10 Hard Rock Albums With Only One Bad Song

It gets a little bit difficult singling out bad songs from concept albums. As much as it might not be that fun to listen to from front to back, what are you supposed to say when it ends up tying into the narrative that the artist is trying to tell? Well, there's a right and a wrong way to do comic relief, and that line seems to be drawn at Tommy's Holiday Camp.

Across the rest of the Who's magnum opus, Pete Townshend had delivered a masterclass on how to write classic material, as each song calls back to the main themes in the overture. When you get to Tommy's Holiday Camp though, we see the return of Uncle Ernie, as Keith Moon throws his hat into the ring for one of the most annoying songs to ever come out of rock's golden age.

Though most of the track is sort of meant to conjure up images of a demented circus, this kind of harmony work is some of the most ear-piercing that you will ever find in a rock song, almost like Moon is trying to make his voice crack while he's singing. Even though Tommy is a classic from front to back, there's probably a version of Hell where this song plays on loop for the rest of eternity.