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?
― Bradley, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:12 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― CeCe Peniston (Anthony Miccio), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:17 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:23 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Bradley, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:31 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― martin m. (mushrush), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:51 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:52 (nineteen years ago) link
― falseazure, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 15:53 (nineteen years ago) link
Shouldn't it be "Songbird"? That's the dud one for me.
― JP Almeida (JP Almeida), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:00 (nineteen years ago) link
― alex in mainhattan (alex63), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:07 (nineteen years ago) link
― Bren, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:08 (nineteen years ago) link
― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:10 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Salvador Saca (Mr. Xolotl), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:36 (nineteen years ago) link
― mclaugh (mclaugh), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:46 (nineteen years ago) link
― danh (danh), Wednesday, 11 August 2004 16:50 (nineteen years ago) link
― bahtology, Wednesday, 11 August 2004 21:37 (nineteen years ago) link
― John 2, Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:00 (nineteen years ago) link
I would submit "Within You Without You" from Sgt. Pepper to this unglorious list.
― jim wentworth (wench), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:27 (nineteen years ago) link
Why do we need a John Cale wank piece in the middle of a rockin' album?
― Sasha (sgh), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:29 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:30 (nineteen years ago) link
I went into greater depth about that here...
In Praise of....It'll End in Tears by This Mortal Coil
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 02:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― wtin, Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:44 (nineteen years ago) link
― Marcello Carlin, Thursday, 12 August 2004 12:46 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― holojames (holojames), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:13 (nineteen years ago) link
― peter smith (plsmith), Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:35 (nineteen years ago) link
White Music - All Along The WatchtowerGo2 - My WeaponDrums & Wires - That Is The Way Black Sea - Sgt RockEnglish Settlement - Melt The GunsMummer - WonderlandBig Express - Shake You Donkey Up (replace it with Red Brick Dream)Skylarking - Dear God/Mermaid SmiledOranges & Lemons - Pink ThingNonsuch - WardanceApple Venus - Fruit NutWasp Star - Standing In For Joe
― mzui, Thursday, 12 August 2004 13:58 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 12 August 2004 14:03 (nineteen years ago) link
Gah! Blasphemy! I love "My Weapon"!
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― mzui, Thursday, 12 August 2004 15:32 (nineteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Thursday, 12 August 2004 16:02 (nineteen years ago) link
― Mil (Mil), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:09 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:14 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:15 (nineteen years ago) link
― jed_ (jed), Thursday, 12 August 2004 23:32 (nineteen years ago) link
Don't know if these deletions would make the record perfect, but I generally hit the skip button when they come up.
― Earl Nash (earlnash), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:13 (nineteen years ago) link
... and i still cant decide which one is better
― artiste, Friday, 13 August 2004 00:25 (nineteen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 13 August 2004 00:27 (nineteen years ago) link
― Simon H., Friday, 13 August 2004 00:43 (nineteen years ago) link
― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 August 2004 01:01 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 14:36 (nineteen years ago) link
I'm pleased that no one has wanted to axe Girlfriend In A Coma yet.
― Atnevon (Atnevon), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:22 (nineteen years ago) link
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 13 August 2004 23:35 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Saturday, 14 August 2004 01:41 (nineteen years ago) link
Moz slagging other people off = rubbish, Moz slagging himself off = grebt.
― Smart He Man Goblin, Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:47 (nineteen years ago) link
Yes, I'll match him whim for whim now" is the key Gaucho lyric.
― simmel, Monday, 19 September 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
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".
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 19 September 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
Hymn of the Big Wheel
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 19 September 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
"Bodysnatchers"
― niels, Saturday, 26 November 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
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.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 November 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
... lost an 'a' or two there.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 November 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
this is probably not going to go down well but I don't think removing "Beside You" from Astral Weeks would harm it much
― niels, Monday, 17 July 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 17 July 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
I think I might prefer an instrumental version
the sequencing doesn't help it any either
― niels, Monday, 17 July 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
Blasphemers
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 02:11 (six years ago) link
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"
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
Take Shot With His Own Gun off Elvis Costello Trust.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link
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
― spellbound dogfighter (milo), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 13:31 (seven months ago) link
"Wendell Gee" from Fables
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, August 22, 2016 2:37 PM (six years ago)
WTF(?!)
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:42 (seven months ago) link
“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)
― beamish13, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:57 (seven months ago) link
Not sure I'd delete any tracks from Rumors, but I'd absolutely close it with "Silver Springs."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 00:02 (seven months ago) link
Yes to Stay Away. Even in His Youth would have been better.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:14 (seven months ago) link
“Stay Away” from Nevermind
illegal opinion
― budo jeru, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:24 (seven months ago) link
“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.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 August 2023 08:47 (seven months ago) link
Going the other way, I kind of love notorious perfection-interruptor “Student Demonstration Time”. Anyone else?
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 August 2023 08:53 (seven months ago) link
"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)
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 August 2023 09:49 (seven months ago) link
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.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 17 August 2023 12:54 (seven months ago) link