Zoso could be the perfect album…but I disagree that Stairway is the cause of its failure. I happen to dislike Four Sticks, and have a passing distaste for Misty Mountain Hop. I always forward all the way to Going to California, a truly special song. And When The Levee Breaks will be playing in my little corner of heaven.
Also Young Lust fucks up The Wall even worse than Vera or Don’t Leave Me Now.
MR
Prince - Purple Rain - “Darling Nikki”
Heart - The Road Home - “(All I Want to Do Is) Make Love To You” - horrendous song, be it plugged in or out.
On the Talking Heads’ “Stop Making Sense”:
The Tom Tom Club song was not on the original release, along with a few other tracks. The original release is certainly complete–you’re thinking of the recently re-released version that includes the entire concert (I think?). I happen to like the Tom Tom Club, but I can easily see where your average TH fan wouldn’t…
jayron 32: After I wrote my message, I was trying to think of a butchered Phish live track on Billy Breathes, but I couldn’t–it is a great album from start to finish. (“Prince Caspian” does work perfectly as a closer.) I think BB was the first album that they approached as totally separate from their live work, and all the studio albums since then have been great. (Not that the earlier ones were all bad–I particularly like Rift and Nectar.)
Some studio versions of the big live songs work–see “Sand” or “First Tube” on the new album, both of which work well there and kick ass live. (Get some tapes from this summer–“Sand” was huge, particularly 7/14 in Columbus.) Some, like “Piper” don’t translate well at all–at four minutes long, the point is lost entirely. Most of “Lawn Boy” just lacks the energy found in the live performances of the same songs (“Reba”, for instance).
I heard the band say in a few interviews that they’re hoping the next album is a Mike album, the same way that Farmhouse is a Trey album.
Myrr21–yes, I am thinking of the recent re-release of the SMS soundtrack, which includes the Tom Tom Club song. (It is still missing “Cities” and something else, I think.)
Dr. J
Saturday Morning - Cartoons Greatest Hits a compilation of old cartoon songs covered by alternative bands. It has exactly one bad song, half of track 10 and half of track 11.
Track 11 is Open Up Your Heart and Let the Sun Shine In by Frente. It’s a good choice for purely archival reasons, but it’s so totally precious and sweet it’s like freebasing sugar (and I don’t mean that in a good way). Minus one-half point.
Track 10 starts with the Jonny Quest theme played by the Reverend Horton Heat. This is 1 minute, 41 seconds of take-no-prisoners, scorched-earth, guitar perfection. Then they segue into Stop That Pigeon and it dies. Minus one-half point.
Track 1 is the Banana Splits theme done by Liz Phair. She can sing “Fleegle, Bingo, Drooper and Snork” and make it sound sexy.
It have to disagree, since Hurricane is one of the best songs on that album.
I love the soundtrack from “Dee Snider’s Strangeland” except for track #10, which by some odd coincidence, is a Marilyn Manson track. blecch. It pisses me off because it’s smack in the middle of the cd so I have to consciously skip it.
Egads . . . not only is “Mr. Moonlight” NOT the worst track the Beatles ever recorded, it isn’t even the worst song on Beatles for Sale. IMNSHO, that honor belongs to either the pointless “Honey Don’t” or “What You’re Doing,” which is salvaged only by the screwups in the backing vocals. The worst track the Beatles ever recorded is “All Together Now,” and I will brook no argument on this front.
I guess you mean “bones” like “Taxman” and “Here Comes the Sun” and “Something” and “I Want To Tell You” and “Savoy Truffle” and “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and . . .
Did I ever say that I thought they were bad songs?