Do you have an album that you absolutely hate, yet still has one of your favourite songs on it?
For me, the album is “Goat’s Head Soup” and the song is “Angie.”
Aerosmith’s Permanent Vacation is, like the rest of their albums, largely a complete shitshow. Except “Rag Doll”. Strangely, that’s one song I can get behind one hundred percent.
Ouch. I’m like Jack sprat with you. Winter, can you hear the music, hide your love. Arent they better?
I remember getting Permamant Vacation specifically for Rag Doll. I just looked at the track listing. Dude (Looks Like A Lady) is on there as well as Angel. I’ve never been one for the Aerosmith ballads (and keep meaning to start a thread about that), but Dude Looks Like A Lady is a pretty solid Aerosmith song.
I’m not a big Stones fan. My college roomie had all of their albums and when we listened to GHS, the only song I liked was ‘Angie.’ I’m older (and wiser?) now. Perhaps I’ll give it another listen.
I know.
One Nation under a groove.
The title is one of the greatest songs ever esp for dancing, but I never got the others.
A lot of Motown LPs would fit this category I think. It’s basically singles artists and bad acts with one good song that need apply here.
Wouldn’t say that I hate this album, but Def Leppard’s Hysteria has aged very, very badly – except for “Gods of War”, still one of my favorite songs of all time.
As someone who knows nothing about Def Leppard other than what’s on the radio (and even then there’s times when I say ‘that’s Def Leppard?’ when I glance at the XM display) Hysteria has Pour Some Sugar On Me. That’s gotta count for something.
My point exactly. 
Even when it originally came out, I thought half the songs on Hysteria sucked donkey balls. The rest have grown stale over the years, whereas G.O.W. is more applicable today than ever.
I hate the Ben Folds album Rockin’ the Suburbs, except for the song of the same name. Interesting fact, the album was released on 9/11.
Counting Crows’ August and Everything After. Got it for “Mr. Jones.” You can erase everything else.
“Walking on the Sun” was a great, fun tune from Smashmouth. The rest of Fush Yu Mang is fourth-rate garage rock.
Heretic! I love that album.
For me, it would have to be Virtual Insanity by Jamiroquai. The album is Travelling Without Moving.
Queen - Hot Space and The Works are both utterly forgettable…except they have Under Pressure and Radio Ga Ga, respectively.
Kittie - Spit, while the title track isn’t bad, generally I’ll just skip straight to Brackish, then switch to another album.
Slight hijack:
Given that music is all sold digitally now, how much longer before the whole concept of ‘the album’ disappears? Since you can buy everything as individual 99¢ tracks.
Alan Parsons Project put out a lot of really solid albums. Then there was Eve. There’s one spectacular track on it (Lucifer) and not much else that’s worth a listen.
Well, the best albums (and “album” refers to the collection of songs, not the format, not that you said otherwise or anything) have a unifying theme. The weaker cuts of, say, Mary Chapin Carpenter’s Come On Come On are worth enduring for the effect of the album’s entirety. But not all albums play by this, and I kind of shook my fist at that SPIN interview with Kurt Cobain where he shared that he loved learning that it’s okay to put filler on an album on purpose.
Great song/suck album? Red Hot Chili Peppers “Dani California”/Stadium Arcadium.
Or at least, they have some sort of unity that makes them a satisfying experience when listened to from beginning to end.
And even when an album is just an unrelated collection of songs, I still look forward to getting a whole album’s worth of new songs from a favorite band.
Hail Ants’s comment is either hyperbole, or it’s based on the ridiculous assumption that all albums contain worthless filler. In fact, I’m having a really hard time coming up with examples of what the thread is asking for.
You’re a heretic, as well. I hated this album at first, but it really kind of grew on me. There’s only one song off of it that I still dislike, and that’s Ghost Train.
Oh, man, my record/ape/CD collections over the years have included DOZENS of albums that turned out to have only one good song!
To use one example… critics generally hated Yes, one of my favorite groups. But critics generally gave fairly good reviews to the Yes album Going for the One, which had only one good song on it: “Wondrous Stories.”
I direct your attention to exhibit A, my vinyl AND my CD collections, 99% of which contain one or two good songs and the rest just filler. (album means a collection of something, not just a record or tape or CD.)
Buying individual tracks was a dream. come. true. for those of us who spent untold thousands to build up collections where there were only one or two good songs.