I was listening to Strange Days, the rather good second Doors album yesterday. Never really been fussed about the title track. And it got me thinking about other transgressors. Zappa’s Apostrophe comes to mind, but this is possibly my least favourite. Good job it didn’t make the album really. Any others?
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Iain McKinney says
Scary Monsters. Not a bad track, but the weakest on the album.
Freddy Steady says
What!!!??
Was talking about this track in the pub last night…it’s fab!
Moose the Mooche says
Agreed. That first five songs is possibly the best “side” in the DB canon.
Not as good as “Because You’re Young”? You be trippin’, Holmes!
Bartleby says
Great Fripp solo too – I mean, really great. I don’t like the staccato/tremolo effect on the chorus mind. I’m with Moose on Because You’re Young.
Moose the Mooche says
Also, with the vocal he invented The Psychedelic Furs. Via Peter Cook in the Dagenham Dialogues.
Bartleby says
You’re right of course. See also The Mission, Echo & his rabbits and all the other 80s goth tragicomedies.
Black Celebration says
Meat is Murder – a dirge of a track but the rest of the album is cracking.
duco01 says
The Triffids’ “Calenture” is hardly the Highlight of the “Calenture” album.
Moose the Mooche says
The title track of Born Sandy Devotional is bobbins…. thankfully left off the original album
Moose the Mooche says
Grace Jones’s Living My Life – thank the lord they left it off the album.
Rigid Digit says
The Jam “The Gift” – barrels along nicely, and sound wise fits the tone of the album. But it just feels a bit contrived like the title of the album was agreed and then Paul Weller knocked the song out just to give it a title track.
Moose the Mooche says
What a weird, frustrating album that is. Half of it sounds as if it was thrown together at the last minute. PW was probably at the stage where he thought that was something suspiciously “rockist” about making albums that are good all the way through.
Rigid Digit says
It’s a real mix of “Where they’ve been” (Happy Together, 5 O’Clock Hero, Carnation) and “Where Paul is going next” (Precious, Trans-Global Express).
And then there is the “filler” – Circus sounds like it started life as a Studio jam, and then there’s The Planners Dream Goes Wrong – lyrically venomous, but the Steel Band just pushes it too far.
Running on the Spot may be a cry for help knowing what happened at the end of the year
dai says
But they never made a completely satisfying album, All Mod Cons comes closest I suppose
Tiggerlion says
Setting Sons is their best album. The Canadian version included Butterfly Collector. That makes a much more satisfying closer than Heat Wave, which is best lost as a B side.
Rigid Digit says
Settings Sons is indeed their best. Knowing what else they released in 1979 (Strange Town (which may not have fitted the original “concept” idea), When You’re Young (which might’ve), and the aforementioned Butterfly Collector), its really quite difficult to understand the inclusion of Heatwave (except for “last minute time filler”)
Tiggerlion says
When You’re Young would have been closer to the concept as an opener, contrasting the bravado of youth with the reality of war. That allows you to ditch Girl On The Phone, a great track, sitting uncomfortably lightly atop a heavy album.
Barry Blue says
Agreeing with the above, and I’d dare to suggest that All Mod Cons’ title track ain’t so hot. Granted it’s short, and it ends with a nice hum of Who feedback, but To Be Someone, which follows it, would surely be a better opener, addressing as it does the vicissitudes of being a rock star, which Weller had glimpsed with the first album and then seen recede with the second.
pawsforthought says
I remember seeing Graham Coxon open his set with a cover of ‘all mod cons.’ What was he trying to say? No idea…
retropath2 says
Strange Days not good? Nah, course it is, silly boy.
Fin59 says
The title track of Strange Days is great. Unhappy Girl, conversely, is expendable.
Tiggerlion says
Levi’s Costello & The Attractions – Imperial Bedroom
Moose the Mooche says
My first ever thread was about these orphaned title tracks. As this thread proves, many of them were orphaned for a reason.
Fintinlimbim says
Moondance.
duco01 says
“New Day Rising” is hardly the high point of Hüsker Dü’s “New Day Rising” album.