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.

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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

Back in the USSR
Dear Prudence
Glass Onion
Martha my Dear
I'm So Tired
Revolution 1
Blackbird
Yer Blues
Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except for Me and My Monkey
Long Long Long
Julia
Birthday
I Will
Sexy Sadie
Mother Nature's Son
Long Long Long
Why Dont We Do It In THe Road?
Cry Baby Cry
Revolution 9
Goodnight

Heaven knows if that'll fit on one lp, but hey were in the CD age now

Remove everything that contains rapping
Remove everything that contains breakbeats or syncopated drum beats
Remove the most sentimental boy band ballads

And you are likely to be left with a great compilation.

And then, do this:

Forgive me, Huskers.

It's fine on its own but it just gets in the way of things when I'm craving the crazy Buckingham sounds. Sometimes I'm just not in the mood for Stevie's witchy voice, y'know?

...I tried doing this for Wu-Tang Forever, but the first side is sooo good. If I were to make it one disc, discounting unintentional (or is it?) comedy and songs for the c's and such it would be like this:

1. Wu-Revolution - 6:17
2. Reunited - 5:23 (take out double lp line)
3. For Heaven's Sake - 4:13
4. Cash Still Rules/Scary Hours (Still Don't Nothing Move but the Money) - 3:06 (its true)
5. Visionz - 3:09
6. As High as Wu-Tang Get - 2:39 (annoying chorus, nice GZA verse though)
7. Severe Punishment - 4:49
8. Older Gods - 3:07
9. Maria - 2:34
10. A Better Tomorrow - 4:58 (nice, but a little wu-schmaltz)
11. It's Yourz - 4:19 Annoying, and the chorus mentions the double lp.
12. Intro - 2:02 Stop bitin' they shit. This is a classic stoned wu-rant by RZA.
13. Triumph - 5:38
14. Impossible - 4:28  Some annoying bitch singing a crappy hook.
15. Little Ghetto Boys - 4:49 (Wu-Preachy)
16. Deadly Melody - 4:20 
17. The City - 4:05 (for the ci-tai)
18. The Projects - 3:17 Most hilarious intro with a little Wu-Child ever.
19. Bells of War - 5:12
20. The M.G.M. - 2:38 Nice enough, but its throwaway stuff - "we too black for BET" is funny.
21. Dog Sh*t - 3:34 Breaks my heart...
22. Duck Seazon - 5:42
23. Hellz Wind Staff - 4:52
24. Heaterz - 5:26 Word to God.
25. Black Shampoo - 3:49
26. Second Coming - 4:39  Eww.
27. The Closing - 2:37 Very classic Raekwon (I think) breaking it down science-like for us all. Go pick up uniforms.

So we'd be left with this extremely tight and tight, clearly classic, album:

1. Intro - 2:02 
2. Reunited - 5:23
3. For Heaven's Sake - 4:13
4. Cash Still Rules/Scary Hours (Still Don't Nothing Move but the Money) - 3:06
5. Visionz - 3:09
6. Severe Punishment - 4:49
7. Older Gods - 3:07
8. Triumph - 5:38
9. Deadly Melody - 4:20 
10. The City - 4:05
11. The Projects - 3:17
12. Bells of War - 5:12
13. Heaterz - 5:26
14. The Closing - 2:37

Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Uncle Meat

1. Uncle Meat: Main Title Theme
2. The Voice of Cheese
3. Nine Types of Industrial Pollution
4. Zolar Czakl
5. Dog Breath, in the Year of the Plague
6. The Legend of the Golden Arches
7. Louie Louie (At the Royal Albert Hall in...
8. The Dog Breath Variations
9. Sleeping in a Jar
10. Our Bizarre Relationship
11. The Uncle Meat Variations
12. Electric Aunt Jemima
13. Prelude to King Kong
14. God Bless America
15. A Pound for a Brown on the Bus
16. Ian Underwood Whips It Out
17. Mr. Green Genes
18. We Can Shoot You
19. If We'd All Been Living in California...
20. The Air
21. Project X
22. Cruisin' for Burgers
23. Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 1
24. Tengo Na Minchia Tanta
25. Uncle Meat Film Excerpt, Pt. 2
26. King Kong Itself [Played by the Mothers]
27. King Kong II [Interpreted by Tom Dewild]
28. King Kong III [Motorhead Explains It]
29. King Kong IV [Gardner Varieties]
30. King Kong V
31. King Kong VI [Live at Miami Pop Festival]

girls and boys
tracy jacks
end of a century
bank holiday
badhead
far out
to the end
jubilee
this is a low

Captain Beefheart

and his magic band

Trout Mask Replica

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
"Tonight, Tonight"
"Jellybelly"
"Zero"
"Here Is No Why"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"To Forgive"
"Fuck You (An Ode To No-one)"
"Love"
"Cupid de Locke"
"Galapogos"
"Muzzle"
"Porcelina of the Vast Oceans"
"Take Me Down"

"Where Boys Fear to Tread"
"Bodies"
"Thirty-three"
"In the Arms of Sleep"
"1979"
"Tales of a Scorched Earth"
"Thru the Eyes of Ruby"
"Stumbleine"
"X.Y.U."
"We Only Come Out at Night"
"Beautiful"
"Lily"
"By Starlight"
"Farewell and Goodnight"

Disc One

1. Curse You All Men!
2. The Tongue of Fire
3. The Majesty of the Nightsky
4. Cosmic Keys to My Creations and Times
5. Wrath of the Tyrant
6. The Loss and Curse of Reverence
7. An Elegy of Icaros
8. I am the Black Wizards
9. Thus Spake the Nightspirit (live)
10. Ye Entrancemperium
11. In the Wordless Chamber
12. With Strength I Burn
13. Inno A Satana

Disc Two

1. A Fine Day to Die (Bathory cover)
2. Ærie Descent (Thorns cover)
3. Cromlech (Darkthrone cover)
4. Gypsy (Mercyful Fate cover)
5. Funeral Fog (Mayhem cover)
6. I Am
7. Sworn (Ulver remix)
8. Lord of the Storms
9. My Empire's Doom
10. Moon Over Kara-Shehr (rehearsal)
11. Ancient Queen
12. Witches Sabbath
13. In Longing Spirit
14. Opus A Satana

Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips
Casino Boogie
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Torn and Frayed
Sweet Black Angel
Loving Cup
Happy
Turd on the Run
Ventilator Blues
I Just Want to See His Face
Let It Loose
All Down the Line
Stop Breaking Down
Shine a Light
Soul Survivor

Actually I bet a lot of people would say that.

1. Blackened
2. ...And Justice For All
3. Eye Of The Beholder
4. One
5. The Shortest Straw
6. Harvester Of Sorrow
7. The Frayed Ends Of Sanity
8. To Live Is To Die
9. Dyers Eve

1) Ghetto Musick
2) Love Hater
3) Bowtie
4) Happy Valentine's Day
5) Church
6) The Way You Move
7) Flip-Flop Rock
8) The Rooster
9) Tomb of the Boom
10) Spread
11) Bust
12) Hey Ya

TMR is irreducible!

well, this is where we disagree, my friend... I think even Mr Richards would agree that Exile is probably his best "solo" work !

That's like removing Sarah from Tusk!

duh ! (although I don't know Tusk and don't like FM...but I kinda get the image...)

*weeps bitter tears*

Side 1
Side 2
Side 3
Side 4

that was easy

If you want to get a great single album from the already great Trout Mask, get Lick My Decals Off, Baby.

Y.I.K.E.S.

I have nothing to actually contribute to the subject matter at hand.

Soft Machine Third

side 1
side 2
side 3
side 4

(cue: nailgun jokes)

And I think the best part of 'Smithers-Jones' was actually written by Weller (I mean the last verse with "put on the kettle and make some tea, it's all a part of feeling groovy")

Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness

"Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness"
"Tonight, Tonight"
"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"
"Zero"
"Galapogos"
"1979"
"Fuck You (An Ode To No-one)"
"Thirty-three"
"Bodies"
"Beautiful"
"Here Is No Why"
"Thru the Eyes of Ruby"
"Stumbleina"
"Porcelina of the Vast Oceans"
"Lily"

It seems like I'm one of the few who likes Big Boi's album a lot more, and I skip past most of the slower, more sentimental songs on Dre's (Roses is pretty great though).

1.   The Magnificent Seven
2.   Hitsville U.K.
3.   Junco Partner
4.   Ivan Meets G.I. Joe
5.   The Leader
6.   Something About England
7.   Rebel Waltz
8.   Look Here
9.   The Crooked Beat
10.   Somebody Got Murdered
11.   One More Time
12.   One More Dub
13.   Lightning Strikes (Not Once But Twice)
14.   Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)
15.   Corner Soul
16.   Let's Go Crazy
17.   If Music Could Talk
18.   The Sound of Sinners
19.   Police on My Back
20.   Midnight Log
21.   The Equaliser
22.   The Call Up
23.   Washington Bullets
24.   Broadway
25.   Lose This Skin
26.   Charlie Don't Surf
27.   Mensforth Hill
28.   Junkie Slip
29.   Kingston Advice
30.   The Street Parade
31.   Version City
32.   Living in Fame
33.   Silicone on Sapphire
34.   Version Pardner
35.   Career Opportunities
36.   Shepherds' Delight

New track 1: "This Is Radio Clash."
New track 8 (final track): "Bankrobber."

1) Thela Hun Ginjeet
2) Larks Tongues in Aspic pt. 3
3) Three of a Perfect Pair
4) Indiscipline
5) Matte Kudesai
6) Sleepless
7) Frame by Frame
8) Red
9) Discipline
10) Heartbeat

Rocks Off
Rip This Joint
Shake Your Hips
Tumbling Dice
Sweet Virginia
Torn and Frayed
All Down The Line
Loving Cup
Sweet Black Angel
Happy
Let It Loose
Stop Breaking Down
Soul Survivor

which makes a 50 minute album

LA Drone
Immigrant Song
Heartbreaker
Black Dog
Over the Hills and Far Away
Since I've Been Loving You
Stairway to Heaven
Going to California
That's the Way
Bron-Y-Aur Stomp
Dazed and Confused
What Is and What Should Never Be
Dancing Days
Moby Dick
Whole Lotta Love
Rock and Roll 3:55
The Ocean 4:19
Bring It on Home/Bring It on Back 9:29

Runaways
Ball and Chain
Senses Working Overtime
Jason and the Argonauts
No Thugs in Our House
Yacht Dance
All of a Sudden (It's Too Late)
Melt the Guns
Leisure
It's Nearly Africa
Knuckle Down
Fly on the Wall
Down in the Cockpit
English Roundabout
Snowman

As a huge XTC fan, my greatest heresy is that I never quite worshipped English Settlement as much as my fellow brethen. And note that the scratched songs here I do love dearly but feel would make greater B-sides. I think this album just needed some more trimming than what was done even to the initial U.S./CD version.

ELECTRIC LADYLAND, WHITE ALBUM, PHYSICAL GRAFFITI, TROUT MASK REPLICA, SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE, LONDON CALLING - Too much good stuff for a single LP; would all make superb 3-sided releases.

ZEN ARCADE could benefit from a little pruning too, but absolutely NOT "Reoccurring Dreams"!

And in the microcategory of Four Sides/Four Songs LPs, I'll keep all of METAL MACHINE MUSIC and Soft Machine's THIRD, and toss back TOPOGRAPHIC OCEANS and Tangerine Dream's ZEIT in their entirety.

1. The Freed Pig (Sebadoh) - 3:08
2. Sickles and Hammers (Minutemen) - :50
3. Total Peace (Sebadoh) - 3:02
4. Violet Execution (Sebadoh) - 3:57
5. Scars, Four Eyes (Sebadoh) - 3:37
6. Truly Great Thing (Sebadoh) - 2:13
7. Kath (Sebadoh) - 1:52
8. Perverted World (Sebadoh) - 1:54
9. Wonderful! Wonderful! (Edwards/Raleigh) - 3:13
10. Limb by Limb (Sebadoh) - 2:17
11. Smoke a Bowl (Sebadoh) - 3:02
12. Black Haired Girl (Sebadoh) - 2:12
13. Hoppin' up and Down (Sebadoh) - 3:16
14. Supernatural Force (Sebadoh) - 2:43
15. Rockstar (Sebadoh) - 2:42
16. Downmind (Sebadoh) - 1:31
17. Renaissance Man (Sebadoh) - 2:19
18. God Told Me (Sebadoh) - 1:09
19. Holy Picture (Sebadoh) - 2:53
20. Hassle (Sebadoh) - 3:30
21. No Different (Sebadoh) - 2:20
22. Spoiled (Sebadoh) - 3:03
23. As the World Dies, the Eyes of God Grow Bigger

Pop Quiz
The Extension Trip
How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight
The Brush Descends the Length (Gane/Sadier) - 3:08
Melochord Seventy-Five
Space Moment
Iron Man
The Long Hair of Death
You Used to Call Me Sadness
New Orthophony [Full Version]
Speedy Car
Golden Atoms
Ulan Bator
One Small Step
One Note Samba/Surfboard [Full Version]
Cardiopo
Klang Tone
Theme from Get Carter
One Thousand Miles an Hour
Perocolations [John McEntire Remix]
Freestyle Dumpling
Check and Double Check
Munich Madness
Metronomic Underground [Wagon Christ Mix]
The Incredible He Woman

which, when resequenced, produces:

Stereolab The Lost Album - 1995

1.Pop Quiz
2.The Extension Trip
3.How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight
4.The Brush Descends the Length (Gane/Sadier) - 3:08
5.Melochord Seventy-Five
6.Space Moment
7.One Small Step
8.Cardiopo
9.Speedy Car
10.You Used to Call Me Sadness
11.Golden Atoms
12.Freestyle Dumpling
13.Munich Madness
14.Check and Double Check
15.One Thousand Miles an Hour

(It's still probably a 2LP, strictly speaking, but should make one complete CD)

One more time!

Slighty different.. this is taking the Japanese edition 3CD set of Stereolab's "Aluminum Tumes" and making the great lost 1995 CD out of it, excluding covers:

Pop Quiz
The Extension Trip
How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight
The Brush Descends the Length (Gane/Sadier) - 3:08
Melochord Seventy-Five
Space Moment
Iron Man
The Long Hair of Death
You Used to Call Me Sadness
New Orthophony [Full Version]
Speedy Car
Golden Atoms
Ulan Bator
One Small Step
One Note Samba/Surfboard [Full Version]
Cardiopo
Klang Tone
Theme from Get Carter
One Thousand Miles an Hour
Perocolations [John McEntire Remix]
Freestyle Dumpling
Check and Double Check
Munich Madness
Metronomic Underground [Wagon Christ Mix]
The Incredible He Woman

which, when resequenced, produces:

Stereolab The Lost Album - 1995

1.Pop Quiz
2.The Extension Trip
3.How to Play Your Internal Organs Overnight
4.The Brush Descends the Length (Gane/Sadier) - 3:08
5.Melochord Seventy-Five
6.Space Moment
7.One Small Step
8.Cardiopo
9.Speedy Car
10.You Used to Call Me Sadness
11.Golden Atoms
12.Freestyle Dumpling
13.Munich Madness
14.Check and Double Check
15.One Thousand Miles an Hour

(It's still probably a 2LP, strictly speaking, but should make one complete CD)

side 1
Amazing Journey / Sparks
Christmas
Cousin Kevin
Underture

Side 2
Tommy can you Hear Me
Smash the mirror
Sally Simpson
Tommy's Holiday Camp
We're Not Gonna Take it

Side 1
John Nineteen Forty-One
Pilate's Dream
Heaven on their Minds
This Jesus Must Die
What's the Buzz/Strange Thing Mystifying
Damned for All Time

Side 2
The arrest
Peter's Denial
Pilate and Christ
King Herod's song
Trial before Pilate
Superstar

45 of I Don't know how to love him b/w Crucifixion included with first 1000 copies

DISC 1: THE GIFT:
1. Dream, A - (featuring Faith Evans/Notorious B.I.G.)
2. Hovi Baby
3. Watcher 2, The - (featuring Dr Dre/Rakim/Truth Hurts)
4. '03 Bonnie & Clyde - (featuring Beyonce Knowles)
5. Excuse Me Miss
6. What They Gonna Do - (featuring Sean Paul)
7. All Around The World - (featuring LaToiya Williams)
8. Poppin' Tags - (featuring Big Boi/Killer Mike/Twista)
9. F**k All Nite
10. The Bounce (featuring Kanye West)
11. I Did It My Way

DISC 2: THE CURSE:
1. Diamond Is Forever
2. Guns & Roses - (featuring Lenny Kravitz)
3. U Don't Know - (remix, featuring M.O.P.)
4. Meet The Parents
5. Some How Some Way - (featuring Beanie Sigel/Scarface)
6. Some People Hate
7. Blueprint 2
8. N***a Please - (featuring Young Chris)
9. 2 Many Hoes
10. As One - (featuring Memphis Bleek/Freeway/Young Guns/Peedi Crakk/Sparks/Rell)
11. Ballad For The Fallen Soldier, A
12. Show You How - (bonus track)
13. Bitches & Sisters - (bonus track)
14. What They Gonna Do Part II - (bonus track)

The Minutemen - Double Nickels On The Dime

1. D.'s Car Jam/Anxious Mo-Fo
 2. Theatre Is the Life of You
 3. Viet Nam
 4. Cohesion
 5. It's Expected I'm Gone
 6. #1 Hit Song
 7. Two Beads at the End
 8. Do You Want New Wave or Do You Want the Truth?
 9.  Don't Look Now
 10. Shit from an Old Notebook
 11. Nature Without Man
 12. One Reporters Opinion
 13. Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing
 14. Maybe Partying Will Help
 15. Toadies
 16. Retreat
 17. The Big Foist
 18. God Bows to Math
 19. Corona
 20. The Glory of Man
 21. Take 5, D.
 22. My Heart and the Real World
 23. History Lesson, Pt. 2
 24. You Need the Glory
 25. The Roar of the Masses Could Be Farts
26. Mr. Robot’s Holy Orders
 27. West Germany
 28. The Politics of Time
 29. Themselves
 30. Please Don't Be Gentle With Me
 31. Nothing Indeed
 32. No Exchange
 33. There Ain't Shit on T.V. Tonight
 34. This Ain't No Picnic
 35. Spillage
36. Untitled Song for Latin America
 37. Jesus and Tequila
 38. June 16th
 39. Storm in My House
 40. Martin's Story
41. Ain’t Talkin’ Bout Love
 42. Doctor Wu
43. Little Man With A Gun In His Hand
 44. The World According to Nouns
 45. Love Dance
 46. Three Car Jam

What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
Crush With Eyeliner
King of Comedy
I Don't Sleep, I Dream
Star 69
Strange Currencies
Tongue
Bang and Blame
I Took Your Name
Let Me In
Circus Envy
You
How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us
The Wake-Up Bomb
New Test Lepper
Undertow
E-Bow the Letter
Leave
Departure
Bittersweet Me
Be Mine
Binky the Doormat
Zither
So Fast, So Numb
Low Desert
Electrolite
Airportman
Lotus
Suspicion
Hope
At My Most Beautiful
The Apologist
Sad Professor
You're in the Air
Walk Unafraid
Why Not Smile
Daysleeper
Diminished
Parakeet
Falls to Climb
The Lifting
I've Been High
All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a...
She Just Wants to Be
Disappear
Saturn Return
Beat a Drum
Imitation of Life
Summer Turns to High
Chorus and the Ring
I'll Take the Rain
Beachball

Side B: You're in the Air / Daysleeper / Diminished / Parakeet / I've Been High / Saturn Return / Beat a Drum

White album to be edited and re-ordered in the following way -

Everybody's Got Something To Hide Except Me And My Monkey
Helter Skelter
Birthday
Revolution 9
Blackbird

Dear Prudence
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
Honey Pie
Julia
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

1) The Classical
2) Jawbone and the Air Rifle
3) Fortress/ Deer Park
4) Winter #2
5) Just step Sideways
6) Mere pseud. mag. ed.
7) Who makes the Nazis?

1. The Magnificent Seven
2. Hitsville UK
3.Junco Partner
4. Ivan Meets GI Joe
5. The Leader
6. Something About England
7. Rebel Waltz
8. Look Here
9. The Crooked Beat
10. Somebody Got Murdered
11. One More Time
12. One More Dub
13. Lightning Strikes
14. Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
15. Corner Soul
16. Let's Go Crazy
17. If Music Could Talk
18. The Sound of the Sinners
19. Police On My Back
20. Midnight Log
21. The Equaliser
22. The Call Up
23. Washington Bullets
24. Broadway
25. Lose This Skin
26. Charlie Don't Surf
27. Mensforth Hill
28. Junkie Slip
29. Kingston Advice
30. The Street Parade
31. Version City
32. Living In Fame
33. Silicone On Sapphire
34. Version Pardner
35. Career Opportunities
36. Shepherd's Delight

I've cut out some popular stuff, "Police On My Back" and "Lightning Strikes" in particular. When paring back the songs, though, there appeared from the thicket of forced jollity a melancholic, sparkling funk-dub masterpiece by a band so reverbed and dislocated they're barely there. "Police" didn't fit that vibe--and I think "Lightning's" unconvincing funk. So! 59 Minutes or so.

1. The Magnificent Seven
2. Hitsville UK
3. Rebel Waltz
4. Somebody Got Murdered
5. One More Time
6. One More Dub
7. Corner Soul

8. The Equaliser
9. The Call Up
10. Broadway
11. Charlie Don't Surf
12. Junkie Slip
13. Version City
14. Shepherd's Delight

1. Message to the Feds, Sincerely, We the People
2. These Are Our Heroes
3. Disciple
4. Sekou Story
5. Live Now
6. Suicide Bounce
7. Just a Moment
8. Street's Disciple
9. U.B.R. (Unauthorized Biography of Rakim)
10. Virgo
11. Making's of a Perfect Bitch
12. Getting Married
13. Bridging the Gap
14. War

There you go, instant classic. Now show me some "Life After Death" !

Also, "As High As Wu Tang Get" is a wicked song ! That bassline, plus Ol' Dirty's "An" you can WARE IT, But don't fuck wid IT !". Classic ! Ah well.

Somebody's Gotta Die
Hypnotize
Kick In The Door
I Love The Dough
What's Beef
I Got A Story To Tell
Notorious Thugs
Going Back to Cali
Ten Crack Commandments
The World Is Filled
My Downfall
You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)

Add Dead Wrong from "Born Again" and you're set.

Stepping Filter 1o1. Where's Your Girlfriend? Breath March. Crying In Your Face. Reunion 2. Cilonen. Batine Acid. Snivel Chew. I'm Self-Employed. PWSteal.LDp1nch.D. Backd**r.Berbew.Q. Backd**r.Spyb*ter.A. W32.Aphez@mm. Fenix Funk 5. Xmd5a. VBS.Redl*f.B.

Whereas, on the other hand, Life After Death reads as a record-by-committee, and Sandinista! is fuddled by its bouts of kookyness and self-parody.

Somebody's Gotta Die
Hypnotize
Kick In The Door
F---ing You Tonight (ft R Kelly)
Last Day (ft the Lox)
What's Beef
Mo Money Mo Problems
Niggas Bleed
I Got A Story To Tell
Ten Crack Commandments
Sky's The Limit
My Downfall
You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)

i

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.