# The one sucky song on your favorite album **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 10, 2002, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336 "2002-06-10T23:49:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Drastic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Drastic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drastic)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/41 "2002-06-15T14:20:18Z")
I could do without “Shiva” on Fields of the Nephilim’s creatively-titled “Nephilim” album. It’s not horrible, exactly, it’s just sort of…there, sitting out of place in the middle, between bookends of some really good music. ---
**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/42 "2002-06-15T19:34:14Z")
> [@](#): > > Before I read that post, I was thinking what track and album I would name. For Revolver, I would nominate: > > Here, There and Everywhere > > To me, that song is typical McCartney dreck - granted, it is much better than Michelle and some of his other syrupy love songs, but lord, it is too cute for words. ☹ ☹ ☹ I guess I’m biased because Here, There, and Everywhere was the song I played when I walked down the aisle. Syrupy and smarmy has its place… As far as Beatles albums go, **Rubber Soul** could have done without _Run For Your Life_. ---
**Author:** ![lethean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@lethean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lethean)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 9:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/43 "2002-06-15T21:39:41Z")
If it weren’t for O Girlfriend, Weezer’s Green album would be perfection IMO. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [June 15, 2002, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/44 "2002-06-15T22:11:37Z")
Blondie’s _Plastic Letters_ would be perfect without “Cautious Lip”. Even my all-time favorite album ever, ELO’s _Out of the Blue_ goes clunk with “Believe Me Now”. Jeff, Jeff, Jeff, that one should been left on the cutting room floor. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/45 "2002-06-16T20:11:29Z")
" Boys don’t cry" on Oleander’s **February Son** The orginal sucks, so why on earth did they cover it, and do it just as badly? ---
**Author:** ![Roadwalker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e19b73/32.png) [@Roadwalker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roadwalker)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/46 "2002-06-16T22:15:03Z")
The _Blade Runner_ soundtrack is a perfect collection of music suited for driving at night on freeways. Right up untill this annoying vocal song by some Tiny Tim soundalike called “One more kiss, Dear.” It’s a real grain of sand in my soft serve ice cream. A bone in my fish sandwich. A bug on my windshild. :rolleyes: Okay I’m done until I can think of some more. ---
**Author:** ![fisico](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/cab0a1/32.png) [@fisico](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fisico)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/47 "2002-06-16T22:21:17Z")
Dirty Frank on Pearl Jam’s Ten, the new european version. None of the 3 extra tracks are added value but Dirty Frank is really bad. ---
**Author:** ![QueenAl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/d26b3c/32.png) [@QueenAl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/QueenAl)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/48 "2002-06-16T22:34:40Z")
_Bodyrock_ on Moby’s _Play_. ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [June 16, 2002, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/49 "2002-06-16T22:36:36Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Hazel \* > \*\*number 9…number 9…number 9…number 9…number 9… > number 9…number 9…number 9…number 9…number 9… > number 9…number 9…number 9…number 9…number 9… > number 9…number 9…number 9…number 9…number 9… \*\* Hey! That’s an excellent song. The worst song on the White Album is Birthday. By the way, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and Octopus’s Garden are good too. ---
**Author:** ![Dragon\_Phoenix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bcef8e/32.png) [@Dragon\_Phoenix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dragon_Phoenix)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/50 "2002-06-17T02:50:06Z")
My all-time favourite album qualifies. It is Selling England by the pound (Genesis). Full of masterpieces, and then there is inbetween More fool me, sung by Phil Collins instead of Peter Gabriel. It sucks big time. And don’t get me wrong, I am not a Phil basher - two albums down the line, they released A trick of the tail, all vocals by Phil, and it is brilliant. But More fool me… yuck. ---
**Author:** ![Dieter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/977dab/32.png) [@Dieter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dieter)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/51 "2002-06-17T06:10:45Z")
Band: Komputer Album: World of tomorrow Song: Bill Gates ---
**Author:** ![todd33rpm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a5b964/32.png) [@todd33rpm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/todd33rpm)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 11:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/52 "2002-06-17T11:16:51Z")
I love XTC’s _Skylarking_, but could easily do without “That’s Really Super, Supergirl” or “1000 Umbrellas.” They aren’t bad songs so much as just breathers 'til you get back to the really good stuff. Similarly, I’m less-than-inspired by “Everyone” on Van Morrison’s _Moondance_ or Paul McCartney’s “Mrs. Vandebilt” on _Band On The Run_. As time’s gone on, I’ve discovered that’s true of most well-regarded albums…I haven’t heard one yet that doesn’t have at least one ho-hum track just to make all the great songs surrounding it sound better. ---
**Author:** ![FlyingDragonFan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/c89c15/32.png) [@FlyingDragonFan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FlyingDragonFan)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/53 "2002-06-17T13:34:34Z")
Electronic bassist Rob Wasserman has a stellar album called _Trios_, every song of which is a, uh, trio with him and two other, usually famous musicians. Among them are Jerry Garcia, Willie Dixon, Edie Brickell, Branford Marsalis, Bruce Hornsby, and Elvis Costello. Some vocals, some instrumentals, it’s a fantastic album, on which he even does a three layer track of “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” with his bass playing all three pieces. But the very first track, uggh. The most saccharin piece of fluff, played with Brian Wilson, and Carnie Wilson on vocals. One of the few songs in my entire collection that makes me leap for the skip button. ---
**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/54 "2002-06-17T14:18:04Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by todd33rpm \* > \*\*I love XTC’s _Skylarking_, but could easily do without “That’s Really Super, Supergirl” or “1000 Umbrellas.” \*\* I love both of those songs, especially “1000 Umbrellas”. On _The Queen is Dead_ (THE SMITHS), I can’t stand “Frankly Mr. Shankly”. Also, _Cloudcuckooland_ (THE LIGHTNING SEEDS), the song “Frenzy” enters like chainsaw cutting through the beautiful music in the other songs. Everytime that I’m getting emotionally involved with the music on the album, “Frenzy” snaps me out of it like a friggin’ sledgehammer to my head. I just ask myself, “Why the f- would he put this song in the album? Why? Why?”. ---
**Author:** ![Leifsmama](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/a698b9/32.png) [@Leifsmama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leifsmama)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/55 "2002-06-17T15:36:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by gonzoron \* > \*\* > > No one will know this one, but my favorite album is **Ashley MacIsaac - Hi™, how are you today?** which is pretty much the perfect album except for the awful _What an Idiot he is_. Bleh. > > \*\* Actually, that’s one of my favorite albums, and while I’ll have to admit What an Idiot He Is doesn’t fit the album, it grows on you after awhile. ---
**Author:** ![gonzoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@gonzoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzoron)\ **Post date:** [June 17, 2002, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336/56 "2002-06-17T16:12:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Leifsmama \* > \*\* > > Actually, that’s one of my favorite albums, and while I’ll have to admit What an Idiot He Is doesn’t fit the album, it grows on you after awhile. \*\* Well, after 7 years, and probably over 100 listens… It still sucks. 🙂 Actually it has grown on me enough to not hit skip anymore, but that’s about it. Some of the wordplay in the lyrics is cute, but I just can’t stand the song. But like I said, it’s still my favorite album, and just shy of perfect. Wow, nice to find another Ashley fan. If you haven’t seen him live, try to do so. It’s a real treat. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-one-sucky-song-on-your-favorite-album/113336.md?page=2)