“Winterlude” on Dylan’s “New Morning.” Silly and repetitive. Easily outshone by its bookends – “Went to See the Gypsy” and “If Dogs Run Free.”

“Connection” on the Stones’ “Between the Buttons” (US version). Thrown away between to hands-down classics – “Ruby Tuesday” and “She Smiled Sweetly.”

Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit”

In the light?!!?! One of the best zeppelin songs ever written1!1!@@!!

System of a Down- the Album Hypnotize, the song is “Vicinity of Obscenity” The rest of the album is great but that song rotes my CD player.

This has to be “Revolution #9″ on The Beatles’ White Album. Despite its historical significance, is there anyone who doesn’t skip ahead to Good Night or just stop listening after Cry Baby Cry? Seriously, it has to be the most skipped track of all time.

“My world” by Guns n’ Roses, from Use your Illusion 2. That song was a filler for the record, and shows Axl’s flirtation with hip-hop elements. It was truly distasteful to end a great record with a disfunctional song like that one.

JPS, I think you’ve nailed it with Revolution #9.

I don’t think Squeezebox is that bad a song, and I don’t think The Who By Numbers is a great album. It’s good but largely disposable.

“Your Body is a Wonderland” on John Mayer’s Room for Squares album. That song, and the fact that it somehow became so popular, makes me gag. It’s the one John Mayer song I absolutely cannot stomach, and I’m a big fan!

Tie between “Bugs”, “Pry, To”, and “Heyfoxymophandlemama” on Pearl Jam’s Vitalagy.

“my southern girl” on Guero, the new Beck album…can you say overplayed!!!!

“The Card Cheat” off London Calling. I hate that song! It totally breaks the flow.

Right on about Revolution 9, The Card Cheat, Perfection, & Maxwells Silver Hammer. Connection is one of the Stones best. Squeezebox sucks but on what planet is Who By Numbers a good Who album? …maybe Think About You on Appetite for Destruction?

I like most of the songs initially mentioned…oh well.

“Country Honk” on Let It Bleed
“Seen Your Video” on Let It Be
“Dose of Thunder” on Tim
“(I Know) I’m Losing You” on Every Picture Tells a Story
“Yellow Submarine” on Revolver
“Planet Caravan” on Paranoid
“Shake Your Hips” on Exile on Main Street

I disagree with the above mentioned comment About System Of A Down’s Vicinity of Obscenity. i LOVE THAT SONG. However, On the previous album, Mezmerize, the last two songs Old School Hollywood and Lost In Hollywood are both awful. They shouldstop singing about Hollywood, or at least make the guitarist stop singing altogether. Damn he’s awful. Also, Halloween from Dave Matthews Before these Crowded Streets. That sucks as well.

Wha??? “In the Light” is one of the best Zepplin songs. And “Voices of Old People”, more of a sound collage than a song, is what holds S&G’s Bookends together.

“Chickfactor” on Belle and Sebastian’s The Boy with the Arab Strap, now that’s a song that totally sucks on an otherwise stellar album.

The Card Cheat totally goes with the flow. Great song. Do not dis Londoning Calling. Wild Honey off All You Can’t Leave Behind sucks to high heaven.

Its not that great of an album but “Jesus” on the first Queen album is terrible. Its like one of those songs that were in the really old church videos.

Word up on Revolution #9….here’s mine.

lonesome cowboy bill–VU’s Loaded
mobile–the who’s Who’s Next
wrapping paper–cream

Stay – Dave Matthews Band, Before these crowded streets. It’s horrible.

Hats Off to Roy Harper or the Grunge-Led Zeppellin-Houses of the Holy. But Led Zeppelin didnt write songs for everyone to like…they left that to the Bee Gees.

“The Crunge” on Houses of the Holy and “You’re a Big Girl Now” on Blood on the Tracks.

“Six Shooter” – Queens of the Stone Age, on Songs for the Deaf. Some people could say that this song fits within the album as a whole, but I just really don’t like it.

While I’m at it with The Beatles – I hate to say this but how many people make it the whole way through “Whithin You Without You” on Sgt. Peppers without skipping ahead to “When I’m 64″? Honestly? God bless you George, but if I wanted to hear 5 minutes of Raga music in the middle of a Beatles album I’d just get really stoned and play Revolution #9 backwards a few times.

Only prob with calling out Revolution 9 is there is too much other filler on the White Album, like Bungalow Bill, Wild Honey Pie, etc. Revolution 9 isn’t even in the bottom 5. Whereas In The Light is the only filler on Physical Graffitti.

How about A Man and A Woman on the newest U2 album? TERRIBLE SONG, I’m not too fond of crumbs from your table or one step closer, but A Man and A Woman may be U2’s worst song ever.

“D’yer Maker” on Houses Of The Holy. That is one of the most annoying songs in history. The rest of the album is strong.

run for your life -rubber soul
shaker maker – definitely maybe
torn curtain – marquee moon
when i’m 64 – duh
john wesley harding – john wesley harding

There are many who would argue that “Pet Sounds” from the album of the same name disrupts the flow of one of the best records of all time. But I don’t know, I think it’s alright.

It’s really hard for me to find a song I really dislike off of what I feel are “great” albums. They all seem to grow on you as you listen to the record over and over.

Speaking of ‘Abbey Road’,don’t forget Octopuse’s Garden. Without this Mcartney garbage and Maxwell,the album would have been a masterpiece.

wtf? smells like teen spirit?!! Are you crazy?
But i would personally go with “Space” on the Butthole Surfer’s “Electriclarryland”

Absolutely correct about Dose of Thunder and Within You Without You. So bad I always forget they exist.

Just to add on to the Zeppelin list, “Hot Dog” on “In Through the Out Door” is way worse than “In The Light”!!!

All those records where the Other Guy does a song, ie the Noel Redding, Andy Summers, Bill Wyman, Spiral Stairs song.

Maybe I’m an idiot. I actually like Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, and waiting for the worms. Maybe its just that i listened to these albums growing up and liked all of it. One song i would put on is “rainy day woman” from Blonde on Blonde.

How “Mother” from the Police’s “Synchronicity” album didn’t make this list is beyond me.

Personally, I always thought that “Thank You” didn’t really belong on Led Zeppelin II. To me it’s just weak next to all those other powerhouse songs.

How about half the filler garbage that Tool fits in between their strong tracks on EVERY album?

“polly” by nirvana is a skipper.

-how about “Juicy” off of better than ezra’s “before the robots”? that song is awful!
-another pick is “cabron” by the red hot chili peppers off “by the way”, and also “c’mon girl” off “stadium arcadium”.
-basically the entire second disk of the smashing pumpkins “mellon collie” is awful as well. I could live without that whole disc (with the exception of 1979).

those are the worst i can think of right now.

Uhm… let me think…

“Mary Jane”, on Jagged Little Pill (Alanis Morissette).
“I think I’m a mother” on To Bring You My Love (PJ Harvey).
“Field below”, on Begin To Hope (Regina Spektor).
“Mechanical animals” on Mechanical Animals (Marilyn Manson).
“Shame” on Adore (Smashing Pumpkins).
“Daffodil lament” on No Need To Arguie (The Cranberries, sorry but I hate this song so much).
“Yes Anastasia” on Under The Pink (Tori Amos, my fav singer but this song is a pain in the ass).
“Hammering in my head” on Version 2.0 (Garbage).
“Shanti/Ashtangi” (or something like that) on Ray Of Light (Madonna).

… and a lot more, but now they don’t come to my mind.

Pearl Jam’s “HeyFoxyMopHandle Mama, It’sMe”, from Vitalogy. An experiment gone horribly wrong by a brilliant band on an otherwise flawless album.

All Zep list… Thank You on II, Hats Off and That’s the Way on III, 4 Sticks on IV, The Crunge on Houses, In The Light and Night Flight on PG, Fool In the Rain and Carouselambra on ITTOD. The debut is flawless, tho.

My World on Use your Illusion 2 comes out of left field and should have been left there, and total pile of crap on otherwise great album(s)

WHOA, WHAT IS WRONG WITH BUGS!

although its a live album so im not sure if it qualifies, i can not listen to “Genius of Love” from the Talking Heads Stop Making Sense, and even though i feel guilty when i do i usually skip revolution #9, but some of these choices perplex me, i cant imagine not be able to stomach songs like lonsome cowboy bill, run for your life, or rainy day woman

“Uncle Salty” The only wart on the beautiful ass of “Toys in the Attic” -Aerosmith

- “Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat” on Bob Dylan’s “Blonde on Blonde”
- “Evenflow” on “Ten” and on any bootleg containing it
- White Stripes songs in which Meg is singing

“Out ta Get Me”- Appetite for Destruction
“My World” UYI II=easily the worst song ever created
“The Crunge”- House of the Holy
“White moon” Get Behind Me Satan
Finally, the final two minutes of “The Widow” on the Mars Volta’s Frances the Mute marred the entire album.

revolution#9 is a prime example of song that can be skipped over and over again. la blues by the stooges has more signifigince to the funhouse album than #9 does to white album.plus theres alot of other crap on the white album like bungaloe bill, while my guitar gentally wheeps(an overrated song that harrison isn’t even a good guitar player to acttually get a good solo together) obla dibla da (even lennon said he disliked that song). the white album is overrated but good, considering the songs that seem like your mind is going on a treadmill

i agree that Revolution 9 on the White Album is the most skipped song ever, but how bad is Piggies! That is disgraceful!!!

How about albums with only one good song? You want an overrated album…London Calling by The Clash is absolute rubbish. The only good song on it is the title track!!!

Thankyou and Thats the way are great songs…what are you on about love? I agree with you on Hats off to Harper and The Crunge though. They are regularly skipped on my cd player. Also, Down By The Seaside on Physical Graffiti

Aluminum on White Blood Cells

uhh,….anything on any Guns n Roses album is a overrated rubbishy piece of cockrock crap!

“les boys” by dire straits – making movies is their best album, and ending it with that song makes no sense at all

and i forgot, while i’m at it – “stay” by dave matthews? what the hell’s wrong with that song?

This is going to sound terrible but I actually LOVE “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” “Be My Girl–Sally” and “The Gift”. They’re all outstanding tracks for me on each of those albums… so yeah i feel real out of touch with this list.

I’d say “‘39″ on Queen’s A Night At The opera
“Dance, Dance, Dance” on SMB’s Fly Like an Eagle.
“Bullet The Blue Sky” off U2’s Joshua Tree.
“Lonely Day” off the last SOAD release.
“Beverly Hills” off the last Weezer.

There’s a terrible song on Vitalogy. Something about a mop.

marty-London Calling is the finest album ever. Some noteable ones:

The Crunge- Houses of the Holy
Homecoming- American Idiot
Shiny Happy People-Out of Time
Within you without you-Sgt. Peppers

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. 2 by The Flaming Lips

Personally, I loove Aluminum on White Blood Cells. And, as a fan of drone rock, I can respect the quiet racket on The Gift. As for Maxwell’s, it’s silly and slightly out-of-place, but I find it funny in a semi-creepy murderous way. And the piano plunking and harmony-filled chorus is kinda cool.

“Squeeze Box” is a great song…and although “Maxwell Silver Hammer” is a silly song…NO Beatle song is a throw away…sometimes i think you writers at Rolling Stone are so out of touch with rock n roll you think Fall Out Boy makes good music and Radiohead is “the only band that ever mattered”

Hungry Heart from the river

This is honestly the worst idea for a list I have ever seen. The RS editors should be ashamed of themselves for thinking of this. There is a difference between Clear Channel Induced Annoyance (ala Stairway To Heaven, ect.) and a “bad song”. And who are we to judge if a song doesn’t belong on an album? The aritsts made it.. why don’t you guys go dig up Jack Kerouac and tell him to take a chapter out of On The Road, see how happy he’d be. It makes me upset to see people debating whether “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” or “Within or Without You” belongs on their respective beatles albums. … Sickening

anything written by that junkie lead singer of Nirvana…what was his name again? GNR 06

By the way..Out Ta Get Me is one of the best songs Appetite..there are no bad songs on that album…everyone knows that….

Whole Nirvana catalog? Guns N Roses needed two Use Your Illusions because they had that many disillusions and crap songs to fill two whole albums. Last time I checked, Axl Rose should be having lunch w/ Russel Crowe, they’d have fun harrasing and abusin hotel staff.

Funny you mention that,, because when Axl got in Kurts face at the MTV awards..Kurt backed down..like the little liberal pussy he was….voice of a generation?? not mine

and both Illusions dominated planet earth..and on a worldwide scale piss all over anything Nirvana has ever done. Appetite alone sold 3 times the amount of Nevermind in America alone…Grunge was a fad…like boy bands

I agree with the statement below. How can you take a song off of The Beatles last recorded album. It was their swan song, they were not bickering during the album. But apparently the last moment of The Beatles run was not good enough for RS. While we are at, lets just gut the album. Yeah! Why not? Screw “I Want You.” Nah, I will one up RS. Let’s just scrap the entire medly that starts with “Sun King” and ends with “She Came in through the Bathroom Window.” How about RS starts truly criticizing the music industry and the bands of today instead of the Bands that are rock legends. You can criticize The Beatles but God forbid you say a bad word about Fall Out Boy and cost yourselves a dollar or two. These days RS stands for more of a commercial icon than a cultural one.

Since when did we measure the artistic value of a record by its sales? Well John, if you want to bring sales into factor, The Backsreet Boys piss all over your pistols and flowers three times over.

In response to Appetite for Deconstruction… grunge never existed… so was never a fad. Calling grunge a genre when bands like Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Smashing Pumpkins, and Alice in Chains wewre all categorized as grunge makes absolutly no sense to me. Umm, the entire country of China is probably issued a Guns N Posers album at birth.. so there’s a billion sold over there. Axl Rose may as well have a golden arch announcing his billionth sold on his fron lawn to math that rediculous head of braided hair. Hooray for Chineese Democracy!

you guys suck, in the light by led zeppelin is a great song, rolling stone can lick my balls

Blue Jay Way- Beatles from “Magical Mystery Tour.” The only bad song on the whole album. Even “Flying” is good.

Mr. Moonlight- Beatles from “Beatles Four Sale.” Quite possibly the worst cover song they did.

Dirty Little Girl- Elton John from “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road.” Never really liked this song.

I like the people who took this opportunity to completely dodge the question and criticize artists they don’t like at all. And if you’re going to name yourself after a Neil Young album, at least try to say something intelligent instead of bringing up Fall Out Boy irrelevantly and try to make a statement about our society like you know better. Let’s face it: this is is a commercial culture. Besides, everyone knows Fall Out Boy blows.

what are you guys thinking? you mention “voices of old people” but don’t even talk about the cover of “bye bye love” on bridge over troubled water! they’re equally bad in my opinion .

“Within you, without you” from Sgt. Peppers has got to get my vote.

I don’t think any song has ever done more to break up the flow of an album.

Its funny how you take the name of a president who revolutionized Democracy yet state a cop out like, lets face it..its a commercial culture. First off, if you the think the spreads that RS gives to Fall Out Boy are acceptable and then view criticizing the Beatles acceptable, you are a moron. That is the point.

You can insult Axl all you like..the bottom line is he still packs arenas and stadiums whenever he wants… what do you mean grunge never existed?

Hmmm… Within or Without You… Blue Jay Way.. someone even said “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”… I suppose if we just took George Harrison out of The Beatles and went back in time and added in Axl Rose and Slash then we’d have never had to have even THOUGHT of this list. Let’s put Buckethead in Pink Floyd also with that time machine. Let’s all make rock and roll history a better past to remember.

NOW your talking!! however i think Mcartney and Lennon would drag down Axl and Slash..so maybe we can just throw Duff and Izzy in as well…

F*** the Beatles!!! The only good beatle ate a bullet in 1980. Paul mccartney is a silly old git

I think we are onto something. We should just have Guns n’ Ringo.I mean every All Star Band has to have a lagging player, which would be Axl Rose.

haha nice one..

*Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite – Sgt. Pepper

*Hats Off to Harper – Led Zeppelin III

*High 5 (Rock the Catskills) – Odelay

*Without Me – The Eminem Show

*Evil And A Heathen – You Could Have It So Much Better

*On The Run – Dark Side Of The Moon

*Mamacita – Aquemini

*The ten minute long drone on Wilco’s Less Than You Think from A Ghost Is Born.

*Almost any skit on a rap CD.

I don’t get what the hate is with Within You Without You, I love that song. I also saw someone mention That’s the Way from Led Zeppelin III, what are you smokin? that might be the best song on that album.

I can’t believe that of all the choices for terrible songs on great albums you chose “The Gift”! The Gift is one of my favorite VU songs. The reason: it’s completely original and not to mention hilarious, if you can appreciate dark humor. And also, the song is a great example of the innovative and forward vision of John Cale when listening to the actual music. So please try to use wiser judgement next time.

Um, bangers n’ hash, do you actually sit through Revolution #9 and Within You, Without You when you listen to the Beatles? God forbid we poor freakin’ dork bastards argue over Beatles songs when Paul McCartney is worth over a BILLION dollars! CHRIST, you know it ain’t easy…

evil and a heathen is a pretty good song… i forgot to put that album on my greatest ever 2nd album list. I love that album, smokes their first one.

The 3rd track on Amnesiac still creeps me out.

I would have put “I want to tell you” from Revolver as more annoying than maxwell. That’s just me.

“Throw away your television” on by the way.

ooh. i always skip “there’s a world” on harvest. am i a bad person?

i also always skip “all in love is fair” on innervisions. i am a bad person.

Marty, I wouldn’t say their 2nd album smoked their first one, but it is better. To me “Evil and a Heathen” felt like it shouldn’t have been on there.

Someone mentioned Uncle Salty from Toys in the Attic…sad but true.

Rainy Day Women on Blonde on Blonde.
Jenny on Dig Me Out.
Accept Yourself on Hatful of Hollow.
Hit the Plane Down on Crooked Rain.
Mothers of the Disappeared on Joshua Tree.
Polly on Nevermind.

Fact… There are no bad songs on the good Bowie albums (tho of course plenty of losers on Lets Dance etc)

Maxwell’s silver hammer, Waiting for the worms, stay, polly are all above average songs, I wouldn’t exactly listen to them every time but they are at least interesting.

Within you, without you has always been my favorite George Harrison song.

I would have to agree with Smells Like Teen Spirit. I put it on my ipod but skip it every time it comes up on shuffle.

In the Light might have made a nice Elton song… Maybe with Axl on the piano, Paul and Linda singing harmony, at a benefit concert to free Tibet. But as a Zep song, it blooooows. They just needed to fill space and didnnt have another Wanton Song or Trampled Underfoot or Kashimir or Boogie With Stu in them.

If you like the backup guitars on The Gift, you can hear them on the instrumental version, Booker T, much improved without the standup comedy, which is long and predictable.

All beatles list… Taste of Honey on PPM, Till There Was You on WTB, The Word and Think For Yourself on Rubber Soul, Within You and Lovely Rita and Good Morning on Sgt Pepper, Something on Abbey Road, Revolution 9 and Piggies and Oblidi Oblada and Bungalow Bill on White Album.

I think I might be a bit too forgiving when it comes to terrible songs on good albums, or maybe all the albums I have that have terrible songs on them are albums that I don’t consider “great.” But two songs that I find completely unlistenable are “Cocoon” from Bjork’s Vesperine and “User Friendly” from Marilyn Manson’s Mechanical Animals. Oh, and “Drips” from The Eminem Show. Almost forgot about that one.

“Sloop John B” on Pet Sounds, why is it there? It doesn’t fit with the overall theme of the album.

“D’yer Mak’er” from Houses of the Holy… cringe worthy stuff boys…

Pry to is a great track, “P-R-I-V-A-C-Y is priceless to me”! cool lyrics!Heyfoxymophandlemama is also cool with awesome groove by irons and ament if you bother listening past the first couple minutes. i would have to say eternal life on Jeff buckleys grace is a terrible track

Here’s a couple of songs that suck on great albums:
Porcelain – Californication
On the Run – Dark Side of the Moon
…And the Gods Made Love – Electric Ladyland
Porcelina of the Vast Oceans – Mellon Collie and the Infinite
Sadness
Scentless Apprentice – In Utero

Bugs and Heyfoxymophandlemama on PJ’s Vitalogy is a complete waste of their time and ours…

Pearl Jam – Vitalogy – ‘Bugs’ & ‘Heyfoxymophandlemamathatsme’, what were you thinking lads?

GZA – Beneath The Surface – ‘Every single annoying anti-a&r skit’, pure filler tarnishing an otherwise superb hiphop record

Guns n’ Roses – Use Your Illusion II, ‘My World’, complete gash.

Alice in Chains – Jar Of Flies/Sap, ‘Love Story’, what the hell is that? The only crap Alice in Chains song in existance.

All Around the World – Oasis….Is a Never Ending Mess

Throw aways on good albums:
“Township Rebellion” – RATM
“Cabron” – RHCP; By the Way
“Denied” – Our Lady Peace; Naveed
“Jimmy Jazz” – Clash; London Calling
“Drugs or Me” – Jimmy Eat World; Futures
“Pry, To”, “Aye Davanita”, “Stupid Mop” – Pearl Jam; Vitalogy
“Smile Lines” – Incubus; Crow Left…
“Prince Caspian” – Phish; Billy Breathes

Leonard Cohen: “Jazz Police” on I’m Your Man

-”Into the Woods” off My Morning Jacket’s “Z”

-”This Devil’s Workday” off Modest Mouse’s “Good News For People Who Love Bad News”

“Black Hole Sun” on Soundgarden’s Superunknown

The thing that most dissapoints me about this list and some of the people who posted comments is that they dont take into account that most of the songs were recorded on vinyl and not a cd. Therefore, Within You Without You would have started side two. So it sounds way better because it is starting off the second have of the cd. In the light is also a good song that starts off side three of phyiscal graffiti. Plus GNR will never be the Beatles.

I decided that within You Without You is terrible because it is what made Sgt. Pepper so extraordinary by bringing in a whole new sound to England and America and I hate Maxwells Silver Hammer for being so quirky and funny because I hate the thought of the Beatles EVER having fun on Abbey Road because the thought of George Harrison and Beatle humour sickens me. I also hate comfortably numb for the stupid solo that should have been replaced with pig sounds from animals and imagine because the piano is such a stupid instrument. Oh and by the way I was so sarcastic that it seems stupid to even be saying this

“Free” on 1999. Almost every Prince album has at least one.

Dave Matthews – Gravedigger

Jack Johnson – Banana Pancakes

I stopped listening to Jack Johnson after hearing this song…

the strokes – vision of division on first impressions of earth
alice in chains – sickman on dirt, weird, clunky changes of tempo
the velvet underground – I found a reason on loaded
jacob you really don’t like into the woods? that’s like the catchiest song in history. I also don’t understand the “black hole sun” bashing, although there arent’ exactly any other holes in that album

Whodunnit – Genesis (on an otherwise great album “Abacab”)

Squeeze Box is a great song as well as In The Light. This list has no credibility. For my list, I’m gonna have to go with the throw-away tracks on Vitalogy. One of the best albums ever, just doesn’t flow with all the filler.

Although I am shocked to see people choose Maxwell’s Silver Hammer and Something over Octopuses Garden on Abbey Road, for me the song that always sends me for the ffwd button is “Standing in the shower…thinking” on Jane’s Addiction’s Nothing’s Shocking. Otherwise one of my fave albums of all time. And the other mood killer is “Land of Confusion” on Genesis’s Invisible Touch. A great album about all stages of a relationship with one glaring song about the cold war. Don’t get me wrong, I actually really love the song, just not in the context of the album.

Can’t believe “shakermaker” gets a mention, it’s a brilliant track on an entirely brilliant album! Definitely Maybe has it all, even the lull of “Digsy’s Dinner” has some appeal – who else can work lasagna into a tune?!

First off, there are no weak spots on “Back in Black.” “Let Me Put My Love Into You” is a great song.

My vote goes to “The Crunge” off of Zep’s “Houses of the Holy.” Horrible song on an otherwise spotless album. “Glorified G” for Pearl Jam’s “Vs.” sucks pretty bad too.

The Clash, with london calling, and kurt cobain, with everything he ever did, both revolutionized the face of music. Some of you have anger management issues or something, I like the crunge and hats off, not a fan of the latter half of over the hills and far away

“Mysterious Ways” by U2 off the Achtung Baby CD makes me cringe. Otherwise, may be their best album.

everything on 50 cent’s albums sucks!!!

OK computer- Subteranian Homesick Blues

Bob Dylan’s Bonde on Blone- first track (everyone must get stoned or whatever)

Most the Beatles albums contain a bad track. I think they did that on purpose. Usually the Ringo song, but there are others. “Rev. #9″, “Run for you life”, “Octopuses garden”. But never the George song. Especially not “Within You Without You. Or maybe it is bad but its still my favourite on that record.

“Lamaze” on the reissued “Nilsson Shmilsson is pretty weird

“The India Song” on the # record by Big Star is stupid.

I disagree with Waiting For The Worms and The Gift, the rest are on target. My pics:

“Dyer Myker” on Houses of The Holy (Led Zeppelin)

“Elvis Presley And America” on Unforgettable Fire (U2)

“The Beautiful Ones” on Purple Rain (Prince)

“Insect Royalty” on XTRMTR (Primal Scream)

“Settle For Nothing” On Rage Against the Machine`s debut

“Exchange” On Mezzanine (Massive Attack)

“Piggy” on Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails)

“Girls Gone Bad” on 1984 (Van Halen)

All bad songs on excelent records.

“A man needs a maid” on Neil Young’s Harvest.

“Headphones” on Bjork’s ‘Post’

Unlistenable.

“Wild Honey Pie” -Bealtes, White Album
“My World” -Guns ‘n Roses, Use Your Illusion II
“Kashmir” -Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti
“The Crunge” -Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy
“Her Majesty” -The Beatles, Abbey Road
“Ride My Llama” -Neil Young, Rust Never Sleeps

‘Perfection’ is the best song on RUN DMCs Raising Hell.

‘Dumb Girl’ is the worst.

Polly a terrible song?! WTF, I think not.

I think it must be said that to be an “Excellent Album” it must be great throughout. The point is moot.

You really should be asking for terrible songs on OK albums. Even the weakest songs on Excellent Albums are inherantly excellent.

Who comes up with these “lists?” Shouldn’t this be in the ‘jokes’ section? Maxwell’s Silver Hammer? Excuse me, but NOTHING on ANY Beatles album “doesn’t belong.” Same for The Who, Zeppelin, Floyd, AC/DC and DMC. Gimme a break. Whoever wrote this should be shot.

ANYTHING BY PHISH…The only reason people like them is because Jerry Garcia died..

who talks bad about pearl jam or have been drinking or is stupid.thanks pear jam for the good music

whats everyone got against the crunge? i mean its not brilliant but its not that bad

anything by radiohead or coldplay they all suck

“Bongs” on STD’s first album. Only a minute and a half and lyrics like “Bongs! Bongs! I like to smoke Bongs!/ All you mutherfukin’ hippies can kiss my ass!” It just isn’t that good. Fan favorite though.

Beatles suck! John Lennon was gay, why else would he marry Yoko. She is a transvestite. True story. Paul married a girl with one leg… and got dumped by her.
“Elvis Presley in America” is a great U2 song.
“Piggy” is one of the best songs on downward spiral.

Pearl Jam….. just let it go.

“Ignoreland” from REM’s Automatic For The People

“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” totally belongs on the list. While “Abbey Road” is nothing short of great, that lame song gets skipped every time it comes up on my CD player.

Others that get skipped on a regular basis:

“Welcome To The Machine” from Pink Floyd’s “Wish You Were Here”

“Tongue” from R.E.M.’s “Monster”

“The Crunge” from Led Zeppelin’s “Houses of the Holy”

“Going Mobile” from The Who’s “Who’s Next”

Bugs on Pearl Jam’s Vitology. The song ruined the album for me.

Sneer all you want at “Squeeze Box” – it was a big late-career hit for The Who and a reflection of a quality so lacking in modern rock bands: the capacity for lightness and humor. It’s really a joyful song, a picture of real domestic bliss underscored by lasting love between mother and father, and I think they pulled off a kind of rustic American folk vibe that other english bands tried and failed to convey…oh well, my opinion. And I love “In the Light” too…

Nico- from the Cult Beyond Good and Evil makes no sense on such an great rock allbum.

hats of to roy harper-led zeppelin 3

what was plant thinking?

in the light should have never been put on this list

“mother” on the Police’s Syncronicity album. A masterpiece with this ear-shredding mess of disharmony. It doesn’t fit.

COUNTRY GIRL – Black Sabbath Mob Rules. Come on Dio?

the hidden track on Rise Against’s “Revolutions Per Minute.” One of the worst covers I have ever heard.

How about a list of the worst ideas ever by RollingStone.com

In the light…greatest song on the album, shame on you rolling stone

Sorry but i have never heard a bad Led Zepplin song.

zeppelin(SP) sorry

Bruce Springsteen – “Lets Be Friends” on The Rising

I have to skip over this song everytime.

Despit Exile On Main St.`s brilliance, there are a few stinkers: Turd On the Run, I just want to see his face.

“What Goes On” from Rubber Soul. That would quite possibly be the best Beatles album if not for that horrible track. “What Goes On” makes “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” sound like “Bohemian Rhapsody”.

songs 2 and 3 on binaural, then the best album ever…
blind melon, soup #3 ”vernie”
hail to the thief, radiohead ”the gloaming”, except if its live
incubus, a crow left of the murder, that song…
silverchair,freakshow , ”lie to me” i cant stand this song.

Oh yeah – and “Fill Your Heart” from Bowie’s Hunky Dory…

“Let Me Put My Love Into You” is NOT the worst song on Back In Black!! “Shake a Leg” is.

LMPMLIY is one of ACDC’s best…on any album!

“I Can’t Dance” Grievous Angel
“Night Flight” Physical Graffiti
“Meet me in the Morning” Blood on the Tracks

Well… We all have to admit that skipping a song often happens because of the length of the song–our fast-paced lives these days… So I have to admit always skipping “Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts” on Dylan’s “Blood on the Tracks.”

And RIGHT–Led Zep’s “In The Light” is a spiritual experience. Essential stuff!

…I mean, RIGHT to the other posters who defended the Zep tune, not RS!

All time worst song on a great album for me is the song RV from Faith No More’s Angel Dust. Worse, they played the damn song in their 45 minute set when they opened for Guns and Roses/Metallica…what a waste of time!

“EXP” from Jimi Hendrix Experience’s Axis: Bold As Love
“Ronnie Talk to Russia” from Prince’s Controversy
“5-Piece Chicken Dinner” from Beastie Boys’ Paul’s Boutique
“Fitter Happier” from Radiohead’s OK Computer
“Stankonia (Stanklove)” from Outkast’s Stankonia

Agree with many of the comments, except for the knuckle-dragging philistine who dissed London Calling.

“Underneath The Bunker” From R. E. M.’s “Life’s Rich Pageant”.

Did someone really say “Meet me in the Morning” on Bob Dylan’s Blood on the Tracks?!?! Are you OUT OF YOUR FLIPPING MIND.
Lets go more recent: “John Wayne Gacy” on Sufjan Stevens’ excellent “Illinoise” album; the only crap/creep joint in the set.

“not the red baron” on boys for pele.

i can’t believe someone called “yes, anastasia” a pain in the ass. that’s her best song for christ’s sake!

“Country Honk” – Let It Bleed
“Dear Doctor” – Beggar’s Banquet
“High and Dry” – Aftermath (US)
“Third Stone From the Sun” – Are You Experienced? (US)
“End of the Night” – The Doors
“Moby Dick” – Led Zeppelin II (I know people like this song but I think it’s just a rip-off of Cream’s “Toad”)
“Everybody I Love You” – Deja Vu

Romeo And The Lonely Girl on Thin Lizzy’s Jailbreak.

I personally like Maxwells’ Silver Hammer.

Really interesting to see how much passion people have for music. In my opinion, any song that was popular and got played a lot on the radio (and still gets played a lot) doesn’t belong on this list. Squeeze Box, D’yer Mak’er, Yellow Submarine, Evenflow, Shiny Happy People, Mysterious Ways, Sloop John B, and Rainy Day Women do NOT belong on this list. We know them as classics and even though I have varying opinions of each song, I still see them as classics. There is one choice I completely agree with. “Mother” does not belong on Synchronicity by the Police.

Weezer – We are all on drugs
Lou Reed – Heavy Metal Machine
(Even he would skip the whole thing)
Neil Young – T-Bone
(Neil sings, “Got mashed potato/Ain’t got no t-bone”, for 9 minutes)
ACDC – Inject the Venom
John Lennon – John and Yoko

Damn this is easy,
“This cocaine makes me feel like I’m on this song” from Mesmerize,
“Addiction” from Late Registration, “Any Skit” from Any Rap Album Ever, “#9″ from the White Album, “It’s true that we love one another” from Elephant, “Fitter Happier” from Ok Computer, “Dracula’s Wedding” from TheLoveBelow

Right on, Brian, about “A Man Needs a Maid” on Harvest. You start the album off with some pure vintage Neil then all of a sudden along comes Neil Young and His Kill Yourself Orchestra. God, it’s so overwrought and depressing! Listening to that song while I’m driving makes me want to veer into on-coming traffic – a MAAAAAAAAAA-AAAAAA-AAAAA-AAAII IIDD… *crash*

Atomic Punk on Van Halen’s debut

In the Cold, Cold Night on Elephant by the White Stripes (sorry meg, but you just can’t friggin sing)

The Fallen Interlude on Blink-182’s last album (seriously guys… come on)

Affliction on AFI’s latest album Decemberunderground (pointless yelling)

On the Run from Dark Side of the Moon (c’mon, I know you all skip it, too)

“Pry, To”, “Aye Davanita”, “Stupid Mop” – Pearl Jam; Vitalogy

Tie between “Bugs”, “Pry, To”, and “Heyfoxymophandlemama” on Pearl Jam’s Vitalagy.

Pearl Jam’s “HeyFoxyMopHandle Mama, It’sMe”, from Vitalogy. An experiment gone horribly wrong by a brilliant band on an otherwise flawless album.

There’s a terrible song on Vitalogy. Something about a mop.

Pearl Jam – Vitalogy – ‘Bugs’ & ‘Heyfoxymophandlemamathatsme’, what were you thinking lads?

Atomic Punk – Van Halen 1 ROCKS

I Like Dirt From RHCP’s masterwork, Californication. I know the song just follows the band’s established stylo, but seriously…I hate dirt.

I’m sorry Van Halen sucks nuts. Jump beeotch!!!

Bruce Springsteen’s Born To Run is one of the greatest albums made. Every song is impacable… with the exception of “Meeting Across The River.” It puts me to sleep every time, i wish Bruce could have replaced it with a song from “DArkness on the Edge of Town.”

U2’s Achtung Baby: “Love is Blindness”
Patti Smith’s Horses: “Redondo Beach”
U2’s How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: “A Man and a Woman” “One Step Closer”

ANY SONG FROM OK COMPUTER

Any of the car noises on the Minutemen’s brilliant “Double Nickles on the Dime”

last track on aic’s jar of flies. ive never even heard the whole song it sucks so bad, and i love that album. oh, and polly from nirvana? whoever included that is retarded, the song is brilliant.

“Porcelin” on the Chili Peppers “Californiacation” album. Just picture how well the whole album would have keep momentum from the poppy first half ending with “Easily” into the funkier second half starting with “Remit Remmus”. Its like a deer jumping out onto the highway, forcing you to slam on the breaks, then pick up the pace all over again. They should have saved it for the “By the Way” album!!!

“United” from British Steel by Judas Priest

“Vicar In A Tutu” from The Queen Is Dead by The Smiths

“Two Different Worlds” from Agent Provocateur by Foreigner

The Police one is ALL wrong.

It should be:

Mother : Synchronicity

Go listen to it. I dare you.

I don’t understand English very well, but the first time I heard I want you, from Abbey Road, sounded to me as the most dissonant music I had ever heard at the time. I don’t konw about its lyrics, but the music itself….arghhhh!

How about ‘Don’t Damn Me’ on Use Your Illusion I.

And ‘Sloop John B’ from Pet Sounds is a good call, too.

About a 1/3 of the crap on Tool’s 10,000 days.

But the all-time crap-track for me is Maggy Mae off of Let It Be. What the hell were they thinking?

I really strongly disagree with many of the picks being mentioned here, but especially Prince’s “Free” from 1999. I love all of the songs on 1999, and this one provides a nice balance to some of the other messages on this album, such as “I sincerely want to **** the taste out of your mouth”.
I also always thought “Mother” from Syncronicity was interesting and sinister, albeit a noisy and somewhat disturbing track.

“Life’s a Bitch” on Nas’s Illmatic. the album is so incredible but this song dos’nt display Nas’s lyrical force or abiltity very effetivly. It also ruins the album’s flow and vitality.

OK, I’ll throw in my vote for one song I will not listen to: “Get in the Ring” off of GNR UYI 2. Are you seriously telling me that AXL kept GNR in the studio for like 5 years so he could put out crap like this? Ranting about someone that said something bad about him. Geez, save it for your buddies, not you multi-million dollar album.

First off, The Who’s “The Who by the numbers” is an awful album. “Squeeze Box” is probably the best song on it. I like Maxwell’s silver hammer. what RS left out is “Seamus” off of Pink Floyd’s Meddle. Vitalogy has a bunch of bad songs. “Bugs” is one of the many. I thik Vitalogy, although good, is PJ’s weakest album. There are also lots of bad songs on Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Also, Rolling Stone is dead wrong on Velvet Underground’s “The Gift.” If you have any doubts, listen to it while on amphetamines. Every maid has her man or whatever that song is called is awful

Oh yeah, GNR’s “Get in the ring” is a perfect Awesome album/Awful song. The same can be said about “Rocket Queen” on Appetite for Destruction. Axl is awesome, but he sounds like he is moaning about some transvestite hooker on that song

You cannot remove any songs off Abby Roadwithout disrupting the flow of 1 of the masterpieces of all time

The Replacements were easily one of the best bands of the 80’s, where “Let it Be” was probably their best album, but the song “Gary’s Got a Boner” is pretty awful. By the way, Springsteen’s “Meeting across the river” is definately not a bad song. I doubt the majority of fans would put that on the list.

hey eric w…. my “connection” is a gem

I truly agree with the “Mother” song on the Police Syncronicity album. It’s SCARY and does not belong there. But “In the Light” from Zeppelin’s Physical Graffiti? That’s just wrong! Try “The Great Gig in the Sky” from Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon. That lady’s shrieking is enough to make you want to cover your ears for protection!

Gotta stick with the classic
one two punch of Revolution #9 and Good Night from the White Album

Have these anti-classics been mentioned?

“My Fairy King” – Queen (the ultimate great album killer)
“Black Angel’s Death Song” – VU & Nico
“Morpha Too” – Radio City, Big Star
“Your Algebra” – Oh, Inverted World, the Shins
“Hardcore/Ballad” – Grand Prix, Teenage Fanclub

Girl Gone Bad is one of the BEST Songs on 1984. Try I’ll wait.
Excitable from Hysteria, every other song is great.

Cheap Trick:

Dream Police- Way of the World (never cared for this one)

Heaven Tonight: Takein’ Me Back (pointless)

” You See Me Crying,” the horrible end to Toys in The Attic from Aerosmith gets my vote, not Uncle Salty.

Killers from the album of the same name – Alice Cooper
Anything with Kurt Cobain worthless ass.

I’m not a fan of “A Man Needs a Maid” off of Neil Young’s Harvest. It might be a good song musically and others may like it, but I always skip it. Is that one of the criteria for this post?

Les Boys on Dire Straits’ Making Movies. What was Knopfler thinking?

And Revolution 9 on “The Beatles”. Who would play this drug-addled noise more than once?

Please, please, PLEASE don’t trash “Rocket Queen”!

Really, If I actually feel that an album is good enough to be called “great”, I probably like every song on it and wouldn’t skip any of them (such as “The Wall” – some of the songs are not as good as others, but they all work together to create the overall experience).

It’s amazing to look down this list and see that several of the songs people have mentioned are my favorite songs on those albums. LOL

I might skip “Mother” on Synchronicity at times when I don’t want my nerves rattled, but I think it fits right in with the mood of the album. Just about every song on the album is alarming in one way or another — Murder by Numbers, Synchroncity II, Miss Gradenko, King of Pain, Every Breath You Take. These aren’t as disturbing as Mother? I think Andy Summers just distilled all his angst into one screamer, while Sting took the rest of the album to get his out in a less histrionic way. And who can’t relate to the line “I love my mother, but I don’t need her as a friend?” (Sorry if not exact quote.)

Forgot these:

“We Will Fall” – The Stooges
“It Was a Pleasure Then” – Chelsea Girl, Nico

Half of these comments are arguments, or rants against bands like the Beatles and Nirvana, just because they made a big impact. And there will always be someone to be the Devil’s Advocate…”if it was popular I hate it” attitude.
Anyways, my pics that I can think of right off are:
- Radiohead’s alternate version of Morning Bell on Amnesiac. I love everything Radiohead does, but that could’ve been left out.
-Also, 15 minutes on the Stroke’s First Impressions album…Julian sounds completely drunk off his gourd…his vocals just ruin that song.
Two downers on otherwise perfect records.

“The Gift” is a totally pointless inclusino in this list. Not only because its an interesting song, but also because (if you don’t like the narrative) you can always pan it left and listen to a perfectly good instrumental in “Booker T”.

But what about “Lady Godiva’s Operation”? Even as a huge VU fan…the poor production (even worse than the rest of WL/WH) and Lou Reed’s terriblyn off-key singing…this song remains a painful listen everytime.

“Mother” on Synchronicity was the FIRST song I thought of. “Ms. Gredenko” is also just weird. And whoever said Caroselambra from In Through the Out Door–yeah. That’s maybe the only Zep song I don’t like. Even more unitelligable than usual–and JPJ’s demented carosel on crack backing: not helping. Call me sacreligious but I think 90% of The White Album is filler. But U2–a Man and a Woman their worst song? No way! Most groups would wet their pants to write something that lyrical and profound! Says me.

“Peace on Earth” on U2’s “All that you can’t leave behind”

“Aluminum” The White Stripes “White Blood Cells”

“We Suck Young Blood” Radiohead – Hail to the Thief Too Creepy even for Radiohead.
“Old King” Niel Young – Harvest Moon I can only handle so much Twang. The Classic “My Dog died” Country Song.

Lost Tonight on Liz Phair’s Somebody’s Miracle album; Love is a Good Thing on Sheryl Crow’s self titled; No Sense on Cat Power’s Moon Pix; Waited So Long on Carly Simon’s No Secrets.

Although Talking Heads REMAIN IN LIGHT is their masterpiece, based on the strength of side 1 alone, the last batch of songs “Houses in Motion”, “Seen and not Seen”, “Listening Wind”, and “The Overload” are pretty unlistenable IMHO.

And the Velvet Underground’s “The Gift” is a GREAT, CLASSIC, HYSTERICAL song!!!!!!!!!!!!

“Yellow Submarine” – The Beatles, Revolver. Ick.
“Revolution 9″ – The Beatles, The Beatles.
“Fitter Happier” – Radiohead, OK Computer.
“Treefingers” – Radiohead, Kid A.
“Of Course” – Jane’s Addiction, Ritual De Lo Habitual.
“Lipan Conjuring” – Tool, 10,000 Days.
“Cesaro Summability”, “(-ions)” – Tool, Aenima.

If we’re talking about great albums, Bob Dylan has the only game in town. Not exactly an obscure one, but how about his worst song on his greatest album: “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35″ from Blonde on Blonde. I don’t care if it’s parody, humor, or whatever; it’s gawd-awful.

Have to add “Torn Curtain” from MARQUEE MOON by TELEVISION.

How the F$ck can you list Sound Garden’s “Black Hole Sun” as one of the worst songs? It’s one of the best. ARGH!

“big man with a gun” off of The Downward Spiral – nine inch nails

Definetly, not “Waiting For The Worms” from Pink Floyd’s The Wall!?!?!?!?!

If I had to pick one off of that record it would be, “Don’t Leave Me Now”. I like Roger’s voice but that one really pushes it.

Fitter Happier – OK Computer

‘Do It’ on the Doors ‘The Soft parade’ album was awful…
Almost as bad as ‘Runnin Blue’, which was on the same album…

TCS

Awful songs on great albums-

‘Dr Robert’ on the Beatles album ‘Revolver

‘We Don’t Need No Education’ on Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall

‘Maggie may’ on the Beatles ‘Let It Be

‘Horse Lattitudes’ on the Doors album ‘Strange Days’

“What Goes On” on The Beatles Rubber Soul. “That’s Not Me” on The Beach Boys Pet Sounds. “Computer Blue” on Prince’s Purple Rain. “Lemon” on U2’s Zooropa.

Great call on We Will Fall from The Stooges.

Top Jimmy on 1984.

Everyones Gone to the Movies on Katy Lied.

Aw, I love Dyer Maker…

porcelain on Californication…RHCP.

Tha t song gives me gas!

The Beatles – Yellow Submarine.

Without this song, maybe the best Beatles album – with it, just the top 3. Their worst song by far.

#9 is great! What is wrong with you fools!???

And to the idiot who said Horse Lattitudes was the worst song on Strange Days – You are by far wrong wrong wrong. Listen to the lyrics, and you may get the brilliance of the song.

A MASTERPIECE.

They slam “The Gift” on White Light/White Heat just because it was experimental, and “Waiting for the Worms” is a decent song, there is SOME filler on The Wall. I’d say “Shakermaker” on Oasis’ Definitely Maybe and “The Sprawl” on Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation.

I’ll sencond “Lemon”, but not “Computer Blue”

“Stairway To Heaven” Led Zeppelin
“Bennie The Bouncer” Brain Salad Surgery

“Out on the Tiles” On Zeppelin 3 is a terribly goofy, proto-disco throw-away!
“Talking World War 3 Blues” off of Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan is thoroughly embarrassing.
“Call Her Green” on Blue is way too precious and hippie, even for early seventies Joni Mitchell.
“Everybody Hurts” is a flaccid, primetime melodrama on an otherwise classic album.
Sebadoh 3’s “Smoke a Bowl” nearly brings the album down a full star in my opinion.
“She’s So Fine” on Axis: Bold As Love is pathetic!
“San Tropez” on Meddle doesn’t belong at all!
I never listen to “Brown Sugar”, and often forget its on Sticky Fingers!

Santeria – Sublime.

“The Crunge” on Led Zeppelin’s Houses Of The Holy. “Hats Off To Roy Harper” off of Led Zeppelin III is pretty bad too. But “In The Light”?! What are you guys smoking???

“Magic Medicine” by Incubus off of S.C.I.E.N.C.E.

Funny, seems like nobody here, including RS, knows what a bad song really is…

Ragged Glory is completely right, how can Rolling Stone praise that worthless fall out boy band thats not even rock, and are a disgrace to any rock band ever, good or bad, but yet talk bad about the beatles, I’m truly upset that emo, is as popular as it is because of rolling stone…sigh..

I would pick out “February Stars” from the Foo Fighter album “The Colour and the Shape”. It had great hits, including the masterpiece “Everlong”, but that one song just steeps too much into sappiness as well as melodrama even for Dave Grohl.

“Sweetest Perfection” on Depeche Mode’s Violator. Near-perfect album of pop fluff brought to a screeching halt by this buzz-kill.

Anyone who misspells the name of the song should not be allowed to comment. That said, 1) Pencil Rot on Malkmus’s Face the Truth 2)Dr. Robert on The Beatles Revolver 3)Cigarettes and Coffee (Blues) on Otis Redding’s Soul Album 4)Round and Round(It won’t be long) on Neil Young’s Everybody Knows This Nowhere 5)Passive Manipulation on Get Behind me Satan by the White Stripes.

February Stars is a great song, and you obviously have no idea what your talking about.

Amen brotha I say Amen to “Mother” on Synchronicity. Exactly what the hell WAS that?

RoyBarber | 7/13/2006, 4:29 pm EST

Anyone who misspells the name of the song should not be allowed to comment. That said, 1) Pencil Rot on Malkmus’s Face the Truth 2)Dr. Robert on The Beatles Revolver 3)Cigarettes and Coffee (Blues) on Otis Redding’s Soul Album 4)Round and Round(It won’t be long) on Neil Young’s Everybody Knows This Nowhere 5)Passive Manipulation on Get Behind me Satan by the White Stripes.
^^
What’s wrong with Passive Manipulation?

“Joey” on Bob Dylan’s “Desire” The kicker is that on one of the box sets is a song (Abandoned Love) that seems to have been recorded in the same session and is just a gem. My second pick is “Linda Paloma” on Jackson Brown’s “The Pretender” – what the hell was he thinking? Oh, and also, “Mary, Queen of Arkansas” on Springsteen’s “Greetings from Asbury Park” Three fantastic albums, three horrible songs.

hey, i kinda LIKED squeezebox.

Paint a Vulgar Picture on Strangeways.
Free Money on Horses.
The Wanderer on Zooropa.
Johnny Ryall on Pauls Boutique.
The Modern Age on Is This It.
Providence on Daydream Nation.
In my Time of Dying on Physical Graffiti.
Hare krsna on Zen Arcade.
And sorry but Within You Without You.

the pointless cover of “I’m so excited” on Le Tigre’s “This Island.” Also, “Secret Agent” on Melissa Etheridge’s “Lucky”. Finally, don’t know if soundtracks count but “The Naughty Song” by Cory Lee on the L-Word season 3 soundtrack is a pretty awful song on a good album.

“Les Boys” on Dire Straights’ making movies is like garnishing a masterpiece with silly string.

Social Disease on Slippery When Wet.
Southern Man on After the Goldrush.
Back to the Old House on Louder Than Bombs.
Situation Vacant on Something Else.
I was Made To Love Her on Wild Honey.
Operaotor on American Beauty.
Back to the Rocking Horse on Open Up and Say Aaaah.

Seems like most of you just pick out whatever songs sounds the most different on an album.

“Jigsaw Puzzle” off Beggar’s Banquet by the Rolling Stones

“Raining in Baltimore” from Counting Crows’ excellent debut ‘August and Everything After’

Beth on KISS’ destroyer album!

“The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight” from R.E.M. ‘Automatic for the People’ makes me grind my teeth and void my bowels.

“Lightnin’ Hopkins” from R.E.M. ‘Document’ was a dark stain on a nearly flawless album.

“Twisted” from Joni Mitchell’s classic album ‘Court and Spark.’ I turn it off right after “Trouble Child” every time

I can’t speak for the last ones, but I think the first three are actually very good songs, even when considered in the context of the album. To be the kind of song you’re talking about, it has to be that one song that you race to the player to skip over when it plays (w/ the old-fashioned LP) or deliberately program out on the CD player. I can’t think of any of those right now, but I’m sure I’ll be back when I do think of one.

“Little Acorns” on The White Stripes’ “Elephant.” Such a perfect album, but this song is definately Jack’s “Yellow Submarine.” Whoever posted “The Card Cheat”: I hope Joe Strummer haunts you in your sleep.

“She’s Electric!” Oasis, …”Morning Glory”-always used to have skip through it on cd, but ya know, with my ipod it’s like it never existed.

Someone mentioned “Joey” by Dylan on Desire. I absolutely agree — the worst song he’s ever done that seems like he wanted it taken seriously. As for “Rainy Day Women,” it’s a fun song, and because it’s a weaker song on a colossus of an album is no reason to lump it in with some of the crap being tossed around here.

“Lovebuzz” on Nirvana’s Bleach
“Severed Hand” on the new Pearl Jam, the last section sounds exactly like “Insignificance”
“Across the Sea” on Weezer’s Pinkerton
The song after Heart Attack Man on Beasties’ Ill communication, can’t remember the name, don’t want to
15 minutes is a good strokes song dammit

Mostly, Digsy’s Dinner on Oasis’ Definitely Maybe.

“The Rock” is pretty much pure instrumental filler on Quadrophenia
“Women” on the Blue Mask(little more than a sad attempt by Lou Reed to convince people that he’s not gay).
All Ringo songs on Beatles albums
Any Neil Young song that deals with the environment (except for “After the Goldrush” and “Thrasher”)
Any Grateful Dead song sung by anyone other than Garcia, Weir or Pigpen
Any attempt by Joni Mitchell to get funky

“Mobile” from Who’s Next. Its a great album and that song just breaks the greatness.

“Hard to believe” off of The Monkees Picses,Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones LTD.

“Orange” from Jon Spencer Blues Explosion’s – Orange – why name the album off of the worst song?

“Hey Captain, It’s x-mas” from The Wood Floors – Knowing Girls..X-mas songs on regular albums are a bad idea.

Songs that should be on the list:
“Return to Innocence”-The Roots (Things Fall Apart)-lovely little spoken-word ditty about incestous rape; “It’s True That We Love One Another”-White Stripes (Elephant); “Henry Hammers Harder”-Knapsack (Day 3 of My New Life); that Japanese song on Regatta De Blanc by the Police (”Mother” is a damn good song and shouldn’t be on the list); “Next Exit”-Interpol (Antics); “Daddy Sang Bass”-Johnny Cash (don’t know the album, but the song sucks), and finally, “Love Is Blindness”-U2 (Achtung)

axl rose blows tooo many covers
get out of 88 john

“In My Place” off of “Rush of Blood to the Head” Coldplay will never get close to this kind of awesome album again, and you can almost listen to it all the way through, except for that damn “In My Place” song. So bad.

“we will fall”, on the stooges’ debut.

Every song that Nirvana ever put out on every one of their albums.

DEF every song Ringo wrote on all Beatles albums . . . what were they thinking?!

Van Diemans Land on Rattle and Hum (U2)is another one that really irritates me!

GNR fans hate Kurt because he made Axl irrelevant to the point that it took people at least 10 years to even care that he was missing from the music scene

I’m not sure I agree with listing the instrumental interludes as bad “songs” on an album…sure if you were listening solely for song’s sake, you’d skip them, but they aren’t really songs plus they are meant as connectors to be listened to with the album as a whole (like Treefingers on Kid A) I’ll agree that Tool has too many of those moments though. Every other song is too much

Amazing how different people are!

Revolution 9 never bothers me. It’s Revolution 1 I usually skip. And The Word is one of my favorites! The only Beatles songs I dislike are Baby You’re A rich Man, Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,Obla-and I Will.

And again this little exercise proves it-opinions are like ass holes-everybody has one

Maybe I should expand on my critique of Tool. I like most of their interludes, especially the ones on Aenima. They really tie that album together quite well and it definitely wouldn’t be as good w/out them. However, on 10,000 Days, they just don’t seem to work as well. I think it might have something to do with the fact that I don’t like the songs as much as either. They don’t hold a candle to Aenima!

Ok, this one is just Beatles:

Rubber Soul: whatever that song Ringo sings, yuck

Revolver: nothing, even Yellow Submarine is awesome

Sgt. Pepper: I agree Within You is not that stellar, but how does it disrupt the flow of the album? It opens the second side of the vinyl, starting it off on a drone (although it drones a bit too long).

The White Album: People are seriously wrong about a lot of their selections for this one. Piggies, Bungalow Bill, While my Guitar??? There are plenty of other WORTHY throw-aways, like Wild Honey Pie, I’m So Tired, Don’t Pass Me By, Why Don’t We Do It In The Road, Sexy Sadie, and of course, Revolution #9. Fact remains that had the White Album been released as a single album (or if Hey Jude was on it instead of #9), it would have been the greatest album released ever and for all time.

Abbey Road: Octopus’s Garden. That’s all. The rest is amazing.

And despite all those gripes, the Beatles are still the absolute best band in the history of pop music.

“We Only Come Out at Night” and “Lily (My One and Only) on Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness are the 2 worst songs on that album! It totally takes me out of the listening experience everytime I listen to the album and have to quickly make for the skip button! Awful!

This one might be a stretch.

Michael Jackson’s “BAD” album where he duets, FINALLY, with Stevie Wonder and they produce a flop monster ‘Just Good Friends’. It was like the B-Side to a terrible B-Side. Two talented musicians and this is what they give us. Pure Crap. Other than that song, the album is great.

I like the song the gift on white light/white heat lou tells a good story it is worth a couple of listens the one song on that cd that is the worst is sister ray 17 minutes of annoying guitar. Speaking of the beatles half of ths song on the white album are skipable including oba di ob ba da, back in the ussr and helter skelter.

I could really do without MMMbop. I never got that song.

“Dancing in The Dark” on Bruce’s “Born In The USA.” If he had included “Shut Out The Light”, which would have book-ended perfectly with the title track, it would have been a perfect album.

mother is annoying but ok
these lists are stupid

every song that roger taylor sang on a queen album sucks. Why have him and brain may sing songs on a queen album when you have freddy mecury.

Squeeze Box rules, so suck it. Sweet banjo solo.

gods dice on pearl jam binarual
evolution on 311 soundsystem
shes like heroin on system’s hypnotize
so much i on rhcp stadium arcadium
the pot on tool 10000 days
the becoming on nin downward spiral
the last song on foo fighters in your honor

“The Word” by The Beatles on Rubber Soul. I’d get up from my chair and manually cue past it on my record!

Are You boys crazy?!?! In The Light’riff always blows my head just like any powerful Soundgarden riff. That riff ROCKS!!!! How about that crappy Ringo Starr tune in the White album (don’t tread me bad or something like that…) filler every way you see it!!!

“Stupid Mop” off Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy

RHCP – “Sir Psycho Sexy”, BloodSugarSexMajik

GNR – “Get in the Ring”, Use Your Illusion II

“Saturday Night Divas” off of the Spice Girls’ Spiceworld album. Totally disrupts the flow of an otherwise flawless masterpeice.

Don’t Pass Me By is the song you’re trying to think of, Ronald R, but the White Album was fraught with songs that could be labeled by that very title!!!

Beatles – Wild Honey Pie (White Album)
Beatles – Yellow Submarine(Revolver)
Beatles – Doctor Robert (Revolver)
Bob Dylan – Rainy Day Women #12 & 53 (Blonde on Blonde)
Nirvana – Dumb (In Utero)
Pearl Jam – Bugs (Vitalogy)
Sonic Youth – My Friend Goo (Goo)
Stooges – We Will Fall (Stooges)
Velvet Underground – The Murder Mystery (Velvet Underground)
White Stripes – It’s True That We Love One Another (Elephant)

Man….to that guy who said “We Suck Young Blood” off of Hail to the Thief (Radiohead), if you ever saw them perform that song live you’d have a new appreciation for it – Thom was cracking up the whole song…the audience was dying laughing….just priceless

“Mother” on The Police’s Synchronicity…

yessh

Beatles- Revolution #9. Just plain old terrible. The rest of the white album is amazing.

Cake – Album – Comfort Eagle … song … ‘Comfort Eagle’ – ironic, huh

I forgot “Silver” off Doolittle by the Pixies. A terrible song off the greatest album of all time.

I have a bone to pick with you guys. Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is a fantastic song, who else but the Beatles could get you to bob your head and hum along to a song written in a cheery major key that’s about Jack the Ripper…or that other serial killer. Squeezebox too, many other Who tunes that are put to shame by this song. Bluesy, country tinged yet still rockin? It’s a classic.

“Bugs” on Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy.

Oh damn, people already mentioned that.

Spiceworld a “masterpiece”!? Wow.

WOW!!! Almost forgot about Moonchild on King Crimson’s 1st album Court of the Crimson King.

“Fitter Happier” on Radiohead’s OK Computer

Hey Foxymophandlemama, Bugs – Vitalogy

Wild Honey Pie, Revolution #9, Don’t Pass Me By – White Album

Anything that does not sound like Pink Floyd on the Wall (Stop, The Trial, etc)

And just want to Defend the following as not being bad – Maxwell’s Silver Hammer, Yellow Submarine, In the Light. Songs may seem a little out of place in their respective albums, but are not by any means bad…

How about a list of rock’n'roll magazines that used to be good but then started putting teeny boppers like Justin Timberlake, Britney, Christina, Jessica and Nick, etc. and supermodels on the cover just to sell a few more copies. Hmmm, which magazine do you think heads the list?

“Rockin’ the Suburbs” from Ben Folds’ album of the same name; “October Leaves” by the Good Life on “Album of the Year”; and the Smiths’ “Vicar in a Tutu” on “The Queen is Dead”.

it’s funny that RS thinks their opinions have value anymore.

whoever said this list is dumb is right, but two crap songs no one mentioned yet- seamus on Meddle (no, david gilmour is not funny) and don’t tread on me, black album

Anything by Nirvana, or some other boring, over-hyped band. does anyone really enjoy those songs or do they just feel cool that they tell people that they like them. Like it’s more fun to listen to “Polly”…”polly wanna cracker” than FOB’s (who it’s now cool to bash b/c they have fans)Sugar We’re Goin’ Down (don’t mind me/ i’m watching you from the closet/ wishing to be the friction in your jeans) Wow, I’m elitist and only like bands prior to 1980. I’m also really old now, trying to recapture my youth, and really boring. Yawn.

Here are some more bad songs from good albums:

Beachboys- “Bull Session with Big Daddy,” from Today. What the hell were they thinking?

Monkees- “The Day We Fall In Love,” from More of the Monkees. They had several good ones in the can yet they chose this stupid spoken word piece?

Byrds- “We’ll Meet Again” from their debut album. Also “Oh Susannah” from Turn Turn Turn.

Moody Blues- “Nice To Be Here,” from EGBDF. Absolutely silly.

Kiss- “Kissin’ Time.” from their first album. A rip off of “Sweet Little Sixteen.”

Genesis- “The Brazilian” from Invisible Touch. Last song, easy to skip.

Stevie Wonder- “Maybe Your Baby” from the otherwise excellent Talking Book album.

Bruce Springsteen’s “Meeting Across The River” off Born To Run. it sucks and its voring and out of place and doesnt share the ongoing theme that the other 7 songs have.

U2’s “A Man and a Woman” “One Step Closer” off How to dismantle an atomic bomb. disapointing.

Rolling Stones’ “Shattered” from Some Girls. really gay song.

Beatles’ “Lady Madonna” another gay song

A Handful of Led Zeppelin songs released after IV Zoso

Turd on the run. RS. Exile on Main
Alpha Beta Gaga.Air. Talkie Walkie
Optimistic. Radiohed. Kid A
Revolution9.The Beatles. White A.
Money. PF. Dark Side of the Moon

“Health & Happiness” on Wallflowers Red Letter Days.

“Revolution #9″ on the White Album.

“Yellow Submarine” on Beatles’ Revolver

‘Lightness’ on Death Cab For Cutie’s Transatlanticism

“One Way Mule” on Silverchair’s Diorama.

can’t think of anymore

p.s. Marcos, ‘Lady Madonna’ is not on any Beatles album. It was just a signle.

Bjork’s ‘Holographic Entrypoint’ from Drawing Restraint 9
No Doubt’s ‘Staring Problem’ from Return of Saturn
M.I.A.’s ‘Fire Fire’ from Arular
Madonna’s ‘Shanti/Ashtangi’ from Ray of Light
Pulp’s ‘I Spy’ from Different Class
Ryan Adams’ ‘Enemy Fire’ from Gold

exactly, thats how bad it was. it coldnt even make the cut for an album. haha

I know a lot of people liked the album, but is there anyone else who thought some of the songs on Illinois were pretentious and could have been removed to create a more down-to-earth album?

pearl jam “hey foxymophandlemama,that’s me” this song is so bad it makes “bugs” forgivable.

alanis morissette “mary jane”
the smiths “meat is muder” great album title, annoying song.

saving the best for last: soundgarden “head down” and “half” this is my favorite rock record, but i felt forced to burn a copy without these two stinkers, and simply store the original.

wow i should have read everyones comments before I spoke. I now feel better knowing we are all confused by a third of vitalogy. I need to day that there are no bad pixies songs and rem’s automatic for the people is flawless. A couple more i forgot the first time : live “waitress” from throwing copper- i don’t need a band teaching me to tip. also I always skip “interstate love song” while listening to stp’s second album. “hunger strike” from temple of the dog takes away my appetite!

Guns N Roses’ “Use Your Illusion II” – Shotgun Blues and My World. What were they thinking?! And i’d like to defend Dylan’s “Rainy Day Women # 12 &35″ – its not a bad song, i like it and im not a stoner by any means. Look at what the song says through implication, not directly

Okay, agreed about Revolution 9.
Totally disagree about ‘Maxwell’s silver Hammer’. that song is a frikin classic and cracks me up every time I listen to it.

And where the hell do some of get off bashing other classic such as ‘Smells like Teen Spirit’ and ‘Yellow Sumbarine’ ?!? I mean seriously.

Talk about twisted culture…

Another tune for this Room 101 of bad tunes:

Pantera – Far Beyond Driven – ‘Good Friends and a Bottle of Pills’

yes pry to, bugs and hey foxymophandlemama were all terrible songs but they were intentionally terrible…..for truly horrible songs on otherwise great albums:

‘grace’ off of U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind

obladi oblada off the beatles white album (god i hate that song)

Easy skankin’ on bob marley’s Legend (not an album technically, but it still ruins an otherwise perfect greatest hits compilation)

little acorns off of the white stripes Elephant

The Who’s Boris the Spider
R.E.M.’s Everybody Hurts

“China Girl” off David Bowie’s “Changes”

“You to Thank” of Ben Fold’s ingenious “Songs for Silverman.” Pretty much just a terrible song… and this is comming from a true Ben fan so you know it is bad.

King Crimson- Moonchild
Wilco- Less Than You Think
Two great songs that you may tend to skip if your not in the mood.
Genesis- Your Own Special Way
A precursor to what they would produce in the 1980’s.

First, I LOVE Maxwell’s Silver Hammer. Don’t dis. As well as Within You Without You and (switching bands) Vicinity Of Obscenity.

Anyways:
I definitely agree with Cole about “Six Shooter” on Queens of the Stone Age “Songs For The Deaf”. And I’m going to add the first track on that CD too – QotSA’s screaming is the only thing that stops it from being my favorite band.

Others:
“Brat” on Green Day “Insomniac”
“Paperclips” on Travis “12 Memories”
the album version of “Coming Down” on Starsailor “Love Is Here”
“On Top” on Killers “Hot Fuss”

And NO ONE talks bad about “While My Guitar Gently Weeps”. That song is amazing.

Oh! Here’s another one, though people may disagree on the greatness of the album.

“COD” on Videodrone’s self titled de…er, only album. That song just freaks me the hell out and has no purpose.

“Island of Wonder” on Folklore

Six Shooter on Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf. Awful!!!

Six Shooter on Queens of the Stone Age Songs for the Deaf. Awful!!

“Pea” on Red Hot Chili Peppers One Hot Minute Album. Its ridiculous. Luckily, “My friends” (my fav chili song ever) “Aeroplane” “Shallow Be Thy Name” etc completely make up for it.

worst entries on a great rolling stone topic: the ones arbitrarily dissing Nirvana
you’re a moron if you think liking them is still trendy, maybe you should listen to them with an open mi nd or else shut up, unless you yourself plan on topping the billboard charts and revolutionizing rock & roll while adhering to your punk roots, like they did

How in the world can someone say Shattered, off of Some Girls, is a terrible song???

People, something to keep in mind–the question was terrible songs on GREAT albums. I mean come on, someone named a Better Than Ezra album!

“Stairway to Heaven” on Led Zeppelin 4
“Paranoid Android” on the Bends by Radiohead
“Thriller” off of Michael Jackon’s Thriller
“Impressions” by John Coltrane on a Love Supreme
Like Every Clash song but “Rock the Casbah”

I’ve been thinking about Revolution No. 9 — we’ve been looking at it all wrong. It does exactly what it’s supposed to, which is get people riled up. Almost 40 years after its release, people are paying premium prices for the White Album — $30 on Amazon and it’s in the top 200 sellers — and then grumbling about if they took that stupid track off, it’d be a single CD selling for half the price. It may be musical noise but it’s marketing and artistic genius. If you don’t think the Beatles did things just to make people buy product, how about the whole Paul is Dead joke?

“God Only Knows” off of ‘Pet Sounds.’
ugh – so pretentious.
that clip-clop percussion is actually the sound of Brian Wilson beating off in the back ground.

You guys are all so pretentious. Everyone knows Revolution #9 was just a rocking jam you could groove too. Maybe you should get out of your ivory towers and smoke a bowl with some bros and just kick it to the white album.

i’ve got a great idea for a list (and im actually serious about this one), terrible songs on the rolling stone 500!!

“Wind War Wind Blastarmy, A” off of ‘It’s Always 1999′ by Mindflayer.
unbearable noise!

“Tabby Tabbatha Today” by Rickshaw Jim and the Purple-Blue Things on Tippers from Hell

Jimmy Dean–
You’re a tool.

and paranoid android is on ok computer buddy

The Crunge – Houses of the Holy

“The Nurse” on Get Behind Me Satan. After the great opening track, someone please tell me how this songs fits in on this album? I listened to it once adn haven’t heard it since. It’d make a better B-side IMHO.

U2 “Red Light” (War)
REM “Ignoreland” (Automatic for the People)
The Doors “Horse Lattitudes” (Strange Days)
The Police “Mother” (Synchronicity)
Pink Floyd “Any Colour You Like (Dark Side of the Moon)
Radiohead “Electioneering” (OK Computer)
David Bowie “What in the World” (Low)
Nine Inch Nails “Big Man with a Gun” (The Downward Spiral)
Bruce Springsteen “Crush on You” (The River)
The Beatles “What Goes On” (Rubber Soul)

“I’m Your Angel” on Double Fantasy. Most of the Yoko songs are OK, but that one is really bad.

“Kind & Generous” on Ophelia by Natalie Merchant immediately came to mind. It was the lead single and totally misled people as to the feel of the album. The song represents that boring adult contemporary side of Ms. Merchant’s music that doesn’t appeal to me. Had I only heard that song, I would have never investigated the rest of the album. This would have been a tragedy because the rest is subdued, stripped back and a great gloomy listen.

“Revolution No. 9″ – The Beatles

“Dance Hall” – Modest Mouse (Good News…)

“No Life Signed Her” – Pavement (Slanted and Enchanted)

“D’Yer Mak’er” – Led Zep (Houses of the Holy)

“When I Grow Up” – Garbage (Version 2.0)

“Broken Beads” – The New Pornographers (Twin Cinema)

“The Way Out is Through” – NIN (The Fragile)

“Meet the G That Killed Me” – Public Enemy (Fear of a Black Planet)

bugs- vitalogy, pjam

This magazine SUCKS !!!

“Your Algabra”- The Shins (Oh, Inverted World)

“I’m the Man Who Loves You”- Wilco (Yankee Hotel Foxtrot)

“I’m a Wheel- Wilco (A Ghost is Born)

I love Wilco

“A Man Needs a Maid” from Neil Young’s Harvest.

Neil Young may take the Lifetime Achievment Award in this category.

How about, “Les Boys” on Making Movies – Dire Straits?

I hate myself for saying so, but State Trooper from Springsteen’s otherwise brilliant album, Nebraska.

the point of the list is to name songs off good albums that suck. not say “anything by…” or “anyone on…” you’re not being clever or witty, youre being stupid.

Of all the songs to skip on Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, you choose “I’m the Man Who Loves You”? That’s CRAZY! It’s one of the few SONGS on the ablum! If I were going to pick a Wilco song that I always find myself skipping, it’s Misunderstood from Being There. Not that it’s not a good song, but it’s a terrible lead-off track. With so many great songs on that album, why start if off with a bunch of noisy dissonance? I always skip ahead to Far, Far Away and sometimes come back later.

‘push me ,pull me’ on pearl jam’s ‘Yield’ . god, that song is annoying ( if it is even a song , i dont know what eddie was up to there .

’she hates me’ on ‘come clean’ by ‘puddle of mudd’.

‘do you wonna dance’ on ‘if you can beleive your eyes and ears’ by the ‘mamas and the papas ‘ .

‘when i’m sixty four ‘ on ’sgt peppers lonely heart club’ by the beatles.

‘come as you are’ on ‘nevermind ‘ by nirvana . i always skip it .

all those people who hate nirvana just because they like pearl jam or the opposite are so sad. can’t people like both brilliant bands ?

I just dont get it. How the hell is maxwell’s silver hammer a TERRIBLE song. I prefer to call it brilliant (great melody, and very creative). But if it isn’t that, it is by no means terrible. Some of you goddam critics are way too arrogant. You think you can write a song like that?

The little bluegrass instrumental after “Hey Ladies” on Paul’s Boutique. I know it’s 10 seconds long, but it throws off the flow of the album.

And “Shiny, Happy People” from REM’s Out Of Time makes me want to destroy whatever is playing it.

Speaking of Dylan, I thought these songs were really crappy, from Blonde on Blonde:
“One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)”
“I Want You”
“Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again”
“Just Like a Woman”

Just kidding! That album is perfect, there are no bad songs on that album!

U2 – Trip Through Your Wires (Joshua Tree)
Gin Blossoms – Cheatin’ (New Miserable Experience)
James – Low Low Low (Laid)
Peter Murphy – Roll Call (Deep)

“Revolution #9″ on the Beatles’ White Album

bummer in the summer- forever changes- love

In the Light rules. Sorry folks. It just does. However, I’d have to put down “Some Might Say” off of Oasis’ What’s the Story Morning Glory. It doesn’t fit, it’s sloppy, it still has the bad drummer on it. What gives? Oh well. That’s my two ‘cent’ yo.

Mary Queen of Arkansas on Greetings From Asbury Park…the only time i can recall that the boss went pretentious…

btw, not for the sake of being different, but Bugs is a great song in the meter of Vitalogy..a nod to Tom Waits, and as good a paranoia song as Dylan’s Ballad of a Thin Man..it’s not a single, get over it..

La La Love You from Doolittle by the Pixies.
Shooting Dirty Pool from Pleased to Meet Me by the Replacements.
I Won’t from Don’t Tell A Soul by The Replacements.
Knock It Right Out from Mono by Grandpaboy (Paul Westerberg).
Atrocity Exhibit from Closer by Joy Division.
Caesar from American Caesar by Iggy Pop.
Shake Appeal from Raw Power by the Stooges.
Dime Store Mystery from New York by Lou Reed.
The Murder Mystery from the Velvet Underground.
Welfare Mothers from Rust Never Sleeps by Neil Young and Crazy Horse.
Farmer John from Ragged Glory by Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse.
Piece of Crap from Sleeps with Angels by Neil Young w/ Crazy Horse.
Prisoners from New Clear Days by the Vapors.
Mikey’s from Trouble in Paradise by Randy Newman.
I Wish I Cared from Minor Earth Major Sky by a-ha.
The Body from Happy? by Public Image Ltd.
Ease from Compact Disc by PIL.
Like That from 9 by PIL.
Dyslexia from Dada by Alice Cooper.
Back to Front from Give the People What They Want by the Kinks.
Don’t Forget to Dance from State of Confusion by the Kinks.
Face the Face from White City by Pete Townsend.
Why Can’t I Be You? from Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me by the Cure.

I forgot I’m a Cadillac… from Mott by Mott the Hoople.

Who’s the retard that thinks In the Light is a bad song?

Christina Aguilera, “Dirrty” and “Get Mine, Get Yours” (paired back-to-back out of 20 tracks) on her Stripped album…I think they’re both good songs, but they’re totally out-of-place on an otherwise very mature album

No Doubt, “Staring Problem” on Return of Saturn…this song just sounds like an experimental song hacked out in the garage that should have stayed there

Missy Elliott, “Can You Hear Me?” on Under Construction…while the idea of a tribute song to all of Missy’s and the remaining members of TLC’s friends who have passed away is very heartwarming, the lyrics of the song are so uncreative that it’s almost an insult to Aaliyah, Tupac, etc.

Justin Timberlake, “Never Again” on Justified…basically, let’s put it this way: it’s obvious he worked with R. Kelly on this track because it sounds as uncreative as most of the R&B ballads were in the 90’s (when R. Kelly reigned supreme)…it sticks out like a sore thumb on Justin’s otherwise impressive album

Finally, virtually every “intro” put on an album has been terrible. I’m not really sure why tagging an intro track on to the beginning of every album became such a big fad in popular music, but it’s definitely one that artists should steer clear of! The only intros that I can think of that were actually good are ones that are basically inteded to be funny and have little to do with the album (like Lil’ Kim’s intro on her HARD CORE debut and Trina’s intro on her Diamond Princess album), and ones created by musicians that have significant brainpower (such as the intro to Missy Elliott’s Miss E…So Addictive album and Christina Aguilera’s Stripped album). Otherwise, intro tracks are like a clumsy essay that begins: “I’m going to begin this essay by telling you…”

I don’t know how I’ve seen “Electioneering” and “paranoid Android” on this list. OK Computer is probably the best album thats been released in the last 10 years!

Dawn Patrol- Rust in Peace

My World on Guns and Roses, Use your Illusion II

Sally, Be my girl is a great song!

I half-agree about I’m a Cadillac by Mott…the rock part of the song is great, but the last four minutes (the spectacularly boring extended “jam”) should not exist. What was Mick Ralphs thinking?

L.A. Blues on Fun House by the Stooges.

10:1 from Rogue Wave’s Descendend Like Vultures stinks.

buckets of rain bob dylan’s blood an the tracks

Mary’s Place from the Rising by Bruce Springsteen.

Don’t Talk to Me About Work from Legendary Hearts by Lou Reed.

Speaking of Dylan, I thought these songs were really crappy, from Blonde on Blonde:
“One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)”
“I Want You”
“Stuck Inside of Mobile With the Memphis Blues Again”
“Just Like a Woman”

Just kidding! That album is perfect, there are no bad songs on that album!

“Silver” and “Gouge Away” from Pixies’ “Doolittle.” Should have replaced them both with the b-side, “Manta Ray,” and it would have been indie pop perfection.

in the light is a beautiful song

‘Surf Wax America’ on Weezer’s Blue Album, ‘Winona’ in Matthew Sweet’s Girlfriend

Song: cupid de locke
Album: mellon collie and the infinite sadness

The Smashing Pumpkins

“Vibrate” from “Speakerboxxx/The Love Below”
“Tales Of A Scorched Earth” from “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness” (I normally like Corgan’s voice, but this is just too much!)
“Songbird” from “Rumours” (it’s not that bad, but it falls through compared to the rest of the album)
“Lady Grinning Soul” from “Aladdin Sane”

I’ll go with “Professional Widow” on Tori Amos’ “BOYS FOR PELE” and “RUNAWAY LOVER” on Madonna’s “MUSIC.”

I think “Bullet the Blue Sky” best exemplifies this for me. It may be a good song, and it may be incredible in concert, but it just doesn’t belong on The Joshua Tree. I’m just disgusted to have to reach for the skip button while listening to that album, but I do it every time.

How about mother on the police album synchronicity. Way sucks! But a great album…

Mother, on The police Synchronicity album. What a bad song on a great album!

“Power to the Music”-Motley Crue-self titled album

squeeze box IS a good song

I’ve read some arguments from people who are bashing RS for coming up with a list like this. The point is GREAT albums are the subject. Crap like Fall Out Boy, any emo band, most nu metal doesn’t qualify for this list but there are no GREAT albums to choose from.

Revolution #9 IS crap…I think John would agree.
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight (I love REM but this song just didn’t work for me….maybe just the wrong spot on the record)

R.E.M.:

“Under the Bunker” on Life’s Rich Pagent.
“Stand” on Green.

How bout Radio america off of Upt the bracket- By the Libertines great album song isn;t that bad but it really kills the flow of one of the best debut ablums ever

Michael Jackson’s “Invincible” could (emphasize “could”) have been a great album – however, “Speechless,” “The Lost Children,” and “Threatened” were utter embarassments, and “Privacy” (although good rhythm) was lyrically tepid.

“Before They Make Me Run” from the Rolling Stones Some Girls
“Battle of Evermore” from Led Zeppelin IV belonged on Houses of the Holy
“Hate & War” from the Clash debut

hey flynnie – hate & war? do you even like the clash?

“Before They Make Me Run” was one of my best songs!

I like Before They Make Me Run as well. I used to think Far Away Eyes was the worst song on that album, but I’ve come to appreciate it. I think Lies may be the throwaway song on Some Girls.

Squeeze Box RULES, you morons!

revolution 9 is not bad
the bad songs are every songs by Yoko Ono on Double Fantasy album

Peter Gabriel – So – “We Do What We’re Told”
U2 – The Joshua Tree – “Trip Through Your Wires”
Police – Synchronicity – “Mother”
Beatles – The Beatles (White Album) – “Wild Honey Pie”

What about Eternal Life from Jeff Buckley’s Grace? I think it destroys the mood.
It’s Oh So Quiet from Bjork’s Post was a mistake… her most successful song to date but such a commercial song she couldn’t put it on her Greatest Hits.
Agnus Dei from Rufus Wainwright’s Want Two- not the best song to start with, I always start at The One You Love

What about “Trapped Under Ice” on Metallica’s “Ride The Lightning”? This is clearly the only weak song on the entire album

James Laid album Low Low Low

Totally out of place for such a excellent album start to finish except of course Low Low Low. What an interuption!

Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dumb on Love and Theft is a horrible way to start an otherwise classic Dylan album.

Baby one more time was ruined by Crazy. Britney you can do better than that you are a genius!

Helpless – by Neil Young – Are you tring to make me puke?

In the light is a killer song on Zeps best album you tweekers!

Oh yea – how about – Jamm’in by Marley – think we have heard that one enough?

One more – that friggin song by Genesis – In the air tonight – makes me nauseous.

U2 “Elevation” on All That You Can’t Leave Behind. What’s that song doing on that album?

a classic album “doolittle” by the pixies , could do without – “here comes your man”!…just seems like it would fit better on a breeders album.

The cover of “I’m Gonna Love You Too” on Blondie’s Parallel lines comes to mind, for me… also, “Mind Gardens” on The Byrds’ Younger Than Yesterday.

Not to mention “Mother’s Lament” on Disraeli Gears

Jack of Hearts from Blood on the Tracks

Jack of Hearts off of Blood on the Tracks

Someone said “Trip Through Your Wires” from The Joshua Tree. Honestly, the first side of the album is so good that the second half as a whole really doesn’t match up. Am I crazy?

“Lily, Rosemary, and the Jack of Hearts,” isn’t terrible, but it is certainly subpar for the album.

Thank you whoever said “The Murder Mystery” off of The Velvet Underground.

“Don’t Be Shy” – The Libertines

Horrible horrible horrible

“Thong Song” – Blues for the Red Sun… Kyuss
“Bugs” – Vitalogy… Pearl Jam
“Moby Dick” and “Thank You” – Zeppelin II
“Trapped Under Ice” – Ride the Lightning… Metallica
“La La Love You” – Doolittle… The Pixies
“Alabama Song” – The Doors

Some people have been mentioning songs like Smells Like Teen Spirit, Black Hole Sun, etc… you are retards. Just because you are BORED of a song doesn’t mean its a BAD song.
Also, some of you are way too uptight about your Beatles. Tool is my favorite band but I can admit their interludes (a pox on all interludes!…) are annoying.
Aenema is my all time favorite album, warts and all.
Oh, and why did U2 purposely make exactly 1/2 of Joshua Tree and War absolutely unlistenable!? (the last halves.) Same could be said of most Rolling Stones albums… their horrible country filler absolutely pales beside gems like Gimme Shelter, Sympathy for the Devil, Street Fighting Man, Midnight Rambler, etc.

On more thing about Tool… they are so creative and intelligent with their music… instead of crappy interludes, why not just record some instrumental tracks (like Kyuss or Isis) to tie up loose ends? It would probably be easier.. arrgh! Oh well, off topic…

fuc dissin’ cute bugs song it’s not too bad
+ i like chord organ. pearl jams new cd is great + soon people will be saying life wasted reprise is terrible

pearl jams new album is good
severed hand is not bad but sounds like they were trying to hard to sound grungy again. the best song to me is unemployable which sounds fresh.
eventhough marker in the sand is a great song it sounds like sleater-kinney from the start only pj in the middle when it slows down circa ten era + when it speeds up at the end r.e.m.

there are alot of bad songs out there
it’s just like asking someone what’s yr favourite song or band?
hate that it’s annoying
for comeback albums pearl jams is good
but also “the silver lining” by soul asylum
it’s a shame that it hasn’t been reviewd yet + they were on 2 covers in th past
it has nicer artwork also
what’s up with pearl jams foto they look like slipknot within it

instead of bad songs here is my list of good stuff

pearl jam
soul asylum-the silver lining
sonic youth-rather ripped
nine black alps-everything is
the sticks + stones
arctic monkeys
flaming lips-at war with the mystics

Every cover of that horrible ‘Alabama Song’ (The Doors, David Bowie…). That recent new Prince album is really disappointing, when comparing to his earlier work. And where did it go wrong with Live after ‘The Distance to Here’!?

Re-reading all these comments, and thinking of the spirit of this list, which is tracks that have no place on an album, I have to agree with the guy who said “every skit on a hip-hop album ever.” Walking to work today I had to skip through 5 of them with my ipod on shuffle. I’d love to say it’s a recent fad, but one of the albums was De La Soul is Dead, which is like 15 frrrrgin years old! Hands up anyone who has faithfully listened to those skits every single time they’ve played their hip hop cds. No takers? Thought not. Off to edit my ipod playlists.

Good call on We Do What We’re Told on So.

Catch My Fall on Billy Idol’s Rebel Yell.
The Space Between on Avalon by Roxy Music.
Someone already said Torn Curtain on Television’s Marquee Moon. I would say Guiding Light instead.

its not my SOUTHERN girl, the song is just called GIRL

and vibrate is a great song. so is girl. listen to your own albums, not the radio, and you dont get tired of stuff

Zeppelin 1 is a flawless masterpiece except for “Communication Breakdown”, I can’t believe no one else has mentioned this song! Am i the only one that hates it?
Outkast-Aquemini is also flawless except for “Mamacita”–boooring.
WAR – The World is a Ghetto-yet another masterpiece with one exception- “Four Cornered Room”…what were they thinking??!!

“The Right Profile” off of London Calling by The Clash

and “We Love Deez Hoes” or however you spell it off of Stankonia

“For Your Life” off Presence by Zeppelin

“this lullaby” from queens of the stone age “lullabies to paralyze”

Funny, it seems like a lot of these mentioned were great interesting songs but don’t work on repeated listening in the long run. Doesn’t mean they’re bad or should have been cut. That’s why we have programable cd players and iPods. Plus you get to cut all those bonus tracks they add on to reissues- interesting but could spoil a classic album. BTW- the problem with Forever Changes is that the solos in a couple songs are mixed way too loud. I have to eliminate a couple tracks for that but they’re all good otherwise. With modern technology I’ve forgotten all about those annoying tracks I used to have to endure or get up and skip. Yoshime pt. 2 would have been annoying after while but I just remixed the album without it for my wife.

Oh yeah, what about that “we suck young blood” song on Hail to the Thief? I skipped that the 2nd time I heard it.

God Only Knows off Pet Sounds is incredible- skip Sloop John B. instead.

I was the opposite with “We Suck Young Blood” on Hail to the Theif…at first I would skip it but as time went on I enjoy it now. Raiohead’s albums for the most part are meant to be taken as a whole. I hardly ever just listen to one song, I take the whole album. Kid A for instance isn’t full of classic songs more than it’s just a classic ALBUM as a whole. I love it

Rooster – on Alice in Chains’ “Dirt.” I appreciate it may have been a heartfelt song, but boy it got old.

Any of Harrison’s Indian stuff on any Beatles record – Sorry, George. I’m just not there with you on that. Any time I hear a sitar at the start of a song, I’d skip it.

The much maligned “Bugs” – Yep.

Escape – off Metallica’s “Ride the Lightning. Can’t believe someone would diss “Trapped Under Ice.” This song is the one to skip.

la concha de tu madre

What about “I love you” from “To The Extreme” by Vanilla Ice? No one has ripped on this monstrosity yet? Every time I listen to this great album I have to skip right past this song. “I’ll buy you anything/yes girl, even diamond rings” C’mon, Vanilla, where is your dignity???

“fitter Happier” – OK Computer
“Chelsey’s Little Wrists” – slanted and enchanted
“crackity jones” – doolittle (not “here comes your man” or “gouge away”, which are two of the album’s best songs)
“treefingers” – KID A
“the gift” – white light/white heat
“providence” – daydream nation

nothing else matters-black album-metallica
unforgiven-bla ck album-metallica

These arent really bad songs…but for a heavy metal band, they are very lathargic. In addition, these songs are a foreshadowing of future suckage albums by a great band. (i.e. Load, Re-Load, Garage Days, S and M-with that sissy ass symphony. What a bunch of nancy boys.) This was some of the worst garbage I have ever heard from band that use play blazing guitar solos accompanied by a double base drum that sounded like a machine gun.

Thank God these guys are heading back in the right direction after there latest album.

How about Jolene from Olivia Newton-John’s Come On Over?

I love Wild Honey Pie and In The Light.
Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is not so bad. I hate it more than worse songs only cause it’s near such great ones.

how about “porcelain” on the red hot chili peppers’ californication or “a whisper” on coldplay’s a rush of blood to the head

“race car ya-yas” on cake’s album fashion nugget

“Jesus” from Queen’s first….if I went to church, I’d go THERE to be preached to, I dont want it in my rock records!
“Hot Dog” from In Through The Out Door now I almost never diss Zeppelin but this song was a huge mistake. If only they had been able to make another album to correct that error………
“We Will Fall” from the Stooges first. They cant even stay on time itz embarassing to listen to. Flawless masterwork otherwise, that album is.

Its amazing to see the multitude of different opinions.
I see a couple of people bashing “the Who by Numbers”. Sorry…that is a great album. The introspection and musicianship are A+. However…Squeeze Box doesn’t belong on that album. Good single. Bad album to be on.
The Who’s Tommy: Cut the Underture please. The overture is a genius beginning. I don’t need a rehashing of it. Thank god for my ipod.
The Beatles: When I get home…I hate this song…especially the “Love you till the cows come home” ick.
Pet Sounds is perfect…except for Sloop John B…
Van Halen’s Fair Warning is one of their best with the exception of “Sunday Afternoon in the Park”
There are so many more but…Lastly U2’s Zooropa…I can’t stand “the first time”.

“Hell Yes” on Guero by Beck, just dumb if you ask me

“Wake Up” on the latest Coheed and Cambria, not a fantastic album, but it would be a lot closer to being a five-star if they had left this piece of crap off of it

“Affliction” on the new AFI, like the guy said below, just pointless yelling — could use some serious revision and they should get rid of the stupid ending with the voices and crap

“Strip My Mind” on Stadium Arcadium disc one, easily the weakest track out of the entire album

Completely agree with “In the Light” and “Let Me Put My Love Into You”. I’d add “Do the Oz” from Plastic Ono Band, “Very Ape” from In Utero, “Violent Pornography” from Mesmerize, and Green Day’s secret song from Dookie.

‘Treefingers’-Kid A (Radiohead)
‘Debra’-Midnite Vultures (Beck)
‘Modern Girl’-The Woods (Sleater-Kinney)
‘It’s True That We Love One Another’-Elephant (White Stripes)

dog only knows is the best song on pet sounds ha! if yr puttin’ it down that’s a sin + you shouldn’t own it

it’s called girl
beck says “my sun-eyed girl” + i like it hell yes! which is the best on that record to me

squeeze box is good
+ dissin’ a little 10 secs of fun
on bb pauls boutique get a life

i agree this mag is sucking badly
what’s good, what’s bad?
what’s better, what’s best?

shiny happy people is fun
hate + war is 1 of th bests

*ahem* LA Blues by The Stooges? Are you insane, sir?

As for my picks I can only readily think of two:
Life Of Pain on Black Flag’s Damaged (one of the most amazing albums ever in my opinion)
and
Sex And Violence on The Exploited’s Punks Not Dead

Rolling Stones – “Shattered” (Some Girls) At least it’s the last track!

Bob Dylan – “Lilly, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts” (Blood on the Tracks) Possibly the worst of all. Long, meandering…totally breaks up what’s still one of the best records ever.

U2 – “Elevation” (All That You Can’t Leave Behind) Never understood this song. Chord changes aren’t chatchy, lyrics are no good…and it was a single?

Notorious BIG – “Respect” (Ready to Die) Awesome track at first, but ruined by horrific vocals by some chick. Totally abrasive, doesn’t suit the album at all.

Ryan Adams – “Enemy Fire” (Gold) Album is great but too damn long as it is, and this track just plain sucks.

I see a lot of people ripping on the second half of The Joshua Tree…why? “Red Hill Mining Town,” “In God’s Country” are “One Tree Hill” classic U2, and “Exit” is 100% pure, dark brillance.

A couple others mentioned a lot seem to be “Treefingers” and “Fitter, Happier” off Kid A and OK Computer…both of those tracks are essential for the flow and feel and their respective records. “Fitter, Happier” isn’t a great listen, but I can’t see why anyone would skip “Treefingers” if they were in the mood for a record like Kid A.

Fitter Happier – Ok Computer (radiohead)
…maybe i’m missing something but if any song from such and amazing and fantastic band is skipable its that one

“Sex Machine” on Sly & the Family Stone’s “Stand!”–a 13-minute, aimless jam, and the very definition of filler.

“Saturn” on Stevie Wonder’s “Songs in the Key of Life.” A song about an alien from Saturn lamenting Earth’s condition with brilliant lines such as, “On Saturn, people live to be 205.” The most hilariously cheesy song he ever wrote.

“A Man And A Woman” and “Yahweh” off How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb (U2). I’ve never in my life listened to them in full (and i don’t intend to). They make me itch for the skip button.

But hey, hey, NOTHING off the Joshua Tree is anything less than purrrfect. or Achtung Baby. Or even War. or, God help me, Zooropa. no, wait, i hate Dirty Day off that. and All That You Can’t Leave Behind just lags a lot.

How can you hate the song “39″ off Queen’s “A Night at the Opera”? Listen to the words — it is all about a relativistic journey in space and they come back to meet their grandchildren. Clever as hell.

Wow, it is a tough question, but here are a few in my opinion:

Sheryl Crow The Globe Sessions – “It Don’t Hurt”
Aerosmith Rocks – “Home Tonight”
AC/DC Dirty Deeds – “Love at First Feel”
Metallica Ride the Lightning – “Escape”
Radiohead The Bends – “Sulk”
Garbage Version 2.0 – “Wicked Ways”
Ozzy Osbourne Blizzard of Ozz – “No Bone Movies”
RHCP Bloodsugarsexmagik – “Sir Psycho Sexy”
Def Leppard Hysteria – “Excitable”
NIN Downward Spiral – “Piggy”

Angie – Goats Head Soup
I’m on Fire – Born in thee USA

Squeeze Box? I love Squeeze Box. It has what Townshend calls “that central dumbness”. It was pure pop in the way I’m A Boy and The Kids are Alright was born from.

“Little Star” from Madonna (Ray of Light) I know its about her daughter but PUKE.

“Bugs” from Pearl Jam’s (Vitalogy)

“Deathsex” from the very underrated album by the Distillers (Coral Fang)

I agree with Dardo and his comments.

oh and “I Love New York” from Madonna’s newest (Confessions on a Dancefloor). Rhyming “york” with “dork”…like, did you daughter write this song when she was 3?

any of pauls ‘granny songs’ really fucikng irk me. ex: when im 64, honey pie, maxwell’s silver hammer. and it always seems to kill the flow. oh and i almost forgot hello goodbye. which is the worst of the bunch

“We Suck Young Blood” on Radiohead’s HTTT. Yes, I understand it’s supposed to be slightly tongue in cheek. But god, it drones. And drones. And drones.

Totally agree with “Mother” on Sychronicity. Horrible!

Also “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt. II” on the Flaming Lips’ “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” – It’s a lovely, transcendent album with a huge gaping maw in the middle of it.

“Breed” on Nevermind by Nirvana is a complete waste of energy.

I disagree with “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”. I’d actually say “I Want You” is the bad song on that record.

Also, “Hello” and “Roll With It” on Oasis’ “(What’s the Story) Morning Glory” are dreadful.

Oh, and to Jenny, who’s fairly far down, I think that the second side of the Joshua Tree is almost better than the first side. Sure, the first have the hits, but you cannot beat “One Tree Hill” or “Exit” when it comes to craftmanship and music genius, not to mention the others on the second half.

The album is phenomenal as a whole. Neither side needs any work, and neither side lacks.

I’m with James. The second side of the Joshua Tree is outstanding. Exit is by far one of my top five favorite U2 songs. The intensity of that song….especially on the Rattle and Hum DVD….WOW

Patrick, “Bugs” is a classic PJ obscurity! lol you can’t seriously say it’s a bad tune ; – )

The obvious choice for me would be “My World” on Use Your Illusion II. My favourite G’N'R album, packed with great tunes, and then… that.

The two sex skits on Biggie’s Ready to Die.

This Time on the Verve’s Urban Hymns…not a bad song, but not up to par with everything else the Verve did in their 6 year career.

In My Place on Coldplay’s A Rush of Blood to the Head.

Squeeze Box definitely hit a nerve. Not only is it bad, I was absolutely astonished it was on The Who’s set list during their 1975 tour.

And since we’re going after Maxwell, let’s include Octopus’s Garden as a killer tune of the wrong kind.

heyfoxymophandlemama, that’s me from pj’s vitology. what is that?

i see “it’s true we love one another” a lot in these comments. give it some more listens, it grows on you. i’ll also add “doin time” from sublime, “beating around the bush” from highway to hell and “eleanor put those boots back on” from you could have so much better.

Love the concept… very “Hi Fidelity.” Staying strictly with my favorite albums:

Peter Gabriel, So – The correct answer is “That Voice Again” ( definitely not “We Do What We’re Told”)
Wilco, Being There – Starts to get long around “(was i) in your dreams” and “why would you wanna live”. (JPS – “misunderstood” sets the entire mood. Skip it and you might as well play another album.)
Jonatha Brooke, 10-Cent Wings – “Genius or a Fool”
Queensryche, Operation Mindcrime – “The Needle Lies/Electric Requiem”
Afghan Whigs, Gentlemen – “When We Two Parted”
DMB, Under The Table and Dreaming – “Lover Lay Down”
Blind Melon, Blind Melon – “Seed to a Tree”
(And because Pearl Jam references are apparently mandatory…)
Pearl Jam, Vs. – “Blood”
That’s enough for now…

the title track on “Transatlanticism” i don’t like the placement of that track, and it’s just to drawn out and boring.

The Card Cheat goes with the flow. If anything is wrong with London Calling, it’s Lovers Rock. I hate that one.

And Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is awesome. The funnest song about a serial killer. Mostly I cringe at a lot of Paul’s songs, but Maxwell’s Silver Hammer is one of my favourites on Abbey Road.

I think the concept of the list is good, but not well executed. I mean, you could’ve included Welcome to the Machine from Wish You Were Here, or Country Honk from Let It Bleed. They should’ve kept the original Honkey Tonk Women on there. And if anything’s wrong with Back in Black, it’s Shake a Leg. That song sucks.

The consensus on Radiohead seems to be Fitter Happier, Treefingers, and We Suck Young Blood. Interestingly, no one likes an interlude. However, an album (much like a book) cannot be a constant climax. The buildup and rising tension make you appreciate the height of the climax of any song and album. I believe, if there were any songs that did not belong on a Radiohead album, it would be Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors. Not only does the track not make sense in the album context, it is not a song to begin with. Its weirdness precludes the album’s attempt for greatness. But isn’t that twist exactly what Radiohead would want?

I kind of like we suck young blood from Radiohead it is better then anything off of Thom York’s new solo album.
By the way sloop john b was a hit at the time the album was coming out and capital wanted to put it on pet sounds for sale reasons.

Radiohead, “Bulletproof (I Wish I Was)”, from The Bends. A perfect album except for this childish snoozer.

Whoever said Beck’s “Debra”… no. If those Scientology aliens from the Galactic Federation ever come back, I want that song to be the first cultural artifact of Earth they encounter.

Ween – Chocolate & Cheese “Candi”
Ben Folds Five – Whatever and Ever Amen “Steve’s Last Night In Town”
Every Zappa album other than Hot Rats

Craig: “the entire second disk of the smashing pumpkins “mellon collie” is awful”

OMG the blashemy!!

I always skip “Mysterious Ways” from U2’s Achtung Baby – somehow that tune doesn’t go with the rest of the album’s dark industrial-berlin-endofmilleni um pop.

Erm, every track on every Dave Matthews Band-record is screaming for the skip-button. Now, that’s a thing to be proud of!

Or is that just an European thing? Sorry Dave, but I don’t like utter dull midlife crisis muzak from a boring guy. But I know that you are very nice to your fans in Wishihinnipakahoohoo, Alabama! And that is a positive thing!

FOUR OF MY FAVORITE ALBUMS HAVE DUDS ON THEM……..

1) Lily, Rosemary, and The Jack of Hearts…Dylan….Blood On The Tracks
2) Cripple Creek Ferry…Neil Young….After The Gold Rush
3) Linda Paloma….Jackson Browne…..The Pretender
4) Benefit Of Mr. Kite….Beatles…Sgt Pepper

How about “Reno” on Bruce Springsteen’s “Devils and Dust”. For all the hype about it it being a “dirty” song, I think it’s kind of lame. Not up to Bruce’s high standards.

Why is “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” the first song on the list? It’s supposed to be a pseudo children song, that’s probably why so many people didn’t like it. I for one think that song is very cleaver. You try to rhyme words like “quizzical”

At least most of the songs listed are liked by some people – e.g. “Squeeze Box” and “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” – but how could the Police ever think that “Mother” would do anything other than annoy people? Does anyone out there like it?

Neil Young’s “Ride my Llama” on “Rust never sleeps” is the only weak song on an otherwise perfect album, one of the best albums ever made…

Clearly, “In the Light” albeit too lenghty, is a great Zeppelin song, but “The Crunge” is by far the wosrt Zep song ever; and no, “Hats Off to Roy Harper” isnt all that bad, especially for the low-fi aspect of it. Also, “Ride my Llama” is a good song off of Rust Never Sleeps. Unfortunately, I would have to agree about “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” which is just too much McCartney for anyone.

I’d say that ‘Electioneering’ doesnt belong on OK computer (although it does give some relief on the album) but its definatly not a bad song.

Your Algebra by The Shins is pretty aweful. More like an interlude I guess, but it has the length of a song so Ill say that.

“Breed” Nirvana’s Nevermind
“The World Has Turned And Left Me Here” Weezer’s Blue Album
“Ride On” AC/DC’s Dirty Deeds
“SuperHeros” The Rocky Horror Picture Show Soundtrack.
“The Girl Is Mine” Thriller
“Breaking The Girl” Off of BloodSugarSexMagik is the worst Song that the Chili peppers ever made.
“Pawn Shop” Sublime

“I think about you” GUNS N’ ROSES – APPETITE FOR DESTRUCTION

To say Maxwells Silver Hammer is ridiculous. Next to Something and Because, is probably the best song on the album.

This is as silly as it gets. Most of these choices are merely ridiculous. The editors had to be hammered when they came up with this stuff. BUT, if I had to choose I’d go with “D’yer Maker” from Houses of the Horny.

i know alot of people hate pearl jam’s “bugs” but i like it. and most of these quote “horrible” songs may not be singles in themselves but they actually have alot of art and expression in them.or they fit w/ the album (i.e. floyd’s waiting for the worms.)and country honk is much better than honky tonk woman. its bluesy and slow. maybe if its just me but most of these horrible songs are my favorites off the albums. the card cheat is a great song, thats actually where i think london calling starts back up again after slowing down in the middle. and the guy who didnt like ‘ride on’ by ac/dc, you were just upset they turned the amps off, thats a good song

and to Ryan C. you are obviously not a real rock n roll fan cuz i have never, ever, ever heard anyone dis zeppelin’s Moby Dick. that is arguably the best instrumental in rock history. i mean damn, its john bonham jamming on the drums!!!!

Modest Mouse- “Dance Hall” (Good News…)
System of a Down- “Lonely Day” (Hypnotize)
The Beatles- “When I’m Sixty-Four” (Sgt. Pepper’s…)
Nine Inch Nails- “Getting Smaller” (With Teeth)
The Strokes- “Ask Me Anything” (First Impressions of Earth)
The White Stripes- “Instinct Blues” (Get Behind Me Satan)

“Sanity” and “Icculus” on Phish’s JUNTA album. Killer, absolutley pioneering double album, but these just waste space.

“Rivendell” on Rush’s FLY BY NIGHT album. J.R.R. Tollkein acoustic fairy crap in the middle a seriously rockin’ album.

“Half a Mile Away” on Billy Joel’s 52ND STREET album. This is the album where Joel peaked, but this particular song marked the beginning of his slide into pop mediocrity (and, of course, critical acclaim).

OH..and on “THE WALL” (great album), the super-low point has gotta be “Bring the Boys Back Home”. It just hurts my ears. That’s how bad Roger Waters voice really is.

being for the benifit of mr kite

I’m with JP. I skip EVERY George Harrison song on a Beatles album with a sitar in it. I just can’t handle that Ravi Shankar sound on a rock album. Harrison did some great (”Think for Yourself”, “Something” & “While my Guitar Gently Weeps”) tunes, but “Within You Without You” (from Sgt. Pepper) is not one of them.

I think that Squeeze Box is a great song!

Anyway:
Extraordinar y Girl ON Green Day’s American Idiot

Hats Off To (Roy) Harper on Led Zeppelin III

Wet Sand and IF on Stadium Arcadium

you stupid bastards! “in the light” on Physical Grafitti is one of the better songs. Sgt. Peppers’ “She’s Leaving Home” is my vote for worst Beatles song ever, let alone the worst on that great album. You were right for mentioning “High 5.” When I’m playing “Odelay” and that song comes on, i’m not quite sure what to do with myself. Also, when i listen to Nevermind by Nirvana, which is pretty regularly, i always start on track 2. Nirvana is probably in my list of top 3 all-time fav bands, but nobody ever needs to hear track 1 again.

Vicinity Of Obscenity on System Of A Down’s Latest, Hypnotize

I’m A Huge Fan Of Rage Against The Machine But I Don’t Evil Empire’s “Bulls On Parade”

#3 on stevie wonder’s talking book sucks through a big straw, otherwise album is sublime

The Smiths – “Death at One’s Elbow”, from Strangeways, here we Come
The first time I thought it was funny, but the second time I was not sure….
Garbage – “Wicked ways”, from Version 2.0
So wicked, it makes me sick. Really.
Sheryl Crow – “Maybe that’s something”, from The Globe sessions
Maybe that’s not a great album. But one thing is sure: the song is nothing
The Beatles – Being on the benefit of Mr. Kite, from Abbey Road
Stop the album in the previous track. Yes, I know you skip the lame “Maxwell’ Silver hammer” before.
Madonna – “Cherish”, from Like a Prayer
Her best albums are not REAL classics because she always needs to put a corny, stupid song on her records
Radiohead – “Treefinger”, from Kid A
Everything in this record was perfect…. but they made this song that communicates A BIG WHOLE IN MY STOMACH. Guys in radiohead, don’t take yourselves so seriously, please
Guns n’ Roses – Sweet Child o’ Mine, from Apetite for destruction
The title of the album says it. What the hell is doing this song around…..Ahhh they need a hit

How can yopu put “In The Light” on the list? This is a great song on a timeless album that shouldn’t be overlooked. You shouldn’t exclude a song if the artist is simply experimenting with their sound.

“Lily Rosemary & the jack of hearts” & “Joey” are masterpieces, no one could TELL A STORY like Bob Dylan did in these tracks!!!

Also please hands off from ‘Maxwell’s Silver Hammer”!!!

Led Zeppelin never did have any of the bad songs!!!

wow…goes to show different personalities here… lot’s of these ‘worst’ songs listed, are actually just fine to my ears hahah..so the songs play on

I LIKE MARYA CARY

I LIKE MARYA CARY

I’ll admit Maxwell’s Silver Hammer isn’t their best work…but its certainly worth listening to. I don’t skip over it.

I like squeeze box too.

I think you guys have those 2 wrong, or at least I wouldnt call them terrible.

Closer to home (I’m your captain) by Grand Funk Railroad

We built this city by Journey

Gloria by Laura Branigan

Enough said

metallica – the entire st. anger album