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
take "single file" off the elliott smith s/t. it's not awful by any means but it doesn't live up to the rest of the album
― spellbound dogfighter (milo), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 13:31 (ten months ago) link
"Wendell Gee" from Fables
― Mr. Snrub, Monday, August 22, 2016 2:37 PM (six years ago)
WTF(?!)
― You have been verified with your voice (morrisp), Wednesday, 16 August 2023 14:42 (ten months ago) link
“Deeper Understanding” should have been omitted from The Sensual World
“Stay Away” from Nevermind (even though I really like the guitar melting with Cobain’s voice on the refrain; “Even in His Youth” should have taken its place)
― beamish13, Wednesday, 16 August 2023 23:57 (ten months ago) link
Not sure I'd delete any tracks from Rumors, but I'd absolutely close it with "Silver Springs."
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Thursday, 17 August 2023 00:02 (ten months ago) link
Yes to Stay Away. Even in His Youth would have been better.
― kornrulez6969, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:14 (ten months ago) link
“Stay Away” from Nevermind
illegal opinion
― budo jeru, Thursday, 17 August 2023 01:24 (ten months ago) link
“My Little Problem” from All Shook Down is corny AF. It wouldn’t be a Replacements album without something self-consciously anti-earnest, but I don’t like this one.
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 August 2023 08:47 (ten months ago) link
Going the other way, I kind of love notorious perfection-interruptor “Student Demonstration Time”. Anyone else?
― Chuck_Tatum, Thursday, 17 August 2023 08:53 (ten months ago) link
"Box 25/4 Lid" from The Soft Machine, (apart from the 90s CD which also has Volume Two, then it functions as an intermission between LPs)
― the world is your octopus (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 17 August 2023 09:49 (ten months ago) link
I still skip 'The New Stone Age' from Architecture & Morality, I don't really dislike the song, it just sounds so terrible, the horrible, out-of-tune guitars mostly.
It does have a brilliant outro though, so I will skip/rewind and listen to that bit.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 17 August 2023 12:54 (ten months ago) link