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

Danny1969

munckee said:

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. 

Yeah The Bends is a masterpiece 

sev112

Men at Work, Down Under

Philly_Q

axisus said:

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!

It's the very best Rush album, for me.

Philly_Q

Reverend said:

kaypeejay said:

I bought Onka's Big Moka by Toploader on the back of Dancing in the moonlight. Pure unadulterated tosh!!

surely dancing in the moonlight would have given you ample warning.

Indeed.  And the fact the album was called Onka's Big Moka.  What the fuck kind of title is that?

Philly_Q

I bought the self-titled album by The Music on the strength of hearing one track.  I must have listened to the rest of the CD once. but it left no impression whatsoever on my brain.

Nouvelle Vague - a French band doing covers in a sort of 1960s lounge music style.  The novelty wore off very quickly.

Something or other by The Cardigans.  You know, the one with that hit single.  I can't remember the title.

The Family Stand - Moon In Scorpio.  Bought because of the song Shades Of Blue, which is fucking killer.  To be fair the whole album is good, but in a totally different style from that track.

Offset

Snap said:

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

That album was utter shite.

Offset

Philly_Q said:

axisus said:

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!

It's the very best Rush album, for me.

As you may have guessed, I'm not a Rush fan :-)

Kurtis

I borrowed The Farm from a friend because I liked All Together Now.
Got to be the worst album I've ever heard! 

mikeyrob73

Sporky said:

Leftism.

I liked the one with Toni from Curve. 

Heathen 

classic album that 

ESBlonde

London 1 Hull 4 I think it was called, housemartins, I liked caravan of love as a single. The album had a very different version and disappointing as that was it was still the best track!!

Teetonetal

Pablo honey / creep would be on my list too. I then repeated the trick with The bends / Street spirit

Passion and warfare / for the love of God would be another as would Fire and ice / perpetual. Both bought as I'd had to learn the pieces and enjoyed them  but the albums are waaay too much!

Cols

kaypeejay said:

I bought Onka's Big Moka by Toploader on the back of Dancing in the moonlight. Pure unadulterated tosh!!

You mean the rest of the album was even worse?

BillDL

When the show "Friends" first started showing on UK TV I discovered that the theme song "I'll Be There For You" was by The Rembrandts.  When I saw the album entitled L.P. on CD in a record shop I bought it expecting that more of the songs would be as good as that one.  Sadly they weren't.

RobDavies

Sporky said:

Leftism.

I liked the one with Toni from Curve. 

Surely the big single from Leftism was Open Up?

RobDavies

An ex girlfriend of mine bought No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom album based on the Don’t Speak single, and was then quite disappointed to find the rest of the material was ska punk and not chart topping ballads.   Bang average ska punk at that.  

drofluf

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.

BillDL said:

When the show "Friends" first started showing on UK TV I discovered that the theme song "I'll Be There For You" was by The Rembrandts.  When I saw the album entitled L.P. on CD in a record shop I bought it expecting that more of the songs would be as good as that one.  Sadly they weren't.

RobDavies said:

An ex girlfriend of mine bought No Doubt’s Tragic Kingdom album based on the Don’t Speak single, and was then quite disappointed to find the rest of the material was ska punk and not chart topping ballads.   Bang average ska punk at that.  

I, too, fell into all three of those 

CHRISB50

The Futureheads - S/T

I bought it for the Hounds of Love cover, which is fantastic. 

The rest of the album is utter shite. 

PLOP

Definitely a younger audience but mine was Bloc Party, with the album Intimacy. I loved their previous albums and still do, but Intimacy was a real change of sound and a new direction but the main single was Talons. 

I learned to love the album later, and it’s now probably my favourite of theirs. I’ll be honest I have not listened to much Bloc Party after this, they got less rocky and guitar based so it was less to hold my interest. 

Russell Lissack remains one of my favourite guitarists and probably a main influence on my playing. I never thought I’d become a tele player but I can safely say he plante the idea in my head! 

Sesh

I'm not saying I don't like these albums, but they certainly don't live up to the strongest track (the reason I bought it). 
Cowboy Junkies - Trinity Sessions (Sweet Jane)
Baskery - Fall Among Thieves (Haunt You) 
Neil Innes - How sweet to be an idiot (title track) 
Richard Harris - Compilation with MacArthur Park on it
Only ones - 3 album cheapo box (Another girl another planet) 
Suicide - a collection (dream baby dream) 

Can I include Tubular Bells? 

Ive bought more albums totally blind based on association. Luckily, few have been tripe, to my ears at least. 

thecolourbox

I think I'm a bit unusual here in that I cantvthinknif an example of this happening to me - I think for a couple of reasons, firstly because I don't tend to buy things on impulse do one decent single isn't going to make me buy a whole album. I tend to wait for a while till the hype has died down and then see if I still like a song and anything else the band has done since.  I'm usually late to the party as it were, but it does tend to mean I'm not prone to this phenomenon! If anything I tend to enjoy the other tracks on albums much more than the singles.

The other reason is my music buying life has mostly been since the age of the Internet and streaming etc so it's a lot easier to get listen to it before you purchase it and fully immerse yourself. Most of my formative listening which kind of found me my tastes was something called Music Match (I think?) which was kind of like a random shuffle Internet radio jukebox thing, you picked a song and then it shuffled through other stuff similar or related to the last song, so it would go on a bit if a guided tour of certain things.