...kills the Record

[Ugly Nora]

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.

The Crunge is actually 1 of the only 4 good songs on an otherwise shit record. The other 3 good songs being The Rain Song, No Quarter, and Dancing Days.

Seriously, this album is their 2nd worst album, only beaten out by ITTOD.


The song remains the same - starts off great, but then those chipmunk vocals.

Over the hills and far away - I mean it is ok, but pretty bland overall.

Dyer Maker - Just plain embarrassing all around

The Ocean - The riff is decent but the vocals and overall vibe is just stupid.


In summary, Houses of the Holy should have been released as a 4 song ep with The Crunge being track 1 side 1.

[lordgalvar]

I've never been able to sit through a Led Zeppelin song. I think my dad gave me a copy of House of the Holy but he told me it wasn't very good. The first CD he bought was No Quarter. My dad was a huge Zeppelin fan but I think he just liked the first few albums. He also tried to get me to listen to Aerosmith too (toys in the attic). Mixed messages from that guy but he did get me into Dwight Yoakum, Black Sabbath, Dr Demento, Cheech and Chong, and Judas Priest.

I'm going to have to check a lot of this out. I haven't listened to the full albums of anything mentioned.

Jay Munly - Jimmy Carter Syndrome "Chant Down Cap'n". It's just an un-memorable boring song. The last track is an honorable mention too (barrel race song) because it's cheesy.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF9Xu5sH_ao[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF9Xu5sH_ao

Gauze - Crash the Pose from Equalizing Distort. It's one of their more well known songs but I think the chorus and drums sound wrong. It was before they went only to Japanese lyrics and probably would have fit better on Fuck Heads. All gauze albums are great, just that song bothers me. Second song on the album (like 1:45 ish in)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgar0oCG9lE[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rgar0oCG9lE

[Dungus]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVop4nLYpoM[/youtube]

Weird Twin Peaks saxophone solos are a little out of place on Red Medicine.

edit: But then Target comes on and all is forgiven, sorry.

[lordgalvar]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HSywwZRFXk[/youtube]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HSywwZRFXk

My wife said "Bones" from The Bends. She answered way too quickly haha. It sounds like Radiohead to me. She said she's been fast forwarding since she got the album on the release day haha (she was the biggest Radiohead fan I knew until the last album, then she said, "It's over. I don't have time for this slow depressing stuff" haha).

[Eivind August]

Hah, Bones was the track that got me into that record after overlooking it for some time. I guess it's a bit more of a straight britpop track, but that chorus delivery gets me every time.

[lordgalvar]

Yea, I don't think it's that bad at all. Of course I haven't listened to it in the context of the album in a while. It kind of does seem like they were going for a radio hot or something from what I remember of the rest of the album.

She's a big britpop fan in general. I think she goes between Radiohead and supergrass being her favorite bands. Haha.

[Achtane]

I always skip "Touched" on Loveless.

[Inconuucl]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nf-r8G-7Bew[/youtube]

Small Talk Stinks is such a bad song I forget it's on In the Flat Field.

[coldbrightsunlight]

Hah, Bones was the track that got me into that record after overlooking it for some time. I guess it's a bit more of a straight britpop track, but that chorus delivery gets me every time.

I have to say I'm more with mrs galvar on Bones and prefer the rest of the record. It's not awful but it feels weak to me.


EDIT: Just re-read the track list and a lot of that album isn't that good. This is why I don't often listen to it.

[oscillofuzz]

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

I generally agree, however, I think this album pulls it off:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXH5nv1aQpw[/youtube]

Also, I am of the somewhat controversial opinion that this album's 3rd track Samba Briza really makes the record, even though a latin-jazz-inspired instrumental seems extremely out of context on what is otherwise a technical death/thrash metal album.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2KZczLu3dI[/youtube]

And on Sunbather, while I won't say they kill the record, the interludes definitely haven't aged as well as the 4 core tracks have. Especially Neige's babbling English-with-French-accent and the whole jeeebus speech that was sampled from somewhere
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfbLWHT7vUU[/youtube]

And, as someone who does not particularly care for soccer, the soccer stadium chants that last for like a minute at the end of Fearless on Pink Floyd's Meddle really disturb the flow of the album to me. I do not need to be reminded of soccer hooliganism when I'm jamming out to one of my fav psychedelic rock bands...
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl_apx8JoMw[/youtube]

[lordgalvar]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQWlA2CLRSY

Side B isn't great to begin with (outside of "Big Mess") but, damn, that song bothers me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LO9Xkc2QE

And this one from "Duty Now." Didn't used to bother me, but since that was about all my kids wanted to listen to during the pandemic (the album overall), I started skipping the hell outta that one!

[coupleonapkins]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQWlA2CLRSY

Side B isn't great to begin with (outside of "Big Mess") but, damn, that song bothers me.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1LO9Xkc2QE

And this one from "Duty Now." Didn't used to bother me, but since that was about all my kids wanted to listen to during the pandemic (the album overall), I started skipping the hell outta that one!

Speed Racer should work, but it's essentially a b-side (I'd like to point to overall career fatigue on the whole of Oh No...), but this is also the band that had some of the best b-sides (Penetration in the Centerfold, Soo Bawls, Turnaround, etc.). Also, I frequently catch myself singing Speed Racer from time to time, eventually in agreement with the cop in my head that I should "move along"

Likewise, DN4TF wouldn't be without Pink Pussycat, which is currently maligned in the post Me Too era (and rightly so...?). I'm of the belief that it'll find a new appreciation in the gender fluidity we all find ourselves steeped in, whom probably will latch onto it's cuteness over perverseness (camp recognizes camp, ya herd). Also, furries will outliebe us all

My bones to pick: this track from Actor, which is basically a sign of things to come, but also just breaks the flow of the LP:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPFXdj0_t_4

Also, this is probably because I used to lop this song off of a CD-R I had of this album for space reasons, though now I say that, I can't remember what else was on the CD-R (maybe the s/t record?).

And while I'll probably get some stones thrown at me for it, the absolute mood killer of one of the greatest LPs ever, which I always shut off after Prove It:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tnl292LAD0w

Great track, but GAWD, it's like nails on the chalkboard, every single time.

Last one: the final two tracks of Out Of The Blue, because Jeff Lynne was completely unhinged.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcL8ZmBOBGY


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMiJ-DORUXY

Wild West Hero is actually OK, maybe? Both just inevitably ruin the record, though.

One more...but you'll have to forgive me for Knopflering th' thread:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USD0B8EQBRI

Basically another turn it off before it happens moment, but that probably goes without saying unless you personally haven't owned a Stratocaster at any point in yer werfless lyfe

Also, maybe it's just a corny factor with this era (see also: Goodnight Ladies from Transformer, but that one surpasses the kitsch). Can't imagine pining for the 40's or the 20's in the 70's & 80's, but I guess without that we'd never have Falco (maybe even Tav Falco, for that matter).....

[Pepe]

"Sad Motherfucking Parade" from the Jeff Beck/Johnny Depp album "18", the last one of my guitar hero. This one doesn't really fit into the album and the lyrics aren't really good. If you enjoy listening to plenty repeats of the words "Big Time! Motherfucker!", then you have your favourite track of the album, but I say it's a downer.

[lordgalvar]

Sounds like Depp still wants to hang with Gibby Hayes! Wasn’t what I expected at all…and what is with Johnny Depp like trying to be Hollywood’s Dave Grohl again? Movie career over?

St. Vincent: yea, that whole album was kind of weird and harder to listen to than some of her others. Definitely liked that album more than Strange Mercy and Masseducation (I think…I would get Strange Mercy and Actor confused because they were both in a 5 cd-changer in the Honda…basically my wife, huge st vincent fan, would just switch to empire of the sun haha). Still, I think she is way better live than on CD in general…some magic at her shows.

[PanicProne]

I'm a big Thrice fan and while their two first albums post-hiatus, "To Be Everywhere Is To Be NowhereW and "Palms", aren't really their best work I still want to listen to them at times. However, they both have a track each, which just destroys the entire album. "Wake Up" and "Hold Up A Light" are the type of most uninspiring "american" "yeah bro!" sort of radio rock songs anyone can write but no one really likes after (maximum) a third listen. At least the first two listens you can let it pass but then... They're just so bad. To me it's a mystery how the group (or anyone who's been in a band/written songs for more than two years could even consider these to be good songs. All my favourite artists have tracks that are less impressive, but rarely does the quality suddenly dip this low. They're just super bad examples of really weak and lackluster choruses being used like the highlight of a song but really shouldn't exist. Horrible. And again, them being in the middle of the album? Why!? It feels so generic and predictable in the worst kind of way and to me (and yes, obviously I'm aware this is always suuuuper subjective) goes against what that band has always stood for in terms of writing. It just sucks. And I never listen to those albums. Everytime I think "let's give Palms/TBEITBN a go" I end up realising by the first chorus of one of these songs I'd forgotten about them, get so angry and sad and turn the music off. Yuck!