Love (first three albums) - Orange Skies - Yes, I love Love, but to me Da Capo was the album that killed a lot of momentum built up by the first album. Most of Side One is still classic Love, but Bryan's song filled with "carnivals and cotton candy" was a bit cheesy despite a strong performance by the band.
Love (first three albums) - Revelation - Should have been recorded in it's natural element, live. Sadly, the version we get is a lumbering 18:57 of a lot of genius talent being wasted.
Easybeats - Hello, How Are You - In their early days, they rocked. Then...this...ballad. The work of a band understandably trying out different styles in a time when the music scene changed, this seriously was an ill fit despite the fact that it was a hit in some areas of the world. Still, this Soap Opera style pretty much killed a lot of hope in getting their true rocking selves succeed again.
Seeds - Six Dreams - From the ill-fated Future album that tried to show that the Two Chord Per Song Garage Punk legends could fit in with the Summer of Love, this was proof enough that it was the wrong way. The other (occasionally pretty good) tracks at least had a beat, some WTF instrumentation and Sky's snarl, this was just someone messing about with a Sitar as someone overdubs wind sound effects while Sky sounds more drunk than Psych and another Seed lightly lightly bangs a gong in a way that does not make the listener want to get it on. I have not heard A Spoonful of Seedy Blues, which has been reported as Sky's worst 60's moment, but I don't think that it's hard to top this one in this thread.
Byrds ('65-'68) - 2-4-2 (The Fox Trot Song) - Pure album filler from the otherwise great Fifth Dimension album. All you need to know: The sound of jets, a nice but ineffective guitar lick, and "Gonna fly a Lear Jet, baby/Gonna fly a Lear Jet" repeated over and over. Note: if you are going to repeat some words over and over, at least go over the top not go into a slumber.
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