Submitted by Theobviouschild11 t3_11b1lpz in Music
Like a song that you constantly question why in the world they decided to keep it in when it’s just so inferior to everything else on the record. I’ll give a few that come to mind for me.
2 Extreme Wealth and Casual Cruelty - Multi-Love, Unknown Mortal Orchestra
The White album should have been a single album. Would have been perhaps the best album ever if cherry picked songs down to a single LP.
I disagree. I think they should have ditched R9 and included Child of Nature, Not Guilty and Junk (and spent the time fleshing those songs out obviously). There aren't any other songs that I'd personally cut from the album.
Whittle it down to an EP and I’m in!
Nope. Just take out Revolution 9, that’s it.
Revolution No. 9 gets way too much hate for being the 2nd most unlistenable track on the record. Looking at you, Wild Honey Pie
I'd maybe agree with you if WHP were 8 1/2 minutes long.
It’s the only song I’ll skip on The White Album. But damn, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer… I just can’t get through it.
I mean, it's a little silly, sure, but it's occasionally listenable.
Whereas idk...Let It Be, Hey Jude, Come Together, and Yellow Submarine are just flat out annoyant.
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Nah theres a few songs on there worth skipping tbh.
You can skip as many as you want. You don't even have to listen to it at all. I'm just saying the song that I would have taken off the album is that one.
I don’t think you understand the original question. It’s what perfect album gets ruined by one or two songs. Theres a number of skippable songs there. Not just one.
Except you're wrong, and that's okay. You're allowed to be. There aren't any other skippable songs on that record.
You could also just stop for two seconds and realize that it is completely subjective. Just because you view a song as "skippable" doesn't make it some universal truth. There are no objectively good or bad songs, or songs that objectively ruin an album.
It’s all subjective, thanks for stating the obvious.
Then what are you arguing about? What are you implying I don't understand?
Of all the possible answers you could of picked theres better observations and more interesting answers than The Beatles White Album that’s all I’m saying.
Wow.
Agreed. Excellent album but very much imperfect, which is the point.
I would get on perfectly fine without Birthday.
For every While my Guitar Gently Weeps theres a Wild Honey Pie that just stinks the room out.
That one I can deal with, because it’s only a minute long and is clearly meant to confuse the listener, by which standard it does its job very well. I wouldn’t listen to it on purpose but I can’t usually be bothered to skip it. For some reason it reminds me more of a short cutscene in a video game than anything else.
I have more of a problem with its namesake, Honey Pie. I respect the Beatles for their understanding of British music history and their place in it, and their love for the music that represented that tradition, but I don’t need to show that respect by repeatedly listening to their take on music hall.
The Police - Synchronicity
So many great songs. And then that charmless obscenity “Mother” comes on and I want to stuff icepicks into my eardrums…
Best song on the record. Andy Summers rules.
Yes, as evidenced by his stellar solo career, and Sting’s failure as one.
Sting solo is the definition of dull.
So dull that in 2017, Andy Summers created a tribute band called Call The Police to play all the songs Sting wrote.
Which proves what exactly? That he needed a paycheck?
Couldn’t disagree more. I love his solo stuff
My World on GNRs UYI2. Perfect album until it gets to the last song, this piece of shit song.
ARE YOU KIDDING?? MY WORLD IS A MASTERPIECE!!! YOU WANNA STEP INTO MY WORLD?? LMAO
Wow. I did not actually expect to see this here. It was my first thought when I read the question, but then I quickly remembered 'Get in the Ring' is also on that album. 'My World' is where Axl wanted to take G'n'R, and it's fucking garbage.
You got your bitches with the silicone injections Crystal meth and yeast infections
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Get in the ring motherfucker! and I'll kick your bitchy little ass! punk!!
Hahaha.
Holy fuck both those tracks send me back. I loved them as a 12/13 year old when the album came out hahaha.
i actually love get in the ring, it’s just far enough to be gnr but not enough to be my world lol
I'll upvote that. I do kinda dig GitR, but it's also just so fucking edgelord.
That one pink floyd song with long name on ummagumma. The album despite popular belief is actually a fairly well put together avant-garde album being an aquired taste, but that one furry animals song is absolutely atrocious and will make just about anyone's paralyzed grandfather get up and turn it off.
You DON'T like 'Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict?'
LOL! I made an ex of mine listen to it with me one time. She almost had an aneurysm when I said "Keep with it, it get a lot better once the hyenas kick in.".
My dogs love "several small species...", always gets them howling so it's worth something.
Friends and I would always put that one on at high school parties...yes, we were very popular.
All the skits on Crazy Sexy Cool by TLC. Kills the flow of the album and you can never play it through unless you like the sounds of toilets flushing.
For years every hip hop and many R&B albums for some reason had to have the dumb skit tracks.
There was way too much space on a CD and artists felt compelled to fill it for some reason
Yeah. Nearly every rock album of that era had like 15 tracks and was at least an hour long and if you were lucky half of it was worth hearing.
This annoys me so much. So many albums just have like 5 too many songs on them. Could have been a super tight 10-11 songs, but no we need to get to 16+ songs plus maybe some skits and of course at least one hidden track at the end!
Miles Davis’ 1967 album Sorcerer is an excellent snapshot of Davis moving towards his psychedelic era, and the album is great until the final song “Nothing Like You” which was recorded in 1962 and features Bob Dorough (nowadays best known as the “folksy” singer of various Schoolhouse Rock songs) on vocals, and even at less than 2:00 wears out its welcome quickly.
Friday I'm in Love on Wish by the Cure. The whole album is continuing their trend as maturing as artists but that song is blatantly aimed at being a radio hit and a throw back to their earlier sound.
Not saying it's a horrible song, but the album would have been stronger without it.
And the band so much poorer
F/X from Black Sabbath’s Vol 4
Fitter Happier from Radiohead’s OK Computer
Bull Session with the Big Daddy from The Beach Boys Today!
Whaaaat? Fitter Happier is a great song.
Listening Wind and The Overload are great songs. Sure, they are very much removed from the tempo etc of the rest of the album, but still great. If anything, Seen and Not Seen is also an outlier.
Maybe I need to give them more listens. Just never stood out to me. I do love Seen Not Seen tho. That backbeat with the weird lyrics over. Amazing
To me, every track is amazing in its own way..
Someone mentioned Automatic for the People by REM in the comments. One of my favorite albums, but I’ve never really enjoyed Star Me Kitten. Every other track is great, but that one breaks up my experience. At least it leads into one of the finest final three tracks on any album, Man on the Moon, Nightswimming, and Find the River.
It certainly doesn't ruin the album, but "Swing On This" at the end of Jar of Flies by Alice In Chains just doesn't belong there. Not at all. And it's enough to move that album out of contention for the best album of all time for me. Otherwise, the mood established by the rest of the album is a sheer masterpiece. But then that song comes along and shifts the whole mood. It's rough.
KISS'S Destroyer has one bad song: Rock N Roll Party. It's pointless.
Their Love Gun contains Then She Kissed Me, which I think would've served us all better by being 30 seconds. (Yes, I get that it is an adaptation, but still.)
I tend to skip them... But now that you mention it, Idiots Rule has always been pretty fuckin jarring and kind of takes you out of of the bliss that is Summertime Rolls and Mountain Song.
Disagree!
Thanks for reminding me to listen to that album more!
“Well It’s True That We Love One Another” on Elephant by The White Stripes
Inheritance by New Model Army off Thunder and Consolation.
I was never a fan of Justin's spoken word songs, and this one just spoils the flow of an otherwise excellent album.
I liked that one. For me, it fits in nicely.
Absolutely! The album would be so much better without it.
Nine Inch Nails - The Downward Spiral
Song #9…never have I listened to an album that I otherwise love but hate a single point in it so much…
I thought, “wait, no way this person means the song I think they mean…” but you do? Big Man With A Gun? I can’t understand liking NIN, and this album in particular, liking Mr Self Destruct, and March of the Pigs, but not that song
I don’t think I’m the only one that holds this opinion, but far from universal. I personally think it’s the worst musically, and I find it grating to my ears. However, I also think that album is one of the pinnacles of modern music.
It's pretty essential to the flow of the album
I won’t argue with how others feel regarding flow, but it’s pretty essential for me to remove it
Neither "My Wife" nor "Going Mobile" are the worst songs ever, but they really stand out as trifles next to the other seven tracks on _Who's Next_.
Any Ryan Adams fans? Gold is almost a perfect album but fucking Enemy Fire sucks so bad.
“Les Boys” on Making Movies by Dire Straits
My favorite Dire Straits album.
One of their worst songs.
Double Fantasy- John Lennon. Yoko messed it up
It is rather the other way around but Kurt Cobain's album: 'Montage Of Heck: The home recordings' has some good songs among the most random stuff
I agree with you on white light.
Rise and Fall, and Livin Ain't No Crime ruin an otherwise 10/10 Keeper Of The Seven Keys part 2 by Helloween
Any Brad fans here? Shame is a nearly perfect album but Bad for the Soul is awful.
“God Damn” from “The Stage” by Avenged Sevenfold
“Starfuckers” from “The Fragile” by NIИ (great song, but it ruins the flow of the album)
“Bound 2” from “Yeezus” by Kanye West
“Der Meister” from “Herzeleid” by Rammstein
“Welcome To The Family” and “Danger Line” from “Nightmare” by Avenged Sevenfold
“Dyslexia” from “DaDa” by Alice Cooper
Starfuckers is totally out of place on The Fragile. I skip it every time. Probably one of the only NIN songs I actually despise.
The Happy Song on Poet of the Fall's Temple of Thought album. That album is amazing, but I have no idea why they made that song. It is nothing like any other song of theirs and it is just weird. It's the only song from them that I ever skip.
Ol Roscoe on of Fungi and Foe by Les Claypool
The song "Twenties" off Ghost's album "Impera" is the first that comes to mind
Another is Shinedown's "PYRO" off their album "ATTENTION ATTENTION"
I don't know that it's a perfect album to speak of, but reading this post and some of the comments made me immediately think about how My Carnival feels so out of place on McCartney's Venus and Mars.
Pinocchio Story on 808s and Heartbreak by Kanye. I respect its out-there-ness, but I really don't like it.
Action! Not Words - Pyromania from Def Leppard. It’s just so inferior to the rest of the album.
"If He's Here, Then Who's Running Hell?" - Four Year Strong, Rise or Die Trying.
Not even that bad of a song, but the only one that isn't a super perfect banger.
“East St. Louis Toodle-oo” on Pretzel Logic by Steely Dan. WTF is that doing on there? Also why is that song on one of their greatest hits albums? The ultimate troll.
“On the Run” on DSOTM by Pink Floyd. This song just seems out of place to me. Total filler that sounds like they found some interesting equipment in the studio and decided to just monkey around with it for shits and giggles.
"Twenties" ruins "Impera," by Ghost, for me. Amazing album, and then that song starts playing and makes you want to stop listening to the album.
Oh Daddy on Rumours
Led Zeppelin have no duff tracks on any of their albums except Hats Off To (Roy) Harper on Led Zeppelin III which makes my ears bleed..
Any day of any week I'll take Harper over Fool In The Rain.
Speaking of Zeppelin III, have you listened to the version of Out On The Tiles off the 1995 tribute album ENCOMIUM?
Glitter Freeze - Plastic Beach, Gorillaz
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Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts from Dylan's Blood on the Tracks
I dunno. In retrospect I’ve kinda come to appreciate bound 2. Mainly because of the Seth Rogan James Franco vid
Fair enough. I just don't like it.
By Myself needs to be removed from Hybrid Theory, fight me
Seamus on Pink Floyd's Meddle
(that's the dog)
LEPER MESSIAH METALLICA MASTER OF PUPPETS
Bahh you said album, now that is funny
Houses of the Holy - The Crunge and D’yer Mak’er
This is an extremely hot take lmao
Even hotter take, I prefer Hot Dog over The Crunge 😂
I can go along with the hate on The Crunge, but D’yer Mak’er is a’ight man.
I've always thought that OK Computer would have been better without Electioneering.
You could have said Fitter Happier
To me, Electioneering is to OK Computer what Ignoreland is to Automatic For The People. A faster paced uptempo political song that breaks up both albums very nicely imho
Fitter Happier ties the album together. It is the flavour of the whole thing. But that's just my opinion.
Yeah I agree. It’s adds to the whole “concept album” aspect
I used to feel this way, a bit less so now. But still, there were a lot of options on the eps that probably would have been better picks. To this day, I can’t understand why they didn’t ask me for help on that.
Thank you!! Any of the b-sides would have been better. Can you imagine if Polyethylene or Pearly had been on there in place of Electioneering??
Pearly for sure. And don’t get me started with Amnesiac!!!
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Revolution No. 9
Look, I respect the hell of out it. It's experimental, and audacious, and the very idea that the Beatles would include a "song" like this on one of their albums is probably one of the things that made me first fall in love with the Beatles, back in high school when I was taking a lot of acid...having said that...it's just too damn long. It is the only Beatles song on any Beatles album that I ever hit "skip" on.