Nirvana fans will dox and harass me for this, but "Underneath the Bridge" on Nevermind.
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.
(But then I suppose it redeems itself with "Nameless Shameless," if you count that one, so at least it doesn't end in disappointment)
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
Something in the Way is literally a highlight of Nevermind, but I can’t think of any other Nirvana song that has “Underneath the bridge” in the lyrics.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Off the top of my head, "Benny the Bouncer" on Emerson, Lake & Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery. It should have been a B-Side of a single or something like that but it does not work on that album at all. For me, it's just a goofy unneeded intermission before "Karn Evil 9" that I always skip.
I almost never skip songs on albums, but Panda Eyes & DatPhoria - Keep Going ruins Panda Eyes' KIKO album IMO. The verses and drops were clearly written by two different people, but it sounds like they never heard each other's parts. Like they were glued together from separate songs.
Jeff Buckley’s Grace is one of my favorites, but Eternal Life is always kind of a drag imho. It has the makings of a good song but very unlike the rest of the tracks on the album it doesn’t feel quite complete.
thats actually my favorite song, on an album that is also one of my favorites. it definitely hits different than the rest of the album so i can see that its not for all fans of grace. i like that its a kick after the emotional rollercoaster that is the first 8 songs and then gets followed by 1 more subdued song to end it.
my dad would play grace a lot in the house when it came out and I think i may have latched on to it as it was the most similar to what i was listening to on my own at the time, eventually the whole album became a warm comforting blanket
It’s not a bad song at all, I think it’s just a bit rough in a few of the transitions and that’s probably just because this was his first solo album. The entire album is a testament to how skilled of a songwriter he was.
Turnstile - Blue By You from the album Nonstop Feeling. It's such a good hardcore album with a little bit of alt feel to it but that song sounds like a bop from the 60s in the worst possible way lol it's like if the Beatles tried to make a hardcore song with clean vocals