Dude Ranch is the Blink album that annoys me - all those tacky interludes between songs where they make fart jokes and fool around.

Pretty sure it was double A with We Are the Champions. You are right though, it is catchy and fits in a live setting but who really wants to sit and listen to it?

Yes!! Oh my gosh, I’m showing my age here, I had that cassette and I’d rewind Beth over and over lol

Beth Kiss

It is the end of side 6(!) that does it for me. It has kids singing and dub versions that aren't very interesting at all. I quite like how sprawling it is, outliers like Lose this Skin hidden away, but I don't like pure throwaway.

Fire and rain (Suzanne) James Taylor

Good one!

Roxanne The Police

I feel it is one of those songs that isn't great in itself but it works as part of the whole album. They could have had it as a shorter outro for a song rather than of itself though.

This is tough, some songs can be a real grower over time and work as part of an album. May as well keep them somewhere, storage is cheap.

Favourite from the Mafia III soundtrack

Loving reading through all these suggestions, quite a few I definitely agree with so far. I aim to listen through the ones I don't yet have an opinion on, see if I can hear what you guys are saying :) May as well throw in an example myself, I personally believe that Blur's 2015 comeback album The Magic Whip is pretty decent already but would be markedly improved by removing New World Towers and Ice Cream Man. Not that they're horrible songs, but the record is really bloated and frontloading the album with 2 relatively uninteresting plodders makes it feel like you might be in for a bit of a slog. Plenty of great stuff within the rest of the album.

Parklife could do without the instrumental tracks too.

In hindsight they shouldn't have been so strict having singles separate to albums. But the 45rpm single was a big deal then, they didn't want people to feel ripped off with 4 singles per album and they could still churn them out. Just too many weak covers on the early albums for me, and it would work better as a historical document having them on there.

Only the good die young (Virginia is named)

Billy Joel

Ah, was never much into them, I’ll def look it up and listen now tho!

A personal favorite of mine is "Vera" from Pink Floyd's The Wall

It is probably a lot easier to be anonymous these days in music. And getting to number 1 isn't as big a deal - there was a time it felt like knowing who was big in the charts was unavoidable. They were on the one radio station you could tune into, on the chat shows on the few channels you could get, be on the back of the newspaper or magazines where you got all your news. Sales are much lower and it relies on streams. One hit wonders in the past there would be some kind of expectation to follow up with something, that would create interest in itself and airplay. If it flopped, people knew about it.

Can we remove whoever wrote this article first?

Layla Clapton

You forgot to mention the hidden track you can listen to only by REWINDING the first track on a CD player.

Flatbush Zombies 3001: a laced odyssey is set up so you can just put on the album and vibe. They have some bangers up front then they have a smoke break interlude and the rest of the album is chill. I have listened to the album regularly for years and never get tired of it.

I like Sufjan Stevens' Michigan and Illinois albums. Huge records full of interesting, quirky folk songs about the states history, wildlife, characters, cities etc. They have such a warm feel to them, nice musical interludes, it is like having a road trip around an idealised maybe 1960s version of the states. There were rumours or plans for him to do all 50 states which I would be very interested in, but it never materialised.

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