Big Red's Ten Worst Album Purchases

10. Rolling Stones – Flashpoint
I had wanted to add some Stones to my collection when I picked this one up at Best Buy, but I don’t know I never connected my with this CD. It’s a live performance with a lot of their big hits mixed in with songs from the Steel Wheels Tour. I am still trying to find a good Stones fit into my arsenal
9. Paul McCartney – All the Best
I remember mulling over this buy for quite some time and I think it didn’t give this one much of a chance. I like "Band on the Run" and "Live and Let Die," but solo McCartney in the 70s and 80s which this album features sometimes just too cute and silly for my tastes.
8. O.A.R. – 34th and 8th
I know I really like this band, but I should have known better than get a live album. I’ve enjoyed the three times I’ve seen them in concert, but even at those there were times that I get a little board with the long instrumental parts and the sometimes preachy lead singer. I mean sometimes a four minute song just needs to stay at about that length does not need another three or four minutes added to it.
7. Bon Jovi – Crossroads
I think I should have stuck to his studio albums like "Slippery When Wet" or "The Young Guns II" soundtrack. Bon Jovi is better in small doses and I rarely want to hear a whole greatest hits album worth of this guy.
6. Journey – Greatest Hits
Much like Bon Jovi, Journey has to be ingested in small amounts. I like some of their songs, but the cheesy lyrics get to you after two or three songs in a row. I think I popped like two or three of their tunes onto my MP3 player tops.
5. Don Henley – Actual Miles
I like Don Henley songs when they come on the radio, but I have very little impulse to put this album into my CD player. Inevitably this one has basically sat on my shelf since I bought it.
4. Huey Lewis and the News – Time Flies
This was completely an impulse when I got a song or two of Huey Lewis into my head shortly after high school. The problem is that I didn’t have the songs in my head much longer after I bought the album. It’s reeks of 80s and not really good 80s. Just stuff that should be played in grocery stores.
3. The Beatles – Anthology 3
I have listened to this rarely since buying this one shortly after it came out. I guess I am not one of those guys that listens to screw ups and talking after tracks enough to make it worth the money I paid. The songs are fine and it’s interesting to listen to once, but I don’t have the urge to put it in much anymore.
2. Grand Funk Railroad – Collectors Series
This is another one that I bought because I just wanted to buy something and then put in the player and wondered when in the world I would listen to it again. The songs are fine, but like a lot of other albums on this list they weren’t enough to keep me coming back.
1. Bryan Adams – So Far, So Good
I bought this for the "Summer of ‘69" not thinking you can turn on 94.3 and hear that song played four times a day. Other then that song, the rest was love songs with over melodramatic lyrics. I am happy to say this one is leaving the collection soon.