Great albums and skippers.

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"The Beatles: Sgt. Pepper -- Within You Without You"

I was just going to post this.

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Yeah Lao Tzu was a hack lyricist.

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I'll put one more out there: 'Rattled by the Rush' by Pavement on Wowee Zowee.


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This song rules and it's catchy as hell. I'd pick best friends arm.

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Yeah Lao Tzu was a hack lyricist.

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The lyrics are fine, but the crazy-ass sitar music destroys the flow and continuity of an otherwise incredible album.

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I'll put one more out there: 'Rattled by the Rush' by Pavement on Wowee Zowee.


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This song rules and it's catchy as hell. I'd pick best friends arm.

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Rattled by the Rush = subpar lift of Zeppelin's Dancing Days sandwiched between two PERFECT songs, We Dance and Black Out.

If you're gonna skip Best Friend's Arm, you might as well just listen to Crooked Rain. Wowee Zowee's crazy greatness comes from tracks like that.

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I haven't seen this fairly obvious one mentioned yet, so I'll do it:

Led Zeppelin II: Moby Dick.

Live, incredible. On the record, SKIP!

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Live is better - sometimes - but the studio version is still pretty kickass.

Zeppelin has bigger "misses" on later albums; the first two are basically all killer tunes.

But my pick for biggest letdown "skipper" on an otherwise stellar album is "I'll Wait" (actually a hit!) on Van Halen's 1984. The keyboards creeping into VH worked on "Jump", but "I'll Wait" was so stupid and sappy; and the keyboard solo ranks as one of Eddie's worst musical moments.

-ptmusic

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"Fear of a Black Planet" is such a great album that it can stand as one of the best albums of all time without its entire second side. Of the thousands of times I have listened to that album I may have listened to the last six or seven tracks only a handful of times.

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Agreed.

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Talking Heads: Remain in Light --Listening Wind and The Overload

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I could do without the whole second half. The first half is one of the best dance/funk albums I've heard.

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"Fear of a Black Planet" is such a great album that it can stand as one of the best albums of all time without its entire second side. Of the thousands of times I have listened to that album I may have listened to the last six or seven tracks only a handful of times.

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This has to be a joke. I mean, come on. Really. Really? Come on. This has to be a joke.

"Fight the Power" and "War at 33 1/3" are like the #1 and #2 rap songs of all time. The first half of Black Planet is just a warm up.

No, I've convinced myself you're kidding. Nobody dislikes "Fight the Power." The second half of Fear of a Black Planet is rap music's finest moment throughout all history and time for as long as mankind lives.

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I feel the same way about someone not liking all of Remain in Light. That album was a friggin revelation.

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I agree that Life's a Bitch isn't that great... but it's not a skipper. Nothing on Illmatic is a skipper. The whole album is amazing. Nas is the greatest rapper of all time... that's right I said it... of all time...