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Almost all of us have gone on mad searches for that obscure old 80s song that we used to love -- the harder it was to find, the more obsessed we become with obtaining it.

Here's my question: What song was the most disappointing once you finally got your hands on it? (i.e., not nearly as good as you remembered it to be; not worth the time/effort involved in finding it) [:I]

Apollo 9 and Christian Dior by Adam Ant.

I must have been high when I heard these in the 1980's.

I think that the song "Strength" is my biggest disappointment...I thought all of The Alarm's work was good..I was wrong!

For me it wasn't a single song, but an entire albumn. I paid big bucks in the early 90's (before the internet/ebay and before CD-ROM burners were readliy available) to have a copy of SPG's Hardest Hit's Volume #1 mastered to CD. I hired some guy out of

Stump's "Charlton Heston"...still a bit funny, but not THAT funny.

an album called "ptoof" by the deviants........

more legend than actually good

most stuff i'm still happy with..........

i had a hard time remembering why i liked "black oak arkansas" though
....hahaha

I think the whole Slade Alive l.p...downloaded it using Kazaa.listened to it and thought "what was I thinking".[V][;)]

For YEARS I hunted for the "Vigilante" EP by Felony.

Then I got it.

SOOOO wasn't worth the hunt. What a load of crap.

This refers to an entire album.Back in the mid 80's after reading many reviews(TROUSER PRESS,various articles etc..) on the band "Human Switchboard"--well, I paid around 85 bucks for the album after an exhaustive search.Got it,listened to it,hated it,and