somebody's gonna kill me but... "towers of dub" off of uf orb
― brimstead, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 03:20 (eight years ago) link
man ilm crazy i love "It Ain't Easy" from Ziggy
― serge thoroughgoods (will), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 04:02 (eight years ago) link
Lily, Rosemary from Blood on the Tracks
― niels, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 06:30 (eight years ago) link
I'd remove "4 Ever 2 Gether" from Lexicon of Love. Never liked it and it seems totally out of step with the rest of the record.
― jon123, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 10:28 (eight years ago) link
at least you didn't say 'sticky end'
― nashwan, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 10:48 (eight years ago) link
I'd like to remove 'Mother' from the Police's Synchronicity.
― Austin, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 15:21 (eight years ago) link
I'd remove "Archer on the Beach" from Destroyer's Poison Season
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:43 (eight years ago) link
I'd like to remove 'Mother' from the Police's Synchronicity.― Austin, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:21 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Fla
― Austin, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:21 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Fla
I know, it's like, "Who brought the Freud to this Jung party!"
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 20:44 (eight years ago) link
Nah, disagree. 'Mother' is great, IMO.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:28 (eight years ago) link
Remove Meat Is Murder from Meat is Murder ....
― svend (svend), Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:53 AM
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:31 (eight years ago) link
I wasn't going to say anything, Austin, but I'm with ya.
Worst songs on each of a favourite artist's albums
I think "Mother" on Synchronicity ownz this thread.― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, August 11, 2003 2:09 PM
Albums you can't listen to because you hate one song on it so much
I've said it before, but I'll say it again: Synchronicity. You can't even enjoy Side 1 because you know that "Mother" is just around the corner, waiting to pounce on ya.― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:21 AM
C/D: Songs Not Sung By the Lead Singer a.k.a. Take 5, D., Mick, Michael, Stephen, J., et. al.
Don't even get me started on "Mother" from Synchronicity.― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, September 20, 2004 12:34 PM
should I add any songs by the Police to my iPod?
"Miss Gradenko" is damn cool. However, any song following "Mother" would sound pretty cool.― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, June 7, 2005 2:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― pplains, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 21:43 (eight years ago) link
Also, my favourite by theirs is Shame on a nigga.
I'm still a little fond of Synchronicity, so embarrassing
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:00 (eight years ago) link
been waiting for mother to come up itt so i can firmly oppose its suggestion, sry if synchronicity listeners object to being briefly awoken
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:01 (eight years ago) link
lily rosemary and the jack of hearts is a painful but good one tho -- i love the lyrics and many moments of delivery but nine minutes of bum-BUM-bum-BUM-bum-BUM-bum-BUM was an error
― le Histoire du Edgy Miley (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:05 (eight years ago) link
almost feel like knocking "Red Eye" off Duty Now For the Future and having it end with "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA" would be nice
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:16 (eight years ago) link
Synchronicity is such a great album that I can enjoy it, even with 'Mother.' But, jeez, they tried damn hard to screw it up.
'Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts' is quintessential Blood on the Tracks. I can't only not imagine the album without it, I'd venture to say it would be worse off with its absence.
― Austin, Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:21 (eight years ago) link
I'm cool with this version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penVzLsOuyg
― pplains, Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:36 (eight years ago) link
Frontier Psychiatrist
― brimstead, Thursday, 18 August 2016 00:55 (eight years ago) link
lily is definitely one of the best on that album. though as with most of blood on the tracks I prefer the ny session except for maybe idiot wind
Meet me in the morning is the dud on that album imo
― marcos, Thursday, 18 August 2016 01:21 (eight years ago) link
"Home Tonight" from Aerosmith-Rocks. a conventional ballad closing the band's most aggressive, focused effort to date kinda takes the wind out of the sails at the end.
― Neanderthal, Thursday, 18 August 2016 01:54 (eight years ago) link
for some reason the Big Star thread made me want to listen to Murmur, and I can't help but think that record would be perfect without the hokey 'We Walk'.of course, that was the tip of the iceberg I suppose with REM and hokey, but try going from Shaking Through-West of the Fields and tell me it isn't better.
― campreverb, Saturday, 20 August 2016 04:06 (eight years ago) link
Hunky Dory minus "Kooks"
― MatthewK, Saturday, 20 August 2016 06:56 (eight years ago) link
i'm with you on that one
― brimstead, Saturday, 20 August 2016 07:29 (eight years ago) link
home tonight is a good call. has anyone said hippie boy yet?
― dynamicinterface, Saturday, 20 August 2016 14:04 (eight years ago) link
― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 5:31 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
I would have agreed with you if I hadn't gone back and reevaluated this album recently, but my post-high school findings are that MIM is mostly a dog. Easily the worst Smiths album, and if you don't think so, listen to them all back to back and tell me it isn't glaringly obvious. Tedious, joyless record.
― Wimmels, Saturday, 20 August 2016 14:19 (eight years ago) link
Motorhead - Overkill: CapricornUnconvincing spacey thing smack dab in the middle of a bunch of perfect locomotive self-combusting hardrock/early metal/whatever
― punksishippies, Sunday, 21 August 2016 04:38 (eight years ago) link
I mean it's still perfect with that song, but without it, it would be perfecter
― punksishippies, Sunday, 21 August 2016 04:41 (eight years ago) link
cut "sex machine" from _stand!_
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Sunday, 21 August 2016 11:24 (eight years ago) link
Good one. There's absolutely no need for Sex Machine to be 13 minutes long. It totally kills the momentum.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 21 August 2016 13:15 (eight years ago) link
Remove "Make You Feel My Love" from Time out of Mind.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 21 August 2016 13:38 (eight years ago) link
You are SO RIGHT THERE. I've never understood why so many people cover it. Terrible song.
― MatthewK, Sunday, 21 August 2016 14:11 (eight years ago) link
cuz it's so generic that anyone from Garth Brooks to Bryan Ferry can imprint a personality?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 21 August 2016 14:54 (eight years ago) link
My pick:
remove "Come Around" from Kala
otm. "Paper Planes" would be the perfect closer.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 21 August 2016 18:11 (eight years ago) link
"Wendell Gee" from Fables
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, 22 August 2016 21:37 (eight years ago) link
Good-bye, Wendell Gee
― chicken lit (rip van wanko), Monday, 22 August 2016 21:55 (eight years ago) link
Oh hai, can I not has "Leave Me Alone" off Power Corruption and Lies? Oh thanks, ta,
― Mark G, Monday, 22 August 2016 22:07 (eight years ago) link
Nooooooo
― brimstead, Monday, 22 August 2016 22:21 (eight years ago) link
can we not has Mark G on this thread?
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 August 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
move "We all stand" so that it ends the album and we're good.
― brimstead, Monday, 22 August 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
Yep, like that one.
It's mainly because I got the cassette box thing in Oxfam, and I played it in the car.
The original cassette I bought back in the day had "Blue Monday" and "The Beach" ending each side, and that's also good.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 15:41 (eight years ago) link
Lady Grinning Soul from Aladdin Sane
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:10 (eight years ago) link
Youd have to leave out a lot more to make that a perfect record imo
― niels, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 16:53 (eight years ago) link
nope
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
(to both posts)
― brimstead, Tuesday, 23 August 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
has no one else here thought the same about "we all stand"? i have nothing against it, it just feels awkwardly shoved in there between the faster tempo jams. and "leave me alone" really sounds like a penultimate song to me for some reason.. don't know why or how. swap "ultraviolence" with "your silent face" also, the latter is so powerful as a side-opener and the resulting first side becomes all uptempo etc.
― brimstead, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:47 (eight years ago) link
Michael Jackson's Thriller - take out the ghastly "The Girl is Mine"
― Neanderthal, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:51 (eight years ago) link
When I discovered the album in high school, it was the most mysterious track -- it's a koan or poem set to music. That eerie synth flute playing along with the "Life goes on" eventually hooked me. I hear it as an experiment to which they never returned but is most welcome.
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 01:55 (eight years ago) link
Pixies - Silver from Doolittle Erasure - Sixty-five Thousand from The Innocents My Morning Jacket - Into The Woods from ZHaim - My Song 5 from Days Are GoneElastica - Indian Song from Elastica Goldfrapp - Oompa Radar from Felt Mountain The Divine Comedy - Freedom Road from Absent Friends Charli XCX - Hanging Around from Sucker
― Kitchen Person, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 02:15 (eight years ago) link