I’ve been buying singles for years, especially 12” singles in the 80’s, because 7” vinyl is crap, then CD singles, which often had extra non-album tracks on them. Struggling to remember any particular album which had one standout track with the rest filler, I’ve tended to take them back and swap them if I don’t like the album. The last one was The Breeders latest album, I’d heard one particular track on 6Music I rather liked, bought the album, but it just didn’t gel, for some reason.
QOTSA ‘Songs For The Deaf’, has several decent tracks on it, but ‘No One Knows’ is the stand out, I don’t play the album often.
Going back a bit …Gerry Rafferty ” City to City ” ..Baker Street was good ..the rest total tosh .
That is total tosh. “Whatever’s Written In Your Heart” is easily as good as “Baker Street”, “Right Down The Line” and “Mattie’s Rag” close behind.