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Post by eyebrowmorroco on Mar 25, 2019 8:35:55 GMT
You can... * Change the order * Add and subtract songs (b-sides, unreleased tracks, alternate takes, etc.) I'll be performing surgery on one of my favourite albums - and one of the most egregious examples of sequencing - The Smiths' eponymous debut. side aStill Ill Hand in Glove What Difference Does It Make You've Got Everything Now I Don't Owe You Anything side bThis Night Has Opened My Eyes Pretty Girls Make Graves Miserable Lie Handsome Devil Reel Around the Fountain |
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 25, 2019 10:11:52 GMT
The art of sequencing an album is lost with the advent of the CD which pushed artists to make longer albums (not good) with the "hits" early in the tracklist. Some great sequenced Rock albums in the CD era (OK Computer, Is This It) act as throwbacks to the vinyl album era but an album from the era that could be improved is The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society. Usually considered their masterpiece (not to me, that's the next one) the tracklist lays all of the fey, "relatively" weaker cuts at the end - and then closes with a really great one "People Take Pictures of Each Other" - it's just off to me. Include those songs with side 1 (which is far better) and it seems more of a cohesive whole, then end side 2 with Big Sky - a big statement - and end side one with "People Take Pictures of Each Other" ..........then I couldn't say "great album that runs out of steam at the end" as I often do  |
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Post by countjohn on Mar 28, 2019 5:12:43 GMT
I would add the singles to some of the mid period Beatles albums. Sgt. Pepper actually might be the best album of all time if you axed some of the lesser songs in favor of Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane/I Am the Walrus. Revolver would also have a more psych/rock feel if you removed a couple songs and replaced them with Rain and Paperback Writer.
High and Dry might be the worst thing Radiohead ever recorded, even including the Pablo Honey post-grunge power ballads. It was 100% filler that they only recorded because EMI insisted they add one more song to The Bends. It would have been better just without that track or with one of the many excellent b-sides from that period added as the extra songs instead. I'm nott sure why they didn't just do that instead of hacking something out.
Then there's the multitude of double albums you could make better by condensing to a single disc, but I don't think that exactly counts.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 12, 2022 23:51:54 GMT
The Big 4 of the 80s - Metallica, Anthrax, Slayer, Medadeth - um, I mean the pacinoyes version: * Mission of Burma should have always included Academy Fight Song and Max Ernst on Signals Calls an Marches and drop Outlaw and All World Cowboy Romance because something has to go.....but this might just be nitpicking because they're awesome too. * Well if you put Nowhere is My Home and Can't Hardly Wait (The Tim Version) on The Replacements' Tim and drop Lay it Down Clown and Dose of Thunder that becomes the no shit GOAT album instead of just one of them.  - and I love the 2 songs I'm dropping but come on ....... * REM should have dropped the slow, pretty but slightly dull Time After Time from (the awesome) Reckoning record and added Ages of You - which is the best unreleased cut they never put on an album - and they left it off a lot of records too....would improve the albums pace and it fits in with some of the looser cuts like Little America too. * Husker Du should have included Stop To Listen on New Day Rising instead of the generic I Don't Know What You're Talking About - this song is on Youtube but has remained unreleased for 37 years - - - - 37 years. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Apr 10, 2022 21:37:57 GMT
There's only 6 really effective songs on the The Mysterines smash hit debut "Reeling" - tracks 1,2,5,9,12,13 Replace any 3 of the remaining 7 with Hormone, Who's Ur Girl? and I Win Every Time - 3 pre-album singles they now don't even play live in their bigger newer grunge / goth / alt / metal incarnation - and it'd be punkier, cooler, less easy to dismiss or parody, and unbelievably......um.......sexier........and then I wouldn't have to say that Lia Metcalfe's album - with some obvious high points - isn't nearly as awesome as Lia Metcalfe is.......I think she's only 17 in this video  ....she was a bad-ass then too. |
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Post by wonky on Apr 11, 2022 3:09:45 GMT
The art of sequencing an album is lost with the advent of the CD which pushed artists to make longer albums (not good) with the "hits" early in the tracklist. Some great sequenced Rock albums in the CD era (OK Computer, Is This It) act as throwbacks to the vinyl album era but an album from the era that could be improved is The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society. Usually considered their masterpiece (not to me, that's the next one) the tracklist lays all of the fey, "relatively" weaker cuts at the end - and then closes with a really great one "People Take Pictures of Each Other" - it's just off to me. Include those songs with side 1 (which is far better) and it seems more of a cohesive whole, then end side 2 with Big Sky - a big statement - and end side one with "People Take Pictures of Each Other" ..........then I couldn't say "great album that runs out of steam at the end" as I often do  "All of My Friends Were There" is a favorite of mine but I agree that I always paid way less attention to the second half...idk, it's really just Starstruck, Phenomenal Cat, Wicked Annabella, and Monica that never did much for me. |
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 20, 2022 8:24:04 GMT
* Remove Lily, Rosemary and the Jack of Hearts from Blood On The Tracks and it's a flawless masterpiece.......instead of a great album with a long dud in the middle
* Sidewalking is the Jesus and Mary Chain song that sets the template for almost every track on Automatic - and it's way better than all of them. It makes more sense being on that album instead of a stand alone single
* Ramones Road To Ruin is a pretty wonderful album - but it's not quite in the league with their first 3 - which are essential. Part of the problem is 2 so-so ballads - a good, but unnecessary cover of Needles and Pins and (an original) Questioningly - both of which are way inferior to the original and and by far best version of I Want You Around
Questioningly - a too long - at just 3 minutes (!) momentum killer song on the album actually - at the very least - should have been dropped .....and replaced with this first version - simple, direct, more Ramones-y ballad I Want You Around.
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- and I love the 2 songs I'm dropping but come on .......
....she was a bad-ass then too.
