"What's the worst song on some of your favorite albums?"
If the album is among your favorites, it's possible that this is still a very good song but it's just your least favorite? Or do any of your favorite albums have a song or 2 that you really just don't like?
This started off as a fun post idea & that's why I didn't put it in the Lesson. But y'all can steer it whichever way you want. I'll add a couple of mine after lunch.
1. "Black Star "Twice Inna Lifetime"" In response to Reply # 0
Happy it's at the very end of the album though, but I can imagine it'd mess up the flow (imo). It's not a bad song, just doesn't fit the mood of the album.
11. "Yes that song fucking sucks." In response to Reply # 4
I remember when a girl in college tried to put it on at a party me and my roommates were having, and I embarrassed her in front of everybody about attempting to play that bullshit in my apartment. We still talk about that incident to this day lol. I was really loud and kinda mean about it.
6. "Great one and agreed 100%" In response to Reply # 2
Always felt that way. My favorite of his albums and agree that it's his best. Outside of that track it's his most consistent, tightest, fat-trimmed album for sure. With the highest highs too. And the lows aren't really low at all besides D&HG
3. "Shoomp by De La Soul" In response to Reply # 0
a song i completely forgot about. i know its produced by dilla so i expect a lot of backlash but this is probably the worst de la song i can think of. ive considered making a post based on this song a few times. like name the worst song by your fav artist or so.
8. "Haha this song didn't make the album thankfully, but ..." In response to Reply # 3
If we're talking Grind Date then "Shopping Bags" *does* fit the criteria for this post ... which is another head scratcher similar to Shoomp in that it's produced by an all time beatmaker (Madlib) and the song fucking sucks.
im guessing my cd didnt have it but maybe i downloaded the japanese version?? all i know is when i was making a playlist on google music the track came on. i figured i left it off on my windows sync playlist lol im going to dig up the cd i think i have it stored somewhere.
so for this post i guess it doesnt apply. i think i gotta agree with shopping bags. i tried hard to like that song. its not bad but it just doesnt really fit.
18. "Oh word now that you mention it I think you're right." In response to Reply # 17
>im guessing my cd didnt have it but maybe i downloaded the >japanese version?? all i know is when i was making a playlist >on google music the track came on. i figured i left it off on >my windows sync playlist lol im going to dig up the cd i think >i have it stored somewhere.
I think it *was* on an alternate version but didn't make it on the US release, thankfully.
>so for this post i guess it doesnt apply. i think i gotta >agree with shopping bags. i tried hard to like that song. its >not bad but it just doesnt really fit. > >what do you think is de la souls worst song?
Ha funnily enough it's probably Shopping Bags, though I'd have to think harder about it cause there may be something on like Bionix that I'm forgetting (I love that album's highs but it has a dud or two for sure).
I'll report back if I change my mind but for now I'm going w/Shopping Bags.
21. "shopping bags sounds like something from bionix" In response to Reply # 18
i know bionix has its fair share of meh tracks but i dont know that any go as low as shopping bags. i might be forgetting a track or two that i completely removed from rotation though lol
45. "Yea Pawn Star is one of the tracks from Bionix I was considering ..." In response to Reply # 20
... above. It's definitely the weakest song on Bionix but I can at least listen to Bionix without skipping it for the most part.
Shopping Bags is unlistenable IMO.
And also I agree that Bionix is better than Mosaic Thump. Just slightly tho. They're both a little bloated but I like the highs of Bionix just slightly more.
5. "I can think of 2 right now..." In response to Reply # 0
This was inspired by that Jam & Lewis post over in the Lesson. I was thinking of all the songs on "NE Heartbreak" and I remembered how much I don't like "Competition." But it's not enough to push the album off my all-time favorites list. I just skip that song whenever it comes on. Hell, I used it fast forward it when I had the cassette.
Another one that comes to mind is Maxwell's "Til the Cops Come Knockin'." First time I heard it, it was like, "Meh." But after hearing it in the context of the whole album, I could understand the way it fit. It's still my least favorite song on "UHS," but I can listen to it without skipping.
53. "Wow I think you may have just nailed it." In response to Reply # 50
All these years I couldn't find the words besides just "boring" and shit like that.
But I think that is *exactly* the problem with it. It doesn't stick out like a sore thumb but clearly the other productions are years ahead of where Halftime's vibe is @.
62. "How could you not like Halftime,,," In response to Reply # 46
. > >Like don't get me wrong, I don't skip it ever. It's not a bad >song at all. It just doesn't meet the standards of the rest of >the album IMO.
The sleigh bells in that joint are classic!!!!
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Thu Aug-22-19 02:18 PM
12. "When I First Heard It, I Wasn't Feeling It Either" In response to Reply # 7
The first time I heard "Illmatic" I wasn't impressed with "Life's A Bitch" cause of it being one of those easy recognizable beats on the entire album, even though most would say the same for "It Ain't Hard To Tell" but with that song Large Professor kind of freaked it well enough where it wasn't just a simple loop.
After a few listens I like "Life's A Bitch" cause of the rhymes and Nas' father horn playing gives it a little more than just them rhyming over a popular sample.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
22. "RE: ill catch heat for this but" In response to Reply # 7
I feel that way too sometimes. The verses are fire, but the drums are mushy and don't knock. And I always found the sample way too sleepy and quiet storm
That said, the actual worst song on Illmatic is One Time for your Mind
14. "Makaveli, "Toss It Up" " In response to Reply # 0
I was always middle of the road on Tupac. I liked some of his stuff & could do without some of the rest. But this Makaveli album blew me away. Despite not being one of his biggest fans, this is one of my favorite albums of all time.
Except for "Toss It Up." That songs is horrible to me. Not enough to ruin what's a personal classic to me but it's pretty damn bad.
Dj Joey Joe Member since Sep 01st 2007 13770 posts
Thu Aug-22-19 05:17 PM
23. ""The Ass" By Pharoahe Monch feat. Apani B." In response to Reply # 0
I'm a big fan of Pharoahe Monch and "Internal Affairs" is one of my top 10 favorite rap albums but the song "The Ass" is the one song I usually skip, once in a while I'll let it play if I'm not there to go to the next song, but usually it gets skipped.
And the thing about it, the beat isn't bad at all but feels kind of average (no disrespect to Diamond D fans), Pharoahe's lyrics are cool, I like Apani B. but her appearance was kind of lackluster it didn't make the song anymore interesting; it's not the worst song I've heard from him but on this classic album it's kind of the dud for me.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
Dj Joey Joe Member since Sep 01st 2007 13770 posts
Thu Aug-22-19 05:37 PM
27. ""Tearz" By Wu-Tang Clan (RZA & Ghostface)" In response to Reply # 0
Every great album has that one song that somebody likes the least and for "Tearz" on "Enter The Wu-Tang" is that song, I love the beat a lot, maybe it's RZA's rhymes I didn't care for or maybe cause Ghost's verse seemed like he didn't come into his own sound just yet, idk.
Even though it was one of the early songs cause it was on the b-side of the indie 12" release of of "Protect Ya Neck" titled as "After The Laughter Comes Tears", it just seems like a throw-a-way song.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
35. "A few of my Favorites" In response to Reply # 0
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I played the hell out of that album at the time. I had the tape. And I still usually fastforwarded that one. “Braveheart Party” - eh, whatever. I just hit the skip button. Cassette skippers are a whole different ballgame.
Dj Joey Joe Member since Sep 01st 2007 13770 posts
Fri Aug-23-19 11:08 AM
56. "You Know They Took "Braveheart Party" Off The Album" In response to Reply # 38
First pressings of "Stillmatic" have "Braveheart Party" but later pressings don't, media says Mary J. wanted it off, but when you find out that Jay-Z wrote her verse, and this album also has "Ether" on it, makes you wonder if it was some other reason why it was taken off, but almost everyone agrees that was one of the wack Nas songs anyway.
--------- "We in here talking about later career Prince records & your fool ass is cruising around in a time machine trying to collect props for a couple of sociopathic degenerates" - s.blak
59. "Black Sheep - La Menage" In response to Reply # 0
Pull that song and it's a 5 mic album to me.
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