Cast Recordings You Wish You Hadn't Bought

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Cast Recordings You Wish You Hadn't Bought

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:19pm

Anything you wish you hadn't spent your money on?

"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.

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re: Cast Recordings You Wish You Hadn't Bought

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:25pm

A Catered Affair... too much dialogue!

#3

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:29pm

Remastered "A Chorus Line". The extra eight seconds (or whatever it was) wasn't worth another $12.99

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:35pm

Bed and Sofa
Bright Lights Big City
Company (London Revival)
Pacific Overtures (Broadway Revival)

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:35pm

Dreamgirls OBC. It's not bad,I just never feel compelled to listen to it.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:40pm

High Fidelity. its a shame too, because its still one of my favorite shows, but the recording is just lifeless. I prefer the closing night audio.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:41pm

The Likes of Us. Boring.

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re: Cast Recordings You Wish You Hadn't Bought

Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:42pm

^ 2 minutes over all, a large portion of the montage was restored. Well worth it in my book.

I am glad I didn't waste my money on "Aspects of Love." That was a gift.

I'm gonna go with my concept album for "Wuthering Heights: the Musical"

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 4:51pm

"Runaways"

I could barely listen to it.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:06pm

White Christmas.

Bought it when I saw the show, haven't listened to it since.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:09pm

Into the Woods Revival
Hello, Dolly! Revival
How to Succeed Revival

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:13pm

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.

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Cast albums are NOT "soundtracks."
Live theatre does not use a "soundtrack." If it did, it wouldn't be live theatre!

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:29pm

Chess - OBC. I hate it so much I won't even keep it with my CD collection in case it's aura somehow corrupts them too.

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re: Cast Recordings You Wish You Hadn't Bought

Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:35pm

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

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:40pm

The Merrily We Roll Along revival. Blech!

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:40pm

Evil Dead. I bet this was funnier in real life than it is on the CD.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 5:44pm

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!

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 6:44pm

Roman, the Evil Dead cd really only holds it value if you've saw the show live.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 6:49pm

Hero... the musical about Jesus in Bethlehem, Penn. GHETTO.

Runaways.
Bombay Dreams, though the show was entertaining.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 6:52pm

The Elana Roger's Evita rivial. It wasn't especially bad, just unnecessary for me.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 6:56pm

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.
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Posted: 1/26/09 at 7:00pm

How could I forget Bombay Dreams?! I got it, listened to it twice and gave it away.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 9:10pm

I regret nothing! Do you hear me?! But, with that being said, I never ever listen to my copy of Full Monty.

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 9:33pm

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...

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Posted: 1/26/09 at 9:37pm

The first cd I ever purchased...the mo-town version of guys and dolls. I was 10. I didn't know any better.

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