Songs that harpoon otherwise good or great albums

I will avoid the usual suspect from The White Album and post these 2 songs that ruin otherwise good/great albums. Does anyone actually listen to these songs when spinning these albums?

Free Form Guitar (Chicago Transit Authority)
Student Demonstration Time (Beach Boys: Surfs Up)

Any others?

 

The only weakness The Beatles had for me was their hit & miss penchant for novelty type songs. I wish both "Maxwell Silver Hammer" and "Octopus Garden" were off Abbey Road.

The other one would be "You Like Me Too Much" off Help!

I would love to take off "Stupid Girl" of Aftermath by The Rolling Stones.

 

Revelation from Love - Da Capo

 

Really so agree w all except Stupid Girl….i love the beat on that one….and it was fine for the time.

 

Alabama Song from The Doors S/T.

 

I don't need Free Form Guitar but it doesn't ruin the album for me. I suppose you could harpoon Octopus but I think it is one of Ringo's best. Yellow Submarine, on the other hand, nearly sinks Revolver.

 

Joey on Dylan's Desire.

 

I would HP -the last song ‘ TM’ Beach Boys Lp Friends…..just horrible! And how could you meditate to that?

 

Oh yeah definitely!
Just imagine if side 2 was as strong as side 1, what an album it would be! (better than Forever Changes maybe?)

 

I reckon so. Side one of Da Capo is my favourite music they made, which says a lot.

 

Octopus also has a very snappy guitar solo…..there’s that too.

 

"Going Home" from Aftermath.

Shame the Stones threw away "Sad Day" as a b-side a few months earlier.

 

Me too, as much as I love Forever Changes, I find Da Capo a bit more varied and less 'austere'.

 

I'll go with not one of the usual suspects: "Impressive Instant," the second track on Madonna's Music. She wanted to release it as a single, but Warners shot down the idea. I skip it when playing the CD.

 

I don't think they are awful songs. It's just the difference between iconic songs and ok songs is wide in disparity in quality.

 

Murder Mystery - VU’s ‘Third Album’
Run For Your Life - Beatles’ Rubber Soul
That’s Not Me - Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds
Two For The Price Of One - ABBA’s The Visitors

 

Going Home is great until it isn't. It suffers the same problem as Revelation by Love but not as badly. Too long and goes nowhere. I don't skip it though.

 

Wow! That was unexpected!

 

Just my theory but I think the dissonance of the song is supposed to reflect the dissonance of the world, and listening with a meditative attention helps to receive it, let the song do it’s thing, and then let the song go. Sort of like a mini meditation lesson. How successful that lesson is, is still up to the listener!

 

Don't know how unpopular this opinion might be, but 'Rainy Day Women #12 & 35' on Blonde on Blonde.

 

It’s always sounded unfinished to me when you compare it with the lushness elsewhere on that album. And Al’s (?) vocal sounds annoying in parts. Just MHO.

 

I think people will agree. I think I do but I'm so used to it being there.

 

Ahh, interesting take on it….

 

I like it, it's one of my favourites on the album, but I was just as surprised to see someone not choose Sloop John B!