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yipjumpmusic:
I don't know about any of you but NOW AND THEN I go to a show and enjoy an opener enough that I buy a cd or so from them, only later to listen to it and really regret buying it, not because it doesn't sound like them live, just the fact that you are now just listening to music at mundane home (unless your home is a fun house or something) and the pleasure of hearing live music is not in the equation.  Though not bad music, and listenable (yes i said listenable) it is not buy worthy but far too late to return.  

Sometimes I regret NOT buying a cd too though because I was not in the right mood at the time I heard a band but later heard them again and suddenly loved it.  So I always worry I will miss out (as sometimes it is hard to get a band's CDs, or tax/shipping free)  I'm sure my pack rat nature comes into this as well and my general CD whoring, but no I don't just buy anything, I do have SOME kind of musical taste but I wanted to know if anyone else gets into this problem...

yggdrasil:
I saw Super Furry Animals once and thought they were great, but fortunately I just borrowed a cd of theirs off a classmate instead of buying one. The cd (the one with the giant alien with the telephone on the cover) wasn't bad per se, just quite dull and not my style, which is a shame since they were pretty awesome live.

rynne:
Try other SFA discs.  Their style changes noticably on different albums.  I'd suggest Radiator or Phantom Power.  I love SFA, but the album you mentioned took the longest for me to get into.

On topic, that happens a lot with me.  But its expected, like you said: live shows are a much different format than recorded music.  Inevitably, there will be acts that excel with the former but not the latter.

KharBevNor:
I find that in such cases it's not normally 'fooled by live music' as much as 'fooled by alcohol'. Although I'm still trying to work out why I bought Hondo Macleans entire discography.

Disko:

--- Quote from: yggdrasil ---I saw Super Furry Animals once and thought they were great, but fortunately I just borrowed a cd of theirs off a classmate instead of buying one. The cd (the one with the giant alien with the telephone on the cover) wasn't bad per se, just quite dull and not my style, which is a shame since they were pretty awesome live.
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That's weird with SFA... I've been in love with their albums for quite a while now but find them notoriously unreliable live.

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