# Albums with songs you HAVE to skip **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2010, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065 "2010-05-02T21:17:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2010, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/81 "2010-05-10T22:33:49Z")
> [@Rrose\_Selavy](#): > > Kate Bush’s last album Aerial is mostly excellent > > but the two tracks with Rolf Harris in the second part are the weakest, a bit too twee (and I am a painter) he stands out in the the wrong way and I really could have done without them, quite happily. I’ll admit that I’ll sometimes start “A Sky of Honey” with “Sunset”, especially if I don’t have time to listen to it. But seriously…it’s only Rolf Harris. And he doesn’t have a banjo. ---
**Author:** ![Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Kimmy\_Gibbler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimmy_Gibbler)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2010, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/82 "2010-05-11T00:43:42Z")
> [@unwashed\_brain](#): > > Really??!?!? Are you guys sure you’re not thinking of “Fitter Happier?” I think I’ve listened to that annoying robot track twice. “Electioneering” hearkens back to some of the stuff on _The Bends_. Seconded. “Fitter Happier” is the kind of schlock best reserved for pretentious high school students. ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 1:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/83 "2010-05-13T13:14:19Z")
Deep Purple Mk III’s _Burn_ is a superb hard rock album, save for the inexplicable, unneccessary turd-of-an-instrumental _A 200_. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 2:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/84 "2010-05-13T14:31:46Z")
> [@Parenchyma](#): > > “Mother” on The Police’s _Synchronicity_. Blasphemy - you probably skip over “Miss Gradenko” too. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/85 "2010-05-13T14:36:20Z")
Also, from Jethro Tull’s Heavy Horses album : “Journeyman”. Sounded like someone woke Ian Anderson up at 3:00 am and told him he had to try writing a disco tune. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/86 "2010-05-13T15:57:36Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > Also, from Jethro Tull’s Heavy Horses album : “Journeyman”. > > Sounded like someone woke Ian Anderson up at 3:00 am and told him he had to try writing a disco tune. Disco? _Disco???_ On what planet is a song with as many rhythmic jerks and change-ups as that one, with a melody that changes meter three times in the first four bars (4/4, 3/4, 2/4, 4/4), _disco?_ ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/87 "2010-05-13T17:23:05Z")
I know, I know it’s not disco. The beginning beats are what grate(d) on me. And the voice. I still can’t stand this song 32 years on. It’s actually the only song from their entire classic era (68-79) which I hate. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/88 "2010-05-13T17:50:01Z")
> [@BwanaBob](#): > > I know, I know it’s not disco. The beginning beats are what grate(d) on me. > And the voice. I still can’t stand this song 32 years on. I should think that if there’s just one song on that album where the voice would bother you, it would be “And the Mouse Police Never Sleeps,” where Anderson uses that exaggeratedly gravelly tone. No wonder he coughs at the end! ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/89 "2010-05-13T21:33:54Z")
You got me there, I hate the ending of that song too. You’ve just inspired me to make an edited version. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2010, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065/90 "2010-05-15T00:27:57Z")
> [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](#): > > Um, that’s [Neil Diamond’s song](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Song_Sung_Blue). :smack: I always get those two confused. My mom used to listen to them. I actually like some of Neil Diamond’s stuff, but _not that one!_. Thios reminfs me of another album, Love and Rockets’ _Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven_. Another great album, but the Canadian vinyl release included one not-so-great song, “Ball of Confusion”. Gues which song got all the airplay. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/albums-with-songs-you-have-to-skip/538065.md?page=4)