Good songs that feel out of place on their albums

CCVP wrote: Lines in the Sand, Trial of Tears and New Millennium songs from the Dream Theater album Falling Into Infinity

Just because they're proggier doesn't mean they don't fit

I like that album more than SFAM anyway.

Does Planet Caravan fit on Paranoid ? Or, does Changes fit on Volume 4 ?

Hocus Pocus definitely does not fit on Focus` Moving Waves. It was written as a joke commenting on how "serious " the art rock movement was becoming. Ironically it became their biggest hit next to House of the King and Sylvia. I mean they should have placed it at the end of the track sequence and put Eruption on side one. Hocus Pocus opens the album leading a first time listener in 1972  to think this is going to be one freak of a heavy album and then we get the pastoral Le Clochard which is sort of a let down after all the excitement with the hysterical yodeling and speed of light Akkerman guitar pyrotechnics. Don`t get me wrong Moving Waves is one of my favourites of all time but I know a lot of guys who don`t get the rest of the album and won`t listen  it after that initial onslaught or have bought the album just to get the full length version of Hocus Pocus.

RedKlouD72 wrote: TOOL's Lateralus has a song on it that does not fit with the rest of the album. Of course I'm talking about Ticks and Leeches. great tune, but it's raw aggression isn't matched by the other songs. I feels less mature, and not as calculate and other-worldly as the rest of the songs.

Another one is The Pot on 10,000 Days. I love the songs individually but they just don't fit the mood the album.

TOOL's Lateralus has a song on it that does not fit with the rest of the album.

Of course I'm talking about Ticks and Leeches. great tune, but it's raw aggression isn't matched by the other songs. I feels less mature, and not as calculate and other-worldly as the rest of the songs.

CaincelaOreinim wrote: ^ Weird...think it fits in fine.

I think the key to understanding how Comfortably Numb fits into the rest of the album is that it's supposed to be (at least somewhat) sarcastic.

Comfortably Numb. Otherwise a great song, but feels like it's just been stuck into The Wall, and doesn't generally hit the darkness of the rest of the album.

*ducks rocks*

King By-Tor wrote: If we want to talk about a newer album I think that one of the best instances of a misplaced song is The Sun In my Eyes by The Tangent on their A Place in The Queue album. I like the song a lot - but it's a disco song crammed between two prog monsters - Follow The Leaders and the giant A Place in The Queue

Have you heard the extended version of The Sun in Our Eyes on the 2 disc edition of A Place in the Queue, it would have fit a whole lot better with the rest of the album than the short version but it would have taken the album over 80 minutes I think. Maybe they should just have used Promises were Made or Forsaken Cathedrals instead.

Theres a few songs mentioned here that I'm going to disagree with. First is Balckswords Wedding Nails, I think that fits in perfectly though I might be biased as its my favourite song off the album.

Bleak fits in perfectly with Blackwater Park as well, the song is exactly that and so is the rest of the album, which doesnt have a bad song on it.

cacho wrote: Anyone's Daughter IMO is a fine inclusion to Fireball. Gives the listener a rest.

I understand that this is the purpose of that song, that's why I said in the OP that it didn't really count. Sorry for not making that clear enough.

Fools from Firebal should have been on In Rock.

I actually think it's the title track that feels the most like something from In Rock, it's the exact type of metal speedfest that Deep Purple pioneered on that album.


Edited by Toaster Mantis - August 08 2008 at 03:08

Shock The Monkey and Barry Williams Show anyone?