"Aspects of Love" is one that I wish I'd only bought a few tracks from and not the whole thing. I adore, adore, adore Michael Ball, the show's intriguing, and I had a lot of fun listening the whole cast recording through a few times, but there are SO MANY tracks and they perpetually come up on my shuffle, and a lot of them are really irritating taken out of context. Also, it bothers me how the female actresses scoop so much in their singing.
Also, I wish I hadn't spent my money on an "Annie Get Your Gun" OBC because I dropped and broke it before ever listening to it, but that has nothing to do with the content.
In my pants, she has burst like the music of angels, the light of the sun! --Marius Pantsmercy
Remastered "A Chorus Line". The extra eight seconds (or whatever it was) wasn't worth another $12.99
If anyone ever tells you that you put too much Parmesan cheese on your pasta, stop talking to them. You don't need that kind of negativity in your life.
Bought it when I saw the show, haven't listened to it since.
"Oh look at the time, three more intelligent plays just closed and THE ADDAMS FAMILY made another million dollars" -Jackie Hoffman, Broadway.com Audience Awards
I wish I hadn't spent my money on an "Annie Get Your Gun" OBC because I dropped and broke it before ever listening to it
What did you buy? The original 78's???
Side story: The LAST 78 album I bought was the set of the 1952 revival of PAL JOEY. I had been looking for the LP for years. Footlight had the 78 album for $20 so I bought it. Carefully packed it in my suitcase. When I got home all 4 records were broken in half. Fortunately a year later Broadway Angel put the album out on CD. And I stopped collecting 78's.
Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks." Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!
I host a weekly one-hour radio program featuring cast album selections as well as songs by cabaret, jazz and theatre artists. The program, FRONT ROW CENTRE is heard Sundays 9 to 10 am and also Saturdays from 8 to 9 am (eastern times) on www.proudfm.com
I have a bunch of cast recordings on my ipod that I haven't even listened to yet. I don't wish that I hadn't bought them I just wish I could find time to listen to some of them...
A Night in the Old Market Place Adding Machine Amour Anne of Green Gables Aspects of Love Blood Brothers (Petula Clark) City of Angels (London) Grand Hotel John and Jen Little Fish My Life With Albertine Prodigal Sarah, Plain and Tall The Magic Show Zorro
"As we all should probably have learned by now, to be a Stephen Sondheim fan is to have one's heart broken at regular intervals" - Frank Rich
"I think it's appropriate: iSondheim - a Sondheim for the new generation!
(wailing guitar riff)
Get your kids hooked early on Sondheim, so they'll grow up to be just as emotionally stilted and self-conscious as we are! - BustopherPhantom
I wasn't crazy about Runaways when I first got it, but it grew on me. Haven't listened to it in years though.
The one I was sorry that I bought was Notre Dame. I heard 2 songs on BWW Radio that I liked and ordered it. I don't even listen to those 2 songs anymore. I tried watching it thinking I would like it better after having seen the show. Nope. Didn't work!
I did a blog on this not too long ago--A Christmas Carol, Bombay Dreams (though I do like "Shakalaka Baby") and All American come to mind. There are other CDs I don't regret getting so much as I just don't care for them that much--First Impressions, Destry Rides Again come to mind. Broadway Mouth: Autographed Luba Mason Krazy Love CD Giveaway!
I have more cds than I care to think about that I wish I hadn't bought in retrospect (including several mentioned on this thread already). I've been on a mission to try listening to every album I have on my ipod (which has nearly 70 gigs of music). I'm half way through the Ds and started this in September. I've come across some drek, that's for sure...