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Rolling Stone Music Now

50 Terrible Songs on Great Albums

Rolling Stone Music Now

Rolling Stone | Cumulus Podcast Network

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

41K Ratings

🗓️ 9 March 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Andy Greene joins host Brian Hiatt to break down his last of terrible songs on great albums, from "Maxwell's Silver Hammer" to "Drunk and Hot Girls" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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I'm Brian Hyatt. This is Rolling Stone Music Now. I'm here with Andy Green to talk about one of

0:37.1

the lists he posts on rollingstone.com that drive people insane. I'm here with Andy Green to talk about one of the lists he posts on rollingstone.com

0:39.3

that drive people insane. I guess you're a masochist, Andy. You like to make people angry

0:45.3

because you have all these lists about things that are bad. I like doing bad things by talented

0:52.3

people, whether it's bad movies by great directors, bad albums by

0:57.3

great artists, or in this case, it's bad songs on great albums, but they're almost guaranteed

1:03.4

to really enrage at least one hardcore fan group that comes after me very hard on social

1:08.4

media in the aftermath. Yes, this one was 50 terrible songs on great albums.

1:13.7

And to start, there is one song that you actually, upon further reflection and public reaction,

1:20.4

you think you might have chosen the wrong song on this album.

1:23.5

Yes, I think The Girl is Mine is a worst song on Thriller.

1:26.9

I should have gone with that.

1:32.9

To pull the curtain back on the process, it's tough to get 50 songs just off your own head.

1:39.2

So I made a Google Doc.

1:40.9

I sent it out to the music department at Rolling Stone, and somebody, they put down the lady in my life off a thriller.

1:47.5

I listened to it.

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