Aluminum on The White Stripes’ White Blood Cells.
Wet My Bed on STP’s Core. Not even a song really.
On Pixies’ Surfer Rosa, that untitled track with Frank yelling at Kim.
Seconded…
Good call. At least it’s the last song on the album.
And while we’re at it, “Money For Nothing”. And not just because it was overplayed. I never liked it.
Two oldies from Pink Floyd:
a) The almost universally despised “Seamus”, that’s the dog: “OUTSIDE!!”
(from Meddle)
b) At the end of Obscured By Clouds comes “Absolutely Curtains” which is absolutely unlistenable once the instruments stop and the weird atonal bleating goes on and on and on so of course everyone skips it.
As much as I love Robert Palmer, there’s always at least one track on each of his albums that I end up skipping because it strays far from the atmosphere he tried to convey on each album.
I usually stop the ‘Pride’ album before the final track ‘Silver Gun’ kicks in (‘Silver Gun’ should have been a hidden track on ‘Maybe It’s Live’), I always skip ‘Change His Ways’ on ‘Heavy Nova’ (Yodeling? Really?) and ‘Flesh Wound’ on ‘Riptide’ (FW is an earworm, so I avoid it).
Within the same category but as a band, I usually skip at least two tracks on ‘The Power Station CD’: ‘Lonely Tonight’ and ‘Harvest for the World’. So yeah, the album becomes an EP when I listen to it.
The Metallica song “Broken Beat and Scarred” from the Death Magnetic album I just can’t tolerate…
I’m no grammar Nazi, but the oft-repeated grammatically incorrect refrain of “What don’t kill you makes you more strong” just grates on my nerves…
It’s “What doesn’t kill you makes you STRONGER”, NOT “more strong”, yes I know their version was more than likely written that way to match the musical backing and rhythm, but it still grates on my nerves as grammatically incorrect
The Indigo Girls’ self-titled first album is frickin’ brilliant. Beautiful, lyrical poetry sung by plaintive voices full of raw emotion on top of mesmerizing guitar harmonies.
Except for *Land of *fucking Canaan. The verses have a melody that could have been written by a 14-year-old wannabe musician. The chorus is this annoying little throwaway phrase, of which the the first 812 measures are sung on the same note, and it ends with this cringe-inducing “Ooooooooooooh, yeah.” The guitar sounds like those high-pitched, squeaky little farts that smell far worse than normal “ppppppppppth” farts.
Unfortunately, it was a portent of suck to come. Each successive record from the Girls had more and more Land-of-Canaan-esque stuff on it and less and less Prince of Darkness.
Ben Folds’ most recent CD, Way To Normal, has a song, “Free Coffee”, that has a high-pitched hissing effect throughout that makes it effectively unlistenable.
Wikipedia says: “The metallic percussive effect on “Free Coffee” was achieved by placing Altoids tins on top of the piano strings and feeding the audio output through a distortion pedal; Folds demonstrated this in live performances of the song.”
Two of my favorite Rush albums are A Farewell to Kings and Permanent Waves. Their throwaway songs, “Madrigal” and “Different Strings” both mention “dragons” in the first line, interestingly.
Rush has no throwaway songs.
Used to love falling asleep to Side 3 of “Pink Floyd - The Wall” as a teen.
Then “Bring the Boys Back Home” would make me jump to the ceiling.
Kind of the same problem with Side 1 of “Dark Side,” when the chimes go off before “Time.”
Altered Images’ Pinky Blue has an inexplicable Barry Manilow track, Song Sung Blue (!), protruding liike a rotten potato from the centre of an otherwise great New Wave album.
Um, that’s Neil Diamond’s song.
This is what I came in here to mention. I’m with you 100% on this one.
Actually that’s my favorite song on LZ4.
Different tastes / strokes / etc
You need to get a job writing music reviews. Gems like that should not be limited to just the Dope.
John Mellencamp’s The Lonesome Jubilee is a mostly solid album – one of his best works, in fact, IMO. Until you get to Hotdogs and Hamburgers, an awful pile of dreck that’s supposed to be a thoughtful examination of Native American culture.
Yeesh.
I dunno - I still don’t know if anyone has posted a more jarring one that a Dixieland song sandwiched between a song like this and another one like this. Dixieland. With a banjo and brass. Although “Mother” on Synchronicity might come close
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.
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.