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Songs You ALWAYS Skip

I shall start with:

Danger Of The Water - Futurehead's debut

Round The Hairpin - Long Blonde's second

Jangling Jack - Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds's Let Love In

The first is too slow, the second is too long and the third is too loud [!]



  • Radiohead- Fitter, happier,....

    I just don't value it as a track. I'll leave it on if I'm playing the album through, but if I have any control over choosing tracks I don't play it.

  • Tago Mago second half

    boring

  • Danger of the Water is ACE though!

    Danger (danger)
    Water! (water)

    • Indeed.

      With you on Round The Hairpin though.

    • Wa-TERRRRRRRRRR

      I like it too. I think it works how it creates that sense of calm and quiet for Carnival Kids to shatter in a headlong rush.

  • Nearly all the singles from...

    Dookie by Green Day.

    Basket Case has been played to death and When I come Around is nearly as bad.

    Skipping them allows me to still bathe in teenage nostalgia at the cracking album tracks.

  • Everyone skips

    Car Crash Terror by M83, right?

    • not me

      I really like that track it does jar a little with the rest of the album but it's amazingly cinematic and moody.

      I would say "Chop Suey" by system of a down though simply because I must have heard it x1000 times now.

    • often this^

      Bombtrack on RATM. I played it to death when very young on my home stereo, the old people wouldn't have appreciated the other tracks much.

      • & slow hands

        • ..buddy holly

          i could actually go forever, but i won't.

      • Bombtrack is so good it's actually unbelieveable.

        :|

    • ^^^

      the complete opposite of this.

  • Reckoner

    I really enjoyed Alopecia at first but after five or six listens I skip every track except for Sad Assassin and Shoeing Horses. I don't get the praise for this record.

    • Unless everyone

      who praises it has only listened to it twice so far.

  • Chalet Lines by Belle and Seb

    I find it too hard to reconcile the subject matter (rape induced pregnancy) and the benignly twee atmosphere of the rest of the album. It's like finding barbed wire in your Christmas stocking.

    • but of all the songs to skip from that record?!

      • Exactly

        If it came to that I'd rather skip the rest of the album and take Chalet Lines any day. One of the most touching songs they've ever done. I wouldn't skip any Belle & Seb though!

        Battles - both ambient tracks off the EPs, boring crap.
        Mclusky - Slay
        Mogwai - With Portfolio
        Radiohead - Pulk/Pull (sometimes)
        Squarepusher - Vacuum Garden

    • Nice Day For a Sulk surely?

      "Nice day for a sulk,
      That girl smells of milk..."
      Terrible.

  • it usually the singles....

    in variably through over exposure.

    • Less Than You Think by Wilco

      from A Ghost Is Born is the one that springs to mind for me. Utterly infuriating that they opted to put it before The Late Greats. Secret track - fine. But I defy ANYBODY (including the band themselves) to argue that its anything other than rank self-indulgence.

      Others that I skip:
      All Fired Up - Interpol (Our Love To Admire)
      Electric Guitar - Talking Heads (Fear Of Music)
      Radio America - The Libertines (Up The Bracket)

      I'll think of more, I'm sure.

      • I don't understand

        the hate for All Fired Up.

        Somebody explain it to me?
        Please?

        • Some people dislike the more rocky Interpol

          I don't get it either.

          • btw - not saying All Fired Up is particularly good

            but there's much more skippable stuff on OLTA. I dislike their comfortable mid-paced nothing songs more.

  • you make like charity by the knife

    i can't stand the vocals on it.

  • Hmmm....

    That first track on the BenoƮt Pioulard album.

  • Arctic Monkeys - Riot Van

    The demo was so much bettter too

    • Even if the demo was better

      I'd rather skip a lot more songs than Riot Van. I personally think its a highlight.

  • I always skip

    songs with whistling

  • Whistle For Will

    Thanks but no thanks Hot Chip

    • hot club de paris

      Bonded By Blood (A Song For Two Brothers)

      i puke if i hear that pre-pubescent mouth farting for more than five seconds.

  • 5.

    million dead - "a song to ruin"

  • frank turner

    fathers day
    it reminds me of bryan adams

    • how about

      frank turners second album, load the cd, close the tray, open the tray, sell cd

      • So true

        I followed Turner around all theough Million Dead, and all through Sleep is for the Week - but 'Love...' is tremendously shit. I'd go as far as saying there isn't one good song on it.

        Horrific album, and what happened? Sobriety?! Get Turner some coke, stat.

  • Pixies - Doolittle

    *Silver*

    It's weird yet has context in the album. It's not that it's bad. It's just that it precedes Gouge Away and makes me impatient.

    • That...

      ...and it follows 'Hey' and I'm always hitting the previous button.

  • ughhh

    whaddit i done by animal collective on sung tongs.

    i feel bad because otherwise that record is perfect.

  • Any Broken Social Instrumental Song

    Why do they do it? I mean honestly they have some absolutely incredible songs but their instrumentals are usually awful, repetitive and add nothing to their albums.

    Same with No Age.

    • Come on...

      you don't like pacific theme?

      • Exactly, Pacific Theme is amazing,

        as is Late Nineties Bedroom Rock...