Career Spanning

[BrianPowell]

Ocean Colour Scene are releasing this Box Set in October.
It has Singles, B Sides and Unreleased Material.
Does anyone think this would be a better representation of Manic Street Preachers work than a Greatest Hits/Singles Compilation?

CD1 - 1992-96
1 One of Those Days
2 Sway (Version 2) - Previously Unreleased
3 Yesterday Today (Out-Take) - Previously Unreleased
4 Another Girl's Name
5 Fly Me
6 Giving It All Away
7 Do Yourself A Favour
8 Flowers
9 Vanishing Trick (Live) - Previously Unreleased - Unreleased Song
10 Dreams (Demo) - Previously Unreleased - Unreleased Song
11 The Riverboat Song
12 The Day We Caught The Train
13 I Need A Love Song
14 The Circle
15 Huckleberry Grove
16 You've Got It Bad (Demo)
17 Policeman & Pirates
18 40 Past Midnight (w/Paul Weller, Rico & Jools Holland) - Previously Unreleased
19 One For the Road (Single Mix) - Previously Unreleased
20 Get Away (Live In Southampton 15/10/96) - Previously Unreleased


CD2 - 1997-99
1 Hundred Mile High City
2 Expensive Chair
3 Spark and Cindy (BBC Session 19/6/97) - Previously Unreleased
4 Traveller's Tune (with PP Arnold) (BBC Session 19/6/97) - Previously Unreleased
5 Half A Dream Away
6 On The Way Home
7 Better Day
8 Big Star
9 Get Blown Away (Later With Jools Holland) - Previously Unreleased
10 It's A Beautiful Thing (with PP Arnold) (Manchester Apollo 22/2/98) - Previously Unreleased
11 Song of A Baker
12 July (Single Version)
13 I Am The News (New Version)
14 So Low
15 Hoping You're Making It Too
16 Step By Step
17 Profit in Peace (Single Edit)
18 This Understanding (Live at Stirling Castle)
19 The Waves
20 Soul Driver (Live at Birmingham NIA 28/10/99) - Previously Unreleased
21 All Or Nothing (Live at Birmingham NIA 28/10/99) - Previously Unreleased


CD3 - 2001-03
1 Mechanical Wonder
2 In My Field (Demo) - Previously Unreleased
3 Hanging Around (Demo) - Previously Unreleased - Unreleased Song
4 Can't Get Back To The Bassline
5 Free On The Wind
6 Give Me A Letter
7 These Are The Ones
8 Up On The Downside
9 You Are Amazing
10 We Made It More
11 Easy Love (Demo) - Previously Unreleased - Unreleased Song
12 Crazy Lowdown Ways
13 North Atlantic Drift (Live On The Riverboat)
14 Will You Take Her Love
15 I Wanna See The Bright Lights Tonight
16 Second Hand Car (Live Manchester Apollo 10/10/03)
17 For Every Corner
18 Make The Deal (Single Edit)
19 On My Way
20 I Just Need Myself
21 Oh Collector (Live)
22 Golden Gate Bridge (Live)


CD4 - 2005-10
1 Free My Name
2 Make It Better
3 God's World
4 Have You Got The Right
5 This Day Should Last Forever
6 Another Time To Stay
7 The Word (BBC Session) - Previously Unreleased
8 Still Trying (BBC Session) - Previously Unreleased
9 I Won't Get Grazed (Jam House)
10 My Time (Jam House)
11 I Told You So
12 For Dancers Only
13 Jimmy Wonder
14 I Just Got Over You (Radio Edit)
15 Loneliest Girl In The Whole Wide World
16 These Days I'm Tired
17 Go To Sea (Acoustic) (Xfm Session) - Previously Unreleased
18 Magic Carpet Days
19 Sing Children Sing
20 Old Pair of Jeans
21 Saturday (Xfm Session) - Previously Unreleased
22 Dawn Cried The Day
23 Twenty One - Brand New Song

[Faster82]

I would love it if the Manics released a complete discography including UK channel boredom, suicide alley and every b-side, remix, unreleased live covers and unreleased songs including those Nicky recently mentioned. It would be a completists wet dream.

[franny]

There should definitely be an early demos and bootlegs set plus the b-sides not on LT.

[BrianPowell]

It could be 4 Discs.

1. Suicide Alley - The Holy Bible

2. Everything Must Go - Know Your Enemy

3. There By The Grace Of God - Postcards From A Young Man

4. B sides, Live, Unreleased.

[franny]

disc 1 would need to be 2 parts at least

[corporatetom]

What I'd really love is a Nirvana With The Lights Out style box set of just unreleased stuff and b-sides/rarities. I never quite understand the point of a boxset that includes album tracks, like the Clash's On Broadway. The kind of people that are going to shell out for a boxset like that are going to have the albums already! And newcomers are better served by a regular greatest hits album.

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Originally Posted by corporatetom

I never quite understand the point of a boxset that includes album tracks, like the Clash's On Broadway.

It's about telling the story of a band using their music.

[GoldAgainstTheSoul]

Originally Posted by corporatetom

I never quite understand the point of a boxset that includes album tracks, like the Clash's On Broadway. The kind of people that are going to shell out for a boxset like that are going to have the albums already!

This.

I'd much rather see a b-sides/rarities collection and then a special edition of each album ala THB and EMG sets released a few years ago. Repackaging the album tracks would be.... well, just repackaging the album tracks.

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

However Clash On Broadway has 26 non-album, b-side & unreleased tracks, so is an extremely bad example of that.

& Could thee Manics be bothered to do anything else?

[Lydia]

Originally Posted by corporatetom

What I'd really love is a Nirvana With The Lights Out style box set of just unreleased stuff and b-sides/rarities. I never quite understand the point of a boxset that includes album tracks, like the Clash's On Broadway. The kind of people that are going to shell out for a boxset like that are going to have the albums already! And newcomers are better served by a regular greatest hits album.

I bought Clash On Broadway without owning any of the albums.

[corporatetom]

Originally Posted by Lydia

I bought Clash On Broadway without owning any of the albums.

Ah, but was then when they kept having it for about £18 in HMV? At that price, why not! But it would be decades before we could get this (imaginary) Manics box for that little! And I don't want them padding out a couple of CDs of unreleased stuff with 3 extra cds of stuff I own, and using it as an excuse to charge twice as much.

[Napoleon Bonaparte]

Originally Posted by corporatetom

Ah, but was then when they kept having it for about £18 in HMV? At that price, why not! But it would be decades before we could get this (imaginary) Manics box for that little! And I don't want them padding out a couple of CDs of unreleased stuff with 3 extra cds of stuff I own, and using it as an excuse to charge twice as much.

Yeah you just keep ignoring the fact it had non-album singles on it.

[MDWill]

Originally Posted by BrianPowell

16 Step By Step

You don't think...

[counterlanguage]

They're bound to do a more comprehensive greatest hits sooner or later, especially since their commercial rating has picked up over the past couple of years. But I doubt they'll release so much unreleased stuff as they seem cagey about releasing that kind of stuff.

And personally I wouldn't be too interested in unreleased live stuff because most of it sounds shite on CD anyway.

A complete singles 2xCD and a DVD of the same, with extras like Strip It Down and a band commentary would do me fine.

[everlasting]

Yeah a set like that would be great for the Manics, doubt it'll happen though and would probably cost about £946 for such a set
I'm excited about this OCS one though