Great albums and skippers.
This is inspired by the other best albums thread, but I think it's enough of a new topic to warrant a seperate thread.
Generally a great album is great all the way through, but that's not always the case. There are a number of examples of great albums that have 'skippers', tracks so inferior to the rest of the album that the effort required to find the fast forward button is worth it compared with polluting your listening experience with a sour song.
I'll choose OK Computer as my example. (This is also the reason why OK Computer is inferior to the Bends and Kid A.)
OK Computer is a 9.9 album, but it has 3 skippers:
- Let Down - a very aptly named track. Schlobby and boring. SKIP.
- Fitter Happier - so what if it's basically just a skit. it's on the album and it's unlistenable. SKIP.
- Climbing up the Walls - Bleh. BRMC basically lifted this song note-for-note with 'Rifles', but actually made it good. SKIP.
I'll put one more out there: 'Rattled by the Rush' by Pavement on Wowee Zowee.
I'm sure I'll hear a bunch of [censored] over the OK Computer choices, but that's ok, cuz I'm right.....unless you're female, in which case you're allowed to like 'Let Down'.
So other examples?
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