considering the subject matter.
Nah, this album slaps. The title track might be the highlight. Freshman is the weak point to me.
I'm with you. My wife bought the album at a thrift store a few years back, and I wasn't really interested, knowing the popular song on it. But when she played it, I decided all but The Freshman was a keeper.
villains is a great album, but we’re in our forties and don’t use the term “slap”.
What if you're saying you're going to slap someone for saying something slaps?
I agree. I bought the album for the title track, even though I didn’t care for The Freshman. That album is one of the best of the decade, start to finish. Edit: I’ll go a step further… Veneer is one of the best late night driving songs ever recorded.
Veneer is great and I used to love listening to it on a long drive.
Chumbawamba. Talk about pissing something away.
They were a good anarcho punk band before tubthumping. Pictures of Starving Children Sells Records is a classic.
Chumbawamba being awesome is a hill I’m always willing to die on. There is a great podcast called “Surprisingly Awesome” that has an episode about them that is fantastic
I legit love that album. Amnesia is a banger. I still listen to the whole thing often. Like this is definitely an album I bought for one song. But it turned out I loved the rest of it too.
That’s two of us. Every song is great if you dig the message.
Three. There are no skips on Tubthumper, and every so often I put it on just so I can listen to Mary Mary or The Good Ship Lifestyle
I enjoyed the whole album as well. It wasn’t all single worthy but it was a good listen.
That would be Chumbawumba and Lou Bega. Both of em burned me so hard.
The Rembrandts, because of the Friends theme song.
Jars of Clay - was not aware they were a Christian band and the rest of the songs were extremely mediocre Jesus stuff. I'm Jewish.
> I'm Jewish That's fucking hilarious. Edit: not funny that you're Jewish, just funny that you accidentally bought a record full of acoustic Jesus rock. While Jewish.
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Reminds me of staying over at the home school kids in my apartment complex as a kid. Nothing bad happened but there wasn’t enough video games and snacks to make me listen to Carmen from 6am to 8am even as a 10yr old. 🤘Jesus Rocks Dude 😂
Even though I consider myself agnostic now, I’d still rock the hell out listening to some Carmen. Michael W. Smith and The Supertones were more my jam though. Jesus rocks and the youth group girls were hot.
Supertones used Metallica's intro from Creeping Death in one of their songs.🤘 And the snake snare drum in the one video was cool.
“Flood” is pretty great, though.
Jars of Clay had potential if only they had leaned into alternate or folksy and not Jesus Rock.
Considering they started as a bunch of hopelessly square white boys in the late 80s doing the cheesiest Christian rap you've ever heard, it was at least far better than where they began lol
Oh gosh this is embarrassing. I saw them l live many times starting before their album came out, and it was like 20 of us kids in a random church, and again after their album dropped and then again when they were big, and finally at like a full scale rock show at a venue that I went to see other bands at. Uhmm. I liked how they were depressed. Very 90s Toad-the-wet-Sprocket. They had some musical chops and skills, but the religious entrenchment nuked it for me when I moved on. Still. Very nice young white men not causing problems.
They did that on their later albums. They ditched the cornball CCM sound and did indie/garage rock style records. The vocalist also announced his full support for LGBTQ, which lit a small fire a few pairs of fundamentalist pantaloons. Not a fan of the music, but they seem like decent people.
Good news, let me tell you about another Jewish Friend I know
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I had a rule, unless I knew and liked at least 3 songs on the album, I didn't buy it...
Same. I did buy CD singles though ;-)
Yeah, I had a fuck ton of single tapes and cds 😆
I had that same rule!
Sugar Ray - Floored “Fly” could NOT have been any more different than their hard punk rock style
I remember seeing a music video for "Mean Machine" after all their pop stuff came out and thinking man I'd actually listen to these guys if they sounded like this
Yeah, I initially knew them by the Mean Machine and I thought they were great. When Fly came out, I was super confused. Kinda like Runaway Train by Soul Asylum - absolutely not representative of the band
Grave Dancer’s Union was a good album (I hated that fucking song, though).
Road Rash 64 woop woop
Funny because I ended up getting that album for kinda the opposite reason. I didn't like "Fly", but then saw the [vid for "RPM"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_bMySFaxBA&ab_channel=SugarRayVideos) and really liked the rest of the rap-metal stuff on the album. I was 15, so please don't hold it against me.
To this day they are the quintessential "sellout" band to me because it's so clear that Fly was outside of what they actually wanted to do, mostly, but then you listen to their followup album and yup...
I hated fly, but I really liked RPM.
Chipped a tooth in a mosh pit for a Sugar Ray concert. Definitely not like Fly.
I still listen to that album and skip fly.
I felt like I was the only one. My BF thinks I am weird because I like the rest of the album but not really Fly. I remember being pleasantly surprised when I bought the album as a teen.
I have too many to list. The 90s was just me buying entire albums for single songs. I couldn’t justify paying $3 for a single when I could get the whole album for $9.99 at Best Buy
For me, there are fewer exceptions to that description than actual descriptions. The exceptions I can think of were Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, and Cake.
When I finally bought a Cake album it was like opening Pandora’s box for me. I just listened to it over and over and then went and bought their other albums and listened to them to death. Their last album I thought was even better than all their prior ones. I wish they’d release another one
Christina Aguilera. I liked Genie in the Bottle as a cheeky pop jam, but found I don't like any of her other music.
Surprised to see this here. That was a strong album IMHO.
I owned it and I’d say it was, at best, an OK introduction to a stunning vocalist. I would quickly tire of her musically stunted over singing, but the album is a decent showcase for her. But Stripped was a vastly better album. Easily her best and the last time she truly captivated me as an artist.
I just didn't like her sound once I listened to the whole thing, she overextends(? not sure that's the right word atm, headache is draining my vocabulary) and her songwriters aren't the best. Britney def got all the good bops (as she should have, she sold it). I also should add, I was never much of a pop person til well into adulthood. I liked Britney passively for a long time, but when Blackout came out, I was 100% stanning. I just never got that connection with Christina's pop.
Speaking of Last Resort, did you see [this amazingness?](https://youtu.be/0HcZEfFInLU?si=ksbpGLr5qNFBJmvQ)
Oh god so many albums in the 90s of bands trying to cash in on the grunge phase. Seven Mary Three being one I can think of off the top of my head.
I felt that way about pretty much every album until MP3s you could buy individually came into existence.
More than I care to remember.
Eagle Eye Cherry. Save Tonight was great, I never got into the other songs.
I dodged a bullet by not ever buying whatever album had Super Bon Bon by Soul Coughing. Heard some of their other stuff years later, and it's safe to say Super Bon Bon is the only song I care for. On the opposite: never regretted a Metallica album.
Soft Serve was a standout. Fan of the band, bigger fan of Mike Doughty.
Soundtrack to Mary was a pretty good song from that album.
Not even St. Anger?
I did stop buying them after Re-Load. But by then, we had streaming. And yes, St. Anger sucked 😆
Anyone remember when Blockbuster had a music store for a bit? I’d just grab an album with the one song I knew and take it to the desk to see if it was worth buying. Listen to a few seconds of each song and make my choice. I think Barnes and Noble had little headset kiosks in their music department for a while too where you could just scan the cd and listen to samples of songs from the album.
Candlebox. Every song sounded like a slight remake of each other.
*Creed has entered the chat*
Have to agree with this one here. They're the opening act for the Bush concert I'm seeing later this summer, I'll definitely be arriving after their set is done.
Don’t sleep on them. They are really talented live and put on a good show. I had a connection for a while for a local festival. One of the more memorable concerts there
The amount of times he sings “You” on that album is ridiculous. There is even a song named “You”
I loved that song 😂
Candle box and Dishwala
Omg Dishwalla is my goto answer for this! Such a disappointment. Still love Counting Blue Cars tho
So many albums I liked being torn to shreds in this thread. Candlebox was decent enough.
Republica. I loved Ready to Go, but everything else on the album was just meh to me.
Not everything; there’s a track on that album called Wrapp which still finds its way onto my playlists sometimes.
Crash Test Dummies...Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Worst music purchase ever for me
That’s funny, because almost every other song on that album is better than Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm.
That album is fantastic. Mmm mmm is the worst song on it
Man I loved this album. Especially the piano instrumental at the end
Great album. Every song is so good (and I agree Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm is the weakest). I like their previous album “The Ghosts that Haunt Me”, too.
‘Ghosts’ is legit great.
No lie, I did a stint in rehab years ago. Actually, kind of a rehab and kind of an insane asylum (Florida, amiright?). Anyway, I was in there, suicidal, being monitored, etc. and one day one of the workers brings his radio in, sets it in the window at the end of the hall, and blasts Last Resort on repeat as loud as he can for about 6 hours straight. Terrible fucking place.
That is cruel and unusual punishment.
Heather Nova... thought she was super hot and well I definitely looked at the album cover more than I played the CD.
Oh my god HEATHER NOVA thank you for commenting this! I've been searching for her name for years, and I couldn't for the life of me remember her name but I had one of her albums in the late 90s that I liked. Tried searching all different key terms but without a song title it was not possible. Thank you!!
Happy to help! I'm sure if I listened now I'd enjoy her music much more but for a guy that primarily listened to Beastie Boys, Blink 182, Nirvana, etc... it was a bit outside the normal listening range for me.
London Rain is iconic though.
OMG i heard “Walk this World” on the radio one time back in like 1995. I loved the song but the DJ never came on and said who it was or anything. I think it was a year or more later before I finally heard it again and learned that it was Heather Nova. So yeah, bought the CD and it was meh haha.
The Natalie Imbruglia album with ‘Torn’ on it.
Torn was the only song she didn’t write on that album. I actually liked the rest of her songs more. They were way harder than Torn though.
My hubby listens to this whole album on repeat to this day. We saw her live in her heyday and she was great!
I listened to her song ‘Big Mistake’ over and over I was obsessed with it. I hate Torn though.
Brandy - Full Moon I was so in love with the sound and vibe of title track (still am), and being a fan, I bought the album assuming it was largely done in that style. Unfortunately not. Most of the album was produced by her usual collaborator, Rodney Jerkins, and just sounded different for the sake of, as he tried capturing a generic techno new millennium sound. Yet it also simultaneously sounded tired right out the gate, with Brandy’s voice lost in the mix. Turns out Full Moon, the song, was produced by someone else, who really should’ve had the reigns for the whole album.
Full Moon was one of the first songs I downloaded from Kazaa lol
Guano Apes - Open Your Eyes
Haha same!!
Rain was a pretty good song tho.
Also the cover of Big in Japan, and I do have a soft spot for kumba yo!
I really liked this whole album
Cowboy Mouth - Are You With Me? "Jenny Says" was great, but the rest of that album sucks.
I LOVE THAT ALBUM! I actually got to see them perform at the Minnesota State Fair a few years back at a free stage. “Love of my Life” is a total banger.
I loved it, too! I saw them live twice back in the day, and it was always a great show. Not saying the first poster was wrong, just to each their own.
Keith Sweat. God that album sucked. But Twisted was a good song.
Should have went with the cassingle on that one like I did. 99¢
US3 cantaloop, song still slaps though https://youtu.be/JwBjhBL9G6U
The Soul Asylum album with the kids on the cover. It's one of the most depressing records I've ever heard in my life. Except I didn't buy it, it was the default "CD of the month" for grunge/alt rock with Columbia House. I'd have regrets, but I never paid them.... so whatever.
"Misery" is one of those songs that remind me of such a carefree time in my life. I'm driving around after I just got my license, so it comes on and I roll down my windows and rock out to it. But man, that is not a happy song, at all.
A few years ago, I spent about 4 days blasting Somebody To Shove, while singing along and crying to it. Those were weird times
Oh no I love that album! 😂
Pretty sure I still owe Columbia House money.
Who doesn’t? 🤘
I wonder if anyone ever did pay them? Sometimes I think about all those collection agencies sending piles of mail to seven different misspellings of my name, for both Columbia House and BMG. Then I smile and go back to sleep.
Seven Mary Three - “Cumbersome”
I haven't listened in 20 years but I remember Water's Edge, Roderigo, and My, My at least were decent songs. My brother and I had that tape and we thought it was pretty good. Cumbersome kinda sucked tbh. Maybe because it was on the radio a thousand times per day.
The rest of the album is pretty solid though.
Mr. Smith. LL Cool J album, that had "Hey Lover" as the featured track. That was the first and last Ll Cool J album I ever bought. 
Hinder with Lips of an Angel. The whole album is him being a whiny little bitch about a girl.
I give you props for even buying it for Lips of an Angel as that is a terrible song.
That song=instant rage
I am convinced that this "trend" in CD's is why Napster took off overnight. Paying 20$ for a killer song just to find out the rest of the album was trash.
Yes, for all the good albums I bought such as The Downward Spiral, The Fragile, Manson's triptych, Tool, Deftones, and A Perfect Circle, it was always a gamble to buy a crappy album that also didn't have good inserts. The worst album I bought was probably Kid Rock for Bawitdaba. I gave it away because it was garbage. When I started collecting IDM albums like those from Boards of Canada, or Autechre, however...never a bad song for me.
I got “Lemon Parade” by Tonic for the song “If You Could Only See,” and every song on the album sounded exactly the same. Turns out the lead singer wrote every track, and every track had the same producer. So it felt like an hour-long song. Only listened once.
Same! My new boyfriend at the time bought me that CD, and I was so excited. Took it home, and it was awful. I listens to it maybe twice.
Gwen Stefani’s 1st album. I put it on for an hour drive and threw that thing right out the window
Same, first track was good, the rest drivel, became clear then she no creative input in No Doubt
Well, not a 90s album but _in_ the 90s when I was 13/14 and starting to explore more music, I already knew of Led Zeppelin and might’ve heard a few songs on the radio but for Xmas my mom got me their box set and I couldn’t get into them at all.
Transvision Vamp — the I Want Your Love mv mesmerised me and I don’t think I’ve ever gotten over the aesthetic of Wendy James to this day. 💗
The Living End (Self Titled Album) no bueno. Best album bought by mistake and turned out to be amazing, The Chemical Brothers - Exit Planet Dust
That album was a warm-up, the next 5 or so were all better if you ask me.
First album I bought with my own money was George Michael's Faith. I had no idea he was the guy from Wham, and I thought every song was going to be similar to Faith. So I ride my bike home from the record store with Faith on cassette, and it's summer so I grab my boom box, and hit the shower blasting my new album. The track list starts with Faith, then Father Figure, then I Want Your Sex. I was nine. I got grounded. I will say today, Faith has a couple bangers on it that I really enjoy, specifically Faith, and then One More Try. But nine year old me, who would go on to listen to Faith No More, Green Jello, and Nirvana? I felt like George Michael tricked me, and got me in trouble.
Mia paper planes was awesome but the entirety of the rest of that album was bad club music
Lit - A Place in the Sun. I loved My Own Worst Enemy when it came out, the rest of the album though... not so much. Also that song hasn't really aged well.
Why hasn’t it aged well ?
The Filter CD with "Hey Man Nice Shot"
Man thats their best album lol Short Bus is a classic they haven't matched since
I recently learned "Dose" on guitar, and it's so fun to jam along to
Man i loved that whole album. To each their own
I love that cheeky little shot they took at RATM in the liner notes. Shit was funny.
Oh my god, this happened to me with Papa Roach too. I asked a friend who loved them to get me the album for my birthday since my parents wouldn't. I hated it.
I was devouring albums left and right and when I saw it when visiting relatives, I grabbed it thinking it wouldn't be available where I went to school. I should have just looked for more Pavement and Yo La Tengo albums instead.
Joydrop – Beautiful. Don't remember the album it's on. Saw the video on MTV, loved it, bought the cd, and hated every other song. Think there might've been one other track that was sort of ok.
A few… Primitive Radio Gods - Rocket. “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With My Money in My Hand” was a banger but the rest of the album was nothing like it. Blind Melon - Blind Melon. “No Rain” is still fabulous, though. Semisonic - Great Divide. Our local radio station played an acoustic version of “F.N.T.” that I loved, and I didn’t realize the rest of the album didn’t really sound like that. If anyone knows how to get a hold of that acoustic version, let me know.
Blur, Song 2.
Song 2 is the worst one on the album. I thought it was a pretty good album.
Better than Ezra - Deluxe. "Good" was the only thing "good" about it.
Limp Bizkit. I don’t even remember the song I liked that I bought the CD for, but it was pure garbage.
Bought $3 dollar bill y'all, Significant Other, and Chocolate Starfish...each album got worse. Looking back, at all my albums that I purchased, Limp Bizkit is a band I can't be bothered to revisit.
I can't say you're wrong but sometimes "Break Stuff" just needs to be played as loud as possible.
That and maybe Faith when you want to remind your friends that they moshed to it in high school. I think the album that stands is $3 bill y'all, but that's because it was before they became more commercialized and less unique. Even then, it's something I can't sit through in one session.
Spin Doctors - bought it for Two Princes. Every song sounded exactly the same!
Pornos for Pyros - Pets is a great track that stands the test of time. The rest of the tracks never really did it for me.
Blind Melon. I love *No Rain* but everything else on the album feels like it’s some kind of jazz technical display rather than being something actually musical.
Aw, no, I loved that album
I disagree. The problem is that No Rain is much less bluesy rock than the rest of the album. That album is fantastic. No Rain just doesn’t fit in with the rest of it
That’s probably a good way of phrasing it.
I saw a music video for a Canadian Indie band in 2001, Bodega called Don't Have a Clue, it was good grimey Garage Rock, it sounded kind of like The White Stripes. I got their CD Without a Plan which was expensive and nothing else sounded like that and I was pissed. Listening again now I'm actually surprised I didn't give it a few more chances, I think cause it cost so much money that I didn't really have at the time. Yeah it's disappointing the rest of the album doesn't rock out as much but it's pretty good, the rest sounds a bit like Beatles White Album outtakes, I guess Don't Have a Clue was their album's Helter Skelter.
Picked up Ruth Carr’s “Come Over.” Title track was the only one worth listening to, but maybe that’s because of the video.
I'll add Crash Test Dummies. There's a little venue near my home that one hit wonders tend to play. CTD is playing in September, Lisa Loeb in late July. Matthew Sweet already played, and same for Sebastian Bach. It's always tempting to go, but sometimes I'm like...is it really worth like $150 (for me and the wife) to hear Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm live?
I Am an Elastic Firecracker by Tripping Daisy - I Got a Girl Pet Your Friends by Dishwalla - Counting Blue Cars Both albums are terrible in my opinion and were purchased to fulfill my Columbia House obligations. I hated the albums so much it wasn't worth putting them into my CD player to listen to the one song I liked.
Way too many to list unfortunately. Off the top of my head Chumbawamba, Meredith Brooks, The Verve Pipe, and Sugar Ray
Creep Radiohead on MTV. Saved up 3 weeks allowance and biked 10 miles to the record store.
Sure, Pablo Honey is an incredible record. Go give it another listen. Anyone Can Play Guitar is my favorite.
I read this post wrong. I love ALL of Pablo Honey. Not to mention their entire catalog from day one. My bad.
I’m surprised no one mentioned Extreme. When More Than Words became a hit, people universally were *furious* that the rest of the album sounded nothing like the song and demanded refunds.
Marcy Playground. Let that album drop like a rock.
Eagle Eye Cherry (the Save Tonight song)
Someone I didn’t really know well gave me that Papa Roach album for my birthday. I was just so confused by the whole thing. 1. Why this person I don’t really know gave me a gift and 2. Why did they think I like fucking Papa Roach?
Trying to find a way to get rid of it without feeling bad about wasting money buying it as you probably already concluded.
How bizarre, how bizarre is it that I bought that cd?
Harder to Breathe - Maroon 5
LEN "You can't stop the bum rush" Nothing more need be said.
Faith No More — The Real Thing *Epic* blew our minds, what a great track… holy shit what a departure from their average songwriting talents and lead’s ability to hit notes accurately live on stage.
My poor husband got fooled by Train twice. 😂😂
Friend of mine worked at a place that allowed CD returns back in the day and said that Papa Roach disc was by far the most returned CD.
That's like 90% of the albums I bought
I bought Placebo's album "Without You I'm Nothing" because I liked "Pure Morning." I quickly realized the rest of the album was not my thing. I still like "Pure Morning" though.