The thread where you turn an average double LP into an amazing single LP by removing half the songs.

Remove Positivity/ Obsessions/ Lonely Girls/ Streetlife/ One Hit to the Body/ When the Rain Falls/ You Belong to Me...

Replace them with "Simon" (B-side to Positivity), "Attitude", "Oxygen" (B-side to "Attitude") and "Since You Went Away" (the acoustic version they included on that fab sessions CD) and you have a shorter and much tighter album.

Unwound - Leaves Turn Inside You:

We Invent You
Look a Ghost
December
Treachery
Terminus
Demons Sing Love Songs
Off This Century
One Lick Less
Scarlette
October All Over
Summer Freeze
Radio Gra
Below the Salt
Who Cares

01 Why Can't I Be You?
02 Catch
03 How Beautiful You Are
04 If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
05 Like Cockatoos

06 Just Like Heaven
07 Torture
08 One More Time
09 The Perfect Girl
10 Hey You!!!

Of course, there were a lot of b-sides from the sessions for this album which are stronger than some of the tracks I deleted (Breathe, A Chain Of Flowers, Sugar Girl, Snow In Summer, A Japanese Dream).

I'm pretty sure that'd be short enough.

use an "s" html tag, then a "/s" html tag, to surround the words.

1. Where Is The Love - Black Eyed Peas
2. Sweet Dreams My LA Ex - Rachel Stevens
3. Slow - Kylie Minogue
4. Guilty - Blue
5. Be Faithful - Fatman Scoop
6. Crazy In Love - Beyonce
7. Hole In The Head - Sugababes
8. Jumpin - Liberty X
9. Superstar - Jamelia
10. Never Leave You Uh Ooh Oooh - Lumidee
11. Stuck - Stacie Orrico
12. Dance (With U) - Lemar
13. Surrender (Your Love) - Javine
14. Maybe - Emma
15. Sundown - S Cuba 8
16. Pretty Green Eyes - Ultrabeat
17. Mixed Up World - Sopie Ellis Bextor
18. Hold On Me - Phixx
19. Invisible - D Side
20. Pandoras Kiss - Louise
21. Life Got Cold - Girls Aloud
22. If You Come To Me - Atomic Kitten
23. Are You Ready For Love - Elton John
24. Rock Your Body - Justin Timberlake
25. Something Beautiful - Robbie Williams
26. Someday - Nickelback
27. Sleeping With The Light 0n - Busted
28. Four Minute Warning - Mark Owen
29. Under The Thumb - Amy Studt
30. Carvinal Girl - Texas
31. 21 Questions - 50 Cent
32. Rock Wit U (Awww Baby) - Ashanti
33. Pump It Up - Joe Budden
34. Complete - Jaimeson
35. Too Far Gone - Lisa Scott Lee
36. Love Me Right - (Oh Sheila) - Angel City
37. Finest Dreams - Richard X
38. Dance With You - Rishi Rich Project
39. Swing Low - UB40
40. Silence Is Easy - Starsailor
41. Maybe Tomorrow - Stereophonics
42. Never Gonna Leave Your Side - Daniel Bedingfield
43. Mad World - Michael Andrews

You'd have to remove more than half the songs to make that album tolerable.

1. London Calling
2. Brand New Cadillac
3. Jimmy Jazz
4. Hateful
5. Rudie Can't Fail
6. Spanish Bombs    
7. Right Profile    
8. Lost in the Supermarket    
9. Clampdown    
10. Guns of Brixton    
11. Wrong 'Em Boyo  
12. Death or Glory    
13. Koka Kola    
14. Card Cheat    
15. Lover's Rock    
16. Four Horsemen    
17. I'm Not Down    
18. Revolution Rock    
19. Train in Vain

Side One:
1. "All Along the Watchtower"
2. the first four minutes of "1983 (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)"
3. "Gypsy Eyes"
4. "Voodoo Chile"

Side Two:
1. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp"
2. "Crosstown Traffic"3.
3. "House Burning Down"
4. the entire "Rainy Day Dream Away"/"Still Rainin' Still Dreamin'" jam, and with NO interruptions. Seriously why'd they split that song in two? It'd work so much better this way! Goddamn hippies.
5. "Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)"

DIE!!!!

1. The Love Below (Intro)
2. Ghettomusick
3. Spread
4. Happy Valentine’s Day
5. Bowtie
6. She Lives In My Lap
7. The Rooster
8. Dracula’s Wedding
9. Knowing
10. Unhappy
11. Where Are My Panties?
12. Prototype
13. Flip Flop Rock
14. Hey Ya!
15. She’s Alive
16. Church
17. Vibrate
18. Reset
19. Bowtie (Postlude)

Fuck ya fuckars!

I like the cover though.

1. We Dance
2. Rattled by the Rush
3. Black Out
4. Brinx Job
5. Grounded
6. Serpentine Pad
7. Motion Suggests
8. Father to a Sister of Thought
9. Extradition
10. Best Friends Arm
11. Grave Architecture
12. At and T
13. Flux=Rad
14. Fight This Generation
15. Kennel District
16. Pueblo
17. Half a Canyon
18. Western Homes

(Yes we have heard of them, they have hits here too though I'm not sure who they sell to.)

1.5/3 sides.

the vinyl has three sides.

Back In The U.S.S.R
Dear Prudence
The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
While My Guitar Gently Wheeps
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon
I Will
Julia
Mother Nature's Son
Sexy Sadie
Long, Long, Long
Honey Pie
Cry Baby Cry

Say Anything's In Defense of the Genre would be fucking awesome edited down:
Disc One

1. "Skinny, Mean Man" 3:33
2. "No Soul" 3:36
3. "That Is Why" 4:13
4. "Surgically Removing the Tracking Device" 2:30
5. "This Is Fucking Ecstasy" 2:39
6. "The Church Channel" 3:04
7. "Shiksa (Girlfriend)" 3:38
8. "Baby Girl, I'm a Blur" 4:19
9. "Retarded in Love" 3:06
10. "People Like You Are Why People Like Me Exist" 3:28
11. "Died a Jew" 2:29
12. "An Insult to the Dead" 4:09
13. "Sorry, Dudes. My Bad." 2:43

Disc Two
1. "Spay Me" 3:13
2. "In Defense of the Genre" 4:02
3. "The Truth Is, You Should Lie with Me" 2:31
4. "The Word You Wield" 3:50
5. "Vexed" 2:39
6. "About Falling" 4:13
7. "You're the Wanker, If Anyone Is" 3:22
8. "Spores" 2:49
9. "We Killed It" 1:53
10. "Have at Thee!" 3:03
11. "Hangover Song" 0:58
12. "Goodbye Young Tutor, You've Now Outgrown Me" 4:20
13. "I Used to Have a Heart" 4:17
14. "Plea" 4:31

The Suburbs would work nicely for this.

(Double LP)

reminds me i need to sell my copy of the suburbs.

id reduce princes emancipation from a triple to this:

Courtin’ Time (2:46)
White Mansion (4:47)
Damned If eye Do (5:21)
I Can’t Make U Love Me (6:37)
In This Bed I Scream (5:40)
Soul Sanctuary (4:41)
Curious Child (2:57)
Dreamin’ About U (3:52)
The Holy River (6:55)
Let’s Have A Baby (4:07)
Slave (4:51)
My Computer (4:37)
One Of Us (5:19)
The Love We Make (4:39)
Emancipation (4:12)

Love - "Out Here"

"I'll Pray for You" – 3:50
"Abalony" – 1:50
"Signed D.C." – 5:15
"Listen to My Song" – 2:28
"I'm Down" – 4:48
"Stand Out" – 3:00
"Discharged" – 1:30
"Doggone" – 12:00*
"I Still Wonder" – 3:05
"Love Is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never" – 11:20
"Nice to Be" – 1:50
"Car Lights On in the Daytime Blues" – 1:10
"Run to the Top" – 3:00
"Willow Willow" – 3:22
"Instra-Mental" – 3:00
"You Are Something" – 2:05
"Gather 'Round" – 5:50

*For "Doggone" use edit from the vinyl version of "Out There". A few other songs here could be edited to tighten them up, "I'm Down", "I'll Pray For You". Sad to drop "Love Is More Than Words or Better Late Than Never", but it's too long and isn't easily edited. I like "Abalony", but it's silly. "Instra-Mental" is good too but it doesn't sound like Love.

"Discharged" is silly and is only 1:30, c'mon.

Nah, it's kind of a mean-spirited song that one, lyrically.

Unlike "Abalony":

"I had to leave or else my wife would starve"

Husker Du - Warehouse: Songs and Stories

"These Important Years" (Mould) – 3:49
"Charity, Chastity, Prudence, and Hope" (Hart) – 3:11
"Standing in the Rain" (Mould) – 3:41
"Back from Somewhere" (Hart) – 2:16
"Ice Cold Ice" (Mould) – 4:23
"You're a Soldier" (Hart) – 3:03
"Could You Be the One?" (Mould) – 2:32
"Too Much Spice" (Hart) – 2:57
"Friend, You've Got to Fall" (Mould) – 3:20
"Visionary" (Mould) – 2:30
"She Floated Away" (Hart) – 3:32
"Bed of Nails" (Mould) – 4:44
"Tell You Why Tomorrow" (Hart) – 2:42
"It's Not Peculiar" (Mould) – 4:06
"Actual Condition" (Hart) – 1:50
"No Reservations" (Mould) – 3:40
"Turn It Around" (Mould) – 4:32
"She's a Woman (And Now He Is a Man)" (Hart) – 3:19
"Up in the Air" (Mould) – 3:03
"You Can Live at Home" (Hart) – 5:25

1. "...And the Gods Made Love" Jimi Hendrix 1:21
2. "Have You Ever Been (To Electric Ladyland)" Hendrix 2:11
3. "Crosstown Traffic" Hendrix 2:25
4. "Voodoo Chile" Hendrix 15:00
5. "Little Miss Strange" Noel Redding 2:52
6. "Long Hot Summer Night" Hendrix 3:27
7. "Come On (Let the Good Times Roll)" Earl King 4:09
8. "Gypsy Eyes" Hendrix 3:43
9. "Burning of the Midnight Lamp" Hendrix 3:39
10. "Rainy Day, Dream Away" Hendrix 3:42
11. "1983... (A Merman I Should Turn to Be)" Hendrix 13:39
12. "Moon, Turn the Tides...Gently Gently Away" (instrumental) Hendrix 1:02
13. "Still Raining, Still Dreaming" Hendrix 4:25
14. "House Burning Down" Hendrix 4:33
15. "All Along the Watchtower" Bob Dylan 4:01
16. "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" Hendrix 5:12

"Announcement" – 0:41
"Introduction to Solution" – 2:43
"When a Solution Comes" – 3:40
"Money Talks" – 3:44
"Announcement" – 0:55
"Shepherds of the Nation" – 4:17
"Scum of the Earth" – 2:45
"Second-Hand Car Spiv" – 4:01
"He's Evil" – 4:25
"Mirror of Love" – 3:26
"Announcement" – 0:34
"Nobody Gives" – 6:33
"Oh Where Oh Where Is Love?" – 3:40
"Flash's Dream (The Final Elbow)" – 4:17
"Flash's Confession" – 4:06
"Nothing Lasts Forever" – 3:42
"Announcement" – 0:20
"Artificial Man" – 5:30
"Scrapheap City" – 3:16
"Announcement" – 1:05
"Salvation Road" – 3:20

the Life After Deaths upthread are horrible. No Ten Crack Commandments! Not that you'd ever call LAD an average double lp, considering it is FUCKING GREAT. But here is an alternative:

1 Life After Death Intro
2 Somebody's Gotta Die
3 Hypnotize
4 Kick In the Door
5 #! *@ You Tonight
6 Last Day
7 I Love the Dough
8 What's Beef?
9 B.I.G. Interlude
10 Mo Money Mo Problems
11 Niggas Bleed
12 I Got a Story to Tell

Disc 2
1 Notorious Thugs
2 Miss U
3 Another
4 Going Back to Cali
5 ten crack commandments
6 Playa Hater
7 Nasty Boy
8 Sky's the Limit
9 World Is Filled..., The
10 My Downfall
11 Long Kiss Goodnight
12 You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)

Which gets you:

Life After Death (1996)
Side A: Somebody's Gotta Die, Long Kiss Goodnight, Last Day, Kick In The Door, Notorious Thugs, Going Back To Cali
Side B: Niggas Bleed, Ten Crack Commandments, What's Beef, My Downfall, You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You). Bonus Track: Who Shot Ya

For the hardest record ever fucking made. Not sure even Hell On Earth fucks with it. 'Cali' would be the first single for crazy clusterfuck heat, Notorious Thugs the second single just to fuck with everyone.

Born Again (1998 Posthumous obv)
Side A: 16 Bars Intro, Dead Wrong, Hypnotize, Another ft. Lil Kim, The World Is Filled ft. Too $hort, Let Me Get Down ft. Craig Mack
Side B: B.I.G. Interlude, Mo Money Mo Problems ft. Puffy & Ma$e, Big Booty Hoes/Bust A Nut Pt. 2 ft. Luke and Too $hort, Can I Get Witcha ft. Lil Cease, Nasty Boy, I Got A Story To Tell.

As the best fucking party record ever. And Dead Wrong, which only counts because it was recorded around Ready To Die and is dooooooooope.

electric ladyland should never be cut. not even voodoo child. which goes on forever.

i like that new vesion of life after death. though i would miss love the dough, fucking you tonight, and nasty boy (to my surprise). if you wanted to make a straight up hardcore (well harder core, the hardest album biggie made was the first one, and nothing on LAD comes close to gimme the loot or machine gun funk in that department) though i would keep notorious thugs and get rid of cali.

i guess substitute dead wrong for i love the dough. dead wrong didn't really fit, i just wanted it there somehow.

The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway - just throw out disc 2

OP is RONG RONG RONG

I'm going to cheat a bit, because neither of these are really double albums. They are, however, consecutive albums that have been packaged as a two-albums-on-1-disc CD for as long as I can remember, and I'd venture that for many of us its the only way they've been heard. Each of these records was already impressive as they originally appeared on vinyl, but if you get to cherry-pick from the two-fer CDs, they become mind-bogglingly spectacular....

Tim Hardin 1 / Tim Hardin 2

Don't Make Promises - 2:26
Green Rocky Road - 2:18
Smugglin' Man - 1:57
How Long - 4:36
While You're On Your Way - 2:16
It'll Never Happen Again - 2:37
Reason To Believe - 1:59
Never Too Far - 2:15
Part Of The Wind - 2:19
Ain't Gonna Do Without - 3:36
Misty Roses - 1:59
How Can We Hang On To A Dream - 2:03

If I Were a Carpenter - 2:43
Red Balloon - 2:35
Black Sheep Boy - 1:55
Lady Came from Baltimore - 1:51
Baby Close Its Eyes - 1:54
You Upset the Grace of Living When You Lie - 1:48
Speak Like a Child - 3:16
See Where You Are and Get Out - 1:13
It's Hard to Believe in Love for Long - 2:17
Tribute to Hank Williams - 3:12

The Beach Boys Today! / Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

Do You Wanna Dance? - 2:20
Good to My Baby - 2:17
Don't Hurt My Little Sister - 2:08
When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) - 2:03
Help Me, Ronda - 3:10
Dance, Dance, Dance - 1:59
Please Let Me Wonder - 2:47
I'm So Young - 2:32
Kiss Me, Baby - 2:36
She Knows Me Too Well - 2:30
In the Back of My Mind - 2:10
Bull Session with the "Big Daddy" - 2:11

The Girl from New York City - 1:57
Amusement Parks, U.S.A. - 2:31
Then I Kissed Her - 2:17
Salt Lake City - 2:02
Girl Don't Tell Me - 2:21
Help Me, Rhonda - 2:48
California Girls - 2:40
Let Him Run Wild - 2:22
You're So Good to Me - 2:16
Summer Means New Love - 2:01
I'm Bugged at My Ol' Man - 2:19
And Your Dreams Come True - 1:07

Baroness - Yellow & Green

1. Yellow Theme
2. Take My Bones Away
3. March to the Sea
4. Twinkler
5. Cocainium
6. Back Where I Belong
7. Green Theme
8. Board Up the House
9. Collapse
10. Stretchmarker
11. Eula
12. If I Forget Thee Lowcountry

Nobody did the Stone Roses "Second Coming" ?

The Beach Boys Today! / Summer Days (And Summer Nights!!)

Do You Wanna Dance? - 2:20
Good to My Baby - 2:17
Don't Hurt My Little Sister - 2:08
When I Grow Up (To Be a Man) - 2:03
Help Me, Ronda - 3:10
Dance, Dance, Dance - 1:59
Please Let Me Wonder - 2:47
I'm So Young - 2:32
Kiss Me, Baby - 2:36
She Knows Me Too Well - 2:30
In the Back of My Mind - 2:10
Bull Session with the "Big Daddy" - 2:11
The Girl from New York City - 1:57
Amusement Parks, U.S.A. - 2:31
Then I Kissed Her - 2:17
Salt Lake City - 2:02
Girl Don't Tell Me - 2:21
Help Me, Rhonda - 2:48
California Girls - 2:40
Let Him Run Wild - 2:22
You're So Good to Me - 2:16
Summer Means New Love - 2:01
I'm Bugged at My Ol' Man - 2:19
And Your Dreams Come True - 1:07

― everything else is secondary (Lee626), Monday, 20 February 2012 04:24 (4 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'm So Young is one of the best songs of the lot. Here's my remake.

Removing Black Sheep Boy from the second Tim Hardin alb is madness

Although the second halves of both albums slapped together and mixed about a bit would have made a KILLER BBs album to challenge them all. Not a huge fan of 'In The Back Of My Mind' (it's okay but not great) so I took it out and replaced it with 'The Little Girl I Once Knew'

California Girls - 2:40
Help Me, Rhonda - 2:48
You're So Good to Me - 2:16
Please Let Me Wonder - 2:47
Girl Don't Tell Me - 2:21
I'm So Young - 2:32
Kiss Me, Baby - 2:36
The Little Girl I Once Knew
Let Him Run Wild - 2:22
She Knows Me Too Well - 2:30
Summer Means New Love - 2:01
And Your Dreams Come True - 1:07

Just remove everything on The River after Point Break.

ah, it's not the idea of this thread but about the beach boys'Summer days, I have made a great album :

California Girls (obviously, it's crazy not to put this as an album opener !)
Help me Rhonda
Salt Lake City (somehow I like this track...)
Girl don't tell me
You're so good to me
Let him run wild
Guess I'm dumb (instrumental)
Summer means new love
And your dream comes true

I know it's not a double album but it could have been one (the length, the diversity of styles, the subjects addressed...) : MJ's Dangerous !

1. Jam Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley, René Moore, Bruce Swedien 5:39
2. Why You Wanna Trip On Me Teddy Riley, Bernard Belle 5:24
3. In the Closet Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley 6:31
4. Remember the Time Michael Jackson, Teddy Riley, Bernard Belle 4:00
5. Heal the World Michael Jackson 6:24
6. Black or White (feat. Slash) Michael Jackson 4:15
7. Who Is It Michael Jackson 6:34
8. Give in to Me (feat. Slash) Michael Jackson, Bill Bottrell 5:29
9. Will You Be There Michael Jackson 7:40
10. Dangerous

with 3 parts :
1-3 : the minimalist noisy urban part
4-6 : the poppy utopia part
7-9 : the soul and pain part
10 : closer back to 1

(mostly inspired by the 33 1/3 book on that album)

Strikes me that a lot of these albums aren't average to begin with.

is there a thread where we take a mediocre double album and turn it into a really terrible single album by isolating the worst tracks?

Now you're talking.

ahah.

Ha, you could make The White Album into an absolute turd!

I think my ideal version of the White Album would be very turdy according to most people:

Dear Prudence
Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
Wild Honey Pie
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Martha My Dear
I'm So Tired
Blackbird
Piggies
Rocky Raccoon
Mother Nature's Son
Long, Long, Long
Honey Pie
Cry Baby Cry
Revolution 9

You make Second Coming into a signle album by editing out the guitar solos, ambient river widdling, and five minutes of atonal snorting at the end.

Also all the vocals and most of the guitars.

Keep: Begging You and the secret track.

Humble Pie - Rockin' the Fillmore

Side One: Rollin' Stone
Side Two: I Walk on Gilded Splinters

this grossly excessive band was only any good when they were at their most grossly excessive, so keep only the ridiculously overextended jams

Return to Hot Chicken
Moby Octopad
Sugarcube
Damage
Deeper Into Movies
Autumn Sweater
Little Honda
Spec Bebop
We're An American Band
My Little Corner of the World

Was thinking about this old thread after our discussion on the Exile thread and was curious what people had said about it here... then the reissue of I Can Hear came across my feed and I was a bit disappointed but not really surprised to see it had not much in the way of "revisionist history", so I thought about what I would do if I had been handed the songs from the I Can Hear the Heart sessions.

Electr-o-pura was probably already a double album in all but fact, quite meandering and indulgent in places yet still quite rockin'. I know it probably seems blasphemous to remove Green Arrow and Stockholm Syndrome, but for some reason James' singing has always kind of turned me off, I kind of wish Ira or Georgia had sung it I guess, I like thinking of this band as a husband and wife team somehow. And Green Arrow just goes on so long, it's total side 3 of a double album feeling filler, good but filler. I see that Green Arrow is now one of their most-streamed songs, which is pretty funny. I have it on a playlist I made of Ry Coodery-static-desert-snoozy-type instrumentals, I like it ok.