xxp I like Cat Food, but it is a bit of an outlier. Remove it and you'd basically be listening to In The Court part II
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 09:29 (seven years ago) link
remove "Lyrical Gangbang"
almost wanna say remove "She's Bought A Hat Like Princess Marina" from Arthur but the album really doesn't work as well without it! Who'da thunk it
― Wimmels, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 11:28 (seven years ago) link
... also it's great.
― Aw naw, no' Annoni oan an' aw noo (Tom D.), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 11:50 (seven years ago) link
See, what looks like filler is actually "light relief"
― Mark G, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:17 (seven years ago) link
Remove "Hippy Boy" from The Gilded Palace of Sin. I've listened to that album around a hundred times; I've heard "Hippy Boy" maybe twice.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
OTM removing "Lady with the Grinning Soul" would be criminal !The only song I hate on Aladdin Sane is "let's spend the night". Awful.
Feel "Time" is kinda overwritten
What do you mean ? lyrically ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 14:31 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, lyrics don't do much for me - a bit pretentious, lack humor, that wanking line always annoyed me - but mostly the composition and scope of the song always seemed to me - wrongly, perhaps - a failed attempt at repeating or outdoing what was so effortlessly achieved w Life on Mars
― niels, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:09 (seven years ago) link
hum. OK. Well, his lyrics were often kinda pretentious and humorless in these days, weren't they ? (the whole Burroughs, cut-up approach...).I like "Time" a lot although it's not a favourite. To me it's more a 20s cabaret/Kurt Weill hommage than a remake of Life on Mars.It's darker and more decadent so the lyrics fit pretty well.
― AlXTC from Paris, Wednesday, 24 August 2016 15:26 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, I like the Brecht/Weill mood opening - but where's the storytelling?
Is Time meant to be a personification if so what's up with "Time – he flexes like a whore / Falls wanking to the floor" apart from empty provocation?
"We should be on by now" is a good line, also nice melodically, but the "La la" melody is Bowie trying to be awful clever as I hear it
But no more hating from me
― niels, Thursday, 25 August 2016 09:33 (seven years ago) link
While it does groove, i could do without...
"Hyperactive" from Thomas Dolby's The Flat Earth
― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, 25 August 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link
This idea for the Flat Earth is really intriguing.
― campreverb, Thursday, 25 August 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
the recording or the theory? ;)
― bodacious ignoramus, Thursday, 25 August 2016 23:10 (seven years ago) link
I wonder what of ppl listening to Paul McCartney's Tug of War bother with "Ebony and Ivory", and what % just turn it off at the end of "Dress Me Up As A Robber"? I'm not sure that Tug of War would quite make a *perfect* album even without "Ebony and Ivory", but I'd certainly put it in the category of "albums that are really good the whole way through and then have an incredibly bathetic final track"
― soref, Thursday, 25 August 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
Remove "Goin' Home" from Aftermath.
― justfanoe (Greg Fanoe), Friday, 26 August 2016 02:28 (seven years ago) link
the theory. I re-listened to 'The Flat Earth' though and concluded that removing 'Hyperactive' would make it more internally consistent.
― campreverb, Friday, 26 August 2016 04:53 (seven years ago) link
regarding "Ebony and Ivory" I've never hated that song (the melody is nice) but totally understand why people would hate it (the production, arrangements..., among other things !).the demo version is pretty sweet. very simple. a kind of lullaby.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dioouGXLiRg
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 26 August 2016 09:37 (seven years ago) link
Tug Of War is a remarkably strong and overlooked album, but I'd be tempted to take off 'Ballroom Dancing' too. The other Wonder collab on that album is a slammer!
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 26 August 2016 11:03 (seven years ago) link
There are no perfect albums. They're all flawed in some way.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Friday, 26 August 2016 11:04 (seven years ago) link
you're flawed in some way
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, 26 August 2016 11:52 (seven years ago) link
As is everyone, including you. Well observed, by the way. Gold star.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Friday, 26 August 2016 12:02 (seven years ago) link
But, y'know, to be fair, I've never once thought that XTC were an "'80s synthpop band", so clearly the ability to listen and comprehend what I'm hearing isn't one of those flaws.
― the hair - it's lost its energy (Turrican), Friday, 26 August 2016 12:10 (seven years ago) link
I like the "Ebony and Ivory" demo as well, that version would have fitted nicely on McCartney II. I think the song would be a lot more tolerable as one of McCartney's non-specific "why can't we all get along" neurotically-anxious-under-the-surface lullabies, rather than awkwardly trying to make it "about" racism.
― soref, Friday, 26 August 2016 19:13 (seven years ago) link
I always stop Help! before "Dizzy Miss Lizzy". Feels tacked on.
― sofatruck, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:42 (seven years ago) link
I always skip "Something Big" on Jim O'Rourke's Eureka. Those fucking singers and that chorus... I mean, I know there's gotta be some intertextual reason for having the Hawaiian chorus in there, just like the over the top SNL sax on "Through the Night Softly," but when that "THERE'LL BE JOY AND THERE'LL BE PLEASURE" warble comes on I abandon ship.
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
Surprised the removal of "Nothing Like You" from Miles' Sorcerer hasn't come up yet.― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:03 AM (three weeks ago)
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, August 16, 2016 10:03 AM (three weeks ago)
Haha, just discovered this album and did a search to see if this was mentioned
― Josefa, Thursday, 8 September 2016 07:17 (seven years ago) link
I'd suggest removing "It Ain't No Use" from The Meters' Rejuvenation... It's not a bad tune per se, but a sprawling 12 minute hippie rock jam on an album full of tight incredibly funk numbers (the second longest tune is less than half the length of "It Ain't No Use") feels wrong.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 September 2016 09:48 (seven years ago) link
Also, remove "Purple Rain" from Purple Rain. The rest of the album is filled with energetic pop-funk numbers and idiosyncratic slower jams ("The Beautiful Ones"!) exploring Prince's psychosexual tics in ways rarely heard in mainstream pop. And then it ends with a pointlessly stretched-out, run-of-the-mill hair metal power ballad with lyrics that'd make Bom Jovi proud.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 September 2016 09:54 (seven years ago) link
I like "Purple Rain" but I agree it's the least interesting song on the album.Also I have never liked "Let's go crazy" much...The album would be better with "Sex Shooter" and "Jungle Love" instead !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 8 September 2016 10:12 (seven years ago) link
And "Erotic City"!
"Let's Go Crazy" works better as the 12" extended mix, and "I Would Die 4 U" even moreso. In fact, the 10 minute version of the latter is clearly the best single from the album.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 September 2016 10:32 (seven years ago) link
is there an equivalent thread where you add one song to a classic album to make it better ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 8 September 2016 11:36 (seven years ago) link
cos PR with "Erotic City" would be great indeed !
― AlXTC from Paris, Thursday, 8 September 2016 11:43 (seven years ago) link
yall are INSANE
― MatthewK, Thursday, 8 September 2016 12:09 (seven years ago) link
Bon Jovi's spirited use of cliches is not to be confused with Prince's simplicity, not to mention the use of a striking image (uh "purple rain").
― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 8 September 2016 12:17 (seven years ago) link
Maybe so, but even with genius lyrics it'd be by far the most boring song on the album.
― Tuomas, Thursday, 8 September 2016 12:57 (seven years ago) link
Challops
― niels, Thursday, 8 September 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
"My Rival"
― Master of Treacle, Thursday, 8 September 2016 20:37 (seven years ago) link
thought you were talking about like flies on sherbert for a second and was ready to internet fight you. anyway back on track, i've been listening to green's s/t a lot and technology, while not awful, seems pretty unnecessary and is the only track i ever skip on this record.
― dynamicinterface, Thursday, 15 September 2016 01:16 (seven years ago) link
"Born in a Mourning Hall" on Blind Guardian's Imaginations isn't a bad song, but it kind of lags in between two great ones....so that one.
― Neanderthal, Saturday, 17 September 2016 15:32 (seven years ago) link
Yes, I'll match him whim for whim now" is the key Gaucho lyric.
― simmel, Monday, 19 September 2016 14:50 (seven years ago) link
i don't know if there's a thread about it, but my platonic image of the first roxy music album includes "virginia plain". same goes for _nothing can stop us_ and "shipbuilding".
― a confederacy of lampreys (rushomancy), Monday, 19 September 2016 15:06 (seven years ago) link
Hymn of the Big Wheel
― brotherlovesdub, Monday, 19 September 2016 15:17 (seven years ago) link
"Bodysnatchers"
― niels, Saturday, 26 November 2016 18:18 (seven years ago) link
Remove "Across The Universe" from Young Americans.
Remove it, place it in lead lined box and dump in somewhere in the North Atlantic. Talking of shitty Beatles' covers, someone please build a time machine and go back and tell Jimmy Webb to not to bother with a finger popping version of "Ticket to Ride" and not to stick it right in the middle of the 5th Dimension's "Magic Garden", like fresh dog turd on fine Persian rug.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 November 2016 19:37 (seven years ago) link
... lost an 'a' or two there.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Saturday, 26 November 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
this is probably not going to go down well but I don't think removing "Beside You" from Astral Weeks would harm it much
― niels, Monday, 17 July 2017 15:19 (six years ago) link
It's not my favorite song, but it's certainly one of Richard Davis' more intriguing performances on the record. And less Richard Davis would make for a worse Astral Weeks.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 17 July 2017 15:23 (six years ago) link
I think I might prefer an instrumental version
the sequencing doesn't help it any either
― niels, Monday, 17 July 2017 15:30 (six years ago) link
Blasphemers
― bumbling my way toward the light or wahtever (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 19 July 2017 02:11 (six years ago) link
Ornette's Town Hall 1962 is pretty much perfect (and the equal of any of his Atlantic LPs) if you lose "Dedication to Poets and Writers"
― Paul Ponzi, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 01:12 (five years ago) link
Take Shot With His Own Gun off Elvis Costello Trust.
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, 10 October 2018 01:49 (five years ago) link