from Vagabonds of The Western World by Thin Lizzy. An otherwise wonderful song is spoiled by a couple of cringeworthy spoken parts by none other than David 'Kid' Jensen. What were they thinking?

The bit on Tin Soldier by Small Faces where he's singing the verses and - not sure what's this called - there's like a backwards drum loop going before the song kicks in. Love the song but it really jars with me.

singles had lots of twiddly middle bits (Cool For Cats say or Can't Stand Losing You).

Possibly the pre-punk muso slipping out?

always gets it in the neck when this subject comes up.

And Fred from The B52s?

I had a friend who thinks Macca's bit in A Day In The Life spoils it. I'm not having that.

I really like this song by The Brown Eyed Girl Hit Maker but find the spoke word bit a beginning a little hard to take (by Paul Durcan?) it's oddly stilted and well odd. Thankfully Van comes in and saves it all.

I just cannot understand why she chose to include that 'cavalry charge' bit. As you say, it just doesn't work at all. It's quite interesting actually, as I can't think of another record where a production decision has resulted in something sounding so totally out of place.

Was listening to this the other day.

It has always annoyed me that there is a fat, no-so-subtle rip-off of the "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" riff that just appears, unannounced and completely incongruously, for no apparent reason a couple of times through an otherwise rather fine pop song.........

If it wasn't there, I'd listen to the song more often.

That whirry bit in the middle of I Heard It Through The Grapevine could go.

piano bit in 'Something In the Air'. Ruins an otherwise perfect song.

A US number 1 in '67 but, crucially, the ponderous organ solo was (admittedly with little finesse!) edited out.
Alas, the version you always hear is the LP version.

... generally rubbish. I think the only one I actually like is Loaded. Am I the only person in the world who really hates bloody Little Fluffy Clouds?

... here but each chorus of XTC's otherwise masterly "You And The Clouds Will Still Be Beautiful" ends with an Andy Partridge grunt.

It sounds as though Andy's on the chodbin having difficulty opening the bomb bay doors.

Primal Scream's records would be great if they took out the music. And the lyrics. And the rock star posturing.

got rid of the harp and the voice she wouldn't be too bad either.

'Don't Pass Me By' would be hailed as a classic if it wasn't for that ruddy violin.

And that awful experimental percussive bit in the middle where it's sounds like Bonzo has shunned his drum kit and has resorted to tapping various half-empty milk bottles with tea spoons instead

'I've been told that you've been bold,
with Harry, Mark and John.
Monday to tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday...
...You've spoilt the bleedin' song.'

Lou Reed when the smack wears off. Jolly.

By Genesis. After the line: "children follow me with laughter, so cold." there is the most horribly forced fake laugh. Ruins a perfectly good song.

4' 33" needs to have 37 seconds taken out just after the two minute mark.
You know, when it goes ' '.

that opens Paul Simon's 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover.

Oh my aching sides... my sense of humour kills me.

the bit in the middle, after the run in groove and the run out groove.

Fandango? Thunderbolt and lightning, very very frightening indeed.
Frightening that it sold millions.

Far be it from me to suggest that you simply don't get it, but the sampled cavalry charge horn makes the difference between greatness and merely very good. The record as a whole is to these ears the most accomplished of Ms. Harvey's career and what sets it apart from a darker version of Kate Bush in Army Dreamers mode is, among other things, the use of these little punctuation marks. The familiarity of that horn sound combined with its incongruity and the context of origin is the essence of irony, a quality not found too often in quality pop music these days. Are you by any chance American?

Only very slightly spoilt by the daft little chinese motif right at the very end. I remember seeing the Classic Album dissection, where the producer and Levon Helm asked, "what were we thinking?"

with a Sax solo

Even though that trumpet alarum reminds me of Reggie Perrin when they're living in a commune and his Geoffrey Palmer takes charge of waking them up in the morning as only he knows how.

The drum machine in Robert Palmer's Johny and Mary. Have it taken away please.

Much as I love the song I always thought Sunny Afternoon by the Kinks went on too long. it sort of reached it's natural end but then repeated all over again.

would improve not all but loads of tracks.

..that sounds like Boston, and that bit in "Don't Fear The Reaper" where the cowbell stops and the widdling takes over.

All the bits that ELP did that were not in the original

Extremely annoying giggle in Big Yellow Taxi
When John Travolta in a no-backbone way goes "Ooooohhh" in Summer Nights
The yodelling bit in Hocus Pocus

there are so many

I could quite like Muse and Keane both but for the massive gulp of air before each line. I honestly think it's more intrusive than women's tennis grunting.

Oh and while we're at it can someone please remove the last word of Suzanne Vega's "The Queen and the Soldier"?

That should have been "The Queen and The Soldier".

In fact now it is. Forgot there was an edit button.

One of their greatest riffs, chugs along brilliantly and atmospherically (great lyrics - "The Eye of Horus", all that), until the guitar solo when all the momentum and menace is lost - I never thought I'd say this but I want a Light My Fire style radio edit

intro for TV ad

Babylon Zoo's one and only hit has to be the ultimate example here?

The bit where the band go "hooray!" in the background. I don't mind it myself but the FPO cringes every time.

where the singer sings

Sometimes effective but mostly the songs would benefit from their absence

..(notably on Pilar To Post)...

Young prodigy, classic singer songwriter in the traditional mould....

....

....

.... oh go on, let's put those annoying echoey hexagonal drums over the top!!!

My original lp had a white inner sleeve and, as no producer was credited on the cover, I thought maybe they had produced it themselves and inadvertently left some knob turned up to 11. No other record I own sounds like it...

In the good old days of doing tapes for my car, I always used to fade this one out just as Axl started singing "Where do we go?"

A fine pop song with a truly shite spoken word intro.

To back up the poster up above, Joni Mitchell's apalling fake laugh in Big Yellow Taxi is an offense to all who possess ears.

Big Awful Fake Laugh always makes me c-r-i-n-g-e for her, but then it was 1970 & I guess it was a 'good idea' at the time.

The off-key horn blasts on the opening track of The Seldom Seen Kid. So jarring that I skip that track whenever I play the album.

Had a song called freaks on the Westworld album.

I used to sit there with friends listening to the album and then feel embarrassed as during that song was a parping sax solo version of what I am sure is clown music.

Why boys, you must have listened back and realised what a shit idea it was.....?

Nice idea, nice sound, nicely played.

But it's about a half tone out of key. Drives me mad.