Not so good songs on top albums

Another one I had forgotten about is Family Man on Five Miles Out.
Five Miles Out is such an excellent album apart from Family Man which is such a blot on this otherwise excellent album.

Your Ow Special Way on Wind And Wuthering. I regret to say for me it is nauseatingly sentimental and the error compounded by no Inside And Out; which made it to a rapidly disappearing EP. It might not belong really but I can make that adjustment for a great Hackett number. Having said that, I must say Special Way is very well done.

Where are we? Oh yes, Loathsome ballads. let the axe continue. Almost every Ozzy Osbourne ballad which along with almost every Aerosmith ballad (Sabbath's Solitude and Aerosmith's Dream On remain the only ballads from the prog-related band and the totally non-prog-related band I can stand). Add in the only Blue Oyster Cult number I don't like; Debbie Denise, a contemporary of the dire Beth by Kiss and this means my skip load of disposable ballads over-runneth. Particularly Changes. Ozzy does Elton John. Mmm. No. Can't make up my mind which is worse, his daughter's, his, or (I've only recently found out) their duet / duel. Really it's a blot on the otherwise superb Volume 4. Btw, I don't really count Planet Caravan as a ballad, just a slow spacey number. Or it's reprise, Zeitgeist on 13.

1976 was not a good year for ballads as one may note. Thrown in Sabbath's She's Gone (all the tension of soggy tissue) and the diabolical Australia (the song...) from otherwise fine axe master Steve Howe and the world will be so much better.

A good contender for the ultimate shudder-horror-puke award may go to Yes for Circus of Heaven and the appearance of the child.

The rest of these albums are loaded with decent numbers. Except the Kiss one which as 2 or maybe three if I feel generous.

Now just to take another view what albums are ruined by the absence of a crucial number? The somewhat ordinary Beatles' Let It Be is let down by the occasional absence of the ironically titled classic Don't Bring Me Down. It does however have yet another excruciating ballad. The Long And Whining Road with that awful string section.

"Bulb" on Egg's s/t debut (insiders will get the joke).
"Battle of Epping Forest" on Genesis' SEBTP, as you said.
"Brain Damage" on Floyd's DSOTM, I really dislike that song for some reason.
"Six Ate" on Camel's s/t debut.
"Golf Girl" on Caravan's "In The Land Of Grey And Pink".

Yes - Close to the Edge - And You And I

HosiannaMantra wrote: "Great Gig in The Sky" - Dark Side of the Moon [...] ...Not that all of those are bad, but I think their mother albums would be truly perfect without them.

Sorry snipping. Different strokes for different folks. "Great Gig in the Sky" is a particular favourite of mine on Dark Side of the Moon. I love it. The only one I would skip sometimes is "Money", which felt most out of place to me.



Edited by Logan - May 26 2016 at 12:19

From SEBTP: "I Know What I Like (In Your Wardrobe)" and "More Fool Me" in exchange for "Twilight Alehouse"

Modrigue wrote: Pink Floyd - Atom Heart Mother - Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast

KingCrInuYasha wrote: Also, call me crazy, but I've never been a big fan of "Natural Science"

You're crazy.

A couple that limp to mind are Moonchild - not the Rory Gallagher number but the one with 10 minutes of acoustic guitar. Apparently it's an extended re-write of Moonchild.

And one that gets me is the jam on S4 (end of CD) of Made In Japan. Space Trucking is played, ended and the next 20 minutes are blamed on that otherwise fine song as a relentless rhythm is driven with everyone making as much noise as possible around it.

Holy Lamb doesn't really fit the rest of Big Generator (bit too pro-Christian for me)but at least it does not have the twee characteristic of Circus Of Heaven (bit too kid vocal featured for me).

Mother could have lost some of it's length; same with Us And Them.

Yet they are all pretty great albums.

I'm sure you know the ones I mean... ;)