Fantasy alternative album tracklistings

[tzb]

OK, here's the idea: You take a manics album and all the b-sides from that era and you improve on the final tracklisting. Make any cuts you want to, change the order, but the deal is IT MUST BE FROM THE SAME ERA. Imagine you're the manics, having recorded 20 or so songs, picking which ones will be on the album and in what order.

Best to lead by example I suppose, and it's the one which is crying out for it - here's my Know Your Enemy:

01-Dead Martyrs
02-Found That Soul
03-The Year of Putrification
04-Epicentre
05-Groundhog Days
06-Ocean Spray
07-Baby Elian
08-His Last Painting
09-My Guernica
10-The Convalescent
11-Intravenous Agnostic
12-Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel
13-Royal Correspondent
14-Locust Valley (admittedly this one would need beefier production, but at any rate it beats Freedom of Speech as a closer!)

Can you do better? Want to see Comfort Comes on GATS? Everything Will Be (IOW version) on Lifeblood? Or Sorrow 16 and Motown Junk on GT? Take it away

Not happy with that KYE, you seem to have ditched the best tracks!


here's my short, snappy magnificent Genoration Terrorists:-

1. Motown Junk
2. Slash n Burn
3. Natwest/Barclays/Midlands/Lloyds
4. Motorcycle Emptiness
5. Sorrow 16
6. Repeat (UK)
7. Little Baby Nothing
8. Another Invented Disease
9. Stay Beautiful
10. You Love Us
11. Bored Out Of My Mind
12. Condemmed To Rock n Roll

[MJG]

Sorry but Im to lazy to think about this just now Will say two things though:

Are Mothers Saints should have been on GATS and Masking Tape should have been on KYE.

Originally Posted by MJG

Sorry but Im to lazy to think about this just now Will say two things though:

Are Mothers Saints should have been on GATS and Masking Tape should have been on KYE.

How Donkeys never made it on to GATS i will never know

Heres my GATS

1. La Tristesse Duerrera
2. Patrick Bateman
3. Roses in the Hospital
4. From Despair To Where?
5. Donkeys
6. Comfort Comes
7. Suicide Is Painless (or have I got timing wrong?)
8. Nostalgic Pushead
9. Gold Against The Soul

No sleepflower

[Lone Architect]

TIMTTMY

1. 'If You Tolerate This...'
2. 'You Stole The Sun From My Heart'
3. 'Prologue To History'
4. 'Tsunami'
5. 'Black Holes For The Young'
6. 'Be Natural'
7. 'Nobody Loved You'
8. 'You're Tender And You're Tired'
9. 'Socialist Serenade'
10. 'The Everlasting'
11. 'Ready For Drowning'
12. 'I'm Not Working'
13. 'My Little Empire'

For some reason I think the slowdown in this arrangement would work really nicely... in fact I might go and test it now.

[Mr Richey]

My ultimate edition of Lifeblood;



1. 1985
2. Always/Never
3. To Repel Ghosts
4. Empty Souls
5. Everything Will Be
6. Fragments
7. Litany
8. A Song For Departure
9. Everyone Knows/Nobody Cares
10. Solitude Sometimes Is
11. Askew Road

With these tracks in this sequence, the album has a great ethereal atmosphere to it and (for me at least) represents a great pop record.

[Midlands_Junk]

My Lifeblood:

1. 1985
2. There By The Grace Of God
3. Empty Souls
4. A Song For Departure
5. Unstoppable Salvation
6. Automatik Teknicolour
7. No Jubilees
8. I Live To Fall Asleep
9. To Repel Ghosts
10. Cardiff Afterlife
11. Solitude Sometimes Is

This is MY Truth

1. Prologue To History
2. If You Tolerate This
3. You Stole The Sun
4. Ready For Drowning
5. Montana/Autumn/78
6. Tsunami
7. My Little Empire
8. You're Tender And You're Tired
9. Born A Girl
10. Be Natural
11. Nobody Loved You
12. The Everlasting

My KYE:

1. Found That Soul
2. Intravenous Agnostic
3. So Why So Sad
4. Let Robseon Sing
5. The Year Of Purification
6. Dead Martyrs
7. The Convalescent
8. Baby Elian
9. Ocean Spray
10. Door To The River
11. Freedom Of Speech
12. The Masses Against The Classes

[Nature's Discontent]

I've tried doing one for PFAYM:

1. (It's Not War) Just The End Of Love
2. Postcards From A Young Man
3. The Descent (Pages 1 & 2)
4. I Know The Numbers
5. Auto-Intoxication
6. I'm Leaving You For Solitude
7. Golden Platitudes
8. Lost Voices
9. Kiss My Eyes For Eternity
10. Distractions
11. The Future Has Been Here 4Ever
12. Some Kind Of Nothingness
Don't Be Evil (Hidden Track)

In fact, I'm definitely making a playlist of that...

[L.A.M.F]

GATS-

Sleepflower
From despair to where
Hibernation
Roses in the hospital
Drug drug druggy
Are mothers saints
La Tristesse durera
Comfort comes
Nostalgic pushead
Symphony of tourette
Gold against the soul
Us against you

[Parma Violets]

I did one for KYE years ago, I can't remember exactly what it was, but it went something like this:

'Found That Soul'
'The Year of Purification'
'Freedom of Speech Won't Feed My Children'
'His Last Painting'
'Ocean Spray'
'The Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel'
'Masking Tape'
'The Convalescent'
'We Are All Bourgeois Now'
'Intravenous Agnostic'
'Locust Valley'
'So Why So Sad'

That's not exact, but it's the best I can remember it.

[Bathtub]

KYE

1. Found that Soul
2. Locust Valley
3. Pedestal
4. Intravenous Agnostic
5. Freedom of Speech won't feed my children
6. Ocean Spray
7. The Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel
8. Let Robeson Sing
9. Epicentre
10. The Year of Purification
11. Masking Tape
12. The Convalescent

[Symmanine]

1. Prologue To History
2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3. Ready For Drowning
4. Tsunami
5. Montana/Autumn/78
6. The Everlasting
7. My Little Empire
8. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
9. You're Tender And You're Tired
10. Buldings For Dead People
11. Black Holes For The Young
12. Black Dog On My Shoulder
13. Nobody Loved You

[Flint]

Send Away the Tigers: The somewhat more salvaged edition:

1.The Vorticists
2.Anorexic Rodin
3.Boxes & Lists
4.Welcome to the Dead Zone
5.Send Away the Tigers
6.Indian Summer
7.The Second Great Depression
8.I'm Just a Patsy (with James' "one, two, three, FOURRRRR!!" from the song's live debut replacing the sample before the solo)
9.Fearless Punk Ballad
10.Winterlovers

Singles run: Indian Summer -> Dead Zone -> Send Away the Tigers

[Europa Gluten Free]

Originally Posted by Bathtub

KYE

1. Found that Soul
2. Locust Valley
3. Pedestal
4. Intravenous Agnostic
5. Freedom of Speech won't feed my children
6. Ocean Spray
7. The Ballad of the Bangkok Novotel
8. Let Robeson Sing
9. Epicentre
10. The Year of Purification
11. Masking Tape
12. The Convalescent

Originally Posted by Symmanine

1. Prologue To History
2. If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
3. Ready For Drowning
4. Tsunami
5. Montana/Autumn/78
6. The Everlasting
7. My Little Empire
8. You Stole The Sun From My Heart
9. You're Tender And You're Tired
10. Buldings For Dead People
11. Black Holes For The Young
12. Black Dog On My Shoulder
13. Nobody Loved You

So much win in these two!