ITT: Bad albums with good covers

>>71889635
I had no idea Disk 2 was a separate release so until yesterday I thought In Rainbows was 18 tracks, which is how I listened to the album and that made me think it was inconsistent and lacked focus. I had no idea it was just 10 tracks, I have to revisit it now, I'm sure it holds up way better.

There are no albums with more than 14 songs that aren't a jumbled mess.

>in rainbows
>bad

>>71889679
>There are no albums with more than 14 songs that aren't a jumbled mess.

The Wall

>>71889679
That reminds me of when I was 14 and using Limewire to download albums and ended up listening to them wrong. It took me like three years to realize that I had been listening to Dirt by Alice in Chains in alphabetical order by song title instead of the correct track order.

I had kind of gotten used to that track order though, and grew to prefer it. When you listen to it that way Would is still the last track.

>>71889804
Without the hype Radiohead's In Rainbows would simply be a mediocre attempt at making slightly adventurous classic rock music. Abandoning their pretenses of innovation and futurism, Radiohead returned to their rock roots with a guitar-driven album that features precious few electronic/digital effects. This is U2-style arena-rock for the 2000s. The syncopated blues-soul shuffle 15 Ste,p the half-baked hard-rock of Bodysnatchers (reminiscent of pathetic attempts by the Beatles to reinvent themselves in the age of Cream) or Faust Arp, a Beatles-esque elegy that has been heard countless times in the history of pop music, are not only inferior material by any standard: they are plain amateurish. To make matters worse, the album includes a whole set of sub-pop ballads, from the slow Nude (a long unreleased song, originally titled Big Ideas) to the even more moronic All I Need and House of Cards.
Redeeming the album from utter mediocrity are Jigsaw Falling Into Place, by far the best song, the kind of feverish dance-rock that Inxs specialized in, Weird Fishes/Arpeggios, a tender song a` la Coldplay that gradually builds emotioinal momentum, Reckoner, a languid soul lament over a hypnotic polyrhythm and a Moody Blues-esque string section, and finally the piano-driven Videotape, the melodic peak of the album and the one ballad that has something original to say. But it's way too little.
Any critic who hails this album as a masterpiece must be missing 99% of the music released in the same month.

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>>71889679
>There are no albums with more than 14 songs that aren't a jumbled mess.

I really want to take the bait

[spoiler]I'm going to.[/spoiler]

>>71889905
not him but damn, you actually right

>>71889904
You're eloquent, but also wrong

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Overrated, anyway.

>>71889849
>the wall
>not a jumbled mess

>>71889849
Of course, how could we forget!. A well sequenced mess.

>>71889904
Nice Scaruffi copypasta.

>>71889994
that's scaruffi

>>71890011
It pissed me off when i saw Amnesia Scanner bite Rozwell's cover style

>>71889905
>>71889668
>>71889635
Top bait my friends

>>71890042
The Wall is only a jumbled mess to people who don't pay attention the lyrics.

>>71890214
The one anon posted Illinoise as an example of an album that has more than 14 songs and is still good, not as a response to the OP. Also, TDAGARIM is ass.

>>71889849
i stand on the previous point

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>>71889849

In your defense though DARE is worthless and cutting it would bring it down to 14 songs.

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>>71890617
good

cover is a revolver copy though

>>71890628

Whoops, meant for
>>71889679