Most embarrassing record purchase

Tanager · May-23rd-2003, 02:37 PM

Okay, Monte's admission that he owned the first two Motley Crue albums at some point got me thinking...

We all have them. I know I do. You know you do. What are the record purchases you've made that you pray that others with discerning tastes never find out about? You know, the lp put out by some sadsack of a tv has-been that you bought out of nostalgia (or maybe you even liked the dude/dudette). The eight-track Hungarian disco compilation. The album with songs that ended up as mockery fodder on one of the Golden Throats disks.

My first record purchase ever was Shaun Cassidy's eponymous debut album.

Noj · May-23rd-2003, 02:39 PM

I've had the B-52's Wild Planet since I was a kid. *cringes*

Tanager · May-23rd-2003, 02:40 PM

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Originally posted by Noj
I've had the B-52's Wild Planet since I was a kid. *cringes*

Dude, that's a pretty cool album. Isn't that the one with "Private Idaho" and "Under the Strobelight"...? Hell, I'd be bragging about that.

Boris Badenov · May-23rd-2003, 02:43 PM

I bought that first Hootie and the Blowfish disc. And now that I have admitted that to the world I'm going to have to kill myself.

jazzy mary · May-23rd-2003, 02:44 PM

"My first record purchase ever was Shaun Cassidy's eponymous debut album. "[/B][/QUOTE]

That's all right, Tanager, we still love you.

Monte Smith · May-23rd-2003, 02:53 PM

I had the Crue records and my sister owned both the B52s Wild Planet and the eponymous Shaun Cassidy debut (it took me years to figure out that Cassidy didn't write "Da Doo Run Run").

Growing up, also had GREASE and SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER soundtracks--which I love even to this day.

During the early 80s I had both Men at Work records and Thriller and Rick Springfield. And, let's be fair, the Dead Kennedys, Marginal Man, the GIs, Frank Sinatra, Ahmad Jamal, and Stan Freburg.

Tanager · May-23rd-2003, 02:56 PM

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Originally posted by Monte Smith
And, let's be fair, the Dead Kennedys, Marginal Man, the GIs, Frank Sinatra, Ahmad Jamal, and Stan Freburg.

Sorry, no mitigating factors apply on this thread. I don't get credit for Trouble Funk, and you don't get credit for the DKs.

I'm pretty sure there was some Hall 'n' Oates in my collection at some point...

Noj · May-23rd-2003, 02:58 PM

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Originally posted by Tanager
I'm pretty sure there was some Hall 'n' Oates in my collection at some point...

Whoa-o, here she comes...

Gentle Giant · May-23rd-2003, 03:10 PM

I'm not ashamed of anything I ever bought for myself - and that includes the Osmonds and Barry Manilow - but when I was 15 I went to a midnight madness sale at a local record store (at which I believe I bought Gentle Giant and Thin Lizzy releases) and my mother made me buy Travolta Fever for my younger sister. That was truly embarrassing.

Monte Smith · May-23rd-2003, 03:12 PM

Yup, I had some Osmonds. Terrible version of "Deep Purple" on the one record I had.

Dude, I have Hall 'n' Oates in my collection now!

lazarus · May-23rd-2003, 03:14 PM

The first single I bought when I was a kid was "Speedy Gonzales" with Pat Boone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dr Dave · May-23rd-2003, 03:25 PM

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Originally posted by lazarus
The first single I bought when I was a kid was "Speedy Gonzales" with Pat Boone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jesus Christ! Me too!

What is it with youse guys? "Wild Planet" is the best B-52s record of them all. "Devil In My Car," "Party Gone Out Of Bounds," "Strobe Light"...great stuff!

I saw Hall & Oates on some live TV show recently, and they were terrific. Darryl looked like he was having the time of his life. He covered "Me and Mrs Jones" and brought the house down.

PS: Those of you who reflexively diss Hall & Oates as pop schlockmeisters have obviously never heard this album:

Hint: Note the producer's name. He plays on it, too.

Darryl G. Thomas · May-23rd-2003, 03:46 PM

Hall & Oates? Blue -eyed Philly soul? I loved those guys!

I can honestly say I'm not embaressed about any LP or CD I've bought. About the closest is a 5th Dimension LP I bought out of a cut out bin in some supermarket in South Jersey back in the '70s. It did have that one song "One Last Bell To Answer" (I think that's the title) that I still like.

Columbia House hurt me acouple of times when I didn't mail in my card in time, but I odn't count those purchases, they weren't conscious acts on my part.

Dr Dave · May-23rd-2003, 03:52 PM

Miles loved The Fifth Dimension.

Chris D · May-23rd-2003, 03:52 PM

Tough call. There have been so many travesties.
How about:

Musical Youth, "The Youth of Today."

Kansas, "Leftoverture."

Head East, "Flat as a Pancake."

Uriah Heep, "Live." (Which really wasn't all that bad, to an eighth-grader. Easy livin'!)

Rush, "Stages." (Wanted to see what the buzz was about. So of course I buy the worst example. Did keep me away, thank God.)

Enforcer · May-23rd-2003, 03:52 PM

Columbia House! 30% of my record collection would have never come into my possession of not for my neglect in returning those damned cards.

I ended up with a Foghat record thanks to those guys. I don't remember the title. I do remember this: It was no good.

Larry

Boris Badenov · May-23rd-2003, 03:55 PM

Some of you just aren't trying hard enough. Hall and Oates did some annoying stuff but "Sara Smile" and "She's Gone" were great singles in my book. And Daryl, you are correct, "One Less Bell to Answer" is a fine tune. The 5D were the first concert I ever went to, on the campus of Western Kentucky University, when I was about 12. I wouldn't be embarrassed by "Thriller" either, since I think both "Billy Jean" and "Human Nature" were top-notch little pop ditties.

Boris Badenov · May-23rd-2003, 03:56 PM

Kansas, now you're talking!

Tanager · May-23rd-2003, 03:56 PM

I did own several sides by Kiss, although they were pretty cool back then.

moneyp · May-23rd-2003, 03:57 PM

Darryl G. Thomas · May-23rd-2003, 03:59 PM

Foghat? I think I liked those guys too.

Back when I was in the Army (the salad days) I had a lot of disposable income and would buy almost anything. It was psychotic. I once bought a Ralph MacDonald LP because I liked the cover. Funny thing, it turned out to be a kick ass LP.

Chris D · May-23rd-2003, 03:59 PM

"Sacred Songs!" Great album, part of the Fripp empire at the time, which included: The second Peter Gabriel album, the first Roches album, Fripp's own solo album, and the Belew-Levin-Bruford Crimson Redux.
"The words are sacred but the sound is profane. But this and that, you know they're one and the same, one and the same, one and the one and the one and the one and the sa-a-ame!"

Enforcer · May-23rd-2003, 04:00 PM

Mone, you have every right to be embarrassed by that.

Kiss is OK with me. I still think Detroit Rock City ranks as the best "Song About A Place" in rock music. Growing up in the city during the 70s, something about that song conjures up images of everything I remember about the people and attitude of the period.

Laughing because he knows he's gonna die,
Larry

p.s. Why?

Chris D · May-23rd-2003, 04:02 PM

Foghat was a great live band. You gotta remember, these were British blooze vets, with "Lonesome" Dave Peverett, bassist Tony Stevens and drummer Roger Earl from Savoy Brown.

shrugs · May-23rd-2003, 04:06 PM

I gotta go with Tears For Fears Songs From The Big Chair.

Tanager · May-23rd-2003, 04:11 PM

Mone wins so far. I think that might even be worse than my Shaun Cassidy purchase. But not by much.

Darryl G. Thomas · May-23rd-2003, 04:12 PM

Tears for Fear? Loved those guys too.

I'm trying to remember if I bought any dsico back in the '70s. I think I was stationed in Germany when it hit really big and by the time I got back to the States new wave had taken over. Back then the big rumor was Donna Summers was once a man.

God I miss the '70s!

Oh yeah, I bought Physical by Olivia Newton John, but I think that LP was OK.

Tanager · May-23rd-2003, 04:13 PM

Hrm...I owned albums by Art in America and Reflex, now that I remember. Ugh.

Chris D · May-23rd-2003, 04:19 PM

Prog catastrophes:

UK, "Danger Money." The first one was OK. The second, drek!

Yes, "Tormato." Save the whale? Save yourself!

Dr Dave · May-23rd-2003, 04:19 PM

My most embarrassing recent purchase was Thievery Corporation's "Richest Man In Babylon." What a piece of shit! I mean, the lounge/chillout/eurotrash ouevre is pretty lame to begin with (I like it anyway), so you know this had to really suck.

DuPre: I remember seeing Savoy Brown at the old Boston Tea Party back in, what, '71? They were most entertaining. I have to say though, that listening to Kim Simmonds gave me a greater appreciation for my own skills on the guitar, meagre though they may be.

PS: "Too much time around you start to kick my ass/Too much time away I lose my lease/New York love me"