# What's your favorite song on your least favorite album by your favorite artist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164 "2006-05-02T22:38:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/41 "2006-05-03T21:46:58Z")
**Black Sabbath** (Original line-up): _Never Say Die_ - “Shockwave” **Blue Öyster Cult** (Thru 1988): _Mirrors_ - “Mirrors” **Mothers of Invention** : _Cruisin With Ruben And The Jets_ - “Cheap Thrills” **Captain Beefheart & His Band** : _Blue Jeans & Moon Beams_ - “Party Of Special Things To Do” **Naked City** : _Absinthe_ - “Artemegia Absintheum” **Beethoven** (Of the 9 Symphonies) : _3rd Symphony_ - “4th Movement-Allegro finale” ---
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Wilco: **A.M.** can be enjoyable to listen to, as long as you don’t try to compare it to **Yankee Hotel Foxtrot** , but it’s clearly their worst album. “Casino Queen” is my favorite song. OutKast: **ATLiens** has three fantastic songs, then a bunch of boring stuff. “Two Dope Boyz In A Cadillac” is quite possibly their best song ever. Sonic Youth: I bought **A Thousand Leaves** the day it came it out (in 1998) and I’ve listened to it all the way through maybe four or five times. “Sunday” is the best song, but I prefer the version from the Suburbia soundtrack. The Afghan Whigs: There is a direct relationship between how miserable Greg Dulli was and how good the Whigs’ music was. He was way too happy when they made **1965** but “John The Baptist” is still a pretty good song. Although it probably would have been the worst on any of their preceding three albums. ---
**Author:** ![interface2x](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@interface2x](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/interface2x)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2006, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/43 "2006-05-03T23:51:37Z")
[QUOTE=Logan 5] Band: Skinny Puppy Album: Too Dark Park Song: Shore Lined Poison [/QUOTE] Wow, that’s always been my favorite SP album…maybe because it was the first one I got. Band: Depeche Mode Album: Exciter Song: I am You Band: VNV Nation Album: Advance & Follow Song: Frika ---
**Author:** ![buns3000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c89c15/32.png) [@buns3000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buns3000)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/44 "2006-05-04T03:13:20Z")
Band: The Beach Boys Worst Album: M.I.U. (what a no-brainer, though 15 Big Ones is certainly 2nd worst) Best Song: My Diane ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/45 "2006-05-04T04:58:06Z")
How can _Monster_ still be anyone’s least favorite R.E.M. album after their last three? With that in mind: Favorite band: R.E.M. Least Favorite Album: _Reveal_ Favorite Song: “Beat A Drum” ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/46 "2006-05-04T07:01:30Z")
Favorite Artist: Jefferson Airplane Least Favorite Album: _Takes Off_ Favorite Song on Above Albun _ **Tobacco Road** _ Another Favorite: John Lennon Least Favorite Album: _Mind Games_ Favorite Song on Above Album_ **Meat City** _ ---
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[QUOTE=InternetLegend] How can _Monster_ still be anyone’s least favorite R.E.M. album after their last three? [/QUOTE] Simple: I haven’t heard their last three. Group: Velvet Underground Worst album: **Loaded** (still pretty damn good, and I’m not counting **Squeeze** ) Best song on it: “Sweet Jane” ---
**Author:** ![TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/51bf81/32.png) [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/48 "2006-05-04T17:53:17Z")
[QUOTE=OatmealB] Favorite band: Guided by Voices Least favorite album: Earthquake Glue Favorite song on that album: The Best of Jill Hives [/QUOTE] Agreed; terrible record, but that’s actually my favorite GBV song of all time. Absolutely lovely and crushing. ---
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Fave artist: Warren Zevon Least Fave Album: Transverse City Fave Song: They Moved the Moon Fave artist: Jethro Tull Least Fave album: Under Wraps Fave Song: Under Wraps Fave Artist: Pink Floyd Least Fave album: Division Bell Fave Song: What Do You Want From Me Fave Artist: Alice Cooper Least Fave Album: Constrictor Fave Song: Great American Success Story ---
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1. Who’s your favorite musical artist? Ry Cooder 2. What’s your least favorite album of theirs? Jazz 3. What’s your favorite song on that album? Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/51 "2006-05-04T18:48:21Z")
[QUOTE=GargoyleWB] Fave artist: Jethro Tull Least Fave album: Under Wraps Fave Song: Under Wraps [/QUOTE] Do you mean “Under Wraps #2” (the acoustic one)? ---
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I was half expecting to see many make this triplet, but it hasn’t even been mentioned yet: best band: beatles worst album: beatles for sale best song: eight days a week (I guess. Its lousy though.) Second best band: tool album: undertow song: sober ---
**Author:** ![Don\_Draper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b2d939/32.png) [@Don\_Draper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Don_Draper)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/53 "2006-05-04T19:13:35Z")
Can’t say, I have a specific favorite, but - band: the Rolling Stones album: Thier Satanic Majesties’ Request song: Citadel band: Jefferson Airplane album: Bark song: Feel So Good band: Talking Heads album: True Stories song: Love for Sale artist: Kate Bush album: the Dreaming song: Sat in Your Lap band: 10,000 Maniacs album: Blind Man’s Zoo song: Headstrong band: the Replacements album: All Shook Down song: Sadly Beautiful artist: Rufus Wainwright album: Poses song: Greek Song ---
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[QUOTE=Biffy the Elephant Shrew] Do you mean “Under Wraps #2” (the acoustic one)? [/QUOTE] Yep, that’s the one. The only reason I ever even listened to it was that it appeared on a 20 years collection. I really liked it, then went out to get the Under Wraps album thinking I’d find more great songs. :smack: I really would have been better off getting the [Shatner Poetry Album](http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&token=&sql=10:28qog4jntvjz) instead. ---
**Author:** ![Logan\_5](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/fbc32d/32.png) [@Logan\_5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logan_5)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/55 "2006-05-04T22:56:10Z")
[QUOTE=interface2x] Wow, that’s always been my favorite SP album…maybe because it was the first one I got. [/QUOTE] I know what you mean. My favorite Skinny Puppy album will always be Mind:The Perpetual Intercourse and that was my first SP album. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/56 "2006-05-04T23:53:55Z")
Band: Tears For Fears Album: Everybody Loves A Happy Ending Song: Quiet Ones Band: Mesh Album: We Collide Song: No Place Like Home Band: Radiohead Album: Pablo Honey Song: Good lord, this album sucks. Do I have to pick one? Fine…“Anyone Can Play Guitar”, because at least it’s amusing in its crapulence. Some of you may have noticed that my first two “least favorite albums” have been the latest releases by those artists. This seems to be the decade for bands I like to decide they don’t care anymore and create doofy, “boppin’ along” simplistic music. Radiohead’s gearing up for a new one, too…and the photos from the recent live preview gigs show such promising evidence as Jonny Greenwood holding a banjo (a banjo!) while Thom Yorke plays the drums. This does not inspire hope. Still, they’re gonna have to try hard to beat Pablo Honey. Ugh. ---
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[QUOTE=Roland Orzabal] Band: Mesh Album: We Collide Song: No Place Like Home [/QUOTE] A damn fine song, but I also think it’s a damn fine album. I find “In this place forever” to be much weaker. And “Original 91-93”, but I don’t really count that one since it’s a compilation of old demos. ---
**Author:** ![Roland\_Orzabal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c2a13f/32.png) [@Roland\_Orzabal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roland_Orzabal)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2006, 12:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-song-on-your-least-favorite-album-by-your-favorite-artist/355164/58 "2006-05-05T12:50:05Z")
[QUOTE=interface2x] A damn fine song, but I also think it’s a damn fine album. I find “In this place forever” to be much weaker. And “Original 91-93”, but I don’t really count that one since it’s a compilation of old demos. [/QUOTE] Yeah, I wasn’t counting the Originals as an album, but even if I were, I tend to be softer on first releases. Besides, what more intense guilty pleasure can there be than turning the stereo up to 11, blasting Time Enough and jumping around like an idiot? I hasten to add that I don’t actually _dislike_ “We Collide”. It’s just that, by this point, I’m well aware that Mesh is capable of making smooth, spit-and-polish shiny club tracks, which is what half of the album is. The other half is “Four Walls”, which I had enough of when they made “Four Walls”. “No Place Like Home” is my favorite because it seems to be the album’s exception to this rule; it takes a few turns in different directions from the rest of the tracks. All in all, I was hoping for either something new, or more of the same but better, but it seemed like they decided to play it safe with this one. YMM clearly V. Good to see another Mesh fan about, though. 🙂 ---
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[QUOTE=Spiff] Freak Out is your LEAST favorite Mothers album? That certainly goes against the majority view – not that there’s anything wrong with that! Here’s mine: Favorite band: The Clash Worst album: Cut the Crap Best song on _Crap_: This is England [/QUOTE] Oh man you just took mine. First Runner-Up: David Bowie, **…hours** , “Pretty Things Are Going to Hell.” Second Runner-Up: The Kinks **Come Dancing with The Kinks** , “Come Dancing.” ---
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