...kills the Record

[lordgalvar]

There are lots of great albums. Let's list albums that are exceptional except for that one track that stabs at the nerves until the entirety is ignored.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15yqZ1uL9A

It ain't the worst song, but it just kind of ruins the feelin' of the album. Maybe it's the vocals? TEE is better without it.

Yes, go listen to that song and see if it's as bad as you remember as a stand alone.

[Chankgeez]

If we're including CD reissues, I'd say this one (luckily this's ripped from vinyl here):



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6tDAZlT0vM

Their cover of "Paint It Black" that's a bonus track on most CD reissues isn't that bad, it just doesn't really fit with the rest of the record.

Doesn't kill it, but I usually shut the record off before it gets to it.

(also, not a huge fan of the Beatles cover on the record.)

[lordgalvar]

Reissues count.

I turn off Ramones records when the bonus tracks come on too. I don't know how many versions of "Needles and Pins" the world really needs.

I agree that cover doesn't fit.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... t6M7cRaiVp


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6OVNX-VCT8

The Knife Deep Cuts. "The Cop" and "Hanging Out". "Hanging out" kinda fits as an album ender I guess, but "The Cop" just don't do nothing except making the drums on "Listen Now" sound more exciting (mostly because "The Cop" is over).

[Ugly Nora]

There are lots of great albums. Let's list albums that are exceptional except for that one track that stabs at the nerves until the entirety is ignored.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15yqZ1uL9A

It ain't the worst song, but it just kind of ruins the feelin' of the album. Maybe it's the vocals? TEE is better without it.

Yes, go listen to that song and see if it's as bad as you remember as a stand alone.

I own plenty of Kraftwerk, but I never heard this song, or that album. I listened to this song, and I gotta say I love it! I listened 3 times last night. If this is the worst song on the album, I can't wait to hear the rest of the album.

[voerking]

anytime there's one song with vocals on an otherwise instrumental album.

[JonnyAngle]

I always felt this to be true with "Adam's Song" on Enema of the State

[Benn Roe]

Pixies "Bossanova"


Lady Gaga "the Fame Monster"

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

Wait, I thought that pretty much all of Bossanova was the part that kills the record.

[Benn Roe]

That's a common misconception. It's actually perfect up until Stormy Weather.

[dubkitty]

that incredibly horrid faux-C&W number at the tail end of the Gin Blossoms' Congratulations I'm Sorry ("Cheatin'") is impossible to enjoy. i absolutely must skip it whenever i play that album. it's that bad. such an awful contrast to the intelligent, often heartbreaking songs that make up the rest of the album.

[Heraclitus Akimbo]

That's a common misconception. It's actually perfect up until Stormy Weather.

Having thought more about it, I was probably too harsh on Bossanova... I think I just remember it being a letdown when I first heard it.

On the other hand, I did have "Stormy Weather" stuck in my head for days after your first post, so it probably had a sort of opposite effect on me. And now it's back.

[moid]

I was going to say Atrocity Exhibition from Joy Division's Closer... I always used to skip that track, it never seemed to work with the rest of the album to me... anyway I listened to it again this evening and I now find it does work and older me now appreciates the harsh textures in it. Younger me was wrong about a few things it seems

[Dowi]

I always thought Lovesong & Lullaby somehow kill Disintegration. Those are not bad song at all, actually i like them very much, but somehow i always felt like they have a different the mood from the rest of the album, mostly speaking of sound. I always felt like they came from different sessions.

[chromandre]

holy goddamn shit... track #4 "the crunge" on Led Zeppelin Houses of the Holy. I invite both fans and haters to sit back and deal with how much of a butt shit track this is injected to an otherwise perfect album. its the combination of just corny bad riffs, seemingly improvised lyrics, and then some kind of preset#2 sounding synth patch tossed in makes it just... mwah, the perfect garnish for an unthinkably terrible track.

[Pepe]

"The Girl From Mill Valley" on Jeff Beck's second album Beck-Ola. It was written by Nicky Hopkins, the group's piano player at that time. He dedicated this absolutely boring song to a girlfriend in Mill Valley who "he hardly ever saw". The group let him record this rubbish tune "to keep him quiet" as Jeff Beck says in the CD booklet of the remastered album version. Hopkins, although having played with The Beatles, The Who and The Rolling Stones (to name just a few) didn't fit to Beck's style and luckily Max Middleton joined the Jeff Beck group for the next albums.

"Mother" from Synchronicity by The Police. Written by Andy Summers. He should have flushed it down the toilet. There's a big reason why nine of the eleven songs on that album were written by Sting. Nobody would miss Stewart Copeland's "Miss Gradenko" on the same album, either.

"I Don't Know Why" on Level 42's album Staring At The Sun. Lyrics have never been this crappy: "I don't know why I love you like I do, but baby I love you and always I'll be true". It's a mediocre album all in all and I only like a few songs on it.

"Stay" on Joe Jackson's album Night And Day II. The whole album is not nearly as good as the legendary 80's album "Night And Day", but it would be better without this song. Joe should have STAYed away from it.

"World That He Wants" on Jamiroquai's album Dynamite. Jay Kay is singing about George W. Bush's politics, I think? "Virtual Insanity" is a great song with political content. This one only offers reasons to be skipped. I love the rest of the album, especially "Electric Mistress" with the combination of squarewave synth bass and electric bass.

"The Return Of The King" on Jim Kerr's (Simple Minds) album Lostboy! AKA Jim Kerr. The whole album is great. The only solo project by Jim Kerr and it's impressive. He should have let the King die without anyone knowing.