the... buy the "classic" album mistake !!

bobbyboy1969

how many of you over the years , have been reeled in by music magazines telling you to purchase the "must have classic albums" & you have been well dissapointed ??

i have a very impressive cd collection (around 3000 ) but if im honest , there are only about a thousand of those i would listen to over & over again . i find a lot i dont listen to are the "classic" albums i was told i must purchase otherwise i am tone deaf & a complete boyband follower !!

for example : beach boys (pet sounds) got about 3 decent tracks on the whole album imo .

the beatles (white album) more filler , than thriller !! would have made a decent single album only imo .

just two examples , you can get where i'm coming from !!

let me know of your "classic" disaster purchase

eMMI

hahaha. don't get this the wrong way.. but you actually buy albums cause a magazine told you to?

this is why I love the music section at my library, they have such a huge collection of classic and not-so-classic albums, I can usually listen to something at home before deciding if I want to buy it or not. comes in very handy with those "classic" albums you mentioned.

also, some albums are classics because of their effect on the (musical) world and though they nowadays might sound awkward and silly, they've really been SOMETHING ELSE when they've been released, you know.

besides, we can't all love the same stuff. I realise I don't like the music on all classic-must-buy albums but I still might aswell regard them as classics.

Dismantle The Sun

I tend to go for the albums that receive more than 8 stars in a review. I mostly read classic rock mags and discovered bands like Riverside and Stream of Passion because of great reviews.

After reading the reviews, I go onto Youtube or Myspace and listen to the band they recommend. More than likely I'm satisfied what I've heard.

If it wasn't for the internet, I don't think I'll be buying albums. I don't think I'd like Pet Sounds from what I've heard.

bobbyboy1969

eMMI wrote:

hahaha. don't get this the wrong way.. but you actually buy albums cause a magazine told you to?

this is why I love the music section at my library, they have such a huge collection of classic and not-so-classic albums, I can usually listen to something at home before deciding if I want to buy it or not. comes in very handy with those "classic" albums you mentioned.

also, some albums are classics because of their effect on the (musical) world and though they nowadays might sound awkward and silly, they've really been SOMETHING ELSE when they've been released, you know.

besides, we can't all love the same stuff. I realise I don't like the music on all classic-must-buy albums but I still might aswell regard them as classics.

believe it or not yes ... !! i am in general a music lover & would entertain most genres , so a lot of years back i did fall for what people in magazines told me i should be listening to . but please bear in mind , we did not have computers in the 70's & 80's so it was not as easy to sample tracks before you bought the vinyl etc .
nowadays i would not be reeled in so easily & find now we have computers i can listen before i buy & definately not buy without doing so in most cases .
really only u2 / pearl jam would see a must buy today attitude from me .

Kann

bobbyboy1969 wrote:

how many of you over the years , have been reeled in by music magazines telling you to purchase the "must have classic albums" & you have been well dissapointed ??

i have a very impressive cd collection (around 3000 ) but if im honest , there are only about a thousand of those i would listen to over & over again . i find a lot i dont listen to are the "classic" albums i was told i must purchase otherwise i am tone deaf & a complete boyband follower !!

for example : beach boys (pet sounds) got about 3 decent tracks on the whole album imo .

the beatles (white album) more filler , than thriller !! would have made a decent single album only imo .

just two examples , you can get where i'm coming from !!

let me know of your "classic" disaster purchase

Recommandations are overrated I think, but I fail to understand how you can go wrong with 'classic rock'. I mean if you read/hear a recommandation for the beatles 'white album' you know in advance pretty much what you're getting since you know what the beatles play. Same goes for the beach boys, maybe a classic album but it's still the beach boys so if their sound doesn't do it for you chances are this particular album won't either. I'd never buy pet sounds because I particularly dislike the beach boys songs I know.
Recommandations for more recent/less well known artists are trickier imo. I was really dissapointed (and left with useless cds) after forum recommandations on mogwai (who sound nothing like GY!BE) for instance.

eMMI

bobbyboy1969 wrote:

believe it or not yes ... !! i am in general a music lover & would entertain most genres , so a lot of years back i did fall for what people in magazines told me i should be listening to . but please bear in mind , we did not have computers in the 70's & 80's so it was not as easy to sample tracks before you bought the vinyl etc .
nowadays i would not be reeled in so easily & find now we have computers i can listen before i buy & definately not buy without doing so in most cases .
really only u2 / pearl jam would see a must buy today attitude from me .

mm, yeah, I can understand not having been able to hear them before purchasing.

I'm glad you've learned from your mistakes though and don't buy whatever you're told to.

oh, and look on the bright side.. since you do own some classic albums (apparently) that you don't listen to, I'm sure there are people who would love to take them off your hands.

elmer

Tommy & The Wall.........sound like piles of self-indulgent crap to me.

FinsburyParkCarrots

London Calling. It might be right-on, "worthy" and politically pertinent, but it's po-faced whiny shite. It makes me think of the GLC and Janet Street-Porter's gob.

pjfan020

I'm pretty selective when it comes to buying music. I don't download AT ALL so i don't really sample stuff..usually hear the singles and decide if i like the sound. I did buy a jimi hendrix bootleg once per rolling stone but I thought the audio quality was complete shit to what the writer said.. Aside from that I'm usually happy with all of my purchases
















.....how could you no love the white album? :(

Federico

elmer wrote:

Tommy & The Wall.........sound like piles of self-indulgent crap to me.

ok i believe in freedom of speech but.......


are you mental???

elmer

Federico wrote:

ok i believe in freedom of speech but.......


are you mental???

I do have an appreciation for some Pink Floyd albums like Meddle, and most of the well-known Who songs, but those two records are full of adolescent whining and noodling tracks that only seem to pad them out longer. Can't figure why they're so revered.

Jack_C_Gregory

I think with "classic albums" a lot of it has to do with what was going on in music at the particular moment the album came out. Writers tend to lean towards Sgt. Peppers as one of, if not the greatest record of all time. Unfortunately for me that album was made 15 years before I was born so I wasn't around to see the "cultural" impact it had on the music world at the time. I enjoy the Beatles very much, but Sgt. Peppers is one of me least favorite records.

But, as always, I think it should be left up to the listeners to determine what is good and what is not their taste.

intodeep

FinsburyParkCarrots wrote:

London Calling. It might be right-on, "worthy" and politically pertinent, but it's po-faced whiny shite. It makes me think of the GLC and Janet Street-Porter's gob.

I agree i was utterly disapointed with London Calling.

the wolf

not quite the same thing here, but i bought Sleater Kinney The Woods, cause Ed said in a interview its the best album he had heard in a long time.

now, usually it seems Mr. Vedder and i share much in the taste of music.



but................. uhm.


idk, maybe im just not deep enough to "Get" The Woods by S.K.



there have been some "classic" mistakes too.


"the white album" was one for sure.

oh, and "meddle" By floyd. not a fan.

muppet

TBF, this board has been responsible for me discovering new music. I've discovered the Afghan Whigs, The Hold Steady, The National, Gaslight Anthem, Neil Young, Against Me, Arcade Fire to name but a few purely based on reccomendations from this board.

Bushleaguer28

elmer wrote:

Tommy & The Wall.........sound like piles of self-indulgent crap to me.

wow I think the wall is one of the greatest 2 or 3 abums ever created - to each his own I guess

rrivers

Federico wrote:

ok i believe in freedom of speech but.......


are you mental???

Thank you!!!!!!!!!

rrivers

Bushleaguer28 wrote:

wow I think the wall is one of the greatest 2 or 3 abums ever created - to each his own I guess

It really is. Great idea executed to perfection, in my opinion. Probably the best idea for a concept album ever.

bobbyboy1969

elmer wrote:

Tommy & The Wall.........sound like piles of self-indulgent crap to me.

these are two more i would of chosen as examples !! both have fantastic songs on , but would barely make one std length album as " classic " status.

again chock full of filler . i bet most people if they were honest , skip tracks on both albums .

but... i absolutely adore wish you were here & dsotm , quadrophenia & who's next . now they are classics in my book !!

Cropduster84

I'm not a huge fan of Sgt Pepper.....

It's probably my least favourite of the post Rubber Soul Beatles albums.....