Saturday, March 20, 2010
A great song on a bad album
Over time I've listened to most genres of music. Although I primarily stick to 3-4 genres, I'll listen to most. Recently, I've started listening to streaming music. Last week this one station had a spectacular playlist and I was glued to my chair, working and humming along. Being as obsessive-compulsive as I am, I usually look up the artist & album. On this day most of these were from albums I currently own or had owned at some point. And most of these albums were just putrid. That got me thinking about great songs on really horrid albums.
Here's a list off the top of my head; in no particular order:
- Since I don't have you/ GnR /Spaghetti Incident
- Tubthumping/ Chumbawamba /Tubthumper
- Who are you/ The Who /Who are you
- Just like paradise/ David Lee Roth /Skyscraper
- Been caught stealing/ Janes Addiction /Ritual
- St. Anger/ Metallica /St. Anger
- Earth intruders/ Bjork /Volta
- Violet/ Hole /Live through this
- Tripping on a hole in a paper heart/ STP /Thank you
- Human touch/ Springsteen /Human touch
- Boys of summer/ Don Henley /Building the perfect beast
- Whip it/ Devo /Freedom on choice
- Gas panic/Oasis/Standing on the shoulders of giants
- I'm nothing/ Violent femmes /New Times
- Cult of personality/ Living color /Vivid
- Take it back/ Pink Floyd /Division bell
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Soon, my favorite albums of all time
