Worst song on a "great album"?

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My vote, at least right now, goes to Marvin Gaye's "Save the Children." Ugh. You?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

btw, "Great album" means obvious canonized work plz.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:43 (twenty years ago)

does the song have to be particularly bad or just "least best"?

― you people and your friends are fake (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

desperado from the langley album

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:44 (twenty years ago)

particularly bad, plz

Langley is nowhere near obviously canonical; it's NPR-approved, which isn't the same thing. I'm talking, like, Abbey Road-level, Rolling Stone best-albums-ever list ubiquitous type albums.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:53 (twenty years ago)

the weeklys are bashing npr and approving rolling stone! wtf?

― Dr. Glen Y. Abreu (dr g), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:54 (twenty years ago)

wtf indeed! what are you talking about?

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:56 (twenty years ago)

who's bashing anything except bad songs?

― you people and your friends are fake (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 06:59 (twenty years ago)

"love song" on like a prayer

― you people and your friends are fake (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 07:01 (twenty years ago)

seriously OTM re save the children. wtf is up with that moaning 'ohhhh save the babies' bit

― bea arthur, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 07:05 (twenty years ago)

yeah, w/the sax and those sickly strings behind it, it's horrible!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 07:07 (twenty years ago)

JAZZ POLICE, PEOPLE

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 07:10 (twenty years ago)

you really think so? I don't hear it as anywhere near as mawkish or cloying as "Save the Children"--it's even kind of funny!

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 07:13 (twenty years ago)

that said, I can see how it would drive someone nuts

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 07:15 (twenty years ago)

Cohen seems to make a habit of one outright dud per album - see also his 290-minute-long pub-croaking singalong version of "Always" on The Future.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 07:17 (twenty years ago)

haha, I love that version--its endlessness is part of the joke, if not most of it.

― Matos-Webster Dictionary (M Matos), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 07:18 (twenty years ago)

Must admit I always found "Strange Relationship" a bit of a boring plod.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 07:19 (twenty years ago)

I was just this evening thinking how much I like "Strange Relationship" as it came up on my discman on the bus - too fluid a bottom to possibly be any sort of plod, although I can understand the desire to get to "I Could Never Take the Place" as quickly as possible.

But the answer from my POV is RAINY DAY WOMAN #12 and 35"

― plebian plebs (plebian), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 08:14 (twenty years ago)

Really? That's the only track I like on Blonde On Blonde!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 08:17 (twenty years ago)

no, plebs otm there. that, in fact, is the CLASSIC example of "worst song on a great album."

― you people and your friends are fake (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 08:28 (twenty years ago)

so off the mark you could be the german economy circa 1923.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 08:29 (twenty years ago)

i can do without "lily, rosemary, and the jack of hearts" on blood on the tracks too, but it's not so much "bad" as interminably lonnnnnnnnnggggggggggggggg.

― you people and your friends are fake (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 08:30 (twenty years ago)

"Diamonds And Rust" by Joan Baez was inspired by Dylan ringing her up and singing her the entire lyric of that song down the 'phone.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 08:32 (twenty years ago)

i kind of enjoy "rainy day women." i remember when i first heard it the only thing i knew about bob dylan was that he was supposed to be some sort of great poet so i was desperately trying to figure out what the GREAT METAPHOR was.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:13 (twenty years ago)

How do we stand on "Revolution 9" (or "Martha My Dear") (or "Rocky Raccoon")? (how many bad songs can a great album actually have, anyway?)

(or "Remote Control")?

― plebian plebs (plebian), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:18 (twenty years ago)

Revolution 9 is the greatest Beatles album track EVER!!!!

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

Next thing you'll be telling me is that all Stevie Nicks songs on all Fleetwood Mac albums are duds when compared to the seamless songwriting skills of Christine McVie.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:19 (twenty years ago)

To be fair I never listen to "Rainy Day Woman" because I always skip to track 2. Not that I've played BoB for a while.

Anyway, how about "Polly"?

x-post - all Stevie Nicks songs on all Fleetwood Mac albums are duds when compared to the seamless songwriting skills of Christine McVie. Especially the albums that neither are on.

― plebian plebs (plebian), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

"revolution 9" is a fantastic sound collage; it's consistently interesting and it builds in a subtle and evocative way. it's one of the few songs of theirs i've never gotten tired of. that it's widely considered the "worst" beatles song is ludicrous.

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:26 (twenty years ago)

oh dear, pleb, you're never going to get to sleep with me, are you?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:30 (twenty years ago)

boris the spider?

― flowersdie (flowersdie), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:31 (twenty years ago)

the token bruce foxton track on all jam albums (e.g. "smithers jones")?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 09:49 (twenty years ago)

pet sounds: 'waiting for the day'

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

STUDENT DEMONSTRATION TIME

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:39 (twenty years ago)

what's wrong with Waiting For The Day?

Student Demonstration Time goes without saying - yuck!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

screamadelica: 'damaged'

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:44 (twenty years ago)

metal box: 'albatross' BAWRIN!!!!!!

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 10:48 (twenty years ago)

More Dylan: "The Ballad of Frankie Lee and Judas Priest" on John Wesley Harding.

― Andrew Norman, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:02 (twenty years ago)

it's not a great album imo but it is a 'great album': blue lines: 'hymn of the big wheel'

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:04 (twenty years ago)

"Party For Your Right To Fight" - It Takes A Nation Of Millions...
"Lovers Rock" - London Calling
"Within You, Without You" - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Etc.
"Fitter, Happier" - OK Computer
"New York" - Never Mind The Bollocks...

EVERY classic album has one dud on it.

Except the first Ramones album, that's perfect.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:09 (twenty years ago)

Also, I might be w/ Matos, but don't forget that Wu-Tang sure love "Save The Children."

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:10 (twenty years ago)

Aquemini, Mamacita

― Some Guy, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:14 (twenty years ago)

There are a lot of clunkers on sgt pepper. "Within You, Without You" is far from the worst, though its on a different kind of vibe.

"Jazz Police" may be the worst song on that album but its not like the other songs are that much better than it.

― Some Guy, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:28 (twenty years ago)

Fuck, "Mamacita," is godawful.

The chorus is annoying enough, but the girls don't even sing it at the same time on the ONE take they use of it and loop.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:31 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Wonder - "If It's Magic" and "Summersoft" off Songs From The Key of Life.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:55 (twenty years ago)

The Clash, "Liar" off The Clash.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 11:58 (twenty years ago)

jazz police is my favourite song

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:00 (twenty years ago)

"space odyssey" = DREAR

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:04 (twenty years ago)

David Bowie – "Eight Line Poem," off Hunky Dory.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:08 (twenty years ago)

Jackals, False Grails The Lonesome Era: Pavement (worst on Slanted & Enchanted)

Stay Away: Nirvana (worst on Nevermind)

Sun King: Beatles (worst on Abbey Road)

Ride My Llama: Neil Young (worst on Rust Never Sleeps)

The Great Curve: Talking Heads (worst on Remain in Light, but I can see how some would like it)

Casino Boogie: Rolling Stones (worst on Exile--and it's still great)

Andmoreagain: Love (worst on Forever Changes)

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:36 (twenty years ago)

i gotta veto 'andmoreagain'. that album has no worst songs.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:38 (twenty years ago)

The Great Curve: Talking Heads (worst on Remain in Light, but I can see how some would like it)

oh my.

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:47 (twenty years ago)

I fucking love "The Great Curve". And the live version on The Name of This Band kills.

If there's one so-so track on Remain In Light, it's "Seen & Not Seen."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

will ANYONE defend "the murder mystery" off the velvets' third?

― haitch (haitch), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

A lot of people on this thread naming songs that are actually pretty good if not great: "Rainy day Women #12 & 35" is not my favorite on BoB (one of my favorite albums evah) but a pretty good song nonetheless, and quite atypical for Dylan in its simplicity and silliness. "Ballad of Frankie Lee & Judas Priest" is a fantastic song - one of the best on that fine album. "Jazz Police" is probably not the best song on I'm Your Man - too many other good songs there - but it's a very good song nonetheless and very funny.

My nominations for worst song on a great album would be: "Sad Eyed Lady of the Low-Lands" from BoB (interminable and pointless) and "Ballad of Curtis Lowe" from Second Helping (trite, cloying and worst of all, not fun).

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

Is "Murder Mystery" the one with the rambling spoken voices? That's okay, not my favorite though.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:02 (twenty years ago)

the murder mystery is my second favourite song

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:03 (twenty years ago)

"Mother" on Synchronicity by the Police

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:04 (twenty years ago)

"Mother" is great!

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:05 (twenty years ago)

Stop hating on Jazz Police. It's fun and there is nothing wrong with that album!

― -rainbow bum- (-rainbow bum-), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:07 (twenty years ago)

"Mother" is great!

To each their own, Alfred.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:10 (twenty years ago)

"Tea In The Sahara" is so much worse than "Mother."

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:14 (twenty years ago)

Hell, "King of Pain" is worse than "Mother."

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

Isn't "Seamus" from Pink Floyd's Meddle usually a standard answer to this question?

I'd also say D'yer Maker, but I guess some people like that song.

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, "Tea in the Sahara" is pretty insufferable. And "King of Pain" is lyrically cringe-worthy. Fuck it, I'm wrong. "Mother" is way better than those two. Don't listen to me today.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

that one about the dinosaurs was rubbish as well

― zappi (joni), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:17 (twenty years ago)

-the cod-reggae track on 'horses'
-'animals' off 'fear of music'

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:18 (twenty years ago)

Possibly Andy Summers could have improved "Mother" by asking Stingo to chime in with "That's my soul up there" after each verse.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:19 (twenty years ago)

-the cod-reggae track on 'horses'

That would be "Redondo Beach," and I'd take that a step further and say that the entirety of Horses should've been bulk erased before it was ever committed to vinyl.

That said, I simply love the expression "Cod-Reggae," as if it's a brand of easy-skanking irie music made exclusively for and by fish.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

"'time after time' / was my least favorite song / 'time after time' / was my LEAST FAVORITE SONG!!!" -- SM

― david day (winslow), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

Battle For Evermore...either that or Four Sticks off Led Zep IV

There's A Riot Goin' On: Worst song on There's A Riot Goin' On (running time-- 0:00)

Beside You: worst song on Van Morrison's Astral Weeks

Morpha Too: Worst song on Big Star's Radio City

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

There isn't a genuinely bad song on IV! Madman.

― The Ghost of Black Elegance (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:32 (twenty years ago)

pretty sure the answer is "sloop john B"

― b'angelo, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:36 (twenty years ago)

OTM

― Hurting (Hurting), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:39 (twenty years ago)

Wire, "Mercy" from Chairs Missing.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:40 (twenty years ago)

Either "No Life Singed Her" OR "Conduit for Sale" OR "Chesley's Little Wrists" on Slanted and Enchanted.

Seriously, Pavement albums are nowhere NEAR as perfect as everybody says they are.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:46 (twenty years ago)

"Oh Daddy" from Rumours

― PB, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:51 (twenty years ago)

Pulp's "Sorted for Es & Whizz." Not good, and topically has nothing to do with the rest of Different Class.

― naus (Robert T), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:52 (twenty years ago)

Are You Experienced? - ~~'51st Anniversary'~~ 'Fire'
Axis: Bold As Love - 'She's So Fine'
Electric Ladyland - 'Little Miss Strange'

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

ahhh, i love "save the children"...just thinking of it brings the big smiles to my face...

i'm afraid the bulk of I'm Your Man is ruined by some of the stupidist instrumentation choices ever made. What in the name of all dieties is that tin-canned keyboard horn thing in te title song?!! In the context of bad decisions, "Jazz Police" is far from the worst..and is very very amusing.

and come on! "within without you" is perfect next to "when i'm 64" or goddamned "getting better"...

― b b, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

you're wrong

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:06 (twenty years ago)

'I, Assassin' - "1940s Rust"
'Tin Drum' - "Ghosts" (not bad, but I always skip it)

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:11 (twenty years ago)

"morpha two" and "sad-eyed lady of the lowlands" are totally each in the top 5 songs on their respective albums. in fact, "sad-eyed lady" is my favorite bob dylan song.

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:15 (twenty years ago)

"mamacita" otm

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

Thriller - 'The Lady In My Life'

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

'frontier psychiatrist' maybe doesn't *fit in* with the rest of 'since i left you'.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:17 (twenty years ago)

Desire - 'Joey'

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

"sad-eyed lady" is my favorite bob dylan song.

My mind boggles at this, but to each his own. IMHO, unless you happen to be Sarah Lowndes, there's probably not much point in even trying to figure out what he's going on about in that song.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:18 (twenty years ago)

yeah, cuz the rest of 'BoB' is so... *lucid*...

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:19 (twenty years ago)

Mr Tambourine Man - 'We'll Meet Again'

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:22 (twenty years ago)

Desire - 'Joey'

Oh god, maybe Dylan's worst song ever. Good call.

― PB, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:26 (twenty years ago)

yeah, cuz the rest of 'BoB' is so... *lucid*...

I'm not claiming to have deciphered every symbol or image on BoB, but at least you feel like there's something of universal resonance being sung, whereas "Sad Eyed Lady" sounds like some long roman a clef type of showy obeisance to his woman which I'm sure flattered her to no end, but is of little relevance to anyone not personally involved.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:27 (twenty years ago)

Mind fucking Gardens on the otherwise wonderful Younger Than Yesterday.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:32 (twenty years ago)

Weezer - Blue - The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
The Cure - Boys Dont Cry or Three Imaginary Boys - So What?

― buyabiznatch, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:37 (twenty years ago)

"Albatross"? "Rainy Day Women" ?? BORIS THE SPIDUH???

it's called comic relief y'all

"Save The Children" is a bit sticky-sweet but the Intruders did a Philly Soul version where the strings 'n sentiments are palatable.

― password reset limbo, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:39 (twenty years ago)

The Cure - Boys Dont Cry or Three Imaginary Boys - So What?

Thou art well and truly high as a kite. Lay off that crack pipe, son.

My turn again to invoke further ire:

London Calling by the Clash: "Lost in a Supermarket"
Ritual De Lo Habitual by Jane's Addiction: "Of Course"

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:42 (twenty years ago)

Whatever that faux-reggae track is on "Ready to Die"
(quickly opening another browser...going to allmusic...ahHA!)
Respect is the name of that track...the one with the annoying as fuck dance hall woman at the beginning. Ugh. Kills me. And I like dance hall.

Jack of Hearts is not really a bad song, and on road trips I actually enjoy its epic length...but it is the worst song on Blood on the tracks.

― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:46 (twenty years ago)

If there's one crap track on London's Calling it ain't Lost in The SuperMarket or Lover's Rock, that's for sure. Both superb! However I can't stand Koka Kola.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:55 (twenty years ago)

I don't like "Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts," not just because of its length, but because the melody and that irritating 2/4 beat would too repetitive and boring for my taste even if it were a two-minute song.

I have the same problem with the (very very similar) "Glitter Gulch," which mars the otherwise incandescently good King of America.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

If there's one crap track on London's Calling it ain't Lost in The SuperMarket or Lover's Rock, that's for sure. Both superb! However I can't stand Koka Kola.

The irony being that I think "Koka Kola" is fucking great.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

The last half of Ritual De Lo Habitual sucks it.

Nothing's Shocking is full of bullshit too. "Thank You Boys?" "Idiots Rule?"

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:00 (twenty years ago)

you guys are nuts. "murder mystery" is awesome!

― you people and your friends are fake (Jody Beth Rosen), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:01 (twenty years ago)

"I have the same problem with the (very very similar) "Glitter Gulch," which mars the otherwise incandescently good King of America.F"

OTM. "The Poisoned Rose" and "Eisenhower's Tears" are naff too.

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:02 (twenty years ago)

"Wrong 'Em Boyo" is the worst song on London Calling methinks.

― NickB (NickB), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

Which reminds me...

Shot With His Own Gun stinks up the 2nd side of Elvis Costello's Trust...which has always been my favorite of his, by a wide margin.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:04 (twenty years ago)

(about 100 posts too late)
desperado is the best track on the langley album! That song makes me feel like crying and I haven't cried since 1996!

― twoo millun neptoonz beets, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:05 (twenty years ago)

Heh heh...there's no way this thread's gonna have anything NEAR consensus! I can't be the only one who's seen a few favourites (or near-favourites at least) cited so far.

My choices: "We Will Fall" (The Stooges), "You Got To Move" (Sticky Fingers), "Love's In Need Of Love Today" (Songs In The Key Of Life) and the (two!) pathetic James Brown covers on The Who Sing My Generation.
.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:32 (twenty years ago)

xpost - OK Alex we'll agree to differ, as always!!

Doesn't anybody else loathe Mind Gardens?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:34 (twenty years ago)

aw, I liked "Joey", I'd rather have "The Hurricane" off of that cos it's an okay song that goes on forever.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:40 (twenty years ago)

"We Will Fall" (The Stooges)"
OOOO
TTTT
MMMM
!!!!

― Tripmaker (SDWitzm), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:46 (twenty years ago)

You'll never listen to "Joey" again after Lester Bangs takes it down for its garbled mafia chic.

(xpost)

― Alfred Soto (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 15:47 (twenty years ago)

London Calling by the Clash: "Lost in a Supermarket"
for me, it's "jimmy jazz." if it weren't there, it'd be a perfect album for me.

― katie, a princess (katie, a princess), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

For the Stones 68-72

Beggars Banquet: Dear Doctor
Let It Bleed: Country Honk
Sticky Fingers: Sister Morphine
Exile On Main Street: Casino Boogie

For the record, add one more vote to "Lovers Rock" as worst on London Calling.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 16:55 (twenty years ago)

"Jimmy Jazz" is pretty clanking in that otherwise lean album.

― The Mad Puffin (The Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:08 (twenty years ago)

"Weezer - Blue - The World Has Turned and Left Me Here
The Cure - Boys Dont Cry or Three Imaginary Boys - So What? "

WHAT!?!?!

i dont have much defense for the weezer track, except for the fact that i love it, but so what? is just hilarious. pre-fat bob out of his mind drunk reading the ingredients of a sugar package (or whatever it is, i cant remember)...ABSOLUTE CLASSIC

as for my suggestions

Garys got a boner or Black Diamond off Let it Be

and Definately Maybe has no bad songs

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

Don't tell me you've gotten this far and no one has mentioned "Gary's Got a Boner"

xpost - i was JUST ABOUT TO SAY THIS

― The Milkmaid (of Human Kindness) (The Milkmaid), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:11 (twenty years ago)

woah woah woah woah woah

Someone defended "Mother".

SOMEONE DEFENDED "MOTHER".

Impossible.

― The Good Dr. Bill (The Good Dr. Bill), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:28 (twenty years ago)

How about REM:

Murmur: Shaking Through
Reckoning: Camera
Fables: Old Man Kensey
Life's Rich Pageant: What If We Give It Away
Document: Lightnin' Hopkins
Green: The Wrong Child (oh, so very wrong)
Out Of Time: Radio Song
Automatic For The People: Everybody Hurts (I know people love it, but it always drove me nuts)
Monster: You
New Adventures in HiFi: Blinky The Doormat

That's as far as I go

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

London Calling: "I'm Not Down" ("Koka Kola," "Lover's Rock," and "Lost in the Supermarket" are all quite good I think)
OK Computer: "Electioneering"
This is Hardcore: "TV Movie" (although this one is not a canonized classic...)

Am I the only one who thinks "Pink Triangle" off Pinkerton is kind of annoying?

Oh, and...

Automatic For The People: Everybody Hurts (I know people love it, but it always drove me nuts)

OTM.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:37 (twenty years ago)

i agree about pink triangle now, but in high school i would have ripped your throat out for saying that

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:44 (twenty years ago)

i cant listen to the police at all, but mother makes me chuckle.

garys got a boner -- yr damn right

"pink triangle" is just effing stupid.

but electioneering is just not the one at all. i tend to skip kharma police

bosanova: hangwire

― b b, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:45 (twenty years ago)

"This is Hardcore: "TV Movie"

Got to go with Seductive Barry there. That song blows.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:46 (twenty years ago)

what about The Queen Is Dead?

it would have to be either Vicar in a tutu or Never Had No One ever (i choose vicar)

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:49 (twenty years ago)

hey kornrulez - sister morphine? really? whats not to like? i like dead flowers better, and maybe moonlight mile also, but those three are all fantastic songs...

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:51 (twenty years ago)

for what its worth, JD, former cdepot employee james g (going back a looooong way) used to say frankly mr shankly was worst off QID.

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:53 (twenty years ago)

GASP

Pete, as far as im concerned, that song should be called Frankly Mr. Williamson, and it is a complete classic

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:55 (twenty years ago)

what about The Queen Is Dead?
it would have to be either Vicar in a tutu or Never Had No One ever (i choose vicar)

-- JD from CDepot (kicksjoydarknes...), August 9th, 2005 2:49 PM. (later) (link)

I REALLY LIKE "NEVER HAD NO ONE EVER." :p Although honestly, IMO The Queen is Dead has so many incredible tracks the worst ones are really only mediocre and only look terrible when compared to the highlights of the album.

I'M DUMB SHE'S A LEZZZZZBIAAAAAAAN...

yes you are, Rivers. Yes you are.

― Jessie the Monster (scarymonsterrr), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

i agree that its a classic, but i dont get your reference. dammit.

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:58 (twenty years ago)

oh wait. i get it now. i get it. nevermind, jd.

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 17:59 (twenty years ago)

good

(of course that opinion changes over time, you know how it is there. one day youre the favorite the next day....)

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:01 (twenty years ago)

hey kornrulez - sister morphine? really?

OTM. "Worst" is a relative measure here, of course, but I'd kick "Brown Sugar" or "Bitch" off the island long before "Sister Morphine." I've skipped "Brown Sugar" so many times I often catch myself marvelling over how badass "Sway" is as an opening track - 'til I realize it isn't.

Also, "Dear Doctor"? Less great than "Parachute Woman," "Prodigal Son," or "Factory Girl"?

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah - dear doctor pwns factory girl! ooh ooh! imna start a "rank sticky fingers" thread!

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:27 (twenty years ago)

[i]hey kornrulez - sister morphine? really?[/i]

Worst on any of those Stones albums is a relative term, but Sister Morphine never really did it for me, too long and when he starts talking about Cousin Cocaine I just sort of laugh.

As for worst on Beggars, I can see how Factory Girl could be considered worse than Dear Doctor. But I draw the line at Prodigal Son, I LOVE that song. Especially the "hey" at the end, where it sounds like Mick just touched a hot plate.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

Oh man....how the hell do you get the italics on this bitch, anyway?

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:33 (twenty years ago)

use these:

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:34 (twenty years ago)

shit. use the greater than/less than brackets...

― petesmith (plsmith), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:35 (twenty years ago)

woah woah woah woah woah
Someone defended "Mother".
SOMEONE DEFENDED "MOTHER".
Impossible.

-- The Good Dr. Bill

Nothing's impossible. I like "Mother" better than anything on Side Two of that LP!

Multi xposts - Yeah, "Mind Gardens" is easily the worst thing on Younger Than Yesterday, but it's not the total disaster everyone says it is. The backwards 12-strings are kinda nice.

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:50 (twenty years ago)

shit. use the greater than/less than brackets...

Hope this works.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:56 (twenty years ago)

kornrulez, you have achieved the rank of Level Three HTMLz0r 9j@. Remember that with great power comes great responsibility.

But I draw the line at Prodigal Son, I LOVE that song. Especially the "hey" at the end, where it sounds like Mick just touched a hot plate.

This is entirely reasonable. Ahm jus sayin, is all...

― rogermexico (rogermexico), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)

I always thought "Run for your Life" was pretty lame compared to the rest of Rubber Soul.

― Declan Zimmerman, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:14 (twenty years ago)

kornrulez, you have achieved the rank of Level Three HTMLz0r 9j@. Remember that with great power comes great responsibility.

I can quit any time I want. Besides, all the kids do it

I always thought "Run for your Life" was pretty lame compared to the rest of Rubber Soul.

So did John Lennon. He absolutely hated that song and said as much in many interviews.

― kornrulez6969 (TCBeing), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:16 (twenty years ago)

great minds think alike I guess.

― Declan Zimmerman, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:19 (twenty years ago)

Butcher's Tale from Odessey & Oracle. This was pretty well covered on the recent Zombies thread.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:24 (twenty years ago)

U2's War -- probably "The Refugee"
Public Image Limited's The Flowers of Romance -- "Hymie's Him" is pretty pointless and was intended for a soundtrack anyway

― Ian Riese-Moraine: a casualty of social estrangement. (Eastern Mantra), Tuesday, 9 August 2005 19:27 (twenty years ago)

I don't understand how anyone could pick anything other than "The Girl is Mine" from Thriller.

(Michael)
Don't waste your time
Because the doggone girl is mine
The girl is mine, the girl is mine
(Paul)
Michael, we're not going to fight about this, okay
(Michael)
Paul, I think I told you, I'm a lover not a fighter
(Paul)
Let's go play hopscotch and then play with construction paper!

― Zach S, Tuesday, 9 August 2005 22:05 (twenty years ago)

"U2's War -- probably "The Refugee" "

God, that song is AWFUL

HOW COULD YOU HATE "RUN FOR YOUR LIFE"

― JD from CDepot, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 00:44 (twenty years ago)

I ZIMBRA. In fact, this phenomenon should be called "The I Zimbra Effect." Auto-Reply to nay-sayers: You're a sissy.

"Run for Your Life" is great, no matter what Lennon said. How many instances have we seen of a writer, of songs or otherwise, disowning some of his/her best stuff.

― Tang Train, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 00:55 (twenty years ago)

dude, did someone say the worst song on john wesley harding is "frankie lee and judas priest"? WRONG.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 02:26 (twenty years ago)

I ZIMBRA. In fact, this phenomenon should be called "The I Zimbra Effect." Auto-Reply to nay-sayers: You're a sissy.

"Run for Your Life" is great, no matter what Lennon said. How many instances have we seen of a writer, of songs or otherwise, disowning some of his/her best stuff.

Tang I was thinking over Heads on my drive home ... I'll go with "Moon Rocks" being the lame cut on "Speaking in Tongues" but I have to differ with "I Zimbra" ... it's grown on me over the years.

"Run for your LIfe" hasn't, no matter what Lennon said.

What does sissy have to do with anything?

― Declan Zimmerman, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 06:27 (twenty years ago)

I suppose homophobic Coors-drinking locker room retards have to get their kicks somehow. I blame the Sixties.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 06:36 (twenty years ago)

Can I belatedly defend 'Mind Gardens'? I had to dig out Younger Than Yesterday last night to remind myself what it was like and I quite enjoyed it, but I do have a weakness for the wobbly lilt of free-form folk ballads like that. It feels like the frayed outer edges of the rest of the album -which I love- but where all the improvised elements sometimes seem a bit too neatly stitched up within the songs. Here all the different strands are free to waggle around on their own bent wavelength. Really close to Tim Buckley in sound isn't it? Don't really have much of a handle on the chronology of the whole LA scene, but you can hear ideas bouncing back and forth there.

― NickB (NickB), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 07:47 (twenty years ago)

there are worse songs than 'moon rocks' on 'speaking in tongues'. and 'i zimbra' is good. 'animals', 'heaven', and maybe 'life during wartime' are worse. (still all great, natch).

― N_RQ, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 07:55 (twenty years ago)

"4 Ever 2 Gether" on Lexicon Of Love.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 07:57 (twenty years ago)

Nooooooo! It's fine, and doth not ruin LoL's utter perfection.

Alright, if I can't have Mind Gardens, what about 2-4-2 Foxtrot (The Lear Jet Song)?

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Come off it...after the dextrous wordplay of the rest of the album, do we really need an AoR guitar heralding Our Martin telling us that "You can't tell me how to run my life"? The only interesting factor about this track is that it paves the way for Beauty Stab. They should have substituted "Into The Valley Of The Heathens Go" as heard on bonus track on deluxe 2CD reissue of LoL.

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 11:56 (twenty years ago)

Well I like it. And the Beauty Stab too.

― Dr. C (Dr. C), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:03 (twenty years ago)

From Land's End to John O'Groats...

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:05 (twenty years ago)

"love song" on like a prayer
-- you people and your friends are fake (theundergroundhom...), August 9th, 2005.
it's not a brilliant but "act of contrition " was not even a song.
michael jackson - thriller - "wanna be starting something"
michael jackson - bad "speed demon"
madonna - true blue - "white heat"
wham - fantastic "like a baby"

― teil nennant, Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:37 (twenty years ago)

"Ignoreland" on "Automatic for the People."

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 12:52 (twenty years ago)

I Zimbra only works as the first song on the album. I wouldn't like it if it came in the middle.

And the second half of Ritual De Lo Habitual is great - Three Days, Then She Did, Classic Girl - except for Of Course, of course.

― joygoat (joygoat), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 17:23 (twenty years ago)

You Can't Always Get What You Want. Thank god it's the last song.

― Billy Pilgrim (Billy Pilgrim), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 19:54 (twenty years ago)

Defend the Indefensible: "Fitter Happier"

― joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:49 (twenty years ago)

Blur: Parklife - Trouble In The Message Centre
Streets: Original Pirate Material - Sharp Darts
Boo Radleys: Giant Steps - Barney & Me

I'll probably get a kicking for that last one but Barney & Me and Wish I Was Skinny were far too straight-up for that album imo.

― dog latin (dog latin), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 22:56 (twenty years ago)

Jackals, False Grails The Lonesome Era: Pavement (worst on Slanted & Enchanted)

omg u r deaf

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 10 August 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

the token bruce foxton track on all jam albums (e.g. "smithers jones")?

hey, smithers-jones is among the best tracks on 'setting sons'

― zeus, Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:42 (twenty years ago)

Run for your Life is great. The real dud on Rubber Soul is Wait.

― Masked Gazza, Thursday, 11 August 2005 11:51 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, "Wait" or "Girl." "Run for Your Life" is loads of fun.
And "Mother," "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'," "Conduit for Sale," and "The World Has Turned and Left Me Here" have all, at one point, been my favorite songs off their albums, if not in the world.
How about:
"Bulletproof" off The Bends (just meanders and doesn't have any melodic kick like the others)
"Wheels" off Can You Fly (repeats itself for fucking ever)
"Tears of Rage" and "I Shall Be Released" off Big Pink (very slow)

― dr. phil (josh langhoff), Thursday, 11 August 2005 12:31 (twenty years ago)

five months pass...

"Stockholm Syndrome" > Yo La Tengo > I can hear the heart
"Touched" > My Bloody Valentine > Loveless
"Sweaters" > Laurie Anderson > Big Science
"High on Sunday 51" > Aimee Mann > Lost in Space
"Pluto" > Bjork > Homogenic
"Wampum Prayer" > Tori Amos > Scarlet's Walk
"Two Lovers Stop" > Freedy Johnston > This Perfect World
"Blue Motel Room" > Joni Mitchell > Hejira
"Twisted" > Joni Mitchell > Court & Spark
"Fear of Trains" > Magnetic Fields > Charm of the Highway Strip
"Soft Like Me" > Saint Etienne > Finisterre
"Dying" > XTC > Skylarking

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 29 January 2006 05:30 (twenty years ago)

thriller - wanna be startin something
true blue - jimmy jimmy
lovesexy - dance on
captain fantastic and the dirt cowboy - saucers
voulez vouz - the king has lost it's crown
here's to future days - tokyo
abbey road - mean mr mustard
crowded house - don't dream it's over
the innocents - witch in the ditch

― retrogurl, Sunday, 29 January 2006 11:44 (twenty years ago)

"Witch in the Ditch." LOL! I took a look at The Innocents and thought, "there's no way I can pick the worst song from Side Two..."

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 29 January 2006 12:21 (twenty years ago)

xpost - "Pluto" > Bjork > Homogenic

Surely, you mean 'Alarm Call'? And 'Pluto' is great anyway...

― fandango (fandango), Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:15 (twenty years ago)

fleetwood mac - tusk - almost all the songs singing by the ladies, except maybe "over and over"
nei young - on the beach - vampire blues
stooges - 1st - "we will fall" of course
love - "forever changes" - live and let live

― me, Sunday, 29 January 2006 13:49 (twenty years ago)

Surely, you mean 'Alarm Call'? And 'Pluto' is great anyway...

"Pluto" gets on my nerves like nothing else in her catalogue. Including "Drawing Restraint 9." The shrieking-harpy vocals make me want to kill myself. "Alarm Call" may be dippy, but so is "Venus As A Boy."

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:10 (twenty years ago)

"The Cross" on Sign O' The Times .

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Sunday, 29 January 2006 15:49 (twenty years ago)

Wow, "Touched", "Of Course", and "Ignoreland" are all real highlights for me.

― Sundar (sundar), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:22 (twenty years ago)

"Voices Of Old People" (Bookends)
"Bank Holiday" (Parklife)
"Yellow Submarine" (Revolver)
"Working On The Highway" (Born In The USA)
"Les Boys" (Making Movies)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 29 January 2006 16:38 (twenty years ago)

"Dying" > XTC > Skylarking

Insane. I came in to post the actual obvious answer for this record, "Big Day" and someone posts one of the better tracks instead. I thought the "Big Day is the worst XTC song and a blight on a timeless classic" meme was universally accepted with no debate?!?!?

― caspar (caspar), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:07 (twenty years ago)

I knew I'd picked some controversial choices.

"Big Day" isn't great, I admit, but to my ears, "Dying" is cloying and sentimental in the worst possible way. "The multicoloured tea cosy"?! I can't get around the lyrics. Colin's pitched some dumb-ass stuff (cf., "Standing In For Joe"), but the gravitas just doesn't stick on this one for me. Sorry, kids.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:34 (twenty years ago)

If I've contributed to this thread before, I forgot, so here I go again:
"A Boy Named Sue," JOHNNY CASH AT SAN QUENTIN
"One Woman," HOT BUTTERED SOUL (Isaac Hayes)
"Sex Machine," STAND! (Sly & the Family Stone)
The Rubinoos' "Gorilla," BESERKELEY CHARTBUSTERS (various artists)
I forgot the name of that real long song, DA CAPO (Love)
"Texas," A LONG TIME COMING (Electric Flag)

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Sunday, 29 January 2006 17:59 (twenty years ago)

Insane. I came in to post the actual obvious answer for this record, "Big Day" and someone posts one of the better tracks instead.

One of the main reasons why "Skylarking" is one of the best albums ever is the fact that it doesn't contain any weak tracks at all.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 29 January 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

The real dud on Rubber Soul is Wait.

The real dud on Rubber Soul is "What Goes On"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 29 January 2006 21:22 (twenty years ago)

"Gorilla" is so much better than freaking "Mood Mood Number" by Greg Kihn (and probably other songs on the album that I never listen to as well - I think "Gorilla" is my second favorite song on there after "The New Teller").

Rubinoos rule. Peace out.

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Sunday, 29 January 2006 21:27 (twenty years ago)

i disagree with myke weiskopf on yo la tengo! but i suppose i agree on saint etienne, even though i still sort of like the song. which is how i feel about 'relocate' off of tales from turnpike house.

― gear (gear), Sunday, 29 January 2006 21:35 (twenty years ago)

i suppose i agree on saint etienne, even though i still sort of like the song. which is how i feel about 'relocate' off of tales from turnpike house.

Yeah, I would have picked "Relocate" from Turnpike, like most people, I suppose.

"Soft Like Me" just sounds like a second-tier Spice Girls single... which, despite my openmindedness in many other cases, is not a good thing from Saint Etienne.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Sunday, 29 January 2006 23:25 (twenty years ago)

"Why Don't We Do It in the Road"

"Birthday"

― shookout (shookout), Sunday, 29 January 2006 23:33 (twenty years ago)

"Birthday"

Oh, sweet Jesus, for a heart-stopping moment I thought this was about the Sugarcubes...!

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 30 January 2006 02:23 (twenty years ago)

TIM ELLISON: You're right, the Rubinoos' rule.

But they had FAR better material than the one song that wound up on BESERKLEY CHARTBUSTERS!

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Monday, 30 January 2006 03:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm boggled at how anyone can even dislike "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" let alone say it's the worst on the album when "The Girl Is Mine" exists. The song's an embarrasment to all parties involved and whoever decided it should have been the first single on an album with (list of every other song on Thriller) is, in the words of MJ, devilish. G'damn, I hate that song. Sorry for the rant.

However, NWA's "Something 2 Dance 2" pwns this thread.

― R. J. Greene, Monday, 30 January 2006 03:29 (twenty years ago)

However, NWA's "Something 2 Dance 2" pwns this thread.

Wow, good call.

― Myke Weiskopf (Myke Weiskopf), Monday, 30 January 2006 04:04 (twenty years ago)

EVERY classic album has one dud on it.

I defy anyone to find a "bad" song on Peter Gabriel's SO.

― Cliftonb, Monday, 30 January 2006 04:45 (twenty years ago)

Cover Me off Post, yeesh

― king cobra 66oz triple gulp shine like diamonds on them 20s, Monday, 30 January 2006 08:54 (twenty years ago)

Oh and it's not exactly rubbish but I always seem to skip Plainsong on Polyfusia

― king cobra 66oz triple gulp shine like diamonds on them 20s, Monday, 30 January 2006 08:56 (twenty years ago)

of course just now remembering that Polyfusia is just the two EPs stuck together... oh well

― king cobra 66oz triple gulp shine like diamonds on them 20s, Monday, 30 January 2006 09:01 (twenty years ago)

You guys beat me to it - 'Jazz Police' and 'Mother'.

― Eazy (Eazy), Monday, 30 January 2006 09:02 (twenty years ago)

could play this game with many elvis costello lp's, but "from a whisper to a scream" on trust really irks me every time. i love squeeze but glenn tilbrook should just not be there!

my big picks (space odyssey, murder mystery, rainy day women...) have all been said already...but "novacaine" and especially "high 5" on "odelay" sorta prevent superclassic status on that record.

"i want you to want me" on cheap trick "in color" is also winceworthy though the live and demo versions are great.

i like the song o.k. but "cheeseburger" is pretty far off the mark of greatness that every other track on "solid gold" manages to hit.

― naturemorte, Monday, 30 January 2006 09:48 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe whoever said "andmoreagain" was the worst on forever changes, in fact it was actually my favorite! Whoever said "what goes on" was the real dud on rubber soul, hit the nail on the head!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Monday, 30 January 2006 10:03 (twenty years ago)

"Witch in the Ditch." LOL! I took a look at The Innocents and thought, "there's no way I can pick the worst song from Side Two..."
-- Myke Weiskopf (spa...), January 29th, 2006.
it's the worst song but i can listen to it.i nearly said "yahoo"

― retrokid, Monday, 30 January 2006 10:44 (twenty years ago)

"Voices Of Old People" (Bookends)
"Bank Holiday" (Parklife)
"Yellow Submarine" (Revolver)
"Working On The Highway" (Born In The USA)
"Les Boys" (Making Movies)

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), January 29th, 2006.
i agree with blur,beatles and the boss.

― retrokid, Monday, 30 January 2006 10:47 (twenty years ago)

The Jam's In the City sounds better today than when it came out in the punk era and everybody was trying so hard to patronise their audience. Songs like I Got By In Time and Non Stop Dancin' were just too lighthearted for that age, but still sound mindblowing to these ears. In other ways it was totally of its time, and the worst of the worst is Bricks and Mortar, a hamfisted dud about car parks reflecting society or something.

btw: I can't believe someone upthread considers Shaking Through is the worst track off Murmur. It's so clearly a gem, eclipsing even Perfect Circle

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 30 January 2006 10:53 (twenty years ago)

The real dud on Rubber Soul is Wait.
The real dud on Rubber Soul is "What Goes On"

"What Goes On" >>>>>>>>> "Run For Your Life"

― phil d. (Phil D.), Monday, 30 January 2006 13:44 (twenty years ago)

I defy anyone to find a "bad" song on Peter Gabriel's SO.
-- Cliftonb (clftnbrw...), January 29th, 2006 11:45 PM. (later)

OMG - shootin' fish in a barrel...

― Dave will do (dave225.3), Monday, 30 January 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

Face it, Rubber Soul has plenty of duds. It may have been a breakthrough production-wise, the inspiration behind Pet Sounds, etc, but I can never understand the praise heaped upon it.

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Monday, 30 January 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

Must admit I always found "Strange Relationship" a bit of a boring plod.

-- Marcello Carlin (marcellocarli...), August 9th, 2005.

GWUH?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 January 2006 21:20 (twenty years ago)

Actually I think I'm gonna have to agree with Dr X O, Rubber Soul had some great tunes, but I really feel that it IS their most overrated album.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 01:06 (twenty years ago)

"The Beatles" is their most overrated album. Only around half the tracks are any good at all, and yet the album is loved - particularly by people who aren't too fond of the rest of their output.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 01:51 (twenty years ago)

But, Revolution 9 is really undrrated! To me at least.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 02:25 (twenty years ago)

The real dud on Rubber Soul is Wait.
The real dud on Rubber Soul is "What Goes On"
"What Goes On" >>>>>>>>> "Run For Your Life"

-- phil d. (pldenniso...), January 30th, 2006.
The Realler dud is "If I Needed Someone".
The Reallest dud is "The Word".

― retrogurl, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 05:47 (twenty years ago)

I think "Mother" on Synchronicity ownz this thread. --- Pleasant Plains, August 11th, 2003.

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: Synchronicity. --- Pleasant Plains , October 28th, 2003.

Don't even get me started on "Mother" from Synchronicity --- Pleasant Plains, September 20th, 2004.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 05:58 (twenty years ago)

I can't believe Love was mentioned, but the second side of Da Capo was not.

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 06:42 (twenty years ago)

It was, it's just a long thread and I'm still reeling with outrage at people dissing "We Will Fall" from the Stooges or pretending that there isn't a more horrific song on Rubber Soul than "Run For Your Life".

That said...

Rainy Day Woman #12 and #5 is one I consistently skip. And o. nate's inability to get "Sad Eyed Lady" inspires great pity in me.

I shouldn't read these threads after a night at the pub.

― sleeve (sleeve), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 07:58 (twenty years ago)

I'll defend "Gary's Got A Boner." Let it Be needs both Tommy gets his tonsils out and Gary's Got a Boner to balance out the mopey sad sack shit in "Answering Machine." Sure it's worthy of the 100 dissertations written on it. But if you think the subject matter is that different than Dashboard Confessional - you be wrong! It's emo-riffic!

I dig it, but the cover of "Black Diamond" is probably the worst track on that record.

― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 08:14 (twenty years ago)

Stevie Wonder - "If It's Magic" and "Summersoft" off Songs From The Key of Life.
-- Alfred Soto (sotoal...), August 9th, 2005 7:55 AM. (Alfred Soto)

"Summer Soft" is my favorite song ever. I mean that really. Ever.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 08:33 (twenty years ago)

Michelle is the worst track on Rubber Soul, as any fule kno.

As far as Bruce Foxton tracks go, Smithers-Jones is one of his better efforts. The worst is London Traffic, closely followed by Don't Tell Them You're Sane, both on the truly dreadful This is the Modern World

― bham, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:35 (twenty years ago)

Oh come on, Modern World is GREAT! Life From A Window, Tonight At Noon, I Need You, Standards, In The Street Today...terrific stuff. Sure, the Bruce tracks are filler with dreadful lyrics, but they're spunky and spirited and keep the AC-30's humming until the next Paul track comes along. Have a heart!

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:54 (twenty years ago)

damn, beat me to the punch Dr C. Don't forget a fantastic version of the late Wilson Pickett's In the Midnight Hour

― dr x o'skeleton, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 10:59 (twenty years ago)

But, Revolution 9 is really undrrated!

Not, it is worst. There are lots of truly awful tracks on that album ("Yer Blues", "Helter Skelter", "Why Don't We Do It In The Road", "Don't Pass Me By", "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey", "Good Night"), but "Revolution 9" remains clearly the worst one.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:22 (twenty years ago)

"Good Night" is worse

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:24 (twenty years ago)

The Beatles win this thread.

― ..., Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:29 (twenty years ago)

Rev 9 is fantastic! So is Helter Skelter and 'Monkey' My vote would be Why Don't We Do It In The Road. Sounds like a Groundhogs b-side.

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:54 (twenty years ago)

Beach Boys to thread

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 11:57 (twenty years ago)

Beach Boys to thread

How many "great albums" did they truly have, though?

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:10 (twenty years ago)

... yes, true

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:12 (twenty years ago)

Mothership Connection - "Handcuffs"

... which is still a great track, it just doesn't fit with the concept of the album at all

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:13 (twenty years ago)

**How many "great albums" did they truly have, though? **

For me, only Holland and that has no dud tracks.

Sunflower has the gruesome At My Window and Surf's Up has Take A Load Off Your Feet. I don't really mind Student Demonstration Time!

― Dr.C (Dr.C), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 12:36 (twenty years ago)

I love "At My Window". "Holland" has that "The Beaks of Eagles" crap on it.

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 13:54 (twenty years ago)

... and then there's that terrible "fairy tale", which is beyond crap!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 13:55 (twenty years ago)

I dig it, but the cover of "Black Diamond" is probably the worst track on that record.

I disagree with you that it's the worst track, but I will say that it's the most dispensible.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:19 (twenty years ago)

... I know you're not talking about "Rip, Rig and Panic" by Roland Kirk - but the cover version of "Black Diamond" might be the worst thing on that (great) album

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Mothership Connection - "Handcuffs"
... which is still a great track, it just doesn't fit with the concept of the album at all

-- Dadaismus (dadaismu...), January 31st, 2006.

I was just about to say "Wizard Of Finance" from Funkentelechy vs the Placebo Syndrome for the exact same reason. Only differance being, "Handcuffs" is great fun and "Wizard" is shit of the highest order. I guess they had to have their Glen Goines ballad, whether it fit the concept or not.

Jay-Z's "That Nigga Jigga" from The Blueprint is just like "Handcuffs"; damn good, but way out of place.

I'd also like to nominate whatever the name of the song on Music of My Mind is where Stevie talks like a fucking retard. I hate that song.

"She Watch Channel Zero" from It Takes A Nation Of Millions To Hold Us Back deserves a mention too.

― R. J. Greene, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)

"Sweet Little Girl" is the name of the Stevie song.

― R J Greene, Tuesday, 31 January 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)

Yes! I totally agree with Dr. C on the Beatles thing(funny, as it seems that I agree with guys whose names start with "Dr" on this thread)

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:56 (twenty years ago)

But I'll also have to throw in honey pie as the worst song on that album(not the funny weird version,which is great,but the godawful McCartney one)

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 22:59 (twenty years ago)

"Honey Pie" is great!

Speaking of Beach Boys, "Surf's Up" is generally (and well-deserved) consider part of the "canon" (maybe not the first page, but certainly lower down the list). And "Surf's Up" contains the awful "Student Demonstration Time".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:35 (twenty years ago)

There are lots of truly awful tracks on that album ("Yer Blues", "Helter Skelter", "Why Don't We Do It In The Road", "Don't Pass Me By", "Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey", "Good Night"

You are an insane person. Three of those songs are among the best on the album.

― phil d. (Phil D.), Tuesday, 31 January 2006 23:52 (twenty years ago)

Beach Boys Today!-"Bull Session With Big Daddy"

― Chairman Doinel (Charles McCain), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:14 (twenty years ago)

"After the Flood" on Laughing Stock.
"Knives Out" on Amnesiac.
"Alarm Call" on Homogenic.
"It's Oh So Quiet" or maybe "I Miss You" on Post.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Meh. Why the hate on "Fitter Happier"? It's nice.

― Turangalila (Salvador), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:20 (twenty years ago)

"She Watch Channel Zero" is far from the worst song on Nation of Millions

"Honey Pie" is great!

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), January 31st, 2006 5:35 PM. (GeirHong)

Least suprising thing I've read all day.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:31 (twenty years ago)

I don't know. The one thing I've realized from this thread is that people have INSANELY different tastes in music!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:45 (twenty years ago)

One man's trash is anothers gold!

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 00:46 (twenty years ago)

SHAKEY MO: I DID indeed mention the second side of Love's DA CAPO. I just forgot the title ("Revelation?").

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 02:52 (twenty years ago)

oh what the hell, "Fuck the world" on Turbonegro's Scandinavian Leather certianly fits the "La 1981 meets Detroit 1968" thing they were going for, but its still nowhere near as good as the rest of the record.

― Uncle Tom (Uncle Tom), Wednesday, 1 February 2006 04:08 (twenty years ago)

I would have said Don't Be Shy on The Libertines, but my 3-yr-old son started singing it and now i don't hate it no more.
The worst song on Up the Bracket is The Boy Looked at Johnny, but someone else probably thinks it's the only good thing.

one man's meat is another man's...er potatoes

― dr x o'skeleton, Wednesday, 1 February 2006 10:27 (twenty years ago)

gun club - miami - the "run through the jungle" cover sucks!
television - marquee noon - guiding light - who remembers that song anyway?

― sdad, Thursday, 2 February 2006 22:57 (twenty years ago)

one man's meat is another man's reason to protest about the "evils" of eating animals and how absolutely cruel it is to eat it, therefore abstaining from eating the stuff alltogether only to substitue it with lesser versions of the stuff, which in part do not provide the same proteins the human body needs resulting in if the man WERE to eat meat ever again the man would become horribly SICK! ...........but that's just like..........my opinion man.

― xgurggleglgllg (xgurggleglgllg), Thursday, 2 February 2006 23:12 (twenty years ago)

television - marquee noon - guiding light - who remembers that song anyway?

It's one of my favourites on the album. "Torn Curtain" is the weakest (too pompous)

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 February 2006 10:20 (twenty years ago)

Joni Mitchell - Hejira - Blue motel Room
Joni Mitchell - Hissing - In France They Kiss on Main Street

― Baaderonixx, born again in Xixax (baaderonixx), Friday, 3 February 2006 10:49 (twenty years ago)

"Velvet Underground And Nico" ---> "Heroin".

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:22 (twenty years ago)

Geir likes "European Son"!!!!!!!!!!!

― Dadaismus (Dada), Friday, 3 February 2006 12:35 (twenty years ago)

this thread has so much I cannot fathom, but I'm glad to see people picking "everybody hurts from Automatic for the People, I'd really like that album if it weren't for that piece of horrible mawkishness.

― el.k, Friday, 3 February 2006 13:02 (twenty years ago)

Geir likes "European Son"!!!!!!!!!!!

I just dislike "Heroin" more.

The only three songs I really like on "Velvet Underground And Nico" - a terribly overrated album IMO - are "Sunday Morning", "Here She Comes" and "Venus In Furs". The album is better than the awful and unlistenable "White Light/White Heat", but not by any means as good as "Loaded" in particular.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:12 (twenty years ago)

Geir likes "European Son"!!!!!!!!!!!
I just dislike "Heroin" more.

-- Geir Hongro (geirhon...), February 3rd, 2006.
omd did sunday morning on liberator and it's better.

― retrokid, Friday, 3 February 2006 15:39 (twenty years ago)

canary in a goldmine

― retrokid, Friday, 3 February 2006 15:41 (twenty years ago)

OMD are generally a lot better than Velvet Underground anyway, so no surprise there :)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Friday, 3 February 2006 15:55 (twenty years ago)

"Geezers Need Excitement" on Original Pirate Material
"I Kill Children" on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
"What Does Your Soul Look Like (Part 4)" on Endtroducing
"Don't Stop" on The Stone Roses
"Fire in My Heart" on Guerrilla
"If Things Were Perfect" on Play
"Mod Lang" on Radio City
"The Great Gig in the Sky" on The Dark Side of the Moon
"Sitting Still" on Murmur
"Next in Line" on Open Doors, Closed Windows
"Moby Dick" on Led Zeppelin II
"Hazey Jane II" on Bryter Layter
"Surfboy" on dubnobasswithmyheadman
"Cold Blows the Wind" on The Mollusk
"Candi" on Chocolate and Cheese

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 4 February 2006 00:05 (twenty years ago)

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