Conference marvin::uk_music

    The Annabel Lamb album (who??)
    This is Big Audio Dynamite
    Kilroy Was Here (Styx - title track is excellent, but the rest...)
    
    Disagree re Trick of the Tail and Tubby Bells - but this is not
    the topic for that.
    
    Keith

    
    John Norum - Total Control - yuuuukkkkkkkkkk!!!!!!!!!!!!

    I like his guitar work, but he isn't the most talented songwriter
    on the world.

    -Tony

    I once went to visit a friend at university and he put an album
    on - "Live Herald" by Steve Hillage. I remember at the time being
    really knocked out by it. Then many years later I saw a copy of
    this album in a shop and bought it on impulse, remembering how much
    I had liked it before.
    
    Well all I can say is my tastes must have changed a hell of a lot
    or my friend had been playing a different record, cos I can't stand
    the bloody thing! It was quite expensive as well.
    
    If any one wants it (its still in 'as new' condition) then let me
    know. 
          
    
    Tony

    
    
    Love and Money  -  first album, one of these albums which promises
                       much on first hearing but you're tired of it
                       by the third play.
    
    Propoganda      -  Apart from the excellent single "Duel", it starts
                       off bad and falls away.
    
    Cars            -  Heartbreak City - didn't exactly put it in the
                       bin, but a big disappointment nevertheless.
    
    
    
    There must be more...
    
    Michael
    
    p.s. Bob - PELICAN WEST??????  It's a positive classic!
    

    Tubular Bells was one alright...though a couple of years back
    (1980 jeez I'm getting old) I heard Mike Olefield play bits
    of it in concert and it was great.
    
    Nowadays of course I don't make any such silly mistakes ;-)
    the things are too damn dear for that. However I've managed
    to find a way around it...I give it to my younger brother as
    a surprise *present*(and believe me that's one heck of a surprise)
    tell him it's great and he usually swallows it!!!(fig of speech)
    
    - Dave.

Klaus Schulze - Black Dance

I bought it on the strength of his 'Timewind' album. (Mindbending
music, my mother called it). It's crap.

Gary Wright - Touch and Gone

One of the tracks I'd heard before was half good. The rest is
worse than the other half.

Fun Boy Three!!

Bleuch. I swapped it for a Madness album which I've since given away.

I'm sure there's more too.

Steve.

    "Early Winter" by Johnny Winter.
    	I like Johnny's stuff, but this sounds like he was about 10
    	years old when he recorded it! Awful sound quality too.
    
    <title forgotten> by Ian Dury & the Blockheads.
    	This was one of those "I remember this from my youth" impulse
    	buys. It was garbage. It's a "best-of" type compilation (or
    	maybe they only did one album???).
    
    "Waiting For A Miracle - Singles 1970-1987" by Bruce Cockburn.
    	I bought this one for "If I Had A Rocket Launcher". I don't
    	much like the other tracks on it. Oh well.
    
    All are CDs (gasp!), bought sight unseen (sound unheard?). The first
    two have been sold, the third I listen to occasionally.
    
    	Mike

     Well, back in '67 I went out and bought "Days of Future Past"
    by the Moodys, (on the strength of Nights in White Satin).
    Once I played it, I didnt like all the 'orchestral bits' and
    decided to take it back.... swapped it for Jimi Hendrix Smash Hits!
    They were both about 32/6d (Our US readers may need that explaining)
    
    Ray.
    

    
    I very rarely fall into this trap, maybe because most things grow
    on me after repeated listening. Although I buy a lot of albums,
    I rarely buy records that I'm not reasonably familiar with. 
    
    That said, try these for size:
    
    "Blows Against The Empire" - Jefferson Airplane.  I bought it because
    I was buying everything buy them. Suddenly found I wasn't listening
    to it all that much. One of the few records I've ever sold.
     
    Robbie Krieger's solo album (I think he's only done one). I love
    his work with The Doors, but this sounds like Shakatak in places!
    How can such a great guitarist sound so uninspired? 
    
    I also recall selling an old Hendrix bootleg. The sound quality
    was literally the worst I've ever heard - the wasn't even any point
    in them writing the songlist on the cover! I think the record-shop
    gave me 35p for it... 
    
    Regards,
    
    		Dom

    Well, I hate to say it but if anyone is interested in swapping the
    CD for Joshua Tree I may be interested. I think this is a totally
    overrated recording and although I may not in fact swap it, I certainly
    wouldn't buy it again.
    
    I remember buying a folk rock album back in the early 70's (you
    know, CSN&Y were all the rage etc) by a group called The Ship. I
    can honestly say I have never heard it all the way through. Its
    amazingly bad. 
    
    I too am a great believer that the best albums are those that take
    time to grow on you. For instance, I thought Stevie Wonder's Songs
    in the Key of Life was absolute crap when I first listened to it.
    Something made me wipe the dust off it and play it again about six
    months later. Lo and behold, its brilliant!
    
    Richard

    Much as I love the rest of their output, I can't take Loyd Cole
    and the Commotions second lp. I bought it eagerly after being totally
    bowled over by the first one, but what a disappointment. The songs
    are ok, it's just been swamped by fussy over arrangement and over
    production.
    Luckily the third lp shows a return to form - and how!
    
    Bob
    

    
    
    re- Songs in the key of life - I too was disappointed with much
    of it's content - but it's got it's high points of course.
    
    I always felt that it would have made a classic 'single' album,
    but was padded-out with some dubious tracks to make it a double.
    
    
    
    Michael
    

Yngwie Malmsteen. When his first album came out, everybody was talking
about this amzing, hotshot guitarist that was incredibly fast. So I
bought it and put it on the turntable. 

It never did get to Side 2.

Eventually gave it to a friend who still loves it....

Other disappointments - The Firm (both), GTR, Deep Purple's "In The House
                        of Blue Light", The Clash "This Is England"

Alan S.

    The Van the Man lp with 'Bright Side of the Street' on it.
    
    Sounds like a contract-fulfiller if ever there was one. Rather
    listen to floorboards creak. Proof if proof were needed that the
    70's vinyl shortage was well and truly over. 
    
    In short, junk.                        
    
    Richard.

    Yeah, I've a couple of future vinyl ashtrays in the cupboard too...
    
    Del Amitri - album bought on the strength of hearing
    		 `Hammering Heart' on Peel. Still a great song, but
    		 the rest...
    
    Loaded - `Sweet Jane' saves this LP from violent incineration
    
    
    And a few more...
    
                     Mark  
    
    

    

	I don't often buy lps/cds that I've actually heard before, the theory
	being that if I've heard it then thats it isn't it?

	 So following on from that, I buy ones by bands that I've heard are good
	or whose last album I liked.

	 I made that mistake with INXS, snippets which I'd heard on the Radio
	always sounded great then one day I saw 'The Swing' in the Cd rack and
	bought it ! IT WAS CRAP... 

	 Still, I buy at least one lp or cd a week and thats been the only one
	so far....



		Graham_the_all_electric_(soon_to_have_Fairy_lights)_hippy

    Much as I am an avid Paul Simon fan, it has to be said that One
    Trick Pony was rubbish apart from Late in the Evening.
    
    Also, think Gracelands was overrated. It IS a good album but not
    all its cracked up to be. Also, Hearts and Bones was/is much better
    than people give it credit for particularly 'Renee and Georgette
    Magritte with their dog after the war' which I think is one of his
    best songs ever. Incidentally, in the Omnibus program on Paul Simon
    he himself also has the same opinion of that particular song.
    
    Richard