“Girls” on the Beastie Boys’ Licensed to Ill.
My bad. I guess it’s mostly instrumental, but even worse for the vocal content. Haven’t listened to the song in about 20 years, for good reason.
Drive-By Truckers album “Decoration Day” starts off with a creepy sibling incest number called “The Deeper In”. Luckily I can just skip the first track and enjoy the rest of the album without any further messing around.
No worries. I thought maybe you meant “La Villa Strangiato”, which is the last track on “Hemispheres”, is an instrumental, and is all over the place. But LVS is an awesome track.
As far as the Signals album goes, I don’t mind “Countdown”, but the track before it, “Losing It”, with the screechy violin, is the one I usually skip.
La Villa Strangiato is a great track, as are most Rush instrumentals.
Losing It is a mixed bag, given the poignant melody and lyrics, but the dated production and maybe just a little too much sentimentality.
While I would not call the Grateful Dead’s Aoxomoxoa a great album, it is brought down several notches for the 8-minutes plus “What’s Become of the Baby”. It seems to drag on forever and sounds like it was sung into a toilet bowl.
I don’t think one song can ruin an album. Revolver is one of the top five albums ever recorded and would probably be indisputably my personal number one, if not for the childish “Yellow Submarine”.
Funny, I really like “Yellow Submarine” exactly for the fact that it’s such a charming children’s song. The low point of “Revolver” IMHO is “Dr. Roberts”, but it’s not bad enough by any stretch to ruin a fantastic album.
“Cancer” on My Chemical Romance’s Black Parade album.
Many people disagree with this opinion.
The recently released deluxe edition of Revolver has an interesting recording of an early version of the song, in fact I’m not even sure if it would have been called Yellow Submarine at the time. John laments: In the place where I was born, no one cared, no one cared.
Am I allowed albums with two bummers?
Ziggy Stardust was an album I didn’t listen to for decades, having decided it just wasn’t any good. Not so long ago I decided I would work my way through Bowie’s early albums, and I came to the conclusion that actually, the album’s fine - except it’s dragged right down by two dreadful songs, Suffragette City (which just has nothing to recommend it - the song, incidentally, that Mott The Hoople turned down; good call) and Five Years (a dirge with a laughably bad, sub-undergraduate level lyric).
And the other thus afflicted album that springs to mind (a “Difficult Second Album”) is For Your Pleasure, by Roxy Music. There are songs on that which are simply breathtaking, and then there’s In Every Dreamhome A Heartache - another dirge, and this one with a lyric even worse than Five Years, like a twelve-year-old trying to do grown up writing; and The Bogus Man, which seems to be Heartache’s partner piece, every bit as gauche and tuneless, and slightly enlivened by Ferry’s awful vocal performance. Plus it’s over nine minutes long.
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Yeah, Rumours kind of meanders off for the last two tracks, “Oh Daddy” and “Gold Dust Woman”.
“Mamunia” is a very weak track on a very strong album: “Band on the Run”
Alice in Chains have Dirt, a nearly perfect album. It does have this weird “Iron Gland” intro song thing that I thought was actually saying “Iron Man” until now. It is out of place and has no need.
Sspringsteen’s Candy’s Room wrecks the otherwise great Darkness on the Edge of Town (though to be fair, Factory is also a pretty sub-par Springsteen song. I skip them both).
Odd how someone thinks songs are horrible and others think they are great. I like all four examples from these two posts. I love both of those albums, front to back.
My contribution: The first song, Exp, from Jimi’s Axis: Bold as Love. I listened to the album a gazillion times, in tape format and always fast-forwarded past that first mess. Not even a couple bong rips could help with it.
Well, if we are doing beloved songs, I could sure get on just fine without the piece of commercial doggerel Light My Fire. The album would flow much better without it.
Funny. “In Every Dream Home…” and “Bogus Man” were the two songs I listened to the most from For Your Pleasure.
An album my mother used to play when I was little, Velvet Gloves and Spit, by Neil Diamond, has lots of catchy tunes, specially for a small boy who did not understand the lyrics. Only the Pot Smoker’s Song is awful.
The Noel Redding song is no great shakes either.