I’m a huge fan of prog-Genesis, but pretty inept with my pop-Genesis knowledge. So, I took Who Dunnit for a spin. It is terrible, indeed. It’s not really a song but a simple musical idea that could have turned into a song with plenty of extra work. It feels like a studio exercise that only ended up on the album because they desperately needed something, anything.
“Wuz it you or wuz it me…”
It’s not Radio Song, is it…? 
My favorite REM track is probably So. Central Rain, but Harborcoat, Texarkana, Pretty Persuasion, and Half A World Away are all such strong contenders that the decision is virtually meaningless.
“I Hope I Didn’t Just Give Away the Ending” New Radicals.
It’s rare for a song to ruin an album. A lot of times if a band does a song that’s really experimental or a break from their signature sound, they’ll tuck it at the end of the album where it doesn’t ruin the flow of everything else. But “I Hope I Didn’t Just Give Away the Ending” was track 3, which was such a horrible spot for it. Track #1 was the energetic, poppy opener, track #2 was the hit track, and just when you’re hitting your groove, you hit the 6:36 garbage that is track #3.
The UK version of The Rollings Stones’ Aftermath is hands down my favorite Stones album. But there is no valid reason that Goin’ Home should have been over 11 1/2 minutes. Fade out at 3:45 and the album is perfect. It’s not like they couldn’t jam (I absolutely love the jam part of Can’t You Hear Me Knocking ), but Goin’ Home is just tedious and uninspired.
I’d say the same about their next album Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire). The Kinks were many things, but a good blues jam band was not one of them. “Australia” just drags on and on for almost 7 minutes. I can sort of hear how the first half would have fit into the never-produced TV film that was supposed to accompany the album, but the second half just drags.
Yeah, I don’t disagree.
That’s a good one!