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

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.

Moz slagging other people off = rubbish, Moz slagging himself off = grebt.

Perhaps to the hundred million folks in India, but I've got my problems with it.

Yes, it's nice thoughts and all
Yes, it's quaisi-authentic musically
But what, just what, does it represent in the Sgt. Pepper context?

Let's just say that when I get to hell that'll be the appropriate log-in music.

I really can't stand "Rio". I mean, REALLYREALLYREALLY can't stand "Rio". But the damn album's NAMED Rio and doesn't really work with any other title, so... crap. Maybe if they substituted "Rio Pt. 2", featuring a lengthy keyboard-centric instrumental, the album would be a LOT better than it already is.

More recently, I think The Wedding Album would've been #2 in my list of favorite albums of all time had "Shotgun" and "UMF" been replaced by "Fallen Angel" and "Time for Temptation", two b-sides from that era. No, wait -- had that happened, it would've been my FAVORITE album overall. Hm. I think I sense a CD burning project. ;)

-- Wooden (josephgoode...), August 11th, 2004.

Maxwell's silver hammer is one of my top 5 favorite songs about a man bludgeoned with a hammer, easily!

BEAUTY, NOT UGLINESS, BEAUTY.

Agreed. Lots of the needless "Hey ----HEY"s could've easily been jettisoned.

Murder Mystery? Are you insane? That's like one of the best Velvet Underground songs, especially during the Yule-era.

I'm close to saying Hit the Plane Down from Crooked Rain Crooked Rain, but I don't have the guts. It's the only Spiral Stairs-song on the album, but far from his best work I'm afraid.

What on earth!? This is one of my favorite tracks! What would be yr complaint against it?!

Hon, I think we'll just have to agree to disagree then. Because I was never really incredibly enamored of the song to begin with, and that combined with the fact that I got so burned out on that particular track made me joyous when I finally upgraded from cassette to CD and thus could actually skip it.

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.

There are a lot of albums I habitually skip songs on, it's odd.

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.