Remove one song from an almost perfect album to make it a perfect album

Remove Meat Is Murder from Meat is Murder ....

― svend (svend), Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:53 AM

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

Also, my favourite by theirs is Shame on a nigga.

I'm still a little fond of Synchronicity, so embarrassing

been waiting for mother to come up itt so i can firmly oppose its suggestion, sry if synchronicity listeners object to being briefly awoken

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

almost feel like knocking "Red Eye" off Duty Now For the Future and having it end with "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA" would be nice

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.

I'm cool with this version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=penVzLsOuyg

Frontier Psychiatrist

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

"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.

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.

Hunky Dory minus "Kooks"

i'm with you on that one

home tonight is a good call. has anyone said hippie boy yet?

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, 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.

Motorhead - Overkill: Capricorn
Unconvincing spacey thing smack dab in the middle of a bunch of perfect locomotive self-combusting hardrock/early metal/whatever

I mean it's still perfect with that song, but without it, it would be perfecter

cut "sex machine" from _stand!_

Good one. There's absolutely no need for Sex Machine to be 13 minutes long. It totally kills the momentum.

Remove "Make You Feel My Love" from Time out of Mind.

You are SO RIGHT THERE. I've never understood why so many people cover it. Terrible song.

cuz it's so generic that anyone from Garth Brooks to Bryan Ferry can imprint a personality?

My pick:

remove "Come Around" from Kala

otm. "Paper Planes" would be the perfect closer.

"Wendell Gee" from Fables

Good-bye, Wendell Gee

Oh hai, can I not has "Leave Me Alone" off Power Corruption and Lies? Oh thanks, ta,

Nooooooo

can we not has Mark G on this thread?

move "We all stand" so that it ends the album and we're good.

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.

Lady Grinning Soul from Aladdin Sane

Youd have to leave out a lot more to make that a perfect record imo

nope

(to both posts)

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.

Michael Jackson's Thriller - take out the ghastly "The Girl is Mine"

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.

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.

Pixies - Silver from Doolittle
Erasure - Sixty-five Thousand from The Innocents
My Morning Jacket - Into The Woods from Z
Haim - My Song 5 from Days Are Gone
Elastica - Indian Song from Elastica
Goldfrapp - Oompa Radar from Felt Mountain
The Divine Comedy - Freedom Road from Absent Friends
Charli XCX - Hanging Around from Sucker

love Oompa Radar and can't imagine Felt Mountain without it, best ever 60s film soundtrack pastiche

I always thought it was just a bit too silly and kind of ruined the mood of the album.

I guess I can see that - but the whole album is walking on a knife-edge of overly-mannered silliness, I think the fact that it just embraces it on Oompa Radar adds to the overall effect, also keeps things from getting boringly tasteful.

To make Aladdin Sane perfect
- Remove Let's Spend...
- Remove or go back in time and re-write/re-record "Panic in Detroit" (better vocals, and make the main riff not sound like some babyish preschool nursery)
- KEEP IN Lady Grinning Soul (seriously wtf?)

nursery rhyme*

You can make it an almost perfect 7" EP by putting Drive-In Saturday and Aladdin Sane on the A-side, The Jean Genie and Lady Grinning Soul on the B-side

it's got a great cover, but it's not a great album

Remove "Cat Food" from In The Wake of Poseidon.

"Time" and "Cracked Actor" (that guitar sound!) are actually my favorites off the album. I think maybe the mark of a great album is that everybody disagrees about what the best stuff is on it.
Anyway, it's maybe the first time glam really entered creep-out territory where the decadence is mean-spirited rather than kitschy (proto-Marilyn Manson, except not shitty), which is something "significant" in my book

Feel "Time" is kinda overwritten and never liked the chorus of "Cracked Actor" much, sorta clumsy lyrics? But yeah, nothing wrong with a divisive album