All killer, no filler - make a so-so album into a kickass EP

I've found myself making quite a few custom playlists to do this lately - trimming away duds and songs that don't fit, tweaking the running order, occasionally adding a stray b-side released at the same time. What albums are good candidates for this? Track listings too, please.

― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:43 (9 months ago) Permalink

Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
1. Roman Holiday
2. Come on a Cone
3. I Am Your Leader ft. Cam'ron & Rick Ross
4. Beez in the Trap ft. 2 Chainz
5. Hov Lane
6. Roman Reloaded ft. Lil Wayne
7. Stupid Hoe
8. Gun Shot ft. Beenie Man

― MUBU gai pan (Whiney G. Weingarten), Tuesday, 7 August 2012 23:50 (9 months ago) Permalink

Took some tracks from Fall Be Kind to make the album they should have...

Animal Collective - Merriweather Cut & Paste Pavillion

1. Graze
2. Brothersport
3. Bluish
4. On A Highway
5. What Would I Want Sky
6. Lion In a Coma
7. Summertime Clothes
8. No More Runnin

― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 01:09 (9 months ago) Permalink

glad whiney deigned to participate in *this* mental exercise

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 01:20 (9 months ago) Permalink

Spoon - Ga Ga

1. Don't Make Me A Target
2. The Ghost Of You Lingers
3. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
4. Don't You Evah

― Groove is in the shart (Craig D.), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 04:01 (9 months ago) Permalink

Looking at my AC post upthread, I can conclude that the best logical step for the album after Centipede Hz would be an ambient record.

― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 09:37 (9 months ago) Permalink

David Bowie - Young Americans

Young Americans
Win
Fascination
Right
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Across The Universe
Can You Hear Me (removed, 'Right' is a better song with a similar feel)
Fame
Who Can I Be Now? (added, although it's on the Rykodisc CD straight after 'Fame' anyway)

― gonna win all over your face (snoball), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 10:37 (9 months ago) Permalink

Spoon - Ga Ga

u crazy

― kmfdotm (ledge), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 10:38 (9 months ago) Permalink

yeah, i like that album all the way through and a lot of the ones you missed off too..

― Quickly, take hold of my hand, asshole! (dog latin), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 10:40 (9 months ago) Permalink

The thread where you turn an average LP into an amazing EP by removing half the songs

― spanky hotel frogstrot (how's life), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 10:58 (9 months ago) Permalink

That thread is hilarious. Needs some blink tags as well.

― MikoMcha, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 11:13 (9 months ago) Permalink

Damn, knew it had to have been done before. Didn't think to search for 'LP'.

― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 14:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

Also, careful with your strikethrough tags, kids.

― B-Boy Bualadh Bos (ecuador_with_a_c), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 14:29 (9 months ago) Permalink

not classics but...

Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education:

Everything Flows
Catholic Education
Too Involved
Critical Mass
Every Picture I Paint
Eternal Light
Everybody's Fool

Butthole Surfers - Piouhgd:

Revolution, Pts. 1 & 2
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Blindman / No, I'm Iron Man
Something
P.S.Y.
Barking Dogs

that only cuts about 10 minutes of throwaway garbage off piouhgd, but it turns a disappointing album of standard length into a good short one.

― contenderizer, Thursday, 9 August 2012 05:53 (9 months ago) Permalink

i tend to do this a lot on my itunes library, and untick the songs that ruin the album for me. it tends to be the odd song rather than a whole bunch, though.

― jumpskins, Thursday, 9 August 2012 23:05 (9 months ago) Permalink

Burial - Untrue

Archangel
Near Dark
Endorphin
Etched Headplate
Shell of Light
UK
Raver

― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Thursday, 9 August 2012 23:25 (9 months ago) Permalink

R.E.M. Monster
-
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
I Don't Sleep I Dream
Strange Currencies
I Took Your Name
Circus Envy
You

― john. a resident of chicago., Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:27 (9 months ago) Permalink

Sum 41 - 7 Series: All Killer No Filler

allmusic: Sum 41's entry in Island/Universal's 7 Series is a seven-track version of 2001's platinum disc All Killer No Filler. Six of the album's tracks have been removed, albeit somewhat randomly, leaving 20 minutes of peppy punk-pop and one great hit single, the infectious "Fat Lip."

1. Nothing on My Back
2. Fat Lip
3. Rhythms
4. Motivation
5. In Too Deep
6. Handle This
7. Pain for Pleasure

― The Commercially Underperforming Jeckel Brothers (2x5), Saturday, 11 August 2012 03:14 (9 months ago) Permalink

Why would you want to get rid of In McDonalds from Untrue?!

― Blue Collar Retail Assistant (Dwight Yorke), Saturday, 11 August 2012 09:19 (9 months ago) Permalink