Worst songs on each of a favourite artist's albums

Banana album: 'European Son' - great, but maybe goes on a bit too long.
White White light: 'The Gift' - music is nice, the short story is a sixth-form effort.
3rd album: 'Murder Mystery' - now sounds a bit clichéd "experimental"
Loaded: 'I Found A Reason' - hand in hand with myself indeed.

Surfin Safari - "Surfin"
Surfin USA - "Finders Keepers"
Surfer Girl - "South Bay Surfer"
Shut Down Volume 2 - "Pom Pom Playgirl"
Little Deuce Coupe - "No-Go Showboat"
All Summer Long - "Drive-In"
Today! - "Good To My Baby"
Summer Days - "The Girl From New York City"
Party - "Hully Gully"
Pet Sounds - "I Know There's An Answer" (not as good as "Hang On To Yr Ego")
Smiley Smile - "Fall Breaks And Back To Winter)
Wild Honey - "A Thing Or Two"
Friends - "Transcendental Meditation"
20/20 - "All I Want To Do"
Sunflower - "Got To Know The Woman
Surf's Up - "Student Demonstration Time"
Carl & The Passions - "Marcella"
Holland - "Funky Pretty"
15 Big Ones - "Chapel Of Love"
Love You - "Roller Skating Child"
MIU - "She's Got Rhythm"
Light Album - "Shortenin Bread"
Keepin The Summer Alive - "Oh Darlin'"

Couldn't be arsed to do the rest.

Bob Dylan - Fixin' To Die
Freewheelin' - Bob Dylan's Blues
Times They Are a-changin' - Times They Are A-changin'
Another Side - Ballad in Plain D
Bring It All Back Home - Outlaw Blues
Highway 61 Revisited - From a Buick 6
Blonde on Blonde - Pledging My Time
John Wesley Harding - The Wicked Messenger

(Apologies to From a Buick 6 - but what would YOU pick?)

Killing Joke - "Tomorrow's World"
What's THIS for...! - "Who Told You How?"
Revelations - "Dregs"
Fire Dances - "Lust Almighty"
Night Time - "Multitudes" (though I still love it)
Brighter Than a Thousand Suns - "Adorations"
Outside the Gate - "America"
Extremities.... - "Inside the Termite Mound"
Pandemonium - "Jana"
Democracy - "Democracy"
Killing Joke [2003] - "Total Invasion"

generation terrorists - crucifix kiss
gold against the soul - drug drug druggy
the holy bible - intense humming of evil
everything must go - removables
this is my truth tell me yours - SYMM
know your enemy - wattsville blues

SAW 85-92 - Green calx
SAW II - Disc 1 track 2
I Care Because you do - ventolin
Richard D james - Cornish Acid
Drukqs - omgyija-switch (yes, i had to look up the name of that one)

leisure - come together
modern life is rubbish - sunday sunday
parklife - bank holiday
great escape - top man
blur - theme from retro
13 - battle
think tank - jets

"I KNow There's An Answer" is worse than "Sloop John B"? I demand a recount!

"Sloop John B" is great - why do people hate it so? I don't mind "I Know There's An Answer" but I always skip it and put "Hang On To Your Ego" instead.

I love "Roller Skatin' Child"!!! "We do it holding hands, it's so cold I go 'brrrrr'"

Strangely enough, Love You was one of the hardest to find a fault. I was thinking of putting "I Wanna Pick You Up" but it's just so fucked up it manages to be their worst and best song at the same time. I was never a massive fan of "Mona" except for the Phil Spector reference. I'd say the second half of the album is slightly better than the first so I had to default with "Rollerskating Child" as it's the only one that doesn't jump out at me and I hate the way it starts.

Hootenanny - Hayday

Let It Be - Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out

Tim - Left of the Dial (many think this is great, but it's boring, despite the fine lyrics the song goes nowhere)

Pleased to Meet Me - Red, Red Wine

Don't Tell a Soul - We'll Inherit the Earth

All Shook Down - My Little Problem

Zen Arcade - Hare Krishna*
New Day Rising - How to Skin a Cat*
Flip Your Wig - The Baby Song**
Candy Apple Grey - Too Far Down***
Warehouse: Songs & Stories - You're A Soldier****

*It may have been funny live, but...
**It may have been funny sitting in the studio, but...
***Bob needed some Prozac.
****The drum beat and chorus on this one annoys me.

s/t- hmmm "Six O'Clock News" ?
Diamonds in the Rough-
Sweet Revenge- "The Accident (Things Could Be Worse)"
Common Sense- "Wedding Day in Funeralville"
Bruised Orange- "Iron Ore Betty" maybe

Pavement:

Slanted & Enchanted- "Chelsey's Little Wrists"
Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain- "Hit The Plane Down"
Wowee Zowee- never can remember which song is which
Brighten The Corners- "Passat Dream"
Terror Twilight- "Platform Blues"

and I think Bowie's "It Ain't Easy" is great! one of my favorite moments from Ziggy...

Debut: Play Dead
Post: Cover Me
Homogenic: All Neon Like
Selmasongs: Scatterheart
Vespertine: Pagan Poetry

It's got to be Tambourine Man off Bring It All Back Home because of the overexposure.
And since I heard the alternate takes of Desolation Row off Highway 61 Revisited I've got to say the jingle jangle album version jarrs.
Off Blonde, I almost always skip Rainy Day Women just because of those leaden lyrics.

_TIB_/_BDC_ - "Grinding Halt"
_Seventeen Seconds_ - "Three"
_Faith_ - "Doubt"
_Pornography_ - "Cold"
_Japanese Whispers_ - "The Upstairs Room"
_The Top_ - "Birdmad Girl"
_The Head On The Door_ - "Push"
_KM^3_ - "A Thousand Hours"
_Disintegration_ - "Closedown"
_Mixed Up_ - "The Caterpillar (Shiver Mix)"
_Wish_ - "A Letter To Elise"
_Wild Mood Swings_ - "Return"
_Bloodflowers_ - "Where The Birds Always Sing"

You're dead wrong.

The Head On The Door_ - "Push"

You're REALLY dead wrong.

Drums And Wires - "Helicopter" (torture chamber ad jingle)
Black Sea - "Paper And Iron" (hard choice, it just goes on a bit)
English Settlement - "English Roundabout" (great for the 'conceptual unity' but musically it's just taking up space while I wait for "Snowman")
Mummer - "Wonderland" (Colin Newman and social comment do not mix, pt 1)
The Big Express - "I Bought Myself A Liarbird" (smarmy - lots of turkeys on this albums)
Skylarking - "Dear God" (it's all great! But luckily the US edition has the rotten "Dear God" so I will cheat and pick that.)
Oranges And Lemons - "Pink Thing" (so British of me! But it's rubbish. Actually Colin's tears for fears soundalike is poor too.)
Nonsuch - "The Smartest Monkeys" (see Mummer)
Apple Venus - "My Dictionary" (talk about harshing the buzz)
Wasp Star - "Playground" (the first song I heard off this album, and it put me off buying it.)

Unknown Pleasures: Interzone
Closer: Means To An End
Still: They Walked In Line (studio LP); Decades (live LP)

You must have runny fried eggs for ears, then.

Please - "Violence" (rub unsubtle "Suburbia" retread with nasty music)
Actually - "I Want To Wake Up" (all of it is marvellous, IWTWU is just the least memorable thing on it)
Introspective - "Domino Dancing" (doesn't wear its extended mix terrible well - again, hardly a stinker)
Behaviour - "My October Symphony" (I hated this when younger, still haven't entirely warmed to it. My impression is that all their records now sound just like it.)
Very - "Liberation" (I am revealed as a PSB ballad-hata.)

I can't even remember half the tracks on Bilingual - "Before" was a big disappointment so I'll pick that. "Closer To Heaven" on Nightlife was a bit anonymous, again memory has faded as to any real stinkers.

Rattus Norvigicus - "Goodbye Toulouse"
No More Heroes - "Bitching"
Black'n'White - "Sweden - All Quiet on the Eastern Front"
The Raven - "Baroque Bordello"
Gospel According to the Meninblack - "Two Sunspots"
La Folie - "La Folie" (yawnsome)
Feline - Lots to choose from here. Forgettable album, basically.
Aural Sculpture - "North Winds Blowing"
Dreamtime - "Big in America"
10 - "96 Tears" (ugh! reduced to cover tunes as singles. Shame!)

Optigan 1 is so obviously the worst song on 13... it just sits there at the end pissing me off. No Distance Left To Run is the perfect closer... then there's that irritating organ doodle. Grr.

Anyway: Tori Amos

Little Earthquakes - 'Happy Phantom'
Under The Pink - 'Past The Mission'
Boys For Pele - 'Talula'*
From The Choirgirl Hotel - 'Jackie's Strength'
To Venus And Back - 'Suede'
Strange Little Girls - 'Happiness Is A Warm Gun'
Scarlet's Walk - 'Amber Waves'

*oddly, when BT remixed this monstrosity for its single version it turned out really well - all it ever needed was a half-decent beat.

Piper At the Gates of Dawn: "Pow R. Toc H."
A Saucerful of Secrets: "A Saucerful of Secrets"
More: "Quicksilver (Water Pipe)"
Ummagumma: "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part Two: Entertainment"
Atom Heart Mother: "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast"
Meddle: "San Tropez"
Obscured By Clouds: "Absolutely Curtains"
The Dark Side of the Moon: "The Great Gig in the Sky"
Wish You Were Here: "Welcome to the Machine"
Animals: "Pigs on the Wing"
The Wall: "Young Lust"
The Final Cut: "Not Now John"
A Momentary Lapse of Reason: "A New Machine Part One"
The Division Bell: "High Hopes"

No I'm not. _Pornography_ has three impeccable songs ("Siamese Twins", "The Figurehead", "A Strange Day"), four excellent songs ("One Hundred Years", "A Short Term Effect", "The Hanging Garden", "Pornography") and one great song ("Cold"). Ergo, by process of elimination, "Cold" is the worst song on the album.

You're REALLY dead wrong.

_HOTD_ has five songs verging on perfect ("InBetween Days", "Close To Me", "Kyoto Song", "Six Different Ways", "The Blood"), four songs that are great ("The Baby Screams", "A Night Like This", "Screw", "Sinking") and an outright clunker that tries to be swaggering pop-rock and ends up sounding like tentative, mealy-mouthed nonsense ("Push"). NO CONTEST.

Surrealchemist
The groop play chord X
Jenny Ondioline (esp. parts 3 & 4, k-blimey what a disaster)
Outer Accelerator
The Brush Descends The Length (tricky one that, but by track 4 you're dying for something a bit more kick-ass)
Slow Fast Hazel
Ticker Tape of the Unconscious (can't remember how this one goes)
The Spiracles
Outer Bongolia (good, but not enough happens)
Gus The Mynah Bird (the longer version on vinyl works much better, tho')

"What He Say?"
"We Believe"
"Missing"
"Cannibal Song"
"Scare Crow"
... and no one really cares once you pass here.

Well, at least you admit that it's "great," though I personally think it TOWERS over, say, "The Hanging Garden" (though that's a fine `choon too).

an outright clunker that tries to be swaggering pop-rock and ends up sounding like tentative, mealy-mouthed nonsense ("Push"). NO CONTEST.

Och! How can someone with the word "Harvard" in their e-mail address get something SO BLINDLY WRONG!?!?!?! "Push" is magnificent, and a helluva lot more enjoyable to listen to than the audio trial that is "Kyoto Song."

Down is up, black is white, front is back!

here's REM

Chronic Town - "Stumble"
Murmur - "West Of The Fields"
Reckoning "Time After Time" (my LEAST FAVORITE SONG!)
Fables - "Auctioneer" (this is the least certain pick, arguably anything after "Green Grow The Rushes" could be picked, all songs on this album are at least pretty)
Life's Rich Pageant - "What If We Give It Away?" (also tough, as every song on this album has a very pretty bridge)
Document - "Fireplace" (arguable replacement: "Oddfellows Local 151 (a.k.a. "FIREHOUSE!")
Green - "I Remember California"
Out Of Time - "Radio Song"
Automatic For The People - "Nightswimming" (I'm getting controversial on this muthafucka)
Monster - "Tongue" ("I Took Your Name" and "King Of Comedy" are arguably worse but I find the pompous lyrics more fun than Stipe's voice on this one)
New Adventures In Hi-Fi - "Low Desert" (this was the EASIEST album to pick the worst from)
Up - "Sad Professor"
Reveal - Fuck if I can tell.

Anyway, here's Julian Cope:

World Shut Your Mouth - Greatness and Perfection
Fried - Search Party
Saint Julian - Spacehopper
My Nation Underground - Easter Everywhere
Skellington - Don't Crash Here
Skellington II - Madonna Baglady Blues
Droolian - Unisex Cathedral
Peggy Suicide - Not Raving But Drowning
Jehovahkill - Slow Rider
Autogeddon - I Gotta Walk
20 Mothers - The Lonely Guy
Interpreter - Arthur Drugstore

Maybe it's because I'm approaching 30, but I've noticed lately that The 'Mats aren't as cool as I once thought they were back when I was 20. Please someone, tell me I'm crazy.

Looking over the song listing, this reaffirms for me that All Shook Down is one underrated release.

Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere - Running Dry
After the Gold Rush - Birds
Harvest - There's a World
Time Fades Away - Yonder Stands the Sinner
On the Beach - Revolution Blues
Tonight's the Night - Roll Another Number
Zuma - Through My Sails*
Starts & Bars - Bite the Bullet
Comes a Time - Four Strong Winds
Rust Never Sleeps - Sail Away

*The only one I say with any conviction at all.

(Pleasant Plains, yer crazah!)

(Thanks, dave and soulflower. I'm glad to know that it's all in my head.)

Kiss - "Kissin' Time"
Hotter Than Hell - "Parasite"
Dressed to Kill - "Ladies in Waiting"
Destroyer - Very tough....but I'm-a hafta go with "Beth".
Rock'n'Roll Over - "See You in Your Dreams"
Love Gun - "Almost Human"
Dynasty - "Save your Love"

I’m not even going to pick on “A Thousand Leaves” & “NYC Ghosts & Stories” as I just don’t like either record very much.

Outlandos D'Amour - "Born in the 50's
Regatta De Blanc - "Deathwish"
Zenyatta Mondatta - "The Other Way of Stopping"
Ghost in the Machine - "Omega man"
Synchronicity - "Mother"

"Sinking" is a forgettable throwaway?????????? For real, I think I'm in the Bizarro universe.

Another obvious one (can't believe I'm the first, maybe the others are just less sad (or MORE sad and can't bear to pick!!))

Self/Titled - "Still Ill" (this was really difficult, since I am very fond of "Miserable Lie" and don't mind the production)
Hatful Of Hollow - "Girl Afraid" (there's another I enjoy less but I've forgotten it)
Meat Is Murder - "Rusholme Ruffians" (on another day it might be a favourite, all much of a pretty good muchness)
The Queen Is Dead - "Never Had No One Ever" (awfully placed too)
The World Won't Listen - "Stretch Out And Wait" (the alternate version on Louder Than Bombs is good though)
Strangeways Here We Come - "Death At One's Elbow" (the only really dreadful song here)

and oh whyever not...

Viva Hate - "Dial A Cliche"
Bona Drag - "Interesting Drug" probably, it's a bit grating.
Kill Uncle - "Found Found Found" (also because it is about MICHAEL STIPE ew ew)
Your Arsenal - "You're The One For Me, Fatty" (unspeakable - the title alone!)
Vauxhall And I - "The Lazy Sunbathers" though I don't mind it.
Southpaw Grammar - "The Operation" which is alright when it gets going but WHY WHY WHY the two minute drum solo beforehand?
Majadjusted - the one about Rourke and Joyce. Worst thing ever.

s/t- "I Think It's Going to Rain Today." kind of an awkward debut in general...
12 Songs- "If you Need Oil"
Sail Away- "You Can Leave Your Hat On"
Good Old Boys- "Back On My Feet" the verses are ok, but the chorus is annoying
Little Criminals- this is where he starts sucking, but "Rider in the Rain" complete with Don Henley and Glenn Fry backing vocals, is especially bad.

"p.s. i love you"
"devil in her heart"
"i'll cry instead"
"honey don't"
"another girl"
"what goes on"
"good day sunshine"
"getting better"
"all you need is love" (this was the hardest pick of all)
"revolution 1"
"she came in through the bathroom window"
"for you blue"

Signals, Calls, and Marches - "Outlaw"
Vs. - "Fun World"
The Horrible Truth About Burma - "Blackboard"

but maybe i was just subconsciously getting back at you for knocking songs by beatle george, my favorite beatle, off of *both* rubber soul and revolver. ouch!

Eight Legged Groove Machine - "Grin"
Hup - "Let's Be Other People"
Never Loved Elvis - "Here Comes Everyone"
Construction for the Modern Idiot - "Hot Love Now"

Foxbase Alpha - Stoned To Say the Least
So Tough - Conchita Martinez
Tiger Bay - Cool Kids of Death
Good Humor - Been So Long
Sound Of Water - Boy Is Crying
Finisterre - Amateur

Can't Buy A Thrill- "Change of the Guard"
Countdown to Ecstacy- "Boston Rag"
Pretzel Logic- "With A Gun", I guess. There are a couple of stinkers.
Katy Lied- too hard, I like 'em all
Royal Scam- I would say "Everything You Did", but I love the "turn up the Eagles, the neighbors are listening" part
Aja- "I Got The News"
Gaucho- "My Rival," maybe? I know Darn1elle's going to scoff, but this one has a few sleepy tracks, imo.

didn't spend enough time w/ Two Against Nature and have only heard the single from the latest.

"Ruff In The Jungle Bizness"
"Speedway"
"Funky Shit"

"Styloroc Knights Of Suburbia"
"Acrylic Afternoons"
"F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E."
"Seductive Barry"
"Bad Cover Version"
"The Last Day Of The Miners Strike"

Boy - "Shadows & Tall Trees"
October - "Scarlet"
War - "40"
Unforgettable Fire - "Elvis Presley & America"
Joshua Tree - "Mothers of the Disappeared"
Achtung Baby - "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses?"
Zooropa - "Some Days are Better than Others"
Pop - "If God Will Send His Angels"
All That You Can't Leave Behind - "New York"

Dry - 'Happy And Bleeding'
Rid Of Me - 'Ecstasy'
4 Track Demos - 'Ecstasy', again
To Bring You My Love - 'I Think I'm A Mother'
Dance Hall At Louse Point - 'Dance Hall At Louse Point'
Is This Desire? - 'Joy'
Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea - 'Horses In My Dreams'

Dreamtime - "Go West"
Love - "Revolution"
Electric - "Born To Be Wild" (terrible, terrible cover version)
Sonic Temple - "American Horse"
Ceremony - Cripes, it's all bad.
The Cult - Ummmmm. I can't remember anything but "Star," and that was a good one.
Beyond Good & Evil - I don't think I played it more than once, so I don't really know.

Can't Buy A Thrill - Change Of The Guard
Countdown To Ecstasy - The Boston Rag
Pretzel Logic - Monkey In Your Soul
Katy Lied - Throw Back the Little Ones (too hard)
The Royal Scam - The Fez
Aja - I Got The News (too hard)
Gaucho - My Rival (too hard)
Two Against Nature - Two Against Nature
Everything Must Go - Blues Beach

oh, and
The Nightfly - Ruby Baby (too hard)
Kamakiriad - Countermoon

I guess there are so many of these songs in the official Dan canon that the 'worst' pool is very limited.

England's Newest Hitmakers: "Honest I Do" (but only because it's the only track I don't remember)
12 X 5: "Under the Boardwalk"
Rolling Stones Now!: "Little Red Rooster"
Out of Our Heads: "Hitch Hike"
December's Children (and Everybody's): "I'm Movin' On"
Aftermath: "Doncha Bother Me"
Between the Buttons: "Yesterday's Papers"
Their Satanic Majesties Request: don't know well enough to say
Beggars Banquet: "Sympathy For the Devil"
Let It Bleed: "Love in Vain"
Sticky Fingers: "I Got the Blues"
Exile on Main St.: "Casino Boogie"
Goats Head Soup: whatever, how about "Winter"?
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll: ditto...maybe "If You Really Want to Be My Friend"?
Black and Blue: "Melody" (worst track of their first 2 decades? a nadir for Billy Preston...)
Some Girls: "Shattered"

tough calls on Toys and Rocks. hate to throw JP under the bus (re: combination, bright light fright) but them's the worst songs on those records.

Some Old Bullshit: "Cookie Puss (censored version)"
Licensed to Ill: "Time to Get Ill"
Paul's Boutique: "59 Chrystie St."
Check Your Head: "Time for Livin'"
Ill Communication: the Buddhist chant one
Hello Nasty: "I Don't Know"

Probably the reason I bought the album in the first place.

The Stones list is pretty close to what I'd say also (except for "Shattered" which I love.) Oh, and I'd replace "Casino Boogie (love this one also) with "Shine A Light" or "Soul Survivor" can't remember which I like less.

Emotional Rescue- Down In a Hole
Tattoo You- waaayyy too hard.

>>>Probably the reason I bought the album in the first place.

This was perhaps the hardest choice--I'm just the most sick of "Shattered" and "Miss You," though both are great tracks (and Jagger does bug me a bit in "Shattered"). Also, I should note that I think the music on "Sympathy For the Devil" ranks with their very best--again, it's Jagger that kind of does that track in for me.

I'm sure Stewart will be along to correct me in a moment . . .

Thes are some of my faves!!!!!

Please - Tonight is Forever
Actually - Hit Music
Introspective - I Want a Dog (this song isn't bad by any stretch, just the worst on the album)
Behavior - To Face the Truth
Very - To Speak is a Sin (reminds me a lot of To Face the Truth)
Bilingual - It Always Comes as a Surprise (beginning of the end)
Nightlife - In Denial (how far the PSB duet has fallen)

Drums and Wires - Millions
Black Sea - Somnambulist (bad time to make the song match the topic)
English Settlement - Fly on the Wall (noisy in the wrong way)
Mummer - don't have it!
Big Express - Train Running Low
Skylarking - Dear God (I'll steal Tom's answer here)
Oranges and Lemons - Here Comes President Kill Again
Nonsuch - Smartest Monkeys (and again here)
Apple Venus - Your Dictionary (and here)
Wasp Star - Boarded Up (this is no XTC I know)

I can find no fault whatsoever in "Hit Music"!

Debut - 'Like Someone In Love'
Post - 'Headphones'
Telegram - 'Headphones' (Ø remix)
Homogenic - 'All Neon Like'
Selmasongs - '107 Steps'
Vespertine - 'Harm Of Will'

This wasn't easy.

Are you KIDDING?@!>?@@

ALL on my best of list. Lead ears!

maggot brain: 'you and your folks, me and my folks'
america eats its young: 'we hurt too'
up for the down stroke: 'testify' (everyone says 'i just got back' but they're wrong, that whistling solo is dopeosity)
let's take it to the stage: 'this song is familiar'
mothership connection: 'supergroovalisticprosifunkstication'
the clones of dr. funkenstein: 'children of productions'
funkentelechy vs. the placebo syndrome: 'placebo syndrome'
one nation under a groove: 'who says a funk band can't play rock?'
motor-booty affair: 'rumpofsteelskin' if I must, but this is really their perfectest album
uncle jam wants you: 'foot soldiers (star spangled funky)'

(seems intentional, but still)

incunabula - autriche
ambver - yulquen
tri rep - overand
chiastic - recury/pule (can't remember which)
lp 5 - (hidden track)
confield - cfern
draft - 61e.CR (at this point I'm guessing)

massive attack
blue lines - daydreaming (ducks)
prot. - light my fire
mezzanine - inertia creeps

mogwai
young team - r u still into it
cody - helps both ways
rock action - secret pint
happy songs - (can't remember any haha)

sleater kinney
call the dr - heart attack
dig me out - things you say
hot rock - ?
all hands - swimmer
one beat - pristina

Incunabula: Autriche

Amber: Glitch

Tri Repetae: Dael (Overand?? You are shitting me!)

Chiastic Slide: Recury/Pule (I get those tracks mixed up. They are dull)

EP7: Liccfli

Confield: Pen Expers

Draft7.30: Theme Of Sudden Roundabout

Plaid
Abla Eedio
Air Locked
Silversum

The Boo Radleys
Learning To Walk: Sometime Soon She Said
Everything's Alright Forever: Skyscraper
Giant Steps: Wish I Was Skinny (tough one!)
Wake Up!: It's Lulu
C'Mon Kids: What's In The Box
Kingsize: Comb Your Hair

Kim Gordon sounds like she is trying to cough up a hairball on "Panty Lies".

However, dog latin mah dawg, you picked the exact same Plaid tracks I would've.

U2
Boy - Another Time Another Place
October - Stranger In a Strange Land
War - The Refugee
The Unforgettable Fire - Elvis Presley and America
The Joshua Tree - Exit
Rattle and Hum - Helter Skelter
Achtung Baby - Acrobat
Zooropa - Some Days Are Better Than Others
Pop - Last Night On Earth

Mind, only that Elvis tune is bad, the others are merely lesser efforts...

and I think that "Free"
is clearly the worst song on
1999

And "Free" has a far
better melody than the
song I picked has got.

"International
Lover" is warmed-over "Do
Me Baby," also.

The original
is far, far, far, far better
than the later song.

GodWeenSatan: The Oneness: Mushroom Festival in Hell
The Pod: "Can U Taste the Waste"
Pure Guava: "Hey Fat Boy (Asshole)"
Chocolate and Cheese: "Candi"
12 Golden Country Greats: "Powder Blue"
The Mollusk: "I'll Be Your Jonny On the Spot"
Paintin' the Town Brown: Ween Live: "Vallejo"
White Pepper: "Stroker Ace"
Live at Stubb's: "Let Me Lick Your Pussy"
quebec: "Hey There Fancypants"

Ecstasy and Wine: "Clair"
Isn't Anything: "All I Need"
Loveless: "Touched"

Galaxie 500:

Today: "flowers"
On Fire: "plastic bird"
This is Our Music: er, i can't think of one. perhaps the Ono cover at an absolute stretch.

1999 - "Free"
Purple Rain - "Purple Rain"
Parade - "Venus de Milo"
Sign O The Times - "Strange Relationship"
My Name Ain't Prince - those Kirstie Alley segues get their own tracklisting so them
The Hits/B-Sides - "Peach"
Gold Experience - "P Control"

instead of "nikki"
(which serves dramatic function)
or the title track

Gish - Suffer
Siamese Dream - Sweet Sweet
Pisces Iscariot - Girl Named Sandoz
Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Take Me Down (Dawn to Dusk); In the Arms of Sleep (Twilight to Starlight)
Adore - Annie-dog
Machina I - The Crying Tree of Mercury
Machina II - Home

I really like Secret Life Of Arabia - it's got something mysterious going on there. "Heroes" is close to perfect and therefore extremely difficult to choose. I'm almost tempted to say the title track now, because I'm sick to death of hearing it in Microsoft adverts. But no, it's classic of course - V2 Schneider has always seemed a bit of a throwaway track to me but I like it.

Scott 1-4

Scott - When Joanna Loved Me
Scott 2 - Come Next Spring
Scott 3 - If You Go Away (yes I know I'm being perverse, but I'm bored of this song and I think his interpretation is over the top and doesn't match Brel's - to be more conventional I'd say 30th Century Man although I like and think it does a good job of breaking the depressive mood of the record)
Scott 4 - Hero Of The War (impossible choice, no songs are even close to being bad on this album)

Primal Scream:
Screamadelica - Damaged
Give Out But Don't Give Up - Free
Vanishing Point - Star
Xtrmntr - Insekt Royalty
Evil Heat - Rise
(haven't heard the first 2 albums)

Have you not heard the singing in the original???

As far as the Prince commentary goes, picking "Strange Relationship" as the worst song on _Sign O' The Times_ is evil and wrong.

Self Portrait – all of it although the systematic sabotaging of one of his own standards, Like a Rolling Stone, perhaps stands out as being particularly heinous.
New Morning – Winterlude
Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid – whatever… can’t remember there being too much offensive on here – could have cut one or two of the Billy’s tho.
Dylan – The Ballad of Ira Hayes
Planet Waves – Dirge
Before the Flood – Uhm, fuck knows – maybe his roaring rendition of It Ain't Me Babe just doesn’t float my boat on this record.
Blood on the Tracks – Although this album is to all intents and purposes perfect, if one song stands as a 'worst', it’s would have to be the overlong babble of Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts especially when you compare the needlessly foot-stamping album version with the laid back outtakes.
Basement Tapes – Once again, a near impossible call to make but I could probably live without Bob wailing on Goin’ to Acapulco.
Desire – Err, how do you pick a piece of a puzzle as perfect as this? But if I have to have a least favourite song on this, the 11+ minutes of homage to a desperado gangster is it.
Hard Rain – Hmmm, haven’t heard this in time, maybe the version of Oh, Sister.
Street Legal – This is a hugely underrated stone cold classic album, but the song Is Your Love In Vain is a cringe-maker – along with clunkers like "I've been burned before and I know the score" Bob is also feeling particularly misogynist: "Can you cook and sew, make flowers grow, Do you understand my pain?"
Slow Train Coming – When You Gonna Wake Up
At Budokan - Another vote for Is Your Love in Vain being consigned to the can.

TIB/BDC - Meat Hook
Seventeen Seconds - 17 Seconds
Faith - Doubt
Pornography - Short Term Effect (pretty tough on that one)
Japanese Whispers - Speak my Language
The Top_ - Give me It
The Head On The Door - Screw
KM^3_ - Fight
Disintegration - Lovesong
Mixed Up_ - Inbetween Days (whatever mix)
Wish - Cut
Wild Mood Swings - Strange Attraction
Bloodflowers - 39

This is my favourite song on the album.

This is my favourite song on the album.

It was either that or "You Belong to Me," but a painful decision nonetheless.

new GBV out soon (one week? already?)

"F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E."

! surely Mis-shapes?

[don't know true stories or naked]

Confusion Is Sex - "Confusion Is Next"
Bad Moon Rising - "I'm Insane"
Evol - "in the Kingdom #19" (still like this but I have to pick one)
Sister - "PCH"
Daydream Nation - "Eric's Trip"
Goo - "My Friend Goo"
Dirty - "Youth Against Fascism"
Experimental Jet Set - "Bull In the Heather"
Washing Machine - "Panty Lies"
ATL - "Hits Of Sunshine"
NYC G&F - the last one with KG singing 'melodically'

I still like most of these on some level but:
"Your Time Is Gonna Come"
"Heartbreaker"
"Friends"
"Misty Mountain Hop"
"The Crunge"
"Boogie With Stu"
randomly pick something other than "Achilles' Last Stand" or "Nobody's Fault But Mine"
"Hot Dog"

"David's Last Summer"
goddamnit it is NOT "F.E.E.L.I.N.G.C.A.L.L.E.D.L.O.V.E." it is "Bar Italia"
"The Day After The Revolution"

"My Name Is Jonas"
"Across the Sea"
"Hash Pipe"
"Burndt Jamb"

"Condemned to Rock 'n' Roll"
"Nostalgic Pushead"
"She Is Suffering" (this one was quite difficult)
"Interiors (Song for Willem de Kooning)"
"You're Tender and You're Tired"
"Wattsville Blues"

freak out!: "go cry on somebody else's shoulder"
absolutely free: "status back baby"
we're only in it for the money: "bow tie daddy"
cruising with ruben and the jets: "anyway the wind blows"
uncle meat: "tengo na minchia tanta"
hot rats: "little umbrellas"
burnt weeny sandwich: "aybe sea"
weasels ripped my flesh: "weasels ripped my flesh"
chunga's revenge: "road ladies"
fillmore east: june 1971: "what kind of girl do you think we are?"
200 motels: "the lad searches the night for his newts"
just another band from LA: "eddie, are you kidding?"
waka/jawaka: "your mouth"
the grand wazoo: "cletus awreetus-awrightus"
over-nite sensation: "fifty-fifty"
apostrophe: "excentrifugal forz"
roxy and elsewhere: "dummy up"
one size fits all: "can't afford no shoes"
bongo fury: "poofter's froth wyoming plans ahead"
zoot allures: "ms. pinky"
läther: "down in de dew"
sheik yerbouti: "wild love"
joe's garage: "stick it out"
tinsel town rebellion: "pick me, i'm clean"
you are what you is: "jumbo go away"
ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch: "ship arriving too late to save a drowning witch"
the man from utopia: "stick together"
them or us: "frogs with dirty little lips"

Yes but where to begin.

I like how Ally's standard for the Pulp choices = "Argh, the last song, the album's about to end, FUCK YOU, it should keep going!" (Yes I know about "Like a Friend" but that was only the American edition etc.)

the plan: "oh! didn't i say"
tubeway army: "steel and you"
replicas: "it must have been years"
the pleasure principle: "tracks"
telekon: "i'm an agent"
dance: "night talk"

Emotional Rescue - Indian Girl
Sucking in the 70s - Mannish Boy
Tattoo You - Heaven
Undercover - All the Way Down
Dirty Work - Winning Ugly
Steel Wheels - Rock and a Hard Place
Voodoo Lounge - Suck on the Jugular
Bridges to Babylon never heard it.

Never heard any of the last 5 live records. Well that's not entirely true, I used to have an old cassette of Still Life but I haven't heard it in probably 16 years.

Bar Italia: perfect 5-6 in the morning song, verses are the floaty bits where everything's still all right, choruses are the bits when you actually have to think about what to do and make decisions and shit and it's really difficult. Also the other half of Monday Mornings.

Mis-Shapes: The only obvious Pulp song ever.

After a certain point, say 1980, looking for any good songs on Van Morrison albums becomes a lot easier than picking the worst one.
Except for Irish Heartbeat - "I'll Tell Me Ma"

you're out of your cotton pickin' mind

no you're not. that's a melodically limp, repetitive bore on an album of snappy miniatures. good call.

"Miserable Lie"
"Meat Is Murder"
"Vicar In a Tutu"
"Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me"

"Brooklyn (Owns the Charmer Under Me)" (cloying)
"Pearl of the Quarter" (trite)
"East St. Louis Toodle-Oo" (rockist)
"Throw Back the Little Ones" (slight)
"Everything You Did" (never quite picks up steam -- this is fuckin' hard though)
"I Got the News" (merely great and funky -- still awesome)
(Gaucho is a perfect album)

Kraftwerk (this one hurts, it really does):

I: does it matter? (track 2?)
II: "Atem"
Ralf und Florian: "Heimatklaenge"
Autobahn: "Mitternacht"
Radio-Activity: "News"
(Trans-Europe Express is flawless, though not my fave K-werk album)
Man-Machine: "Spacelab" (merely an excellent track on an otherwise fantastic and perfect record)
Computer World: "It's More Fun to Compute"
Electric Cafe: "Techno Pop"

"Still Ill" - yes Sundar it's a great song, I didn't know what to pick from that record, probably that pick's the one I've 'felt' least.

Mentalism upthread with "Snowman" which is the best tune on English Settlement and really sweet!

Oh I can do Pixies:

"Vamos"
"Cactus"
"Here Comes Your Man"
"All Over The World"
"Head On"

1. ok, since you asked so politely. but we will not excuse this pap.
2. ugh. how can something so pale and frail be so heavy handed?
3. only false move - rawk! - in an otherwise perfect song cycle.
4. stupid, stupid, stupid song.

COP: "Vamos" (if only cuz the version on Surfer is preferable)
Surfer Rosa: "I'm Amazed"
Doolittle: "Silver"
Bossanova: "Stormy Weather"
Pixies: "Space (I Believe In)"

"You can tell me that I got no class" / "Turn around you'll see who's laughing last! / leave me alone, let me Rock & Roll!"

Er, are we sure Peart was writing the lyrics at this point?

* Yeah, ok, so the pay off is in the last line, but big deal? It's wimp rock at it's wimpiest.
** Hard decision, as I love every second of the album, but it's not exactly up there with "Below the stars" is it?
*** I take back what I said up there, THIS is wimp rock at its wimpiest
**** And then they rock out, and it's a Joy Division riff. Give it up (oh, they did)
***** Bob gets slushy. It doesn't work. Yuck
****** Just doesn't fit with the rest of the album
******* Goes on too long, doesn't have any meaning
******** Does nothing for me
********* Haven't you learnt anything, DON'T ROCK OUT!

I've intentionally not included Drella because John Cale has to share the blame for it, and that just wouldn't be fair. And, to be honest, because it's so hard to pick a worst song among so many bad ones.

Hearing this for the first time made me lose all faith in Lou Reed and I haven't bought an album of his since. I listened to about ten minutes of PoeTry in the record shop the other day, it's possibly the most pretentiously bad piece of crap I've ever heard. No one has disappointed me more than Reed.

Those are the ones that spring immediately to mind, no deep thought involved.

Clash _Clash_ "Protex Blue"
Clash _Give Em Enough Rope_ "Guns on the Roof"
Clash _London Calling_ "Lover's Rock"
Clash _Sandinista_ "Hitsville UK"
Clash _Combat Rock_ "Red Angel Dragnet"

EPs and non-original lineup(s) albums excluded

Monster Movie- “Mary, Mary So Contrary”*
Tago Mago- “Augmn” & “Peking” **
Ege Bamyasi- “Soup”***
Flow Motion- “Cascade Waltz”****
Landed- “Red Hot Indians”****

*Pretty odd, even for Can, mind you not in a good way.
**I generally skip these two.
***See above.
****Yeah right.

I really don’t have much of a problem with ‘Future Days’ or ‘Soon Over Babaluma’. ‘Saw Delight’, ‘Delay 68’ and ‘Unfinished Edition’ are generally not that great.

ambver - yulquen
tri rep - overand

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They are the best tracks on both of those albums!

WILD LOVE - Sleepy Joe
RED APPLE FALLS - red apples
KNOCK KNOCK - sweet treat
DONGS OF SEVOTION - Hard Road
RAIN ON LENS - Lazy Rain
SUPPER - (love them all but at a push i'd say) Morality

Let me have a go at them, although it's pretty hard as their stuff is so good:

IV Rattus Norvigicus - London Lady (probably the least notable on a fantastic debut filled with highlights)
No More Heroes - Peasant In The Big Shitty (not sure actually, but looking at the tracklisting this title doesn't really ring a bell)
Black and White - Hey! (Rise Of The Robots) (bit annoying and effortless)
The Raven - Nuclear Device (The Wizard Of Aus) (although it's very good!)
Gospel According to the Meninblack - Waiting For The Meninblack (not sure either, most of the album, especially halfway through, often sounds a bit boring and there's a lack of standout songs on this one)
La Folie - Pin Up (too simple & poppy in relation to the rest of the album)
Feline - Ships That Pass In The Night (again a great song, but the repetitive bassline can make it annoying)
Aural Sculpture - Mad Hatter (an unsatisfying album ender)
Dreamtime - You'll Always Reap What You Sow (boring)
10 - Where I Live (did they suddenly become Steve Harley & Cockney Rebel?!? This is one of the very few Stranglers songs I truly dislike, it doesn't sound like the Stranglers at all.)

And Dave q is VERY wrong regarding Roxy Music... but I can't even try to have my own go as I couldn't even pick least-faves of their albums.

Suede: She's Not Dead.
Dog Man Star: Black Or Blue
Coming Up: Saturday Night
Sci-Fi Lullabies: Duchess
Head Music: Head Music.
A New Morning: Positivity.

The guitar work is fluid, elegant, and graceful not busy and Van Halen-damaged. The intricate ensemble stuff is perfectly fit into the compositions. Nothing feels as gratuitous as the opening to "Spirit Of Radio" or as OTT as "Jacob's Ladder". The lyrics, at least up to and including "Camera Eye", actually come together for me and work with the music to create meaningful images. The whole thing has a nice sort of overall wintry feel. There's nothing as pointless as "Entre Nous" or "Different Strings". And I love "Limelight".

Note the frequent showing of hit singles during most of their later output...

Speak & Spell: Tora Tora Tora!
A Broken Frame: Shouldn't Have Done That
Construction Time Again: More Than a Party
Some Great Reward: Master And Servant
Black Celebration: A Question Of Time
Music For The Masses: Pimpf
Violator: Clean
Songs Of Faith And Devotion: I Feel You
Ultra: Uselink
Exciter: The Dead Of The Night

And The Beatles, obviously:

Please Please Me: A Taste Of Honey
With The Beatles: Roll Over Beethoven
A Hard Day's Night: I'll Cry Instead ("You Know What To Do" would have been the only obvious choice from a perfect album though)
Beatles For Sale: Mister Moonlight
Help!: Act Naturally
Revolver: Yellow Submarine
Sgt. Pepper: Good Morning Good Morning
Magical Mystery Tour: Flying
The Beatles: Revolution #9
Abbey Road: Come Together
Let It Be: One After 909

(Don't get me started on solo albums :-) )

Duran Duran:

debut album -- "Girls on Film"
Rio -- "Rio"
Seven & the Ragged Tiger -- "(I'm Looking For) Cracks in the Pavement"
re-release of debut album -- "Is There Something I Should Know?"
Arena -- "Hungry Like The Wolf (Live)"
Notorious -- "Meet El Presidente"
Big Thing -- "Big Thing"
Liberty -- "Read My Lips"
The Wedding Album -- "Drowning Man"
Thank You -- "911 is a Joke"
Medazzaland -- "Midnight Sun" (but I *like* this one)
Pop Trash -- "The Sun Doesn't Shine Forever" (I like this one too)

Japan:

Adolescent Sex -- "Don't Rain on My Parade"
Obscure Alternatives -- "Deviation"
Quiet Life -- "In Vogue" (but I *like* this one)
Gentlemen Take Polaroids -- "Ain't That Peculiar"
Tin Drum -- "Sons of Pioneers" (I like this one too)
Oil on Canvas -- "Voices Raised in Welcome, Hands Held in Prayer"

My Aim Is True: "I'm Not Angry"
This Years Model: "Hand In Hand"
Armed Forces: "Goon Squad"
Get Happy!!: "B Movie"
Trust: "White Knuckles"
Almost Blue: "Success"
Imperial Bedroom: "The Loved Ones"
Punch The Clock: "Mouth Almighty"
Goodbye Cruel World: "Sour Milkcow Blues"
King of America: "Don't Le Me Be Misunderstood"
Blood And Chocolate: "Blue Chair"
Spike: "Stalin Malone"
Mighty Like A Rose: "Hurry Down Doomsday"
Brutal Youth: "Still Too Soon to Know"
Kojak Variety: "Hidden Charms" (in comparison to the orig.)

Real Life -- "The Light Pours Out of Me"
Secondhand Daylight -- "The Thin Air"
Correct Use of Soap -- "Thank You" (I like this a lot, but hey, I had to pick one, and this was a cover, so...)
Magic, Murder and the Weather -- "So Lucky"
Scree -- "The Book" (that shouldn't count, so "I Love You You Big Dummy")

Japan:

Adolescent Sex -- "Don't Rain on My Parade"
Obscure Alternatives -- "...Rhodesia"
Quiet Life -- "Despair"
Gentlemen Take Polaroids -- "The Experience of Swimming" (though really this wasn't on the original album. I really feel that GTM is a perfect album)
Tin Drum -- "Ghosts" (I have NO idea how this became a hit single!!)

Deanna, I LOVE "Ain't that Peculiar"!!

And for post 'Dance' Gary Numan, I'll do his next two albums:

I, Assassin -- "1930s Rust" (obvious choice. This album is PERFECT without it)
Warriors -- "Love is Like Clock Law"

... I'm at a total loss. It's second only to "All is Full of Love."

BJÖRK:
Debut: "Crying"
Post: "I Miss You"
Homogenic: "Bachelorette"
Selmasongs: "In the Musicals"
Vespertine: "Heirloom"

STEVIE WONDER ('70s stuff):
Music of My Mind: "Sweet Little Girl"
Talking Book: "You Are the Sunshine of My Life"
Innervisions: "All in Love is Fair"
Fulfillingness' First Finale: "It Ain't No Use"
Songs in the Key of Life: "Joy Inside My Tears"
Secret Life of Plants: "Finale" or whatever that thing is.
Hotter Than July: "Happy Birthday"
Original Musiquarium: "Front Line"

PRINCE:
Dirty Mind: "Gotta Broken Heart Again"
Controversy: "Let's Work"
1999: nope, nothing wrong here (twist my arm: "All the Critics Love U in NY")
Purple Rain: "Purple Rain" (at least until the last third)
Around the World in a Day: "Tambourine"
Parade: "I Wonder U"
Sign o' the Times: "Strange Relationship"... sorry, Matos. I think "Play" is fantastic.
Lovesexy: "I Wish U Heaven"
Glyph: "Blue Light"
The Hits/The B-Sides: "Pope"
Come: "Orgasm"... if that even counts.
Gold Experience: "We March"
Emancipation: "My Computer"
Rave Un2 the Joy Fantastic: "Everyday is a Winding Road"

And I think it sounds kinda awkward. Then again, I was never really one for the covers Japan performed, save for "I Second That Emotion" and "All Tomorrow's Parties", both of which I adore.

But on the same tip, I adore "The Experience of Swimming" and "Rhodesia", the latter especially when I'm listening to it while driving and can sing along to it at the top of my lungs.

This is the beauty part about being a fan of the same group, though. You get to have differences of opinion here. :) I'm glad we agree on "Don't Rain on My Parade", though. 'Tis the one snag in an otherwise lovely album.

Ok, this makes no sense, because I named fully half of the Japan covers performances as songs I love. Um, so they batted .500 in the covers arena. Not bad, really.

David Bowie: "Sell Me a Coat." (Okay, admittedly I don't remember much from this album, and don't feel like putting it on.)

Space Oddity: "Memory of a Free Festival."

The Man Who Sold The World: "Black Country Rock."

Hunky Dory: "Kooks" is cute, but gets annoying fast. I'm not crazy about "Queen Bitch," either. ("Bewlay Brothers" is underrated, on the other hand.)

Ziggy: "Star."

Aladdin Sane: "Let's Spend the Night Together."

Pinups: "See Emily Play."

Diamond Dogs: "Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family."

Young Americans: "Can You Hear Me."

Station to Station: "Stay."

Low: "Subterraneans."

"Heroes": "Sense of Doubt," maybe. All in all one of my least favorite albums.

Lodger: "African Night Flight."

Scary Monsters: "Up the Hill Backwards," because I can't divorce it from the fuckedupitude of the Glass Spider tour.

Let's Dance: "Criminal World."

Tonight: "Dancing with the Big Boys."

Never Let Me Down: "New York's In Love"?

Black Tie White Noise: "The Wedding."

Outside: "Voyeur of Utter Destruction."

Earthling: "The Last Thing You Should Do."

Hours: "Brilliant Adventure."

Heathen: "Afraid."

Anyway, I'll try this with the Malkmus album catalog:

Slanted & Enchanted - "Chesley's Little Wrists"

Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain - "Hit The Plane Down"

Wowee Zowee - "Western Homes"

Brighten The Corners - "J Vs. S"

Terror Twilight - "Major Leagues"

Stephen Malkmus - "Black Book"

Pig Lib - "Animal Midnight"

Vamos
Bone Machine (sorry!)
La La Love You
Stormy Weather
Lovely Day

Pumpkins -
Window Paine
Rocket
We Only Come Out At Night
Shame
Blue Skies Bring Tears

Weezer -
In The Garage
No Other One
Smile
Love Explosion

This is probably true.

Nothing much, really

I'd say "Hello Goodbye" or "Baby You're A Rich Man".

But those are both classics, as most of the rest of the album.

Mr Tambourine Man - We'll meet again
Turn!Turn!Turn! - Oh!Susannah
Fifth Dimension - 2-4-2 foxtrot
Younger than yesterday - Mind Gardens
Notorious Byrd Brothers - Space Odyssey
Sweetheart of the rodeo - Pretty boy Floyd
Dr Byrd and Mr Hyde - Old blue
The Ballad of easy rider - Jack Tarr the sailor
Untitled - Hungry planet

Haven't bothered with Byrdmaniax or Farther along....

The Flaming Lips EP: Out for a Walk
Hear It Is: Godzilla Flick
Oh My Gawd!!!: Ode to C.C. Pt. 2
Telepathic Surgery: Redneck School of Technology
In A Priest Driven Ambulance: There You Are - Jesus Song No. 6
Hit to Feath in the Future Head: Hold Your Head
...Satellite Heart: Plastic Jesus
Clouds Taste Metallic: Evil Will Prevail
Zaireeka: A Machine in India
The Soft Bulletin: The Observer
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots: All We Have is Now

....That Was Hard

Enter the 36 chambers: Tearz
Wu Tang Forever: Black Shampoo
The W: Conditioner
Iron Flag: Soul Power

ALL of Musicology just stinks. Yes, I still can't believe it.

Bleach - "Sifting"
Nevermind - "Something In The Way"
Hormoaning - "Even In His Youth"
Incesticide - "Aero Zeppelin"
In Utero - "Dumb"
Unplugged In New York - "Something In The Way"
Muddy Banks - "Been A Son"
Nirvana - "Been A Son"

Most Can albums have at least one stinker on them, but "Monster Movie", "Landed" and "Saw Delight" don't really (which is not the same as saying they are the best Can albums)

Small Change: Small Change
Heart Attack And Vine: In Shades
Swordfishtrombones: Down Down Down
Rain Dogs: Motown
Franks Wild Years: I'll Take New York
Bone Machine: Black Wings
Mule Variations: Hold On
Alice: That German thing
Blood Money: Lullaby
Real Gone: Baby Gonna Leave Me

you are fucking insane

Delay 1968, "Man Named Joe"

For someone's Ween list above:

Pure Guava - "Poop Ship Destroyer"
Chocolate And Cheese - "A Tear For Eddie"
12 Golden Country Greats - "Japanese Cowboy"

Wrong! Wrong ! Wrong!

The Kick Inside: "James and the Cold Gun"
Lionheart: "Wow"
Never for Ever: "The Wedding List"
The Dreaming: "Sat in Your Lap"
Hounds of Love: "Waking the Witch"
The Sensual World: "Between a Man and a Woman"
The Red Shoes: "Eat the Music" maybe? Can't remember.

The Smiths: "You've Got Everything Now"
Meat Is Murder: "Meat Is Murder"
The Queen Is Dead: "Never Had No One Ever"
Strangeways, Here We Come: "Death of a Disco Dancer"

BEEFHEART
Safe As Milk - "Plastic Factory"
*Strictly Personal - "Ah Feel Like Ahcid"
Trout Mask Replica - "Hair Pie: Bake 1"
**Lick My Decals Off, Baby - "Space-Age Couple"
*Clear Spot - "Circumstances"
Spotlight Kid - "There Ain't No Santa Claus on the Evenin' Stage"
Unconditionally Guaranteed - "Peaches"
Bluejeans and Moonbeams - "Captain's Holiday"
*Shiny Beast - "Love Lies"
Doc at the Radar Station - "Telephone"
Ice Cream for Crow - "Skeleton Makes Good"

*really really REALLY tough to choose!
**yet, paradoxically, underneath all the saxophone garble, this is actually one of the best songs on the album

KRAFTWERK:
*I - "Vom Himmel Hoch"
**II - "Atem"
*Ralf und Florian - "Kristallo"
Autobahn - "Kometenmelodie I"
Radio-Activity - "Nachrichten"
***Trans-Europe Express - "Endless Endless"
*Man-Machine - "The Model"
*Computer World - "Computer World 2"
Electric Cafe - "Electric Cafe"
Tour de France - interminable title track(s)

*tough choice
**the obvious choice but, let's be frank, apart from "Kling Klang" most of this album stinks
***a cop out, I know!

*Safe As Milk - "Plastic Factory"
**Lick My Decals Off, Baby - "Flash Gordon's Ape"

*really really REALLY tough to choose!
**yet, paradoxically, underneath all the saxophone garble, this is actually one of the best songs on the album