"Great" Albums that You Can't Stomach

In the spirit of the thread, I again will go with Abbey Road.

Harrison's two songs are both fabulous, but excepting those two songs, the rest of the album is relatively weak compared to their earlier work. I've never understood the pedestal created for nonsense like Maxwell, Poly Pam, Mr. Mustard. I want you? Lennon was really phoning it in here. I don't hate the album. It's still the Fabs, but I just feel like they were really eyeing the parking lot by this point, and I don't agree with the popular notion that this album was some rabbit pulled out of a hat. The songs of Let it Be are far stronger in my opinion despite that being the album people like to hate. Yes, I believe LIB is WAY, way better than Abbey Road any way you slice it.

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I knew I'd be roasted for saying that, but I stand by it ferociously. Aside from the throwaway junk Maggie/Dig it, there isn't a bad track there. Instead there is some really beautiful stuff (Across the Universe better than anything John did on Abbey), Long Winding, and more rock/roll passion than they'd managed in a long time.

Edited by Finnforest - 7 hours 60 minutes ago at 13:38

Valdez wrote: Nogbad_The_Bad wrote: Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2 Opeth - Still Life Marillion - Misplaced Childhood Queensryche - Operation Mindcrime Big Big Train - English Electric Kansas - Leftoverture Neil Morse - ? Transatlantic - Bridge Across Forever Spocks Beard - V Steely Dan - Aja I agree with you on almost all of these but I have never heard of anyone not liking Steely Dans Aja.

No idea why, I've tried several times, the production is excellent but it never connects with me.

I like gaucho and the royal scam too. Haven’t listened to them in a while though.

Steely's best is IMHO Royal Scam, but I was never big about Dan

Finnforest wrote: Wait a sec, Hugues. Are you saying you think LIB is their second best album of all of them?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCcJZRtkXc

Just ahead of Sgt, Revolver & Rubber Soul.

Never big on MMT or White Album (too much junk on those)




Edited by Sean Trane - 4 hours 33 minutes ago at 17:05

Sean Trane wrote: Finnforest wrote: Wait a sec, Hugues. Are you saying you think LIB is their second best album of all of them? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYCcJZRtkXc Just ahead of Sgt, Revolver & Rubber Soul. Never big on MMT or White Album (too much junk on those)

Thank you for the beautiful video. The cleaned up video of that period has been a real treat to see. There was more joy to the proceedings than was evident in the old film's original release.

Sounds like we actually aren't so far off in our rankings really.

The White Album as a single disc would have been formidable.

You are correct