cast recordings you regret buying
cast recordings you regret buying
kitkatgirl54
Leading Actor Joined: 5/19/04
#0cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 6:37pm
there's a topic over on the off-topic forum about cast recordings that are must-buys. which led me to think, i have a couple of cast recordings i haven't bothered to listen to more than once. i'm not saying that these are necessarily bad recordings, but for whatever reason, i simply cannot get into them.
1. fame (north american tour)
2. steel pier
3. saturday night
4. scarlet pimpernel (i hear it's good but i can't get into it)
5. squonk
6. jaques brel is alive and well and living in paris
how about you guys?
ponine24601
Broadway Legend Joined: 10/4/03
#1re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 6:40pm
'1. fame (north american tour)'
*tear* jenn and gavin! c'mon!
um....i really love all my cast recordings. i got the synphonic recording of les mis, and i hate it. i think that's it.
"People asking questions, lost in confusion. Well I tell them there's no problems, only solutions."
~The one and only John Lennon
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#2re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 6:44pm
I think the only one would have to be The Full Monty. I listened to it once, and never again. It just didn't do anything for me at all. Maybe the show was good, but the music wasn't.
Akiva
#3re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 6:49pmUrinetown...
There's a light in the darkness of everybody's life.
kitkatgirl54
Leading Actor Joined: 5/19/04
#4re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 6:57pmyes gavin and jennifer are very good actors and singers but i just think the recording was badly done and i can't stand the music from fame.
#5re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:00pmThe Robber Bridegroom. That is the twangiest, clangiest, dangiest music I ever heard. (That's bad.)
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Derek2
Broadway Star Joined: 8/10/04
#6re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:06pm
The music is good but I just can't listen to it without seeing in done live...in other words I'd be fine seeing the show but I just can't get into the music
A Little Night Music
And one that I suggest you buy is actually a show that ran a short while (129 performances) back in the 60's but it's has some great music = It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman!
NightLaughs
Leading Actor Joined: 6/26/04
#7re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:10pm
No one shoot me but...
1) Boy from Oz- While a few songs are great, I just find the majority of it boring. Great voices anyway. I listen to it once in a while, usually sticking to 5 songs or so. Oh well...
2) Aida- I'm not sure why, but I never latched on to this one. I wouldn't have minded seeing it before it closes though.
If you limit your choices to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise."- Robert Fritz
#8re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:11pmThe Les Mis Symphonic Recording. BLEH.
"The stage is where I live and come alive and act out all the things that go on in my life. It's not just what I do for a living, it's my shrink and my love affair. No one in my life has ever or ever will kiss me on the mouth like this lover called my relationship with my performance."
#9re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:11pmHair. It's not that I don't like it, it's okay, I just never caught on to it. And I have a recording of Jesus Christ Superstar (Original London) that I really don't like.
#10re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:11pm
Wow. I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED the music for FULL MONTY.
diff'rent strokes for diff'rent folks, it's all good.
but i am floooored.
----ddddd.....bbbbb...jjjjj-----
Vary My Days.
#11re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:12pm
ANYTHING GOES-The revival with Patti Lupone
Love the show. Love the music. Love Patti. Love Cole Porter.
Hate Patti as Reno Sweeney.
"One no longer loves one's insight enough once one communicates it."
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
The opposite of creation isn't war, it's stagnation.
#12re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:12pm
1. The Lion King
2. Aida
3. The Producers
4. Mamma Mia
I couldn't get into any of these recordings and subsequently I gave the CDs away.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
Mythus
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/16/04
#13re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:24pm
Probably Mamma Mia. I didn't really like Abba to begin with, and hearing other people sing their songs doesn't help too much.
Dottie, Lion King and The Producers? Wow, that's too bad.
Marquise
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/1/04
#14re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:31pm
hair - except for ronnie dysons rendition of "aquarius" the movie was a vast improvement.
dreamgirls - obc: not because the music's bad but because they butchered the score!
urinetown
morosco
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/10/04
#15re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:32pmThe Korean cast recording of EVITA. Oh my.
#16re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:33pmThe Little Shop Revival...I love Hunter Foster but not as Seymour.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
kitkatgirl54
Leading Actor Joined: 5/19/04
#17re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:33pmkorean cast of evita? i'm intrigued! was that in korean or english?
#18re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:40pm
Mythus,
I couldn't believe I didn't like The Producers and The Lion King either, but I guess that's just the way it goes.
Hey Dottie!
Did your colleagues enjoy the cake even though your cat decided to sit on it? ~GuyfromGermany
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#19re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:47pm
Hah Nugget...isn't that interesting though...I guess that's what makes life so interesting, how different we all are. If we all agreed this board would be no fun at all.
Akiva
#20re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:56pm"Wicked." And I'm not saying that to rile people up. I truly didn't like it.
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ProducersFan
Broadway Star Joined: 7/25/04
#21re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:56pm
Not liking The Producers or The Lion King? ::tear... 
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That's okay, I understand everyone has different tastes! At least the recordings found good homes. 
As for me, I only own like 6 cast recordings so I love them all. I tend to listen to a few more than the others but don't regret buying any of them.
~Jessica
"If you start from a place of joy and charm, you can get away with a lot in the second act. It may be that that's my life. I'm not sure."
~Roger Bart
#22re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:57pmI agree with you Rose_MacShane, there's more on "Wicked" that I don't like than I actually can bare to listen to.
A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.
BroadwayGirl107
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/26/03
#23re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 7:58pmThe recording for the Little Shop revival.
#24re: cast recordings you regret buying
Posted: 8/17/04 at 8:04pm
*The Producers (I love the show but the music by itself is not that great.
*Amour (I bought it for Chris Fitzgerald, but it's not that gripping)
*Carousel (the original 1940's version, bleck!)
*Kiss Me Kate (the 1998 British version, the revival is awsome!)
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