Albums you can't listen to because you hate one song on it so much

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Any come to mind? New Beth Orton comes to mind for me, Daybreaker (roots manuva remix) is so bad I can't bring myself to play the cd.

― **************, Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:54 (twenty-two years ago)

the vines album, but it's two songs ('get free' and 'outtathaway')

― the surface noise (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 04:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Not quite but almost: Big Star - Third, because of 'For You.'

and also almost: #1 Record, because of 'the India Song.'

― calstars (calstars), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i think "the india song" is an important piece of its time, and romantically consistent with #1, but i'm a sentimental not wishing to attempt proving the negative (an old hippie)

― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: Synchronicity.

You can't even enjoy Side 1 because you know that "Mother" is just around the corner, waiting to pounce on ya.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Why digital is good: the ability to skip "Down By the Seaside" from Physical Graffiti

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:35 (twenty-two years ago)

the vines album, but it's two songs ('get free' and 'outtathaway')

And the rest of it is what? Sweet slippery gold?

― Kenan Hebert (kenan), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 06:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Well, the telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?
The telephone is screaming
Won't she leave me alone
The telephone is ringing
Is that my mother on the phone?

Well, every girl I got out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end
Well, I hear my mother calling
But I don't need her as a friend
Every girl I go out with
Becomes my mother in the end

Oh Oh mother

Oh mother dear please listen
And don't devour me
Oh mother dear please listen
And don't devour me
Oh women please have mercy
Let this poor boy be
Oh mother dear please listen
And don't devour me

terrible song.

― k (blue), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 07:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I have no problem at all with Rooty being as short as it is and the rest of it is a big twisty plasma yay but why in name of fuck did they have to stick Jus 1 Kiss right in the middle of it?

― Alex in Leeds (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

just 1 kiss is grebt!!

― geeta (geeta), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I think maybe I find it too happy. Which seems a strange thing to object to.

― Alex in Leeds (Alex in Doncaster), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The Go-Betweens' Before Hollywood is spoiled for me by "Dusty In Here."

― Douglas (Douglas), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Revolver. Some bastard yammering about submarines. Yuck.

― marco (marco), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Luckily, you may just skip "Voices Of Old" people when playing "Bookends" on CD.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

As long as you listen on CD, skipping a bad song is easy as pie. So I can't really imagine hating an album because of one song - unless I only had it on vinyl or cassette.

― o. nate (onate), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:12 (twenty-two years ago)

"Down by the Seaside"? "Jus 1 Kiss"? Both these are great! "Mother", admittedly, is one of the worst songs ever.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:30 (twenty-two years ago)

"Mother" sooooo rocks

― Sonny A. (Keiko), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Man. "Dusty in Here" is a highlight among highlights as far as I'm concerned.
I'll have to say the song "Moondance" keeps me from listening to the album quite often.

― Magic City (ano ano), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Awww, fuck. Thanks a lot, K. I couldn't even get through this thread without "Mother" pouncing on me.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

And every thread I post to
becomes about "Mother" in the end...

― briania, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

pleasant plains, who mentioned it first?

― k (blue), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 04:36 (twenty-two years ago)

abbey road. that goddam "maxwell" just ruins the entire tone of the album for me.

― Justyn Dillingham (Justyn Dillingham), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 05:51 (twenty-two years ago)

And "Mother" is one of his more insightful pieces...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to avoid listening to the Red House Painters' rollercoaster album because of the song Mother... not a cover of that Police song, but it might as well have been.

― Damian (Damian), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like a Twat, and Revolver. In the sense of "listen to an album from start to finish".

― Mark C (Mark C), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 17:37 (twenty-two years ago)

The suxiest thing about "Aabla Eedio" is that it's the first track on Not For Threes.

― Leee (Leee), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 22:52 (twenty-two years ago)

In college, my roommate and I would play Daniel Johnston's Yip/Jump Music a lot, and we'd both run to hit fast forward as soon as "King Kong" came on. I've since grown to like it.

Also, I think Massive Attack's Protection gets a bad rap simply for the inclusion of "Weather Storm". That's the only crappy filler instrumental, and if you take it off or substitute "Cool Monsoon" it's as solid gold as any other MA release. (Until of course, you get to "Light My Fire", when you have to just shut the CD player off.

― Maxwell von Bismarck (maxwell von bismarck), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:31 (twenty-two years ago)

On the soundtrack for Traffic by Cliff Martinez there is a fucking Fatboy Slim song that just blows the whole mood of the album

― hector (hector), Thursday, 30 October 2003 02:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I've got the edition of EBTG's 'Amplified Heart' with Todd Terry's big house remix of Missing tacked on to the end, so each listening of the album ends with a mad rush to the stereo to shut it off before the mood is ruined. bleh.

― derrick (derrick), Thursday, 30 October 2003 06:19 (twenty-two years ago)

In general, I hate when some stupid 'remix' track by another artist is stuck on the end of an album. It never seems to add anything.

― Debito (Debito), Thursday, 30 October 2003 06:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Eminem's Marshall Mathers LP is completely engaging ... right up until the blow job skit with the ICP. That's just f'n repugnant, man. Ruins the vibe, and the songs go down hill from there mostly, too.

― Chris O., Thursday, 30 October 2003 07:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Sgt. Pepper, for that Indian sitar Satan right there in the middle ...

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Dusty In Here never really stood out for me as being especially awful, but I guess I've always used that lull in the action as a chance to make a brew or roll a cigarette. Listening to it in isolation I can sort of see what you're getting at, but the memory of that one song is always totally jet-hosed from my mind by the rest of the album. Actually it sounds a lot like the Television Personalities, don't you think?

― NickB (NickB), Thursday, 30 October 2003 09:36 (twenty-two years ago)

It doesn't ruin the album, but "The Cow Song" makes it hard to listen to The Hound Chronicles.

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Afghan Whigs Uptown Avondale - that horrible remix of "Miles Iz Ded"

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 1 November 2003 22:42 (twenty-two years ago)

dont u lot have 'winamp' ? and what's the problem on this board with the constant 'jus 1 kiss' kicking ? it's fckng ace !!

― piscesboy, Sunday, 2 November 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Actually it sounds a lot like the Television Personalities, don't you think?"

i haven't played the album since i burned myself a copy last year (or was it?), but i remember "Dusty in here" sounding almost intentionally John Cale-ish...

― tod (tod), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:05 (twenty-two years ago)

"Rubber Soul"... "Run For Your Life"

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok Computer and 'electioneering'

― scottjames23 (worrysome-man), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:45 (twenty-two years ago)

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: Synchronicity.
You can't even enjoy Side 1 because you know that "Mother" is just around the corner, waiting to pounce on ya.

the problem with Synchronicity is not side one, which has the only interesting songs on it. Side two is the serious sick-fuck relationship material that the public lapped up, it's the side that sold the album.

Yet the songs on side one make it clear that the band would love to be successful on that slightly deeper level. "Synchonicity II" rounds it out with a great song structurally. Sting approaches (1)consumerism, alienation and "normal domestic situations" as pre-cursors to suicide, (2)american corporate culture as a similarly evil death process and his special fave (3)pollution leading to degradation, evolution, planetary death. Slick layers in some gross three level trickle down fountain of self-inflicted death, embedded in their catchiest rocker (with "demonic setting" thrown in for led zep dred).

If it's the cd we then get all that carp on side 2, unintended given the sexy-dumb a-side and adults-with-some-brains b-side vinyl format. It should be reversed on the cd so you can jump to the Sync/Sync material, jumping all that mush that should be on side one, rather than the current set-up, which rudely puts you to sleep after "Synchronicity II".

As for Pysical Graffiti, "Down by the Seaside" is such a surprise piece of beauty it deserves to be the platinum single.

― george gosset (gegoss), Tuesday, 4 November 2003 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

seven years pass...

I never make it through the A Son Unique boot because of "Don't Go Breaking My Heart." Like, I have never made it past that

― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 22 July 2011 19:01 (fourteen years ago)

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