Rank the songs on albums
 

Surprised we don't have this thread already. Pretty self-explanatory. Top to bottom.

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "Lift Yr. Skinny Fists Like Antennas To Heaven"
Storm
Sleep
Static
Antennas To Heaven

Fucked Up "The Chemistry Of Common Life"
Son The Father
Crooked Head
Black Albino Bones
Looking For God
Royal Swan
The Chemistry Of Common Life
Days Of Last
Magic Word
No Epiphany
Golden Seal
Twice Born

These rankings being given, I consider both of those to be perfect albums and there isn't a song I dislike on either.

Wu-Tang Clan 0 Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wu-Tang Clan Ain't Nuthing Ta F' Wit
Shame On A N****
Bring Da Ruckus
C.R.E.A.M.
Clan in da Front
Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber
Method Man
Protect Ya Neck
Can It Be All So Simple/Intermission
Tearz
Mystery of Chessboxin', Da
Wu-Tang: 7th Chamber, Pt. 2
Conclusion

The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses

I Wanna Be Adored
Waterfall
She Bangs the Drums
I Am the Resurrection
Bye Bye Badman
Made of Stone
Shoot You Down
This Is the One
(Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister
Elizabeth My Dear
Don't Stop

Good shout putting "Don't Stop" at the bottom, it's a shitty little repetition of ideas from the previous song. Mine is slightly different: (I think I'll rate them too)


Waterfall: 10/10
(Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister 10/10
Bye Bye Badman 10/10
Shoot You Down 10/10
I Wanna Be Adored 10/10
I Am the Resurrection 9/10
She Bangs the Drums 8/10
Made of Stone 8/10
This Is the One 7/10
Elizabeth My Dear 5/10
Don't Stop 1/10

hmm gonna try something possibly a bit contentious.

Radiohead - Kid A

The National Anthem
In Limbo
Everything in its Right Place
Optimistic
How to Disappear Completely
Morning Bell
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Treefingers
Kid A
Idioteque

i'll go with this one as well

I Wanna Be Adored - 9/10
Waterfall - 10/10
She Bangs the Drums - 9/10
I Am the Resurrection - 6/10
Bye Bye Badman - 7/10
Made of Stone - 5/10
Shoot You Down - 5/10
This Is the One - 5/10
(Song for My) Sugar Spun Sister - 7/10
Elizabeth My Dear - 3/10 (it's ripped off some Simon & Garfunkel song, innit?)
Don't Stop - 2/10

The United States of America - The United States of America
1. The American Metaphysical Circus
2. Hard Coming Love
3. Cloud Song
4. The Garden of Earthly Delights
5. I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar
6. Where Is Yesterday
7. Coming Down
8. Love Song for the Dead Che
9. Stranded in Time
10. The American Way of Love

Kid A
Idioteque
Optimistic
The National Anthem
How to Disappear Completely
Morning Bell
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Treefingers
Everything in it's Right Place
In Limbo

Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots by The Flaming Lips
Do You Realize??
Fight Test
All We Have is Now
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 1
It's Summertime
Are You A Hypnotist?
One More Robot
Ego Tripping at the Gates of Hell
Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots Pt 2
Approaching Pavonis Mons by Balloon
In the Morning of the Magicians

The Roots – Phrenology

Thought @ Work
Water
The Seed (2.0)
Rock You
Pussy Galore
Break You Off
Sacrifice
Rolling with Heat
Something in the Way of Things (In Town)
Quills
Complexity
!!!!!!!
WAOK (Ay) Rollcall
Phrentrow

Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures

1. New Dawn Fades
2. She's Lost Control
3. Day Of the Lords
4. Interzone
5. Disorder
6. I Remember Nothing
7. Candidate
8. Insight
9. Shadowplay
10. Wilderness

Red Hot Chili Peppers - BloodSugarSexMagik

1. Sir Psycho Sexy
2. Apache Rose Peacock
3. Under the Bridge
4. I Could Have Lied
5. If You Have To Ask
6. Suck My Kiss
7. Breaking the Girl
8. Blood Sugar Sex Magik
9. My Lovely Man
10. The Righteous and the Wicked
11. Naked In the Rain
12. Give It Away
13. Funky Monks
14. Mellowship Slinky In B Major
15. The Power of Equality
16. The Greeting Song
17. They're Red Hot!

Burial - Untrue

Homeless
Ghost Hardware
Near Dark
Archangel
In McDonalds
Etched Headplate
Shell of Light
Endorphin
Dog Shelter
UK
Untrue
Raver
Untitled

The Clash "Give 'Em Enough Rope"
Stay Free
Safe European Home
English Civil War
Tommy Gun
Guns On The Roof
Last Gang In Town
All The Young Punks
Drug-Stabbing Time
Julie's In The Drug Squad
Cheapskates

Refused "The Shape Of Punk To Come"
Tannhäuser / Derivè
New Noise
The Refused Party Program
The Shape Of Punk To Come
Liberation Frequency
Worms Of The Senses/Faculties Of The Skull
The Deadly Rhythm
Summerholidays vs. Punkroutine
Refused Are Fuckin' Dead
Protest Song '68
The Apollo Programme Was A Hoax
Bruitist Pome #5

In Limbo
Idioteque
Everything in its Right Place
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Kid A
Morning Bell
How to Disappear Completely
The National Anthem
Optimistic
Treefingers

Treefingers is beautiful. I don't know Kid A inside-out enough to rank the songs but that'd probably be near the top for me.

It's my favourite album. Holding the bottom spot for me isn't discrediting it at all.

A lot of the songs on there are basically interchangeable for rankings.

right on, and i think that's probably the case for most of these rankings

Circle Takes the Square - As the Roots Undo

1. In the Nervous Light of Sunday
2. Interview at the Ruins
3. Kill the Switch
4. Non Objective Point of Karma
5. Crowquill
6. A Crater to Cough In
7. Same Shade As Concrete
8. Intro

Considering you have the songs getting progressively worse; I'm curious to know your overall rating for USA.


Dr. Octagonecologyst

Songs:
15. Dr. Octagon
14. Earth People
13. Technical Difficulties
12. 1977
11. Wild and Crazy
10. Waiting List
9. Bear Witness
8. I'm Destructive
7. 3000
6. Girl Let Me Touch You
5. No Awareness
4. Blue Flowers Revisited
3. Halfsharkalligatorhalfman
2. Real Raw
1. Blue Flowers

Skits:
5. Elective Surgery
4. I Got to Tell You
3. General Hospital
2. Intro
1. A Visit to the Gynecologist

I was just listing them for others to do it, I misunderstood the OP when I originally made my list.

The fixed version:
The United States of America - The United States of America
1. The American Metaphysical Circus
2. The American Way of Love
3. Where Is Yesterday
4. The Garden of Earthly Delights
5. Coming Down
6. Stranded in Time
7. Hard Coming Love
8. Cloud Song
9. Love Song for the Dead Che
10. I Won't Leave My Wooden Wife for You, Sugar

The Antlers - Hospice

1) Kettering
2) Wake
3) Epilogue
4) Sylvia
5) Bear
6) Shiva
7) Atrophy
8) Thirteen
9) Two
10) Prologue

Arcade Fire - Funeral

1) Wake Up
2) In the Backseat
3) Power Out
4) Rebellion
5) Laika
6) Tunnels
7) Haiti
8) Une Anee Sans Lumiere
9) Crown of Love
10) 7 Kettles

I have a vague theory that track four is generally the best track on an album.

Back when album structure mattered much more with LPs, track 4 would likely be the last track of side 1. So ending an album side of a positive note would be in the band's best interest. I think that would be the explanation for your theory.

Good call on Hospice. My ranking, however...

Sylvia
Kettering
Bear
Two
Epilogue
Wake
Prologue
Thirteeen
Atrophy
Shiva

Love this idea.

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An Introduction To Elliott Smith

Waltz #2
Pretty (Ugly Before)
Pictures of Me
Alameda
Needle In The Hay
Ballad Of Big Nothing
Between The Bars
The Biggest Lie
Angeles
Miss Misery (Early version)
Angel In The Snow
Last Call
Twilight
Happiness (Early version)

LOL. Considering only one track 4 has been placed at the top of anyone's list in this thread so far officially calls BS on my theory.

I can think of a couple albums where that is true for me. David Comes To Life by Fucked Up and Old Crows/Young Cardinals by Alexisonfire come to mind, but I think that's coincidence. It's too dependent on personal preference, you'd have to conduct a massive poll to prove it.

In my experience, the first or last tracks are often the best.

1) Power Out
2) Haiti
3) Rebellion

4) Tunnels
5) Wake Up
6) Laika
7) 7 Kettles

8) Une Anee Sans Lumiere
9) Crown of Love
10) In the Backseat

There's 3 noticeable groupings for the quality of the songs for me.

Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica

1. Frownland
2. Bill's Corpse
3. Sugar 'n Spikes
4. Ant Man Bee
5. Hair Pie: Bake 2
6. Ella Guru
7. Hobo Chang Ba
8. Well
9. Sweet Sweet Bulbs
10. My Human Gets Me Blues
11. Veteran's Day Poppy
12. Wild Life
13. Dali's Car
14. When Big Joan Sets Up
15. Dachau Blues
16. Steal Softly Through Snow
17. Old Fart at Play
18. She's Too Much for My Mirror
19. Pena
20. Hair Pie: Bake 1
21. Pachuco Cadaver
22. Orange Claw Hammer
23. Fallin' Ditch
24. The Dust Blows Forward 'n the Dust Blows Back
25. Moonlight on Vermont
26. The Blimp (Mousetrapreplica)

Kendrick Lamar - Section.80

Rigamortis
F*ck Your Ethnicity
Kush & Corinthians (His Pain)
Ronald Reagan Era
Hol' Up
No Make-Up (Her Vice)
Ab-Soul's Outro
A.D.H.D
Keisha's Song
The Spiteful Chant
Tammy's Song
HiiiPoWeR
Blow My High (Members Only)
Poe Man's Dream (His Vice)
Chapter Six
Chapter Ten

Going through those songs makes me even more impressed with that release. Apart from the bottom two or three, I could have moved every single one at least two places up or down. Crazy good album.

That's fair, and I agree but I also listened to Aphex Twin quite a bit before getting this disc and it sounds like something from SAW2. I think it's too close to the influence for me to stand above the rest of the disc. I wonder if it's similar reasons for the others who ranked it near the bottom.

1 The Greeting Song
2 If You Have To Ask
3 Mellowship Slinky In B Major
4 The Power of Equality
5 The Righteous and the Wicked
6 My Lovely Man
7 Blood Sugar Sex Magik
8 Suck My Kiss
9 Give It Away
10 Breaking the Girl
11 Sir Psycho Sexy
12 Apache Rose Peacock
13 Under the Bridge
14 Naked In the Rain
15 Funky Monks
16 They're Red Hot!
17 I Could Have Lied

the specials" self titled album is 100% perfect every single song

Way to miss the point entirely. :clap:

This Heat - Deceit

1. A New Kind of Water
2. Makeshift Swahili
3. Triumph
4. Shrink Wrap
5. Paper Hats
6. Independence
7. S.P.Q.R.
8. Radio Prague
9. Cenotaph
10. Sleep
11. Hi Baku Shyo

The Beach Boys - Pet Sounds

Wouldn’t It Be Nice
I Just Wasn’t Made For These Times
Don’t Talk (Put Your Head On My Shoulder)
Let’s Go Away For Awhile
Caroline, No
God Only Knows
I Know There’s An Answer
Pet Sounds
I’m Waiting For The Day
Sloop John B
You Still Believe In Me
That’s Not Me
Here Today

Godspeed You! Black Emperor "F♯ A♯ ∞"
East Hastings
The Dead Flag Blues
Providence

Alexisonfire "Alexisonfire"
.44 Caliber Love Letter
Waterwings (And Other Poolside Fashion Faux Pas)
Pulmonary Archery
Little Girls Pointing and Laughing
The Kennedy Curse
Counterparts and Number Them
Polaroids Of Polarbears
A Dagger Through The Heart Of St. Angeles
Adelleda
Where No One Knows
Jubella

Slint - Spiderland

1. Washer
2. Breadcrumb Trail
3. Nosferatu Man
4. Don, Aman
5. Good Morning, Captain
6. For Dinner...

Cars - Heartbeat City

Heartbeat City
Stranger Eyes
Hello Again
Why Can't I Have You
Drive
It's Not the Night
You Might Think
Magic
Looking For Love
I Refuse

Marc Ribot - Saints

Book of Heads #13
Holy Holy Holy
Saints
It Could Have Been Very Beautiful
St. James Infirmary
Witches and Devils
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Somewhere
I'm Getting Sentimental Over You
I'm Confession' (That I Love You)
Go Down Moses
Empty

Zu - Carboniferous

Axion
Obsidian
Ostia
Beata Viscera
Erineys
Chthonian
Carbon
Mimosa Hostilis
Soulympics
Orc

This is probably exactly how I would list these two albums track wise.

the title track at the top?

what drugs are you on?

that has got to be the most boring track on the entire album