I also find “Within You, Withou You” one of the better songs on the album. I didn’t like it at first, but it’s really grown on me.
All this R.E.M. talk, and no one has mentioned how “Shiny Happy People” mars the otherwise near-perfect Out Of Time?
I could do without the last song (Les Boys or something like that) on Dire Straits’ classic Making Movies.
Heaven forbid you forget Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite!
Twas genius.
Lucy in the Sky gets a low mark on my list because of its “popularity” as a “drug song”. Lennon said in several interviews what the song is about, but people still say, "LUCY IN THE SKY WITH DIAMONDS! LSD! Dont you get it?
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I’m sorry I didn’t think of that. You did get the title right. It’s a dumb song about a silly topic that doesn’t belong on an album full of great, romantic modern rock love songs. It’s more than a bad song on a good album- it actively takes some of the shine off the record whenever I think about it. At least it’s the last song and easy to skip.
“Little Miss Strange” on Hendrix’s “Electric Ladyland.” Pure hippie drivel.
“My Wife” on Who’s Next: an almost perfect album of beautifully crafted bleak, bitter, introspective and bitingly angry songs - Behind Blue Eyes, Won’t Get Fooled Again, The Song Is Over, Getting In Tune - and then that stupid ugly dog turd of a song curled on it: “Gonna buy a tank or an aeroplane/When she catches up with me there’ll be no time to explain”
I love that song! “All I did was have a bit too much to drink…”
It’s not even the silliest (I won’t say worst) song on Who’s Next. “Going Mobile” is.
Keep me movin’
Over fifty!
Keep me groovin’
Just a hippie gypsy.
Where’s yer bleak, bitter introspection there, eh?
I disagree on all the songs on who’s next: it IS the perfect album, although it’s not my favorite. Oddly enough, maybe if some of the songs were better, as in some of my top 100 Song of All Time, some of the other stuff would be a “bad song on a good album” by comparison 
Ehhh, it’s not that bad. At least compared to the hidden track on Second Coming by the Stone Roses. And I play it when I play Meddle with no urge to skip over. However, it is worse than all the other songs.
However…
I totally agree with you on that one, and you put it much funnier than I would! I turn the album off after Stay.
As for my controversial opinion, I think that A Saucerful of Secrets mars the album of the same name. The album would be vastly improved by removing that track and sticking in a couple of the standout singles from that era. Okay, ideally, I’d also take out the two twee Wright tracks, but they are not the worst tracks on the album! :eek:
And now for something completely different…because I’m listening to it right now, Sloan’s Navy Blues is marred by Chester the Molester. While not a bad song, the repetition of the song’s title gets to be really annoying. Without that phrase, it would be as perfect a power pop album as anything by Fountains of Wayne.
I think you mean “Low”.
I’ve always considered “The Wrong Child” the worst song on that album.
And I do believe I’m the only rabid REM fan that doesn’t like “Nightswimming” off of Automatic for the People. That said, I don’t think it ruined the album. “Ignoreland” doesn’t fit the mood (sound wise) of the rest of the album, so I’m a bit off put by that song.
Agreed.
I have a sentimental attachment to “Shiny Happy People,” as it was my favorite song when I was seven-years-old. Admittingly, it is the song that got me into REM.
I will not be ashamed!!!
Yeah, well, that’s only the second stupidest song on the album. IMO.
I used to fall asleep listening to the Edward Scissorhand soundtrack… perhaps Danny Elfman’s best score. However, the last track is the most out of context Tom Jones song that would wake me every night until I wised up and just burned a copy WITHOUT the last song.
I happen to think that’s a gorgeous song, musically and lyrically. I even once made a copy for my aunt, a physical therapist who works with children with disabilities. To each his own!
Cream - Disraeli Gears - Mother’s Lament.
That is all, goodnight.
Oooooh, no way. “Low” might not be the best track on that album, but it is a good song and fits the general mood of the album.
“Shiny Happy People” is an out-of-place piece of fluff. It doesn’t fit the album at all. I might have been more willing to accept it if it shown up on, say, Monster.
Every time I skip that track, I think, “this is where they should have put ‘Fretless’ instead of relegating it to b-side status.”
That awful song about Montgomery Clift marrs the otherwise perfect London Calling .