• crunchpaste@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    14·
    10 months ago

    Pretty fly for a white guy. It’s not really a bad song, but it was really overused in the late 90s and early 2000s.

    Americana is a great album, but every time Pretty fly starts playing it ruins it for me.

    • NuPNuA@lemm.ee
      4·
      10 months ago

      Original Prankster was similar on the next album. Like their label at the time forced one commercial track for a single on them.

    • pH3ra@beehaw.org
      2·
      10 months ago

      I came here to say the same. It isn’t bad but it doesn’t mix up well with the rest…

    • 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️@yiffit.net
      English
      12·
      10 months ago

      Album’s just one absolute banger after another, and then it finishes with a song that sounds like someone wrote in 5 minutes while hungover at a music festival

      I mean… It is Nirvana. There’s a very good chance that is exactly what happened.

      Also: you got the name of the song right? I grabbed my disc to listen to it since I don’t remember that one and there is literally no song with that name on the album. Not even the deluxe edition or remastered edition on Spotify have a song called “Underneath the Bridge.”

      Did you mean “Something in the Way?” It has those words as part of the lyrics. It’s one of my favorites off that album. lol

        • astraeus@programming.dev
          2·
          10 months ago

          It’s probably the most authentic Kurt on the record if we’re being real. Depressed, dejected and broken down

            • astraeus@programming.dev
              3·
              10 months ago

              Lyrically yes, sonically not as much. The music captures his overall mood much better than the angrier sounding songs. Man had tremendously horrible IBS and a heroin addiction, sure he was angry but how much more often was he just absolutely in the dumps?

              • Link.wav [he/him]@beehaw.org
                1·
                10 months ago

                Yes, and I think I’ve made it clear that I don’t think the song adequately conveys that. I could expand on this, but I’ve already stated my opinion of the song, which hasn’t changed one iota, so I will choose not to engage.

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      10 months ago

      I’m just going to join the dogpiling on you about incorrect song names lol

      It’s “Endless, Nameless”, not Nameless Shameless

      • Link.wav [he/him]@beehaw.org
        2·
        10 months ago

        GOD DAMN IT ZFSSJJCSAADAHKMHDX

        I love being able to stream, but I think now and then I should still PICK UP THE RECORD AND READ IT

        Scary how memories are so elusive. I wonder what else I think I remember that is false lmao

    • astraeus@programming.dev
      2·
      10 months ago

      I can’t believe I’m saying this, somehow I never even gave Astro Lounge a fair shake. I grossly misremembered the song quality, there are some pretty good tracks on there. It’s got some cheesy gimmicks, even so it’s worth giving a listen or two at least.

      • Lexi Sneptaur@pawb.socialEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        It’s kinda campy. I like that about smash mouth. Fallen Horses though, that’s a great track. Genuinely good listening.

    • astraeus@programming.dev
      1·
      10 months ago

      I can’t believe I’m saying this but I never even gave Astro Lounge a fair shake. I’m listening to it again and I’m surprised by how badly I misremembered the song quality

  • Summzashi@lemmy.one
    7·
    10 months ago

    Escape from Metallica’s Ride The Lightning. It doesn’t ruin the album but it stains a masterpiece for sure. The band hates that song as well because they wrote it last minute to appease their record label.

  • frankPodmore@slrpnk.netEnglish
    6·
    10 months ago

    Maxwell’s Silver Hammer on Abbey Road. One of the few songs I skip while listening to an album!

  • CycloneWolf@midwest.social
    6·
    10 months ago

    Ticks and Leeches off of Lateralus by Tool. It’s not even a bad song but the aggression ruins the flow of the album and sticks out like a sore toe.

  • sapo@beehaw.org
    5·
    10 months ago

    Revolution 9, as was often joked about on beatlescirclejerk in the other place.

  • Profilename1@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    4·
    10 months ago

    There’s a pair of Beatles albums in this list. I don’t mind “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” or “Revolution 9,” but “Tomorrow Never Knows” on Revolver counts for me. Frankly, it’s the worst Beatles song. I prefer the Daniel Johnston and Jad Fair cover of it on It’s Spooky to the Beatles version. It’s just that bad.

  • Ghoelian@feddit.nl
    4·
    10 months ago

    Any Chvrches song where one of the other members is singing (not sure who it is).

    I think there’s at least one on every album they’ve made, and it’s always an immediate skip for me.

    • Encromion@beehaw.org
      1·
      10 months ago

      It’s Martin. I like 'em but I get it. He’s singing in their latest single Manhattan, and except his song on Screen Violence (or love is dead lol I forget) I mostly skip them as well.

    • nowrongnotes@beehaw.org
      2·
      10 months ago

      Couldn’t agree more, that tune is cringe-inducing. A perfect example of the rule that your kids are always cuter to you than to anyone else.

      To me, “Parade” on that album is also a turkey.

  • CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml
    2·
    10 months ago

    I don’t think it ruins the album, but Oh, Daddy on Fleetwood Mac’s Rumors is kind of the only stinker on there. It would have been better with Silver Springs instead I think.