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”
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.
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
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
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”
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 AlbumMeat City
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”
Agreed; terrible record, but that’s actually my favorite GBV song of all time. Absolutely lovely and crushing.
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
Who’s your favorite musical artist?
Ry Cooder
What’s your least favorite album of theirs?
Jazz
What’s your favorite song on that album?
Big Bad Bill Is Sweet William Now
Do you mean “Under Wraps #2” (the acoustic one)?
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
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
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 instead.
I know what you mean. My favorite Skinny Puppy album will always be Mind:The Perpetual Intercourse and that was my first SP album. 
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.
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.
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.
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.”
Band: U2
Album: October
Song: October
(assuming that Passengers: Original Soundtracks doesn’t count as a U2 album)
Band: Ten Mile Tide
Album: Midnight Is Early
Song: Hurricane
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