Crappy albums with one great song

^^ In reading the above, I thought you were referring to Ice.. that's a relief!

Psychedelic Paul wrote: judahbenkenobi wrote: Morris O'Pogue wrote: Camel's "I can see your house from here" -> Ice Exactly my thought! It's the other way 'round with me. It's a good album with just one bad song, and you've already guessed which song that is.

I have been on edge when being critical of it. Surely not a crappy album, but as close to this topic as I could think of without putting my brains on the rack (my brain on crack some might say).

^ I have been on edge when being critical of it. Surely not a crappy album, but as close to this topic as I could think of without putting my brains on the rack (my brain on crack some might say).

Some might say Magma's Merci with "Eliphas Levi" as the one great track, but it's not a crappy album for me. And I've heard Comus To Keep From Crying's "Children of the Universe" called the only great track on a horrible album, but I love the title-track and like the whole album.

Just talking personal taste here...

I find Yes' Close to The Edge album pretty mediocre other than the title track.

I found this to be a difficult exercise. The only album I can think of that had just one great song was 3's To the Power of Three with the song Desde la Vida. Most of the "crappy" albums I've listened to had either some good songs (usually more than one) or no songs worthy of ever listening to ever again, but 3's debut is the only one that seems to fit the criteria of just one great song. I interpret great meaning 8/10 or higher. My piano luggage can swim through a puddle of consonants.

Lewian wrote: This is a nice topic but if I remember correctly we had one just like that that was used not very long ago. Unfortunately I can't find it, but if anybody can, I think it'd be much better to have all these listed in the same thread.

Despite David's (yam yam) research that do not turn up anything recent, I thought the same thing as you when I saw this topic but a manual search of quite few pages of the potentially applicable forums did not turn up results.

Matte wrote: Pink Floyd - The Wall Comfortable Numb is fantastic but the rest of the songs are either too short, annoying or just plain bad.

"Comfortably Numb" a the standout when I first heard the Wall (I think I was 10), but soon it was much of the other songs that I preferred, and on The Wall CD I later bought while in Japan I commonly would skip "Comfortably Numb". "Mother", "Goodbye Blue Sky", "Young Lust", "The Show Must Go On", "IN the Flesh", Run like Hell"< "Waiting for the Worms"... do more for me. I think it's a wonderful album taken as a whole. I appreciate the whole atmosphere of the album. I have noticed, i think, Hercules saying much the same thing, and I wondered if that attitude came from the sort-of Neo-Prog, melodic rock, or a sort of classic FM radio rock, and soaring guitar solos mindset. Which is not to say that is the case with you. But it seems a pretty conservative rock choice.

Edited by Logan - July 03 2024 at 14:06

Morris O'Pogue wrote: Camel's "I can see your house from here" -> Ice

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: also the Living Years album by Mike & the Mechanics with "why me?"

From a prog perspective you have the We Can't Dance album by Genesis with "fading lights" and also the Living Years album by Mike & the Mechanics with "why me?" I don't think the rest of the songs on those albums are bad but I'm just saying they are best in the sense that they are the only prog or proggish songs on them (imo of course).