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Post by pacinoyes on May 31, 2019 13:04:31 GMT
One of the hard things about liking REM - in any of their wildly uneven artistic periods - is that they never had a great stack of "extra" songs. Anything they had that could go on an album usually went on an album and that's it. That however is not the case with "Ages Of You" - which is their big one that got away. One of their very best early songs, they cut it at least 3 times - super fast, a little slower and finally they gave up and stuck it as a crappy B-side, and slowed it down even more. I've posted this song on this board at least 3 times too Made it's CD debut and only appearance here - and it still sounds great. Guess they don't think so...........shrug.
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 4, 2019 2:34:49 GMT
another Costello... had a b-side release in '78 for Radio Radio single, later on the reissues of Armed Forces (my fav alb of his)
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Post by Mattsby on Jun 24, 2019 19:43:39 GMT
Unreleased for like 30 years after its recording, I think? Funny, angry lyrics against the press....
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Post by pacinoyes on Jun 25, 2019 21:46:44 GMT
One of their best singles, added to Rhino reissue of their best (or maybe 2nd best) album.
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Post by Sharbs on Jun 25, 2019 22:10:36 GMT
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 15, 2019 17:16:41 GMT
Bonus track from the longer edition of The Libertines excellent and underrated reunion album .......like they never missed a beat.
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 12, 2019 19:30:37 GMT
Another stunning Libertines track this time added to the Australian version of Up The Bracket - only a minute long because they couldn't keep this up without falling down, throwing up or dying.
My head feels like a smashed window.....and they weren't kidding either, so that's what the music sounds like too:
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 17, 2019 22:44:49 GMT
The Clash were recording so quickly around the time of their landmark debut that there's an argument whether the UK or US version of their debut album is better......well they are just different - the US version with songs added and dropped shows more range, the UK version whips by faster but maybe sound more limited but is the original intent.
You can buy both now, still in print .........and this song - only on the UK version - one of their best early tracks:
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Post by pacinoyes on Oct 28, 2019 9:53:08 GMT
Cheating a little but when The Strokes get around to re-releasing their so-so 3rd album First Impressions of Earth I can pretty much guarantee that this song, the B-side to the Juicebox single will sound better than almost anything in the albums trying way too hard, flabby middle section.
A very fun, weird, insanely catchy rave-up that fits in great with this albums giddy and better pop high points (Red Light, You Only Live Once).
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Post by pacinoyes on Nov 11, 2019 21:18:18 GMT
As anybody who follows my music posts knows, The Damned and their classic 1979 album Machine Gun Etiquette is an all-time favorite album of mine......but I do like their famous first album too - Damned, Damned, Damned (1977) and in its expanded version that included this single - A and B side - which kind of pointed to the way that they'd get even better.
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 2, 2019 20:32:38 GMT
A stand alone Wire single added to the classic Pink Flag cd and then later removed because the band felt it didn't belong - if you check used cd stores you can still find it:
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Post by Joaquim on Dec 22, 2019 22:35:23 GMT
Do hidden tracks count?
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Post by pacinoyes on Dec 28, 2019 0:45:49 GMT
The Only Ones debut single, added to the reissue of their fantastic debut.
Peter Perrett, one of Rock's best lyricists, starts this song and the bands career with a great misanthropic joke: "I want you to be around til the Summer comes along...and I don't mind having you around til the Summer comes along". I want you and I don't mind of course not being the same thing at all.....and the way he subverts their shades of meaning was just the beginning .....
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 5, 2020 15:41:38 GMT
The Heartbreakers LAMF - in its "Lost 77 Mixes" edition - was a holy grail for anyone who remotely liked Rock and Roll when (finally) released on CD. Featuring two added songs on the album itself, an amazingly improved sound and from the "Definitive Edition" - every demo they cut in 76-77.
This song was their signature formula: simply structured, thrillingly played and dripping in their 1950s version of cool.
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 6, 2020 14:47:00 GMT
There's several bands that either make or fight for the pacinoyes all-time top 10 US list with almost no work at all - that's how great they were - The (original) Modern Lovers, Big Star, The NY Dolls/Hearbreakers.
But none of those ever did that with less work originally that was also more forward thinking as the great Mission of Burma (1 album, 1 EP, 1 single) because no US band ever did more forward thinking music, period, than them.
This song added on to their 1 full length is not only typically brilliant it has brilliant (and scary) lyrics too in 1982 - it could come out now and be by your new favorite band:
"Down with history Down with sense Nothing makes much difference I'll surrender to this tragic mess Spinning ball of randomness"
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 18, 2020 0:29:14 GMT
“Reissue, repackage, repackage.” ..........The Smiths famously sang and for the most part they've been spared from it in their studio albums - except for a ton of compilations (including their non-album Singles which maybe is more essential than any studio album).
"Rubber Ring" - a compilation regular - got added to the Deluxe edition of The Queen is Dead and it fits - one of their simplest and deceptive songs about art/music, expression and the suppression of it and with a great ending too......
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Post by pacinoyes on Mar 23, 2020 21:40:52 GMT
Elvis Costello - Crawling To The USA
Added to the This Years Model bonus edition - the mighty EC with another non-album track - he had a bunch of great ones and the re-releases have a ton of great songs that fans of the legitimate albums never heard. Costello was so prolific at it he more or less invented the B-sides collection with his Taking Liberties LP....but he was stingy about releasing these songs and they came out coherently much later.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 11, 2020 21:21:29 GMT
Hit machine Ben Weasel and his Screeching Weasel co-conspirator Danny Vapid (on lead vocals here) doing one of the 500 or so catchy as sh it songs that poured out of them whenever they wrote together ....... either in their main band or here - in their even more Ramones-y side project.
Left off The Riverdales 1995 debut (added to the reissue)....and of course it burns the house down.
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Post by pacinoyes on Jul 12, 2020 20:57:27 GMT
Former members of The Dead Boys, Damned, Sham 69 who played a mix of Punk, Classic Rock (especially The Doors), Glam, Goth, New Wave, even some metal/Hard Rock and pretentious poetry - The Lords of the New Church existed as multiple contradictions in the era where all those sounds intersected 1980-1982.
It never really worked but on every album some of it did - each one is partly fascinating - and if you liked them that was enough. This is in some ways their most famous song "Lord's Prayer" - added to their 2nd album re-release - and you can hear in the bridge a little Bowie, Morrison and Alice Cooper too.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Jul 21, 2020 17:44:40 GMT
Say what you will about Blink-182... but Man Overboard is a damn good song.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 12, 2020 20:31:41 GMT
This song missing from their one and only album but you can get it on several reissues/releases. The La's (1991 US) - a classic 12 song recreation of The Beatles/Stones/Kinks/Who makes their cultish fanbase crazy - there was a 2nd La's album demo'd - The Kitchen Tapes/The Crescent Tapes (2 versions, years apart) that have never been finalized or finished as far as we know and they sound like works in progress. If that was ever legitimately finished and was to come out......some might kill to hear it....one of them might be me.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 29, 2020 12:35:35 GMT
Rockpile were another of the superior "They only made 1 album" bands - 1980's "Seconds of Pleasure" - one of that years best Rock and Roll albums. Here they are covering Graham Parker's "Crawling From The Wreckage" with Dave Edmunds singing and yeah it's pretty much perfect. The were very much like The Faces of their day - buddies before they fell out...... who made good time no BS Rock music that had a dark undercurrent in it ........this song was about drinking too much and crashing your car and doing it AGAIN .......so you get the idea. Added to to the expanded edition cd of "Seconds of Pleasure".
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Post by pacinoyes on Sept 4, 2020 10:26:01 GMT
The Hardest Thing In The World Stone Roses
In one of the great runs in all of pop music history - from the Sally Cinnamon single (1987) - One Love (1990) - the Stone Roses could do no wrong tbh. A classic debut album, and several stupendous singles/B-sides mostly captured (except for Sally Cinnamon) on the compilation album Turns Into Stone they were just unfuckwithable really.
The 20th anniversary reissue then slapped ALL of Turns Into Stone onto that classic debut.
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Post by pacinoyes on Aug 23, 2022 19:22:53 GMT
The Pandoras Something I Can't Have - on the Rhino 22 song collectors edition of Stop Pretending (1986)
I love this album - and I called it the best album ever made by an all girl band until Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out (1997) and one of the best of 1986 ......... but in its 12 song original edition which you can download - at 22 songs this is just way too much of a good thing.
But this would have fit perfectly on the album and their 60s Garage Pop aesthetic:
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Post by ibbi on Aug 23, 2022 19:42:30 GMT
The three bonus tracks on HAIM'S Women in Music are quite possibly the three best songs on the album. I'm not sure why they are bonus tracks.
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