Crappy albums with one great song

Well, the first song that comes to my mind now is from the ELPowell's selftitled. The whole album seems terrible to me. Something really lousy, with very low-quality songs and dreadful keyboards (Works Vol. 1 left Emerson with serious sequels), but "Mars, The Bringer of War" is incredible. Anyway, it's a composition by Holst, but the arrangement is brilliant.

Pink Floyd - The Wall

Comfortable Numb is fantastic but the rest of the songs are either too short, annoying or just plain bad.

Camel's "I can see your house from here" -> Ice

Lewian wrote: This is a nice topic but if I remember correctly we had one just like that that was used not very long ago. Unfortunately I can't find it, but if anybody can, I think it'd be much better to have all these listed in the same thread.

chopper wrote: Tubular Bells is rubbish apart from the title track.

ThyroidGlands wrote: chopper wrote: Tubular Bells is rubbish apart from the title track. The same happens with Thick as a Brick.

From a prog perspective you have the We Can't Dance album by Genesis with "fading lights" and also the Living Years album by Mike & the Mechanics with "why me?" I don't think the rest of the songs on those albums are bad but I'm just saying they are best in the sense that they are the only prog or proggish songs on them (imo of course).

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: also the Living Years album by Mike & the Mechanics with "why me?"

Morris O'Pogue wrote: Camel's "I can see your house from here" -> Ice

Lewian wrote: This is a nice topic but if I remember correctly we had one just like that that was used not very long ago. Unfortunately I can't find it, but if anybody can, I think it'd be much better to have all these listed in the same thread.

Despite David's (yam yam) research that do not turn up anything recent, I thought the same thing as you when I saw this topic but a manual search of quite few pages of the potentially applicable forums did not turn up results.

Matte wrote: Pink Floyd - The Wall Comfortable Numb is fantastic but the rest of the songs are either too short, annoying or just plain bad.

"Comfortably Numb" a the standout when I first heard the Wall (I think I was 10), but soon it was much of the other songs that I preferred, and on The Wall CD I later bought while in Japan I commonly would skip "Comfortably Numb". "Mother", "Goodbye Blue Sky", "Young Lust", "The Show Must Go On", "IN the Flesh", Run like Hell"< "Waiting for the Worms"... do more for me. I think it's a wonderful album taken as a whole. I appreciate the whole atmosphere of the album. I have noticed, i think, Hercules saying much the same thing, and I wondered if that attitude came from the sort-of Neo-Prog, melodic rock, or a sort of classic FM radio rock, and soaring guitar solos mindset. Which is not to say that is the case with you. But it seems a pretty conservative rock choice.

Edited by Logan - July 03 2024 at 14:06