Throw it out!

treitz3
treitz3 Posts: 19,031
edited November 2009 in 2 Channel Audio
Let me ask you this. If you have an album, LP, CD or SACD [or any other medium] that you were so very looking forward to hearing that may have even been recommended......

.......then you heard it and............

.......you were expecting to hear something that blew your mind. Then when you listened to it, and honestly it wasn't anything that you were expecting......and all you could do is turn it off and go back to the TV. What would that album/track be?
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,418
    edited November 2009
    Anything Debbie Boone or Leo Sayer
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  • janmike
    janmike Posts: 6,146
    edited November 2009
    A gift to someone who has no ear for good music.
    Michael ;)
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited November 2009
    Anything Bruce recommended.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2009
    Big Star
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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    "Consistency requires you to be as ignorant today as you were a year ago." - Bernard Berenson
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  • louhamilton
    louhamilton Posts: 209
    edited November 2009
    'Vincent Laguardia Gambini Sings Just for You' by Joe Pesci
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  • ESavinon
    ESavinon Posts: 3,066
    edited November 2009
    http://www.amazon.com/Spaced-Out-Leonard-William-Shatner/dp/B0000089JE/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=music&qid=1258609025&sr=1-2
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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited November 2009
    Not a major disappointment, and I'll be flogged publicly for this, but Diana Krall does nothing for me. After all the hype, It was just different from what I was expecting.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2009
    steveinaz wrote:
    Not a major disappointment, and I'll be flogged publicly for this, but Diana Krall does nothing for me. After all the hype, It was just different from what I was expecting.

    Along those same lines...Norah Jones' music bores me...
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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  • steveinaz
    steveinaz Posts: 19,538
    edited November 2009
    I'm glad you said it first, Norah Jones doesn't do it for me either. I guess I suck. I love instrumental Jazz, but never cared for Jazz singers.
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  • Face
    Face Posts: 14,340
    edited November 2009
    steveinaz wrote: »
    Not a major disappointment, and I'll be flogged publicly for this, but Diana Krall does nothing for me. After all the hype, It was just different from what I was expecting.
    Diana Krall is great for when I need a nap.
    "He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you." Friedrich Nietzsche
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  • reeltrouble1
    reeltrouble1 Posts: 9,312
    edited November 2009
    I dig D. Krall and N. Jones, I noticed alot of hounds continuing playing Jones with Peter Malik at the Fest on the quads and other speaks. Of course too much of anyone can overload me and yea I have snoozed on each of them, but then I did that with Floyd above 90 db as well........

    Now speaking of Jones......iiiiccckkkkkk Rickie Lee Jones Sermon at the Exposition.........reminds of sounds I might imagine two very ill cows might make while trying to mate with a very sick elephant while free-falling from fifty thousand feet when the parachute opens and jerks their goodies completely up their ****.

    Tom having a day put off with an audio disappointment whether gear, speak, or music is just bad news, but without the stinkers and all that jazz.................I saw a TV special of Krall at a jazz festival.......got to admit.......she looked awful.....sickly or something and without all the pretty she was flat, but the guy on the upright bass rocked. I might add I think Diana has a foot fetish.......or at least her photographer does.

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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited November 2009
    Lasareath wrote: »
    That CD Tony Rome sent me.

    I'm supposed to know that you wouldn't know a good "live" bullfight band if one bit you in the ****? That was a historic and monumental recording you freakin' Uzbeck.

    All the jazz performers today bore me to tears. Why listen to this when so much of the original stuff is around? There are $3 records on my list that contain more real jazz than anything recorded in the last 20 years.
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  • treitz3
    treitz3 Posts: 19,031
    edited November 2009
    I've got one I was really disappointed with. It's Miles Davis, "Kind of Blue" on SACD. While the music may be good, the recording is so bad that I won't even listen to it.
    ~ In search of accurate reproduction of music. Real sound is my reference and while perfection may not be attainable? If I chase it, I might just catch excellence. ~
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  • strider
    strider Posts: 2,568
    edited November 2009
    reeltrouble1 wrote: »
    I dig D. Krall and N. Jones, I noticed alot of hounds continuing playing Jones with Peter Malik at the Fest on the quads and other speaks. Of course too much of anyone can overload me and yea I have snoozed on each of them, but then I did that with Floyd above 90 db as well........

    How you could fall asleep in front of that system is beyond me....

    Diana Krall's ok, but give me Billie Holiday and I'm there.

    My vote would be Jennifer Warner. Just can't get into it at all.
    Another is Harry Belafonte Live at Carnegie Hall. Great recording, but the same old standards mixed up with his (IMO) pseudo calypso. Real fabricated banter, too; at one point he repeats verbatim what he said in between the previous songs.
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited November 2009
    Sad to say this but the new eagles album. Do not get me wrong I enjoy it and will listen to it but just was not expecting what I heard when I picked it up the day it was released.
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited November 2009
    Wrong thread
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  • DollarDave
    DollarDave Posts: 2,575
    edited November 2009
    Sorry, but pretty much anything from The Dave Mathews Band. Everyone else seems to like his/their stuff, but I put a big "sucks" sticker on it.
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  • mmadden28
    mmadden28 Posts: 4,283
    edited November 2009
    I read great reviews here at CP, and nothing but high praise as THE SACD to get in online reviews:
    Boston Symphony Chamber Players - Mozart: Chamber Music For Winds and Strings
    I like the music, but I think the recording/engineering is not as hot as its made out to be. I hear compression artifacts all over the place. I posted a thread about it sometime ago and others confirmed the artifacts.

    I can only hope that it was a bad pressing--I should contact the vendor and ask if they had any known issues or perhaps try another one.

    Needless to say, I was expecting one of the best example of HiFi SACD recordings out there, and all I got was what to me sounded like 128kbps compressed mp3. Again I like the music, but the artifacts are annoying as all get out that I don't even listen to it. And this was probably the 2nd SACD I bought still just getting into the SACD scene then. :(
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  • skipf
    skipf Posts: 694
    edited November 2009
    Raising Sand, the album by Alison Krause & Robert Plant. I'm a huge Krause & Zepplin fan, but this one just didn't do it for me. Maybe I just haven't given it a chance as I only listened to it once.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited November 2009
    Dark Side Of The Moon MFSL vinyl. Worst recording I'd heard in years. Just slightly better than a copy of the same LP on picture disc. (I wish I never opened the picture disc) Then I received another copy of the same LP that was also MFSL vinyl in a lot of LP's I bought from Agon and it was beautiful sounding.

    The exact same thing happened with a copy of Diana Krall's 'Girl In The Other Room' SACD. I had a friend bring over a copy to listen to on my system one day. From the beginning I thought something was wrong with my player/cables/tubes SOMETHING was wrong! I dropped in MY copy and there it was. His CD was all messed up. Go figure??
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2009
    DaveMuell wrote:
    Sorry, but pretty much anything from The Dave Mathews Band. Everyone else seems to like his/their stuff, but I put a big "sucks" sticker on it.

    Another artist that seems to have a big following that I don't care for.
    "Just because you’re offended doesn’t mean you’re right." - Ricky Gervais

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  • TitaniumMan
    TitaniumMan Posts: 93
    edited November 2009
    Anyone remember the universal praise for anything from Sheffield Labs? Audiophiles couldn't get enough of Linc Mayorga and his soulless piano noodling. Amanda McBroom's robotic singing makes me want to kill fuzzy little bunnies, or at least anyone who thinks she is talented.

    Save the bunnies! Kill an audiophile!

    Shall I tell you how I really feel? :D
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  • bigaudiofanatic
    bigaudiofanatic Posts: 4,415
    edited November 2009
    DaveMuell wrote: »
    Sorry, but pretty much anything from The Dave Mathews Band. Everyone else seems to like his/their stuff, but I put a big "sucks" sticker on it.

    Forgot all about them yes I agree with you 100% on that.
    I did just pickup Van Halen Best of both worlds and I am not impressed I like maybe 4 songs off the 2 disks.
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  • vc69
    vc69 Posts: 2,500
    edited November 2009
    I would totally do Norah Jones. Just sayin...
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  • comfortablycurt
    comfortablycurt Posts: 6,745
    edited November 2009
    Anything by Radiohead. In my ever so humble opinion, that band sounds worse than a donkey licking it's balls.

    A bunch of my friends had me all hyped up to check out Radiohead a couple years ago. Yeah...I wasn't impressed.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited November 2009
    vc69 wrote:
    I would totally do Norah Jones. Just sayin...

    Me to...as long as she wasn't singing...
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  • cienega
    cienega Posts: 85
    edited November 2009
    skipf wrote: »
    Raising Sand, the album by Alison Krause & Robert Plant. I'm a huge Krause & Zepplin fan, but this one just didn't do it for me. Maybe I just haven't given it a chance as I only listened to it once.

    I felt the same way. I wondered if critics felt they had to like it because it was done by one of the best male and female vocalists ever. Just didn't work for me.
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