Love the songs, hate the album

I was thinking about this as I was playing "This Time of Night" by New Order on Spotify; there are a good 5 tracks on Low-Life that I really, really love and would consider to be career highlights for the band, but I can't sit down and play the entire album through because the two singles are represented with abysmal recordings and "Face-Up" sets my teeth on edge.

Does this happen to anyone else? Do you have instances where an act has put out an album where you like or love more than half of the songs on it but you still dislike the source album as an overall piece of work?

too many to count

well, pick one!

neil young - psychedelic pill

lana del rey and usher from this year alone

For Low-Life, if the two singles were presented in their original long format, it would be a great album. Despite Face-Up.

Van Halen, "Diver Down." Love the two cover songs, "Intruder," "Cathedral," "Little Guitars," but as a whole it's just not a great album, considering what they were capable of.

My Big Dark Twisted Sister Fantasy, I guess? When I hear most of the songs in isolation I can enjoy them but when I hear them all together I want to bite Kanye's head off and watch blood spurt out of his neckstump.

multiple of Montreal albums

My Big Dark Twisted Sister Fantasy, I guess?

Ha I was going to bring that album up as a more recent example! iTunes Genius playlists have done more to extend the life of that album for me than anything else; I even like most of the songs I initially disliked on it but the idea of actually going back to listening to the entire album as a unit seems like torture.

I love "Overture," "Amazing Journey/Sparks," "Christmas," "The Acid Queen," "Pinball Wizard," "I'm Free," "Sensation," "We're Not Gonna Take It"...and yet Tommy isn't my favorite Who album by any stretch.

but as a whole it's just not a great album, considering what they were capable of.

They didn't even want to make that album. They wanted to release "Dancing in the Streets" as a stand-alone single and WB wasn't having it. So they threw together a bunch of stuff to surround it and push it out to the length of an LP. "Happy Trails" at the end was actually recorded in 1978.

Love the songs, hate the album

Pearl Jam, Ten

I've never owned this on cd, actually, so I'm just familiar with it broken into two sections via cassette. I hardly ever listened to side two at all, and when I did, I found it pretty boring. Side one was tight as hell, though.

Stankonia...

almost any Kanye West album

The Good Will Out by Embrace. In fact pretty much any album by them.

This year's Friends Manifest album. Had some expectations for it based on the first two singles "I'm His Girl" and "Friend Crush".

Walker Brothers' Nite Flights owns this. Four great songs then six unlistenable pieces of shit.

Roman Reloaded.

Bon Iver's Bon Iver.

i feel like i have a ton of answers for this thread and none of them are coming to me at the moment, will have to let it marinate

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular. Loved the singles.

Vengaboys - The Party Album

the lana del rey album is a good call. i like a lot of the songs, but ugh, "carmen," "off to the races," "national anthem"... no.

I liked the 1st LDR album, but never needed the 'famous' one

Walker Brothers' Nite Flights owns this. Four great songs then six unlistenable pieces of shit.

Actually the Gary songs aren't that bad, if only he'd let Scott sing them

Nicki Minaj to thread.

PARADE

:/

Let It Be (Beatles)

Animotion s/t

it just occurred to me that i think this about Superunknown. there are some really good songs on there, but 'black hole sun' and its accompanying video go so far as to actually offend me.

Take it to the "love the album, hate one song" thread.

omg Rev NO

;_;

obv Prince was on fire at the moment, but it's kind of the shittiest-sounding album and all it once it is too much sonic flatness for me where is the low end?

I wouldn't have put any of Prince's material in the sphere of worrying about the low end until maybe Graffiti Bridge? Also I freely admit that "Kiss", "Mountains" and "Sometimes It Snows In April" basically make this a devastating album for me that I can't really judge impartially.