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i'm so close to erasing it

ugh

With A Little Help From My Friends is great

Drive My Car, Good Day Sunshine, When I'm 64...

but it's growing on me.

Is a steaming turd on one of the best album in history

Sonic Nurse - Sonic Youth
gone.

Dancing Shoes - Whatever People Say (Arctic Monkeys)

Doolittle is brilliant and timeless, but those opening notes of Silver always make me cringe and I always end up skipping it.

I can't stand that song. A bad end to a brilliant album.

He means Don't Pass Me By, which is fucking dreadful. And I guess What Goes On, which is definitely the song you skip to make Rubber Soul seem good.

Octopussy's Garden is fucking boss, though.

(Alright, it's not *shit* but it's by far the worst on OK C)

There's just something annoying about this one, probably too long, too relentlessly yelling and not very melodic.

It's by far the -best- song on OKC. Oh, that moment when Thom's voice multitracks (swoon)

it lets you settle into the album after starting with three knock-out classics. With hindsight they could have wedged on Sally Cinnamon or Elephant Stone or Mersey Paradise but it would have been too much - Don't Stop let's the album breathe.

Elizabeth My Dear is shit though.

it can only really be Meat Is Murder. 30 minutes of jangley indie and then 10 minutes of buzzsaws and mooing.

and though as an album it's grown on me to the point that it might be my favourite of theirs, Tried to Quit Smoking is just boring & a bit shit.

When I saw them play Manchester years ago they finished on this and didn't play Wake Up. Livid.

Off Flip Your Wig

I really like Wood/Water on the whole but that song is an arse. See also that Death Cab song that they all started singing along to on Six Feet Under.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58pPCvB7xrg

The Baby Song is actually painful to listen to.

Maybe Craw Song?
Quite like the instrumentation but the lyrics are just turd

ignoring whatever you think of fitter happier you could say maybe say electioneering but i wouldn't really call it 'shit'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnQfgDP2byE

by The Cribs

If there's a shit song on Doolittle it's La La Love You

but I wouldn't say it's bad

i love that album but that song, jesus, what were they thinking?

a breath of fresh air that

Ghost Train
Happy Phantom
Looking for Astronauts
So Real
Playhouses
Old old fashioned

what the fuck were they thinking.

can deal with it on its own sometimes, but just kills that album stone dead for me

In fact it's one of the best and catchy songs from the album.

No need to hate this song

but if it's anything like their earlier work then i'd be inclined to agree. i heard the rat and was instantly convinced to not hear the album

Elephant Stone definitely should be part of their debut album track listing.

Their weakest song by a country mile.

on Think Tank is fucking atrocious

They're both arse-dribble on an otherwise great album.

OUT TO BE FREEEEE

Weakest song on the album for sure but I have a soft spot for it

It's Oh So Quiet by Bjork is a war crime. I know a lot of people defend this song but anything involving a big band/swing sort of thing makes me livid.

Least favourite is I'm a Man, I believe the whole band hate it now too.

headphones, ridiculous volume, sweeeeeeeet

Don't pass me by is brilliant.

Probably stops Thriller from being one of my all-time favourite albums.

and was going to smack you down.

I didn't even read the full original post. Who cares what other dudes think? :D

to go with what was one of his favourite pieces of music he ever wrote

Similarly, Johnny Marr was reportedly much put out that, having written a particularly pretty tune, Morrissey gave it the rather less fetching title Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others.

Looking for Astronauts ... Old Old Fashioned ... AHAHAHAHAAAAA

14 minutes of sod all. I think I may well be alone in this opinion though.

Just so...nothing

But I hate that even some of my musically-inclined friends think Bjork only ever did this one song, and branded me "uncool" for listening to her.

I had three of them gang up on me once. I was like, "but.. but.. Army Of Me! Bachelorette! Vespertine!!!"

In short, I do skip It's Oh So Quiet.

And every other track on that album!

The Decline of British Sea Power is my joint favourite album of all time (along with Turn On The Bright Lights) and Lately is the best track on it. It certainly takes its time to get going and to get to the end but it really is incredible. I am as staggered by your suggestion as I was by Theo saying Let Down was a weak song.

just ... personal opinion ... but thanks

says it all really

I think I prefer British Sea Power's pop songs. The more expansive/post-rocky ones always seem to drag a bit.

the bit where it gets faster and faster is SO good.

musically boring, lyrically one huge cliche. And yet surrounded by genius.

without the flute and Brix's annoying vocals.

NOT Beth/Rest.

but I don't quite get all the love for it.

I've always believed that the album is almost perfect, better even than The Queen is Dead, until it gets to the halfway point of the second side. Barbarism Begins at Home is half a song stretched out for what seems like hours and the title track is mawkish rubbish.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to correct the above opinion and stamp your forehead with the WRONG stamp.

here's a pamphlet entitled 'You Are Wrong: A Guide To Not Being Wrong'.

admirable. soon you'll realise the flute and Brix's vocals are mint.

(this is why we can't have nice things, etc)

it's gorgeous.

this is one of the damned few tracks I have deleted from iTunes.

made even more heinous when you consider it immediately follows one of their greatest fucking songs.

I blame myself for clicking the thread.

like, sure there are weaker tracks on Alligator and Midnight Organ Fight, but it seems strange to call any of them truly shit

...if they had just left it as a simple little guitar number, it would have been fine, albeit still decidedly average for their standards. but adding that Muse-esque voice and those ridiculous flatulent synths make it one of their very worst tracks. and it was a single, right? amazing.

He's still got it.

You can still like and enjoy them.

Christina the Astonishing off Henry's Dream.

Bernard Butler used to steal the same line and use it for We are the Pigs.

That said, Marr's comment was, I believe, tongue-in-cheek. He tends to stay above direct criticism of Morrissey.

goes on for way too long, but otherwise it's a great song.

but this just sounds too cold-blooded.

Jumble Sailing is ace. Shush.

Meat 'n potatoes rock without any of the 'rock'. A truly uninspired, workmanlike song to trudge through.

on Something To Write Home About.

You fucking mentalist

Also: Looking for Astronauts?

You fucking mentalist

despite (or because of?) it being a massive Bowie rip-off.

all the bullshit.

Waste of time.

then I'm right with you

is a rolled-gold classic album of psychedelic country rock, until you get to the final track which is some fanciful droning bullshit about the moon landings.

I feel like The Beatles could not make a record without putting at least one song on that just fucks everything up. It doesn't necessarily need to be a bad song - in fact, if you were to take most of these songs and make an album out of them, I'd probably love it - but most of them are just so goddamn questionable that it ruins the flow of everything. And, like that album, I would still think that "Good Morning, Good Morning" was unlistenable.

Drive My Car (Rubber Soul)
Yellow Submarine (Revolver)
Lovely Rita AND Good Morning, Good Morning (Sgt. Pepper's)
Wild Honey Pie, Why Don't We Do It In The Road?, Everbody's Got Something To Hide Except For Me and My Monkey, Savory Truffle (White Album)
Octopus's Garden (Abbey Road)
Maggie Mae (Let It Be)

SO THERE

I agree that "I'm A Man" is the weak link on Hardcore. It's too much like Stereotypes/Country House/Charmless Man/Top Man-esque Blur for my liking.

what the fucking fuck

Pulp - Something Changed (Different Class)

and you should feel very, very bad.

Dose of Thunder is the worst track on that album. Waitress in the Sky is brilliant.

El Scorcho

El Scorcho is amazing

Come on - could have had Futurism on there!

is this no and the accompanying ^thises because Bleed American isn't an otherwise brilliant album, or because The Middle isn't shit. Because The Middle Is Shit.

BE GONE, GET BACK YEE, FOUL BEAST OF THE NIGHT!

mercers vocals are painful to listen to, irritating hook that grates as well as being a potent earworm

It's a massive turd on an otherwise great album.
I may have been a bit harsh on Looking For Astronauts. It's not that it's completely shit, I just find it tedious and boring and I always skip it. That bit about "throw from your window, your record collection" egh.

but I can see how it would annoy people.

That's like the best part of any song Radiohead have ever recorded.

Is it possible to ban yourself, Theo?

YEEEEEEEEEEAH

As said, it's not that I dislike any of those songs, really, they just don't fit all that well.

is Bones from The Bends.

The best song on Dog Man Star is definitely The Wild Ones. Or Still Life, at a push.

is an embarassing end to a fantastic album. Although it is unintentionally quite funny.

Goals In Slow Motion - not shit, just totally out of place amongst everything they've ever done, and mixed really badly. Rest of the album is blinding.

but now I skip it most of the time... like you say, doesn't fit in at all. Would have been better suited to one of their EPs I think

Those are clearly the worst two songs on that album.

That trumpet <3

not having that.

also: the White Album is so great because it's an imperfect sprawl. the crap songs are part of the charm.

Clover Over Dover

and

Parklife.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GHZR57AXavo

sorry guys.

also 'we got the jazz' off low end theory by ATCQ i'm really not into. otherwise pretty perfect album.
and side with the seeds.

Daddy's Speeding is great though.

You're crazy.

Most of the album's meh and forgettable. Except that one song which is ace.

I feel like there's so, so, SO much unnecessary filler.

fuck off m8, best track on the album

FFS

For some reason I remembered it being shit. Wierd.

Recorded without Bernard, has a half hearted sessioneer strum on it, very little in the way of emotional impact.

Dropped by Brett in the rejigged tracklisting on the inner sleeve on the deluxe edition. Because it is SHIT.

Maybe it's 'cos I really liked it when I was younger but I think it's a strong enough song to overcome flaws in the recording process.

If there is a weak track on Dog Man Star it's definitely This Hollywood Life. But even that's just about decent enough.

Who decided to put such an irritating whine smack in the middle of some of Sonic Youth's most lovely songs? Four minutes of vocalised constipation.

is filler, but not bad as such. The rest of it is amazing, Silver included.

but Touched off Loveless is not a good track at all.

It's not shit. In fact Kraftwerk never made a truly awful song.

than ryanwilson.

but the more I listen the more they've grown on me, No Life Signed Her especially.

Fame Throwa is still shit though

...on a conceptual basis, but as a song i've always found it largely unlistenable.

and i love blur. like, a lot.

Goes on forever, and that fucking twangy guitar piddles all the way through.

Worst thing Blur ever did. Including the video to Country House in that.

You're fired.

One of the worst songs from his good period.

If you want to reproach it for anything, then it's for convincing every half-arsed b-list Britpop band that if they added an orchestra or a string section then they would sound classier. Shed Seven, Embrace, Cast et al.