Almost perfect. Most of the album flows naturally and has a nice mix of mellow and heavy. The only song that I feel doesn't fit is Jeremy. It's not a bad song (not my favourite by far though), but it just stands out to me as not quite fitting with everything else on the album.
Kind of funny but I was going to say Ten and Jeremy is actually my favorite song on that album.
Nirvana Unplugged and Nevermind are other albums that are perfect in my opinion.
Alright, I'll join in, but I'm going to add my favorite track from the album as well to balance out the negative.
Peter, Bjorn, and John: Writer's Block
Poor Cow right at the end is jarring and doesn't fit anything else on the album. It would have been a very easy omission, but they kept it in for some reason. The album is perfect otherwise.
Favorite Track: Up Against The Wall
This is a real slow build to something great if you have patience
The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
So close to perfection except for Same Kooks that really upsets the flow of the album. I always skip over it when listening to it.
Favorite Track: Party Pit
"gonna walk around and drink some more"
Bjork: Post
The height of her career. Amazing song after amazing song, until you get to Cover Me, a strange track that resembles spoken word and experimental jazz that has no place on this album of amazing work. 2 minutes that ruin an otherwise perfect album.
Favorite Track: Possibly Maybe
Foo Fighters: The Colour and the Shape
An amazing mix of upbeat and heavy pop-rock with some softer acoustic stuff that is memorable. The album features My Hero, Monkey Wrench and Everlong. However, February Stars is always panful to sit through. An absolute slog of a song that bores me to tears.
Favorite Track: Everlong (duh...one of the greatest rock songs ever)
TV on the Radio: Dear Science
One of my favorite albums ever. However, Stork and Owl is a jarring and unpleasant track to listen to right in the middle of such a genius album, that it always bugs me when it comes on.
Favorite Track: Love Dog
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The one that has always bugged me is Wake Me Up When September Ends from Green Day's American Idiot. Such an amazing album but I cannot stand this song. It is slow, dull, and repetitive. It may have worked at 2 minutes long but not as the freaking longest song on the album (yes I know Jesus of Suburbia and Homecoming are technically longer but those are each made up of 5 songs). My annoyance grew when the song was released as a single with a lame music video and it ended up being a bit hit that was all over the airwaves.
Another more recent one is Past Life from Tame Impala's Currents. This strange spoken word song completely takes me out of what is otherwise an epic album and it always gets skipped.
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The one that has always bugged me is Wake Me Up When September Ends from Green Day's American Idiot.
Haha that was actually my feelings about American Idiot. Found it was okay as a single but did not set up the rest of that album. If I were to axe one off it, it'd be that, but I could also get rid of September, or at least move it to later in the disc.
In a similar fashion, The Offspring's Americana. One of their best, but completely ruined by Pretty Fly for a White Guy and Why Don't You Get a Job. So off from the rest of the style of the album it completely kills the flow. Although Get a Job may have been more a victim of being over-played.
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Haha that was actually my feelings about American Idiot. Found it was okay as a single but did not set up the rest of that album. If I were to axe one off it, it'd be that, but I could also get rid of September, or at least move it to later in the disc.
In a similar fashion, The Offspring's Americana. One of their best, but completely ruined by Pretty Fly for a White Guy and Why Don't You Get a Job. So off from the rest of the style of the album it completely kills the flow. Although Get a Job may have been more a victim of being over-played.
Why don't you get a job is just a bad song. It was on the regular rotation at my old job and it drove me nuts because there's just so many great offspring songs and the only one we had was a goofy piece of crap.
Yes, Why Don't You Get a Job is another good example of a song that ruins a close to perfect album. The most annoying thing is that it gave the Offspring the idea they could write a quality ska ballad and these style of songs have infected all their albums since.
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Yes, Why Don't You Get a Job is another good example of a song that ruins a close to perfect album. The most annoying thing is that it gave the Offspring the idea they could write a quality ska ballad and these style of songs have infected all their albums since.
It shouldn't have. It's not like they wrote the melody or anything.
Although I am reminded that I need to go back and listen to Rise and Fall, Rage and Grace.
