Love and Hate

[vcalzone]

Anyone have albums that they absolutely love with moments they cannot stand at all?

I love almost every song on The Who Sell Out, but the commercials and jingles seriously make me want to rip my [spoiler]cluck[/spoiler]ing ears off. Fitter Happier is less annoying, but another good example. Radiohead released 5000 EPs and singles, they couldn't stick that bleep on one of those?

[byron]

Led Zepplin's "Houses of the Holy" would be a perfect album, if it wasn't for Dancing Days. I don't know why, I just can't take that song.

Sticking with Led Zepplin, I hate their "Presence" album, but love the first track, "Achillies Last Stand". Now that I think about it, Led Zepplin and I definetly have a love/hate relationship.

"The Soft Bulletin" (US Release) by the flaming lips, has two bonus (a remix and a different version of songs that appear on the album) songs tacked on at the end of it, so after the proper album ends, and it ends quite well, imo, you get to hear two songs you just listened to all over again. For me it really ruins the mood established by "sleeping on the roof". but that's just a minor gripe, because I can listen to the bonus-track-free version on vinyl.

[Frightened Inmate #2]

I agree 100% with "Fitter Happier" on "OK Computer." There must be some themed reason Radiohead kept it on the disc.

As for a few others that often get the fast forward button:

"Who Dunnit?" on Genesis, "Abacab"
"The Waiting Room" on Genesis, "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"
"Revolution No. 9" on The Beatles, "The Beatles"
"Your Most Valuable Possession" on Ben Folds Five, "Reinhold Messner"
"Mother" on The Police, "Synchronicity"
"Tramp the Dirt Down" on Elvis Costello, "Spike"

[vcalzone]

"Revolution No. 9" on The Beatles, "The Beatles"
"Your Most Valuable Possession" on Ben Folds Five, "Reinhold Messner"
"Mother" on The Police, "Synchronicity"

Ooh, agree with all of those. Can't believe I forgot Mother, which is possibly the most disruptive, pointless track in music history. At least with most of these, like you said, there was some sort of themed reason, so it is listenable at least the first few times you hear it. But Mother is just what it appears to be with no redemption at all.

I like Tramp the Dirt Down, personally, but Chewing Gum really bugs me. And Playboy to a Man on Mighty Like a Rose is Elvis Costello (a guy whose voice was an acquired taste at that point in his career) deliberately singing in a whiny, obnoxious monotone. He might as well have sung through a kazoo.

Sticking with Led Zepplin, I hate their "Presence" album, but love the first track, "Achillies Last Stand". Now that I think about it, Led Zepplin and I definetly have a love/hate relationship.

That pretty much sums up my relationship with Led Zeppelin, too. I never even thought about albums that I hate with songs I really like, though. Bright Eyes tends to annoy me in general, but I like The Calendar Hung Itself. And I can't usually sit through Bitches Brew, but I like Miles Runs the Voodoo Down.

[Frightened Inmate #2]

I like Tramp the Dirt Down, personally.

I just find it to be a nasty song beneath the usual sharp wit and cleverness of an Elvis Costello song. Basically, it's, "I disagree with you, so when you die I will celebrate." We're not talking about Hitler, here.

It's been deleted from my iPod play. And I didn't even do that with "Fitter Happier." Though I probably should.

[Premiere]

"Mamacita" from Outkast's Aquemini
"Whatz Ur #" from the first disc of 2Pac's All Eyez on Me (The second disc is full of garbage, though)