Hunting Girl has an excellent, elaborate melody that we were greatly pleased to hear live at the Gorge, but when you drop in the singing part, the song just seems to deflate. There is a short instrumental bridge that kind of picks it up a tad, but then there is more singing to dilute the music. The other pieces from Songs from the Wood, one of the most solid full albums of ever, do not suffer in the least from the singing parts, but this one should have just been fully instrumental.
Hehe. Let me propose a solution to “Killing in the Name Of”. Splice in the solo from Billy Idol “White Wedding”. Now it’s perfect 
Or it could just be reinforcement of their apparent racism, since the origins of “Saturday Night Special” and that particular gun control movement were racist.
From the rap side, I was always a huge fan of Public Enemy’s “Fear of a Black Planet” from the album of the same name, perhaps more for the message than the musicality. But the last verse of the song concludes with this gem:
All I want is peace and love on this planet.
Ain’t how that God planned it?
The grammatical construction of the final sentence is perpetually nails-on-chalkboard for me. To paraphrase a quote from my favorite “Iron Chef” episode: Chuck D, how could you?!
Stop it!
(Seriously, though, that Morello solo is one of my favorite guitar solos of the last 20 years, and I don’t otherwise listen to Rage, but for him.)
That weird lounge-singer-ey interlude in the middle of Gypsy’s “Dead And Gone” really ruins an otherwise awesome song.
I’m not sure how you could bring up Jethro Tull in this thread and not mention The Story of the Hare Who Lost His Spectacles from an otherwise great album/song, A Passion Play. What were they thinking?
Stevie Wonder’s lyrics. “I Wish” is one of my favorite songs, but the “wasn’t if fun being a kid” theme really doesn’t match the tune or arrangement.
I hear ya, I love Morello also. On paper it’s technically a good solo, it’s really the tone that’s terrible, his line in/out jacks are apparently plugged into the ass/mouth of a sick cat 
Sing on Annie Lennox’s Songs of Mass Destruction. The album has a great groove, but it’s utterly crushed by being preceded by a women saying “This is a call for the National Implementation Of Mother to Child Transmission Prevention Program In all the maternity hospitals in South Africa”
OK, fine. It’s an important thing, preventing AIDS transmission to babies. The thing is, I don’t need to hear it** every single fucking time I listen to the album!**
My personal copy has that bit edited out.
I absolutely adore Gang of Four’s Love like Anthrax. But man, the first minute of solid-state-amp feedback gets really, really annoying. But when the drums kick in…well, yay.
I really like Tonight by The Smashing Pumpkins except for the vocal track.
Also, Crazy In Love would be better without Jay-Z’s rapping. Making it worse, I know it’s “hove” but it sounds like “young ho”.
I like Tom Petty’s cover of this song better. He changes the instrumentation from the original solo and tightens it up considerably.
My contributions: “Roam” by the B52’s: the beginning sounds like some horrible Enya squealing, but then the rest of the song kicks ass. “Safe and Sound” by Capital Cities: there’s a synthesizer solo immediately following the bridge. The solo doesn’t really fit the rest of the song and should be eliminated.
I was going to nominate pretty much everything that happened in “Runaway” from about 5:45-onward.
I won’t tell anybody you pushed him if you don’t tell anybody I kicked him on the way down!
Yeah, *Big Yellow Taxi *needs to be a few seconds shorter.
This thread makes me need to learn how to use these editing programs. Just as soon as I get my computer running again!
Audacity is an incredibly nice piece of software, fairly easy to learn and use, and IME, freeware.
Killing Joke and Love Like Blood - a prime slice of post punk, power pop / rock pseudo epic posturing OUGHT to be one of my all time favourite tracks but there is something flat about the production. It comes so close to being stirring but never hits the highs. So frustrating.
Meanwhile Our Lips Are Sealed by Fun Boy Three has a soaring beginning. Then immediately segues into a bland pop song. Don’t like the Go-Gos version.
Genesis and Turn It On. Love the start of the song but before the 3m 50s are up I’ve lost interest.
TCMF-2L
Emerson Lake and Palmer fan (except, oddly enough, for Lucky Man).
Beyond jarring, though, is this bit in the middle of “Still… You Turn Me On”
Every day a little sadder
A little madder
Someone get me a ladder
What???
And then they named one of their tours after that line.
I completely agree on this one. I mean, I love that song, but I don’t love it as much as I should have, somehow. And I think it’s down to the sound, which is cold and flat even by 80s standards.
I love Tainted Love, the first half. I keep hoping it’ll stop there, but then it rolls into Where Did Our Love Go, and I hate it. The two just don’t go together, to me.
And I agree with the piano ending on Layla. Just make it go away.