Good albums with one bad song - Progressive Rock Music Forum

Earl of Mar wrote:

Your own special way from WAW.
Providence from Red.
More fool Me from SEBTP.
D'yer Maker from HOTH.
The hare that lost his spectacles from APP

I definitely disagree about the last one; I love that track.

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TheLionOfPrague wrote:

AlanB wrote:

Camel - Moonmadness: Aristellus

This is certainly an odd choice.

I agree

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

Hey, it's your opinion. I respect it. That's one KILLER album for sure.

The Anders wrote:

These are the first I can think of:

The Police - Synchronicity: "Mother"

The Clash - Sandinista: "If Music Could Talk"

Sigur Rós - Ágætis byrjun: "Olsen Olsen"

Pink Floyd - Piper: "Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk"

Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds: "The Gold It's In the..."

Radiohead - The Bends: "Black Star"

The Beatles - The Beatles: "Obla di Obla da"

Genesis - Lamb: "The Colony of Slippermen"

The Who - By Numbers: "Squeeze Box"

The Who - Who Are You: "Had Enough"

Queen - A Day At the Races: "Drowse"

That's actually one of my favorite songs on that album. To me the only song even approaching being weak on that is My Iron Lung. I know most will disagree and it's all subjective, but yeah I like Black Star a lot.

I genuinely love "Moonchild". Especially the instrumental section. It is very poetic in my experience.

Genesis ruined a perfect record w "More Fool Me" on SEBTP.

They should have listened to Rush and not been a prog band.

"I am so prog, I listen to concept albums on shuffle." -KMac2021

These threads always start out with Moonchild....buy maybe I missed it

Anyhoo..I always found it amusing to see how many folks would go completely crazy about say In The Court Of The Chinsome Kid and The Jam Lies Down on Broadway...while at the same time tearing both Moonchild and The Waiting Room a new one

‘The Fing Mingsome debut is just a masterpiece of pork....but yeah sure something like 12 minutes of it is absolute trash!’

Hmm...I can think of the reverse situation! The Enid’s The Seed and the Sower. Lacklustre album...but man that ending track Reverberations is just goosebumps city.

“The Guide says there is an art to flying or rather a knack. The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.”

- Douglas Adams

The Anders wrote:

tigerfeet wrote:

The Anders wrote:

These are the first I can think of:

Pink Floyd - Piper: "Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk"

Pink Floyd - Obscured By Clouds: "The Gold It's In the..."

Interesting! What did you not like about those two songs ? I can surmise for "The Gold It's in the... " but not for "Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk"

"The Gold It's In the..." sounds to me like a rather clumsy attempt at making a straight forward rock song, and I don't think their sound really fits that style. "Stethoscope": I find the composition pretty unimaginative compared to those written by Syd Barrett. Roger Waters would improve a lot as a songwriter on the next albums.

I thought similar about "The Gold it's in the ....". However, I always thought that Piper was 100% perfect so just surprised to see the Stethescope was picked and wondered why. After listening to the album today if i had to pick the "one" inferior song it would probably be that song too, so i ended up agreeing with both those PF picks of yours Wink

I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you. Robin Williams.

Yes has had their share of stinkers!

Off the top of my head, I'd say "Don't Kill the Whale" from Tormato. I find the studio version uninspired and insipid.

However, they always picked it up in concert, and "Whale" became one of my favorite live Yes tunes!

Here, dig it!!

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I prophesy disaster wrote:

[QUOTE=Steve Wyzard]Van der Graaf Generator: World Record - "Wondering"

I disagree!

"It just has none of the qualities of your work that I find interesting. Abandon [?] it." - Eno