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10-15-2005, 06:06 PM
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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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#2
10-15-2005, 06:09 PM
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Re: Great albums and skippers.
"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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10-15-2005, 08:39 PM
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Re: Great albums and skippers.
I feel the same way about The Chronic. Don't make it past "Little Ghetto Boy" very often.
This is almost a whole new question regarding 'front-loaded' albums, of which there are plenty to choose from.....
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#4
10-16-2005, 04:54 AM
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Re: Great albums and skippers.
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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. [/ QUOTE ] Agreed.
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#5
10-16-2005, 05:17 AM
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Re: Great albums and skippers.
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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. [/ QUOTE ] 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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#7
10-15-2005, 06:15 PM
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Re: Great albums and skippers.
I really like Letdown. Also, climbing up the walls starts off slow but builds very nicely. I guess I can see how some may think that it drags a bit. I like the creepy mood that climbing up the walls has.
As for fitter happier, it's not really much of a song but it's a nice "90s checklist" interlude to separate the two halves of the album.
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#9
10-15-2005, 06:23 PM
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Re: Great albums and skippers.
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I'll choose OK Computer as my example. (This is also the reason why OK Computer is inferior to the Bends and Kid A.) [/ QUOTE ] Dude, this is total BS. OK Computer is the greatest Radiohead album *ever*. If you can't understand this, then you're obviously a philistine. [ QUOTE ] - Let Down - a very aptly named track. Schlobby and boring. SKIP. [/ QUOTE ] This is just wrong. Let down is one of the best songs Radiohead has ever done, perhaps my favorite. Obviously taste is a very subjective thing, but in a thread on Radiohead in OOT a while back Let Down was consistently mentioned as one of their top 10 songs, so you're obviously in the wrong here. [ QUOTE ] Fitter Happier - so what if it's basically just a skit. it's on the album and it's unlistenable. SKIP. [/ QUOTE ] This is like a 40 second track. But you're basically correct. [ QUOTE ] - Climbing up the Walls - Bleh. BRMC basically lifted this song note-for-note with 'Rifles', but actually made it good. SKIP. [/ QUOTE ] Meh. It's not the finest on the album, I'll give you that.
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#10
10-15-2005, 09:11 PM
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Re: Great albums and skippers.
[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ] I'll choose OK Computer as my example. (This is also the reason why OK Computer is inferior to the Bends and Kid A.) [/ QUOTE ] Dude, this is total BS. OK Computer is the greatest Radiohead album *ever*. If you can't understand this, then you're obviously a philistine. [ QUOTE ] - Let Down - a very aptly named track. Schlobby and boring. SKIP. [/ QUOTE ] This is just wrong. Let down is one of the best songs Radiohead has ever done, perhaps my favorite. Obviously taste is a very subjective thing, but in a thread on Radiohead in OOT a while back Let Down was consistently mentioned as one of their top 10 songs, so you're obviously in the wrong here. [ QUOTE ] Fitter Happier - so what if it's basically just a skit. it's on the album and it's unlistenable. SKIP. [/ QUOTE ] This is like a 40 second track. But you're basically correct. [ QUOTE ] - Climbing up the Walls - Bleh. BRMC basically lifted this song note-for-note with 'Rifles', but actually made it good. SKIP. [/ QUOTE ] Meh. It's not the finest on the album, I'll give you that. [/ QUOTE ] never "insult" a Radiohead album. The fans are insane. Don't get me wrong, I love Radiohead but there are some people that would pay $1000 to eat Thom Yorke's loogies.
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