I bought into this format only because of music titles that weren't available on LD, Beta or VHS at that point: Grateful Dead Movie, Let it Be, Gimme Shelter, Jimmy Cliff's the Harder they Come, Last Waltz and others.
That's how they got me as well. When CED added stereo, "Pink Floyd at Pompeii" was in the first batch of titles. I had no choice!
Laserdisc came first, was capable of being better, but was more expensive and had serious quality control issues. Others have mentioned the bad US-pressed discs, but the players themselves were also unreliable. The two best things to happen to LD were Pioneer's ultimate takeover and the switch to digital audio. Those analog FM tracks *could* be good...but usually weren't.
I remember getting the King Crimson live in Japan disc, which I think may have been the first digital release. I switched back and forth between the analog and digital tracks and there was simply no contest. The digital was perfect, the analog was noisy.
The fact that I was decades younger makes nostalgia for those days inevitable, but objectively speaking we sure accepted a lot of crap.