Deep Cuts Vol 1 - The Album!

[chien andalusia]

I think most people who were going to vote will have done so by now, so here are the results for Deep Cuts Vol 1 in voting order (by LP).

Condemned To Rock'n'Roll
Born To End
Methadone Pretty

Sleepflower
Yourself
Gold Against The Soul

Yes
Archives Of Pain
This Is Yesterday

No Surface All Feeling
Small Black Fowers...
Enola / Alone

Ready For Drowning
My Little Empire
Nobody Loved You

Would make a pretty damn fine album in my opinion. Imagine if it was all new material (which it could be to a casual fan)!

[Midlands_Junk]

Aye, that's nice. You might want to change the album title due to the Richey connotations though.

[allisvanity]

Originally Posted by Midlands_Junk

Aye, that's nice. You might want to change the album title due to the Richey connotations though.

Hah!

[Bathtub]

I think sense prevailled regarding Gold Against the Soul.

All round it's pretty much what I'd pick. There are some definite standout non-singles from the first 5 albums.

Maybe be interesting to see the results of KYE onwards which would be more mixed I reckon.

[MoMoney MoJunk]

Still surprised at Interiors scoring so low, and Yourself scoring so high.

Overall, a very good album though.

[Mr Richey]

I'm satisfied with this result. Just so glad I wasn't alone in choosing "Born To End" which is still my favourite track off GT

[helvissa]

How about the tracklisting - chronologically or thematic or which songs go nicely together?

[Mr Richey]

Originally Posted by helvissa

How about the tracklisting - chronologically or thematic or which songs go nicely together?

Personally, I like this kind of compilation to be in chronological order. That way you can hear the evolution of the band's sound. It's not like when we re-order albums to include b-sides from the same era...cos that's more a matter of what sounds good together. A "best of" covering several years always works better, IMO, when you can hear the changes to the sound of the band as they happened

[chien andalusia]

What I think you're going to find is that there's much less change in sound & 'attitude' between KYE & PFAYM than GT & TIMTTMY. I think you could mix most of the last 5 LP's tracks & nothing would stand out as 'odd', whereas to my mind the non-singles from GT sound out of place with later Manics.

I specifically say non-singles, as Motorcycle Emptiness, Little Baby Nothing would not seem out of place on a number of later LPs. You can often spot a Manics's 'casual' at a gig by their blank expression when confronted with Motown Junk or You Love Us. Must sound like a different band to them.

[Little Troll]

Why have all the poll threads got asterisks in the title?
Quite a good list, I think. I might make an iTunes playlist of it

[starstruck]

Originally Posted by magicalbertie

Why have all the poll threads got asterisks in the title?
Quite a good list, I think. I might make an iTunes playlist of it

i was wondering the same thing. at first glance i thought it was all a censored version of "Deep Cunts" and was wondering why that would be in the Manics section. if one is going to call them that, they would probably call them Shallow ones instead of Deep.

[Deets]

I disagree with everything except TIMT choices

[helvissa]

Is because people said you couldn't really call a Manics compilation Deep Cuts, what with erm... a certain person's penchant for cuts? to be honest, it kept reminding me of the barracks where those soldiers killed themselves....

[nocultureicons]

Originally Posted by Mr Richey

I'm satisfied with this result. Just so glad I wasn't alone in choosing "Born To End" which is still my favourite track off GT

Mine too.

[The Gutless Wonder]

Manics songs! Gotta have 'em all!