Skip Tracks
Posted by smurphy on 21 May 2008 - 12:58pm.
Be honest. What are the tracks you have come to skip EVERY TIME? Fess up now fellows of the Royal Society of Word. For me it is the chronic Song for the Sunshine on the otherwise perfect The Life Pursuit by Belle & Sebastian. I tend to skip Yellow Submarine too...
The more classic the album, the better the gossip.
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I have to admit...
I have to be in a very, very patient mood not to skip Within You Without You on Sgt. Pepper for my appreciation of its individuality.
My walk to work
Is exactly the same duration as Revolver, assuming you skip Yellow Submarine and play And Your Bird Can Sing twice to make up for it (and who can honestly say they would have it any other way?)
Revolver - The Ultimate Skip
Revolver - The Ultimate Skip album - when I was John obsessed it went one way (including got to get you into my life from paul) and I still usually skip Eleanor Rigby
Revolver
Too right. And your bird can sing is delicious. Have you heard the David Kitt cover?
and.....................
Revolution 9 from the White Album.
Take this brother, may it serve you well.
I love Revolution 9. It makes the album! It's John (and Yoko's) nightmare before Ringo's lullaby. The Beatles (aka White Album) would not be half the record that it is without this track.
Mind you, I am the proud owner of Life With The Lions, Two Virgins (great records) and The Wedding Album (not so good).
Number 9
To stay on the Beatles theme - don't think I've ever heard all of Revolution No. 9 off the White Album. It was years before I realised there was a song on after it. On vinyl I always had that problem with my old record player that 'Good night' was so close to the run out bit that it just presumed I'd finished listening to that side and 'helpfully' sent the arm back home. New, better record player doesn't do that.
It's a fairly obvious one but...
...I hope that I never in my life have to endure all of Fitter Happier by Radiohead, however short it is.
'Revolution 9'...
...let's face it, this is a monumental indulgence/endurance test and frankly, it's unlistenable shite as far as I'm concerned. Tend to not skip any other Beatles songs; I like the Indian influenced tracks and probably made me aware of that sitar-driven style of music as I rather like John McLaughlin's Shakti albums and Joe Harriott's 'Indo Jazz Fusion' LPs. I do realise this is a minority position as I've seen many fans express similar indifference about 'Within You Without You'. Heck, I even endure and enjoy the daftness of 'Maxwell's Silver Hammer'...*ducks* I do have a lot of time for the blatant syrup of 'Good Night'.
Lots of 80s and 90s Genesis tracks I skip past, sadly; can't listen to most of the super-bland second half of 'Abacab', or stuff like 'Illegal Alien', 'Anything She Does', 'Never A Time', 'Way Of The World', 'Since I Lost You', 'If That's What You Need'....I love the band to bits but their quality control went seriously skewiff in later years!
I always stop Frank Zappa's 'Freak Out!' before that hideous 12 minute cacophony 'The Return Of The Son Of Monster Magnet' assaults my eardrums.
As for Radiohead, I tend to find myself skipping my way through 'Kid A', 'Amnesiac' and 'Hail To The Thief' to the point I could probably only manage to put together one album's worth of stuff I like from the three of them.
Beatles
There are a few Beatles tracks I skip, and generically they are:
1. Anything with a brass band
2. Anything with a sitar
3. Anything with a silly voice "All togethaaaaaaa" etc)
4. Anything sung by Ringo
5. Almost anything written by George
Which still leaves plenty of good stuff.
Naughty
Anything by George?
My Guitar Gently Weeps??
Here comes the sun??
|Cloth eared dunce cap for you!
Answer: none
If they are skippable they go, pish, delete. I only listen to CDs and vinyl initially and in special circumstances, Mr I-pod doing the rest. I don't have room for skippable tracks, and so operate a strict entry criteria. This is soon further to be refined, as my 80 gig is fast filling, at 18,700 and counting. I can't yet afford the luxury of a 160, not least as Mrs Path bought me the 80 for my birthday, last march, and engraved it (aaaah!), it would seem impolite. So look out any less than vital material, I am about to spend 50 days going thru' with a toothcomb........
Just wanna see his face
off Exile On Main St.
and you know what - i could live without Midnight Rambler on Let it Bleed as well...
Midnight Rambler
Yes I'd skip that one but not Just wanna... as I like it quite a lot. I would skip Dear Doctor off Beggars Banquet and You Gotta Move off Sticky Fingers. I say that meaning when playing CD since my feeble MP3 player does not allow luxury of whole albums, so I always cherry pick tracks - usually between 2 and 6 depending on how much I like album - average 3-4. So don't skip on MP3 player in that sense but sometimes skip in another sense to find what I am in the mood for. Fascinating this isn't it? I have all of In Rainbows on MP3 player except Videotape - don't go for those type of recent-ish spare, ballad-type, slow Radiohead tracks so much. Would agree on Kid A, Amnesiac, HTTT being cut to 1 decent album. Some wag will probably quip about skipping their whole career now.
you'd skip Dear Doctor, y'say?
i kinda see what you mean - i just think it's the first of the funny country songs they did, and whilst it's all tongue in cheek, the harmonies and the sounds of the guitars on it are great!
You Gotta Move - forgot that. SKIP. Oh and once i'm 3 minutes into Can't You Hear Me Knocking it's the same. Six minutes of fret-wankery...i think not!
bugger - i've just dissed 20% of sticky fingers...
Allsorts it does take
Can't You Hear Me Knocking to me is great. I enjoy all that Santanaesque guitar interplay.
One mans meat etc
Just goes to show. Of the Stones oeuvre I'd say that 'Face' and 'Rambler' are very near the top of the favourites list for me...
Nowt so queer as folk etc....(Insert any more 'your-choice-differs-from-mine' phrases you can think of - bound to come in handy the next time there's a thread on this type of topic)
You gotta move
No, no no. It's a great song. A well chosen cover.
I agree with Dear Doctor and have to mention Girl With Faraway Eyes on Some Girls which is dreadful.
I...
...love 'Midnight Rambler' and 'You Gotta Move'. Couldn't imagine the albums without them. As for Stones songs I skip past, there's been a few but not many on the older albums.
The latest one 'A Bigger Bang' had some awful filler on there- 'Sweet Neo Con' and 'Infamy' are two of the poorest songs they've ever recorded as far as I'm concerned. Keith's ragged solo turn 'This Place Is Empty' usually has me pressing the forward button- he's done so many of these songs before and he's done them better too.
Exile
Never really got into this record. Hip Shake is absolutely dreadful. Prefer Goats Head Soup - much darker and quite threatening.
Ben Watt
I love Everything but the Girl, mainly for Tracy's voice and their mostly excellent songs. But I have to hit the skip button whenever Ben Watt sings. Awful awful. Not even the presence of Richard and Danny Thompson on one track helped it onto my iPod.
Sloop John B off Pet Sounds.
Sloop John B off Pet Sounds. Never got it, never will.
Me neither
Can't be doing with it. Careful though - the BBs are sacred around here.
A spade's a spade, Twangy, old man!
I yield to no man in my admiration of the Wilson clan. But I can't help wondering - in the midst of all the creativity that went into Pet Sounds, why sling that song into the mix??
100%
Yes. It's the ultimate sore thumb.
Keeping quiet
I got flamed last time I dissed the BBs. Classic pop, endless summer blah blah blah.
Sloop John B
Its the record company as usual.
Given the general lack of understanding about Pet Sounds I seem to recall that Capitol insisted on the then current single going on the album. Thank heavens they allowed it to go at the end of side one. What would it all have sounded like if they put it at the beginning of either side!
Even in the non digital sixties we could quickly eject or lift the arm as Sloop John B started so as to keep the mood.
Agreed...
...although I find the song 'Sloop John B' to be a perfectly enjoyable pop song, it seriously does not fit in with the other songs on 'Pet Sounds' in my opinion. The Beach Boys may be sacred here and I do enjoy lots of their singles, but I tend to find many of their albums to be very hit and miss, myself...
Sloop John B
My parents bought a Dansette in about 1965, my first exposure, radio apart, to the concept of recorded music. My sister bought a single with Sloop John B on one side, uncertain if A or B, when it came out and I have always loved it. Probably launched me into my enduring love of the BB, as Twangers alludes to, whether the kitsch charm of "Be true to your school" to the pompous pseudo-intellectualism of "Beaks of Eagles" on Holland. And everything, until 1980 anyway, in between. To lift and para the phrase, this sloop ain't no junk.
(True, the live version on the double live from early 70s is dire. But not as dire as Barry McGuires version.............)
Paul Simonon tracks
I can't listen to Guns Of Brixton or Red Angel Dragnet.
Sorry Brer
I do like both those tunes very much
Motorcycle Mama
by Neil Young from Comes A Time. It sticks out like a sore thumb and just has to be skipped.
Funny you should say that
Motorcyle Mama was the last thing I was listening to before I got in the office this morning. It's a bit of fun, it prevents the album being too samey. It works for me.
I can't abide
Piece of Crap by the same fella. It is, as they say, what it says on the label.......
More Young skipping
I would also pass on Mother Earth on Ragged Glory. It's a bit of a dirge.
Fagen YES, Becker NO !
"Slang of Ages" from Steely Dan's "Everything Must Go" has been banished from the IPod. Stop it Walter, you can't sing.
in amongst
from Shriekback's otherwise impeccable Care, I mean what's all that about then?
Reactor is not Neil Young's finest but
It has a couple of decent songs such as Shots, Opera Star, Southern Pacific. However the whole album is ruined by what has to be his worst ever song "T-Bone". The lyrics consist of "Got mashed potato, ain't got no t-bone" for 9 Minutes and 12 seconds. It's maddening.
Jamaica Jerk-off
by Elton John, on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.
A fantastic album, with a horrid cod-reggae clunker in the middle of it.
Written by "Reggae Dwight and Toots Taupin", according to the sleevenotes. Very funny, Reg.
Mrs Dwight
I only ever listen to Grey Seal and then skip the rest. Silly old Reg.
Suggestion...
Buy an i-pod, only put tunes on it that you like. Easy.
Rehab
I quite like Amy Winehouse's "Back To Black" album, but "Rehab" is a bit of a stinker and gets the skip every time.
Wrong
You are wrong.
Even if you like the song..
..does it's bombast not seem out of place to you next to the rest of that record?
Perhaps
I just think the rhythm section is bitchin' and am blind to all else.
Much though I love Blood on
Much though I love Blood on the Tracks I always find myself skipping Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts which to me feels out of place on the LP
You probably weren't signed up at the time
but there has been lengthy discussion on the merits or otherwise of LR&TJoH.
http://wordmagazine.co.uk/content/importance-clunkers-albums
Smacked wrists
I don't think we should judge people if they repeat material. We don't all read every post. "Oh we've done that one" isn't very inclusive"
Not what I was saying
I was simply pointing to a discussion thread. See what has already been said, not you can't talk about this again.
If it was a case of me saying "Oh we've done that one" I wouldn't have posted the link.
I'm totally against the culture that exists in many places where the existing posters disparage the "newbie".
Sorry
It's just I've had this kind of message said to me and It always makes me feel a bit crestfallen - like - we've done this, duh. Pax?
Pax vobiscum
I've had it too and wouldn't like to see it here.
Yes
I agree. In a confessional album the traditional long-winded Dylan storytelling seems out of place.
Fuckin up
by Neil Young was another song that bypassed quality control.
And the dreadful 'less than you expected' by Wilco off an otherwise brilliant album. It comes across as willful vandalism.Why did they do that for christs sake?
Can I just say that whilst typing this my IPOD has thrown out 'until I gain control' from Pay the Devil by Van the man. Anyone who thinks he has been on cruise control in recent years should listen to this - wonderful for a rainy sunday morning.
Ride
How does it feel to feel on Carnival of light by ride. Stinking, pretentious Britpop sub oasis twad stinking out an otherwise lovely LP