The times you bought an album but then only liked the one single that made you buy it.

Funkfingers

Twenty-first Century Schizoid Man is my idea of an audition piece for potential band members.

Back on topic …

Costello's Trust and Goodbye Cruel World fit the OP definition. 

Imperial Bedroom does not because, IIRC, it didn't even include a decent lead-in single. (I write this as a fan!)

Kilgore

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld.

I only really liked Little Fluffy Clouds.

Offset

The Spirit Of Radio / Permanent Waves.

<puts on trainers and sprints out of forum>

Snap

Porno for Pyros - mostly self absorbed cack apart from Pets.

Similar - Strays, by Jane's Addiction - cracking opening track and the single, Just Because, unlike the rest of the album which ain't good.

New Order, Get Ready. Crystal = near perfection, rest of album - pap. And I am a NO/JD fan.

AlbertC

Pablo Honey
no prizes for guessing what the one song was

axisus

Offset said:

The Spirit Of Radio / Permanent Waves.

<puts on trainers and sprints out of forum>

Well you are entitled to that opinion, but it's a classic Rush album for me!

darthed1981

AlbertC said:

Pablo Honey
no prizes for guessing what the one song was

Ripcord amiright?

Anyhow...

Fucking hundreds of albums back in the day.  That was the whole music industry model, make you spend £12 for a CD for the one song on it you actually like.

ICBM

Just mentioned in another thread... Alannah Myles, self-titled debut album. Black Velvet is a great, atmospheric, classic song - the rest of the album is third-rate bar-band rock, the sort of thing you probably wouldn't even stay in the bar to hear if she started playing.

Another candidate would be the Roaring Boys also self-titled debut album, which likewise has one great song, House Of Stone, and an album's worth of complete crap. Most of you have probably never heard of it or them, so I suggest not delving any deeper .

I wasn't too impressed with Black's Wonderful Life either, apart from the aptly named wonderful title track.

Shrews

Veneer - Jose Gonzalez - contained the song Heartbeats, one of my favourites, not sure I played the album more than once.

DuploLicks

Kilgore said:

The Orb's Adventures Beyond the Ultraworld.

I only really liked Little Fluffy Clouds.

I got Orb Live 93 first and enjoyed most of the tracks then heard ABtU & didn’t like it. The Live 93 version of Little Fluffy Clouds was much better & better still on a decent, loud sound system. 

Sporky

Leftism.

I liked the one with Toni from Curve. 

Danny1969

I wonder how many people brought The Wall for the single and got a bit of a shock  

One thing I remember is sometimes the tracks I didn't like on the first few listens ended up becoming my faves ... like Kevin Carter on Everything must go and Blackstar off The Bends. 

Nowadays that wouldn't be a thing I guess 

monquixote

theatreanchor said:

DannyP said:

Loads! Blind Melon and The Connells ('74, '75) spring to mind.

I'd forgotten about that Spacehog tune until Guardians of the Galaxy 3.

The debut Blind Melon LP? NO! That's a solid album that!!

It's a good album, but the funk rock type stuff is not what you expect from hearing "No Rain"

monquixote

darthed1981 said:

AlbertC said:

Pablo Honey
no prizes for guessing what the one song was

Ripcord amiright?

Anyhow...

Fucking hundreds of albums back in the day.  That was the whole music industry model, make you spend £12 for a CD for the one song on it you actually like.

Yep, it was a deliberate strategy.

On a Brittany album 3 tracks would be produced and written by "The Neptunes" for example and the rest was tossed off in an afternoon and sounded like a keyboard demo.

I read a great book analysing the decline of the music industry and a big reason for the huge drop in revenues wasn't Napster it was iTunes selling 99p songs allowing you to buy the 2-3 good songs off the album meaning they couldn't screw you with a £15 album full of crap.

monquixote

Shrews said:

Veneer - Jose Gonzalez - contained the song Heartbeats, one of my favourites, not sure I played the album more than once.

Many people don't realise that's a cover of a much better song: 

monquixote

My vote goes to the Republica album 

Ready to Go was a decent song, but the rest of the album was terrible. 

Not only that, but the single of "Ready to Go" was a re-recorded version with different musicians and producer. The band's version of the song is on the album and is shit. 

Controversial opinion is Club Classics volume 1 by Soul 2 Soul not only is the album crap other than 2 singles, but the version on the album is acapella! 

Sporky

monquixote said:

Many people don't realise that's a cover of a much better song: 

Especially anyone who's heard both. 

Sporky

monquixote said:

My vote goes to the Republica album 

Their second album is better. 

munckee

Danny1969 said:

I wonder how many people brought The Wall for the single and got a bit of a shock  

One thing I remember is sometimes the tracks I didn't like on the first few listens ended up becoming my faves ... like Kevin Carter on Everything must go and Blackstar off The Bends. 

Nowadays that wouldn't be a thing I guess 

Every song is brilliant on the bends a nailed on classic. 

I also loved the whole of Pablo honey, anyone can play guitar, you, vegetable all great, mostly better than creep. 

Sporky

Pablo Honey was brilliant. 

Radio head got worse with every subsequent release, except for In Rainbows which I seem to remember did have one decent track. Probably by accident.