Top 100 Most Skipped-Over Tracks In The History Of CDs

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1. The Beatles - "Revolution 9"

Secret/'hidden' tracks DO NOT COUNT btw!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 19 January 2004 09:40 (twenty-two years ago)

2. Orbital - "time becomes..."

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 19 January 2004 09:41 (twenty-two years ago)

3. Radiohead - "Treefingers"

― Jole, Monday, 19 January 2004 09:49 (twenty-two years ago)

4. R.E.M. - "Ignoreland"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Monday, 19 January 2004 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

4. The Beatles: 'Within You Without You'
5. Radiohead: 'Fitter Happier'
6. OutKast: 'B.O.B.'
7. Neil Young: 'There's A World'

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 19 January 2004 09:55 (twenty-two years ago)

argh, x-post. make that 5-8, then.

― Jay Kid (Jay K), Monday, 19 January 2004 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

9. Sonic Youth - The Sprawl

― fcussen (Burger), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Within You Without You is one of the only tracks on Sgt. Pepper I like!

― Sean (Sean), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:02 (twenty-two years ago)

10. Husker Du - "The baby song"
11. Velvet Underground - "Sister Ray"

― Michael B, Monday, 19 January 2004 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

12. Old people talking (Bookends, Sim&garf)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:27 (twenty-two years ago)

6. OutKast: 'B.O.B.'

WTF? I was always under the impression that that was most people's favorite song on that album!

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and since I'm talking about music I listened to a lot as a Freshman:

13. Big Star - The India Song

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Monday, 19 January 2004 10:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Freshman : four blokes in stripey blazer suits singing harmony.

(UK)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

9. Sonic Youth - The Sprawl

i never skip that one!

14. yo la tengo - attack on love

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

On my CD player at least:
15. Any track on any hip hop album post-1996 entitled 'Intro' or with the word 'skit' in brackets after its title.

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Dan, I think he means people like it so much they played it out. I think there's a weird dynamic with songs you like so much but have heard so many times it feels awkward like you're obligated to get that virgin rush again. B.O.B. is an example of ones with abrupt, instantly recognizable beginnings (another example: In Da Club.) It can get to a point where you 'fear' the song and skip ahead two times at the end of the preceding track.

― Le Coq (DarrenK), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yeah,

16. In Da Club

― Le Coq (DarrenK), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

17. Aphex Twin - Ventolin

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:42 (twenty-two years ago)

18. Metallica - Escape

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

19. Public Enemy - Cold Lampin' With Flava

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:45 (twenty-two years ago)

20. Spiritualized - The Individual

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

21. Aphex Twin - 73 Yips

― M Carty (mj_c), Monday, 19 January 2004 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

That backwards nonsense on The Stone Roses.

― hmmmm, Monday, 19 January 2004 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

23. Beach Boys - "Kokomo" (it's the 20th and final track on "The Beach Boys: The Greatest Hits, Vol 1" -- I can't see anyone listening to it after listening to "Sloop John B.," "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "God Only Knows" and "Good Vibrations")

― John Fredland (jfredland), Monday, 19 January 2004 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

19. Public Enemy - Cold Lampin' With Flava

No way!

― Michael B, Monday, 19 January 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

24. Black Sabbath - Am I going insane?

― Michael B, Monday, 19 January 2004 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

25. The Police - "Mother"

― dleone (dleone), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:17 (twenty-two years ago)

26 The Byrds - Mind Gardens

― pete s, Monday, 19 January 2004 13:18 (twenty-two years ago)

27. The Prodigy - Fuel My Fire

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:20 (twenty-two years ago)

28. Eminem - Kim

― Michael B, Monday, 19 January 2004 13:24 (twenty-two years ago)

29. P.I.L. - Albatross

― Michael B, Monday, 19 January 2004 13:25 (twenty-two years ago)

30 Flying Burrito Bros. - Hippie Boy

― pete s, Monday, 19 January 2004 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

you can't skip over 'Fuel My Fire' as such, ha ha

31. Outkast 'Good Day Good Sir'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:31 (twenty-two years ago)

32. Ween - "Pink Eye (On My Leg)," sadly

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

- Skit 0:45 seconds

― mentalist (mentalist), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

If i'm not in an avant-minded mood....

33 The Cure - "The Final Sound"
34 Siouxsie and the Banshees - "Pure"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

33. Primal Scream - "Keep Your Dreams"
32. Primal Scream - "Damaged"

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

35. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Power of Equality - 4:03
36. Red Hot Chili Peppers - If You Have to Ask - 3:37
37. Red Hot Chili Peppers - I Could Have Lied - 4:04
38. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Mellowship Slinky in B Major - 4:00
39. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Righteous & The Wicked - 4:08
40. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Naked in the Rain - 4:26
41. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Apache Rose Peacock - 4:42
42. Red Hot Chili Peppers - The Greeting Song - 3:14
43. Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Lovely Man - 4:39
44. Red Hot Chili Peppers - They're Red Hot (Johnson) - 1:12

Let's face it, Bloodsugarsexmagik woulda made a fine EP

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Albatross? Nevair!

45. The Stooges - We Will Fall

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:49 (twenty-two years ago)

46. Can - Peking O

― Michael B, Monday, 19 January 2004 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

i would never skip 'Keep Your Dreams' - one of my favourite tracks off Xtrmntr

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 January 2004 13:51 (twenty-two years ago)

47. Tori Amos - Me And A Gun

― The Lex (The Lex), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

We might need a second thread for songs that you would skip except the artist has thoughtfully put it on the end: Fuel my fire, Massive Attack's Light my fire, that 30-minute bollocks at the end of the Polyphonic Spree's album.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

48. 'grandbag's funeral' - happy mondays
49. 'etienne gonna die' - st etienne

― piscesboy, Monday, 19 January 2004 14:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Elvis Costello - Senior Service (Armed Forces)
Joni Mitchell - The Jungle Line (Hissing Of Summer Lawns)
OMD - The New Stone Age (Architecture & Morality)
XTC - Mermaid Smiled (Skylarking)
fIREHOSE - Me & You Remembering (If'n?)

― mzui, Monday, 19 January 2004 14:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Except for the Avalanches, I don't think I have *any* albums I play all the way through. Literally. I'm a singles whore, too, and actually hardly ever get round to most albums. But anyway:

200 Bars (acapella) by Spiritualized.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:40 (twenty-two years ago)

1. The Beatles - "Revolution 9"
3. Radiohead - "Treefingers"
5. The Beatles: 'Within You Without You'
11. Velvet Underground - "Sister Ray"
22. That backwards nonsense on The Stone Roses.
29. P.I.L. - Albatross
34. Primal Scream - "Damaged"
45. The Stooges - We Will Fall

No no no.

Never skipped these, never will. Heck, if you didn't want to hear Sister Ray, what you put on White Light White Heat for, anyway? And skipping the first track on Metal Box?

(the others i either agree or aint got anyway)

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Velvet Underground - The infinitely long version(s) of Venus in Furs on disc 1 of the boxset.

Other than that, I rarely skip..

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

50. Orbital 'Tootled'

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

49) Kelis 'In Public'. Not something you'd want your wife or manservant to hear.

― Enrique (Enrique), Monday, 19 January 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

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Surely nobody skips Aerodynamic.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Soory, had misread yr post Eric...

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Smashing Pumpkins - Heavy Metal Machine

Ugh, what a mess.

― Stupid (Stupid), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:07 (twenty-two years ago)

24. Black Sabbath - Am I going insane?
77. Four Tet "No More Mosquitos"
As for the above, I don't believe that Sab's is a massively skipped tune; for quite a few people I know, that's one of their faves on the album.
And "Mosquitos"?! Why would one avoid such a fun track? (Because one hates 'fun'? OK, but still...)

As for the below... "Mother" sure gets ditched regularly, by kids and grown ups eveywhere. Have seen that.(I really rather like "Mother" myself, tho)
"Rip Off" - oh yes. 'Electric Warrior' was the first record I ever bought and, after the first listen, oh boy did I skip that last song.
25. The Police - "Mother" / 91. "Mother" by the Police
61. T.Rex -- "Rip Off"

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Janes Addiction - Of Course

Matt DC is so fucking SPOT ON that he's practically a PROPHET!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

No, Dan... I thought "Rev 909" (which is the album's BEST song, probably) was track 3. I was talking about that booming radio-style interlude thing. Is that not a separate track?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't remember, actually. I was guessing as to which track was #2 and trying to come up with a rationale.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I just looked it up and track 3 is "Rev 909," which I hope not too many skip over.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 17:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Ugh, what a mess.

Hey now. (I lurv that chorus I do.)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 19:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Jane's Addiction - Of Course

NONONONONONO. "Been Caught Stealing" is the one.

― rainman (rainman), Tuesday, 20 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

An endlessly fascinating thread - no matter your choice, somebody's bound to come back with "Are you insane? That's the best song!" I nominate "We Will Fall" off THE STOOGES and "Doo-doo Chasers" from ONE NATION UNDER A GROOVE, and I await denunciations of these choices.

― Scott, Tuesday, 20 January 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Pavement - All of Spiral's songs

― angel duster, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Hear hear for 'We Will Fall' - overlong John Cale wank piece on an otherwise rockin' album.

Lots of people cut The Fall's 'And This Day' short on the Hip Priest & Kamerads album.

― Sasha (sgh), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Am I the only one who skips "Song For Europe" on Roxy Music's _Stranded_?

― Clarke B., Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:35 (twenty-two years ago)

"Ugh, what a mess.
Hey now. (I lurv that chorus I do.)

-- Ned Raggett"

Oh come now. Heavy Metal Machine is the best proof anyone has that Billy Corgan lives in his own little reality where that sort of thing sounds like anything other than a hissing mess.

― Stupid (Stupid), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay own little reality!

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 02:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Damn.

No one mentioned Faust - Krautrock.

― djdee2005, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 06:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Probably because a lot of people who like Faust like that song!

― 4kflka, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 08:08 (twenty-two years ago)

A lot of people love B.O.B. and One More Time too! I just never have the patience for that track...I mean, it strikes me as a joke that works better in concept than execution.

― djdee2005, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 08:23 (twenty-two years ago)

The Clash - "Lover's Rock"
Pixies - "Hey"
Travis - "The Last Laugh of the Laughter"

― Lewis J. Bateman (Lewis Bateman), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 10:12 (twenty-two years ago)

We will fall - Nope.
Lovers Rock - Nope. (not crazy about it but like it enough)
Krautrock - again, why listen to the album if youre not going to? Desperate to hear "the sad skinhead"?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 10:19 (twenty-two years ago)

the Daft Punk track i would've picked would be 'Rock n' Roll' - i love track 2 on Homework ('WDPK 83.7FM')

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Pavement - side 3 of wowee zowie. sooooo unsatisfying to put on ONE side of vinyl so I never did.

― hmmm, Wednesday, 21 January 2004 12:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Outkast - Snappin' and Trappin'

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 12:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Charlie Freak~Steely Dan
It's A Mans World~JB

― thomas de'aguirre (biteylove), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Absolutely no one will agree with me, but I skip over "Lost in the Supermarket" by the Clash EVERY. DAMN. TIME!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa !

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Joe's song for Mick to sing ? ? ! ?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

The same.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Inca Eyeball - "Tattoo of an Arab" (from the Quattro Symbolos cd).

― tod (tod), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:29 (twenty-two years ago)

...and every other song on Patti Smith's "Horses", probably.

― tod (tod), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Horses in its awful entirety is ripe for skipping over.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

it's been so long since i last played it, you might be right!

― tod (tod), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

He's not.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh yes I am.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

My eyes have learnt to automatically skip 'Horses' when browsing for CDs on my shelves...

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I borrowed it from a library once...

... I guess you had to have been there at the time...

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Alex? How can anyone hate "Redondo Beach" or "Free Money" or "Gloria"!?
I might skip "La Mer(de)" but the rest of that record is awesome.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:18 (twenty-two years ago)

How can anyone hate "Redondo Beach" or "Free Money" or "Gloria"!?

`Cos they all SUCK, especially fuckin' "Redondo Beach," which is so awful that her record contract should have been shredded on the spot. It makes Ace of Base sound like Peter Tosh.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Bah!
I refuse to participate in the hallucination which you are currently experiencing.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 20:47 (twenty-two years ago)

YOU JUST CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH, M'LORD!

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Wednesday, 21 January 2004 21:16 (twenty-two years ago)

"We Will Fall" is pure evil, way more evil than a thousand heavy metal bands with illegible graphics on their album covers, and it should be cherished as such. Swans' Michael Gira sure did.

― Dave Segal (Da ve Segal), Thursday, 22 January 2004 01:11 (twenty-two years ago)

YOU JUST CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH, M'LORD!
< DENIAL MODE>Your copy of Horses must've been mastered wrong. Those songs are brilliant.< /DENIAL MODE>

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Thursday, 22 January 2004 14:32 (twenty-two years ago)

actually, now that you mention it, maybe i can use this thread to ask something about my digitally remastered version of Horses: about 2 minutes into "Break it up" (where she's singing "ice, it was shining..." -- i just checked), there's what seems to be digitally glitches that kinda goes in time with the music for several seconds, almost as though she's pounding her chest as she sings. i checked with a second copy, and it had the same thing.

do you have this? it's not supposed to sound like that, right?

― tod (tod), Thursday, 22 January 2004 15:56 (twenty-two years ago)

big day big day god why didn't they just keep mermaid smiled on there (in US natch) and remove that absolute awful tripe track. I just envision bobbing Moulding heads bouncing around a wedding cake, "So-you-want-to-tie-the-knot (pause) Tie-it-tight-don't-let-it-rot (pause)" ugh

― caspar (caspar), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I thought the Rapture's "Open Up Your Heart" would be the definition of this. Nice song 'n' all but shoulda stuck it at the end.

― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

The positioning of Open Up Your Heart is brilliant, the way it appears so early in the album and trashes received ideas about what The Rapture are or should be 'about'.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:32 (twenty-two years ago)

It sure does, but still, if you didn't have any received ideas to start with, it does disrupt the whole thing.

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly, completely fucks with the funky mope-party.

(x-post: what Baaderist sed)

― fcussen (Burger), Thursday, 22 January 2004 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

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