Can't agree on Kooks I really like that track as part of the whole 'Hunky Dory' album.

@catsofsherman1316

Жыл бұрын

Me too

@superfuzzymomma

Жыл бұрын

Kooks is indeed essential to the sequencing of Hunky Dory. Like it very much.its quite endearing.

@donaldwesterhazy9333

Жыл бұрын

He really screwed the pooch on that choice. Every track works.

@sansovino4124

Жыл бұрын

Have to agree - love the song, love the album - not a choice I would have made.

@terrybnad2959

Жыл бұрын

I was fully expecting Barry to say *Fill Your Heart* 😂

Meeting Across The River is great and fits perfectly before Jungleland

@allanforrester2612

Жыл бұрын

Meeting is a wonderful, tragic short story, and deserves its place on Born To Run.

@g.belanger8302

Жыл бұрын

I really don’t get that choice at all. I agree that it’s a beautiful lead into jungleland

@carlroberts8013

Жыл бұрын

New York personified. Great song.

@user-br2en2ol1q

Жыл бұрын

Film noir, I believe that was the intention it is a fantastic track and fits into Born to Run perfectly.

@MatineeIdyll129

Жыл бұрын

​@g.belanger8302 the point is to get clicks, views and general reactions to get it pushed up the algorithm. Dude should stay away from Nebraska, Darkness and half of The River if he dosent like MATR

“Kooks” adds a sweet innocence to “Hunky Dory” that feels essential to me. “Revolution 9” for better or worse bookends the Beatle decade by introducing millions to 'musique concrete', and is the mouth of the river of much music that you love. And “San Tropez” is a nice juxtapositional 'piece of fluff' before “Echoes”.

@opinion3742

Жыл бұрын

And as someone has pointed out already Kooks is a tender little song written for his son that expresses a genuine and self-aware concern. And it has precious little to match it in the canon of popular music.

@nicktreleaven4119

Жыл бұрын

San Tropez is great, the dog one is unlistenable though. I even forgot it existed as I deleted the mp3.

@codycoyote7046

Жыл бұрын

Kooks is rad as hell

@candelise

Жыл бұрын

Kooks is whimsical, so? Darling Nikki? Are you kidding? Meeting Across The River is a wonderful piece of sung cinema and is the calm after She's The One and a perfect set up TO Jungleland! Rainy Day is another scope in an album that contains many moods and it's inclusion adds to that. The old row about the White album? Anybody's selection is bound to be different. How about it having enough material to make a great EP or it had enough good things on it to make a single!

@utubexess

Жыл бұрын

Good track. Not a good start to this video.

Purple Rain is a flawless album. I am literally stunned that anyone could call Darling Nikki “terrible.”

@tussk.

Жыл бұрын

if you look at the album as a collection of songs rather than a storyline it doesnt make sense. that was prince hurt and bitter, lashing out. it fits in with the movie, but not as well on the album as theres no context to it.

@spinalcrackerbox

Жыл бұрын

​​​@@tussk. "hurt and bitter"? You're projecting IMHO. It's a continuation of his little audio porn ditties such as "Head", "Sister", "Jack U Off" and "Let's Pretend We're Married" he enjoyed writing alongside his Christian-inspired song themes.

@728huey

Жыл бұрын

Darling Nikki us a terrific song on Purple Rain. The album from start to finish was incredible. If there was a song that was close to being a filler track it would be Take Me With U, but even that song has redeeming features.

@TheSteveSteele

Жыл бұрын

@@tussk. It’s a soundtrack album and when viewed that way it’s a powerful track with a great ending. The scene with Darling Nikki is a memorable and intense.

@peterwinters8587

Жыл бұрын

I would call to whole album terrible

Hats Off to Roy Harper on Led Zeppelin III...a mediocre ending to a great album. Hats Off should have been replaced with Hey Hey What Can I Do, the B-side to Immigrant Song. And Hey Jude should have replaced Revolution 9 on the White Album.

@rick6582CNCMedicalParts

Жыл бұрын

100% right...But not many bad zeppelin songs 99% all great

@jfbmf1242

Жыл бұрын

The crunge is cringe also.

@rick6582CNCMedicalParts

Жыл бұрын

@@jfbmf1242 i like that song in 70s they played that on radio a lot with the ocean back to back .."Has anybody seen the Bridge , "? ,Bonzo liked james brown music

@babylemonade2868

Жыл бұрын

Nah the crunge is awesome.

@carlmcgrath484

Жыл бұрын

NUMBER 9. NUMBER 9. NUMBER 9. NUMBER 9. NUMBER 9

“Maxwell’s Silver Hammer” sounds so dorky. Truly a turd in the otherwise brilliant punch that is Abbey Road.

@user-qb1sm3rk9r

Ай бұрын

Octopus' Garden blows goats

I'd just like to say how much I enjoy your channel, particularly your deadpan humour, those unexpected remarks and humourous observations that jump out of leftfield, you really make me laugh sometimes. Keep it up.

Can't agree on the Springsteen. Love that atmospheric track. Perfect spot on the album, great storytelling.

@xpindy

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I usually agree with CAR but I love "Meeting Across The River". It's like watching an entire film in a couple of minutes, something it has in common with many of the cuts on BTR, but it doesn't work nearly as hard and is more nuanced.

@mattmerritt5541

Жыл бұрын

Yep. Lyrically, it prefigures a lot of what’s to come in his next few albums - for the first time, what’s most important about the lyrics is what he doesn’t say.

@jacobgwinn3219

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree. I love this song and there is no bad song on Born To Run.

@one_with_kevrything9825

Жыл бұрын

I don't listen to Springsteen much. What's the rundown on Meeting Across The River? Do Becky and Dan get grandpa's old truck running in time to take the final harvest to market to save the family farm?

@walterevans5658

Жыл бұрын

@@one_with_kevrything9825 You're thinking of a John Mellencamp song.

Ironically, Meeting Across the River is my favourite track on Born to Run.

@monkeyballs512

Жыл бұрын

While I’d agree that it isn’t a bad song, liking it best is just weird, man. There is so much wonderful about that album. Meeting Across the River is a very good song surrounded by even better ones

@AD65

Жыл бұрын

What's ironic about it ?

@JohnnyRecently

Жыл бұрын

Really?

@godzilla2721

Жыл бұрын

Same. I heard it the other day and really liked it and was like I guess this is why people think Bruce Springsteen is great

@mistermousterian

Жыл бұрын

For me Backstreets and Jungleland are the weak songs, in a sense they peak too early and are just bombastic and pretentious. I think Night is the gem, not too long and the lyrics, written in the second person, perfectly describe the longing and the validation of speed and young love.

For me a great album with a terrible ending is Dire Straits Makin' Movies which for me is Straits at their best right up until the final track 'Les Boys'

@andrewcarr5923

Жыл бұрын

Love the track, its Knopfler at his most tongue in cheek best.

@tdunph4250

Жыл бұрын

I can see how certain types would be"triggered" by Les Boys but it's a song to take it face value and it's kind of catchy.

@otisdylan9532

Жыл бұрын

@@tdunph4250 I'm not triggered by it, I just think it's a weak piece of music.

@tdunph4250

Жыл бұрын

@@otisdylan9532 fair enough although I would be willing to bet that the track's lyrics might offend certain types lol

@hokiepaul5069

Жыл бұрын

Totally agree! Les Boys doesn’t fit thematically or musically in any way. A total misfire on one of my all time Top Ten favorite albums.

Darling Nicky is a classic!!!! I cant believe anyone would call that a weak track!

@venanciahopkins5035

Жыл бұрын

Exactly! This Prince fan was aghast when he mentioned Darling Nikki. I was like WTF. That is a great track off that album.

@funkcreep6230

Жыл бұрын

Agreed!!! I never flip Nikki, it has Prince's best scream ever!

@curly_wyn

6 ай бұрын

What’s missing from it is….literally any melody at all?

'Are You Ready Eddy?' from ELP's Tarkus album. What a shitshow.

@Skycladatdusk78

Жыл бұрын

Some mention Benny The Bouncer from Brain Salad Surgery, but I always found it amusing.

@xpindy

Жыл бұрын

Ham or cheese?

@tdave1234

Ай бұрын

“I’m in Love With My Car” from “A Night at the Opera”

In my opinion 'Meeting across the river' is an intregal part of a masterpiece album (and a beautiful piece of music), and as someone else here says, fits perfectly before 'Jungleland', however, I do agree that it may not work as well live.

Oh man, I was with you all the way until you hit "Meeting Across the River"...I think that fits nicely with the whole album, and especially Jungleland to come.

@janhanchenmichelsen2627

Жыл бұрын

Agree. I love the cinematic vibes. For me, Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out is the oddball. Some great lines, but the soul element is just flat. The song never flows, never really comes alive. But your milage may vary. ;-)

@martinrasinger6306

Жыл бұрын

Tom Waits once said, "I wish I had written Meeting Across The River".

@stevenmilos6585

Жыл бұрын

@@janhanchenmichelsen2627 Yes, I totally agree. Tenth Avenue always seemed a little out of place on that album; it's a great song, but just slightly off, it's hard to put my finger on why.

@stevenmilos6585

Жыл бұрын

@@martinrasinger6306 Haha, so do I!

@bobthebear1246

Жыл бұрын

I disagree with you and agree with him on that. That's a Jazz fluff piece that belonged on one of his first 2 albums, NOT on the otherwise wonderful *Born To Run.*

Rainy Day Women, a tribute to the jazz cabbage in all its romp and splendor.. I dug the song when I was a kid hearing it on the radio for the first time and I dig it now. Couldn't take the album too seriously when it opens with this, Dylan basically saying "put that in your clay pipe and smoke it"

@FuturePast2019

Жыл бұрын

And his highest charting single #2

@emmalancaster2013

Жыл бұрын

@@FuturePast2019 Thought “Like a Rolling Stone” also hit #2.

@FuturePast2019

Жыл бұрын

@@emmalancaster2013 Yes, and best song. But ...Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 is also the opening track on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits. His best selling album in the U.S.

@emmalancaster2013

Жыл бұрын

@@FuturePast2019 I actually like Rainy Day Women! He sounds so stoned (probably was).

@mistermousterian

Жыл бұрын

Sad-eyed Lady is the stinker. Just maudlin.

I just cannot imagine the White Album without 'Wild Honey Pie"!

Springsteen? Seems like a perfect moody intro to Jungleland to me...

I couldn’t imagine Hunky Dory without Kooks, or any other track for that matter, it’s perfect exactly the way it is.

Kooks is amazing

@classicalbum

Жыл бұрын

It's ok, just feels a bit mispalced to me rather than terrible

@PhilBaird1

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Barry needs to spank himself with a rolled up newspaper. There's not a bad track on the album and it's Bowie's best.

@donaldwesterhazy9333

Жыл бұрын

@@PhilBaird1 Hands down his best. Nothing comes close.

@opinion3742

Жыл бұрын

@@classicalbum Can't imagine Hunky Dory without kooks.

@200405InVision

Жыл бұрын

Kooks is subtle and deliberately playful and safe imo. Written for a child as a message to those with concerns for its welfare? When 2 unconventional gender benders, out to shock and alienated, have a kid and hope for the best for it in, at the time, in a still intolerant, but changing socially, conservative Britain. How's it doing now? Duncan Jones? Nurture or nature. Hunky Dory sold poorly but this song is much more than just a cheery tune. A manifesto that there is more to parenting than just speaking when you're being spoken too etc? A seminal song for changing times and very deliberately conventional in early 70s middle of the road terms.

Shopping for a CD player in the mid 1980s, I remember the stereo salesman telling me that I could use it to program out "Mother". Sold!

Where is Hats Off to Roy Harper and The Crunge?

@mauriceharvey4300

Жыл бұрын

Don't mind Hats Off... but The Crunge and D'yer Maker should never have seen the light of day!

@jricoc3475

Жыл бұрын

I love both of those songs. The only ONLY Zeppelin song I can't stand is "D'yer Mak'er". Well, also "Hey, Hey ...", but at least they kept that off of III ...

Great list. Not a horrible song, but “It Ain’t Easy” is an automatic skip for me on Ziggy Stardust.

@mikedonoghues4018

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. If you’re going to put a cover version on your album, shouldn’t it be because you’d struggle to write better yourself?

@GrittMMA-ci9sv

Жыл бұрын

Couldn’t disagree more

@BigSky1

Жыл бұрын

@@GrittMMA-ci9sv Me too. Always liked it. I have the original by Ron Davies too.

@mikewest1542

Жыл бұрын

Loads of other stuff that should have been on the album , Holy ,Holy, Round and Round, Amsterdam , Sweet Head , instead of It ain’t easy. Also on Hunky Dory we could have had , Bombers, Velvet Goldmine.

@stevemalek2970

Жыл бұрын

@@GrittMMA-ci9sv same, it's a great track which I never skip.

KOOKS? KOOKS? How very dare you!

I agree that 'Seamus' is a pretty naff throwaway piece of cod blues that is completely dispensable, however ' Kooks' is a glorious slice of charming whimsy that never fails to make me smile with it's thoroughly English sense of charm and humour..definitely has a place on Hunky Dory. If I'm honest, I've never enjoyed Revolution 9, and have been inclined to skip it altogether, however it's so entrenched within the tracklisting that it's hard to imagine The White album without it, but yes, we could have had 2 or 3 additional songs in it's place that would have been arguably far more listenable.

"Jamaica Jerk-Off" on Goodbye Yellow Brick Road (and I was going to mention "Kissin' Time" before you put it in your (dis)Honorable Mentions).

@leonardobrien

3 ай бұрын

Plus Dirty Little Girl

@johnwhite5485

7 күн бұрын

Or Social Disease

You are so utterly wrong about 'Meeting Across the River'. This song, along with 'Jungleland' makes 'Born to Run' the 3rd best song on side 2 of the album.

@mistermousterian

Жыл бұрын

Born to Run is a unique song. There's really nothing like it in the R&R canon.

Kooks fits Hunky Dory perfectly. It’s a breezy and lighthearted pop song that adds a contrast to the more philosophical and thematically “heavy” tracks on the album such as Quicksand and Life On Mars? Darling Nikki, well, it kinda works as a sort of interlude between Purple’s Side 1 and Side 2 for me. I love that weird psychedelic outro with the rain effects. I can’t imagine Blonde on Blonde opening with another song other thsn Rainy Day Women. It always gets me in the mood to sit down and listen to the entire record. It’s sloppy, drunken, stoned, and an absolute blast. Revolution 9 sums up the entire White Album as a fractured, schizophrenic, unpredictable sort of “anti-album”. It works supremely well and it furthers contributes to The Beatles’ awe-inspiring diversity and willingness to get away with being creatively free to do as they please. They gave everyone else in music and other arts permission to push beyond what was expected of them.

Kooks, motorcycle mama, rainy day women, are all great songs on great albums. Surely you can come up with a better top ten that are genuinely terrible songs?

The Crunge on Led Zeppelin's Houses of the Holy is high on my list.

@carncats07

Жыл бұрын

And D'yer Maker. I love House's of the Holy, but those 2 tracks really bring it down in the middle after an epic start and epic finish.

@schlaackmusic

Жыл бұрын

Houses of the Holy is my favorite Zeppelin album, but goddamn I hate The Crunge.

@PFB1994

Жыл бұрын

@@schlaackmusic Same here, my favorite Zeppelin album in spite of the Crunge.

@dancalmpeaceful3903

Жыл бұрын

Oh heavens - yes, I absolutely hate that damn song. It's the ONLY , and I mean THE ONLY Zep song I dislike!

@peterwinters8587

Жыл бұрын

Agreed - seems like a joke

Totally agree with "Seamus". Not a good song by any stretch but oddly appropriate for The Floyd during this period. I'm "frothing" at your assessment of "Meeting Across the River". As an individual song it's not great, but as part of the album it fits perfectly.

"Who Dunnit?" bumps Genesis' Abacab down at least half a grade.

Rainy Day was my 1st contact with the electric Dylan. I have already hear freewheling some time ago. When I first hear RDW in Greatest hits album I was completely shock. This guy sound like this? And sing like this?, that shock me. It was like to enter on a "electric circus". Of course is not the best song from B/B but is a great introduction to this electric circus masterpiece full of strange human beast and under very "strange circunstances". I love this "terrific"song, a master of seremonies given welcome to a great poetic and musical universe.

Swedish Doompixie and Jazz Cabbage are 2 of my favourite bands.

I knew you were going to pick "Mother", my favourite track from that album.

@greg-warsaw4708

3 ай бұрын

Miss Gradenko is another track on Synch that I tend to skip.

I'll always proclaim that D'yer Mak'er is a pack of ants in what is otherwise a luscious musical picnic that is Houses of the Holy!

When group listening with friends, two of our favourites would be the White Album and the soundtrack to A Clockwork Orange. Revolution No. 9 was an introduction, like Wendy/Walter Carlos, to a whole field of music that I would never have explored as I would never have gone near Radio 3.

One of the reasons I prefer CDs, tracks I don't like get skipped from the comfort of my chair. I can play Revolver now and not have to get up and move the needle when Yellow Submarine comes on.

@simpleman5688

Жыл бұрын

And your bird can sing-🤮

@nodirips_8537

21 күн бұрын

Yes Yellow Submarine is the cartridge that doesn't fit in the Revolver album

The statement “In the age of vinyl, when everything had to count…” is actually the best info in this best presentation and the phrase “The most hardened Bruce blowhards…” is very funny, too… “Rainy Day Women” was a No 2 single for Bob in 1966 and probably also drove many to investigate Bob for the first time… like it does to this day… Going after “Revolution No 9” is just too easy and kinda lazy, too

"Motorcycle Mama" is so awful. Glad I'm not the only one to notice.

Good Feeling, Violent Femmes

Kooks is brilliant. Lightweight yes, but still brilliant. Lovely melody and arrangement.

Can't agree with you on Rainy Day Women. It's one of my favorite Dylan songs.

rainy day women being terrible is a crazy take. very fun and unique track

If it weren’t for “Run for Your Life”, Rubber Soul would be a flawless album.

@bonzodog6872

Жыл бұрын

What goes on is equally dire

@mikebrownhill8955

Ай бұрын

Michelle is a bit iffy too.

As soon as I saw your shirt, I knew Mother was going to get a mention! I was also expecting the Crunge and the Murder Mystery, and preparing to defend them, but I'm glad to see they didn't make the cut. Perhaps you were just giving them a break because they get enough grief already.

@srobbins1973

Жыл бұрын

Worst song of all time

@AntonXul

Жыл бұрын

I’m actually interested in your defense of The Crunge. It should’ve been The Cringe! That song is awful and the worst song Led Zeppelin ever made in my opinion.

@chrisboerger465

Жыл бұрын

@@AntonXul Lyrically pretty weak, no question, but musically I like Bonham's beat, the funky eccentricity. It's a welcome bit of fun after the seriousness of the first three tracks. One of the band's weaker songs, sure, but I have to say, I don't know that there are any Zeppelin songs I actively dislike, even Roy Harper. I'll even stand up for Hot Dog.

@davidl570

Жыл бұрын

@@chrisboerger465 Glad I'm not the only one who actually LIKES Hot Dog! It's cute and charming---and I guarantee Robert and the gang didn't expect us to take it seriously. Can't a band have fun every once in a while??

I was a lot younger, still at school ,when Hunky Dory came out and Kooks was my favourite song on the album at that time 😊 still enjoy listening to it from time to time

ANOTHER excellent video! Thank you!

Darling Nicky is a very good tune, which plays an important role in the Purple Rain film and soundtrack. The ending with the reversed choir is good as well.

@davidl570

Жыл бұрын

The choir at the end FREAKED me out as a kid! Pretty creepy.

@abutts02

Жыл бұрын

Same song party pooper Tipper Gore caused the parental advisory sticker to be created.

I've suffered personal attacks for saying Revolution 9 should not have been included on the White Album. Glad to see I'm not actually alone on that. This heroine/Ono inspired noise is the single biggest mistakes The Beatles ever allowed to escape the recording studio. Its nothing more than a self indulgent disruption within an otherwise beautiful catalogue.

@stevefaure415

Жыл бұрын

Myself, I always thought there's a whole lot that should have been kept off the White Album, like everything that wasn't written by McCartney. Seriously, the White Album would have been kind of a perfect first Paul solo album. The rest--eh.

@zestyut1344

Жыл бұрын

About 20 million people would say revolution #9 should not have been put on the white album

@fittobetiedyed5315

Жыл бұрын

@@zestyut1344 The crap I've taken for saying so from Beatles zealots is unreal. I'm likely to take heat for saying it here.

@davidl570

Жыл бұрын

@@fittobetiedyed5315 No heat from me! Sir Knights George Martin and Paul were right when they tried to keep it off the album, but Lennon wasn't having any of it (not surprisingly). Should've been replaced with Not Guilty and What's The New Mary Jane. Have no problem with being avant garde or experimental, but this was too damn SELF-INDULGENT!

@fittobetiedyed5315

Жыл бұрын

@@davidl570 Exactly!

"Rainy Day Women #12 & #35" is fantastic, definitely pivotal, a fun track and one with very characteristic ironic-satirical lyrics by the man himself. I don't understand this much dislike. The other tracks are more justifiable as "bad" tracks, nonetheless I would rather call them weak.

Agree with most, but definitely not Meeting Across the River. Not only a great song, but I think it is an integral piece of the album in setting the stage for Jungleland.

Mr Lacey on the otherwise wonderful What We did on Our Holidays by Fairport Convention is a ghastly track. What on earth were all the vacuum cleaner noises about?

Can't agree with you on "Paris 1919." I think the track "Macbeth" offers a welcome rock and roll respite from the dreamy songs that precede and follow it. I've never found it jarring at all, and in its surrealism and inscrutability it is of a piece with the rest of the album. In this, and a few other instances, I think you are conflating what you consider to be "out of place" songs with "bad" songs.

You might dislike La La Love You by the Pixies but it's more interesting than most of the songs the Pixies would release after their comeback in the 00's.

Nice video. Also I'm sorry you saw me at that Premier Inn.

“Kooks” is a warming tune, he wrote it for his newborn son, Duncan Jones. And that comment about Greta Thunberg, stop that old man.

disagree on rainy day women..its a fun song for bob and reflects the party scene..

@PhilBaird1

Жыл бұрын

Bob's always had a fun side. It works for me.

Darling Nikki is AMAZING.

"Meeting across the River" is the fourth best track on Born to Run. Can't agree on everything.

Good for you for picking such good LPs to choose songs for this list. Bound to piss off some! For me it is an invite to give each song a new listen.

I remember as a teen making a 90 minute cassette of the White Album. The second record was about a minute too long to fit on the second side, but it worked perfectly to delete Revolution 9 and add Hey Jude to the end. Made a much better album also!

D'yer Mak'er from Houses of the Holy, More Fool Me from Selling England,

@DM-he1ug

Жыл бұрын

Aww! I love More Fool Me. Your Own Special Way however, is syrupy cringe...

Cool Shirt! Love it! I hate to say it about the Revolution No. 9, depends on my mood that day. Love the White Album though... one of my island albums. Thx Great subject!

Unflushed turd😂😂😂😂 im having that one…loving your work..as per.

What about the Crunge? so many near-perfect albums. I also despise D'Yer Maker, same album. I like Kooks! It sets a mood and allows me to dance quite foolishly.

I understand where your coming from with "Kooks" and its connection with the Deram years, you could probably put "Fill Your Heart" in that era as well but personally I love them both and Hunky Dory wouldn't be the same without them.

I don't even like Bruce Springsteen but Meeting Across The River is a great song.

I haven't watched the video yet, but I saw Meddle in the thumbnail, so jumped in to say that you're wrong, whichever song you are going to pick on.

Rainy Day Women #12 & 35 is also the opening track on Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits. His best selling album in the U.S.

There isn’t a bad song on ‘Born to Run’.

@simpleman5688

Жыл бұрын

Numbskull

@kevinbellamy1731

Жыл бұрын

@@simpleman5688 is that the best you can manage as a reply? Grow up!

The other members of the Byrds pleaded with David Crosby not insist on having the preposterous 'Mind Gardens' on 'Younger than Yesterday' which many fans see as their best album. Even Crosby finally admitted it had been a mistake.

“Cars Are Cars” is a clever song, its placement is just off. It should come after “Think Too Much”. Simon is heavily influenced and using a song to make fun of your overthinking where you already have two album songs about it is unique. Glad you like the rest of the album. It’s an unappreciated gem.

The first track I thought of when I saw the title of this video was Radiohead's Electioneering. I don't think it's terrible exactly, but I've never liked it very much, and it's always felt jarringly out-of-place for me on the otherwise impeccable OK Computer.

@mikedonoghues4018

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. It’s the track I skip.

It's Renee not Irene, and it is certainly not "out of place" on Ogden's, given the very whimsical nature of the album. Anyway I like it.

@tombeithemist5255

Жыл бұрын

Gropin' with a stoker from the coast of Kuala Lumper _ Love it!

If Revolution 9 was 90 seconds long then maybe.

I was totally expecting you to say "Fill Your Heart" from Hunky Dory and was totally staggered when you chose "Kooks".

For me, St Tropez will always be the side 1 ending. Revolution 9 is a slice of the sign of the times and... no better track to precede Goodnight. In a site where over and underated is certainly overrated, no album is more overated than Purple Rain.

@sieteocho

Жыл бұрын

Revolution 9 is always hated on by philistines who don't get what it's all about. It's the best thing on the side, and sandwiching it between "Cry Baby Cry" and "Good Night" just emphasises the Alice in Wonderland quality of it. There are so many worse songs on the White Album like "Honey Pie", "Piggies" and "Why Don't We Do It On the Road". I'm surprised that he mentioned "Purple Rain" and "Born To Run" because those are perfect examples of albums which have no filler. "The River" has plenty of filler, as does "1999" so why doesn't he reference those instead? Even "Songs in the Key of Life" has one or two stinkers.

@curly_wyn

Жыл бұрын

@@sieteocho Wrong. Darling Nikki is absolutely filler.

@sieteocho

Жыл бұрын

@@curly_wyn Listening to a Prince album without the dirty song is like eating a pork bun without the pork. I think you made a typo and meant absolutely filthy in which case I agree.

@allanforrester2612

Жыл бұрын

Revolution #9 actually makes some sort of sense, and isn't just random noise. What other mega-band would have the cojones to do it nowadays? Without it, The White Album would be a very different album, instead of a snapshot of where The Beatles were in late 1968.

@sieteocho

Жыл бұрын

@@allanforrester2612 Exactly the squares don't get it. Revolution 9 was way way ahead of its time.

The Black Angel's Death Song on The Velvet Underground and Nico. A fitting title because it sounds like what is probably playing in Hell's waiting room.

@phillipanderson7398

Жыл бұрын

I quite like it. But I think European Son ( to Delmore Schwartz) is far too long and boring. Sister Ray which also ends an early album is also boring after a while.

@tawnieriekena7

Жыл бұрын

@@phillipanderson7398 I am quite content to skip both of them as they are the final two "songs" on the album. I got White Light White Heat about 45 years ago and have probably listened to the whole thing about three times.

@davidl570

Жыл бұрын

@@tawnieriekena7 WLWH is easily their worst album. Glad they redeemed themselves after that! (All of their followup albums were pretty damn good).

@tawnieriekena7

Жыл бұрын

@@davidl570 I agree. I've played my copy only about a half dozen times in the last 50 years.

@johnnypalooka

Жыл бұрын

Oh, hell no. White Light/White Heat is one of the greatest albums of the '60s.

I like Macbeth from Cale’s 1919 .. I liken it to a drunken party goer crashing a dinner party .

Enjoyed your delivery, if you close your eyes it's a bit like listening to whispering Bob Harris' mischievous brother. Some funny lines as well, good stuff.

Kooks is great! Nice melody, nice key changes and wonderful arrangement.

Kooks??? Wrong! .🤔😖🥴 .... my son's favourite Bowie song. See me after class Barry !!

@classicalbum

Жыл бұрын

Whenever I play Hunky Dory i tend to skip that one

@ArtbyJoeH

Жыл бұрын

@@classicalbum far worse ‘album spanners’ I can think of !. While I’m on , how about top 10 bad inclusions on songs ? I’ll start with the awfully jarring synth solo on ELP’s, Luck Man.. Or the pointless inclusion of the dragging out of Layla with the only-just-in-tune bottleneck work . ? 😏

Hey Foxymophandlemama That’s Me (Stupid Mop) from Pearl Jam’s Vitalogy was a disastrous wtf moment on an otherwise phenomenal record.

INSPIRED!!!!!....I"m off to make a mix tape of the aforementioned "messterpieces"👌👍

As much as I love Beggars Banquet, I always skip Dear Doctor, would have preferred Jumpin' Jack Flash instead. Likewise on Let It Bleed I'd prefer Honky Tonk Women over Country Honk. For Zeppelin, imagine how much stronger III would be if it closed with Hey Hey What Can I Do instead of Hats Off To Roy Harper.

@FuturePast2019

Жыл бұрын

100% correct

@kimberlywalker3970

Жыл бұрын

I'm a Led Zeppelin fan but not a fan of Led Zeppelin III. If Hey, Hey, What Can I Do? was on that album besides Immigrant song, I'd have two reasons to listen to it!

@Joanna-il2ur

Жыл бұрын

Both versions of the song were really by Gram Parsons, ex of the Byrds. In return Keith let his then current band, the Flying Burrito Brothers, have Wild Horses.

I like "Kooks" and to be honest, I have always loved "Revolution 9." I was fascinated by it when the album came out when I was 4 or 5. And it began my love of avant garde music and musique concrete. I totally get why people don't like it, but I do.

Its Johnny's Birthdey on All Things Must Pass by George Harrison.

Wow these are takes you must have always had. It sounds like stuff from the 80s I remember reading. Especially the gushing for Blonde on Blond, lol. A couple of those albums aren't classic in my eyes but I see your sentiment. I understand your point but some of those tracks are important in exposing audiences to different types of music and more challenging types of music. Normalizing some music and introducing it to a broader audience and legitimizing either the type of music or at least the spirit in which it was made with. I didn't always see it this way but as a musician and just a music lover over the years. I see how stagnated the music industry has become and also how stagnate music has become. Now background music is considered art instead of its real purpose and that is mood inducing. Its like saying heavy metal is great because its fast. Yeah well a lot of music is fast but metal is good because there are many great bands making great music. Not because it gets you up on your feet like a trained dog. But I am going off base here. But we have all this music and I think we are the better for it. I think it has opened up much more music and many great bands and for that we should be happy. If none of those songs were on those albums we would have a less colorful music palette and we probably would have seen the end of music as a popular pastime come sooner than it already has. And maybe without any hope for a resurgence by people down the line like many other genres have gone through. Those tracks, though not favorites were very important and provided much more than a single track on a album. Liked the video, was a trip back on a lot of the stuff I grew up reading about how the mainstream in tune music reviews were. Good work.

Why Don’t We Do It In The Road also makes me cringe.

@TheBillyKmusic

Жыл бұрын

Me, too.....Though not as much as Wild Honey Pie

My #1 would be Maxwell from Abbey Road. Then She Kissed me is the last track on the album. If only Maxwell was the Her Majesty

Might be an idea to cover the top 10 rock albums by year. My crosshairs period would be ´67 - ´75 but equally interested in what came after.

Haha :D I saw Hunky Dory on the thumbnail, and I thought Kooks must be the one from that album. I agree! Lets see if you got any of the others correct ;)

I’m sorry but Dylan’s song Hurricane is unlistenable 💀🔥🏆

@lysanderofsparta3708

Жыл бұрын

Why do you say that?

@skeletonshorror5184

Жыл бұрын

@@lysanderofsparta3708 I just don’t dig it musically

@Joanna-il2ur

Жыл бұрын

I bought Desire when it came out. I’d rather listen to Hurricane than to Joey.

I like Revolution #9 for what it is.

@user-tk8ew3of8e

Жыл бұрын

I agree, i think it fits perfectly in The White Album...

@julianwalch3567

Жыл бұрын

@@user-tk8ew3of8e Agree. Wouldn't be The White Album without it.

I Dig Love from All Things Must Pass. Seems like a total throwaway that would have been an ok bonus track years later. It just doesn't fit this masterpiece

The gucci little piggy bit in the middle of OK Computer does my head in, as does the stupid bit in the middle of Mercury Revs Deserters Songs.

"Anyone's Daughter" from Deep Purple Fireball gets a ton of flak, personally I love it.

@sicksquid3258

Жыл бұрын

Following 'In Rock' was impossible,I gave them a pass on that track.

@lukefitton7329

Жыл бұрын

Fireball is an amazing album and Anyone’s Daughter is great. Nice change of pace with great acoustic guitar playing, some piano instead of keyboards and good, deeper vocals from Gillan. Love the chorus a lot.

Okay, ELP Tarkus, Benny the bouncer, job done 😂

@SpaceCattttt

Жыл бұрын

Yeah. It's not a bad piece of music as such, but goddamn, is it a poor fit for the album!

@martinspencer1618

Жыл бұрын

It's on Brain Salad Surgery. The turkey on Tarkus is Jeremy Bender.

@simonjones8111

Жыл бұрын

@@martinspencer1618 my mistake, and yours is good too

@morismateljan6458

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. ELP albums could make half of this list alone.

@xpindy

Жыл бұрын

@@morismateljan6458 Bad songs or out of place songs?

I agree with many though I would argue that Fill Your Heart or Eight Line Poem are seriously worse than Kooks. Here would be my Top 10: 10. U2 - A Day Without Me (Boy) - "Started a laaaand-sliiiiiide iiiin myyyyyy eeeeee-goooo" 9. Mott the Hoople - Soft Ground (All the Young Dudes) - answers the question why didn't Mott record more Verdin Allen songs 8. King Crimson - Providence (Red) - the obligatory instrumental improv on what could otherwise have been Crimso's best album 7. Chicago - Free Form Guitar (Chicago Transit Authority) - Terry Kath was one of the greatest and most underrated rock guitarists of all time. Listening to him do seven minutes of feedback is not the way to prove that statement. 6. Bob Dylan - Ballad in Plain D (Another Side) - Even Dylan has expressed regret for releasing this. 5. Kiss - Great Expectations (Destroyer) - An over-orchestrated and choir-ed ballad about a groupie is not ironic. It's stupid. Makes Beth tolerable. 4. Neil Young - Motorcycle Mama (Comes a Time) - You've already said enough about this. 3. The Police - Be My Girl/Sally (Outlandos d'Amour) - Sounds like an outtake sketch from The Benny Hill Show. Makes Mother look like a masterpiece. 2. Creedence Clearwater Revival - Rude Awakening #2 (Pendulum) - WTF? I mean... WTF!?! Makes me want to listen to Revolution 9. 1. Bob Dylan - Joey (Desire) - In which Joey Gallo is transformed from a dangerous psychopathic mafioso into a misunderstood romantic hero. Dylan tried to lob criticism of this on Jacques Levy who wrote the lyrics, to which I say, "Hey, Bob, that doesn't mean you had to release it. Hell, you didn't even have to record it!"

Some may be less than great songs. Terrible songs? Terrible list. If an album has an absolutely terrible song can it really be a great album.