And if you're going to take anything at all whatsoever off of Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, take out "Cut Your Hair". It really doesn't go well with anything on Side 1 in the first place. But overall, that album isn't almost perfect. It's near perfect.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Sunday, 15 August 2004 07:01 (twenty years ago) link
― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 15 August 2004 07:04 (twenty years ago) link
There are a lot of albums I habitually skip songs on, it's odd.
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 15 August 2004 07:43 (twenty years ago) link
it's supposed to be a musical variety show, no? so they could perform pretty much anything and it would fit.
― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Sunday, 15 August 2004 07:55 (twenty years ago) link
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I am appalled.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 15 August 2004 14:57 (twenty years ago) link
I think I'm just at odds with the Nick Drake canon; 'Way To Blue' is easily my least favoruite track off 'Five Leaves left'
― derrick (derrick), Sunday, 15 August 2004 17:22 (twenty years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Monday, 16 August 2004 03:53 (twenty years ago) link
― frankE (frankE), Tuesday, 24 August 2004 17:40 (twenty years ago) link
Inspired by a very long road trip and some catching up with old favorites:
Key Lime Pie: perfect if you remove the Status Quo cover (which I can't stand)
Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret: "Frustration" bums me out. I confess I skip "Tainted Love" these days and start the album at track 3, but I recognize "Tainted Love" as a superb song, I just don't ever need to hear it again.
― Wimmels, Monday, 15 August 2016 23:05 (eight years ago) link
"I Made a Lover's Prayer" off G.Welch's Soul Journey. Not awful, but it's the one dirge that album doesn't need; esp. where it lands in the running order.
― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 15 August 2016 23:59 (eight years ago) link
"I Believe in You," After the Gold Rush.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 00:32 (eight years ago) link
Downtown from the first B-52's album.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 00:51 (eight years ago) link
No one mentioned "Escape" off Ride The Lightning?
I don't hate the song personally and I think Ride is Metallica's finest moment (it showed that them pandering to rock radio in 1984 was way better than them pandering to rock radio a decade-plus later) - but it is low-hanging fruit.
― Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:13 (eight years ago) link
I Got The News
Which is fine, but not as perfect as the rest of the songs on Aja
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:20 (eight years ago) link
i would rate _ege bamyasi_ so much more highly without "soup" - and i love "aumgn".
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:26 (eight years ago) link
Kitchen Person this is so otm
― campreverb, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 01:30 (eight years ago) link
Alan Parson's Eye in the Sky would be perfect sans "You're Gonna Get Your Fingers Burned"
There is a Beach Boys best of compiled by Brian Wilson himself that is fantastic save for the re-recorded B-side they tacked onto the end for no good reason
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 02:09 (eight years ago) link
I'd take Pride off Unforgettable Fire, let it just be a single.
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 02:59 (eight years ago) link
Take Maggot Brain off of Maggot Brain!!!
― sexyDancer, Wednesday, August 11, 2004 8:05 AM (12 years ago)
this hurts me
― j., Tuesday, 16 August 2016 03:09 (eight years ago) link
Take the token Gilbert & Sullivan songs off the Todd Rundgren albums that have them.
― henry s, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 03:13 (eight years ago) link
"I Believe in You," After the Gold Rush.― clemenza, Monday, August 15, 2016 7:32 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― clemenza, Monday, August 15, 2016 7:32 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
http://mrwgifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/Get-Out-Simon-Pegg-In-Hot-Fuzz-Gif.gif
― a full playlist of presidential sex jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 03:37 (eight years ago) link
take Super 8 off Jason Isbell's Southeastern
― alpine static, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 05:35 (eight years ago) link
I'd take "London Calling" off that Clash album.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 06:35 (eight years ago) link
My first thought was to take "Jazz Police" off I'm Your Man, but that was covered upthread.
I'd also take "Meet Me In The Morning" off Blood on the Tracks and "Not Now John" off The Final Cut.
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 08:03 (eight years ago) link
the label pushed CVB to do "Pictures of Matchstick Man" didn't they?
― juggulo for the complete klvtz (bendy), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 10:36 (eight years ago) link
I didn't know that! It makes sense, though.
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Monday, August 15, 2016 9:20 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
^^^ 100% otm
― Wimmels, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 11:15 (eight years ago) link
Take Streets of Fire off Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town.
― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 13:41 (eight years ago) link
Take "Young Lovers Do" off Astral Weeks.
WHAT THE
― chicken lit (rip van wanko), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 13:45 (eight years ago) link
I thought the same, I had a similar reaction to appeals to take Revelation off of Da Capo and Across the Universe off of Young Americans.
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 13:53 (eight years ago) link
Surprised the removal of "Nothing Like You" from Miles' Sorcerer hasn't come up yet.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 14:03 (eight years ago) link
Take "More Fool Me" from Selling England by the Pound.
― doug watson, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 14:32 (eight years ago) link
Mind Gardens should never have made it's way onto Younger Than Yesterday. Same with Space Odyssey on NBB.
Golden Birdies could go from Clear Spot, although it's short enough to not cause too much bother.
Court and Spark would be better (perfect?) without Twisted.
― yugi ex, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
"It Ain't Easy" off Ziggy Stardust... almost too obvious
― punksishippies, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:03 (eight years ago) link
'Love's In Need of Love Today' from Songs In the Key of Life
― H.R. Giggles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:10 (eight years ago) link
during the 1970s, free jazz drummer tony oxley moonlighted as a visual effects designer for the bbc, contributing effects to shows such as the doomwatch episode "tomorrow, the rat" and the doctor who episode "the ark in space".
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:20 (eight years ago) link
wrong fucking thread! sorry
well I learned something interesting, so I'm glad you posted it here
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:24 (eight years ago) link
Ditto. I knew Oxley was a painter (and his orchestra works off his graphic scores), but had no idea about his visual effects past.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 15:40 (eight years ago) link
'Love's In Need of Love Today' from Songs In the Key of Life― H.R. Giggles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, August 16, 2016 4:10 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― H.R. Giggles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, August 16, 2016 4:10 PM (49 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
:-(
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:00 (eight years ago) link
yeah, no way. NOTM
also, if you get rid of "I Got the News", you lose that all of a sudden "Michael McDonald takes the wheel" bridge into the guitar solo
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:17 (eight years ago) link
― heaven parker (anagram)
the thread it was intended for the false pop trivia thread!
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:42 (eight years ago) link
SITKOL is one of my favorite albums of all time but that first track is such a dirgey speed bump, ugh. I'm sooooo OTM.
― H.R. Giggles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:49 (eight years ago) link
This will cause outrage, but I've never had much time for "Lowdown" on "Pink Flag".
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:52 (eight years ago) link
Crazy talk (but I know it's a common idea) : such a fabulous track. As spiritual and soulful as it gets. One of my favourite feel good tracks ever !
― AlXTC from Paris, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:57 (eight years ago) link
I don't hate it but it's like, well, listening to Woman In Red before listening to Songs In the Key of Life.
― H.R. Giggles (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 17:08 (eight years ago) link
― it's sort of a layered stunt (sheesh), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 16:17 (50 minutes ago) Permalink
Yeah, I mean I like "I Got The News"--I used to skip it, but now I embrace its herky-jerk weirdness.
it's just a little too arch, even for Steely Dan, and is just not on the level of the rest of the tracks (a high bar but still).
It is super fun to play, though.
― you think Lou Bega gave up after Mambo Number One??? (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 17:11 (eight years ago) link
I'd take Ain't That Peculiar off Gentlemen Take Polaroids by Japan. It just doesn't fit at all.
I'd take It's Gonna Be a Beautiful Night off Sign 'O' The Times or at least chop off half of it. I'd say the same about Bogus Man on For Your Pleasure.
I'm tempted to say the title track on Parklife but there's probably a couple of other songs that could go too.
― Kitchen Person, Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:54 (eight years ago) link
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.)
i think it should be replaced with "lowdown" by boz scaggs
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 18:57 (eight years ago) link
I'd say the same about Bogus Man on For Your Pleasure.
No way, that's the centerpiece/focal point/eye of the hurricane/some other cliche of the record. And it's the "hoo boy, how'd they get there? And how are they gonna dig their way out?" which then makes "Grey Lagoons" that much more thrilling.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 16 August 2016 19:03 (eight years ago) link