Remove one song from an almost perfect album to make it a perfect album

"left & right" on voodoo

"Make Me Proud" from Take Care (sorry not sorry)

"Bugs" from "Vitalogy"
"Fitter, Happier" from "O.K. Computer"
"Since I've Been Loving You" from "Led Zeppelin III"

No way, that's the centerpiece/focal point/eye of the hurricane/some other cliche of the record. And it's the "hoo boy, how'd they get there? And how are they gonna dig their way out?" which then makes "Grey Lagoons" that much more thrilling.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat),

I do like the groove and how it leads into Grey Lagoons but I just find myself wishing it was a little bit shorter every single time I play it.

I think it's brilliant, it reminds me of later post-punk music like associates or PiL

remove no hands from flockaveli

More accurately, remove Wale's verse from no hands

Kanye West - Drunk & Hot Girls from Graduation
Nick Drake - Poor Boy from Bryter Layter
Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At? from Rooty
Bjork - It's oh so Quiet from Post
The Go-Betweens - River of Money from Spring Hill Fair
LCD Soundsystem - Sound of Silver from Sound of Silver
Prefab Sprout - Horsin' Around from Steve McQueen
Soft Cell - Seedy Films from Non Stop Erotic Cabaret
Joni Mitchell - Twisted from Court & Spark
Miguel - The Pussy is Mine from Kaleidoscope Dream

Electrelane, "Business Or Otherwise" from Axes.
Boris, "Blackout" from Pink.

EPMD - You Had Too Much To Drink from Unfinished Business
Brand Nubian - Try To Do Me from All For One
Eric B. & Rakim - Eric B. Made My Day from Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em
Pavement - Hit The Plane Down from Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain

Prefab Sprout - Horsin' Around from Steve McQueen

No no no.

Steve McQueen is still one of my favourite albums ever but I really don't think that song fits with the rest of the album.

Soft Cell - Seedy Films from Non Stop Erotic Cabaret

this is madness

xp Horsin' Around would maybe sound more at home on Swoon? but I couldn't countenance removing it from Steve McQueen, I love it too much.

probably an obvious suggestion, but I think REM's Out Of Time would be much improved by the elimination of 'Radio Song'.

(the other obvious REM suggestion would be to remove 'Ignoreland' from Automatic For The People, however in this case the obvious suggestion is WRONG as 'Ignoreland' is great and I LIKE the fact that it doesn't really fit with the rest of the album, so there)

and I generally like REM in goofy, poppy mode! love 'Can't Get There From Here', 'Stand', 'Shiny Happy People' etc - but they seemed to fumble it with 'Radio Song'.

Soft Cell - Seedy Films from Non Stop Erotic Cabaret

this is madness

― Wimmels, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 1:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Indeed! One of my favourite tracks on there.

somebody's gonna kill me but... "towers of dub" off of uf orb

man ilm crazy i love "It Ain't Easy" from Ziggy

Lily, Rosemary from Blood on the Tracks

I'd remove "4 Ever 2 Gether" from Lexicon of Love. Never liked it and it seems totally out of step with the rest of the record.

somebody's gonna kill me but... "towers of dub" off of uf orb

at least you didn't say 'sticky end'

I'd like to remove 'Mother' from the Police's Synchronicity.

I'd remove "Archer on the Beach" from Destroyer's Poison Season

I'd like to remove 'Mother' from the Police's Synchronicity.

― Austin, Wednesday, August 17, 2016 11:21 AM (5 hours ago) Bookmark Fla

I know, it's like, "Who brought the Freud to this Jung party!"

Nah, disagree. 'Mother' is great, IMO.

Remove Meat Is Murder from Meat is Murder ....

― svend (svend), Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:53 AM

I wasn't going to say anything, Austin, but I'm with ya.

Worst songs on each of a favourite artist's albums

I think "Mother" on Synchronicity ownz this thread.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, August 11, 2003 2:09 PM

Albums you can't listen to because you hate one song on it so much

I've said it before, but I'll say it again: Synchronicity. You can't even enjoy Side 1 because you know that "Mother" is just around the corner, waiting to pounce on ya.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, October 28, 2003 12:21 AM

C/D: Songs Not Sung By the Lead Singer a.k.a. Take 5, D., Mick, Michael, Stephen, J., et. al.

Don't even get me started on "Mother" from Synchronicity.
― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, September 20, 2004 12:34 PM

should I add any songs by the Police to my iPod?

"Miss Gradenko" is damn cool. However, any song following "Mother" would sound pretty cool.
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, June 7, 2005 2:03 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Also, my favourite by theirs is Shame on a nigga.

I'm still a little fond of Synchronicity, so embarrassing

been waiting for mother to come up itt so i can firmly oppose its suggestion, sry if synchronicity listeners object to being briefly awoken

lily rosemary and the jack of hearts is a painful but good one tho -- i love the lyrics and many moments of delivery but nine minutes of bum-BUM-bum-BUM-bum-BUM-bum-BUM was an error

almost feel like knocking "Red Eye" off Duty Now For the Future and having it end with "Smart Patrol/Mr. DNA" would be nice

Synchronicity is such a great album that I can enjoy it, even with 'Mother.' But, jeez, they tried damn hard to screw it up.

'Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts' is quintessential Blood on the Tracks. I can't only not imagine the album without it, I'd venture to say it would be worse off with its absence.

I'm cool with this version.

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

Frontier Psychiatrist

lily is definitely one of the best on that album. though as with most of blood on the tracks I prefer the ny session except for maybe idiot wind

Meet me in the morning is the dud on that album imo

"Home Tonight" from Aerosmith-Rocks. a conventional ballad closing the band's most aggressive, focused effort to date kinda takes the wind out of the sails at the end.

for some reason the Big Star thread made me want to listen to Murmur, and I can't help but think that record would be perfect without the hokey 'We Walk'.
of course, that was the tip of the iceberg I suppose with REM and hokey, but try going from Shaking Through-West of the Fields and tell me it isn't better.

Hunky Dory minus "Kooks"

i'm with you on that one

home tonight is a good call. has anyone said hippie boy yet?

Remove Meat Is Murder from Meat is Murder ....

― svend (svend), Wednesday, August 11, 2004 9:53 AM

― The Hon. J. Piedmont Mumblethunder (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, August 17, 2016 5:31 PM (3 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I would have agreed with you if I hadn't gone back and reevaluated this album recently, but my post-high school findings are that MIM is mostly a dog. Easily the worst Smiths album, and if you don't think so, listen to them all back to back and tell me it isn't glaringly obvious. Tedious, joyless record.

Motorhead - Overkill: Capricorn
Unconvincing spacey thing smack dab in the middle of a bunch of perfect locomotive self-combusting hardrock/early metal/whatever

I mean it's still perfect with that song, but without it, it would be perfecter

cut "sex machine" from _stand!_

Good one. There's absolutely no need for Sex Machine to be 13 minutes long. It totally kills the momentum.

Remove "Make You Feel My Love" from Time out of Mind.

You are SO RIGHT THERE. I've never understood why so many people cover it. Terrible song.

cuz it's so generic that anyone from Garth Brooks to Bryan Ferry can imprint a personality?

My pick:

remove "Come Around" from Kala

otm. "Paper Planes" would be the perfect closer.