1. “Under Pressure” off Queen’s Hot Space
2. “This Is England” off the Clash’s Cut The Crap
3. “Eminence Front” off The Who’s It’s Hard
4. “Brownsville Girl” off Bob Dylan’s Knocked Out Loaded
5. “Hallo Spaceboy” off David Bowie’s Outside
6. “Kill Your Sons” off Lou Reed’s Sally Can’t Dance
7. “2000 Light Years from Home” off the Rolling Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request
8. “Goin’ Home” off Neil Young’s Are You Passionate
9. “Song For Guy” off Elton John’s A Single Man
10. “Don’t Look Back” off Boston’s Don’t Look Back
11. “Jammin’ Me” off Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Let Me Up I’ve Had Enough
12. “Shipbuilding” off Elvis Costello’s Punch the Clock
13. “Go Let It Out” off Oasis’s Standing on the Shoulder of Giants
14. “Big Love” off Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In the Night
15. “Tonight” off Elton John’s Blue Moves
16. “Celluloid Heroes” off the Kinks’ Everybody’s in Show-Biz
17. “Country Death Song” off the Violent Femmes’ Hallowed Ground
18. “Busy Doin’ Nothin’” off the Beach Boys’ Friends
19. “Supernova” off Liz Phair’s Whip-Smart
20. “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World” off Prince’s The Gold Experience
21. “Human Touch” off Bruce Springsteen’s Human Touch
22. “Learning To Fly” off Pink Floyd’s Momentary Lapse of Reason
23. “I Don’t Want Your Love” off Duran Duran’s Big Thing
24. “Wild Wild Life” off The Talking Heads’ True Stories
25. “My Love” off Wings’ Red Rose Speedway
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Disappointing that they would consider Boston's Don't Look Back a "bad album." Incomplete, yes, but that's due to label interference; it still has several good tunes including Party and A Man I'll Never Be.
As for the Queen jab, I'd have to agree with RS for once.
As for the Queen jab, I'd have to agree with RS for once.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Rolling Stone wrote: [/QUOTENAME]
14. “Big Love” off Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In the Night[/QUOTE]
Even though "Little Lies" and "Seven Wonders" scored much higher in the charts? This album also contained another single, "Everywhere".
Great choice for a bad album, Rolling Stone.
But they finally put Queen #1 at something...
14. “Big Love” off Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In the Night[/QUOTE]
Even though "Little Lies" and "Seven Wonders" scored much higher in the charts? This album also contained another single, "Everywhere".
Great choice for a bad album, Rolling Stone.
But they finally put Queen #1 at something...
Great list!
Oh... and I fully agree with Tango in the Night being on there. They may have been bigger hits but yuck.
Not so sure about Momentary Lapse of Reason, but it's all cool. :)
Oh... and I fully agree with Tango in the Night being on there. They may have been bigger hits but yuck.
Not so sure about Momentary Lapse of Reason, but it's all cool. :)
Interesting picks, although I don't agree with many of them.
Tango In The Night for example, which I consider a great album. It was a change in FM's musical direction, that's for sure, but it's a good album.
Also interesting the choices for the Elton John's albums "Single Man" and "Blue Moves" and they are probably right on these two, despite "Blue Moves" having another top notch song: "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word"
As for Oasis' "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants", again I don't think it's a bad album, it's just a (big) change in the musical direction, but I admit it has some very bad moments. Anyway, "Go Let It Out" is certainly not the best song out of there, I'd say "Gas Panic"
Anyway, an interesting list, which is rare for Rolling Stone...
Tango In The Night for example, which I consider a great album. It was a change in FM's musical direction, that's for sure, but it's a good album.
Also interesting the choices for the Elton John's albums "Single Man" and "Blue Moves" and they are probably right on these two, despite "Blue Moves" having another top notch song: "Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word"
As for Oasis' "Standing On The Shoulder Of Giants", again I don't think it's a bad album, it's just a (big) change in the musical direction, but I admit it has some very bad moments. Anyway, "Go Let It Out" is certainly not the best song out of there, I'd say "Gas Panic"
Anyway, an interesting list, which is rare for Rolling Stone...
It might be a study in contrast, too. By which I mean, up until then, Queen were on a roll album-wise, and every band has "off" albums. I like how they cherrypick off of those terrible Elton John albums, though, although you could do the same off of Dylan, Who, etc. Which they wouldn't do, those kind of bands being sacrosanct rock critic darlings.
Surprised to see them put an Elvis Costello track on this kind of thing. Every review of a Costello album has been like that of the second coming of Christ.
My pick would include "Thru and Thru," a Keith Richards-sung track off of the otherwise blah Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge. It's been on the Sopranos to great effect.
Surprised to see them put an Elvis Costello track on this kind of thing. Every review of a Costello album has been like that of the second coming of Christ.
My pick would include "Thru and Thru," a Keith Richards-sung track off of the otherwise blah Rolling Stones' Voodoo Lounge. It's been on the Sopranos to great effect.
"Momentary LApse of Reason" is a very good album. Apart from Learning To Fly, there are such great songs as the classics "On a Turning Away","Sorrow", plus "One Slip", "Yet Another Movie" and "Terminal Frost"
The album version of Big Love sounds good, but I always preferred the live version available on The Dance. Not a Fleetwood Mac fan, but I bought that CD solely for that version.
"On the Turning Away" is one of my favorite Floyd songs, ever.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Maz wrote: [/QUOTENAME]The album version of Big Love sounds good, but I always preferred the live version available on The Dance. Not a Fleetwood Mac fan, but I bought that CD solely for that version.[/QUOTE]
Lindsey opened his solo tour playing that solo on an acoustic the next year. Incredible. I believe it's still on his set list.
Glad to see other Tango fans, very easy album to listen to. It's the crap they started to release after that, when everyone jumped ship.
Lindsey opened his solo tour playing that solo on an acoustic the next year. Incredible. I believe it's still on his set list.
Glad to see other Tango fans, very easy album to listen to. It's the crap they started to release after that, when everyone jumped ship.
[QUOTE]1. “Under Pressure” off Queen’s Hot Space[/QUOTE]
Agreed, mostly. The album has a few ups, but not many.
[QUOTE]2. “This Is England” off the Clash’s Cut The Crap[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
[QUOTE]4. “Brownsville Girl” off Bob Dylan’s Knocked Out Loaded[/QUOTE]
Completely agreed. Great song, poor album. But the outtakes are better than the album.
[QUOTE]5. “Hallo Spaceboy” off David Bowie’s Outside[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
[QUOTE]6. “Kill Your Sons” off Lou Reed’s Sally Can’t Dance[/QUOTE] Agreed. Great song, by the way.
[QUOTE]8. “Goin’ Home” off Neil Young’s Are You Passionate[/QUOTE] Agreed. Very poor effort of Neil's, that album was.
[QUOTE]9. “Song For Guy” off Elton John’s A Single Man[/QUOTE] Disagree. I think the song AND the album suck.
[QUOTE]11. “Jammin’ Me” off Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Let Me Up I’ve Had Enough[/QUOTE] The album's not GREAT, but it's definitely not BAD. Great song, though.
[/QUOTE]12. “Shipbuilding” off Elvis Costello’s Punch the Clock[/QUOTE]
Agreed!
[QUOTE]14. “Big Love” off Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In the Night[/QUOTE] Disagree. Not a good song, IMHO.
[QUOTE]16. “Celluloid Heroes” off the Kinks’ Everybody’s in Show-Biz[/QUOTE]
Great song, piss-poor album. Agreed!
[QUOTE]18. “Busy Doin’ Nothin’” off the Beach Boys’ Friends[/QUOTE] Not a good song, not a good album, IMHO. Disagree.
[QUOTE]21. “Human Touch” off Bruce Springsteen’s Human Touch[/QUOTE]
Yep. Very disappointing album, too.
[QUOTE]22. “Learning To Fly” off Pink Floyd’s Momentary Lapse of Reason[/QUOTE]
The album's so bad that it needs a song this good to make up for it.
[QUOTE]23. “I Don’t Want Your Love” off Duran Duran’s Big Thing[/QUOTE]
Disagree. Bad album and bad song.
Agreed, mostly. The album has a few ups, but not many.
[QUOTE]2. “This Is England” off the Clash’s Cut The Crap[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
[QUOTE]4. “Brownsville Girl” off Bob Dylan’s Knocked Out Loaded[/QUOTE]
Completely agreed. Great song, poor album. But the outtakes are better than the album.
[QUOTE]5. “Hallo Spaceboy” off David Bowie’s Outside[/QUOTE]
Agreed.
[QUOTE]6. “Kill Your Sons” off Lou Reed’s Sally Can’t Dance[/QUOTE] Agreed. Great song, by the way.
[QUOTE]8. “Goin’ Home” off Neil Young’s Are You Passionate[/QUOTE] Agreed. Very poor effort of Neil's, that album was.
[QUOTE]9. “Song For Guy” off Elton John’s A Single Man[/QUOTE] Disagree. I think the song AND the album suck.
[QUOTE]11. “Jammin’ Me” off Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ Let Me Up I’ve Had Enough[/QUOTE] The album's not GREAT, but it's definitely not BAD. Great song, though.
[/QUOTE]12. “Shipbuilding” off Elvis Costello’s Punch the Clock[/QUOTE]
Agreed!
[QUOTE]14. “Big Love” off Fleetwood Mac’s Tango In the Night[/QUOTE] Disagree. Not a good song, IMHO.
[QUOTE]16. “Celluloid Heroes” off the Kinks’ Everybody’s in Show-Biz[/QUOTE]
Great song, piss-poor album. Agreed!
[QUOTE]18. “Busy Doin’ Nothin’” off the Beach Boys’ Friends[/QUOTE] Not a good song, not a good album, IMHO. Disagree.
[QUOTE]21. “Human Touch” off Bruce Springsteen’s Human Touch[/QUOTE]
Yep. Very disappointing album, too.
[QUOTE]22. “Learning To Fly” off Pink Floyd’s Momentary Lapse of Reason[/QUOTE]
The album's so bad that it needs a song this good to make up for it.
[QUOTE]23. “I Don’t Want Your Love” off Duran Duran’s Big Thing[/QUOTE]
Disagree. Bad album and bad song.
Lindsey Buckingham is pure genius. I've seen him on both solo tours and yes he still does his awesomely crazy acoustic version of Big Love.
He's also doing a great version of Tusk and World Turning on this tour. If you get a chance you should check him out.
He's also doing a great version of Tusk and World Turning on this tour. If you get a chance you should check him out.
Oh and as for PF's Momentary Lapse Of Reason, it's common to bash this album, I'm just surprised "The Division Bell" (one of my all time favrite albums) isn't there too. Again, this is mostly due to the contrast between these two albums and the IMO much worse "The Final Cut".
Anyway, I think Lapse Of Reason has some very good moments (Sorrow, On The Turnning Away, Terminal Frost...), along with some less inspired moments like One Slip. The Watersless Floyd got much better with the Division Bell.
Anyway, I think Lapse Of Reason has some very good moments (Sorrow, On The Turnning Away, Terminal Frost...), along with some less inspired moments like One Slip. The Watersless Floyd got much better with the Division Bell.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Mustapha_Ibrahim wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Oh and as for PF's Momentary Lapse Of Reason, it's common to bash this album, I'm just surprised "The Division Bell" (one of my all time favrite albums) isn't there too. Again, this is mostly due to the contrast between these two albums and the IMO much worse "The Final Cut".
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Ahh, different strokes I guess. I think the Final Cut, while very slow, is a good album. But then I'm a Roger Waters fan. I like David Gilmore, but the two albums that "Pink Floyd" made without Waters just bore me to tears. Without the Waters edge, Floyd never appealed to me. Kinda like MacCartney without Lennon.
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Ahh, different strokes I guess. I think the Final Cut, while very slow, is a good album. But then I'm a Roger Waters fan. I like David Gilmore, but the two albums that "Pink Floyd" made without Waters just bore me to tears. Without the Waters edge, Floyd never appealed to me. Kinda like MacCartney without Lennon.
[QUOTE][QUOTENAME]drwinston wrote: [/QUOTENAME][QUOTE][QUOTENAME]Mustapha_Ibrahim wrote: [/QUOTENAME]Oh and as for PF's Momentary Lapse Of Reason, it's common to bash this album, I'm just surprised "The Division Bell" (one of my all time favrite albums) isn't there too. Again, this is mostly due to the contrast between these two albums and the IMO much worse "The Final Cut".
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Ahh, different strokes I guess. I think the Final Cut, while very slow, is a good album. But then I'm a Roger Waters fan. I like David Gilmore, but the two albums that "Pink Floyd" made without Waters just bore me to tears. Without the Waters edge, Floyd never appealed to me. Kinda like MacCartney without Lennon.[/QUOTE]
Yeah different strokes ;-)
I like The Final Cut... sometimes. As you say it's a very slow album, but I admit it could be MUCH better if it wasn't for the terrible mixing job Roger did with it. Basically, he decided to put all the music layers too much behind his voice, in a way that if you listen to the album in a low volume, you can hear nothing but him.
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Ahh, different strokes I guess. I think the Final Cut, while very slow, is a good album. But then I'm a Roger Waters fan. I like David Gilmore, but the two albums that "Pink Floyd" made without Waters just bore me to tears. Without the Waters edge, Floyd never appealed to me. Kinda like MacCartney without Lennon.[/QUOTE]
Yeah different strokes ;-)
I like The Final Cut... sometimes. As you say it's a very slow album, but I admit it could be MUCH better if it wasn't for the terrible mixing job Roger did with it. Basically, he decided to put all the music layers too much behind his voice, in a way that if you listen to the album in a low volume, you can hear nothing but him.