Good Songs from Bad Albums
 

Ever find a banger track or two on an album you dislike? Give some examples!

I'll start off with an old enemy of mine:
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Hate this thing. Waters' self-pitying wankery from front to back.

That being said- I like Not Now John. I've always had a fancy for harder-edged Floyd tracks and, even though the backup singers are a bit irritating, I still giggled like a schoolgirl the first time I heard "**** ALL THAT". Stupid but okay song.

There's probably several examples, but since I've been listening to electronic music lately the first two to come to mind are these:



4x4=12 is the only mediocre album in deadmau5's discography imo, but this song is so damn good. Makes sense that it was originally from the Everything is Complicated EP in 2006.



lol I know both of us are going to agree with this one. Disc 2 of The Altogether is a masterpiece, but disc one is mostly mediocre. Meltdown on the other hand, this song is one of Orbital's absolute best. I love all the creative uses of different sounds as beats.

You chose the wrong Floyd record.

Nah I like the three good tracks on WYWH, the Machine being my favorite, but the fact that they're bookended by boring **** does frustrate me. Still, 3 good tracks to 2 bad make it an okay record overall in my book.

I could post a ton of songs here probably, but this one comes to mind right now:

Alice in chains - Private Hell - from Black Gives Way to Blue

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n57guzLtQmc

The only song I'll bother with from this album.

Nah, Welcome to the Machine is the only redeemable part of the record and even then it's just because of the keyboard solo.

I respect that opinion. What's your favorite PF album, Frown?

Meddle

Abdullah the Butcher used One of the Days but you only love Echoes.

Is he a producer?

I think I've mentioned this on MB before, but I love this song. The album, however, is complete garbage. None of the melancholy atmosphere of this song. None of the quirkiness or catchiness. Nothing but plodding barroom rawk.

Dope

I love The Final Cut, but "Not Now John" is my least favorite song on the album.

My take exactly.

Never agree with me about anything ever again. Now I have to go bathe.

I’ll scrub your back at the sento. <3

Here's a metal example:



The biggest problem with Risk is not that they left thrash, the problem is that it didn't have enough insanely catchy jams like this song.

I actually kind of agree that it's an unfortunate album. I've owned it for almost 10 years but maybe had it in my stereo a handful times.

The more straight forward rock songs are what I like the most about that album: Breadline, Ecstasy, Seven, Wanderlust. All good songs in my book.

Yeah.

It's not even that it's an overtly bad album, it's just that it passes by without leaving much of an impression beyond "Welp, that was an album." But there are like three or four songs on it that've grown on me, maybe partly because The Line, The Cross, And The Curve was so adorable. :laughing:

I probably need to listen to it more. The "cold" sounding production bothers me, that's one thing I remember about my reaction to the album.

I mean, 50 Words For Snow was way colder, and not just figuratively :thumb:

The song where she ****s a snowman >

But it sounds warmer. Hard to explain. I really like 50 Words for Snow. Very good album. It's only The Red Shoes and Aerial that don't really speak to me.

Been awhile since I threw Aerial on

Maybe I'll do that today, see if my feelings about it have changed

I don't think I've heard it in a least a small handful years. Used to not really hold my attention, but I used to be more challenged in that regard, so that could have changed. It's not like 50 Words for Snow is a super hooky tour de force.

It's been a while since I've listened to the whole album, but Seven is the song I always remember and love. Oh, and their cover of the Duke Nukem theme which was a Japan bonus track, that's fantastic.

Oh yeah, that one is pretty fun. I'm both a Duke Nukem fan and a big fan of Megadeth, so of course I've listened to that one a lot.

Overall I thought the new Idles album was dull as sin but I horoughly enjoyed Colossus, more for the vocal work than anything else (the instrumentation is pretty flat imo).

Really unpopular opinion here, but I've never been a fan of Sabbath Bloody Sabbath. I think it's the weakest of the original Ozzy-era albums (and that's including Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die). Even after giving it another shot, I still don't get why everyone loves it so much. I can hear some good ideas throughout, but it just feels like those moments are sparse.

With that said though, Killing Yourself to Live is great:

thought this year's release from sophie was mostly trash but ooh boy that opener


would love to hear more of this instead of the grating pseudo club music

I'm a fan and think that it has some pretty great cuts, but it's not their strongest side or best album. The title track is probably my fave.

Sabbra Cadabra is immense lads. Great album.

I will say that I love the second half of Sabbra Cadabra. The piano playing with the heavy guitar riffs fits together really well, and I wish the rest of the song had that nice piano work instead of the synths.

Dude, The Gunner's Dream is ****ing awesome.