Name a record without a single dud song on it.

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Revolver is mostly great but it has that yellow turdmarine song that disqualifies it also that Harrison song which is perhaps his least memorable tune ever written, I cant remember its name even. Ditto for Abbey Road with Maxwell Silver Hammer. It's fine if you like them but they stand out like a sore thumb in otherwise great albums.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link

xp "the cross" is an amazing track!

the late great, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 04:52 (eight years ago) link

I think I prefer Rubber Soul at least looking at the tracklist I don't see anything I would skip.

✖✖✖ (Moka), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 04:59 (eight years ago) link

Rubber Soul > Revolver for sure

Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 05:21 (eight years ago) link

the real answer is: so many records qualify, but here are a few where legitimately every song is amazing

the blue nile: hats
sonny sharrock: ask the ages (do... most jazz albums qualify?)
scritti politti: cupid & psyche
debarge: in a special way
aerosmith: rocks
celtic frost: to mega therion

though lol most of my favorite records of all time actually incorporate at least one thing that could be considered a dud. also feel like i'm always talking about the same three records on here and on the general internet (hats, c&p, in a special way) literally all the time

insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 05:24 (eight years ago) link

Are there any duds on Voodoo? i mean, i don't think so as it's my favourite record ever but maybe other people feel differently

carly bae jepsen (monotony), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 05:50 (eight years ago) link

listening to katatonia's dance of december souls rn and i love every second of this record, add that to the list

insufficiently familiar with xgau's work to comment intelligently (BradNelson), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 06:59 (eight years ago) link

Can - Future Days

Steve Reich In The Afternoon (Against The 80s), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 08:09 (eight years ago) link

Moka, do you mean "Love You To"? it's often referred to as the least of Harrison's Indian-style tunes. but turn it up and you'll hear this fabulous bracing drone sound, an Indian(?) instrument which sounds like reversed gated/cutoff distorted guitars (more Tago Mago or post-punk). I find the song simultaneously minimal and enveloping: a washing machine tumble of sound. speaking of bracing, that opening salvo of Taxman>Eleanor Rigby>I'm Only Sleeping>Love You To as a sequence must have sounded like terra incognita in 1966. it's not until Here, There... that we're back on more familiar ground.

"What Goes On" is a dud (or at least dull as hell) for me on Rubber Soul. understandably some people hate "Run For Your Life" too (even Lennon himself?) but I first heard it in less PC times so I never took it that seriously. certainly has nothing on "Tomorrow Never Knows" as a closer.

dunno if I could ever consider "Yellow Submarine" a dud or turd, but then again I was 3 when it was released so target age for it as children's singalong. I was later scared seeing the film in the cinema at a young age (6?) so it still has an acid-eeriness for me.

Paul, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:51 (eight years ago) link

Hunky Dory.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:52 (eight years ago) link

Every Beatles album has at least one track I don't care for.

the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link

Wire's 154 is the only one of their opening salvo filled with junk

The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 23 September 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link

junk in the good or bad way?

do you mean "The Other Window"? Gilbert's probably my fave lyricist/vocalist of them lot. in a way it's the first taster of Dome. better lyrics than "The Gift" anyway. deliciously dark/morbid wit ~ Robert Holmes and Hinchcliffe (and Saward) woulda loved it.
Rolling Stone: Wire, Get Out Of Marienbad

"The 15th" has junk lyrics of the best kind.

Paul, Wednesday, 23 September 2015 14:39 (eight years ago) link


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