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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)

(although an even better solution would have been removing "Electioneering" and "Climbing Up The Walls" from "OK Computer" and putting "Optimistic" and "Knives Out" in there instead, finally turning OKC into an absolutely perfect and flawless album)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 31 January 2004 00:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Tortoise: Millions will die

Djed
~~Glass Museum~~
~~A survey~~
~~The Taut and the Tame~~
Dear Grandma and Grandpa
Along the Banks of Rivers

Mix end of Djed into beginning of Dear Grandma. CD Only release.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 31 January 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Dead Kennedys: Time for crac

Side 1
Take This Job and Shove It
Fleshdunce
The Great Wall
Shrink
Macho Insecurity
Gone With My Wind

Side 2
One-Way Ticket to Pluto
Potshot Heard 'Round the World
Chickenshit Conformist
Lie Detector

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:05 (twenty-two years ago)

sorry, transpose one way ticket to pluto with fleshdunce. Side one's the stompin HC side, side two's the artier side with the songs that speed up/slow down.

― Dr. Annabel Lies (Michael Kelly), Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:09 (twenty-two years ago)

[i](although an even better solution would have been removing "Electioneering" and "Climbing Up The Walls" from "OK Computer" and putting "Optimistic" and "Knives Out" in there instead, finally turning OKC into an absolutely perfect and flawless album)[/i]

Besides "Climbing Up The Walls" easily being one of their best songs, that wouldn't work at all from a flow standpoint, even if they'd rearranged and recorded OKC-style.

― Sansai, Saturday, 31 January 2004 03:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Death in Vegas : The Contino Sessions

1. Dirge
~~2. Soul Auctioneer~~
3. Death Threat
4. Flying
5. Aisha
6. Lever Street
7. Aladdin's Story
8. Broken Little Sister
9. Neptune City

One of the greatest EPs ever once you trim the fat.

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 31 January 2004 04:13 (twenty-two years ago)

"Optimistic" and "Knives Out" could easily have passed for OKC songs. They aren't that much different, really, except maybe more guitar oriented than most of the OKC tracks (particularly with "Electioneering" left out)

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 31 January 2004 18:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Deftones White Pony:
01 Digital Bath
02 Rx Queen
03 Knife Party
04 Passenger
05 Change

― billstevejim, Saturday, 31 January 2004 18:32 (twenty-two years ago)

"Electioneering" and "Climbing Up The Walls" are both fantastic. I'm not sure how to properly explain it at the moment, but I don't understand how one would consider removing anything from OK Computer.

― billstevejim, Saturday, 31 January 2004 18:37 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread is just designed to piss people off. Not one of these of an album I've heard didn't irk.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Saturday, 31 January 2004 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Huh?

― Barry Bruner (Barry Bruner), Saturday, 31 January 2004 19:04 (twenty-two years ago)

The one who did the Belle and Sebastian album, youre like taking all the good songs away form it!

― Jens (brighter), Saturday, 31 January 2004 19:50 (twenty-two years ago)

New #1
Moving Trucks
Who Was Around?

Vaporub
Reflecting Pool
Along The Way

KickASS...

― John 2, Saturday, 31 January 2004 23:38 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah, how could you cut 'there's too much love'?

― keith m (keithmcl), Saturday, 31 January 2004 23:59 (twenty-two years ago)

Daydream Nation:

1. Teenage Riot
2. Silver Rocket
3. Hey Joni
4. Providence
5. the first two parts of the trilogy

Never Mind the Bollocks

1. Anarchy in the UK
2. God Save the Queen
3. Pretty Vacant
4. Holidays in the Sun

Under the Table and Dreaming

1. Ants Marching
2. Jimi Thing
3. The Best of What's Around
4. Warehouse

Crash

1. Two Step
2. Lie in Our Graves
3. So Much to Say
4. Crash Into Me

Beatles for Sale

1. No Reply
2. I'm a Loser
3. Baby's in Black
4. I Don't Want to Spoil the Party

Da Capo

1. Stephanie Knows Who
2. Orange Skies
3. ¡Que Vida!
4. 7 and 7 Is
5. The Castle
6. She Comes in Colors

― Mr. Snrub, Sunday, 1 February 2004 02:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Elastica

Line Up
Annie
Connection
Car Song
~~Smile~~
Hold Me Now
~~S.O.F.T.~~
~~Indian Song~~
~~Blue~~
All-Nighter
~~Waking Up~~
~~2:1~~
~~See That Animal~~
Stutter
~~Never Here~~
~~Vaseline~~

― no opinion, Monday, 2 February 2004 07:42 (twenty-two years ago)

no offense to anyone but you're all fucked in the head with some of these culls..

― the surface noise (electricsound), Monday, 2 February 2004 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

i always consider da capo to be an EP anyway.

no version of never mind the bollocks can be complete without "seventeen".

― j fail (cenotaph), Monday, 2 February 2004 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Remove all the Loewenstein songs from Harmacy? And be left with an entire album of same old/same old Barlow pap? Never. NERRRRRVERRRR. Why not just leave "On Fire" and hit repeat.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:39 (twenty-two years ago)

The only two tracks I'd nix on Elastica would be "Indian Song" and "Vaseline."

― Leee Majors (Leee), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

1. Speakers Push the Air
2. If You Hate Your Friends, You're Not Alone
3. Sad Girls Por Vida
4. The Get a Way
5.
6. More Sweet Soul
7. Ghosts in the Radio
8. Bring It on Golden Pond
9. By the Throat

― Leee Majors (Leee), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 00:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Whoever made Mogwai Young Team just "Like Herod" and "Mogwai Fear Satan" is just crazy. Those are HANDS DOWN the two worst songs on the album!!

Endtroducing:

1. Best Foot Forward
2. Building Steam with a Grain of Salt
3. Midnight in a Perfect World
4. The Changeling
5. the "eyes as big as jolly ranchers" bit

Surfer Rosa:

1. Bone Machine
2. River Euphrates
3. Cactus
4. Where Is My Mind?
5. the "You fuckin' die!" bit

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Tuesday, 3 February 2004 04:04 (twenty-two years ago)

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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