You can’t take it anymore. There’s this one song, on this one album, which keeps the record from being perfect. Every time you reach for it (or scroll to it on your iPod) this feeling of dread descends. It’s like, you love Blonde On Blonde, but does it really have to start with that annoying “Rainy Day Women” song? (For us the album starts with “Pledging My Time.”) You are able to go back and edit that one album so that the offending track is removed. Which record do you go after, and what song do you kill?
Lunchtime Poll: Make Your Favorite Record Better
2/28/07, 11:08 am EST
Comments
Russ | 2/28/2007, 11:16 am EST
The Police’ last album, Synchronicity, would have been much better without Mother.
don't shoot me! | 2/28/2007, 11:18 am EST
Radiohead’s OK Computer … without “Fitter Happier.”
Moss | 2/28/2007, 11:24 am EST
Take Mr. Moonlight off of Beatles For Sale.
joe blow | 2/28/2007, 11:38 am EST
scratch kanye west off any collaboration he’s ever done.
you know its true | 2/28/2007, 11:39 am EST
how about every sufjan stevens song ever done. Yawn, i’m bored thinking about any album of his.
jane swallow | 2/28/2007, 11:39 am EST
Delete “Dad, I’m in Jail” from “What up, Dog” by Was (Not Was).
Scott P | 2/28/2007, 11:48 am EST
I’d probably take the title track off of Tom Waits’ Small Change. Otherwise it is perfect.
jb | 2/28/2007, 11:58 am EST
Pavement’s “Crooked Rain Crooked Rain” could have done with the sub-par tune “Heaven Is A Truck”……not to worry malkmus i still got nothing but love
nice try buddy | 2/28/2007, 12:03 pm EST
Oh my god if I made record and you told me it no good becase one song you dont like I tell you stard your own band serioully. Becase you no have talents like Van Halen or Arcade Fires or those guys like that. You cant tell them what to do those guys are gonna rock no matter what your stupit messageboard gonna say. Okay?
emo | 2/28/2007, 12:05 pm EST
I would take myself out of my family, maybe my soul out of my body… :’(
the muffin man | 2/28/2007, 12:06 pm EST
knock off “the overload” on the album “Remain In Light” by The Talking Heads
The song is just too Eno and not enough Heads
John | 2/28/2007, 12:10 pm EST
i actually kinda like Fitter Happier, i dont know why but i always thought it was kinda cool. I’d get rid of Student Demonstration Time from Surf’s Up by The Beach Boys or Revolution 9 off of The White Album, it takes me right out of it every time.
emo | 2/28/2007, 12:11 pm EST
I bought an album today, and almost every song was bad …. Fall Out Boy’s Infinity on High … why, oh why? Kill me please :’(
robbie k | 2/28/2007, 12:14 pm EST
Rainy Day Women? Come on! I’d rather scratch
“From A Buick 6″ off Highway 61 Revisited
“We Walk” from REM’s Murmur
“Hats off to Roy Harper” from Zeppelin 3
“So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright” by Simon and Garfunkel from BOTW
“Take, Take, Take” from Get Behind Me Satan
Chris L | 2/28/2007, 12:14 pm EST
“Student Demonstration Time” From “Surfs up” by the Beach Boys…this shit shouldn’t be on the same album as classics such as “Feel Flows”, “Till I Die” and “Surfs up”…. ditch it..
Chris L | 2/28/2007, 12:15 pm EST
From A Buick 6? no way….great tune..
emo | 2/28/2007, 12:19 pm EST
:’(
Nic | 2/28/2007, 12:24 pm EST
On My Chemical Romance’s “Black Parade” take out Disenchanted, track 12. It’s just sappy compared with the rest of the album. Also, sorry, but on “The White Album” (Beatles) Revolution #9 … does anyone actually listen to that song?
Ricky | 2/28/2007, 12:24 pm EST
Dirty Day off of U2’s Zooropa; Playboy Mansion off Pop;
New York off ATYCLB;
Love & Peace or Else, Original of the Species, Yahweh off HTDAAB – and put in Fast Cars.
lik roper | 2/28/2007, 12:32 pm EST
number 9 number 9 number 9 number 9 number 9 number 9 number 9 etc etc etc…
ron | 2/28/2007, 12:40 pm EST
take “reincarnation son” of dulcinea by Toad the Wet Sprocket.
Boujey | 2/28/2007, 12:53 pm EST
“Bugs” and “Hey Foxymophandlemama, That’s Me” off of “Vitalogy”
NYC Nate | 2/28/2007, 12:56 pm EST
I would take “Classic Girl” off of Jane’s Addiction’s “Ritual de lo Habitual”. “And Then She Did…” would’ve been a much cooler song to end that record on.
Rob J. | 2/28/2007, 12:58 pm EST
How about R.E.M.?
Stand, off Green
Shiny Happy People, off Out Of Time
The Sidewinder Sleeps Tonight, off Automatic For The People
Around The Sun, every single song
Lobsters | 2/28/2007, 12:59 pm EST
I’d pick “Exile On Main Street” and cut whatever song has every Esquire-Playboy-Rolling Stone reading Yuppie douche carrying on about how it is “The Greatest Album Of All Time”. I fucking hate it when the squares discover something really great and take all the fun out of it.
Rob J. | 2/28/2007, 1:01 pm EST
Radiohead:
The Bends: maybe Sulk, Bulletproof, or Black Star.
OK Computer: yes, I agree with taking off Fitter Happier… cool once, but sucks for repeatedly plays. But I’d also like to add Electioneering… okay song, but i don’t like this version.
Kid A: Treefingers
Amnesiac: Pulk/Pull Revolving Doors, Hunting Bears
Rob J. | 2/28/2007, 1:05 pm EST
Beatles:
Revolver: Yellow Submarine
Sgt Pepper: With A Little Help From My Friends, When I’m Sixty Four
Abbey Road: Come Together (sorry, I know everybody loves it, but this song has always annoyed me.)
manda lu | 2/28/2007, 1:31 pm EST
the first song on “fevers and mirrors” by bright eyes i love the rest of the CD but the first song wakes me up out a dead sleep if i accidently put the CD on replay. oh and the random interview in the middle of the friggin CD?! why?
Michel | 2/28/2007, 1:38 pm EST
I don’t like Love and Affection from Hysteria, too weak to end that record.
On the run, from Dark side of the moon, who enjoys that?
Lullaby from Creed’s Weathered, a rock album can’t end with a slow song.
Noam Sane | 2/28/2007, 1:39 pm EST
I’d take “Mother” off the “Synchronicity” album for sure. “Hung Up On You” off “Welcome Interstate Managers” -a corny and lame country-type tune that just doesn’t fit. And Cibo Matto’s “Stereotype A” is a tremendous album, once you get rid of the ridiculous “Blue Train”.
Jeff | 2/28/2007, 1:39 pm EST
Guns N’ Roses: “Anything Goes” off Appetite for Destruction. Only song on the record to me that screams “1987 extreme cheese”.
Aerosmith: “Gotta Love It” off Get a Grip.
Queens of the Stone Age: “Blood Is Love” off Lullabies to Paralyze…6 minutes of zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz…
And I agree with whoever said “Mother” from The Police’s Synchronicity album, although I do get a kick out of it from time to time.
the muffin man | 2/28/2007, 1:49 pm EST
red hot chili peppers by teh way. cabron needs to go far far far away!
second i heard it i knew it was shit and ive never listened to it fully. its the only chili album song that isnt on my mp3 player
Sanchez | 2/28/2007, 2:01 pm EST
Take all the poor studio cuts off of KISS ALIVE II, no need of ruining an album that ends on a high note….End it at “shout it out loud”.
DANNYBOY | 2/28/2007, 2:03 pm EST
Every “bonus” track off of any greatest hit compilation.
DANNYBOY | 2/28/2007, 2:05 pm EST
Every “bonus” track off of any greatest hits compilation!
Betty | 2/28/2007, 2:11 pm EST
Jack Daniels and Pizza from Carnivore’s Retaliation album.
Cee | 2/28/2007, 2:15 pm EST
Rainy Day Woman is brilliant you f*cking charlatans
J | 2/28/2007, 2:20 pm EST
The Gloaming off of Hail the to Thief.
Michel | 2/28/2007, 2:25 pm EST
Al the tracks on the some day maybe forthcoming Chinese democracy only for taking so long to release and using a band name only with ONE original member
lala | 2/28/2007, 2:30 pm EST
polly- off of nirvanas nevermind album
Adam | 2/28/2007, 2:31 pm EST
Is it really your favorite album if you hate one of the songs? This Elizabeth Gordon-in-training robbie K thinks “take take take” should go from Get Behind Me Satan. Tsk Tsk Tsk.
Dee | 2/28/2007, 2:32 pm EST
How about skits in albums, I think that “Only Built 4 Cuban Linx” and “Enter the Wu-Tang 36 Chambers” are hip hop masterpieces, but then they put these skits that just mess with the whole flow of the record.
Cory | 2/28/2007, 2:35 pm EST
Emo, I can tell you way the new Fall Out Boy album sucks. BECAUSE FALL OUT BOY IS A SHITTY BAND.
JR | 2/28/2007, 2:38 pm EST
I would NOT remove “Take, Take, Take” off Get Behind Me Satan by The White Stripes. That song has great (and fun) lyrics and, musically, it’s really tight. It’s a high point on GBMS. I would, however, take off “Ugly As I Seem.”
I would take off “Fitter Happier” off OK Computer.
“Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Pt. 1″ off The Lips’ Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots (those sounds are annoying … some Alternative artists just don’t know when to stop).
JTP | 2/28/2007, 2:44 pm EST
Rolling Stone has really hit the shitter if its resorted to criticizing Bob Dylan’s “Rainy Day Women.” Un-F’ing believable! It seems lately that Rolling Stone is more concerned about judging “American Idol” mediocrity than appreciating classic music like the entirety of Bob Dylan’s classic album Blonde on Blonde
Jeff | 2/28/2007, 2:44 pm EST
Michel,
Yeah Chinese Democracy has only one original GN’R member on it. So? Better is a great song.
Velvet Revolver has three GN’R members and they sure didn’t set the world on fire with their mediocre drivel.
Better > Sliver
I rest my case.
Let’s not get into the songs we could have removed to make “Contraband” a flawless album. You’d have to remove probably 10 of the 13 tracks!
charliemapleton | 2/28/2007, 2:47 pm EST
Pharrell’s “In My Mind”.Some of the songs on the album shouldn’t be removed prior to them being good,but a little more guitar and even more bass would support them.One certain song I would remove would be “Young Girl”-the most unflavorful out of all the songs in that package.
Dnyce | 2/28/2007, 2:49 pm EST
Outkasts’ Aquemini is a perfect album except for Mamacita. Its the inexplicable female posse cut with the terrible beat
Michel | 2/28/2007, 3:12 pm EST
OK Jeff, Motley Crue made great songs without Vince Neal and without tommy lee if that’s your point.
But surely VR didn’t take 10 years or so in writing Dirty little thing, neither did Guns’n Roses in their hype era.
velvetjones | 2/28/2007, 3:20 pm EST
the girl is mine off thriller
agree with bugs and hey foxy off vitalogy
coffee shop of RHCP’s one hot minute
maybe wma off pearl jam’s vs.
DrJ | 2/28/2007, 3:20 pm EST
I currently have the Magical Mystery Tour album on my i-pod minus “Your Mother Should Know” and “Hello Goodbye.” Suddenly, instead of an uneven hodgepodge, it’s a really solid (if short) masterpiece (with “Blue Jay Way” “I Am the Walrus” and “Strawberry Fields Forever” a perfect trippy trio). Generally, any later Beatles album is improved by pruning McCartney’s shlockier numbers, along with anything sung by Ringo.
sg | 2/28/2007, 3:39 pm EST
Boujey and don’t shoot me are both correct about their choices. Push me Pull me from Yield, also.
Jack Daniels and Pizza is a brilliant “song”. Rainy Day Women, too.
“My World” and “Yesterdays” from Use Your Illusions I and II both suck.
Chuck | 2/28/2007, 3:45 pm EST
Radiohead’s Amensiac sans “Morning Bell,” no need to rehash it from Kid A.
“Her Majesty” from The Beatles’ Abbey Road.
“The Backseat” from Arcade Fire’s Funeral.
“El Ciervo Vulnerado” from The Mars Volta’s Amputechture.
There is no greater sin than ending an album on a weak note.
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SATAN | 2/28/2007, 3:48 pm EST
polly is a great song, retard
Brett | 2/28/2007, 3:49 pm EST
The Beatles’ White Album: Revolution #9
Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here: Welcome to the Machine
Dylan’s Highway 61 Revisited: Just Like Tom Thumb’s Blues
Brett | 2/28/2007, 3:50 pm EST
And Rainy Day Women is one of the best songs on Blonde on Blonde!
Brett | 2/28/2007, 4:01 pm EST
And the Rolling Stone’s HEAVEN on Tattoo You. That album would be perfect if that track wasn’t there.
SATAN | 2/28/2007, 4:02 pm EST
“Untitled” and “Welcome To Bangkok” off of Brand New’s album “The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Me”. Everything else is masterpeice. This album show’s a band turn into modern rock god’s. They are like Led Zeppelin, Nirvana and Radiohead mixed together.
Brett | 2/28/2007, 4:04 pm EST
And Oasis’ BORN ON A DIFFERENT CLOUD on Heathen Chemistry.
anon. | 2/28/2007, 4:05 pm EST
“Homecoming” off Green Day’s American Idiot.
riotact | 2/28/2007, 4:08 pm EST
U2’s ‘Pop’ is an underrated, fantastic album, but…I would get rid of ‘The Playboy Mansion’ (although I like the middle bit – ‘I never bought a lotto ticket…’), and ‘If You Wear That Velvet Dress’.
I love the Beatles, but I’d be happy to get rid of ‘Dizzy Miss Lizzy’, ‘You Like Me Too Much’, and ‘Act Naturally’ from ‘Help’.
DrJ | 2/28/2007, 4:12 pm EST
Some sound engineer please cut that Chinese restaurant thing off of The Score by the Fugees (since it’s part of a track, I can’t leave it off without losing music as well).
Space Pen | 2/28/2007, 4:14 pm EST
ok first of all it’s vince NEIL.
but from the betales’ sgt. pepper–i would axe (if i had to) it would be “good morning good morning”
Vince | 2/28/2007, 4:15 pm EST
C’mon, it’s so obvious: Cut “Mother” off of The Police’s “Synchronicity.”
Dirty Bird | 2/28/2007, 4:16 pm EST
What the heck was Justin thinking putting “losing my way” on FS/LS??? I skip it every time.
Jim | 2/28/2007, 4:23 pm EST
She’s So Fine (with Noel Redding on vocals-yecch) should come off Axis: Bold As Love by Jimi Hendrix
Oddjob | 2/28/2007, 4:27 pm EST
“Rob J” you don’t like upbeat or poular songs do you?
GhostofTomWaits | 2/28/2007, 4:27 pm EST
Soul Survivor should go from Exile on Main Street.
ROCKSTAR70 | 2/28/2007, 4:47 pm EST
Appetite for Destruction is flawless!!
Joe | 2/28/2007, 4:47 pm EST
RICKY=INSANE
Dirty day is a great song, even better live
Original of the Species is a great song too.
How about Grace off of All that You Can’t Leave Behind?
spence | 2/28/2007, 5:01 pm EST
Speaking of Dylan, I think “Blood on the Tracks” could lose “You’re a Big Girl Now.”
Oh, and Elvis Costello’s “King of America” would be perfect without “Eisenhower Blues.”
S.O. | 2/28/2007, 5:10 pm EST
“Treefingers” – Kid A from Radiohead. Makes me want to slip into a coma hearing it.
“But Not Tonight” – Black Celebration from Depeche Mode. Is that a leftover from when Vince Clarke was still w/ ‘em?
“Sing” – The Invisible Band from Travis. Their songs can be lovey dovey a bit, but this is wayy too much.
PaulSmithe | 2/28/2007, 5:15 pm EST
Pixies Space(I believe in)off of Trompe le Monde. Seems like a good weird b-side but I think the album would have sounded a bit tighter had this track been discarded. Oh, and “Sea Legs” from the Shins album Wincing the Night Away. The only adjective that comes to mind to describe the song is poopy.
emo | 2/28/2007, 5:52 pm EST
The Beatles’ “the number nine” its pretty cool, it remembers me of how many pills I drank that day … why, oh why? Kill me please :’(
perfectomix | 2/28/2007, 6:07 pm EST
Wild Honey from All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Isn’t It A Pity (Version 2) from All Things Must Pass
Big Calm from Big Calm
Up From Under from Breach
Did You Do It? from Erotica
A Mind With A Heart Of Its Own from Full Moon Fever
Dizzy Miss Lizzie from Help!
Lead Me On from Journeyman
Dear Jessie from Like A Prayer
Bed Of Lies from Mad Season
Your Mother Should Know from Magical Mystery Tour
Les Boys from Making Movies
Bell Boy from Quadrophenia
Miller’s Angels from Recovering The Satellites
Songbird from Rumours
We’re All The Way from Slowhand
Saturn from Songs In The Key Of Life
Unsent from Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Mother from Synchronicity
Dolphin from The Gold Experience
The Greeks Don’t Want No Freaks from The Long Run
Just The Way You Are from The Stranger
The Na-Na Song from Tuesday Night Music Club
Utopia from Under Rug Swept
KingLeer | 2/28/2007, 6:07 pm EST
How about the tedious, pointless “Country Honk” from the Stones’ otherwise perfect “Let It Bleed.” I mean, “Honky Tonk Women” is a Top 5 all-time Stones song; why do you need to do a schtick-y version of it?
Brad | 2/28/2007, 6:12 pm EST
Am I the only person who LOVES Magical Mystery Tour as it is?
Sophie | 2/28/2007, 6:16 pm EST
Off Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours”, I would take off “Don’t Stop”. I’ve always hated that song. It’s so cheesy.
And even though I love Radiohead, I constantly skip “Electioneering” when I listen to “OK Computer”
Brad | 2/28/2007, 6:19 pm EST
I am surprised by people’s choices for All that you can’t leave behind. Peace on Earth and Grace are both absolute unlistenable crap and When I look at the World would make an average b-side. Yet, New York and Wild Honey have been mentioned, both of which are superior songs to Peace on Earth and Grace.
david | 2/28/2007, 6:43 pm EST
Sloop John B off Pet sounds
Her Majest off Abbey Road
The only child off The Pretender
me | 2/28/2007, 6:47 pm EST
WTF?!
Rainy Day Women is awesome.
Mexico | 2/28/2007, 7:30 pm EST
You And I, Part II from Fleetwood Mac’s “Tango in the Night”
SoulMonkey | 2/28/2007, 7:56 pm EST
Change Of The Guard (Steely Dan), “Can’t Buy A Thrill”
sean | 2/28/2007, 7:57 pm EST
White Moon off Get Behind me Satan by the White Stripes
Mandela | 2/28/2007, 8:18 pm EST
I would cut “Bullet the Blue Sky” off of the Joshua Tree and released it as a single. It’s an awesome song but is out of place on an otherwise perfectly molded album. It’s political in a land of self-discovery. “My Wife” off of Who’s Next, for the same reasons as the lasy song. However I wish that the “let’s see action” “the song is over” and the other singles that followed Who’s Next that were suppose to tie up loose ends for that album had been included. And I agree that the Chinese takeout skit out to be edited off The Score. I’ve already done so on my iPod.
wherezthubeef? | 2/28/2007, 8:46 pm EST
ok, you know how every band thinks it’s so cute to put a few minutes of silence after their last song, then gives you their “hidden” track. you know, like on black parade. well, all those can be deleted, because i’m sick of sitting through hours of silence to hear your damn hidden track. it’s not cute, so just cut it out.
Give me RadioHead | 2/28/2007, 8:52 pm EST
Fitter Happier is the most profound tune on O.K. Computer…leave it on!
Thad | 2/28/2007, 8:53 pm EST
Revolution 9 from the White Album. What the hell is that anyway?
Rip | 2/28/2007, 9:26 pm EST
Does your Highway 61 begin with “Tombstone Blues”, what a ridiculous example for the poll. Dylan had to try to write bad songs, and “Rainy Day Women #12&35″ is not one of them. Are you one of the people who won that crazy contest? Is that how you got to write the poll for the day?
mannishboy | 2/28/2007, 9:35 pm EST
The Clash’s London Calling… Train In Vain
John | 2/28/2007, 9:36 pm EST
I didnt like Your Mother Should Know at first, but now I look forward to it, try giving it a chance I think you might warm up to it. I like Country Honk, too. I think in a way its better than Honky Tonk Woman, just kinda fun to listen to
Orgo | 2/28/2007, 10:00 pm EST
Let’s see-
1)Rumours is flawless-leave it be!
2)Don’t take Bullet The Blue Sky
off The Joshua Tree-take off Mothers Of The Disappeared instead
3)With Sgt Pepper-replace Lovely
Rita and Good Morning Good Morning
with Penny Lane and Strawberry
Fields Forever
4)Cut Dose Of Thunder from Tim
and
5)All Apologies is a better end to
In Utero than Gallons Of Rubbing
Alcohol Flow Through The Strip
w0nderwall | 2/28/2007, 10:09 pm EST
For Oasis, “She’s Electric” on the Morning Glory album should have been taken off and instead should have included just about anything from the b-sides collection disc, The Masterplan. Tracks such as “Talk Tonight,” “Acquiesce,” “Half the World Away,” or “The Masterplan” would have been just fine. Regardless, Morning Glory remains the greatest record of the 90s, so eat shit Oasis haters!
Christina | 2/28/2007, 10:12 pm EST
I would say “Beautiful Day”, “Elevation”, and “Walk On” on “All That You Can’t Leave Behind) because they are my favorite songs off the album, but they just don’t go. The rest of the album is okay, but I find it to light and fluffy. Eh. not their typical rock’n'roll.
Can’t wait for their next album when they go back to their old rock ways.
thewufs | 2/28/2007, 10:29 pm EST
Agree absolutely with Orgo’s Sgt. Pepper choices. If they’d been replaced by the previously single-only “Penny Lane”/”Strawberry Fields Forever” (which, as we all know, ended up on Magical Mystery Tour), Sgt. Pepper might actually be the flawless masterwork everybody used to say it was. In recent decades public opinion has steadily shifted towards “Revolver” as the Beatles’ artistic pinnacle, and though it is absolutely a classic and one of their best I could still do without “I Want To Tell You.”
As for the debate over whether you “truly” love a band/record if you detest one of the songs on said record, I think this poll confirms my own feelings re the matter: fuck yeah! I mean, the Beatles were the greatest band ever, and as we’ve established most of their records were not absolutely perfect. The greatest works of art usually aren’t, and that’s nothing to be depressed or angry about. Any great songwriter worth his salt should be honest enough to acknowledge a few duds; in any event, the occasional bad song from our favorite artists shouldn’t be enough to diminish their greatest work; instead, it should affirm that our heroes are in fact human. Which makes their acheivement all the greater in the end.
Mark | 2/28/2007, 10:37 pm EST
On REM’s Out of Time:
Replace “Low” with “Fretless”
Replace “Belong” with “It’s a Free World Baby”
I know Shiny Happy People is cheesy but I think it should stay because it is so shamelessly poppy and fun. Same goes for Stand on Green.
bassman | 2/28/2007, 10:40 pm EST
Fleetwood Mac’s “Tusk.” Leave all the songs as they are, in order, but go back in time and make Lindsey Buckingham leave the drum chores to Mick Fleetwood. Had Mick played all the drums on Lindsey’s tracks, instead of Lindsey’s (solid) drumming, that would have been the best Fleetwood Mac album of all. (And make sure it’s the full-length version of “Sara.”) “Tusk” is a masterpiece; if only Mick (and not Lindsey) had played all the drum parts.
(And what’s with the person below wanting to kick off John Entwistle’s “My Wife” from “Who’s Next”? No real, true Who fan in their right mind would delete “My Wife” or almost any other Ox song form a Who LP.)
kathy | 2/28/2007, 11:03 pm EST
The Velvet Underground and Nico: every song that Nico sings on it.
Tuohy | 2/28/2007, 11:18 pm EST
Get rid of “Little by Little” on Heathen Chemistry by Oasis, also rid of “Little James” on Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants by Oasis.
Steve H | 2/28/2007, 11:21 pm EST
Welfare Mothers off Rust Never Sleeps. Love Neil Young, just hate this song. I was so glad that CDs were invented, as skipping it on a tape was hard work
THX-1138 | 2/28/2007, 11:24 pm EST
My pick would be ‘Turn Blue’ off of Iggy Pop’s ‘Lust for Life.’ It just doesn’t work for me.
RockGod | 2/28/2007, 11:54 pm EST
My World on Use Your Illusion 2…. the song just doesnt fit in with an otherwise monumental album.
jimmy stank | 3/1/2007, 12:32 am EST
bugs, stupid mop & pry, to on Vitalogy!
how about this for a revised Led Zeppelin 3
Immigrant Song
Traveling Riverside Blues
Celebration Day
Since Ive Been Loving You
Out on the Tiles
Gallows Pole
Tangerine
That’s The Way
Bron Yr Aur (from physical)
Hey Hey What Can I Do
Charlie Miller | 3/1/2007, 12:34 am EST
Did I actually just read Rolling Stone say Rainy Day Women shouldn’t have been on Blonde on Blonde?
Seriously, who writes this again?
Bill | 3/1/2007, 3:40 am EST
Take “One Step Closer” off U2’s Atomic Bomb and replace it with William Orbit’s mix of “Electrical Storm.”
Shaundra | 3/1/2007, 4:03 am EST
Something in the Way (Nevermind)
There’s Gonna Be Some Rockin (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap)
Chaos B.C. (Chaos A.D.)
Hollowed Point (Seasons In The Abyss)
Alone (Lights…Camera…Revolution! )
Bodies (III: How The Gods Kill)
Gangland (Number Of The Beast)
Escape (Ride The Lightning)
Six Pack (Damaged)
Whiz Kid (California Crossing)
Snowballed (For Those About To Rock)
KEITHMOON | 3/1/2007, 6:49 am EST
Take all the songs off of Combat Rock by The Clash except “Should I stay or should I go” The whole album should be tossed into a toilet
donniemac | 3/1/2007, 7:34 am EST
Get rid of the untitled, instrumental tracks (6 & 11) from Oasis’ (”What’s the Story) Morning Glory” and replace with “Rockin Chair” & “Fade Away”.
Peter S. | 3/1/2007, 8:32 am EST
Remove “A Passion Play” from Jethro Tull’s album of the same name
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wb | 3/1/2007, 9:04 am EST
Take Linda Paloma off Jackson Browne’s The Pretender
Helvis | 3/1/2007, 9:05 am EST
Jackson Browne’s “The Pretender” would be perfect if you removed “Linda Paloma”!
blindmelon | 3/1/2007, 9:08 am EST
New Orleans Instrumental number 1 and Star Me Kitten from REM-Automatic for the people.
blarg | 3/1/2007, 9:37 am EST
note to Thad: play Revolution 9 backwards.
BRiAN | 3/1/2007, 9:55 am EST
Remove Pink Floyd’s “Take Up Thy Stethoscope & Walk” from PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN. Replace it with ‘See Emily Play’ and ‘Arnold Layne.’
donniemac | 3/1/2007, 10:06 am EST
oh one more, remove “anonymous skulls” from Medeski, Martin & Wood’s “End of the World Party” and replace it with “Uninvisible” and you’d have one stompin’ long play.
The Duke | 3/1/2007, 10:19 am EST
U2
You should have put Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me on Zooropa….
Go back and re-do POP. It is a great album, but needs a but more work as you know.
Oh and let Rick Rubin do his thing on this new album. Enough shit about love and the stars and the sky and how everything is beautiful. More Fly, less Yahweh
steve | 3/1/2007, 10:19 am EST
Dump “half” on soundgarden’s superunknown
cheesecrop | 3/1/2007, 12:30 pm EST
T-Rex – Electric Warrior
Remove the acoustic folk stuff like Cosmic Dancer and Girl
Replace with Bang A Gong and Planet Queen style stuff
You’d have best glitter/Glam album from early 70’s bar none.
JMills | 3/1/2007, 12:52 pm EST
I would erase every song off of every Nirvana album and replace it with actual MUSIC!!
lvw | 3/1/2007, 1:12 pm EST
So Far So What on Calla’s Collisions. I always skip that song. Alot of albums have that one song…that’s hard to endure and worth skipping.
jadakiss | 3/1/2007, 1:54 pm EST
Leave Get Behind Me Satan as it is.
Also, My Wife is an essentil part of Who’s Next, it stays.
Todd | 3/1/2007, 3:09 pm EST
I would remove “Digsy’s Dinner” from Oasis’ Definitely Maybe.” You’re left with a concise closing three songs of “Cigarettes & Alcohol” “Slide Away” and “Married With Children”
Jacob | 3/1/2007, 4:49 pm EST
whoever said bullet the blue sky should be stranded on a deserted island.
r from r | 3/1/2007, 4:51 pm EST
Melt the Clash’s “Sandinista” down from its original triple-album length to a double album, and you’d have a follow up to “London Calling” that was almost as strong.
By the way, I also have to add a vote to those citing “Linda Paloma” as a song that has to go. This song always gets mentioned when this discussion comes up…
sy | 3/1/2007, 7:08 pm EST
murray street by sonic youth, id take off plastic sun or just make it instrumental if so itd be one of the top 5 albums ever
deano | 3/1/2007, 8:49 pm EST
Half of “How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb” — the crappy half
Take Audioslave’s last two albums, put the best songs on one disc, burn the rest of the crap
“Don’t Be Afraid” from Boston’s “Don’t Look Back”
“Louisiana Rain” from “Damn The Torpedoes”
“For Crying Out Loud” from “Bat Out of Hell”
Half the songs off every Pearl Jam album since “Vs.”
deano | 3/1/2007, 8:59 pm EST
The best songs on “Load” and “Reload” could have fit on one EP
Did the Beach Boys HAVE to release “Smiley Smile”?
“Don’t Shoot Shotgun,” “Run Riot” and “Love and Affection” from “Hysteria”
Joe | 3/1/2007, 10:37 pm EST
“Guns in the Sky” from INXS “Kick”
“The Refugee” from U2’s “War”
“Wet my Bed” from STP’s “Core” (that’s not really a track, but something very iPod skippable)
Gluehead | 3/2/2007, 2:45 am EST
“In the Cold, Cold Night” off of Elephant.
“Life Like Weeds” off of The Moon & Antarctica
Kirk | 3/2/2007, 6:49 am EST
Please!!!! There are albums you just can“t touch.
The Wall!!!!!
The dark side of the moon!!!!
Ritual de lo habitual!!!!
Every Beatles album!!!!
And Welfare Mothers? Come on! Thats rockin“!
Cheers!
Hoyle | 3/2/2007, 7:55 am EST
take off
1-little by little from oasis, heathen chemistry
2-little james from oasis, standing on the shoulder of giants
3-rainy day women from dylan, blonde on blonde
4-revolution 9 from the beatles, white album
5-every emo song ever done
Jesse | 3/2/2007, 12:54 pm EST
What an awesome poll. Ok here’s my list
Very Ape-In Utero
Polly (sorry, I just find it boring)-Nevermind
In the Cold Cold Night-Elephant
Any Colour You Like-Dark Side of the Moon
In Limbo-Kid A
Climbing Up the Walls-Ok Comp.
Hats Off(To Roy Harper)-LZIII
zeppelin rules | 3/2/2007, 2:25 pm EST
you gotta take “welcome to the jungle” off of appetite for destruction, i used to like the song to but after hearing it on the radio 5 thousand times if i hear axl rose scream “welcome to the jungle baby now ur gonna die” one more time im gonna go insane o and id take “sweet home alabama” off of lynyrd skynyrds “pronounced…” for the same reason minus axl rose howling of course
Ishmael | 3/2/2007, 4:31 pm EST
I disagree with “Rainy Day Women #12 & 35,” but (and I expect to get flamed for this), am I the only one who thinks that “Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands” is too long? I usually stop the album about halfway through that song. I mean, the song’s one of his best, but any song that long should have more than a simple static chord progression to justify its length. IMO, he should have done what he did with “Shelter From the Storm” and make two different versions (with alternate lyrics). Just a thought.
Also, I agree with everyone who said “Mother” from “Synchronicity” (and ditto “Be My Girl, Sally” from Outlandos D’Mour.” Andy Summers should have been banned from writing songs for the group.
Finally, I love Prince’s “Sign O’ the Times,” but “It’s Gonna Be a Beautiful Night” is a pointlessly extended vamp that could have been easily cut down to about three minutes.
Davey Boy | 3/2/2007, 5:30 pm EST
The Girl is Mine- Thriller
My World- Use Your Illusion 2
The Sun King- Abbey Road
Any Ringo song off any Beatles album as well.
jill hives | 3/2/2007, 6:26 pm EST
i’m late to this one, but i have to say i would cut ‘torn curtain’ from television’s marquee moon.
somehow that song grates on me but the rest of the songs are stellar, making its inclusion feel like a big let down right at the end.
Jordan | 3/3/2007, 12:01 am EST
Radiohead- from The Bends- Street Spirit (Fade Out)… (I’m actually being serious…) I have nothing against the song, it just absolutely doesn’t fit with the rest of the album and it’s too depressing-sounding for listening to frequently, so I usually skip it… other than Street Spirit, the album is very near perfection…
The Beatles- Abbey Road- The Sun King
White Stripes- White Blood Cells- The Union Forever
Police- Synchronicity- Mother
weezer- (blue)- No One Else (the music is awesome, I don’t like the lyrics much though)
Martin | 3/3/2007, 6:06 pm EST
The quiet bits between tracks.
markeee | 3/5/2007, 9:14 pm EST
Given the Dog a Bone off Back in Black
The Crunge off House of the Holy
Gangland off Number of the Beast
Ted, Just Admit It off Nothings Shocking
Detroit Rock City | 3/5/2007, 10:43 pm EST
Stupid Question, some of your peoples answers are ridiculious.
Especially any classic albums like “darkside”.Its pure lunacy!
onlywunn | 3/6/2007, 2:21 am EST
Romove “Four Sticks” from Led Zeppelin IV.
Neil Young’s “There’s A World” from Harvest.
Radiohead’s “Bulletproof” from The Bends
Drew | 3/8/2007, 4:55 pm EST
the “Black Diamond” cover on Let It Be by the Replacements…the rest of the album is just so brilliant.
Donny | 3/8/2007, 7:52 pm EST
It might be blasphemy but Why Go off of Ten.
Monker | 3/8/2007, 11:14 pm EST
I agree with whoever said “Her Majesty” off Abbey Road. How effing cool would it have been if “The End” was the last song on the album. The lyrics are just so fitting. But they HAD to throw that crappy excuse for a song at the end, it ruined the whole thing for me.
Nello | 3/22/2007, 1:33 pm EST
DOn’t touch “dark side of the moon”
Pretty Women, and Dancing in the Streets (Van Halen-Diver Down)
Katie | 3/23/2007, 9:46 pm EST
november rain off of use your illusion…heard the song waaay to many times
Robert A. Zimmerman | 4/4/2007, 7:11 pm EST
Hey,more people got inflamed by the criticism of “Rainy Day Women,etc” than the gentle complaint of Ishmael (below) about “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”. What do you know?! I thought RDW was generally not held in the high esteem of his other works. Guess I was wrong.I’m going to go Ishmael one better, not only is “Sad Eyed Lady…”way too long, it’s also a bloody droning bore. Blah, blah, blah. Ish didn’t get flamed; I expect to be disemboweled for this one but there it is. Possibly one of the MOST overrated songs by any artist not just Bob. They could have cut that one and saved $$$$$ on the original two disk vinyl record. I can’t even sit through that one. BTW the actual “Sad Eyed Lady” was more frog-eyed than sad-eyed but that’s another incendiary issue best left unexplored here.
Meg | 4/5/2007, 11:07 am EST
I would take off “Polly” and “Something In The Way” from the Nevermind album by Nirvana.

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