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
― RJG (RJG), Saturday, 14 August 2004 03:51 (nineteen years ago) link
Perhaps to the hundred million folks in India, but I've got my problems with it.
Yes, it's nice thoughts and allYes, it's quaisi-authentic musicallyBut 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.
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:05 (nineteen years ago) link
― jim wentworth (wench), Saturday, 14 August 2004 04:29 (nineteen years ago) link
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. ;)
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Saturday, 14 August 2004 05:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― 6335, Saturday, 14 August 2004 06:04 (nineteen years ago) link
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― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Saturday, 14 August 2004 06:35 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:24 (nineteen years ago) link
― Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:27 (nineteen years ago) link
-- 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!
― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:35 (nineteen years ago) link
BEAUTY, NOT UGLINESS, BEAUTY.
― David Allen (David Allen), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:43 (nineteen years ago) link
Agreed. Lots of the needless "Hey ----HEY"s could've easily been jettisoned.
― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 14 August 2004 16:54 (nineteen years ago) link
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 14 August 2004 20:24 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― strom (strom), Saturday, 14 August 2004 20:53 (nineteen years ago) link
What on earth!? This is one of my favorite tracks! What would be yr complaint against it?!
― djdee2005, Sunday, 15 August 2004 01:07 (nineteen years ago) link
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.
― Many Coloured Halo (Dee the Lurker), Sunday, 15 August 2004 05:52 (nineteen years ago) link
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 (nineteen years ago) link
― Dirty Muriel (Autumn Almanac), Sunday, 15 August 2004 07:04 (nineteen 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 (nineteen 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 (nineteen years ago) link
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I am appalled.
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Sunday, 15 August 2004 14:57 (nineteen years 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