Albums that are one of the artist's worst, but contain one of their best songs

I was about to pick this up in the dollar bin, but I only wanted the title track, as Johnny Thunders rips out a solo on it. Turns out the song No Brakes is on another album.

 

Of an album he doesn't like any songs from?

 

Twelve-Thirty - Mamas & Papas on Papas & Mamas

 

Trick of the Light is great

 

I like Hens March and Peggys Pub instrumentals, but yes Rosie is a one song album

 

Duran Duran's Paper Gods is probably my least favourite album by an artist I love.. hate it. But the title track is fantastic.

 

I have a soft spot for "The Outsiders" myself.

 

It was a joke.
It is the only way you can get Good Vibrations on Pet Sounds.

 

freedom is an excellent album with several excellent songs....on broadway,crime in the city,no more no more come to mind

 

I too like that album a lot. Half the songs are really good, towering on top "Heart of Gold" and "Come Dancing". The only stinker IMO is Dave's "Bernadette"

 

This. Hate "Rattle and Hum", but good Lord, "Angel of Harlem" just kills.

 

Aaahhh!! I didn't know that! I've never seen the box.

 

van is a tough one since I don't know if hes really done a bad album or even average album, at least up till mid-90's

 

Yeah, I even like some of the goofier songs like "Labour Of Love", where Ray equates marriage with a someone who has had a 2 headed transplant. Good call on "Bernadette", my least favorite song by Dave.

 

I was tempted to nominate Hard Nose the Highway and "Warm Love," but it seems like that album has more fans now than it used to.

 

was thinking that too at first but its got wild children and snow in san anselmo which are solid and purple heather is good.....maybe a period of transition? nah. its too good.

 

Not at all. There are a few other contenders there.

 

My first thought was Jackson Browne's "Hold Out" (1980). After a great run ..(Jackson Browne, For Everyman (my fave), Late For the Sky, The Pretender, and Running on Empty)....Hold Out would be his only number one LP.

Call it a Loan, and That Girl Could Sing were on it.

After a couple of more stumbles (Lawyers in Love....had Tender is the Night......and Lives in the Balance ...had In the Shape of a Heart)....he finally (IMO) regained traction with World in Motion (1989) and I'm Alive. (1993)

Bern

 

Not really one of their worst perhaps, but: IMHO Dr Feelgood by Motley Crue is pretty meh, but it does have one of their best songs, "Don't Go Away Mad (Just Go Away)". First time I heard it I figured it was a cover of a song from the '70s.

 

Echo and the Bunnymen / ST / Lips like sugar
Siouxsie and the Banshees / Superstition / Kiss them for me

 

New Order / Republic / Regret

I remember how dissapointed i was when that album came out after that terrific single

 

Actually love that song, a punk/pub rocker totally out of sync with the Kinks at that time. It was Ray's song though, not Dave's.

 

Tonight also

 

Walls & Bridges is a strong LP.

 

Radiohead / Pablo's Honey / Creep

I win