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― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Totally fuck it.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Sebadoh, Harmacy - remove all Jason Lowenstein songs save "Prince-S" (sorry, Jake)

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

"Loaded" is hardly an "average" LP! All those songs you cross out are great! (To the VU guy.)
I disagree -- The Loaded edit is otm. My life is no different had those five songs never existed.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

okay i think that fixed it?

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:34 (twenty-two years ago)

be gone this only keeps getting better!

please repost the brighten the corners one so i can argue with it properly.

― andrew s (andrew s), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

okay, lemme try that again:

Pavement - Shorten the Corners

~~1. Stereo (Malkmus) - 3:07~~
2. Shady Lane - 3:50
3. Transport Is Arranged - 3:52
4. Date With Ikea - 2:39
5. Old to Begin - 3:22
6. Type Slowly - 5:20
~~7. Embassy Row - 3:51~~
8. Blue Hawaiian - 3:33
9. We Are Underused - 4:12
10. Passat Dream - 3:51
11. Starlings of the Slipstream - 3:08
12. Fin - 5:24

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree with the previous Brighten The Corners strikes as they stand, mistake or not.

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

(Granted, empty EPs are a hard sell)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:36 (twenty-two years ago)

actually in a really cyncal mode i would reduce brighten the corners to a cassingle: "blue hawaiian"/"fin". why i chose "we are underused" over "starlings of the slipstream" above is beyond me - it's a coin toss. same w/"transport" over "old to begin".

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:37 (twenty-two years ago)

maybe i could reduce pavement the same way:

Steve Malkmus
~~Spiral Stairs~~
Bob Nastanovich
~~Mark Ibold~~
Gary Young/Steve West

... but that is just getting rude....

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha, j, the eventual The thread where you turn an average band into an amazing solo artist by removing most of the members thread is coming very soon, surely

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

(Although that still wouldn't help Pavement.)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I think we've done that thread, actually.

― dave225 (Dave225), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

J Fail, I was soooooo with you on the GBV, but now you've lost me re: Pavement.

Uneven Stereolab albums turned into excellent EPs:

Mars Audiac Quintet
~~1. Three-Dee Melodie~~
2. Wow And Flutter
3. Transona Five
4. Des Etoiles Electroniques
5. Ping Pong
6. Anamorphose
7. Three Longers Later
8. Nihilist Assault Group
9. International Colouring Contest
10. Stars Our Destination, The
11. TransportÃ© Sans Bouger
12. Enfer Des Formes, Le
13. Outer Accelerator
14. New Orthophony
15. Fiery Yellow

Dots And Loops
1. Brakhage
2. Miss Modular
~~3. Flower Called Nowhere, The~~
4. Diagonals
5. Prisoner Of Mars
6. Rainbo Conversation
7. Refractions In The Plastic Pulse
8. Parsec
9. Ticker Tape Of The Unconscious
10. Contronatura

Sound-Dust
1. Black Ants In Sound Dust
2. Spacemoth
3. Captain Easychord
4. Baby Lulu
5. Black Arts, The
6. Hallucinex
7. Double Rocker
~~8. Gus The Mynah Bird~~
9. Naught More Terrific Than Man
10. Nothing To Do With Me
11. Suggestion Diabolique
12. Bons Bons Des Raisons, Les

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Not to mention the The thread where you turn an average and possibly annoying public music online forum into an amazing receptable of musical knowledge by removing most of the posters thread...

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

(not meant in the context of the posters in this thread..)

― donut bitch (donut), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:42 (twenty-two years ago)

i'm just being cynical - i love pavement and they could not exist without spiral stairs. i just don't like any of the songs he ever wrote (cause he basically only wrote 1 and kept repeating it).
or do you think that brighten the corners is essential and every track must remain?

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:46 (twenty-two years ago)

on second thought, that's all much too funny to argue with. but yes i do love all of brighten the corners. it does get kind of longish though, so i might just split in half and have two fabulous eps, that way everyone's happy?

Jay Farrar - Terroir Blues

1. No Rolling Back
2. Space Junk I
3. Hard Is The Fall
4. Fool King's Crown
5. Space Junk II
6. Hanging On To You
7. Cahokian
8. Heart On The Ground
9. Out On The Road
10. All Of Your Might
11. Space Junk III
12. California
13. Walk You Down
14. Space Junk IV
15. Dent County
16. Fish Fingers Norway
17. Space Junk V
18. Hanging On To You II
19. Hard Is The Fall II
20. Jam
21. Heart On The Ground II
22. No Rolling Back II
23. Space Junk VI

― andrew s (andrew s), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Uneven Stereolab albums turned into excellent EPs:
Hacking up MAQ is sacrilege. The other two I agree with.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:49 (twenty-two years ago)

i love these threads!!!

R.E.M. - Enough Time

~~1. Radio Song performed by REM / KRS One - 4:15~~
2. Losing My Religion (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:28
3. Low (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:56
~~4. Near Wild Heaven (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:19~~
~~5. Endgame (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:50~~
6. Shiny Happy People (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:46
7. Belong (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:06
8. Half a World Away (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:28
~~9. Texarkana (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:40~~
10. Country Feedback (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:09
11. Me in Honey (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:06

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

crap, now i am guilty of it!

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:54 (twenty-two years ago)

R.E.M. - Enough Time

~~1. Radio Song performed by REM / KRS One - 4:15~~
2. Losing My Religion (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:28
3. Low (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:56
~~4. Near Wild Heaven (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:19~~
~~5. Endgame (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:50~~
~~6. Shiny Happy People (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:46~~
7. Belong (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:06
8. Half a World Away (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:28
~~9. Texarkana (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 3:40~~
10. Country Feedback (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:09
11. Me in Honey (Berry/Buck/Mills/Stipe) - 4:06

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I am arguing that I love every song on Brighten The Corners, and I wouldn't remove any of them. I am especially arguing in favor of "Stereo," which is one of Pavement's signature songs.

I'd also argue that you're mostly right about Spiral, but his two songs on BTC were actually the exception to the rule for him - they aren't much like his typical songs at all.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:55 (twenty-two years ago)

~~Go Junior, Go Senior~~
Rhythm Bandits
~~Move Your Feet~~
Chicks and Dicks
Shake Your Coconuts
Boy Meets Girl
~~C'mon~~
Good Girl, Bad Boy
Shake Me Baby
~~Dynamite~~
~~White Trash~~

― morris pavilion (samjeff), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:58 (twenty-two years ago)

The Sisters of Mercy - Floodland:

1. Dominion/Mother Russia - 7:01
2. Flood I - 6:22
3. Lucretia My Reflection - 4:57
4. 1959 - 4:09
5. This Corrosion - ~~10:55~~ 4:33
6. Flood II - 6:47
7. Driven Like the Snow - 6:27
8. Never Land [A Fragment] - 2:46

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 30 January 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Belle & Sebastian Fold Your Hands Child, You Walk Like A Peasant

~~1. I Fought In A War~~
2. The Model
3. Beyond The Sunrise
4. Waiting For The Moon To Rise
5. Don't Leave The Light On, Baby
~~6. The Wrong Girl~~
7. The Chalet Lines
~~8. Nice Day For A Sulk~~
9. Woman's Realm
10. Family Tree
11. There's Too Much Love

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 30 January 2004 20:59 (twenty-two years ago)

(haha mine isn't EP length but still)

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 30 January 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

to me, 'stereo' pushed pavement pretty dangerously close to novelty territory - while i loved the song in 1997, these days i always skip it. but that's just my opinion.

i had a friend who did this weird social experiment... for a few weeks whenever he was discussing anything with anyone he always added "but that's just my opinion, so i'm not necessarily right." he found that people would get more agitated when he said that, and try to argue their opinions even more forcefully at him....

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:00 (twenty-two years ago)

J Fail, do you listen to live Pavement much? Maybe you'd feel better about that song if you did. That song was much better live than on the record, and was a staple of their live show for half of their career.

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:04 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, i do. i don't hate that song, and i realize what a staple it is, so i almost didn't delete it... but being a fascist is half the fun of this thread!!

― john f (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:05 (twenty-two years ago)

If I was going to remove any song from BTC, it'd be "Shady Lane."

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:06 (twenty-two years ago)

you're right- that's gotta go too!

― john f (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:08 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the problem with "Old To Begin," by the way? That's probably my favorite on the album, along with "Transport Is Arranged."

― Matthew Perpetua (Matthew Perpetua), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Arab Strap -- Monday at the Hug and Pint

1. The Shy Retirer
2. Meanwhile At The Bar A Drunkard Muses
3. Fucking Little Bastards
4. Peep-Peep
5. Flirt
6. Who Named The Days
7. (Loch Leven Intro)
8. Loch Leven
~~9. Glue~~
10. Act Of War
~~11. Serenade~~
12. The Week Never Starts Round Here
~~13. Pica Luna~~

Or alternately, just axe the first half and take tracks 7-13. They flow really well, but the first half of the album is a mess.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

there is nothing memorable about it to me. it's pleasant but ultimately forgettable.

I FEEL LIKE I AM BEING ATTACKED. can't someone defend "Radio song" instead??

― j fail (cenotaph), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Blur - The Great Escape
1. Country House
2. The Universal
3. Best Days
4. He Thought Of Cars
5. It Could Be You
6. Entertain Me
7. Yuko And Hiro

Bjork - Vespertine
1. Hidden Place
2. It's Not Up To You
4. Undo
5. Pagan Poetry
6. Unison

The Cure - The Top
1. Shake Dog Shake
2. Birdmad Girl
4. The Caterpillar
5. Wailing Wall
6. The Top

Manitoba - Up In Flames
1. I've Lived On A Dirt Road All My Life
2. Hendrix With KO
3. Bijoux (that's the one with the vaccum-cleaner alien vocals, right?)
4. Every Time She Turns Round It's Her Birthday

The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (OOH THE CONTROVERSY)
1. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
2. With A Little Help From My Friends
3. Getting Better
4. She's Leaving Home
5. A Day In The Life

― Sansai, Friday, 30 January 2004 21:45 (twenty-two years ago)

(Kill Yr Idols...)

Dixie Tango Motel
1.) Heavy Metal Drummer
2.) Kamera
3.) Jesus, Etc.
4.) War on War
5.) Magazine Called Sunset*
6.) Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?**

*Obligatory non-album track
** Obligatory ironic cover song.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 January 2004 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Wow, I could do this all day.

The Notwist - Neon Golden (rearranged for better flow)
1. One Step Inside Doesn't Mean You Understand
2. Pilot
3. One With The Freaks
4. Pick Up the Phone
5. Trashing Days
6. Consequence

Pavement - Slanted And Enchanted
1. Summer Babe [Winter Version]
2. Trigger Cut
3. In The Mouth A Desert
4. Zurich Is Stained
5. Loretta's Scars
6. Here

Radiohead - Amnesiac
1. Pyramid Song
2. You And Whose Army?
3. I Might Be Wrong
4. Like Spinning Plates
5. Life In A Glasshouse
(though if "The Amazing Sounds Of Orgy" had been on tha album it would've been on this EP for sure)

― Sansai, Friday, 30 January 2004 21:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Mogwai - Young Team
Like Herod
Mogwai Fear Satan

― Stupid (Stupid), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Gram Parsons - Greivous Angel

1 Return of the Greivous Angel
2 Hearts on Fire
3 I Cant Dance
4 Brass Buttons
5 $1000 Wedding
6 In My Hour of Darkness

― pete s, Friday, 30 January 2004 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd have done almost the opposite for Monday at the Hug & Pint.

Ryan Adams, Heartbreaker:
1. Argument With David Rawlings Concerning... (Adams) - :37
2. To Be Young (Is to Be Sad, Is to Be High) (Adams/Rawlings) - 3:04
3. My Winding Wheel (Adams) - 3:13
4. Amy (Adams) - 3:46
5. Oh My Sweet Carolina (Adams) - 4:57
6. Bartering Lines (Adams/Alston) - 3:59
~~7. Call Me on Your Way Back Home (Adams) - 3:09~~
8. Damn, Sam (I Love a Woman That Rains) (Adams) - 2:08
9. Come Pick Me Up (Adams/Alston) - 5:18
10. To Be the One (Adams) - 3:01
11. Why Do They Leave? (Adams) - 3:38
12. Shakedown on 9th Street (Adams) - 2:53
13. Don't Ask for the Water (Adams) - 2:56
14. In My Time of Need (Adams) - 5:39
15. Sweet Lil Gal (Adams) - 3:38

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:18 (twenty-two years ago)

(and cut the last two if too long)

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Friday, 30 January 2004 22:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd just remove side two of Doolittle.

― Douglas (Douglas), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Except take off "I Bleed" and "Dead, and add "Gouge Away."

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The thread where you make albums better by removing ALL the songs on them

― sym (shmuel), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:22 (twenty-two years ago)

You mean like this?

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Sleater Kinney, All Hands on the Bad One

~~1. The Ballad of a Ladyman (Sleater-Kinney) - 3:10~~
2. Ironclad (Sleater-Kinney) - 2:34
~~3. All Hands on the Bad One (Sleater-Kinney) - 2:57~~
4. Youth Decay (Sleater-Kinney) - 2:30
5. You're No Rock N' Roll Fun (Sleater-Kinney) - 2:37
6. #1 Must Have (Sleater-Kinney) - 3:03
7. The Professional (Sleater-Kinney) - 1:31
8. Was It a Lie? (Sleater-Kinney) - 3:15
9. Male Model (Sleater-Kinney) - 2:32
10. Leave You Behind (Sleater-Kinney) - 3:27
11. Milkshake N' Honey (Sleater-Kinney) - 2:54
12. Pompeii (Sleater-Kinney) - 2:43
13. The Swimmer (Sleater-Kinney) - 3:47

― Leee Majors (Leee), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Exactly like that

― sym (shmuel), Friday, 30 January 2004 23:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Radiohead: "Kid Amnesia EP":
Optimistic
Motion Picture Soundtrack
Knives Out
Pyramid Song

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:47 (twenty-two years ago)

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Whoa, great call on Entroducing, Snrub - my perfect EP of that as well

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 16:04 (twenty-two years ago)

nine months pass...

I think Swans - Children of God would make an excellent LP if you the last six tracks on the album.

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 21 November 2004 13:05 (twenty-one years ago)

remove the last six tracks^

― Ian Moraine (Eastern Mantra), Sunday, 21 November 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of the CDs released nowadays would be excellent EP with everything but the first 4-5 tracks removed.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 21 November 2004 17:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Can someone do this for Speakerboxx/The Love Below, so I could burn it on one disc/not have to skip tracks? Thanks.

― Guy Incognito, Sunday, 21 November 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

End of yeat update:

Magnetic Fields - i

1. I Die
2. I Don't Believe You
3. I Don't Really Love You Anymore
4. I Looked All Over Town
5. I Thought You Were My Boyfriend
~~6. I Was Born~~
7. I Wish I Had An Evil Twin
8. If There's Such A Thing As Love
9. I'm Tongue-Tied
10. In An Operetta
11. Infinitely Late At Night
12. Irma
13. Is This What They Used To Call Love
14. It's Only Time

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Monday, 22 November 2004 00:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Basement Jaxx - Kish Kash EP

1. Good Luck
2. Right Here's the Spot
3. Lucky Star
4. Hot n' Cold
5. Cish Cash (edit)

Blondie - Eat To The Beat

1. Dreaming
2. Union City Blue
3. Accidents Never Happen
4. Atomic
5. Die Young Stay Pretty
6. Shayla

― Tannenbaum Schmidt (Nik), Monday, 22 November 2004 00:34 (twenty-one years ago)

seven years pass...

this thread is the best

― keeping things contextual (DJP), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 14:51 (thirteen years ago)

It really is!

― you're all going to hello (Z S), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 15:06 (thirteen years ago)

a lot of these albums really are improved by removing all the songs, though

― you're all going to hello (Z S), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 15:07 (thirteen years ago)

Dom fucking shit up as usual

― kmfdotm (ledge), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 15:12 (thirteen years ago)

aaahahahaha

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 15:24 (thirteen years ago)

Not to mention the The thread where you turn an average and possibly annoying public music online forum into an amazing receptable of musical knowledge by removing most of the posters thread...
― donut bitch (donut), Friday, January 30, 2004 3:42 PM Bookmark

― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 15:25 (thirteen years ago)

hahaha

― Ówen P., Wednesday, 8 August 2012 15:59 (thirteen years ago)

I get more enjoyment out of of the strikethrough fuckups than anything else

― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 16:40 (thirteen years ago)

!!!!!

― turtwig greenturty (Matt P), Thursday, 9 August 2012 23:33 (thirteen years ago)

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― turtwig greenturty (Matt P), Thursday, 9 August 2012 23:33 (thirteen years ago)

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― turtwig greenturty (Matt P), Thursday, 9 August 2012 23:34 (thirteen years ago)

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― turtwig greenturty (Matt P), Thursday, 9 August 2012 23:35 (thirteen years ago)

this thread is the best
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Wednesday, August 8, 2012 10:51 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark

― billstevejim, Friday, 10 August 2012 05:36 (thirteen years ago)

the thread where you turn an average strikethrough into an amazing strikethrough by striking through everything

― Lee626, Friday, 10 August 2012 10:08 (thirteen years ago)

haha, never saw this thread before, but my first thought was that the strikethrough of that entire verve album was a really great joke.

― charlie h, Friday, 10 August 2012 10:14 (thirteen years ago)

one month passes...

1. "Astronomy Domine" Barrett and Richard Wright 4:12
2. "Lucifer Sam" Barrett 3:07
~~3. "Matilda Mother" Wright and Barrett 3:08~~
~~4. "Flaming" Barrett 2:46~~
~~5. "Pow R. Toc H." (Barrett, Roger Waters, Wright, Nick Mason) wordless vocals by Barrett and Waters 4:26~~
~~6. "Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk" (Waters) Waters 3:05~~
1. "Interstellar Overdrive" (Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason) Instrumental 9:41
~~2. "The Gnome" Barrett 2:13~~
~~3. "Chapter 24" Barrett 3:42~~
~~4. "The Scarecrow" Barrett 2:11~~
5. "Bike" Barrett 3:21

― how's life, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:01 (thirteen years ago)

dude, you did NOT just do this

― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:04 (thirteen years ago)

that album is a perfect little flower

― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:04 (thirteen years ago)

frogsbs, I did it.

― how's life, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:19 (thirteen years ago)

by flower I meant "urine flower"

― frogbs, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 16:24 (thirteen years ago)

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