# Tracks totally out of sync with the rest of the album **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 27, 2015, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710 "2015-11-27T16:10:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 3:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/21 "2015-11-28T15:50:12Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > “Mother’s Lament”, the last track on Cream’s “Disraeli Gears” album. First thing that came to mind. ---
**Author:** ![NeonMadman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/58f4c7/32.png) [@NeonMadman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NeonMadman)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/22 "2015-11-28T22:47:06Z")
> [@Horatio\_Hellpop](#): > > “Beth” on Kiss’s **Destroyer** is certainly an odd duck of a song. But it’s certainly my favorite Kiss song. Not that I’m much of a Kiss fan. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2015, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/23 "2015-11-28T23:15:10Z")
“Solsbury Hill” from Peter Gabriel’s first album is totally out of sync with the rest of the album. On the other hand, so is every other track on the album. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/24 "2015-11-29T01:38:12Z")
The Bonzo Dog Band’s “[I Want to Be with You](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_so_zd00wE)” is not only out of sync with the album it’s on ( **Keynsham** ), but also out of sync with the band’s entire output, and the output of songwriter Neil Innes. It’s a straight pop love song from a band that never wrote a serious song before or (in the case of Innes) since. ---
**Author:** ![bobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bobot/32/21622_2.png) [@bobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bobot)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/25 "2015-11-29T01:47:41Z")
“Supersucker Driveby Blues” is at the end of the Supersuckers’ “country” record. It starts out with a little acoustic blues guitar, then slams the pedal to the metal with very loud electric guitar, drums and bass for the next 2 minutes or so. It is quite an out of left field masterpiece. (It’s about giving people the finger and laughing at them when they have car trouble. Real humanitarian stuff.) [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cXEbouF70bY/hqdefault.jpg "Supersucker Drive By Blues") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXEbouF70bY) ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/26 "2015-11-29T02:32:29Z")
I’m gonna go with **Only Women Bleed** , from **Alice Cooper** ’s Welcome To My Nightmare. mmm ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/27 "2015-11-29T04:48:16Z")
> [@buddha\_david](#): > > Styx’s _Man of Miracles_ contains an unlisted track called [“Plexiglass Toilet”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB-nGVqNciE) – very odd for a band not known for parody songs. It was on “The Serpent Is Rising”, and the OTHER side concluded with the “Hallelujah Chorus”, with the pipe organ being played by Dennis DeYoung. ---
**Author:** ![Isosleepy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/isosleepy/32/479_2.png) [@Isosleepy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isosleepy)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 5:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/28 "2015-11-29T05:25:35Z")
The stranglers’ sublime “Golden Brown” doesn’t really fit in with anything else they ever did. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2015, 8:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/29 "2015-11-29T08:52:18Z")
The last track on _London Calling_ seems very out of place compared to the rest of the album. In fact, it was not until many years later, perhaps as late as Annie Lennox’ cover on _Medusa_, that I found out that it even had a title. ---
**Author:** ![batsto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b2d939/32.png) [@batsto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/batsto)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/30 "2015-11-30T14:21:37Z")
“Planet Caravan” on Black Sabbath’s Paranoid album. When I was in high school and only had it on cassette, I hated having to either sit through it, or try to fast forward far enough without going too far into the next song. ---
**Author:** ![Art\_Rock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/art_rock/32/525_2.png) [@Art\_Rock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Art_Rock)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 3:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/31 "2015-11-30T15:34:08Z")
I love Genesis’ Selling England by the pound, a prog rock masterpiece. The track More fool me is a hideous simple ballad though. ---
**Author:** ![qubed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f07891/32.png) [@qubed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/qubed)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/32 "2015-11-30T16:06:06Z")
Sugar Ray’s “Fly” was completely different than anything on their 1997 album\*, which was more hard rock/metal. So different that because of the success of Fly, the band’s subsequent albums were all more pop-rock music similar to “Fly”. \*I was duped, and bought the album based solely on hearing the song Fly. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/33 "2015-11-30T16:52:25Z")
I’ve always thought that “Damned If I Do” by The Alan Parsons Project really sounds like it should be on their album _I Robot_, from two years earlier, and not _Eve_. ---
**Author:** ![BobLibDem](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/boblibdem/32/3149_2.png) [@BobLibDem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobLibDem)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/34 "2015-11-30T17:52:27Z")
I always thought “You’re Gonna Make Me Lonsesome When You Go” on _Blood On The Tracks_ was a bit out of sync with the rest of the album. Everything else was a bit on the moody if not dark side and you get this little bit of joy thrown in there. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/35 "2015-11-30T18:09:49Z")
The Randy Rhoads’ penned “Dee” on Ozzy Osbourne’s solo debut _Blizzard of Ozz_. A sweet acoustic guitar instrumental in the midst of Osbourne’s and Rhoads’ usual sonic attack (“Crazy Train”, “I Don’t Know”, “Suicide Solution”, etc.). ---
**Author:** ![Voyager](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voyager/32/133_2.png) [@Voyager](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Voyager)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/36 "2015-11-30T20:21:53Z")
“I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” on John Wesley Harding by Dylan. Seems like more of a preview of Nashville Skyline than something that belonged there. Similarly, “Restless Farewell,” the last track on Times They Are a Changin’, seems more in tune with the next album, Another Side of Bob Dylan. Also, “On Horseback,” which is at the end of side 2 of Mike Oldfield’s Ommadawn, is a nice simple song not at all like the pyrotechnics of the rest of the album. The Sailors Hornpipe at the end of Tubular Bells is also a bit different, but less. Now the drunken stomp with Viv Stanshell at the end of the first release of Tubular Bells is even more different, but that is not on the most common version of the album. ---
**Author:** ![dracoi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/90db22/32.png) [@dracoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dracoi)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 8:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/37 "2015-11-30T20:57:06Z")
I’ll nominate “Flood” by Jars of Clay. It’s not just out of place on that album, but it’s the only good song Jars of Clay ever performed\*. I guess I should thank Adrian Belew of King Crimson fame for giving them a hand. \*Yes, I know the Contemporary Christian Music scene disagrees with me about Jars of Clay, but if I say more, I should probably take it to the pit. ---
**Author:** ![ekedolphin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ekedolphin/32/10003_2.png) [@ekedolphin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ekedolphin)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/38 "2015-11-30T22:30:32Z")
> [@Ranger\_Jeff](#): > > “Within You, Without You” off _Sgt Pepper_. That’s what I came in to say. But that was a great song nonetheless. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/39 "2015-11-30T23:19:46Z")
“Mother” on the Police’s _Synchronicity_. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [November 30, 2015, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710/40 "2015-11-30T23:33:14Z")
> [@Art\_Rock](#): > > I love Genesis’ Selling England by the pound, a prog rock masterpiece. > > The track More fool me is a hideous simple ballad though. I always liked that song. It’s not out of place on an LP with folk influences. Why is it 'hideous"? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tracks-totally-out-of-sync-with-the-rest-of-the-album/738710.md?page=3)