great article in the Guardian — Sgt Pepper must die! –

Ever get the feeling you’ve been cheated? It’s meant to be a classic album, but all you can hear is a load of boring tripe … we’ve all felt that way. And so have the musicians we asked to nominate the supposedly great records they’d gladly never hear again.

Plenty to disagree with here (The Stone Roses! Marquee Moon!), but plenty to agree with at the same time:

The Doors - LA Woman

Nominated by Craig Finn of the Hold Steady

In America when you’re growing up, you’re subjected to the Doors as soon as you start going to parties and smoking weed. People think of Jim Morrison as a brilliant rock’n'roll poet, but to me it’s unlistenable. The music meanders, and Morrison was more like a drunk asshole than an intelligent poet. The worst of the worst is the last song, Riders on the Storm: “There’s a killer on the road/ His brain is squirming like a toad” - that’s surely the worst line in rock’n'roll history. He gave the green light to generations of pseuds.

My nomination: Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation. Mediocre!

What’s yours?

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