Least popular song on some very popular albums
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Topic: Least popular song on some very popular albums
Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Subject: Least popular song on some very popular albums
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 11:14
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Ever notice how certain songs are almost always mentioned as the least favorite when certain popular albums are being discussed? Yes, some of these are throwaways, filler, jokes, or just radical departures from everything else on the album. But which of these 10 songs would be your favorite of the bunch? (With pre-emptive apologies to those who will immediately post that one of these is your very favorites: no offense is intended.) Listed in alphabetical order.
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Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 11:20
I've already screwed up  I chose my least favorite and the poll question asks for THE favorite. Oh well, I'll pay more attention next time.
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 11:25
 Looks purposeless to me, sorry i'll SKIP this one
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Posted By: Octopus II
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 11:25
Genesis - Your Own Special Way 
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Posted By: Mirakaze
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 13:38
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Your Own Special Way for me as well. I think it's a lovely dreamy little song, although I understand why it's a divisive one as well. ------------- https://mirasnelder.wordpress.com/" rel="nofollow - Freelance composer, accepting commissions | https://mirasnelder.bandcamp.com/album/altered-acuity" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp page |
Posted By: progaardvark
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 13:50
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I went with Time Table. I never thought this was an unpopular song. I also like Five Percent for Nothing, Witch Hunt, and Your Own Special Way. The one on this list I like the least might be Seamus. I dumped myself into a sink and poured countries, cake frosting, and pickling liquid all over myself. Oops. ------------- ---------- i'm shopping for a new oil-cured sinus bag that's a happy bag of lettuce this car smells like cartilage nothing beats a good video about fractions |
Posted By: Mormegil
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 14:53
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Totally dig Time Table. Your Own Special Way and Circumstances complete the list. ------------- Welcome to the middle of the film. |
Posted By: Grumpyprogfan
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 15:30
| Circumstances |
Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: August 24 2023 at 16:13
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Witch Hunt is my favourite track off Moving Pictures. I like Circumstances as well. ------------- 
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Posted By: Steve Wyzard
Date Posted: August 25 2023 at 13:20
It's only now that I've gone over to the Top 10s and Lists board and found "Moving Pictures: Rank the Tracks", and far more people had "Vital Signs" as their least favorite from this album. This was a big surprise for me, as I've owned the album almost since it was released, and 95% of everyone I've ever talked to about it thinks very little of "Witch Hunt". But then, the whole point of these polls is to capture the worldwide "diversity of viewpoints" this site is so well known for!
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someone_else wrote:Posted By: verslibre
Date Posted: August 25 2023 at 14:30
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I've never run into anyone who actively dislikes "Witch Hunt." If anything, "The Camera Eye" gets less love than both "Witch Hunt" and "Vital Signs," and I think all three are exceptional tracks, especially "Vital Signs"! ------------- https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_ipg=50&_sop=1&_rdc=1&_ssn=musicosm" rel="nofollow - eBay |
Posted By: Run Home Slow
Date Posted: August 25 2023 at 20:06
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i screwed it up too...voted for Moonchild... no regret there, but Witch Hunt would have been my real choice... love that Rush moody song ------------- If you got ears, you gotta listen — Captain Beefheart |
Posted By: richardh
Date Posted: August 25 2023 at 20:52
| Time Table. Sublime but not complicated. |
Posted By: Pekka
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 02:44
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Circumstances might be my favorite non-epic Rush track from the classic era. ------------- http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=42652" rel="nofollow - It's on PA! 
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Posted By: suitkees
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 03:44
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Voted A Venture; could have voted for Five Percent for Nothing... ------------- The razamataz is a pain in the bum |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 07:37
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5% is my fav, but I don't dislike Seamus ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: mathman0806
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 09:29
| Voted for Witch Hunt. |
Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 10:16
| I don't think witch hunt is the least popular song on MP (that would be vital signs) but I voted for it anyway. |
Posted By: Argentinfonico
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 10:24
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Time Table without a doubt. ------------- -Will I see you tonight? -I never make plans that far ahead. Casablanca (1942) |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 10:50
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Hi, It's sad to see Moonchild listed here. In many ways, it is a piece about the fall of the hippie/gypsy girl that was an ideal, with flower in her hair, of course! That it is "connected" to a famous/infamous novel is not really that big a deal for me ... but the "destruction" of a generation by the media due to the drugs, sex and rock'n'roll, is far more important, and that song would be considered a comment on that in my book. Seamus, by PF may have been a follow up to Mademoiselle Knobs that you can see in the "Live in Pompeii" film (gosh ... I don't even remember it!), while also being a fun take on many bands having used a dog ... Jefferson Airplane did it, Manfred Mann did it although it was touched up to the beat, and probably a few more pieces around ... but those two others are imprinted in my memory. I think it was a fun thing ... not meant to be anything but a fun moment ... but making a negative comment on these is strange ... so these musicians/artists can not have any fun? Oh wait ... they got all the money from us, and we don't want fun ... we want hits!
 ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 11:21
who said anything about hits. This thread is not even that negative...
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Posted By: AlanB
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 12:32
| A Venture isn't the worst song on The Yes Album IMO. I would give that honour to The Clap. Though neither are as good as the other four tracks. |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 14:30
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"Are You Ready Eddie?" would have deserved a place in the list ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: The Anders
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 16:22
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Yes - A Venture. A fine song which I can appreciate. Perhaps it reminds me a bit of some on the songs on Paul McCartney's Ram album. Rush - Circumstance. It has a sort of glam/punk vibe to it, but the band can not produce the vicious energy that is required for that genre. In general, I don't like Rush very much, and their music appears rather sterile to me. This song is no exception. Will not get a vote. Yes - Five Percent For Nothing. This is quite a funny little thing which I enjoy. Rush - Madrigal. I actually really like this song. Among other things, I am raised with a singer/songwriter approach, so songs of that type naturally appeal to me. Still, annoying vocals. King Crimson - Moonchild. I take it, the track is on this list because of the "pling plong" section. That is actually my favourite part of the whole album! Genesis - More Fool Me. Fine little song which is of course not revolutionizing in any way. Never understood what people have against it. Pink Floyd - Seamus. Nothing wrong with it, perhaps a bit of a filler. But an enjoyable listen in any case. Genesis - Time Table. I really like the chord changes in this. Can't see anything bad about it. Rush - Witch Hunt. Fine song I would say. Not so much my taste though. Genesis - Your Own Special Way. Folkish and charming. Fine song, but perhaps not so memorable. My vote goes to Moonchild.
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Posted By: cstack3
Date Posted: August 26 2023 at 16:45
Aye. A spoonful of saccharine on a bowl of sugar. Ugh. I don't understand why so many turn their backs on "Time Table" by Genesis. I think it is a remarkable little song with amazing, historic lyrics! I think of this phrase quite often, as men slaughter men across the face of the planet.... Why, why can we never be sure till we die Or have killed for an answer, Why, why do we suffer each race to believe That no race has been grander ------------- I am not a Robot, I'm a FREE MAN!! |
Posted By: Manuel
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 05:50
| Moonchild. I've always loved that song. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 06:45
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Witch Hunt: Rush ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: I prophesy disaster
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 07:02
Well, if they just stuck to the song part, then it probably wouldn't be listed here for it is quite beautiful. But they chose to tack on 9 minutes and 45 seconds of tediousness that makes this track fully deserving of being listed in this thread. ------------- No, I know how to behave in the restaurant now, I don't tear at the meat with my hands. If I've become a man of the world somehow, that's not necessarily to say I'm a worldly man. |
Posted By: Hrychu
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 07:58
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How about: Arrow: VDGG ------------- 
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 12:26
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Arrow is a Killer
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Posted By: AFlowerKingCrimson
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 14:19
Does that mean their song "Killer" is an arrow?
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Posted By: mellotronwave
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 16:23
Who knows ?
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Posted By: Dellinger
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 20:01
| It's a hard choice between Time Table and Witch Hunt. I went with Witch Hunt because it ha more punch in it (though Time Table is more beautiful). |
Posted By: Epignosis
Date Posted: August 28 2023 at 22:05
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I hate missing out on a chance to vote "A Venture," a rather underrated Yes song I think, but "Circumstances" is my favorite on the list. |
Posted By: Progosopher
Date Posted: August 29 2023 at 10:45
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Circumstances got my vote, followed by A Venture, Moonchild, Your Own Special Way, and Seamus. ------------- The world of sound is certainly capable of infinite variety and, were our sense developed, of infinite extensions. -- George Santayana, "The Sense of Beauty" |
Posted By: jamesbaldwin
Date Posted: August 30 2023 at 04:26
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Moonchild is a masterpiece, in his own way. The only problem is the length of the song. ------------- Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion. |
Posted By: moshkito
Date Posted: August 30 2023 at 06:38
Hi, I'm not sure that "length" is an issue with ANY MUSIC. It's just sad that in the past 50 years we have all of a sudden dismissed a lot of music because it is too long. You, and I will never sit here and say that Tchaikovsky, Mahler, Beethoven are "too long" ... and I can't help feeling that we, rock music lovers, can't get past the "hit" and ridiculous 4 or 5 minute song ... and we continue to trash longer pieces of music. I don't find that good in music ... length is about what the artist sees, and the listener, and specially the public and the fan, should have no say in it, specially if they do not have the vision for it! Of all the pieces in ITCOTKC, Moonchild is the one piece that could easily have been extended ... and likely become one of the first "new age" pieces of music ... GASP .... !!!!! ------------- Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told! www.pedrosena.com |
Posted By: Cristi
Date Posted: August 30 2023 at 09:06
Hi, Lorenzo is not trashing longer pieces of music, he is not even trashing Moonchild. How is saying a song is a bit too long trashing? I don't think he has an issue with length of ANY MUSIC. Just Moonchild. That's all he said. |