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

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.