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

Maybe "The Murder Mystery" from The Velvet Underground.

I don't like "Good Vibrations" tacked onto the CD and tape versions of Endless Summer.

I've never much liked "She's Out Of My Life" on Off The Wall.

"O My Soul" is a good song, but a rather sluggish (and lengthy) opening for Radio City.

More:

"Thorn Tree In The Garden" from Layla.

"Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" from Discography (Pet Shop Boys)

"Snappin' & Trappin'" from Stankonia

"In Love With You (ft. Stephen Marley)" from Mama's Gun (Erykah Badu)

Comments?

I totally agree with you. However, I'm looking at Aquemini and Stankonia, and I don't know what I'd take off. I picked on "Snappin' & Trappin'" because it follows "Gasoline Dreams," "So Fresh, So Clean" and "Ms. Jackson," and just kills the momentum.

On a side note, "Kim and Cookie" is the best thing ever.

wack???!!

Take "Stand" off of Green. It wouldn't end up a perfect album, but for me it'd make it the last early REM album instead of the first late REM album.

Shouldn't it be "Songbird"? That's the dud one for me.

BTW, yknow what another good homogenous album is that ive never seen mentioned here? cass mccombs's A. a friend of mine pointed out that listening to the whole thing makes him feel totally drunk, and i agree.

I would submit "Within You Without You" from Sgt. Pepper to this unglorious list.

Why do we need a John Cale wank piece in the middle of a rockin' album?

I went into greater depth about that here...

In Praise of....It'll End in Tears by This Mortal Coil

This isn't a bad song at all but it's the only song on this stupendous double album that smacks, just ever so faintly, of filler. It was perfect already but removing this song would push it over the top into transcendence, probably.

White Music - All Along The Watchtower
Go2 - My Weapon
Drums & Wires - That Is The Way
Black Sea - Sgt Rock
English Settlement - Melt The Guns
Mummer - Wonderland
Big Express - Shake You Donkey Up (replace it with Red Brick Dream)
Skylarking - Dear God/Mermaid Smiled
Oranges & Lemons - Pink Thing
Nonsuch - Wardance
Apple Venus - Fruit Nut
Wasp Star - Standing In For Joe

Gah! Blasphemy! I love "My Weapon"!

Don't know if these deletions would make the record perfect, but I generally hit the skip button when they come up.

... and i still cant decide which one is better

I'm pleased that no one has wanted to axe Girlfriend In A Coma yet.

Heresy! And it's called "We Will Fall." This song is pure evil. Play it at -8 sometime and get back to me.

Also, delete "Old Man" from Love's Forever Changes and make me a happy camper.

"Born in a Mourning Hall" on Blind Guardian's Imaginations isn't a bad song, but it kind of lags in between two great ones....so that one.

Yes, I'll match him whim for whim now" is the key Gaucho lyric.

i don't know if there's a thread about it, but my platonic image of the first roxy music album includes "virginia plain". same goes for _nothing can stop us_ and "shipbuilding".

Hymn of the Big Wheel

"Bodysnatchers"

Remove "Across The Universe" from Young Americans.

Remove it, place it in lead lined box and dump in somewhere in the North Atlantic. Talking of shitty Beatles' covers, someone please build a time machine and go back and tell Jimmy Webb to not to bother with a finger popping version of "Ticket to Ride" and not to stick it right in the middle of the 5th Dimension's "Magic Garden", like fresh dog turd on fine Persian rug.

... lost an 'a' or two there.

this is probably not going to go down well but I don't think removing "Beside You" from Astral Weeks would harm it much

It's not my favorite song, but it's certainly one of Richard Davis' more intriguing performances on the record. And less Richard Davis would make for a worse Astral Weeks.

I think I might prefer an instrumental version

the sequencing doesn't help it any either

Blasphemers

Ornette's Town Hall 1962 is pretty much perfect (and the equal of any of his Atlantic LPs) if you lose "Dedication to Poets and Writers"

Take Shot With His Own Gun off Elvis Costello Trust.

take "single file" off the elliott smith s/t. it's not awful by any means but it doesn't live up to the rest of the album

"Wendell Gee" from Fables

― Mr. Snrub, Monday, August 22, 2016 2:37 PM (six years ago)

WTF(?!)

“Deeper Understanding” should have been omitted from The Sensual World

“Stay Away” from Nevermind (even though I really like the guitar melting with Cobain’s voice on the refrain; “Even in His Youth” should have taken its place)

Not sure I'd delete any tracks from Rumors, but I'd absolutely close it with "Silver Springs."

Yes to Stay Away. Even in His Youth would have been better.

“Stay Away” from Nevermind

illegal opinion

“My Little Problem” from All Shook Down is corny AF. It wouldn’t be a Replacements album without something self-consciously anti-earnest, but I don’t like this one.

Going the other way, I kind of love notorious perfection-interruptor “Student Demonstration Time”. Anyone else?

"Box 25/4 Lid" from The Soft Machine, (apart from the 90s CD which also has Volume Two, then it functions as an intermission between LPs)

I still skip 'The New Stone Age' from Architecture & Morality, I don't really dislike the song, it just sounds so terrible, the horrible, out-of-tune guitars mostly.

It does have a brilliant outro though, so I will skip/rewind and listen to that bit.