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Have We Done "Great Songs On Bad Albums" ?
Posted by Sour Crout on 9 February 2009 - 12:23pm.
If not,i'll start.
“Goin’ Home” : Neil Young- Are You Passionate
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Dylan
"Brownsville Girl" - Knocked Out Loaded
Good choice
Probably also scoops the prize in the 'only good song on three successive bad albums' category.
An absolute corker
- one of his very best
On the same line
"Silvio" from Down In The Groove.
Dunno?
“Wonderful Life” : Nick Cave & Bad Seeds- Nocturama.
I think 'He Wants You'...
...from the same album makes that two.
And though
Nocturama isn't one of Mr Cave's best albums, it's not exactly 'bad' is it.
Led Zeppelin
thought of another
"Nobody's Fault But Mine"-Presence
and do i see a Spotify playlist for this ?
I'm not having that...
...Achilles' Last Stand is mighty.
Amen!
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No no no!
'Presence' is the great 'lost' Led Zeppelin album!
It's their heroin rockabilly from Saturn album! It rocks! Mightily!
By the numbers
I thought they phoned it in. It might "Rock" but it's still not that good.
McCartney's
'Dear Friend' from 'Wildlife', and 'My Love' from 'Red Rose Speedway'.
Don´t Knock It
Wild Life is a great record. Tomorrow is a mighty fine piece of Maccaness.
I agree
I remember getting Wildlife on its issue day (cheap courtesy of an aunt who worked in WH Smith). Yes, it has the slightly annoying Mumbo and Bip Bop but "Dear Friend", "Tomorrow" and "Some People Never Know" are fine songs. Even their treatment of "Love is Strange" is worth a listen or two. I could never understand why the album was panned so heavily and why it's still so underrated.
Arrow through me
Listening to the brilliant Monkberry Moon Delight on the Word's Infinite Playlist (genius riff) led me to revisit some of Paul's other albums. Just how unutterably fantastic is Arrow Through Me from Back to the Egg? An understated classic if ever I heard one. I remember seeing a quote from Paddy McAloon about McCartney being the hippest thing ever. For anyone unconvinced, to me this song sums that up perfectly. Effortless.
Emotional Rescue...
....off...erm....Emotional Rescue. Great song, truly awful album.
Drivers Seat
The only good track on Fickle Heart by Sniff 'n the Tears. Or their greatest hits. Or any of their records.
But it is truly great.
(Featuring the great Noel McCalla on backing vocals, looking, admittedly, like a bit of a dingus. Anybody ever see Moon live?)
Live Moon
Indeed. Supporting Sutherland Brothers and Quiver. Brighton Dome. 1975?
Certainly the right year
I saw then supporting Mike Herons Reputation in Swindon, as part of a post A-levels "road trip", just before the Reading festival, or just after, forget which.
They were good
Certainly more fun and, obviously, more funky than the headliners. But I didn't take the plunge and buy the album.
Joni Mitchell's last great song
I'm a big Joni Mitchell fan who just happens to believe she hasn't made a great album for 30 years. Even great songs are few and far between, but Chinese Cafe, from the otherwise uninspired and uninspiring Wild Things Run Fast, certainly fits the bill. I couldn't find it on youtube but the link above should take you there.
Another one I couldn't find on youtube is The Losing, the only good song from a really lousy Pretenders album, Loose Screw. For most of the album Chrissie sounds like she just can't be arsed, but a few seconds into The Losing, you know she can still produce something stirring and memorable.
The Clash
"Straight to Hell" off Combat Rock
And
This Is England from Cut the Crap.
Many Men
"Many Men" by 50 Cent is is actually a good song from "Get Rich or Die Tryin'". While the rest of the tracks is just awful noise with lyrics about bitches shaking their asses.
'Never Let Me Down'
apart from this, David, you sure as hell did.
You Better You Bet
Off Face Dances by the Who...
Like a Hurricane
American Stars 'n' Bars - Neil Young
REM
'Leaving New York' - a signature REM song from what is GENERALLY considered a bad album 'Around the Sun'(although I personally think it has many sublime moments).
"God Only Knows" (Pet Sounds)
Hey, someone had to say it.
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
oooooooooooooo!
Eloquently argued, I'm sure you'll agree
Closer
off the latest Kings Of Leon offering. The rest of the albun is like nails on a blackboard to me!
More Neil Young...
Shots from Reactor.
And much as I love Pink Floyd up to and including Wish You Were Here, I really don't get The Wall. Apart from Comfortably Numb.
Hmm....
Not even "Mother" or "Hey You"? - "Brick in the Wall" suffers from familiarity, perhaps, but "Young Lust" and "Run Like Hell" are about as rocky as Floyd ever got, and "Nobody Home" is quite affecting. Can't really let that lot into Rock's Room 101
Amen!
I was going to lay in but you've saved me the trouble, thankee