buying an album. listening to it once and thinking, 'I might not listen to that again' (1 Viewer)

[dunderhead]

Basically, bought an album by Brigette Fontaine a week or two ago. her self titled 1972 LP. Put it on last night for the first time. Utterly unimpressed. A lot of the album is pretty shit (in my opinion anyway) songs in a minimal avant folk styling with a lot of spoken french word throughout the record. Rarely happens I'll be turned off a record after one spin that I will say to myself 'I'll happily never listen to this again' and think about selling it immediately. (Have never sold an album I didn't have a duplicate of). Any albums out there that people have bought themselves, listened to once and then left to rot on the shelves/moved on immediately without a second spin? surely not that common a thing? especially if chosen yourself/knowing your own taste. It's rare that a record can be that bad for the buyer.

Fontaine has done pretty broad variety of albums so wouldn't rule out taking a punt on some of her stuff again some time with some proper research but anything like this shite I couldn't sit through. Maybe the words are really profound and powerful and I'm missing out here. Although, now that I think about it, will probably give it another listen over the weekend anyway which pisses all over my thread title a little

 

[chris d]

Took a punt on Laura Marling after seeing an excellent clip of her from Later on youtube. Got her album A Creature I Don't know. Hate it. Just tried it again, lasted 10 seconds of the vocals. Still hate it.

 

[pete]

this was a big problem pre-internet, when all you had to go on was the written word

you kids wouldn't understand

 

[Jerry Twig]

this was a big problem pre-internet, when all you had to go on was the written word

everyone on Thumped remembers that

Fixed

 

[eoinzy2000]

this was a big problem pre-internet, when all you had to go on was the written word

you kids wouldn't understand

Wayyyyy too many to even start mentioning. Pay day always brought out the record shop risk taking. For every 50 chances you took, you'd do well to come away with 2/or 3 keepers. But when you got one, it validated the money wasted on the shite

 

[Denny Oubidoux]

Yeah, good riddance to reading about bands and saving up for a trip to Dublin to buy a few tapes that might be rubbish