Name a classic album that had one inexplicably effin' AWFUL track.

I know if I say that "Good Time Boy" on "Buffalo Springfield Again" sucked like a Hoover, SOMEONE will reply "That was my FAVORITE song on the album" or "It wasn't THAT bad," but both of you would be WRONG. Suck it did, a horrendous blemish on an otherwise pristine album. And YES, I know the guy who sang it is no longer with us, but that's neither here nor there.

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YOUR picks?

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Probably my least favorite track of theirs in the Bill Berry-era, too.

:P

I knew a few people would probably refute me for this! :D

the Buddy Holly hiccup at the end.

and seriously something about a sing along to Marat's skin problem. :hi:

He said he got rid of it because that song was too dumb and repetitive.
I pretty much only liked the song "Back in Black" and maybe one or 2 other songs on that album, but I agreed with him that "Giving the Dog a Bone" was inane.

she take you down easy
going down to her knees
going down to the devil
down down at ninety degrees
she blowing me crazy
'til my ammunition is dry
she's using her head again
she's using her head
she's using her head again
I'm justa giving the dog a bone
giving the dog a bone, giving the dog a bone
giving the dog a bone, giving the dog a bone

she's no Mona Lisa
no she's no playboy star
but she'll send you to heaven
then explode you to Mars
she's using her head again
she's using her head
she's using her head again
I'm justa giving the dog a bone
giving the dog a bone, giving the dog a bone
giving the dog a bone, giving the dog a bone

she's got the power of union
she only hits when it's hot
and if she likes what you're doing
she'll give you the lot give it everything I got
just giving the dog a bone

giving the dog a bone, giving the dog a bone
giving the dog a bone, giving the dog a bone
giving the dog a bone, giving the dog a bone
giving the dog a bone, giving the dog a bone

I'm justa giving the dog a bone
giving the dog a bone, giving the dog a bone
I'm justa giving the dog a bone

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Whew! Okay, here is a good AC-DC song, with lyrics that are...still kind of bad.

Walk All Over You
Out of my way I'm running high
Take your chance with me and I'll give it a try
Ain't no woman in the world I know
'Cause I ain't looking for a woman,no!
Oh baby I ain't got much
Resistance to your touch
Take off the high heels, let down your hair
Paradise ain't far from there
I wanna walk all over you
I wanna walk all over you
Do anything you want me to, baby
I wanna walk all over you
Reflections on the bedroom wall
And there you thought you'd see it all
We're rising, falling like the sea
You're looking so good under me
I'm gonna walk all over you
I'm gonna walk all over you
Do anything you want me to do to you
I'm gonna walk all over you...Ill walk all over
(Roaming roaming stayin' alive
So gimme the stage, I'm gonna steal the show
Leave off the drapes and turn off the light
Tonight is gonna be the night
I'm gonna walk all over you
I'm gonna walk all over you
Do anything you want me to
I'm gonna walk all over
You ow.
I'm gonna walk all over you

Edit to add: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kkpLONtRjn4

Just about everyone growing up in the early 80s had that album, and most loved it from first note to last.

It's AC/DC. It's rock'n'roll. It's a song about sex. What did you expect? It's not going to be Shakespeare.

"Big Balls" was inane, too. Doesn't mean it's a bad song.

I am laughing as I type this, but, come on. "Big Balls" is funny the first 3 or 4 times you hear it, and then you either reach age 13 or you get bored of it. Or maybe it's just because I'm female.

But yes, I was about 12 when Back In Black came out, and I still think the title song rocks. It's been so long since I heard the whole album, I don't even remember the other gems on the record.

I don't consider it high art, but it's still amusing that they would even put it on an album. It was obviously the result of copious amounts of alcohol. I still get a kick out of it years later.

I was the same age, I believe (born in '68.) Hell's Bells, Shake a Leg, Rock'n'Roll Ain't Noise Pollution, You Shook Me All Night Long, Have a Drink on Me...the soundtrack to my misspent youth.

I was born in 1970, but I didn't really remember hearing it until I was 12, and back then, it was kind of weird to like the hard rock songs being a girl. Def Leppard and Ratt were guilty pleasures. I was more into Duran Duran, like other girls my age.

I liked all those other AC-DC songs you listed. It wasn't until I was about 19 that I actually bought "Back in Black".

obliged to say that.) In the early to mid 80s I was all about Ratt, Def Leppard, Judas Priest, Scorpions, Dokken, etc.

It wasn't until the 90s that I realized DD had some really good tunes, and by then I had branched into non-metal stuff like the Cure, R.E.M., The Smiths, Psychedelic Furs, etc.

Isn't it funny how you were supposed to define yourself in terms of the music you liked and the way you dressed? Even though you might have liked some music you really weren't supposed to like. But, I'm sorry, new-wave fashion beat rocker fashion, no contest. Maybe that's why girls preferred it. :D

There was so much good music from the 1980s (a lot of crap, too, but that comes with the territory).

threads will attest.

so I guess we can't help but be cool.
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If they had just dropped "What Goes On" and put something like "You've Got To Hide Your Love Away" on it instead, they would have created the perfect pop music album.

John & Paul's background vocals are awesome.

Okay, not the best singer in the world, but...

How about Yellow Submarine(Revolver)

With A Little Help From My Friends(Sgt Pepper)

Good Night(White Album)

Boys, I Wanna Be Your Man, Honey Don't, What Goes On are not bad.

I will admit that Abbey Road could have easily dropped Octopus's Garden, one of my least favorite Beatle songs. Act Naturally is not all that good either.

But Ringo was hired for his drumming skills, which are peerless on every album they made.

but it's not worse than "Got to Get You Into My Life", or "Here, There and Everywhere" on Revolver

that way, I just don't know anymore....



:P Ringo was teh bomb!

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I actually like that one. LOL

Surely you mean Seamus?

"Sunrise" by Donna Godchaux. Ugh. I still skip that track when it comes up. Ruins what is otherwise an awesome album - with side 2 being the killer Terrapin.

"Terrapin Station" (live new years eve 87/88) -- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJ5DM0IQR-k

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But Estimated Prophet makes up for both. When I had it on cassette I tended to listen to Estimated and then fast forward the rest to get back to Terrapin :)

...Arista was ALWAYS about "hits," regardless of the artist, and they finally got what they wanted from the Dead with "Touch Of Grey," but along the way, all of the Arista studio albums were genuine mixed bags.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WXu9pVGDhn8 (pt1)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4XZIs-Pcdw (pt2)

16min 28secs... enjoy.. :smoke:

the one from 05/07/77 (or was it 08) was awesome too

SKIP. HATE that song.

I mean, he scraps Lifehouse (which probably would have been one of the greatest albums ever made had it saw the light of day); surely they could have put "Pure and Easy", "Join Together" or "Let's See Action" instead? It's just a mediocre song and sounds so out of place compared to the gems on Who's Next.

My Wife comes with Love Ain't For Keeping, they're practically one song. I'll admit it doesn't come close to the level of any other song on Who's Next, but it has its own quirky awesomeness and it's by no means a throw away track.

. . . throwaway. People wouldn't change it now because they're conditioned to hear it. I find it monotonous and vocally sub-par.

"You Gotta Move" - WTF?

Why Don't We Do It In the Road? and Revolution Number 9 - both a waste of space.

It's a quirky gem.

But my second choice would be Bungalo Bill or Rocky Raccoon

to get the full effect.



Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolution_9

Just sayin, LOL!

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Every other song on that disc is pure perfection--it only trails Siamese Dream as the Pumpkins' greatest CD ever. But XYU is just too jarring, too heavy-metalish, too scream-o. When I burned the CD onto my MP3, I intentionally left out XYU so that it does create the perfect compilation.

but i feel the same way about tales of a scorched earth.

out of curiosity, what's your favorite track off that disc? to me, stumbleine is still as amazing and brilliant as it was the first time i heard it.

...but honestly, if you admit to being a fan of any Pumpkins song or album, you are okay in my book. One of the reasons why I love the Pumpkins so much is that even when they are at their heaviest hard rock moments they are still able to make it beautiful (see "Bodies" as an example). But for whatever reason, XYU kinda missed the boat on that department in my mind. I dunno, maybe it is because I always thought Billy came off sounding a little ridiculous shouting "And into the eyes of the jackal I say kaboom!"....but hey, if you like it you are certainly cool with me.

It's so hard to say which is my favorite off that disc because they are all so incredible. "Stumbleine", as you mentioned, is incredible, bittersweet, heartbreaking. The aforementioned "Bodies" is great...."Through the Eyes of Ruby" is the epitome of what a Smashing Pumpkins song is, and features a great calming instrumental at the end...."We Only Come Out at Night" has long been one of my all time favorite Pumpkins songs.

But if you have to pick just one song, I would go with "Farewell and Goodnight". That is literally the song I want played at my funeral. People will ask me why I am such a Pumpkins fan, and I will respond that any band that is able to end an album with a lullabye and not have it come off as being lame or pretentious has to be the greatest band in the world, and the Pumpkins nailed that one.

Goes on forever, can't tell if they're trying to write an acoustic song to follow Battle for Evermore or if they're trying to balance out Black Dog at the beginning of the first side, totally shoots down the momemtum of what would have otherwise been a great 4th album for Led Zeppelin.

Woodface is a sublime, timeless album, except for the opening track which is sort of a jokey, referential social commentary or something, that namechecks Elvis, Liberace, Tammy (Fake?) Baker, Andy Warhol, PIcasso, the Queen and Andrew Lloyd Webber. It's got Tim Finn's oafish fingerprints all over it... horrid song from an otherwise flawlessly wonderous record.

a Finn fan who is NOT a Tim Finn fan. :) I have to admit I'm in the same camp, but I can rarely say so amongst other fans because it's like blasphemy.

Having said that, I don't loathe Chocolate Cake, but it's not my favorite. I'm actually not crazy about All I Ask, but I have a feeling that if Neil rerecorded it I would like it a lot better.

But is so wildly hit and miss, it can be embarrassing.

I'm not sure if it was his idea, but that whole wacky outfit/makeup/hair thing Split Enz did back in their early days at least had his endorsement. Seemed like the desperate act of a band without any songs... of course that all changed when young Neil joined and showed up big brother.

I'm guessing you could make a pretty interesting movie about their relationship... the younger looking up to the older and wanting to be like him, the older realizing the younger is so much more talented, and having mixed feelings of pride and resentment, watching the younger succeed and exceed...

Tim and have a younger brother who is so incredibly talented at the very thing that is your own life's work. I mean, Tim holds his own. He has a substantial following and certainly seems to make a decent living, which is already a million times more successful than 99% of the professional musicians out there. I know, I have several in my family.

The crazy get-ups for Split Enz probably seem a bit more...desperate, maybe...than they were at the time. It was an era of tacky costumes and wacky makeup that seems just quaint now. But Split Enz had some great songs. Although, I admit, I think I found out that many of my favorites were penned by Neil. Not all, but many.

The second Finn Brother's album was largely terribly IMHO. I really like a couple songs on it, and a couple more are listenable, but several are just terrible. I thought the first album was quite good, and still listen to it almost as much as any CH or Neil Finn solo album. But the second one (I can't even remember what it was called at the moment) hasn't gotten a listen from me since they toured with it. Of course I went to the shows because I knew they'd play songs off of Woodface, Split Enz stuff, and the older Finn album. But I was pretty disinterested in the songs from the album they were promoting.

I don't know, I found a lot of it to just be amazing... the bridge to "Won't Give In" alone redeems the entire album.

albums in general. There are a few gems on there (Won't Give In is one, I also like Part of Me, Part of You and Gentle Hum), but not as many stellar songs as an average Finn-related album. There are a couple that genuinely cannot stand, which is extremely rare for me. Usually the worst song on a Finn album is still an okay song.

that album.

So now, I totally disagree - and we played that CD tons of times!

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It's overplayed and a total momentum destroyer when listened in context.

Synchs real nice with the Dark Side of the Rainbow, but other than that . . .

was supposed to be a shallow send-up of capitalist culture (so the form of the song reflects the content/reference of the song lyrics). So the lyrics about the greatness of money and wealth were deliberately trite, etc. But I also LOVE the Floyd and can't imagine a wrong step, ever...no, it just isn't possible...I will continue to tell myself...

never listen to it but the album will be listed as one of the greatest works of mankind.

While musically that track may not be much, the effects in it were ground-breaking in the early 70s, and influential on later stuff.

The guitar solo still gives me chills.

Irredeemably awful, especially given its proximity to the sublime majesty of the title track.

that one and free will, the rest just didn't do it for me at all. It's my only rush album

Love Jones from Louisville made possibly the best "lounge" album ever, "Here's to the Losers" with a lot of really smooth tunes, fun and funny lyrics, and the whole thing is just about perfect for what it is.

But for some reason, they got Tool to do a short but screaming metal version of their song "I Get Paid for Loving" and made it an intro to their version of the song. It's another joke, and it's jarring as it's supposed to be, but I just have to trim that out for actual listening purposes.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_Jones_(band)

Now Pink Floyd has some worse songs, but they aren't on Dark Side of the Moon.

:P

I'm saying that Us And Them is the 'The Battle of Evermore' of Dark Side Of The Moon.

A similarly useless drone right in the middle of some useful songs.

thanks for setting me straight!

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It's drenched in progressive/anti-war social commentary, and I love love love Rick Wright's organ intro. The line "Forward he cried, from the rear, and the front rank died" is a reference to the attack in which Roger Waters' father died.

There would be a hole in that record (aside from the one for the spindle) were it not there. ;)

Todd in Cheesecurdistan

no way is it 'awful'.

It's not bad, and I really like the horns...but it doesn't belong on an album of otherwise soaring, majestic power.

edit: I see I was beaten to this observation.

I don't know what the heck they were thinkin' with that one.

n/t

Like "Bohemian Rhapsody" There are so many great Queen songs (albeit not necessarily on "Night at the Opera") and they're known for "BoRhap". Sad. And "Jeremy" got major airplay, for Pearl Jam. Too bad, cuz "Evenflow" and "Alive" are just amazing.

From U2's War album. It's not a horrible song, but it is easily the weakest on the album. originally it closed out the first side of the album on a somber note; on CD, it's a collosal momentum killer.

It really fits the other material on that album better.

And oddly enough, Unforgettable Fire's biggest hit (Pride) would fit in nicely on War.

I think of it as a beautiful love song, and very uplifting.

Take my hand
You know I'll be there,
If you can I'll cross
The sky for your love,
For I have promised for
To be with you tonight
And for the time that will come.

Take my hand
You know I'll be there,
If you can I'll cross
The sky for your love
And I understand
These winds and tides,
This change of times
Won't drag you away.
Hold on, hold on tightly,
Hold on and don't let go
Of my love.

The storms will pass
It won't be long now.
The storms will pass
But my love last forever.

And take my hand,
You know I'll be there,
If you can I'll cross the sky
For your love.
Give you what I hold dear,
Hold on, hold on tightly.
Hold on, hold on tightly.
Rise up, rise up with wings,
Like eagles you'll run, you'll run.
You'll run and not grow weary.

Take my hand, take my hand.
Hold on tightly.
Hold on tightly.
This love last forever,
This love last forever,
Take my hand,
Take my hand.

it just doesn't go wiht the rest of the rockin album, it sounds like a filler so they could finish the album.

Another one is "For the benefit of mr kite" from Beatles' Sgt Pepper....WTF was with that song?!

I'm glad I'm not the only one. Thank goodness I don't have to fast forward a cassette or lift up the turntable needle to skip this song now. It's not even on my iPod.

a sentimental highschool-nostalgic piece of slow-down of the rock and roll
onslaught that the album VHI truly is.

("Ice cream man" starts slowly, and acoustically, but shreds in the end. So, none of that....)

it starts slow but it's well worth it when it speeds up.

at 1:44 flat out exposes how guitarists of the '70s were coasting up to that point.
Templeton's up front production of Eddie's guitar made that clear.

It has one of the best solos on the album,and Dave's singing is incredible.

that on any album I buy, there is almost always one song I cannot love, no matter how much I love the rest if the album.

The first one that comes to mind, however, is Nitty Gritty Dirt Band "House at Pooh Corner." One of my friends in high school took the needle on her stereo and ran it across that song several times, she hated it so much. :rofl:

Maybe it's just the fact that I've heard that sappy song over 500,000 times, but still I never thought it was that good the first time I heard it.



1. Already Gone :thumbsup:
2. You Never Cry Like A Lover :thumbsup:
3. Midnight Flyer :thumbsup:
4. My Man :thumbsup:
5. On The Border :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
6. James Dean :thumbsup:
7. Ol' 55 :thumbsup:
8. Is It True? :thumbsup:
9. Good Day In Hell :thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:
10. The Best Of My Love :thumbsdown:

I liked Poco, too, but could not handle Timothy Schmidt's Eagles work. "On The Border" was probably the last album that was true to their original sound..."One Of These Nights" began the slow descent to mountains of coke and Henley making the beast with two backs with Stevie Nicks. Nothing good could EVER come of that combination...and it DIDN'T.

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but I still adore that song.

Yeah, Jump was synth-pop too, and it took me a while to warm up to that one. But "I'll Wait" made jump sound like death metal by comparison. And it was a foreshadowing of the Velveeta soaked dreck that would follow, on the Van Hagar albums. :puke:

...and got an A+. TRUE STORY. The professor wrote a note on it saying "this is a something of a minor masterpiece and I would like your permission to reprint it in a book I am writing" and included a signature page.

...the actual paper was about the transformation of Norma Jean Baker into Marilyn Monroe and the ultimate destruction that followed. I used "I'll Wait" a as a touchstone.

I agree that Van Halen took their eyes off the prize with the introductions of cheesy keyboards, but that was Eddie's call, and there's no record of anyone in the band ever successfully telling him "no." That said, the lyrics of "I'll Wait" are pretty masterful in painting the picture of an obsessed fan, an anonymous page-turner from a legion of the same.



So I basically took the lyrics and worked my way through, making parallels between the Norma Jean / Marilyn chronology. Icons...especially "beautiful people" icons...are slowly raised to the pedestal by fans who desire them but are never going to have them...like the protagonist in "I'll Wait."

It's easy for us to say that "Marilyn" would have been better off living her life out as Norma Jean Baker, married to her high school sweetheart, living in the little house with the white picket fence, but the flaw in that logic is that she wanted the Marilyn life. She wasn;t kidnapped, drugged, threatened, coerced into becoming an icon.

And in the final analysis, we do not have the right to judge her motives or intentions. But somewhere, right now, some sweaty adolescent is sitting in a room with a magazine (or in this era, probably his computer screen) and having those "I'll Wait" daydreams about another Norma Jean who's made the transformation and will either end up happy or will not.

That and the fact that it's only rock 'n' roll...but I like it.

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Rio is still truly a beautiful album with some real and surprising musical depth. It holds up well after 27 years. But "Last Chance on the Stairway" is rather a misstep on this otherwise excellent album.

she's a nice lady, but I don't want to hear her sing

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Unlistenable!

As soon as I read the question, that was the ONLY answer!

I believe it was the only one written solely by Andy Summers. It's also in 7/8 meter, I think. What an awful track!

Just sharing the joy! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJDRet418-Y&feature=fvw

But that song is excruciating.

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Way ahead of her time, IMHO. Sincerely yours, DU Yoko Defense League.

of the punk era, IMHO. As a feminist and a punk-era DIY musician (with some musical training, though), I have to like her to some extent!

I agree she's not the world's best singer (and I don't know what instruments she played), but as a performance artist and idea-maker she is pretty amazing.


Suum quique. :D

A pointless, abbreviated tuneless cover of the Doors over a hip-hop beat.

The song sucks cheese and doesn't fit in with the rest of the album.

Not sure what the lads were aiming for here. Mumbly, pretentious, and silly.

Not just effin awful. In my opinion his worst song ever. Unlistenable. Thank God he's never played it in a show I've seen.

...Springsteen described it as his "Rocky Raccoon" in a Rolling Stone interview and cracked himself up recalling some of the lyrics, but I just found it to be eight minutes of my life I could never get back. Effin' HATED it.

The same in concert. What the hell was he thinking?????