There is one on the three disk Bootleg set also. But I prefer the one on Blood on the Tracks myself - and soulful and Idiot Wind should not appear in the same sentence.
I’m surprised it took so long for Revolution #9 to show up. Those of us with lots of stuff from the late '60s have worse. Sing This All Together (See What Happens) on His Satanic Majesties Request is nearly 8 minutes of awfulness which makes Revolution #9 sound like Beethoven. I suppose Feedback on Live Dead might sound okay on drugs - which is one reason I’ve never touched the stuff.
Eminem’s Marshall Mathers LP has this skit called “Ken Kaniff” that’s nothing but disgusting sucking noises with a little bit of dialogue. I don’t even want to think about what the sounds are supposed to be.
Two rather similar examples, both from 1970s Brit prog rock (probably not coincidentally):
“Thank You” from Bursting at the Seams by Strawbs. A bunch of little kids “singing” (in that vaguely-approaching-the-melody way typical of little kids) a saccharine tune.
“Thoughts on a Grey Day” from Bare Trees by Fleetwood Mac. Somebody’s great-aunt reading the kind of pedestrian verse that a lot of British great-aunts apparently like to write.
Somewhat in a category of its own is “Just Like Gene Autry: A Foxtrot” from Wow by Moby Grape. On the original LP, this track was recorded at 78 RPM – so you had to switch your record player to 78 to listen to it properly. (Back then, they still actually made record players with a 78 speed…)
The first Tin Machine album has two consecutive songs that I loathe: “Pretty Thing” & the astonishingly discordant “Video Crime”–between two songs that I love: “Bus Stop” & “Run.”
I made a dub tape that only cut “Pretty Thing,” & later regretted keeping “Video Crime.”
Let’s Dance isn’t Bowie’s greatest album, but it is pretty solid. However, it contains one of the two* songs of his that I cannot stand - the final track on the record, “Shake It.”
Sample lyric:
Seriously, Dave? SERIOUSLY?
*the other one is the 1975 revamp of “John, I’m Only Dancing.” That one, at least, I can blame on the cocaine. By the time Let’s Dance came out, he was off the stuff, so no excuses.
There are alot of these “skip past” tracks on Oasis albums. Definitely Maybe has “Columbia,” Digsy’s Diner," and “Married with Children,” none of which I ever listen to. What’s the Story had those “Swamp Song” tracks (WTF?), “Hey Now,” and “She’s Electric.” Be Here Now had quite a few…“Magic Pie” springs to mind immediately, as does “The Girl in the Dirty Shirt.” Some of the B-sides from the singles from those albums were much better than some of the actual album tracks.
And the Capitol album (we were talking “Help!” soundtrack) had the instrumental pieces by George Martin that I actually liked in the movie (and are part of my nostalgia for the vinyl version).
Hmmm… anybody know where I can get a CD with (or an mp3 of) “From Me To You Fantasy”?
Back in the (pre-iPod) day, I would often claim that I was going to invent a CD player that you could program to recognize specific discs. “Then,” I’d say, “you could put in Comes A Time by Neil Young and it would know to skip…” “Motorcycle Mama!” would come the immediate reply from most people.
Regarding a song for Ringo on the Parlophone version of the Help! album, the original idea was to include If You Got Troubles instead of Act Naturally, which would have made more sense, but for some reason it never happened.
Every time I hear “Within You Without You” I think of Kevin Costner’s line at the beginning of “Field of Dreams” where he’s talking about growing up in the 60’s and says “I tried to like sitar music…”
Led Zeppelin 4, Battle of Evermore. An ear-bleedingly bad track disrupting the flow of an otherwise epic rocking album. It’s given far too much respect and longevity because of its fantasy-geek lyrics. Once the “dude, elves!” coolness faded, I realized it sounds like someone tossed a bunch of pots and pans into a daycare rumpus room.