Great songs on mediocre/bad albums?

Daydreamer · 2018-08-09T04:53:37-04:00

Lots of great artists, esp the ones with long and fruitful careers have released many stinker albums. However, on those albums there might be a song which is absolutely fantastic and would be considered a classic if it was on a better album. Typical example is Every Grain Of Sand by Bob Dylan, amazing song on a terrible album. Any other examples?

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Infinity183 Profile

The Presidents Of The United States Of ...Of America
I like "Peaches". It's cute. Most of this album, however, just doesn't do it for me, and the opening track is genuinely one of my least favorite songs of all time.

Forever Your Girl by Paula Abdul
"Straight Up" is a kickass new jack swing banger with more creative instrumentation than most other songs of its genre at the time. As for the rest of the album, the singles are okay enough, but this is a massive step down compared to other female pop records at the time such as Like a Prayer, Rhythm Nation, Raw Like Sushi, and even Electric Youth. Most of the non-singles are really dry and flavorless.

LordMark Profile
Ontario

As much as I dislike Weezer's Make Believe album, I actually really like the song "We Are All On Drugs".

Graeme2 Profile
The Upside Down

Stover75 wrote:

The La's by The La's

Ok so this is a cheat cos there's 2 good songs on this:

There She Goes (sublime) and Feelin' (2-minute masterpiece)

But the rest of the album is God-awful.
Sorry to say it but it is IMO.

Go back and listen again. If you love those two I'm not sure how you can't enjoy something like Timeless Melody

Graeme2 Profile
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A Change Of Heart by Golden Avatar
I've never heard an album so poor but withone great track. The whole album is awful but the final track is just wonderful. I picked up on on vinyl for cheap as it looked good but after a quick listen was ready to get rid until I saw a mate play it in a DJ set. I asked what's this it's great and he showed me the cover and I couldn't believe it.

Johnnyo Profile
London Town

Almost Always Never by Joanne Shaw Taylor

Not jst’s best album by any means but soul station is a cracking track

TheKameraEye

Possum Kingdom by Toadies, from the 1994 album Rubberneck. I'm sure people like this album, but I just found it to be generic and unable to stand out from better alternative acts of the mid 90's.

rogue Profile

TheKameraEye wrote:

Possum Kingdom by Toadies, from the 1994 album Rubberneck. I'm sure people like this album, but I just found it to be generic and unable to stand out from better alternative acts of the mid 90's.

but what about Tyler!? That song is something else.

Boltzmann supplier of entropy Profile

M.i.A.’s Freedun on AIM, and Kanye’s Waves on his The Life of Pablo are the first ones that come to mind.

Not bad albums, but certainly not their best.

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Ohio

I don't care for The Division Bell, but "High Hopes" is phenomenal.

madcrow Profile

Ya know what as much as I think Nu Metal sucks they had some good songs on terrible albums 99% of the time. So im picking

Slipknot - Wait and Bleed
Stand - Outside

now as for classic im going with

Black Sabbath - Shockwave
off of their last album before they fired Ozzy

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