Good albums with one bad song

This is certainly an odd choice.

I agree

that's barely a song, it's just an intro... 

Rush: Moving Pictures - Offending song = "Witch Hunt"

Rush: Hold your Fire - Offending song = "Turn the Page"

Steve Hackett: Spectral Mornings - Offending song = "The Ballad of the Decomposing Man"

Steve Hackett: To Watch the Storms - Offending song = "The Devil is an Englishman"

Supertramp: Even in the Quietest Moments - Offending song = "Babaji"

Manfred Mann's Earth Band: Angel Station - Offending song - "Resurrection"

Pink Floyd: The Division Bell - Offending song = "Lost for Words"

ELP: Brain Salad Surgery - Offending song = "Benny the Bouncer"

Barclay James Harvest: Ring of Changes - Offending song = "Just a Day Away"

Barclay James Harvest: Welcome to the Show - Offending song = "Psychedelic Child"

Marillion: Seasons End - Offending song = "After Me"

Led Zeppelin: In Through the Out Door - Offending song = "Hot Dog"

Queen: News of the World - Offending song = "Get Down Make Love"

Saga: The Security of Illusion - Offending song = "Alone Again Tonight"

Saga: Wildest Dreams - Offending song = "Don't Put Out the Fire"

Genesis: The Lamb lies down on Broadway - Offending song = "The Waiting Room"

Asia: Phoenix - Offending song = "I Will Remember You"

So what are yours?  

How could I forget "Mother" on Synchronicity? And I say this as a huge Andy Summers fan!

That album also could do without "Murder by Numbers", which, while I understand the sentiment behind it, just doesn't fit in with all the rest (sans "Mother"). Even the up-tempo songs on Synchronicity have a haunted, ethereal atmosphere that is promptly destroyed by including it at the end. One of the harshest juxtapositions in recorded music is the one between "Tea in the Sahara" and "Murder by Numbers". 

Thanks for reminding me, and for your contribution to a thread that has exceeded my wildest expectations!

Actually, while Pedro often can be quite rude, I don’t think he was here at all. Your response, on the other hand, is rather rude, and while I found no element of displeasure in what Pedro wrote, your response really rubs me up the wrong way. Oh wow! It’s almost like we all experience things differently! 

I agree with Pedro here, and I don’t think it’s taking things too seriously - so much as pointing out the choice of words is pretty rubbish for this post. This post is not identifying bad songs. It is identifying only songs that people don’t like. That’s not the same thing. Are there any bad songs? Well, ultimately the answer is no. As Pedro says, there is none.

There is no one objective criteria by which you can identify whether a song is good or bad. There are several ways that you could decide whether a song is good or bad, but you’d first have to put up the criteria by which you are judging the song. But change the criteria, and that can change the judgement. A song could be bad according to one way of measuring what is good, and good by another.

Now, if this post was about songs people don’t like, on albums they do, and Pedro came in and said what he just said (and I’ll be the first to admit, I suspect he would do just that), then you might have more of a reason to be upset. But I think a lot of people here get upset over what Pedro says unnecessarily. When he’s rude (and he can be), then I can understand replying in kind. But most of the time, it’s surely easier to ignore what he says, if it upsets you. In this case, it is you who appears rude, and not Pedro. (From my point of view….)