Bad to mediocre albums with 1 or 2 great songs

Crosy, Stills & Nash - first album ("Suite: Judy Blue Eyes")

The rest is a snooze-fest.

 

The Clash -- Cut The Crap.

 

I would not think live albums suit this thread, but understand your opinion.

 

From the worst album The Beach Boys ever released, The Beach Boys (1985):

 

Pet Sounds

(where's that hiding under the chair emoticon?)

 

Yes - 90125 - sure to get flamed but for me "Owner of a Lonely Heart" mars an otherwise utterly mediocre record.
Radiohead - "Creep" is the only good thing on Pablo Honey

 

Eddie Grant's Killer on the Rampage has exactly one great song - "Electric Avenue." The rest of it sucks hard.

Aerosmith's Done with Mirrors. "Let the Music Do the Talking" is the only decent song on this album. And it was a remake of a song from the Joe Perry Project.

Krokus - Midnight Maniac. Their spirited cover of the Sweet's Ballroom Blitz is the only fun moment on this album.

Saxon - Crusader. The only thing to recommend this album is their cover of the Sweet's "Set Me Free."

 

CCR Mardi Gras: Sweet Hitch Hiker & Someday Never Comes

 

Thriller - other than Billie Jean...er....Beat it...um ...Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'...hmm...Human Nature...ah...the title track...um...Baby Be Mine...er...The Girl is Mine....well...it blew...LOL

 

Lou Reed: Metal Machine Music. Only tracks 1 and 3 are any good.

 

If I added 'it can happen' to 'owner' I am in agreement.

 

Their finest recorded moment, guess u hate the rest.

 

just joking!

 

Poco 7 - the opening track (Driving Wheel) ranks with their best. The rest of the album is pretty dull (especially side 2).

Jethro Tull - Minstrel in the Gallery - love the title track, but never cared for the rest of the album.

 

Bobby Hebb - Sunny (the album is good for just that one song)

 

Bad Company - Rough Diamonds
Electric Land

 

Dylan - Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Knockin' on Heaven's Door)

 

You must really be overrating Sloop John B. It's all dreck.

 

Which song is the great one?

 

The only part of Relayer I really like is the Soon bit at the end of The Gates of Delirium. And the only track I liked off Tormato was the first one.

I'd bet that most songs I like are in the one-good-song-off-a-mediocre-LP category. The first one I thought of was The Land / Rainy Sunday Evening off the second Ramatam LP. Glorious song, nothing much good about most of the rest.

 

We're An American Band - great single, crummy album.

 

If you like 80s hard rock then the title track and "Out of Control" were solid as well.

 

If we cut the "Cut" we can get what that album actually was.

 

I really like Poco Seven. I like a\the four songs that make up side two, but there are probably too many ballads together. The version of "Angel" on Poco Live sure gives a different perspective on the song.