T4N63R1N3 DR34M wrote:
moonloop wrote:
I think the only TD album I own that I really can't face playing ever again would be Ambient Monkeys

Yeah, It's the one I never listened to and I sold it a while ago.
I've never listened to it, either. Knew about it, saw that almost nobody liked it and kinda forgot about it until now. It's probably the most forgotten and less popular TD album ever. I'm gonna have to get it right now just to see what everybody's talking about on "not liking it."
And now that we're on the subject of "entire albums we're not fond of", I have to say that the soundtrack "Three O'Clock High" is one which definitely falls into this category. Probably the only one, in my book. It seems so rushed, and that's too bad. It was the case where just when a track began to get inspiring, it abruptly ended or stopped. Not every track, but unfortunately most of them suffer from that. It kinda kills the consistency and the mood. Something that didn't happen, for example, with "Heartbreakers", "Catch Me If You Can" or "Dead Solid Perfect", in my opinion. Three soundtracks I loved even when they followed the same structure, with many short tracks and strange and abrupt changes that are not of everybody's taste. But to me they didn't feel rushed even though they were. No falling consistency there, no cutting in the middle of nowhere, and most important: they felt like they were really following a story. It didn't matter if you had seen the movie or not. That was the difference. Also, no matter how short the tunes were on any of those soundtracks, they were something you could always hum because you could remember them. In Three O'Clock High they're all really forgettable, except maybe for one or two (but out of 22)... On a final note about this soundtrack, I don't know if it still is, but there was a time when it used to be VERY expensive. That was a big no-no.