"Hippy Boy" on The Gilded Palace of Sin. I've listened to that record hundreds of times; I might have heard "Hippy Boy" twice.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 18 March 2015 23:16 (nine years ago) link
I've always liked how PJ albums volley back and forth between barnburners and melancholy ballads/dirges.
sebadoh's even more bipolar. Haven't listened in a while; that extreme schizoness used to annoy me; if I listened more often maybe would come to like it.
― drash, Thursday, 19 March 2015 00:13 (nine years ago) link
Nobody's mentioned "Money" yet?
― totally unachievable goals and no incentive to compromise (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 19 March 2015 00:17 (nine years ago) link
(obligatory 'pink floyd rules')
The king of all these is surely the eyeball-clawing "Mother" smack dab in the middle of Synchronicity.
― Dave Depper (Davey D), Thursday, 19 March 2015 00:32 (nine years ago) link
i can listen to Black Messiah all the way through, but it does get a little bit exhausting just cause there's so much going on in each track. and the fact that there's so much going on means that its virtues are wasted when plugged as background music. so, currently i just select a few tracks to listen to at a time. i really don't like Sugah Daddy all that much though.
― charlie h, Thursday, 19 March 2015 04:00 (nine years ago) link
Money is a terrific example of this. a song that's both severely irritating & disruptive to the flow of the album.
― charlie h, Thursday, 19 March 2015 04:04 (nine years ago) link
"I Don't Wanna Be a Soldier Mama I Don't Wanna Die" from Imagine
― cbe9 (Lee626), Thursday, 19 March 2015 06:22 (nine years ago) link
If its potentially annoying to even the most ardent fan and is completely unlike anything else on the album to the point you can't understand how it even came to be, much less find space on an album, then I think that will do.
however some of these - like "The Baby Song" - can be very short and somewhat incidental, the real problems begin w/ the 3 min epics
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 19 March 2015 09:41 (nine years ago) link
'Mind Gardens' on The Byrds' Younger Than Yesterday
― Gavin, Leeds, Thursday, 19 March 2015 10:00 (nine years ago) link
Oh, fuck - Student Demonstration Time, of course
― why dont u say something or like just die (dog latin), Thursday, 19 March 2015 10:38 (nine years ago) link
"Money" is otm. adding "Ignoreland" from Automatic. maybe it's not as bad a song as I think, but its placement on the album is ghastly
― droit au butt (Euler), Thursday, 19 March 2015 10:54 (nine years ago) link
"Good Vibrations" on Smiley Smile a rare instance of a great song that still disturbs the flow of an album
― Lee626, Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:19 (nine years ago) link
^ yes. always felt this would have been a classic if they'd replaced GV with something a little less tremendous.
― why dont u say something or like just die (dog latin), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:33 (nine years ago) link
never had a problem with ignoreland, personally, but plenty of people hate it.
― why dont u say something or like just die (dog latin), Thursday, 19 March 2015 11:34 (nine years ago) link
the American CD of Meat Is Murder has How Soon Is Now in the middle whereas the original vinyl and tape didn't and much as i love it *it has no place there*.
― piscesx, Thursday, 19 March 2015 12:13 (nine years ago) link
The Velvet Underground's The Murder Mystery
― Minaj moron (Re-Make/Re-Model), Thursday, 19 March 2015 12:16 (nine years ago) link
Let's Spend the Night Together and Lady Grinning Soul screw up the end of Aladdin Sane, which is nearly perfect to that point.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 March 2015 13:44 (nine years ago) link
Maxwell's Silver Hammer wins this surely.
Won't hear a word said against Lady Grinning Soul.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 19 March 2015 15:26 (nine years ago) link
otm x2
― primal, intuitive, and relatively unmediated (Treeship), Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:05 (nine years ago) link
Frontier Psychiatrist
― MarkoP, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:08 (nine years ago) link
never understood why people hate maxwell so much when abbey road (and white album/MMT etc) are full of 'silly' songs like that. why does maxwell get the most hate?
― why dont u say something or like just die (dog latin), Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:14 (nine years ago) link
Streets Of Fire on side 2 of Darkness On The Edge Of Town
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 19 March 2015 16:24 (nine years ago) link
― why dont u say something or like just die (dog latin)
It's a painstakingly constructed plodding folly, whereas songs like Octopus' Garden or Mean Mr Mustard are hazy psychedelic fragments which fit in well with the blissed-out flow.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:02 (nine years ago) link
Like, it's deliberately wacky rather than playfully silly.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:04 (nine years ago) link
unlike yellow submarine, octopus's garden, rocky raccoon, piggies...?
― why dont u say something or like just die (dog latin), Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:13 (nine years ago) link
not that people are particularly fond of those, but it seems it's maxwell that gets held up as the worst of the bunch.
I'm not a huge fan of any of those songs, but all of them sound more charming and less ham-fisted (not to mention less jarringly sequenced) to me, yes.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:14 (nine years ago) link
"Butcher's Tale (Western Front 1914)"
Came here to post this one. I do like this song, but it's definitely jarring.
― I don't even OWN a Television album (The Yellow Kid), Thursday, 19 March 2015 17:28 (nine years ago) link