The ILM Fan-made BEST OF/ANTHOLOGY Compilation project -- POST Tracklists, Cover Art, Liner notes, editorials, spotify links and/or otherwise LEGALLY obtained streaming album lists HERE!

Let's start this shit already!

I'll start it off with my first comp, a 76 minute "Best-Of" Ween compilation. I basically put up a bunch of rad tracks, moved them around a bit and added and subtracted in certain areas and this comp flows very well IMO.

Unfortunately the Spotify playlist is a bit "special" because not all of the tracks were up there so I replaced some of them with THE STALLION volumes.

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[b]Ween - The Spleen of Ween[/p]

01. I'm Dancing In The Show Tonight
02. The Mollusk
03. Captain Fantasy
04. Zoloft
05. Dr. Rock
06. You Fucked Up
07. Bananas and Blow
08. Mister, Would You Please Help My Pony?
09. Waving My Dick In The Wind
10. Don't Get 2 Close (2 My Fantasy)
11. Pumpin' 4 the Man
12. Roses Are Free
13. Baby Bitch
14. Ocean Man
15. Freedom Of '76
16. Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)
17. Buckingham Green
18. Buenas Tardes Amigo
19. Push Th' Little Daisies
20. Mononucleosis
21. What Deaner Was Talkin' About
22. Transdermal Celebration
23. The Argus
24. She Wanted To Leave

SPOTIFY LINK: http://open.spotify.com/user/cyclades/playlist/2ihZ0ykrwb7WCSgFx8kq1q

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I'll give some people some time to post there own before I post my second, which is a Two-Disk Yo La Tengo compilation!

why don't we just post this on 77 and have mediafire links?

I'm not sure what 77 is but if you want to post links there then do it.

oooooo boy!

Okay, I'll post this one first, cuz it can probably be assembled on Spotify or whatever. I'll put up Nas when we find an an acceptable means of proliferation.

Working on it...

While You Were Sitting Home Alone At Age 13 – The Best of Pearl Jam, 1991-1996

1. “State of Love and Trust” (3:48) (from Singles soundtrack, 1992)
2. “Evenflow” (4:54) (from Ten, 1991)
3. “Rearviewmirror” (4:44) (from Vs., 1993)
4. “Alone” (3:14) (from “Go” single, 1993)
5. “Rats” (4:15) (from Vs., 1993)
6. “Dirty Frank” (5:39) (from “Evenflow” single, 1992)
7. “Satan’s Bed” (3:31) (from Vitalogy, 1994)
8. “Porch” (3:31) (from Ten, 1991)
9. “Go” (3:13) (from Vs., 1993)
10. “Hail, Hail” (3:42) (from No Code, 1996)
11. “Footsteps” (3:54) (from “Jeremy” single, 1992)
12. “Dissident” (3:35) (from Vs., 1993)
13. “Smile” (3:52) (from No Code, 1996)
14. “Not For You” (5:52) (from Vitalogy, 1994)
15. “Black” (5:44) (from Ten, 1991)
16. “Present Tense” (5:47) (from No Code, 1996)
17. “Yellow Ledbetter” (5:01) (from “Jeremy” single, 1992)
18. “Alive” (5:41) (from Ten, 1991)

Collaborative playlist for
While You Were Sitting Home Alone At Age 13 – The Best of Pearl Jam, 1991-1996:
http://open.spotify.com/user/cyclades/playlist/1CyifemvM2enjYTmVR0TLW

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Screaming Trees

Disc 01 The Psychedelic Independent Years (1985-1991)
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Disc 02 The Major Label Years (1991-1996)
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Ride
Beyond Woodstock
spotify

1. Black Nite Crash
2. Like A Daydream
3. Twisterella
4. Slave
5. Here And Now
6. Decay
7. Time Of Her Time
8. Don’t Let It Die
9. From Time To Time
10. Unfamiliar
11. Moonlight Medicine
12. Time Machine
13. Rolling Thunder
14. Leave Them All Behind
15. Dreams Burn Down
16. Grasshopper

Lovin the cavalcade of early 90's rock.

Thanks for putting that up on Spotify, Viceroy!

everyone was a teenager in the 90s so far!

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Yo La Tengo - Continual Cognition of a Singular Concept

DISK ONE:
01. Tom Courtney
02. From a Motel 6
03. The Whole of the Law
04. Sugarcube
05. Cherry Chapstick
06. Black Flowers
07. Mr. Tough
08. Bad Politics
09. Barnaby, Hardly Working
10. The Lie and How We Told It
11. My Little Corner of the World
12. Season of the Shark
13. Autumn Sweater
14. Stockholm Syndrome
15. Let's Save Tony Orlando's House
16. We're an American Band
17. Today Is The Day
18. You Can Have It All

DISK TWO:
01. Tom Courtney (From Camp Yo La Tengo)
02. Georgia Vs. Yo La Tengo
03. Night Falls on Hoboken
04. Blue Line Swinger
05. Detouring America With Horns
06. Little Eyes
07. From A Motel 6 - Remix
08. Beanbag Chair
09. Nuclear War - Version 4
10. Shaker
11. How to Make a Baby Elephant Float
12. I'm Your Puppet
13. Somebody's Baby
14. Big Day Coming
15. The Race Is On Again

DISK ONE
DISK TWO

This two disk anthology attempts to capture a certain essence of the band; perhaps it is a melancholy happiness, an anxious glee - the bipolar pulse and rhythm of the band. I hope I achieved this vague and pretentious goal.

Like A Pillow: An Anthology of My Bloody Valentine
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[Disc One]
1. Sunny Sundae Smile - (2:31) (Sunny Sundae Smile EP)
2. Paint A Rainbow - (2:19) (Sunny Sundae Smile EP)
3. She Loves You No Less - (2:34) (Ecstasy mini-LP)
4. Strawberry Wine - (2:33) (Ecstasy & Wine EP)
5. You Made Me Realise - (3:43) (You Made Me Realise EP)
6. Slow - (3:09) (You Made Me Realise EP)
7. Cigarette In Your Bed - (3:28) (You Made Me Realise EP)
8. Feed Me With Your Kiss - (3:57) (Feed Me With Your Kiss EP)
9. Emptiness Inside - (2:50) (Feed Me With Your Kiss EP)
10. Soft As Snow (But Warm Inside) - (2:21) (Isn't Anything LP)
11. Lose My Breath - (3:38) (Isn't Anything LP)
12. Sueisfine - (2:13) (Isn't Anything LP)
13. Nothing Much To Lose - (3:17) (Isn't Anything LP)

[Disc Two}
1. Glider -(3:10) (Glider EP)
2. Off Your Face - (4:15) (Glider EP)
3. Honey Power - (4:34) (Tremelo EP)
4. Swallow - (4:55) (Tremelo EP)
5. Sometimes - (5:19) (Loveless LP)
6. Soon - (6:59) (Loveless LP)
7. When You Sleep - (4:12) (Loveless LP)
8. To Here Knows When - (5:46) (Tremolo LP b/c inclusion of instrumental coda)
9. Only Shallow - (4:17) (Loveless LP)
10. Kevin Song- (3:45) (Unreleased)
11. Bilinda Song - (4:45) (Unreleased)
12. I Only Said - (5:34) (Loveless LP)

Just some quick notes as I won't be on the computer to retort against any possible tirades of any people I've pissed off:

I gave the band as much as an all encompassing collection of hits double record without
straying too far beyond what it means to be a "greatest hits" compilation in the first place - the thing one buys when they're first delving into a band, or too impatient to allow songs they're unfamiliar with possibly come to grow on them. They want what they want - they want"the best". So of course I had my own taste instilled in here, but lots of consulting with last.fm charts and general message-board chatter to make sure I wasn't going to leave anyone outraged after I posted this. Which I surely have - notice the lack of Conway (I thought I was gracious to include even one: just a sort of comparison track to what the band ultimately started as. But ultimately, MBV with Butcher is the REAL MBV).

The two unreleased tracks were put in there as sort of a "marketing bonus" for "buying this album"
if they already owned half the songs anyway. Also, they're my favorites of the unreleased stuff and I needed a pause in the quisssential Loveless, as I didn't want to make it seem like I should've just put every song from the album instead on there (it's sentences like these that validate how damn good the entirety of Loveless is). I'm dying to re-edit this and include What You Want in there, as in many a way it's just a song that epitomizes what MBV is about (the innocenct humming of flute vs the assaulting scratch of guitar) but at that point I'd have included over half of Loveless on a Greatest Hits album. Despite my previous remark that this gives the people (pun in 3..2..1) "What You Want", I more want to encourage the listener to dive further into MBV's discography than be provided with every possible thing they ever need right here. That way, with more purchases = more funds for Shields to produce that one or two new albums. Also, Only Shallow accomplishes the whole rivalry of sound a little more uniquely with what, and remains even today, one of the most foreign manipulations of guitar into what is seemingly the cries of an elephant on its death-throes, soothed again and again with Bilinda's tranquilizing vocals.

Another thing I tried to consider is just flow of the album. The bummer is that with most greatest hits compilations, people tend to skip around and just choose the songs they enjoy immediately without giving the others ones a try - hence the fact that they bought a greatest hits compilation in the first place. Conscious of that, I considered completely randomizing the playlist... but I more wanted to encouragethe newbie into discovering how much MBV has changed by systematic default. Their appreciation of the bandI think would increase ten-fold by doing so versus pairing songs like "You Made Me Realise" and "To Here Knows When" with eachother, track to track - sort of bizarre, and completely disorientating for the listener who can't figure out who the hell this band is and whether it's the same one or not. What I find is that the compilation progresses from a messy static of MBV's original inception to the dreamy, ethereal haze of what they eventually came to be. Also, I would like to note that at near age 50, Bilinda Butcher I would bed any day over the likes of Jessica Alba; and Kevin Shields is clearly God.

Also, we don't have Spotify here in the States so if our puppet nation would kindly yield to good old text-based on ilXor-for-ilXors (by the people, for the people: America roolz!!!) postings that would be nice.

Short and Sweet: The Best Dionne Warwick Songs Not on 'The Best of Dionne Warwick' Compilations

The Beginning of Loneliness (from Windows of the World)
Here I Am (Here I Am)
The Green Grass Starts to Grow (Very Dionne)
Silent Voices (Valley of the Dolls)
Window Wishing (Here I Am)
As Long as There's an Apple Tree (Valley of the Dolls)
In Between the Heartaches (Here I Am)
Long Day, Short Night (Here I Am)
Paper Maché (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
Knowing When to Leave (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)

Yes yes yes to the inclusion of "Nuclear War" on Yo La Tengo. That's hot.

Also, it's super dope to include where you guys are pulling the tracks from. I'm probably going to have to assemble some of these on my own through digging and such, and having the source titles would help immeasurably.

I was sneaky, look closer.

That is rad.

want that YLT one. I miss spotify.

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The Rolling Stones 1980-2010

CD 1
Emotional Rescue (1980)
1. Dance
2. Down In The Hole
3. All About You
4. Where The Boys Go
Tattoo You (1981)
5. Little T & A
6. Heaven
7. Slave
Undercover (1983)
8. She Was Hot
9. Too Much Blood
Dirty Work (1986)
10. One Hit (To The Body)
11. Fight
12. Had It With You
13. Sleep Tonight
14. Key To The Highway

CD 2
Steel Wheels (1989)
15. Almost Hear You Sigh
16. Slipping Away
17. Continental Drift
Voodoo Lounge (1994)
18. Sparks Will Fly
19. New Faces
20. The Worst
Bridges to Babylon (1997)
21. Saint Of Me
22. Out Of Control
23. You Don't Have To Mean It
Bigger Bang (2005)
24. Streets of Love
25. Infamy
Exile on Main Street (Rarities Edition) (2010)
26. Plundered My Soul

Sorry no Spotify access.

I started off trying to not to put anything that's already been on a compilation, but in the end restricted it even further to the post Some Girls albums since they are the most overlooked period.

And Plundered My Soul is as much a 2010 song as an Exile outtake.

^^^Totally cool idea.

also, if any one has nameless other "links" of some kind you're free to get on AIM Chatz to share them BTW, whatever you might want to link to I don't know --- lyrics txt files or something...

legacy edition, by request

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Ride
Beyond Woodstock
spotify

Black Nite Crash (single from Tarantula); Like A Daydream (debut single); Twisterella (single from Going Blank Again); Slave (b-side of 'Black Nite Crash'); Here And Now (Fall EP and US version of Nowhere); Decay (Nowhere); Time Of Her Time (Going Blank Again); Don’t Let It Die (b-side of 'Birdman'); From Time To Time (Carnival of Light); Unfamiliar (Today Forever EP); Moonlight Medicine (Carnival of Light); Time Machine (Going Blank Again); Rolling Thunder (Carnival of Light); Leave Them All Behind (single from Going Blank Again); Dreams Burn Down (Fall EP and Nowhere); Grasshopper (b-side of 'Leave Them All Behind')

sleeve note

It's funny how you live with these records, then you live without them - and then you meet up again years later and they've changed, or you've changed. The old feelings are still there, but you don't quite love them in the same way.

The first records are still lovely, but now they're all thin, like children dressed up in suits. Going Blank Again used to be a slightly failed attempt at pop, but it's blossoming into a surprisingly experimental take on same. Carnival Of Light was always lush, but now it's matured (or you've matured) it's not boring any more. Even Tarantula isn't the steaming mess it once was.

I had terrific fun putting this together. I ditched chronology and went for flow. We start at the end and move back through the tunes version of the band. They always had strong songs. But that was only part of it, they stretched and explored, and we get a bit wider and more epic as we go on.

They were always some curious version of the Stooges' kid brothers at heart, though, and that's where we start and finish. Beyond Woodstock closes on 'Grasshopper', still their finest garage moment, all eleven minutes of it. Wordless and not an ounce of fat on it, an epic you could fit in your pocket. They began with a squall and ended with a crunch, and I love them for it.

That's a bold move opening the Ride comp. with a song from their final, terrible album. But what a great song it is!

will post my doom one later after i've had a bit of shuteye, the roots in the next couple days.

xp That final album's improved since it came out and I genuinely don't think I could get through it even once. This time around it was merely 'not good'.

Al Green: Revelations
I avoided anything from the canonical greatest hits album. I sequenced the tracks according to what songs I thought sounded best next to each other. Sorry, but I don't have spotify access. And this was really, really fun. Hope everyone enjoys it. I'll post my Kinks comp later today.

Disc 1
1. I Want to Hold Your Hand [Green Is Blues 40th Anniversary Bonus Track]
2. That's The Way It Is [Full of Fire]
3. Let It Shine[Have a Good Time]
4. Be My Baby[Everything's OK]
5. Wait Here[Truth N Time]
6. Hangin' On [Al Green Explores Your Mind]
7. Stand Up[Call Me]
8. The Truth Marches On[Have a Good Time]
9. Waiting On You[Don't Look Back]
10. I Think It's For The Feeling [I'm Still In Love With You]
11. You Say It[Gets Next to You]
12. Standing In The Rain[Lay It Down]
13. Summertime [Green Is Blues]
14. All n All[The Belle Album]
15. To Sir With Love[Truth N Time]
16. In the Name of Jesus[Lord Will Make a Way]
17. Simply Beautiful [I'm Still In Love With You]
18. So You're Leaving[Let's Stay Together]
19. I'd Fly Away[Full of Fire]
20. Georgia Boy[The Belle Album]

Disc 2
1. Take Me To The River [Al Green Explores Your Mind]
2. Love Ritual [Al Green Is Love]
3. Right Now, Right Now[Gets Next to You]
4. The City [Al Green Explores Your Mind]
5. Too Many[I Can't Stop]
6. Stop and Check Myself [Back Up Train]
7. Starting All Over Again [Listen: The Rarities]
8. I'm Wild About You [Lay It Down]
9. Eli's Game [Let's Stay Together - Reissue Bonus Track]
10. Call Me [Call Me]
11. Guilty [Back Up Train]
12. How Can You Mend A Broken Heart [Let's Stay Together]
13. Loving You [The Belle Album]
14. Unchained Melody [Livin' For You]
15. Strong As Death (Sweet As Love)[The Hi Singles A's and B's]
16. Going Away [Going Away]
17. Funny How Time Slips Away [Call Me]
18. I Feel Good(Live) [Tokyo ... Live]
19. So Real To Me[Soul Survivor]

Ornette Coleman Dancing in Your Pants
If there is a place to share links let us know. I have no spotify.
Aside from including "lonely woman", which i just couldn't leave out, "trying to achieve a flow of sorts" was the priority.

1. Lonely Woman
2. Ramblin'
3. Peace Warriors
4. Doughnut
5. Video Games
6. Honeymooners
7. Times Square
8. Civiliaztion Day
9. Kathelin Gray
10. Rubber Gloves
11. Feet Music
12. Peace
13. In All Languages

One Hundred Hairs Make a Man: Sparks 1971-2008

Disc one
1.Academy Award Performance (1979)
2.Angst in my Pants (1982)
3.Here in Heaven (1974)
4.When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" (1994)
5.The Rhythm Thief (2002)
6.Rockin' Girls (1983)
7.At Home, At Work, At Play (1974)
8.When I'm With you (1980)
9.Happy Hunting Ground (1975)
10.Moon Over Kentucky (1972)
11.Metaphor (2006)
12.Something For the Girl With Everything (1974)
13.Girl From Germany (1972)
14.Lighten Up, Morrissey (2008)
15.Thank God it's Not Christmas (1974)
16.England (1975)
17.A Song That Sings Itself (1984)
18.Suburban Homeboy (2002)
19.The Number One Song in Heaven (1979)

Disc two
1.Dick Around (2006)
2.Barbecutie (1974)
3.High C (1971)
4.All you Ever Think About is Sex (1983)
5.BC (1974)
6.Instant Weight Loss (1982)
7.The Lady is Lingering (1975)
8.Waterproof (2006)
9.The Ghost of Liberace (1994)
10.Moustache (1982)
11.I Bought the Mississippi River (1976)
12.The Louvre (1972)
13.Tits (1975)
14.I can't Believe you Would Fall for all the Crap in This Song (2008)
15.The Greatest Show on Earth (1980)
16.Simple Ballet (1971)
17.My Baby's Taking me Home (2002)
18.My other Voice (1979)
19.This Town Ain't Big Enough For the Both of us (1974)

38 Tracks spread over two discs and I still had to leave off a lot of songs I really love by this band. Some of the hits are here some aren't. There are a few of their albums that aren't represented at all but I didn't want to just cover all their albums for the sake of it (A few of them are really poor) Hopefully a Spotify playlist will follow I am in the process of signing up and learning how to use it.

btw viceroy posted on the ILE Aim thread that there is an "ilxchatz" room on aim where everyone can discuss this. Rooms usually busy until americans go to bed.

btw does anyone have a blog where links to our playlist files could be shared?

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The Beatles
The Best of the Beatles
no links, just buy all their albums and make it yourself

DISC ONE
(76.04)

1. Mean Mr Mustard (1.06) (Abbey Road)
2. Glass Onion (2.17) (The Beatles)
3. Your Mother Should Know (2.29) (Magical Mystery Tour)
4. I’ve Just Seen A Face (2.04) (Help!)
5. Her Majesty (0.23) (Abbey Road)
6. Why Don’t We Do It In The Road (1.41) (The Beatles)
7. Two Of Us (3.37) (Let It Be)
8. Any Time At All (2.11) (A Hard Day’s Night)
9. I’m A Loser (2.31) (Beatles For Sale)
10. Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise) (1.19) (Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)
11. Hey Bulldog (3.15) (Yellow Submarine)
12. Bad Boy (2.20) (Past Masters volume 1)
13. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide Except Me and My Monkey (2.24) (The Beatles)
14. I Want To Tell You (2.30) (Revolver)
15. It Won’t Be Long (2.13) (With The Beatles)
16. Love You To (3.01) (Revolver)
17. Tomorrow Never Knows/Within You Without You (3.07) (Love)
18. I’m Only Sleeping (3.02) (Revolver)
19. Wild Honey Pie (1.01) (The Beatles)
20. The Inner Light (2.37) (b-side of ‘Lady Madonna’)
21. Norwegian Wood (2.05) (Rubber Soul)
22. Blackbird (2.18) (The Beatles)
23. For No One (2.01) (Revolver)
24. Golden Slumbers/Carry That Weight (3.07) (Abbey Road)
25. Martha My Dear (2.28) (The Beatles)
26. I’ll Follow The Sun (1.46) (Beatles For Sale)
27. You Know My Name (Look Up The Number) (4.24) (b-side of ‘Let It Be’)
28. Cry Baby Cry (3.11) (The Beatles)
29. Do You Want To Know A Secret (1.59) (Please Please Me)
30. Julia (2.54) (The Beatles)
31. Here, There And Everywhere (2.26) (Revolver)
32. You’re Going To Lose That Girl (2.17) (Help!)

DISC TWO
(77.25)

1. Can You Take Me Back Where I Came From? (1.56) (outtake from The Beatles, forms the first few seconds of ‘Revolution 9’)
2. Sexy Sadie (3.14) (The Beatles)
3. I Saw Her Standing There (2.57) (Please Please Me)
4. I Me Mine (1.30) (Anthology 3)
5. Happiness Is A Warm Gun (2.43) (The Beatles)
6. You Never Give Me Your Money (4.03) (Abbey Road)
7. Run For Your Life (2.18) (Rubber Soul)
8. She Said She Said (2.37) (Revolver)
9. Good Morning Good Morning (2.42) (Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)
10. Please Mr Postman (2.34) (With The Beatles)
11. Old Brown Shoe (3.20) (b-side of ‘The Ballad of John and Yoko’)
12. You’ve Got To Hide Your Love Away (2.08) (Help!)
13. Revolution 20 (10.20) (outtake from The Beatles)
14. And I Love Her (2.30) (A Hard Day’s Night)
15. Maggie Mae (0.40) (Let It Be)
16. When I’m Sixty-Four (2.37) (Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)
17. No Reply (2.15) (Beatles For Sale)
18. Till There Was You (2.14) (With The Beatles)
19. I’m Happy Just To Dance With You (1.56) (A Hard Day’s Night)
20. I Will (1.46) (The Beatles)
21. If I Needed Someone (2.23) (Rubber Soul)
22. Think For Yourself (2.19) (Rubber Soul)
23. I’m Looking Through You (2.27) (Rubber Soul)
24. Fixing A Hole (2.36) (Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band)
25. Tell Me Why (2.09) (A Hard Day’s Night)
26. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill (3.05) (The Beatles)
27. Being For The Benefit Of Mr Kite!/She’s So Heavy (3.02) (Love)
28. Long Long Long (3.04) (The Beatles)

No chronology. Nothing from the Red or Blue albums. Just the best of the best band in the world.

beatles shmeatles

I should try out this Beatles band.

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Redd Kross

Disc 01 The Indie Years
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Disc 02 The Major Years
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If anyone wants a link webmail me

MOMUS: Your Sinister Gorilla Kissogram

DISC 1: Tell me you'll be there when I've only got one eye

01. Lucky Like St. Sebastian (from Circus Maximus)
02. Closer to You (from The Poison Boyfriend)
03. Bishonen (from Tender Pervert)
04. The Hairstyle of the Devil (from Don't Stop the Night)
05. Bluestocking (from Hippopotamomus)
06. La Catrina (from The Ultraconformist)
07. Summer Holiday 1999 (from Voyager)
08. Enlightenment (from Timelord)
09. The Sadness Of Things (from The Philosophy of Momus)
10. Good Morning World (from 20 Vodka Jellies)
11. I Want You, But I Don't Need You (from Ping Pong)
12. Born to Be Adored (from The Little Red Songbook)
13. Shawn Krueger (from Stars Forever)
14. The Penis Song (from Folktronic)
15. Beowulf (I Am Deformed) (from Oskar Tennis Champion)
16. Klaxon (from Otto Spooky)
17. Nervous Heartbeat (from Ocky Milk)
18. Widow Twanky (from Joemus)

DISC 2: Night falls over the barren system...

01. Morality Is Vanity (from Monsters Of Love: Singles 1985-90)
02. Hang Low (from Ocky Milk)
03. Little Apples (from Folktronic)
04. Life of the Fields (from Otto Spooky)
05. Paolo (from 20 Vodka Jellies)
06. Zanzibar (from Ocky Milk)
07. 2PM (from Ping Pong)
08. Karin Komoto (from Stars Forever)
09. Shaftesbury Avenue (from Don't Stop the Night)
10. Ventriloquists and Dolls (from Hippopotamomus)
11. London 1888 (from 20 Vodka Jellies)
12. The Mother-in-Law (from The Ultraconformist)
13. Pierrot Lunaire (from Oskar Tennis Champion)
14. Pygmalism (from Folktronic)
15. What Will Death Be Like? (from The Poison Boyfriend)
16. Trans-Siberian Express (from Voyager)

Sorry, no Spotify. :( The first disc is a chronological, one-song-from-each-album, "greatest hits" set, with "hit" generally implying that the song has been talked about more than others or that a lot of people seem to like it. The songs on disc two are more pensive and/or dark, and tend to be my personal favorites. Not in chrono order.

to whoever webmailed me, please give me your email address so i can reply.

Great-looking Sparks comp, KP!

No Illmatic: Not Quite the Best of Nas, 1991-2000

1. Nas – “It Ain’t Hard to Tell (Acapella) (Excerpt)” (0:35) (from “It Ain’t Hard to Tell” single, 1994)
2. Nas – “Nas is Like” (3:57) (from I Am…, 1999)
3. AZ – “How Ya Livin’ (Feat. Nas)” (4:31) (from Pieces of a Man, 1998)
4. Nas – “Come Get Me” (5:31) (from Nastradamus, 1999)
5. Main Source – “Live at the Barbeque (Feat. Nas, Joe Fatal, and Akinyele)” (4:35) (from Breaking Atoms, 1991)
6. MC Serch – “Back to the Grill (Feat. Chubb Rock, Nas, and Red Hot Lover Tone)” (5:08) (from Return of the Product, 1992)
7. Nas – “Life’s a Bitch (Arsenal Mix) (Feat. AZ)” (3:31) (from “Life’s a Bitch” single, 1994)
8. Mobb Deep – “Give It Up Fast (Feat. Nas and Big Noyd)” (4:01) (from Hell on Earth, 1996)
9. Raekwon – “Verbal Intercourse (Feat. Ghostface Killah and Nas)” (3:32) (from Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, 1995)
10. Nas & Nature – “In Too Deep” (3:42) (from In Too Deep soundtrack, 1999)
11. Nas – “Watch Dem Niggas” (4:05) (from It Was Written, 1996)
12. Fat Joe – “John Blaze (Feat. Nas, Big Pun, Jadakiss, and Raekwon)” (4:33) (from Don Cartagena, 1998)
13. QB Finest – “Find Ya Wealth” (3:40) (from Nas & Ill Will Records Present: QB Finest, 2000)
14. Nasty Nas – “Nas Will Prevail” (4:57) (demo, 1991)
15. Nas – “New York State of Mind Pt. 2” (3:36) (from I Am…, 1999)
16. Nas – “Project Windows (Feat. Ron Isley)” (4:56) (from Nastradamus, 1999)
17. Nas – “If I Ruled the World (Imagine That) (Feat. Lauryn Hill)” (4:42) (from It Was Written, 1996)
18. Nas – “The World is Yours (Tip Mix)” (4:19) (from “The World is Yours” single, 1994)

One Hot Album Every Ten Years Average: The Best of Nas, 2001-2010

1. Nas – “Made You Look” (3:23) (from God’s Son, 2002)
2. Nas – “Where Are They Now” (2:45) (from Hip Hop Is Dead, 2006)
3. Busta Rhymes – “Dont Touch Me (Remix Feat. Lil Wayne, Nas, The Game, Big Daddy Kane, Spliff Starr & Reek Da Villian)” (4:56)(mp3, 2008)
4. Nas & Green Lantern – “Legendary (Mike Tyson)” (2:54) (from Nas & DJ Green Lantern: The Nigger Tape, 2008)
5. Nas – “Black Republican (Feat. Jay-Z)” (3:45) (from Hip Hop Is Dead, 2006)
6. Nas – “Black President (Feat. Johnny Polygon)” (4:29) (from Untitled, 2008)
7. Young Jeezy – “My President (Feat. Nas)” (5:30) (from The Recession, 2008)
8. Devin the Dude – “Some of ‘Em (Feat. Xzibit and Nas)” (3:15) (from Just Tryin’ Ta Live, 2002)
9. Nas/9th Wonder – “Last Real Nigga Alive” (5:09) (from God’s Stepson, 2003)
10. Nas – “Get Down” (4:04) (from God’s Son, 2002)
11. Jay-Z – “Success (Feat. Nas)” (3:30) (from American Gangster, 2007)
12. Nas – “Thief’s Theme” (2:59) (from Street’s Disciple, 2004)
13. Nas – “Purple” (3:40) (from The Lost Tapes, 2002)
14. Nas – “Rule (Feat. Amerie)” (4:32) (from Stillmatic, 2001)
15. Kanye West – “We Major (Feat. Nas and Really Doe)” (7:29) (from Late Registration, 2005)
16. Nas – “Fried Chicken (Feat. Busta Rhymes)” (2:50) (from Untitled, 2008)
17. Nas & Damian Marley – “Nah Mean” (4:07) (from Distant Relatives, 2010)
18. Nas – “Black Zombies” (4:23) (from The Lost Tapes, 2002)
19. Nas – “Just a Moment” (3:36) (from Street’s Disciple, 2004)
20. Scarface – “In Between Us (Feat. Nas)” (4:59) (from The Fix, 2002)
21. Nas – “One Mic” (4:29) (from Stillmatic, 2001)

(x-post) Amazed KP got to Sparks before Ned did! Yeah, comp looks great, and about 90% different than Rhino's official Profile comp (or the one I would make!) What a vast catalogue; though even their "really poor" albums have something I would want to include.

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The Byrds
Twenty Minutes With The Byrds
spotify

It’s No Use (2.23) (Mr Tambourine Man)
I See You (2.38) (Fifth Dimension)
Jesus Is Just Alright (2.11) (The Ballad of Easy Rider)
Why (2.58) (Fifth Dimension)
It Won’t Be Wrong (1.58) (Turn Turn Turn)
Renaissance Fair (1.52) (Younger Than Yesterday)
Eight Miles High (3.34) (Fifth Dimension)
Thoughts And Words (2.56) (Younger Than Yesterday)

Not an anthology by any means, but as nobody else claimed them ... this EP is pretty killer imo.

fuck this Spotify bullshit, as useless as the metric system.

it's like region-locked DVDs

I'm sure it will make it into the 3rd world at some point.

that's racist!

im not morrissey!

I am drunk

Magic Dirt
These Singing Lessons Are Really Starting To Fuck Me Over
An Hour of Dirt
[I'm in the US, so no Spotify, but can supply a link if need be]

Ice (3:21) - Life Was Better EP (1994)
We've got another Sonic Youth on our hands, think gullible record labels. Other versions have better sound, but lack exploding effects box ending.
My Pal (3:54) - Idiot Box (1996)
For this cover (original by Aussie band God) Magic Dirt secure entrance to heaven, no matter what one may think of the rest of their songs
I Was Cruel (6:56) - Friends In Danger (1996)
The EP version is rawer and generally better, but loses the climactic scream, hence not as good
Sparrow (3:41) - Recovery! Hits From The Back Door (1997)
The "single" from Friends of Danger, one of the best cut-outs in the history of cut-outs. Presented here in a non-album version just because
Rabbit With Fangs (2:41) - Young and Full Of The Devil (1998)
Had to pick something from this generally weak album where we take ourselves a little too seriously (and for this band, that's saying something)
Dirty Jeans (3:41) - What Are Rock Stars Doing Today (2000)
Probably would have been better if someone had written a few more lyrics, but it's still the breakthrough pop single
Supernova (2:37) - Dirty Jeans EP (Liz Phair Cover) (2000)
Not great, exactly, but handy to have for mixtapes
All My Crushes (3:55) - Tough Love (2003)
"Every jumper I fold fills with your torso" is possibly the worst lyric ever written, but the guitars still rule
Love Me (6:01) - Plastic Loveless Letter Single (2003)
Magic Dirt buy a copy of "Some Girls" or something
Isotope (2:47) - What Are Rock Stars Doing Today (2004 Bonus Disc Version)
This shorter version is way better than the long one
Takin It All Wrong (4:47) - What Are Rock Stars Doing Today (2004 Bonus Disc Version)
I shelled out like $35.00 for the UK version of "Rock Stars" which is an album I don't even like that much, but it's true that the bonus disc is gold
Johnny Loves Sarah (4:27) - I Love The Rain Single (2005)
Meh sell-out single redeemed by killer b-side
Dyin' (4:16) - Snow White (2005)
Band still can't decide whether to rock out or sell out, but this hits a nice balance
Bring Me The Head Of... (3:24) - Beast (2007)
To hell with selling out. We wanna rawk
White Boy (5:25) - Girl (2008)
Yup, that's it. Loud guitars and yelling. Took us long enough to figure out what we're good at

In contrast to my Al Green comp, my Kinks kollektion (that will be the only one, I promise)is very much a sort of updating of the major canonical compilation. I've followed John Mendelssohn's lead in omitting the huge singles aside from the undeniable Lola. The discs are very broadly divided between love songs (disc 1) and songs of social observation (disc 2), though there are songs that could fit in either or neither category on both discs. Again, the sequencing is dictated largely by what sounds good to my ear.

Time Will Tell: An Incomplete History of the Kinks, English Rock Combo, 1964-1996, in Two Volumes.

Disc 1
1. She`s Got Everything [Kinks Kronikles]
2. Lola [Lola Versus Powerman And The Money Go Round]
3. Sweet Lady Genevieve [Preservation Act 1 ]
4. Heart of Gold [State of Confusion]
5. Mr. Shoemaker's Daughter [Kinks Kronikles]
6. Fancy [Face To Face]
7. Wicked Annabella [The Village Green Preservation]
8. Holloway Jail [Muswell Hillbillies]
9. Moments [Soundtrack from the film Percy]
10. Holiday Romance [A Soap Opera]
11. Where Have All the Good Times Gone [Kink Kontroversy]
12. Susannah's Still Alive [Kinks Kronikles]
13. See My Friends [The Ultimate Collection]
14. The Way Love Used To Be [Soundtrack from the film Percy]
15. This Time Tomorrow [Lola Versus Powerman And The Money Go Round]
16. No more looking back [Schoolboys in disgrace]
17. Animal [To the Bone]
18. Scattered (Phobia)
19. Better Things [Give the People What They Want]
20. On the Outside [Sleepwalker Bonus Track]
21. Days [Kinks Kronikles]

Disc 2
1. Milk Cow Blues [Kink Kontroversy]
2. Last Of The Steam-Powered Trains [The Village Green Preservation]
3. Big Black Smoke [Kinks Kronikles]
4. I'm Not Like Everybody Else [The Ultimate Collection]
5. Time Will Tell [no official release]
6. Dead End Street [Kinks Kronikles]
7. Death Of A Clown [Something Else By The Kinks]
8. Father Christmas [Misfits Bonus Track]
9. The Million-Pound-Semi-Detached [Waterloo Sunset: The Songs of Ray Davies]
10. Shangri La [Arthur, Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire]
11. Autumn Almanac [Kinks Kronikles]
12. The video shop [Think visual]
13. Loony balloon [UK Jive]
14. Oklahoma USA [Muswell Hillbillies]
15. Full Moon [Sleepwalker]
16. Waterloo Sunset [Something Else By The Kinks]
17. Summer's Gone (Extended Edit) [Word of Mouth Bonus Track]
18. Moving Pictures [Low Budget]
19. This Is Where I Belong [Kinks Kronikles]

PG that looks amazing! I'm def going to spend this weekend trying to track down each individual track to make my own no illmatic for my ipod.

Against The Grain: Roxy Music, 1972-1982
(gatefold cover mock up in next post)

Re-Make/Re-Model 5:14 Roxy Music 1972
Virginia Plain 2:59 Single 1972
2 H.B. 4:35 Roxy Music 1972
If There Is Something 6:35 Roxy Music 1972
Pyjamarama 2:52 Single 1973
Do The Strand 4:04 For Your Pleasure 1973
In Every Dream Home 5:26 For Your Pleasure 1973
Street Life 3:29 Stranded 1973
Amazona 4:17 Stranded 1973
Serenade 2:59 Stranded 1973
A Song For Europe 5:47 Stranded 1973
Mother Of Pearl 6:53 Stranded 1973
All I Want Is You 2:54 Country Life 1974
Out Of The Blue 4:46 Country Life 1974
A Really Good Time 3:46 Country Life 1974
Love Is The Drug 4:11 Siren 1975
Both Ends Burning 5:17 Siren 1975
Just Another High 6:31 Siren 1975
Manifesto 5:29 Manifesto 1979
Angel Eyes 3:32 Manifesto 1979
Still Falls the Rain 4:14 Manifesto 1979
Oh Yeah 4:52 Flesh + Blood 1980
Same Old Scene 3:58 Flesh + Blood 1980
Lover 4:00 B-side of above 1980
More Than This 4:31 Avalon 1982
Take A Chance 4:43 Avalon 1982
Avalon 4:17 Avalon 1982
Tara 1:32 Avalon 1982

oh shoot, how do i cut and paste a jpeg from my computer into a post (I've only linked to images on websites before)...I've got a great cover to go with the above!

use www.tinypic.com

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I hope it's legible...it's a David Salle painting from 1985 called "Fooling with Your Hair". My comp title comes from the song "Manifesto" which is itself the title of a Decadent French novel about a thrill-seeking aesthete. Sorry my list is poorly formatted, and I don't think we have spotify in the US yet. Enjoy!

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DOOMSDAY – The best of the super-villain MF DOOM

DISC ONE - A pied piper holler a rhyme, a dollar and a dime/ Do his thing, ring around the white collar crime
1. A Word Of Advice
2. Raedawn (Viktor Vaughn)
3. Doomsday
4. Potholderz ft. Count Base D
5. Gazillion Ear (Doom)
6. Tick, Tick ft. MF Grimm
7. What A Niggy Know (KMD)
8. Raid ft. Medaphoar (MADVILLAIN)
9. No Snakes Alive ft. MF Grimm as Jet Jaguar and Rodan (King Geedorah)
10. Mince Meat (Danger Doom)
11. Hey!
12. Curls (Madvillain)
13. Who Me (KMD)
14. The Mic Sound Nice
15. The Gas Face by 3rd Bass (Zev Luv X)
16. Contact Blitt (KMD)
17. Supervillainz ft. Kurious, Mobonix & Slug (DOOM)
18. Lactose And Lecithin (Viktor Vaughn)

DISC 2 - Is that so!?/ The first hip-hop chat show/ Whoever talk slick get they lip popped by fatso

1. Social Distortion - Prince Po ft. MF Doom
2. Sofa King - Madlib Remix (Danger Doom)
3. Lickupon (Viktor Vaughn)
4. Gas Drawls
5. One Beer (MADVILLAIN)
6. Peachfuzz (KMD)
7. Dead Bent
8. Doper Skiller ft. Kool Keith (Viktor Vaughn)
9. ? ft. Kurious
10. Deep Fried Frenz
11. The Fine Print (King Geedorah)
12. Rhinestone Cowboy (MADVILLAIN)
13. The Mask ft. Ghostface Killah (Danger Doom)
14. Rock Co Kane Flow - De La Soul ft. MF Doom
15. Hoe Cakes
16. America's Most Blunted (MADVILLAIN)
17. A Dead Mouse (Viktor Vaughn)
18. I Hear Voices Pt. 1

It should have all been so different. In '93 DJ Subroc, producer for KMD gets hit by a car and dies. Elektra drop KMD and refuse to release one of the greatest hip-hop albums of the nineties while Zev Lov X - Subroc's brother - is in mourning because of the very controversial cover. Zev disappears, rumours circulate of him getting a drinking problem and becoming homeless. God knows what happened to the other MC in the group, Onyx the Birthstone Kid.

But Bobbito, the blessed Bobbito, noticed his absence. He tracked him down, hearing of someone performing with ladies tights over his head at open mics to cover the wounds the record industry had given him, or so he says. He gave him a place to crash, supposedly, and free creative control, as long as he got focussed again, on his small imprint Fondle 'Em. And then bam! Three singles, out of nowhere, enough money for some booze and a Russell Crowe replica Gladiator mask and Daniel Dumile is back with a vengeance. Making his own beats with samples recorded off the radio, or so the legend says, only half remembering what Subroc taught him lending itself to some very strange sounds unlike anything else out there. Rhymes in the third person because of a lost identity leading to alter egos out the wazoo. Confusion rains supreme, a supervillain wouldn't have it any other way.

After a prolific couple of years releasing countless albums in numerous personas with different collaboraters, DOOM was finally recognised as one of the best. I even read an article in HHC (r.i.p.) where Kanye spends the whole time waxing lyrical about how he wished he had the guy's talent. Black Bastards finally got a release. Madvillainy and Fishscale was a huge critical success and he was even sponsered by a tv station for an album. He defeated the system that once tore him apart. So it's unsurprising that he has gone back into the shadows, waiting for a cause to take up once again - only releasing Born Like This in the past couple years. It's a terrific record, they all are bar Viktor Vaughn II, but it is obvious the supervillain needs a hero to destroy once again.

dlp9001, your Magic Dirt mix is tight. We like different things about the band clearly, but I'm down with it anyway.

PG that looks amazing! I'm def going to spend this weekend trying to track down each individual track to make my own no illmatic for my ipod.

Thanks, man! I'm about to do the same with this here Doom set, which also looks incredible. I'm familiar with a lot of this stuff, but very excited to dig into/dig back into all of it in a new context.

You should be able to find the Nas tracks relatively easily, but let me know if you need help with any of them.

xpost to Johnny: if you can, post yours either here or to a MD thread. I'm curious!

There's not a dedicated Magic Dirt thread other than the Dean R.I.P. thread. I'll do it here if that's okay with Viceroy. Since I never ended up making a mix for this project, I'll be ghosting.

i would add summer high (best MD song imo) and super tear :)

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1. Magic Dirt - All My Crushes (3:55)
2. Magic Dirt - Redhead (4:27)
3. Magic Dirt - Sparrow (3:26)
4. Magic Dirt - Smoulder (3:44)
5. Magic Dirt - Plastic Loveless Letter (4:11)
6. Magic Dirt - Rabbit With Fangs (2:37)
7. Magic Dirt - Friends in Danger (4:45)
8. Magic Dirt - City Trash (3:36)
9. Magic Dirt - Locket (3:03)
10. Magic Dirt - Touch That Space (4:49)
11. Magic Dirt - She-Riff (Album Version) (5:06)
12. Magic Dirt - Super Tear (4:07)
13. Magic Dirt - Girlboy (3:04)
14. Magic Dirt - Feels Like a Demon (3:19)
15. Magic Dirt - Daddy (4:13)
16. Magic Dirt - Pristine Christine (4:41)
17. Magic Dirt - Sleep (4:19)
18. Magic Dirt - Tee Vee (3:01)
19. Magic Dirt - Grab Your Hair (4:41)
20. Magic Dirt - Competition Girl (3:43)
21. Magic Dirt - Heavy Business (2:15)
22. Magic Dirt - These Drugs Are Really Starting to Fuck Me Over (5:28)
23. Magic Dirt - I Love the Rain (3:55)
24. Magic Dirt - Dirty Jeans (3:41)
25. Magic Dirt - Teenage Vampire (3:45)
26. Magic Dirt - Shrinko (2:44)
27. Magic Dirt - Worry (3:58)
28. Magic Dirt - Pace it (3:26)
29. Magic Dirt - Vulcanella (4:18)
30. Magic Dirt - Amoxycillin (14:52)

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1. Magic Dirt - Now or Never (4:26)
2. Magic Dirt - Sunlight (3:58)
3. Magic Dirt - Rebel (2:07)
4. Magic Dirt - She-Riff (Single Version) (3:07)
5. Magic Dirt - Tough Love (3:09)
6. Magic Dirt - Isotope (5:30)
7. Magic Dirt - 1 Thru 5 (3:08)
8. Magic Dirt - Darling, it Hurts (4:58)
9. Magic Dirt - Sucker Love (5:31)
10. Magic Dirt - Sea (6:57)
11. Magic Dirt - Gap (3:58)
12. Magic Dirt - Love Me (6:00)
13. Magic Dirt - Too Much is Not Enough (4:09)
14. Magic Dirt - Supernova (2:36)
15. Magic Dirt - Delay (5:22)
16. Magic Dirt - Johnny Loves Sarah (4:27)
17. Magic Dirt - 9 Out of 10 (2:48)
18. Magic Dirt - Cold Kiss (3:03)
19. Magic Dirt - Poem (5:44)
20. Magic Dirt - Something to Care About (3:12)
21. Magic Dirt - Kidbug (2:57)
22. Magic Dirt - Bone Dry (4:10)
23. Magic Dirt - Sarah May (3:10)

I made those covers in 2006, quite a while before I really knew the ins and outs of Photoshop. I would WRECK that shit now.

Anyone else want the redd kross or screaming trees link? webmail me (inc your email so I can reply)

someone sent a blank webmail, please resend with your email so i can reply

Off topic, but I love David Salle--know next to nothing about Roxy Music though!

Pete, he is indeed a great artist and a very nice guy--scary smart...check out Roxy!

I'll post the Jefferson Airplane tomorrow night and the Shoes over the weekend. Carry on as best you can until then.

Fucking shit I haven't even started on my Cure and Prince tracklists (though I have a bunch of jumbled ideas in my head, so won't take toooo long). And that MF Doom tracklist looks incredible and fantastic.

love the Yo La Tengo list!

It Begins With A Blessing, It Ends With A Curse - A Kevin Ayers Retrospective.

Spotify: http://tinyurl.com/kevinayers

Disc 1: Soft Machine and the Harvest Years.

1. Love Makes Sweet Music
2. Feelin', Reelin', Squealin'
3. Joy Of A Toy
4. Why Are We Sleeping?
5. Soon Soon Soon
6. Song For Insane Times
7. Town Feeling
8. Jolie Madame
9. Gemini Child
10. Red Green And You Blue
11. May I?
12. Whatevershebringswesing
13. Stranger In Blue Suede Shoes
14. Song From The Bottom Of A Well
15. Decadence
16. Hymn
17. Oh! Wot A Dream
18. Shouting In A Bucket Blues
19. Take Me To Tahiti

Disc 2: Island, Halsall and Beyond.

1. See You Later
2. Didn't Feel Lonely 'Til I Thought Of You
3. Everybody's Sometime And Some People's All The Time Blues
4. The Confessions Of Doctor Dream: Irreversible Neural Damage
5. The Confessions Of Doctor Dream: Invitation
6. Observations
7. Diminished But Not Finished
8. Farewell Again (Another Dawn)
9. Star
10. Yes I Do
11. Blue
12. Ballad Of A Salesman Who Sold Himself
13. A View From The Mountain
14. Blaming It All On Love
15. Where Do The Stars End?
16. Am I Really Marcel?
17. I Don't Depend On You
18. Baby Come Home
19. Walk On Water
20. Beware Of The Dog

Although they're chronologically ordered, I've sequenced the tracks into some semblance of a logical flow; difficult for such an eclectic artist, but I thought it would be interesting to even out the track-to-track stylistic bumps and jolts that characterise most of his albums.

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"Do What You Like If You Want You Could Ask Us - The Brian Jonestown Massacre"

1. Evergreen (original Bomp 7")
2. When Jokers Attack
3. That Girl Suicide
4. Servo
5. Here It Comes
6. Anenome
7. Whoever You Are
8. Super-Sonic
9. If Love Is The Drug Then I Want To OD
10. Not If You Were The Last Dandy On Earth
11. Wisdom ("Methodrone" version)
12. When I Was Yesterday
13. Thoughts Of You
14. Going To Hell
15. Vacuum Boots
16. (David Bowie I Love You) Since I Was Six
17. Sailor
18. Love
19. Yeah Yeah
20. Hide And Seek (Tangible 7" version)

That Roxy Music compilation is spot on, nice work iago g.

Nice job on MBV upthread. Would add 'Instrumental B' myself at end of Disc One, but otherwise tick VG.

I <3 MAGMA

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disc 1
1. Mekanïk Destruktïw Kommandöh [Mekanïk Kommandöh; 1972] — 38:46
2. Hhaï [Live/Hhaï; 1975] - 9:20
3. Köhntark (Part One) [Live/Hhai; 1975] — 15:45
4. Köhntark (Part Two) [Live/Hhai; 1975] — 16:14

disc 2
1. De Futura [Üdü Wüdü; 1976] — 18:00
2. Theusz Hamtaahk [Retrospektiw I-II; 1981] — 36:05
3. Offering - Offering, pt. 1/Earth [Offering I-II; 1986] - 18:26
4. Offering - Cosmos [A Fïïèh; 1993] - 5:20

Notes: The version of MDK here is from the 1972 Mekanik Kommandoh LP, which is mroe stripped down than the 1973 version (I like it better). Sucked that I couldn't include anything off Wurdah Itah or Attahk (I blame "De Futura", which made it on general popularity, not because I think it's "core" Magma). I also put on three Offering tracks (the first two segue into each other), as they really do carry on the zeuhl story in a new way, and contain some of the prettiest music Vander wrote.

Gone for the epics there I see

(By the way, if that Kevin Ayers selection of mike t-diva doesn't put a smile on your face, you're dead)

Herman, is Redd Kross as flat-out fucking incredible as Kris Kross?

(If not, why bother?)

They were the Russian version of Kriss Kross. In other words, their backwards pants wore them.

how many are checking out the comps?

kerr will i like yr two? what do they sound like?

I dont see why not. I'm surprised you've never heard them tbh. Youtube them first?

the 1st discs are rawer than the 2nd ones as you would expect. Redd Kross moved from punk to bubblegum pop.
screaming trees moved from more psychedelic rock to a slightly harder rocking sound.

Screaming Trees are pretty much golden all the way through, from the psych-rock of the SST years all the way to Dust, their awesome final album.

i wonder if stevie chick will agree with my tracklisting

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Modest Mouse - Travelling, Swallowing Dramamine

[DISC ONE]

01. Worms VS Birds
02. Classy Plastic Lumber
03. Dukes Up
04. Never Ending Math Equation
05. Dirty Fingernails
06. Baby Blue Sedan
07. Whenever You Breathe Out, I Breathe In (Positive/Negative)
08. Karma's Payment
09. Dramamine
10. Breakthrough
11. Dog Paddle
12. Tundra/Desert
13. Ohio
14. Exit Does Not Exist
15. Teeth Like God's Shoeshine
16. Heart Cooks Brain
17. Doin' The Cockroach
18. Out Of Gas
19. Styrofoam Boots/It's All Nice On Ice, Alright

[DISC TWO]

01. 3rd Planet
02. Gravity Rides Everything
03. Dark Center Of The Universe
04. Paper Thin Walls
05. I Came As A Rat
06. What people Are Made Of
07. Willful Suspension Of Disbelief
08. So Much Beauty In Dirt
09. Float On
10. Ocean Breathes Salty
11. Bukowski
12. The View
13. Satin In A Coffin
14. One Chance
15. Dashboard
16. Florida
17. Parting Of The Sensory
18. Missed The Boat
19. Satellite Skin
20. Perpetual Motion Machine

Mine probably won't get finished until Monday or so, but I can tell you it is shaping up very nicely. Spotify is likely a no-go for most of this stuff, but I will have a look and see how much I can put together. If there's at least some I'll make a playlist out of those and anyone who likes it can go seek out the rest themselves.

Funnily enough, the only one of these that I know enough to judge from the tracklist alone is the Momus one, and it's pretty awesome. Will have a listen to others later.

First of mine (apologies, I lack cover-making skills...):

Ice-Cream-Eating Motherfucker: A Fugazi Anthology

1. Margin Walker (2:30) (Margin Walker EP)
2. Reclamation (3:21) (Steady Diet Of Nothing LP)
3. Public Witness Program (2:04) (In On The Kill Taker LP)
4. Closed Captioned (4:53) (End Hits LP)
5. Bad Mouth (2:36) (Waiting Room EP)
6. Sieve-Fisted Find (3:24) (Repeater LP)
7. Furniture (3:36) (Furniture EP)
8. Full Disclosure (3:53) (The Argument LP)
9. Long Distance Runner (4:16) (Red Medicine LP)
10. Sweet And Low (3:36) (In On The Kill Taker LP)
11. Waiting Room (2:55) (Waiting Room EP)
12. Merchandise (2:59) (Repeater LP)
13. Argument (4:28) (The Argument LP)
14. Break (2:12) (End Hits LP)
15. Recap Modotti (3:51) (End Hits LP)
16. Bed For The Scraping (2:50) (Red Medicine LP)
17. Great Cop (1:52) (In On The Kill Taker LP)
18. Trio's (2:16) (Instrument Soundtrack LP)
19. Repeater (3:01) (Repeater LP)
20. Epic Problem (4:00) (The Argument LP)

I recreated the MBV and Beatles sets... only ones I already had all the songs for already. Also spent most my emusic credits on Momus tracks. He totally unfamiliar to me but I liked what I heard when I sampled a few tracks. But haven't given it proper listen yet. Nas and MF Doom will be next... I'm about halfway there for each of them.

I'm going to put mine up on the web somewhere too. No Illmatic today, and the 2nd Nas disc and Pearl Jam at some point TBD. Web mail me with your email address if you'd like the links.

Kleenex Girl Wonder/Graham Smith: Let the records stay six deep on the shelf

[Disc 1]
01. Response and Responsibility (from the Ain't Going Anywhere Soon EP)
02. The Art of Heroin (from the Gay Gigolo EP)
03. I'm Pregnant (from After Mathematics)
04. Right into the Arms of the Queen (from the Amos House Collection, Vol. 2 comp)
05. The Nearest Future(from Ponyoak)
06. Withholding Hands (from Smith)
07. The Bostonians (from Graham Smith is the Coolest Person Alive)
08. Tendency Right Foot Forward (from Ponyoak)
09. Put It on the Desk (from Graham Smith is the Coolest Person Alive)
10. Graham Smith is the Strongest Man Alive (from Ponyoak)
11. Julie & Barbara (from Graham Smith is the Coolest Person Alive)
12. Autumn Sonata (from Smith)
13. Five Minutes (from Graham Smith is the Coolest Person Alive)
14. Ark of Godiva (from Ponyoak)
15. Data for the Turtle in the Maze (from Graham Smith is the Coolest Person Alive)
16. The Sound of Paul (from Ponyoak)
17. My, You Look Ravishing Tonight! (from the Why I Write Such Good Songs EP)
19. What Is Your Posture? (from Graham Smith is the Coolest Person Alive)
20. Power Bird (from Ponyoak)

[Disc 2]
01. 2 Guitars (from Final Battle)
02. Has Anybody Ever Told You That You Look Like Dennis Spaag? (from November Brain)
03. Telempathy Training Seminar Saturday (from Mrs. Equitone)
04. Thessaloniki (from Accept the Mystery)
05. Man at His Saddest (from Mrs. Equitone)
06. No Nippon Ichi (Darkberk Vatiation) (from CMYK3: Yellow)
07. HEARTLE$$ (from Mrs. Equitone)
08. My Little Red Eyes (from November Brain)
09. Long Time No Sleep (from Yes Boss)
10. Cathedral Ceilingz (Album Version) (from Yes Boss)
11. The Passion (from Accept the Mystery)
12. Nights in White Staten (from November Brain)
13. HDTV (from Final Battle)
14. Stuyvesant Town (from November Brain)
15. Beast OS (from Yes Boss)
16. Girl, Don't Have an Embolism (from Yes Boss)
17. Take the Day Off of Work Day (from November Brain)
18. The South Street Seaport, the Song (from November Brain)
19. Carried Away (from Yes Boss)
20. Master I (from Final Battle)

Disc 1 is all stuff from before he dropped the KGW moniker, which he's since brought back for certain releases. But Final Battle was the first album released under his real name, so Disc 2 starts there. Most songs can be listened to/obtained at http://kgw.me. Though if anyone wants a link to this or the Momus comp, WebMail me and I can whip something up.

Knowledge and Overstanding: The Best of Roots Manuva from Nineteen-Longtime

http://fluztypingzoo.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/rootsmanuva4.jpg

http://open.spotify.com/user/ejthribb/playlist/34LkqLSjPzOglkZ0W09s9X

1. Movements
2. Witness (1 Hope)
3. Let the Spirit
4. Double Drat
5. Grown Man
6. Colossal Insight
7. Soul Decay
8. A Haunting
9. A Man's Talk
10. True Skool (with Coldcut)
11. Chin High
12. Toothbrush
13. Clockwork
14. Thinking
15. Fever
16. Stone the Crows
17. All Things to All Men (with Cinematic Orchestra)
18. Dreamy Days

I can report that the Pearl Jam one hit the spot while I was cooking a rather tasty spaghetti amatriciana this evening. Thanks very much.

Ok, second of mine, decided to go only with stuff that wasn't on Björk's already-available Greatest Hits album:

Stop Acting Like Morrissey: A 'Björk's Greatest Hits' Companion

1. Sun In My Mouth (2:40) (Vespertine LP)
2. Oceania (3:25) (Medúlla LP)
3. Scatterheart (6:40) (Selmasongs LP)
4. Immature (3:06) (Homogenic LP)
5. The Anchor Song (3:32) (Debut LP)
6. Come To Me (4:56) (Debut LP)
7. My Snare (3:36) (Bachelorette single)
8. Hope (4:03) (Volta LP)
9. Storm (5:32) (Music From Matthew Barney's Drawing Restraint 9 LP)
10. Frosti (1:42) (Vespertine LP)
11. Aurora (4:39) (Vespertine LP)
12. Who Is It (3:57) (Medúlla LP)
13. Generous Palmstroke (4:25) (Hidden Place single)
14. All Neon Like (5:53) (Homogenic LP)
15. Sweet Intuition (4.44) (Army Of Me single)
16. Pneumonia (5:14) (Volta LP)
17. Desired Constellation (4:56) (Medúlla)
18. The Modern Things (4:10) (Post)

The Pearl Jam really is excellent, thanks. The more I hear them the more I think they are/were one of the great bands. Great drumming too, were they known for that?

i don't know the answer to that, but i always thought their early rhythm section [Jeff Ament (b), and Jack Irons (dr)] was the best thing PJ had going, if not one of the best in the biz

Question for Viceroy: If we post a 2 disc comp, can we just post one long list or do we have to break it up into 2 80-minute lists? The reason I ask is that I can't easily fit the songs on 2 CDs in the order I have them (ie, chronological). Do I have to rearrange them or it is ok to just post the whole thing as one list? I probably should have asked in the original thread but I notice everyone's posting CD1 and CD2 separately.

[fan gulp]

here goes

Simon (I think) got to Super Furry Animals before me (looking forward to seeing his selection), but this guy was my first musical itch and doesn't get much of a mention on radio or ILM, so I'm going to stand up for Elvis. These two disc length compilations are pretty much where I am with him these days, I hope that if anyone else listens to them they find something they know and love as well as something that surprises them.

[If anything just listen to the vocals at 1.40 after the second guitar solo in 'Hound dog' (the studio version - on vol. II): is he out of breath or has he gyrated slightly too far from the microphone when he sings "they said you was high class, well that was just a lie"? I still think it's a breath thing 30 years after first hearing it, but it's still to this day the closest corroboration in my head to seeing something in 3D.

[/fan gulp]

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Elvis Presley I: "Anyway you want me"
1. Pieces of my life [1975]
2. I'll never let you go (little darlin') [1954]
3. Men with broken hearts [live 1970]
4. Walk a mile in my shoes [live 1970]
5. Whole lotta shakin' goin' on [1970]
6. Baby let's play house [1955]
7. So close, yet so far (from paradise) [1965]
8. Anyway you want me (that's how I'll be) [1956]
9. Fame and fortune [1960]
10. A big hunk o' love [live 1972]
11. Hound dog [live 1969]
12. Loving arms [1973]
13. Is it so strange [1957]
14. (Marie's the name of) His latest flame [1961]
15. Are you lonesome tonight? [1960]
16. The fool [1970]
17. Fool [1972]
18. Hurt [1976]
19. (Now and then there's) A fool such as I [1958]
20. That's all right [1954]
21. Stranger in my own home town [1969]
22. There's always me [1961]
23. It's midnight [1973]
24. Trying to get to you [1955]
25. Your love's been a long time coming [1973]
26. Love coming down [1976]
27. Merry Christmas baby [1971]
28. Peace in the valley [1957]

Elvis Presley II - "That's how I'll be"
1. Little sister [1960]
2. My baby left me [1956]
3. Hard headed woman [1958]
4. Hound dog [1956]
5. Good rockin' tonight [1954]
6. Lawdy Miss Clawdy [1956]
7. I need your love tonight [1958]
8. All shook up [1957]
9. She's not you [1962]
10. Anything that's part of you [1961]
11. Good time Charlie's got the blues [1973]
12. Just tell her Jim said hello [1962]
13. Tomorrow is a long time [1966]
14. When my blue moon turns to gold again [1956]
15. Milkcow blues boogie [1954]
16. Blue moon [1954]
17. I was the one [1956]
18. If you talk in your sleep [1973]
19. There's a honky tonk angel (who will take me back in) [1973]
20. Reconsider baby [1960]
21. Mystery train [1955]
22. Separate ways [1972]
23. Bridge over troubled water [live 1970]
24. His hand in mine [1960]
25. Unchained melody [live 1977]
26. For the good times [1971]
27. True love travels on a gravel road [1969]
28. Can't help falling in love [live 1973]

Spotify links
I: http://open.spotify.com/user/kwimper/playlist/425zoJTN0Cs6cv9aMOkHrB
II: http://open.spotify.com/user/kwimper/playlist/0g32rk60x8xf0oc3v0IpAh

I've never heard a Modest Mouse track before, but I like "Birds VS Worms" and look forward to listening my way through more of nicky lofi's compilation.

Elvis is a brilliant idea. Someone was talking about Jacques Brel and Scott Walker on the nominations thread - elvis is kind of that: long career, fragmented catalogue, no idea where to start. This whole exercise is made for that sort of artist imo.

hold fire with the spotify links on the elvis stuff please, spotify has corrupted one of the running orders grrr

NERDY REPOST

http://assets.nydailynews.com/img/2010/01/08/alg_elvis4.jpg

[fan gulp]

here goes

Simon (I think) got to Super Furry Animals before me (looking forward to seeing his selection), but this guy was my first musical itch and doesn't get much of a mention on radio or ILM, so I'm going to stand up for Elvis. These two disc length compilations are pretty much where I am with him these days, I hope that if anyone else listens to them they find something they know and love as well as something that surprises them.

[If anything just listen to the vocals at 1.40 after the second guitar solo in 'Hound dog' (the studio version - on vol. II): is he out of breath or has he gyrated slightly too far from the microphone when he sings "they said you was high class, well that was just a lie"? I still think it's a breath thing 30 years after first hearing it, but it's still to this day the closest corroboration in my head to seeing something in 3D.

[/fan gulp]

Elvis Presley I: "Anyway you want me"
1. Pieces of my life [1975]
2. I'll never let you go (little darlin') [1954]
3. Men with broken hearts [live 1970]
4. Walk a mile in my shoes [live 1970]
5. Whole lotta shakin' goin' on [1970]
6. Baby let's play house [1955]
7. So close, yet so far (from paradise) [1965]
8. Anyway you want me (that's how I'll be) [1956]
9. Fame and fortune [1960]
10. A big hunk o' love [live 1972]
11. Hound dog [live 1969]
12. Loving arms [1973]
13. Is it so strange [1957]
14. (Marie's the name of) His latest flame [1961]
15. Are you lonesome tonight? [1960]
16. The fool [1970]
17. Fool [1972]
18. Hurt [1976]
19. (Now and then there's) A fool such as I [1958]
20. That's all right [1954]
21. Stranger in my own home town [1969]
22. There's always me [1961]
23. It's midnight [1973]
24. Trying to get to you [1955]
25. Your love's been a long time coming [1973]
26. Love coming down [1976]
27. Merry Christmas baby [1971]
28. Peace in the valley [1957]

Elvis Presley II - "That's how I'll be"
1. Little sister [1960]
2. My baby left me [1956]
3. Hard headed woman [1958]
4. Hound dog [1956]
5. Good rockin' tonight [1954]
6. Lawdy Miss Clawdy [1956]
7. I need your love tonight [1958]
8. All shook up [1957]
9. She's not you [1962]
10. Anything that's part of you [1961]
11. Good time Charlie's got the blues [1973]
12. Just tell her Jim said hello [1962]
13. Tomorrow is a long time [1966]
14. When my blue moon turns to gold again [1956]
15. Milkcow blues boogie [1954]
16. Blue moon [1954]
17. I was the one [1956]
18. If you talk in your sleep [1973]
19. There's a honky tonk angel (who will take me back in) [1973]
20. Reconsider baby [1960]
21. Mystery train [1955]
22. Separate ways [1972]
23. Bridge over troubled water [live 1970]
24. His hand in mine [1960]
25. Unchained melody [live 1977]
26. For the good times [1971]
27. True love travels on a gravel road [1969]
28. Can't help falling in love [live 1973]

these spotify links should now be in the correct running order (it's important)......

vol. 1 http://open.spotify.com/user/kwimper/playlist/425zoJTN0Cs6cv9aMOkHrB
vol. 2 http://open.spotify.com/user/kwimper/playlist/0g32rk60x8xf0oc3v0IpAh

all cool, uh huh huh

yes, spotify hasn't come to the Third World yet, so I'm just posting the cover art of my Afrobeat compilation

http://yfrog.com/04afrobeatj

http://yfrog.com/4oafrobeatcontraj

Someone do Sinatra

http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/3575/afrobeat.jpg

http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/8034/afrobeatcontra.jpg

Someone do Sinatra

― Ismael Klata, Thursday, September 9, 2010 9:15 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i don't know/like enough to try that, but i'd do glenn miller.... :-)

or buddy holly?

whatever and shin - those look terrific!

really enjoying this elvis for better or worse

ahoyhoy, there is never a time when one should ever regret or apologise for listening to elvis.

chucky d may take my card tho

he has rescinded his views.

somewhat

i wonder if chuck d is lonesome tonight

ps England. SPOTIFY DOESN'T WORK IN AMERICA. THANKS

no one chose Sin Ropas but I uploaded close to 80 minutes of tracks for my friend because of a forthcoming concert. Divshare

pretty sure the viceroy covered this in his invitation thread. cheers.

That Roxy Music compilation is spot on, nice work iago g.
― Kitchen Person, Thursday, September 9, 2010

Thanks! I gave it alot of thought and it's nice to hear that.

Eep! I did my third one and am not sure I have the time and mental energy left to do my official (first and second) ones. Will try.

808 State Featuring...

... Mike Doughty
1. Bond (from Don Solaris, 1996)

... James Dean Bradfield
2. Lopez (from Don Solaris, 1996)

... Louise Rhodes
3. Azura (from Don Solaris, 1996)

... Ragga
4. Mooz (from Don Solaris, 1996)

... Ian McCullough
5. Moses (from Gorgeous, 1992)

... Rachel MacFarlane and Barrington Stuart
6. 10 X 10 (from Gorgeous, 1992)

... UB40
7. One in Ten (from Gorgeous, 1992)

... Caroline Seaman
8. Europa (from Gorgeous, 1992)

... Bernard Sumner
9. Spanish Heart (from EX:EL, 1991)

... Bjork Gudmundsdottir
10. Qmart (from EX:EL, 1991)

... Bjork Gudmundsdottir
11. Ooops (from EX:EL, 1991)

... MC Tunes
12. The Only Rhyme that Bites (1989)

... MC Tunes
13. Tunes Splits The Atom (1989)

... Vanessa Daou
14. Magical Dream (from 90, 1989)

All of our songs with vocals involved singers adapting to our soundscapes rather than more traditional verse/chorus type structures.
— Graham Massey

Bonus Tracks

15. 808 State and Robert Owens, Gimme Shelter (1993)

16. Tom Jones (prod. 808 State), I Can’t Turn Around (Love Can’t)
(from The Lead and How to Swing It, JP bonus track, 1996)

All That I Can Say: The Best of Mary J. Blige

1. Real Love (1992)
2. I Love You (1994)
3. Hood Love (2009)
4. When We (2003)
5. Not Gon' Cry (1997)
6. No One Will Do (2005)
7. Work That (2007)
8. PMS (2001)
9. Sweet Thing (1992)
10. I'm Goin' Down (1994)
11. Tonight (2009)
12. Roses (2007)
13. Be Without You (2005)
14. All That I Can Say (1999)
15. Reminisce (1992)
16. Share My World (1997)
17. Be Happy (1994)

Paul In SC the only thing i would add to that 808 comp is '606' ft. Simon Lord tho that's much later than anything else there

will post St Et. one at the weekend - started over-thinking the artwork...

xp

Actually, that's more of a memoir title. How 'bout:

You Figure It Out: The Best of Mary J. Blige

blueski -- Good catch! I stopped following them after the late 90s. I meant to browse Output Transmission in particular -- but didn't follow through.

I'll toss in Lemonsoul (with Elbow's Guy Garvey) too. To be honest, I don't know timings for those bonus tracks; might need to drop one or both to fit on a single CD.

808 State Featuring...

... Simian
1. 606 (from Output Transmission, 2002)

... Guy Garvey
2. Lemonsoul (from Output Transmission, 2002)

... Mike Doughty
3. Bond (from Don Solaris, 1996)

... James Dean Bradfield
4. Lopez (from Don Solaris, 1996)

... Louise Rhodes
5. Azura (from Don Solaris, 1996)

... Ragga
6. Mooz (from Don Solaris, 1996)

... Ian McCullough
7. Moses (from Gorgeous, 1992)

... Rachel MacFarlane and Barrington Stuart
8. 10 X 10 (from Gorgeous, 1992)

... UB40
9. One in Ten (from Gorgeous, 1992)

... Caroline Seaman
10. Europa (from Gorgeous, 1992)

... Bernard Sumner
11. Spanish Heart (from EX:EL, 1991)

... Bjork Gudmundsdottir
12. Qmart (from EX:EL, 1991)

... Bjork Gudmundsdottir
13. Ooops (from EX:EL, 1991)

... MC Tunes
14. The Only Rhyme that Bites (1989)

... MC Tunes
15. Tunes Splits The Atom (1989)

... Vanessa Daou
16. Magical Dream (from 90, 1989)

All of our songs with vocals involved singers adapting to our soundscapes rather than more traditional verse/chorus type structures.
— Graham Massey

Bonus Tracks

17. 808 State and Robert Owens, Gimme Shelter (1993)

18. Tom Jones (prod. 808 State), I Can’t Turn Around (Love Can’t)
(from The Lead and How to Swing It, JP bonus track, 1996)

http://phildellio.tripod.com/cover.jpg

I’m Gonna Lose My Way and You’ll Lose Yours: The Jefferson Airplane 1965-1974

1. “Free Advice,” Great Society (7-inch, 1966)
2. “Runnin’ ‘Round This World,” Jefferson Airplane (7-inch, 1966)
3. “Blues from an Airplane,” Jefferson Airplane (Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, 1966)
4. “Come Up the Years,” Jefferson Airplane (Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, 1966)
5. “J.P.P. McStep B. Blues,” Jefferson Airplane (Early Flight, 1966)
6. “Today,” Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, 1967)
7. “Embryonic Journey,” Jefferson Airplane (Surrealistic Pillow, 1967)
8. “The Ballad of You & Me & Pooneil,” Jefferson Airplane (After Bathing at Baxter’s, 1967)
9. “Won’t You Try,” Jefferson Airplane (After Bathing at Baxter’s, 1967)
10. “Saturday Afternoon,” Jefferson Airplane (After Bathing at Baxter’s, 1967)
11. “Martha,” Jefferson Airplane (7-inch, 1967)
12. “The House at Pooneil Corners,” Jefferson Airplane (Crown of Creation, 1968)
13. “The Other Side of This Life,” Jefferson Airplane (Bless Its Pointed Little Head, 1969)
14. “It’s No Secret,” Jefferson Airplane (Bless Its Pointed Little Head, 1969)
15. “We Can Be Together,” Jefferson Airplane (Volunteers, 1969)
16. “Mexico,” Jefferson Airplane (7-inch, 1970)
17. “Thunk,” Jefferson Airplane (Bark, 1971)
18. “When I Was a Boy I Watched the Wolves,” Paul Kanter & Grace Slick (Sunfighter, 1971)
19. “Sea Child,” Hot Tuna (Burgers, 1972)
20. “Alexander the Medium,” Jefferson Airplane (Long John Silver, 1972)
21. “Genesis,” Jorma Kaukonen (Quah, 1974)

This times out at just under 80 minutes. It’s the entirety of the Jefferson Airplane folder I keep on my hard drive, minus “Don’t Slip Away” from Takes Off (a reluctant omission) and “Third Week in the Chelsea” from Bark (a good song left off somewhat less reluctantly).

I’m not trying to be provocative or make some lame point by omitting “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love.” They’re both fantastic. The problem is that they’ve been played to death--on radio, in movies, in commercials. Classic-rock radio decided long ago that these are the only two songs that the Jefferson Airplane ever recorded. In forty years of listening to the radio, the only other thing I’ve ever heard by them is “Embryonic Journey,” exactly once. As someone who loves so much of what they did, this is very frustrating.

“Miracles” is great too, but I’d have to leave something off to make room for it, and it would also open the door to a different time. I like keeping the time frame at 1965 to 1974, from LBJ’s highwater mark to Nixon’s resignation. The cover art was a struggle. Great image, ugly text.

(I found some of the nudge-nudge, wink-wink instructions on the previous thread a little confusing. So: nudge-nudge, wink-wink, if you are interested in a physical copy of this, click on my name and follow the money.)

I've loved "We Can Be Together" ever since its use in the documentary The War at Home.

The Best of Outrageous Cherry

Disc 1
1. Georgie Don't You Know (1:50)
2. I've Never Seen Your World (2:10)
3. A Song For Someone Sometimes (2:33)
4. Trouble Girl (2:45)
5. Pale Frail Lovely One (2:32)
6. See Through Everything (4:39)
7. Eternity Changed Her Mind (4:09)
8. This Evening (2:33)
9. Forces of Evil (3:14)
10. Corruptable (2:26)
11. The Ghost And The Superstar (3:03)
12. The Song Belongs To Everyone (3:06)
13. You're A Reflection Of Infinite Chaos (4:16)
14. Don't Worry (2:48)
15. The Past Disappears Around Every Corner (2:55)
16. A Bad Movie (3:06)
17. Only Your Yesterdays (2:52)
18. Unamerican Girls (3:39)
19. Here Where The Stars Are Cracking Up (3:24)
20. 'Til I Run Out (2:13)
21. Stay Happy (2:17)
22. Why Don't We Talk About Something Else (2:19)

Disc 2
1. Solid Sound Gangster (4:22)
2. Girl You Have Magic Inside You (3:24)
3. Jayne (2:04)
4. Trust (2:49)
5. Tracy (2:57)
6. I Recognized Her (2:59)
7. Saturday Afternoon (2:48)
8. It's So Nice To Be Here (4:49)
9. Nope (2:22)
10. Fell (2:52)
11. Unless (3:05)
12. Stay Right Here For A Little While (2:46)
13. It's Been Awhile (3:07)
14. Our Love Will Change The World (3:43)
15. Feels Like Shadows (3:36)
16. If You Want Me (3:51)
17. I Wouldn't Treat My Enemies The Way You Treat Yourself (2:32)
18. New Creature (2:53)
19. The Unimportant Things (4:14)
20. Paranoid World (3:09)
21. Memory (2:19)

Features tracks from pretty much all their releases except their covers album (which is still good, but their versions aren't particularly revolutionary and I think their originals are much better)

Somewhere on the net I found another fan-made comp which mirrors my choices fairly closely which is pretty interesting I thought..

I make no secret that I consider OC to be the greatest band in the world right now. I love every song here.

Frustrated to find Operation: Doomsday not on my shelf--looking forward to putting that comp together in sequence, Nas too. Might have time in December!

Boards Of Canada - Children Have The Right To Music

1. Everything You Do Is A Balloon
2. Telephasic Workshop
3. Roygbiv
4. Aquarius
5. Kid For Today
6. Amo Bishop Roden
7. In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country
8. Ready Lets Go
9. Music Is Math
10. Sunshine Recorder
11. 1969
12. Alpha And Omega
13. Dawn Chorus
14. Peacock Tail
15. Dayvan Cowboy

Sources:
1: Hi Scores (1996)
2-4: Music Has The Right To Children (1998)
5-7: In A Beautiful Place Out In The Country (2000)
8-13: Geogaddi (2002) [Ready Lets Go is one of several very short "atmospheric" pieces that appear alongside the longer, more percussive tracks]
14-15: The Campfire Headphase (2005)

Gone for the epics there I see

gone for the best stuff! Compilations w/bands like Magma are weird, because any of their best work does the job of demonstrating what is great about Magma. Yet, two discs of their best stuff seems both redundant and woefully inadequate. see also: Stereolab, Free Design, Can, Cardiacs

if you order now, the bonus disc is:

1. "La" Dawotsin
2. Mekanik Machine
3. The Last Seven Minutes
4. Spiritual
5. the entirety of Wurdah Itah
6. Soleil d'Ork

Stereolab - please suspend final judgment in this case until some point tomorrow.

ooops, sorry! :)

I might have to make that Beatles Greatest Hits album Ismael Klata. I've never really listened to every Beatles song. I would play my parents old vinyl records a long time ago. I don't remember much besides the regular hits. Also I should give The Byrds a whirl. I'll have to make that EP of yours. I'm not familiar with much of The Byrds to be honest.

My second mix is on hold until I listen to an assload of music over and over. I have around 275 songs to choose from but I'm enjoying being choosy with them

Spirits That Aren't Distilled - a For Against compilation

Disc 1
1. Svengali (2:45)
2. Breathless (3:24)
3. So Long (4:38)
4. Aftertaste (3:43)
5. Medication (5:30)
6. Why Are You So Angry? (4:49)
7. Fate (4:02)
8. Loud And Clear (4:36)
9. Shadow (4:03)
10. Specificity (5:04)
11. Quiet Please (6:09)
12. Fuel (4:48)
13. Don't Do Me Any Favors (4:06)
14. Coalesced (6:59)
15. Underestimate (3:24)

Disc 2
1. Nightmare Life (4:22)
2. Lilacs (4:16)
3. Sabres (3:26)
4. Antidote (5:19)
5. Shelflife (6:25)
6. Sameness (5:03)
7. Shine (4:06)
8. Mirage (3:11)
9. They Said (4:13)
10. Outside A Heart (3:34)
11. Spirit Lake (4:17)
12. Tagalong (4:31)
13. Glamour (6:13)
14. I Wish (3:21)
15. Of A Time (7:35)

I've tried to cover each of their albums equally but 6/7ths of Coalesced is on here for no reason other than it is the greatest dreampop album ever released.

The compilation closer is one of the most devastating tracks i've ever heard and i can't listen to it sober.

If anyone actually wants to hear this or the OC comp hit me up via ilxmail

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Louis Philippe
Fires Rise

1. When Will You Be Back (by the Border Boys) (Tribute EP: 1983)
2. On Our Last Day Together (by the Arcadians) (Mad Mad World: 1985)
3. The Orchard (Appointment with Venus: 1986)
4. What If a Day ("Anthony Bay" b-side: 1987)
5. You Mary You (él single, 1987)
6. Smash Hit Wonder (Ivory Tower: 1987)
7. Endless September (Yuri Gagarin: 1989)
8. Telephone Box (Edward Barton cover)(Edward Not Edward compilation: 1989)
9. The Metempsychosis Song (Rainfall: 1991)
10. I Just Wasn't Made for These Times (Beach Boys cover) (Rainfall: 1991)
11. Vicky Page (Jean Renoir: 1992)
12. Lazy English Sun (Sunshine: 1994)
13. Wichi-Tai-To (Jim Pepper cover)(Delta Kiss: 1994)
14. She Means Everything to Me (Jackie Girl: 1996)
15. You'll Never Catch the Sun (Azure: 1998)
16. Fires Rise and Die (9th & 13th: 2002)
17. I Knew It All Along (The Wonder of It All: 2004)
18. Lights Were Dancing on the Ceiling (An Unknown Spring: 2007)
19. An Unknown Spring (An Unknown Spring: 2007)
20. Lazy Thunderstorms (Blueboy cover)(Country Music: Songs for Keith Girdler compilation: 2008)
21. You're Welcome (Beach Boys cover) (4-08-2008)

It's strictly chronological because I couldn't be bothered to sequence it any other way.

I considered doing a second disc of other artists' tracks that Louis Philippe either wrote or produced, but it's just too daunting a task for me at the moment. Seek out the Siesta Records compilations Algebra Spaghetti and Simultaneous Ice Cream (both of which he produced) if you're into '90s revivalist sunshine pop.

fyi:

• The Border Boys track also appears on the compilation Crépuscule for Café Après-midi 2, and the Arcadians' only album was reissued as Let's Pretend in the '90s. they're the same band by two different names.

• "Telephone Box" also appears on the best-of collection Claret.

• An earlier version of "Fires Rise and Die" appears on the album Appointment With Venus, but it's not as good because it has an awkward trumpet solo in the middle, and it doesn't have Louis's daughter reciting a passage from a French translation of a Jonathan Coe novel, hard-panned from left to right and back again until the fadeout (no really, this is a good thing).

"You're Welcome" (possibly from a radio session?) seems to only exist on slsk. I think I hear Louis amidst the harmonies, but maybe that's just confirmation bias. It could be the fuckin Wondermints for all I know.

:)

oh yeah, "You Mary You" and "What If a Day" are also on Claret.

Pete - I'd get a hold of OD before the inevitable day comes when someone notices it has an unpaid sample from the B3atl3s and it disappears forever. :)

1. "La" Dawotsin
2. Mekanik Machine
3. The Last Seven Minutes
4. Spiritual
5. the entirety of Wurdah Itah
6. Soleil d'Ork

"Spiritual" = awesome

The Pearl Jam really is excellent, thanks. The more I hear them the more I think they are/were one of the great bands. Great drumming too, were they known for that?

Not really. And it's actually three different dudes--a guy named Matt Chamberlain for the Ten-era stuff, then Dave Abbruzzese
for Vs. and Vitalogy, and he was replaced by Jack Irons from some incarnation of the Red Hot Chili Peppers for No Code. Then Soundgarden's Matt Cameron took over, and he's still with them. The rest of the original Pearl Jam line-up has always been the same.

More importantly, I'm stoked that you enjoyed the compilation!

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Groovy Times - The Clash

Disc 1
Janie Jones
White Riot
I Fought The Law
Hate and War
Career Opportunities
(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
Complete Control
Safe European Home
English Civil War
Stay Free
Groovy Times
The Prisoner
Pressure Drop
City Of The Dead
Bankrobber
London Calling
Hateful
Spanish Bombs
Lost In The Supermarket
The Guns Of Brixton
Death Or Glory
The Card Cheat
Four Horsemen
I'm Not Down
Train In Vain

Disc 2
The Magnificent Seven
Junco Partner
Something About England
Somebody Got Murdered
One More Time
Up In Heaven (Not Only Here)
Washington Bullets
Broadway
Charlie Don't Surf
The Street Parade
Version City
Car Jamming
Should I Stay Or Should I Go?
Rock The Casbah
Straight To Hell
Police On My Back (live)
Tommy Gun (live)
Clampdown (live)
This Is England

The idea here was to showcase their versatility and songwriting prowess. There's a lot of Sandinista and Black Market Clash because those records contain some of their best and most under appreciated work.

If you want to hear this, email me at tcbe✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧

uh, that's tcbeing at gee male dot com

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ENJOY ALL NELS CLINE
1. Spiders (Kidsmoke) (11:17) | Wilco - Kicking Television
2. Square King (5:23) | Nels Cline Singers - The Giant Pin
3. Chi Cacoan (6:26) | Destroy All Nels Cline
4. Cause For Concern (4:23) | Nels Cline Singers – Instrumentals
5. Blues, Too (3:13) | Nels Cline Singers – The Giant Pin
6. Lowered Boom (6:36) | Nels Cline Singers – Instrumentals
7. Bright Moon (11:01) | Nels Cline Singers – The Giant Pin
8. Jupiter (12:03) | w. Gregg Bendian – Interstellar Space Revisited
9. Circular (1:31) | w. Mark Dresser, Billy Mintz and Zeena Parkins – The Inkling
10. Finish Yr Self* | w. Thurston Moore – In-Store (*begins about 36 minutes into the set and lasts for about 10.)

Put together as an ideal mix for let's say someone who is a fan of Sonic Youth and likes what he's done as a member of Wilco.

Revenge of The Mekons

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(no spotify available from Canada)

Disk 1: songs available on "Heaven and Hell: The Very Best of the Mekons"
Memphis Egypt (Rock and Roll)
Millionaire (I Heart Mekons)
Curse (Curse of the Mekons)
Insignificance (Retreat From Memphis)
Empire Of The Senseless (Rock and Roll)
The Olde Trip To Jerusalem (Out Of Our Heads)
Big Zombie (Edge of the World)
Last Dance (Fear and Whiskey)
Ghosts Of American Astronauts (So Good It Hurts)
(Sometimes I Feel Like)Fletcher Christian (So Good It Hurts)
Neglect (Journey to the End of the Night)
Johnny Miner (So Good It Hurts)
The Building (The Mekons Story)
Where Were You (single)
Never Been In A Riot (single)

Disk 2: Apparently these songs are not of the very best
Club Mekon (Rock 'n' Roll)
Blow Your Tuneless Trumpet (Rock 'n' Roll)
Wicked Midnight (I Heart Mekons)
Now We Have the Bomb (United)
Point of No Return (I Heart Mekons)
Flitcraft (Fear and Whiskey)
Beaten and Broken (New York)
All I Want (I Heart Mekons)
Chop that Child in Half (Original Sin)
I Love Apple (I Heart Mekons)
You Wear It Well (I Have been to Heaven and Back)
Hole in the Ground (Honky Tonkin')
If They Hang You (Honky Tonkin')
Shanty (Edge of the World)
Please Don't Let Me Love You (Honky Tonkin')
Wild and Blue (Curse of the Mekons)
Revenge (New York)
Makes No Difference (FUN '90)
100% Song (Curse of the Mekons)
Vengeance (So Good It Hurts)

Ah, another Mekons fan whose interest ends in the early 90s...

yeah, guilty, mostly. there's a couple of later songs on there, from OOOH!, Journey to the End of the Night, etc.

So far, I am really impressed with the amount of work and the level of care that has gone into these. Hopefully I will get around to actually assembling/downloading/listening to some of the playlists over the weekend, & also posting my own Stereolab & Luna comps, which will likely happen on Monday at this point.

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With Every Word I Say: The Shoes 1976-1997

1. “Alone but Satisfied,” Shoes (Bazooka, 1976)
2. “The Atlantic,” Shoes (Bazooka, 1976)
3. “Like I Told You,” Shoes (Bazooka, 1976)
4. “Boys Don’t Lie,” Shoes (Black Vinyl Shoes, 1977)
5. “Do You Wanna Get Lucky,” Shoes (Black Vinyl Shoes, 1977)
6. “Not Me,” Shoes (Black Vinyl Shoes, 1977)
7. “Capital Gain,” Shoes (Black Vinyl Shoes, 1977)
8. “Nowhere So Fast,” Shoes (Black Vinyl Shoes, 1977)
9. “Tomorrow Night,” Shoes (Present Tense, 1979)
10. “Too Late,” Shoes (Present Tense, 1979)
11. “Now and Then,” Shoes (Present Tense, 1979)
12. “Yes or No,” Shoes (Tongue Twister, 1981)
13. “Curiosity,” Shoes (Boomerang, 1982)
14. “Running Wild,” Shoes (Silhouette, 1984)
15. “I’ll Follow You,” Shoes (Stolen Wishes, 1989)
16. “Love Does,” Shoes (Stolen Wishes, 1989)
17. “I Can’t Go Wrong,” Shoes (Stolen Wishes, 1989)
18. “Never Ending,” Shoes (Propeller, 1994)
19. “It Happens All the Time,” Jeff Murphy (Cantilever, 1997)

Not for everyone; for me, a kind of singular and, except for their first couple of LPs, anachronistic genius within shouting distance of Phil Spector and Brian Wilson. (Calling on Thus Sang Freud for some back-up.)

The total time is about 60 minutes, not 80; like the old Pye compilations, Golden Hour of the Shoes. I’m sure I could push it to 80, but I’d have to take out some vinyl and start combing over the early-’80s albums, and I’m far too lazy. I’ll stick with the songs I used to put on mix-tapes. My familiarity with the later LPs and Jeff Murphy’s solo record is much newer, so I’m more confident of those picks. Many people make do with Black Vinyl Shoes. I think you’re missing a lot if you stop there.

(Same offer as with the Jefferson Airplane compilation above: click on my handle and take it from there.)

very good early choices clemenza, will have to email for the late 80s and 90s tracks. "Tomorrow Night" is probably my favorite for that amazing bridge.

Here we go:

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Slippidy-Slam Ba-Boom-Bam-Bam Gainsbourg!

I - The not-yet-a-blatant-perv years
L'eau a la bouche (L'Eau À La Bouche OST, 1960)
L'alcool (Du Chant À La Une!, 1958)
La nuit d'Octobre (No. 2, 1959)
La Javanaise (Bonnie and Clyde, 1968)
La chanson de Prévert (L'Étonnant Serge Gainsbourg, 1961)
Elaeudanla Téïtéïa (Confidentiel, 1963)
Pauvre Lola (Gainsbourg Percussions, 1964)
Quand mon 6,35 me fait des yeux doux (Gainsbourg Percussions, 1964)

II - Les années érotiques
Bonnie and Clyde (Bonnie and Clyde, 1968)
Initials B.B. (Initials B.B., 1968)
Docteur Jekyll et Monsieur Hyde (Bonnie and Clyde, 1968)
Sensuelle et sans suite (Vu de L'Extérieur, 1973)
L'anamour (Jane Birkin - Serge Gainsbourg, 1969)
La décadanse (Sex Shop soundtrack, 1971)
Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais (Vu de L'Extérieur, 1973)

III - Psyche Rock
Un poison violent, c'est ca l'amour (Anna OST, 1967)
Melody (Histoire de Melody Nelson, 1971)
La Horse (La Horse OST, 1969)
La chanson de Slogan (Slogan OST, 1969)
Cannabis (Cannabis soundtrack, 1970)
L'homme a tête de chou (L'Homme À Tête De Chou, 1976)
Requiem pour un con (Le Pacha OST, 1968)
Nazi rock (Rock Around the Bunker, 1975)

IV - Drunk French guy meets Sly and Robbie Uptown
Les locataires (Aux Armes et Caetera, 1979)
Bad news from the stars (Mauvaises Nouvelles des Etoiles, 1981)

Three of the tracks (the ones with YouTube links) aren't on Spotify, so I've subbed in some bonus/consolation tracks:

Ballade de Melody Nelson (Histoire de Melody Nelson, 1971)
Variations sur Marilou (L'Homme À Tête De Chou, 1976)
You're under arrest (You're Under Arrest, 1987)

SPOTIFY LINK

BTW, love the title of the Fugazi best-of.

Busy Signal, Born and Grow: The Best of 2006-2010

1. Nah Guh Jail Again (single version)
2. Born and Grow (from Step Out)
3. Tic Toc (from Loaded)
4. My Money (Money Tree) (from D.O.B.)
5. Murderer (from Loaded)
6. Picante (from D.O.B.)
7. Da Style Deh (from Strictly The Best Vol. 41)
8. These Are the Days (from Loaded)
9. One More Night (from D.O.B.)
10. Up in Her Belly (single)
11. Trading Places (Nylon Riddim) (from Greensleeves One Drop Rhythm #1: Nylon)
12. The Result (from Stand Firm)
13. Love Me Not? (from Step Out)
14. Cool Baby (from Loaded)
15. Unknown Number (from Loaded)
16. Sweet Love (Nightshift) (from D.O.B.)

Some good watching in there! I made this for a friend recently, leaving off some of his big hits (for taste), and just added "Unknown Number," which I guess breaks the no-consecutive-songs-from-the-same-album rule, but I think it works. "Sweet Love" and "One More Night" link the same video, which combines those songs in a video that brings me back to my year as a security guard in New Orleans.

Two things that baffle me about this thread:

1. Pete Scholtes knows next to nothing about Roxy Music (wha??? how on earth is that even possible??).

2. whatever thinks Elvis "doesn't get much of a mention on radio (wha???) or ILM (wha????)."

I know "More Than This" from the dawn of MTV.

No Spotify here in Canadaland either, but where possible I've linked to all kinds of YouTubes goodness. No real rationale, other than that the songs sound awesome in this order. To me, Low are a domestic apocalypse, the sound of things disintegrating on a tiny personal level, as if your toaster started crying inconsolably one sun-drenched morning and didn't know how to stop. Oh, and I also wanted to showcase their ability to cover other artists in ways that might surprise casual listeners, so spot the Neil Young, Journey, Beatles, Smiths and Bee Gees songs, etc.

A Low Collection

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Disc One - Maybe You're Right

1. I Started a Joke 4:28 (A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities)
2. Breaker 2:32 (Daytrotter Session)
3. Pissing 5:09 (The Great Destroyer)
4. Dinosaur Act 4:13 (Things We Lost In The Fire)
5. When You Walked 3:55 (A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities)
6. Two-Step 5:49 (Secret Name)
7. Laser Beam 2:55 (Things We Lost In The Fire)
8. Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me 3:59 (A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities)
9. The Plan 3:38 (The Curtain Hits The Cast)
10. Will the Night 2:23 (Secret Name) (Apologies, but the current date made this particular video seem apt in a way I'd not normally countenance.)
11. Sunflower 4:39 (Things We Lost In The Fire)
12. Stars Gone Out 4:24 (The Curtain Hits The Cast)
13. Dragonfly 3:45 (Drums And Guns)
14. Silver Rider 5:04 (The Great Destroyer)
15. Time is the Diamond 5:30 (Trust) (Difficult to believe I can't find anything online as it's one of the all-time great Low songs, one I'm surprised David Lynch didn't utilize.)
16. Do You Know How To Waltz? 14:36 (The Curtain Hits The Cast)

Total 76:52

Disc Two - Someone To Do Your Dirty Work

1. Bright 1:45 (A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities)
2. Jack Smith 1:26 (Transmission EP)
3. (That's How You Sing) Amazing Grace 7:16 (Trust)
4. In Metal 4:20 (Things We Lost In The Fire)
5. Open Arms 4:02 (A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities)
6. In the Drugs 4:25 (Trust)
7. Joan of Arc 3:22 (A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities)
8. Old Man Song (A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities)
9. Medicine Magazines 4:34 (Things We Lost In The Fire)
10. Long Long Long 3:51 (A Lifetime Of Temporary Relief: 10 Years of B-Sides & Rarities)
11. Whore 4:24 (Things We Lost In The Fire)
12. Below and Above 2:32 (Long Division)
13. Little Argument with Myself 3:05 (Trust)
14. Violent Past 3:38 (Drums And Guns) (okay, "Freebird", initally.)
15. Point of Disgust 3:26 (Trust)
16. Weight of Water 4:22 (Secret Name)
17. Closer 5:06 (Things We Lost In The Fire)
18. Down by the River 9:38 (In The Fishtank) - w/ Dirty Three
19. Murderer 3:43 (Drums And Guns)

Total 78:33

^ That is very fine work.

Agreed, that's an excellent Low comp.

CAN DO NO WRONG -CAN 1969-1974 (an introduction)

1.Father cannot yell(monster movie 69)7:02
2.pinch(ege bamyasi 72)9:30
3.oh yeah(tago mago 71)7:24
4.Tango whiskeyman(soundtracks 70)4:03
5.Spoon(ege bamyasi)3:04
6.Come sta,la luna(Soon over Babaluma 74)5:43
7.Mother sky(soundtracks)14:28
8.paperhouse(tago mago)7:28
9.soup(ege bamyasi)10:32
10.Future days(future days 73)9:32
11.Sing swan song(egg bamyasi)4:49

is it too late to get involved in this? only just noticed it was happening, would like to claim tori amos if so

first u have to Embolden Yr Fonts iirc

The nominations thread has been locked. The ILM Fan-made "BEST OF" PROJECT -- All are welcome! Pick your band, make your own Best Of or Anthology! (DON'T POST TRACK LISTS YET PLZ)

I was late seeing this as well -- might've been tempted to take on a comp.

I think you should ignore the locking of the nominations thread but make sure your pick hasn't already been dibsied

looking forward to that Can comp. I've intermittently searched for something as arresting as the first thing I heard by them ('Oh Yeah') and thus far failed

One Minute Here and One Minute There: A Mike Patton Primer

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Disc 1:
1. From Out of Nowhere - Faith No More
2. Slowly Growing Deaf - Mr. Bungle
3. Ricochet - Faith No More
4. Mouth to Mouth - Faith No More
5. God Hates a Coward - Tomahawk
6. The Air-Conditioned Nightmare - Mr. Bungle
7. Midlife Crisis - Faith No More
8. Carousel - Mr. Bungle
9. Don't Even Trip - Peeping Tom
10. Last Cup of Sorrow - Faith No More
11. Everything's Ruined - Faith No More
12. Ma Meeshka Mow Skwoz - Mr. Bungle
13. Ashes to Ashes - Faith No More
14. A Small Victory - Faith No More
15. Ars Moriendi - Mr. Bungle
16. The Last to Know - Faith No More
17. Paths of Glory - Faith No More
18. Goodbye Sober Day - Mr. Bungle

Disc 2:
1. Sweet Charity - Mr. Bungle
2. Chemical Marriage - Mr. Bungle
3. Stripsearch - Faith No More
4. Experiment in Terror - Fantomas
5. Your Neighbourhood Spaceman - Peeping Tom
6. RetroVertigo - Mr. Bungle
7. Anger Management - Lovage
8. Violenza Domestica - Mr. Bungle
9. Star A.D. - Faith No More
10. RV - Faith No More
11. After School Special - Mr. Bungle
12. Caralho Voador - Faith No More
13. Pink Cigarette - Mr. Bungle
14. King For a Day - Faith No More
15. The Holy Filament - Mr. Bungle
16. Vanity Fair - Mr. Bungle
17. I Started a Joke - Faith No More
18. Charade - Fantomas
19. Just a Man - Faith No More

I'm considerably more pleased with disc 2.

Also disc 1 is a minute too long, but that could be rectified by editing out the stupid sample from the end of Slowly Growing Deaf.

one Fantomas song, no Kaada/Patton, nothing off Mondo Cane, nothing off the Dillinger EP, nothing off Lovage, no Hemophiliac.

Love you chap, but back to the drawing board, homie.

ha, that's way snarkier than i should be at 10:30 on a Saturday, so I'll give you props for the three song closer of Disc 2

His discog is so vast I thought it would be more productive to concentrate on the Patton albums I've loved for many years. Feel free to compile a third disc!

In fact I'd like you to.

Needs some Adult Themes for Voice. Not much, just a little.

Sorry Whiney, that came off a little passive aggressive. Not trying to throw down a gauntlet or anything, I would be genuinely interested to see what you'd come with. Can't get my head round Adult Themes I'm afraid. Maybe I was the wrong man for the job.

Still think my selection is two discs of great songs though.

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One Dog Goes One Way and the Other Goes the Other:
Music from the Films of Martin Scorsese

CD-1

1. Excerpt: Goodfellas (1990)
2. “Be My Baby,” Ronettes (1964 – Mean Streets)
3. “El Watusi,” Ray Barretto (1963 – Who’s That Knocking at My Door)
4. “All The Way from Memphis,” Mott the Hoople (1973 – Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore)
5. Excerpt: Raging Bull (1980)
6. “Rang Tang Ding Dong (I Am the Japanese Sandman),” Cellos (1957 – Bringing Out the Dead)
7. “What Is Life,” George Harrison (1970 – Goodfellas)
8. “I’ve Had It,” Bell Notes (1959 – Who’s That Knocking at My Door)
9. “Janie Jones,” Clash (1977 – Bringing Out the Dead)
10. Excerpt: Casino (1995)
11. “Pledging My Love,” Johnny Ace (1955 – Mean Streets)
12. “Jeepster,” T. Rex (1971 – Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore)
13. “Mickey’s Monkey,” Miracles (1963 – Mean Streets)
14. “Helpless,” Neil Young (1978 – The Last Waltz)
15. Excerpt: Taxi Driver (1976)
16. “Pretend You Don’t See Her,” Jerry Vale (1957 – Goodfellas)
17. “Werewolves of London,” Warren Zevon (1978 – The Color of Money)
18. “Rubber Biscuit,” Chips (1956 – Mean Streets)
19. Excerpt: Raging Bull (1980)
20. “Chelsea Morning,” Joni Mitchell (1969 – After Hours)
21. “Love Is Strange,” Mickey & Sylvia (1957 – Casino)
22. “I Ain’t Superstitious,” Jeff Beck Group (1968 – Casino)
23. “Tell Me,” Rolling Stones (1964 – Mean Streets)
24. “The Shoop Shoop Song (It’s in His Kiss),” Betty Everett (1964 – Mean Streets)
25. “Like a Rolling Stone,” Bob Dylan (1965 – Life Lessons)
26. “Is That All There Is,” Peggy Lee (1969 – After Hours)

CD-2

1. Excerpt: Raging Bull (1980)
2. “Remember (Walkin’ in the Sand),” Shangri-Las (1964 – Goodfellas)
3. “Combination of the Two,” Big Brother & the Holding Company (1968 – Bringing Out the Dead)
4. “Bells of St. Mary’s,” Drifters (1954 – Goodfellas)
5. “Shotgun,” Jr. Walker & the All Stars (1965 – Who’s That Knocking at My Door)
6. Excerpt: Goodfellas (1990)
7. “Then He Kissed Me,” Crystals (1963 – Goodfellas)
8. “Atlantis,” Donovan (1969 – Goodfellas)
9. “Life Is But a Dream,” Harptones (1954 – Goodfellas)
10. “Pay to Cum,” Bad Brains (1982 – After Hours)
11. Excerpt: Casino (1995)
12. “Speedo,” Cadillacs (1955 – Goodfellas)
13. “Late for the Sky,” Jackson Browne (1974 – Taxi Driver)
14. “Look in My Eyes,” Chantels (1961 – Goodfellas)
15. Excerpt: Raging Bull (1980)
16. “Lonely Nights,” Hearts (1955 – Raging Bull)
17. “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” Rolling Stones (1968 – Mean Streets)
18. “Come Rain or Come Shine,” Ray Charles (1960 – The King of Comedy)
19. “You Can’t Put Your Arms Around a Memory,” Johnny Thunders (1978 – Bringing Out the Dead)
20. Excerpt: Goodfellas (1990)
21. “Sunshine of Your Love,” Cream (1967 – Goodfellas)
22. “We Belong Together,” Robert & Johnny (1958 – After Hours)
23. “Time Fades Away,” Neil Young (1973 – American Boy)
24. “Beyond the Sea,” Bobby Darin (1959 – Goodfellas)
25. “My Way,” Sid Vicious (1979 – Goodfellas)
26. “I Met Him on a Sunday,” Shirelles (1958 – Mean Streets)
27. Excerpt: Goodfellas (1990)

I hope I haven’t committed some major breach of etiquette by posting for the third time. I double-checked the other thread just to make sure no one had the same idea.

I’ve made this compilation for at least six friends, and used it as a fundraising giveaway on my radio show a few years ago. It’s heavy on Goodfellas and Mean Streets, of course, but most every film up to Bringing Out the Dead is represented. I just realized now, when checking some dates, that there’s a glitch; “Like a Rolling Stone” from Life Lessons is actually the Before the Flood version with the Band. That would mess up the timing, though, so I’ll leave things as is. The excerpts are little snippets of dialogue I scatter throughout: “Go fuck your mother,” “Your mother sucks big fat elephant dicks,” that kind of thing. If you were to eliminate them, each disc would run about 78 minutes.

I haven’t seen Shutter Island (and, if all goes well, never will), so I don’t know if that would yield anything worth adding. No Direction Home came out after I first put this together, but—as with The Last Waltz (where I cheat once)—it seems not quite right to use that anyway.

Shouldn't 'Gimme Shelter' be on there at least a couple of times?

"Gimme Shelter"'s The Departed, right? That's another one that came out after I first put this together. You could probably swap that for "Jeepster," which truthfully I don't remember from Alice.

Great idea. Pretty sure "Gimme Shelter" is in Goodfellas too, along with "Monkey Man".

Monkey Man's in Goodfellas, but I think Gimme Shelter is not--it might be in Casino?

no Harry Nilsson, but still cool...

really want to try out that Can comp; also like the Pearl Jam, not so sure about the Jefferson Airplane (no Rejoyce? no Hey Fredrick?)

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my bad

'Gimme Shelter' is in The Departed and at least one other of his films, possibly more... I remember him joking somewhere that Shine A Light'd look kind of stupid if the Stones didn't play it (I can't remember if they took him up on it or not)

I never considered either "Monkey Man" (which I kind of hate) or "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" (which I love for the first two-sevenths, then hate) for a second. I'm pretty sure I have, though, made a variation of this that substitued Nilsson's "Without You" for something. I definitely have "Without You" in my Scorsese folder.

Neil Young - Best of the Rest

I initially intended to omit songs included on his Greatest Hits but that still left out too many contenders so I omitted songs on his 3-LP Decade compilation as well. If you are totally unfamiliar with NY's music I would suggest starting with those two. The songs are listed in order of release with a couple of exceptions to maintain the original sequence. Young is so prolific - releasing on average an album a year for most of his career - that it's difficult to assemble an anthology without someone asking why this or that song wasn't included. I've tried to select songs that represent the different phases of his career although some albums are passed over entirely for lack of space.

Disc 1
1. Flying On The Ground Is Wrong
2. Here We Are In The Years
3. Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere
4. Tell Me Why
5. Out On The Weekend
6. Revolution Blues
7. On The Beach
8. World On A String
9. Mellow My Mind
10. Don't Cry No Tears
11. Barstool Blues
12. Look Out For My Love
13. Thrasher
14. Pocahontas
15. Powderfinger
16. Little Wing
17. Shots
18. Computer Age
19. Don't Take Your Love Away From Me

Disc 2
1. Wonderin'
2. Hippie Dream
3. Feel Your Love
4. Don't Cry
5. Someday
6. No More
7. Mansion On The Hill
8. From Hank To Hendrix
9. Philadelphia
10. I'm The Ocean
11. Throw Your Hatred Down
12. Razor Love
13. Ordinary People

Sources:

Disc 1
1: Live At The Riverboat (recorded in 1969, released in 2009 as part of Archives Vol. 1) [Note: Young doesn't sing the lead vocal on the original 1966 Buffalo Springfield release]
2: Neil Young (1968)
3: Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (1969)
4: Live At Massey Hall (recorded in 1971, released in 2007)
5: Harvest (1972)
6-7: On The Beach (1974)
8-9: Tonight's The Night (1975)
10-11: Zuma (1975)
12: Comes A Time (1978)
13-15: Rust Never Sleeps (1979)
16: Hawks & Doves (1980)
17: Re-Ac-Tor (1981)
18: Trans (1982)
19: Lucky Thirteen (recorded in 1983, released in 1993)

Disc 2
1: Everybody's Rockin' (1983)
2: Landing On Water (1986)
3: American Dream (1988) [Note: This song is a little-known gem from an otherwise forgettable CSNY reunion album]
4-6: Freedom (1989)
7: Ragged Glory (1990)
8: Harvest Moon (1992)
9: Philadelphia soundtrack (1994)
10-11: Mirrorball (1995)
12: Silver & Gold (2000)
13: Chrome Dreams II (2007)

man, Neil Young. What you put together, especially disc 1, works pretty much just as well as a best as his actual "best of"s. nice work!

I'd be a terrible person to put together a Neil compilation. It'd be a disc-and-a-half covering Buffalo Springfield, CSNY, and everything up to Zuma (well, "Ocean Girl"), with four or five or six songs tacked on at the end to take care of 1977-2010.

Are You Ready?
The Best of The System
75:10

You Are In My System (1982)
Sweat (1983)

The Pleasure Seekers (Extended Mix)
The Pleasure Seekers (1985)

I Wanna Make You Feel Good
X-Periment (1984)

Promises Can Break
X-Periment (1984)

Have Mercy (Extended Mix)
Rhythm and Romance (1989)

Baptize the Beat
Beat Street soundtrack (1984)

Rock n Roll Me Again (cover of the Mark Benno song)
Beverly Hills Cop soundtrack (1984)

Sonic Fire
Unreleased Unleashed (2009)

She Said Yes
Unreleased Unleashed (2009)

It's Passion (1982)
Sweat (1983)

I Wanna Be your Lover
Rhythm and Romance (1989)

Guardian Angel
Rhythm and Romance (1989)

I Can't Take Losing You
X-Periment (1984)

As God is my Witness
ESP (2000)

Don't Disturb This Groove
Don't Disturb This Groove (1987)

LOL crappy cover art

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The Evening Hanging Like A Dream - The Clientele

1 An Hour Before The Light (from A Fading Summer)
2 Reflections After Jane (from Suburban Light)
3 Never Anyone But You (from Bonfires On The Heath)
4 Retiro Park (from That Night, A Forest Grew)
5 Lamplight (from The Violet Hour)
6 Bicycles (from A Fading Summer)
7 Since K Got Over Me (from Strange Geometry)
8 My Own Face Inside The Trees (from Strange Geometry)
9 Bonfires On The Heath (from Bonfires On The Heath)
10 Saturday (from A Fading Summer)
11 Everybody's Gone (from The Violet Hour)
12 6 AM Morningside (from Suburban Light)
13 The Violet Hour (from The Violet Hour)
14 Rain (from Suburban Light)
15 Bookshop Casanova (from God Save The Clientele)
16 Here Comes The Phantom (from God Save The Clientele)
17 Share The Night (from That Night, A Forest Grew)
18 Voices In The Mall (from The Violet Hour)
19 I Had This To Say (from Suburban Light)
20 Isn't Life Strange? (from God Save The Clientele)
21 Geometry Of Lawns (from Strange Geometry)
22 (I Want You) More Than Ever (from Suburban Light)
bonus, Paper Planes (from the AV Club Undercover Project)

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Bardo Pond - A Drug Reference

Obviously, this was going to take two CDs. To avoid repeating my old Bardo POX too much, I tried to include as many tracks from non-studio albums and side projects as I could, which is a bit tricky considering that those tracks tend to be well past the 10-minute range, i.e. less apt for compilation purposes. Even so, I had to include one monster jam ("Narmada"), because, Bardo, right? I'll admit I'm not as into their looser, shambolic jams -- my favorite Bardo tends to be heavy and pummeling -- so I hope the side-project tracks add some hairier breadth.

CD1: Vision Fades Out of Sight
1. Xxvii (Bardo Pond - Chamber Music)
2. Wank (Bardo Pond - Amanita)
3. Walking Stick Man (Bardo Pond - Set & Setting)
4. JD (Bardo Pond - On the Ellipse)
5. Silver Pavilion (Bardo Pond - Peri)
6. Quiet Tristin (Bardo Pond - Cypher Documents)
7. Flux (Bardo Pond - Lapsed)
8. Tommy Gun Angel (Bardo Pond - Lapsed)
9. Narmada (Bardo Pond - Vol. IV)
10. Raise (Vapour Theories - Decant)

CD2: Folded in Pure Heart of Night
1. Sources in Cleveland (Hash Jar Tempo - Under Glass)
2. Destroying Angel (Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals)
3. Every Man (Bardo Pond - On the Ellipse)
4. Sweet Sapphire I (Bardo Pond - Vol. VI)
5. Jinn (Alasehir - Sharing the Sacred)
6. Miserable Miracle (500mg - Vertical Approach)
7. Montana Sacra II (Bardo Pond - Ticket Crystals)
8. Two Planes (Bardo Pond - Dilate)
9. In the Cells of Walken's Corti (Hash Jar Tempo - Under Glass)

THE FALL

CD 1 - I Laughed At The Great God Pan

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New Puritan (Peel Sessions/Kicker Conspiracy EP)
Gramme Friday (Grotesque (After the Gramme))
Leave the Capitol (Slates)
Hey! Luciani (7"/458489 A Sides)
Papal Visit (Room to Live)
Kurious Oranj (Peel Sessions)
Psycho Mafia (Bingo Master's Breakout 7"/Live at the Witch Trials reissue)
A Figure Walks (Dragnet)
Just Step S'Ways (Hex Enduction Hr.)
Wings (Kicker Conspiracy EP/Perverted by Language reissue)
Guest Informant (Peel Sessions)
Tempo House (Perverted by Language)
Big New Prinz (The 27 Points)
To NK Roachment: Yarbles (This Nation's Saving Grace)

CD 2 - The Fire, The Fire is Falling

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The Birmingham School of Business School (Code: Selfish)
Idiot Walkout (The 27 Points)
Blood Outta Stone (White Lightning EP/Shift-Work reissue)
Sing! Harpy (Extricate)
Hurricane Edward (Levitate)
WB (The Unutterable)
Kimble (Peel Sessions)
The Legend of Xanadu (Ruby Trax NME comp./A World Bewitched)
The Past #2 (The Real New Fall LP formerly known as Country on the Click)
Blindness (Peel Sessions)
Numb at the Lodge (Peel Sessions)
Antidotes (Peel Sessions)
Serum (The Unutterable)
Weather Report 2 (Your Future Our Clutter)

Release Notes: No release date yet for the US version, and it apparently has a slightly different track listing - I'm into CB replaces Papal Visit on cd 1, and Guest Informant is last. On cd 2 The Birmingham School of Business School is replaced by I Wake Up in the City, and Edinburgh Man replaces Antidotes.

Vinyl version of the UK version has a limited edition 7" of their cover of A Day in the Life with Medical Acceptance Gate on the b-side.

Excerpts from liner notes, written by Joe Totale:

The spectres that crept out of early Fall were urban-industrial spectres, city hobgoblins in fact, Anglicised versions of Lovecraft, with something of Machen’s seedy suburban horror and MR James’ fables of curiosity undone. The Fall replaced bell, book and candle with repetition, repetition, repetition to divine and exorcise these spectres and abominations, finding a happy meeting point between tribal incantation and the most primitive and horrible sounding rock and roll. It was a spectacularly potent incarnation of The Fall, still many people’s idea of classic Fall. Steve Hanley’s adamantine bass and Craig Scanlon’s scraping, spidery, termagent guitar combined with Smith not to create California sun, New York cool or Kraut abstactions but tense walks home through the icy drizzle, the angles of the shadows formed by council housing, decaying factories and derelict churches the perfect home for goulish beings.

They simultaneously called up and cast out, invoked, satirized and exorcised.

Despite the gloom, the overall attitude is one of glee and cold wry delight, energy and hilarity, and an immense pleasure in language, character and imagery.

POSTERITY IS SILENT, LIKE THE DEAD, AND MORE PATHETIC. (W. Lewis)

Although the recurrence of history has been part of The Fall's world from the beginning, the contrived refurbishment of the recent past for reasons of cynical gain or feeble-minded nostalgia/youth fixation has only explicitly been a theme, more correctly an obsession since 1993's Infotainment Scan. Here and in print Smith attacked the revival of '70s culture, seeing in it the apotheosis to power of the children of that generation; baseball capped bald men, selling their money to retrieve their mouldering youth from its grave. The only generation that wanted to be like its parents, said Smith. Certainly their values are not his: nostalgic, comfort-seeking, meritocratic, meretricious and devoutly materialistic, atavistic - 'forgetting the endless drive against nature' and soft-Romantic. Set against this is Smith's modernist and urban-industrial creative credo, part of the English anti-authoritairan and mystical tradition; mocking, suspicious, frame breaking, antinomian, anti-system, punk.

the spectres that appear in later Fall are airier more dangerous creatures altogether - Temperance, Reformation, Nostalgia, Youth-Fixation - that prey on society as a whole rather than the odd unfortunate.

Beauty is a rarely considered aspect of The Fall’s output; those ice-clear guitars, the determined, obstructive drums, the deep voids over which the outlandish engines of their songs fly, so sparse, cold, rich and strange, the dry instructions, the splendid descriptions. Tommy Shooter is laced with this beauty. The central riff has a melancholy ring to it, and underneath the rockabilly, subterranean sound effects clank and chime, knelling in accordance with Smith’s vision of armageddon gleaned from tabloid scraps - ‘The clouds are darkening with wings of chickens; they’re coming home to roost’. It is the prospect of a land where the continual dilution and banishment of the strong meats necessary to a proper standard of living - alcohol, cigarettes, hard work, hard words - has withered the capacity for mental fight: ‘reduce your needs to noodles, your Doberman Pinschers to poodles’. Nabokov always used to say that he knew when he was healthiest when he was able to smoke 60 cigarettes a day; our country is perilously weak.

(Editorial Notes: CD 1 and CD 2 are roughly split at the point when Brix first left the group as a convenient halfway point which nevertheless gives slightly more scope to the early years. Many people would also consider this incontrovertibly their best period. The strength of the material from their first decade demands perhaps a stronger editorial policy than has been shown. Tempo House is there for example to showcase Steve Hanley's wonderful bass playing with his brother's drumming, but where are the longer narrative epics? Spectre vs Rector? The NWRA? New Face in Hell? The last of these most people (myself included) would consider a serious omission. Wings will have to stand in for these.

Spent a long time deciding what should go first on cd 1. First was thinking about something suitably bombastic: Psykick Dancehall is too obvious, the live version of The NWRA from A Part of America Therein was a strong contender, as what was there for much of the time, Just Step S'ways. In the end went for New Puritain, after all, we're not taking any f'ing prisoners are we?'

More problematic is the complete absence of any material from The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall (particularly Lay of the Land and Stephen Song), Bend Sinister (particularly Dktr Faustus and Gross Chapel: British Grenadiers) and The Frenz Experiment (particularly Oswald Defence Lawyer, Frenz and Athlete Cured). Both are gestured towards with the inclusion of Hey! Luciani (an eyebrow raiser perhaps, but I think a great song) and Guest Informant.

To NK Roachment: Yarbles may look tokenistic from what is a very strong album (particularly awkward are the omissions of Bombast and Paintwork) but I love it, so it's there.

Just one piece of housekeeping - the version of Big New Prinz is a live one from when it was revived in 1994, but the song is from the earlier years and so I've kept it there.

Serious omissions - everything, obviously - but aside from those already mentioned: Words of Expectation, any of the C n C songs (it was a dog fight between C n C Stars on 45 and C n C Black Night, with their Deep Purple cover, C n C Stars on 45 would have won, fwiw), History of the World, Jawbone and the Air-Rifle, Repetition, Bombast, Backdrop and the session version of Twister.

CD 2 - Serious issues here are the absence of any material from Shift-Work, which although many Fall fans loathe I personally think contains some of Smith's strongest writing, particularly Edinburgh Man and You Haven't Found it Yet. I struggled all ways to find a way to shoehorn in I Wake Up in the City, which is magnificent, sloppy and fun, but in the end let Antidotes stand for the Smith's newfound incomprehensibility (although I see it is included on the US version).

The excellent live version of Lost in Music, from the 27 Points, spent a long time on the list but ended up getting pushed out by competing interests, which means there isn't anything from the attractive but in some ways lightweight The Infotainment Scan. There is also nothing from their return to form album The Light User Syndrome, which also marked the brief return of Brix Smith to the fold. Although Fall Heads Roll, Reformation and Imperial Wax Solvent all have strong material I didn't feel there was anything strong enough to warrant excluding what was eventually chosen (although Youwanna, Fall Sound, Scenario, Systematic Abuse, Alton Towers and 50-Year-Old Man all came close)

One bit of housekeeping - the album Levitate, with Hurricane Edward on, is not available on spotify, so remains a ghostly presence.

Serious omissions: I'm a Mummy, Two Librans, Inevitable, Hostile, You Pep, Bill is Dead, Paranoia Man in Cheap Sh*t Room, Service.)

Thinking about it now, the under-represenation of mid-'80s material probably needs rectifying, but hey, my work here is done.

ha, there's serious overlap with a sub-80-minute Fall playlist I made a few months ago, and that's a great write-up! will listen to 'em both though because there are a few songs I'm less well-acquainted with

shame that Hurricane Edward isn't on Spotify otherwise it'd *definitely* have been on mine - 4 1/2 Inch is adequate compensation though

everyone in the world needs to hear The Birmingham School Of Business School

Cheers, a, it was a bit of a nightmare to be honest. Too much, 'but I can't leave that off'. If it'd been less of a 'best of' slant I might have gone for some more obscure stuff (why isn't Cary Grant's Wedding on there for instance? Or the TTs version of No Xmas for John Quays? or the Acklam Spectre v Rector?) Oh well.

Oh, and also wanted to say, I don't know about my Fall one, but I'm getting some serious enjoyment from the other ones I've listened to so far (Kevin Ayers, Elvis). Hoping to get round to all of them in time.

What You Carry: a Steely Dan selection

1. King of the World
2. Hey Nineteen
3. Everyone's Gone to the Movies
4. Midnite Cruiser
5. My Old School
6. Babylon Sisters
7. Peg
8. Kid Charlemagne
9. Chain Lightning
10. Cousin Dupree
11. Barrytown
12. Don't Take Me Alive
13. Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
14. The Boston Rag
15. Doctor Wu
16. Josie

The cover (a black and white photograph) shows a battered briefcase sitting unattended on a New York City sidewalk. People are walking past, none of whose faces can be seen.

There are no liner notes.

To the Elmhurst Tanks: The Best of Fountains of Wayne

Side A
1. Radiation Vibe
2. Red Dragon Tattoo
3. Survival Car
4. This Better Be Good
5. Utopia Parkway
6. Bright Future in Sales
7. Traffic and Weather
8. A Fine Day for a Parade
9. Barbara H.

Side B
1. Sick Day
2. Baby I've Changed
3. I-95
4. Hey Julie
5. The Girl I Can't Forget
6. Fire Island
7. It Must Be Summer
8. No Better Place
9. New Routine
10. City Folk Morning

This is a C-60 cassette. There is no cover art, just the handwritten track names on the insert. There are no liner notes per se; however, folded into the box there's an LIRR timetable for the Port Jefferson Branch, with the Stony Brook station name highlighted and a scrawl that reads "I'm not missing, you know! --Damon"

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Hi-res images for printing

My compulsive and frequent listening to Saint Etienne's back catalogue over the last eighteen months is akin to having one day realised that a cool, comforting yet casual acquaintance of twenty years may in fact be the love of your life after all, subsequently revealing hidden depths and deeper emotional connections as time spent together increases.

As stated, no singles, but at least a third of the tracks here probably could've been and the selection of instrumentals, whether for the dancefloor or elsewhere, are just as crucial in demonstrating and defining the act's range of ideas and influences - perhaps wider than any other UK act of the last twenty years (and a compilation like this may make that more apparent than a singles compilation (plus there's been at least three of them already) would.

Saint Etienne - The Scenic Route

Part 1
1. Urban Clearway (3:58) from the Tiger Bay LP, 1994
2. Shower Scene (4:33) from the Finisterre LP, 2002
3. I Buy American Records (2:49) from the Hug My Soul single, 1994
4. Spring (3:43) from the Foxbase Alpha LP, 1991
5. Calico (5:13) from the So Tough LP, 1993
6. Goodnight Jack (4:38) from the Good Humor LP, 1998
7. Parliament Hill (2:35) from the Foxbase Alpha sessions, 1990 / Foxbase Alpha (Deluxe Edition), 2009
8. Where Did Our Love Go? (Demo) (2:46) from recording sessions, 1996/1997 / Continental (Deluxe Edition), 2009
9. Studio Kinda Filthy (4:57) from the Filthy promo single, 1991
10. Stoned To Say The Least (7:41) from the Foxbase Alpha LP, 1991
11. On The Shore (4:06) from the Tiger Bay LP, 1994
12. Postman (3:46) from the Good Humor LP, 1998
13. Downey, CA. (4:24) from the Sound Of Water LP, 2000
14. Fake 88 (5:02) from the Volume magazine compilation Volume #6, 1993 / I Love To Paint compilation, 1995
15. Leafhound (4:12) from the So Tough LP, 1993

Part 2
1. Everything Flows (4:42) from the So Tough sessions, 1992/1993 / So Tough (Deluxe Edition), 2009
2. Cool Kids Of Death (5:49) from the Tiger Bay LP, 1998
3. Hate Your Drug (3:47) from the Hug My Soul single, 1994
4. Archway People (3:19) from the You're In A Bad Way single, 1993
5. Johnny In The Echo Cafe (3:59) from the Avenue single, 1992
6. No Rainbows For Me (3:58) from the So Tough LP, 1994
7. Saturday (3:19) from recording sessions, 1997 / The Misadventures Of Saint Etienne, 1999 / Continental (Deluxe Edition), 2009
8. Lightning Strikes Twice (3:46) from the Tales from the Turnpike House LP, 2005
9. Red Setter (3:43) from the How We Used To Live single, 2000
10. B92 (3:23) from the Finisterre LP, 2002
11. Sometimes In Winter (4:11) from the Continental compilation, 1997
12. Snowplough (3:41) from the So Tough sessions, 1992/1993 / So Tough (Deluxe Edition), 1993)
13. Stranger In Paradise (3:27) from the So Tough sessions, 1992/1993 / So Tough (Deluxe Edition), 1993)
14. Finisterre (4:34) from the Finisterre LP, 2002
15. Like The Swallow (7:39) from the Foxbase Alpha LP, 1991

Spotify playlist

a few typos with the years there, oh well

I look forward to checking that out, see if it bucks the trend. Nearly every time I've gone near them I come away feeling underwhelmed.

Like The Swallow is one of my favs. Great closer too.

"however, folded into the box there's an LIRR timetable for the Port Jefferson Branch, with the Stony Brook station name highlighted and a scrawl that reads "I'm not missing, you know! --Damon""

I'm missing the reference. But it still reads delightfully weird. Slim and Slam - I'm watching out for that one.

And I love that someone loved The System (!) enough to unleash some unreleased tracks (!!). Delightfully unpredictable.

I had wanted to do a compilation for The System for years, since there has never been an official one. Regarding the until-recently unreleased tracks, I picked "She Said Yes" (which dates from the time of X-Periment) because of its stellar arrangement/production and "Sonic Fire" because I think it's Murphy's best-ever vocal performance.

Cliché and everything, but these are true labours of love, and some great intros to a lot of stuff I've slept on.

^^^ I can't wait to start checking these out once I've finished my Arthurian comp.

my trip coming home ended up with a fun 8 hour excursion, so no roots comp today. tomorrow most prob, tuesday at the latest.

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Silk & Amphetamine--The Best of American Music Club/Mark Eitzel

Disc 1

1. Room Above the Club (2:40) from Songs of Love: Live in London
2. Big Night (3:18) from Engine
3. Outside This Bar (3:06) from Engine
4. Nightwatchman (4:48) from Engine
5. At My Mercy (4:10) from Engine
6. Gary's Song (2:59) from Engine
7. Firefly (2:49) from California
8. Blue & Grey Shirt (3:33) from California
9. Jenny (2:38) from California
10. Western Sky (3:28) from California
11. Last Harbor (4:35) from California
12. Here They Roll Down (4:12) from United Kingdom
13. Dreamers of the Dream (3:00)
14. Kathleen (2:20) from United Kingdom
15. Why Won't You Stay (3:00) from Everclear
16. Ex-Girlfriend (2:50) from Everclear
17. Crabwalk (Acoustic) (3:35) from Rise CD Single
18. Miracle on 8th Street (4:08) from Everclear
19. Confidential Agent (4:10) from Everclear

Disc 2

1. Sick of Food (4:02) from Everclear
2. Jesus' Hands (3:02) from Everclear
3. If I Had a Hammer (3:40) from Mercury
4. I've Been a Mess (4:28) from Mercury
5. Johnny Mathis' Feet (3:43) from Mercury
6. Apology for an Accident (4:00) from Mercury
7. The Hopes & Dreams of Heaven's 10,000 Whores (4:23) from Mercury
8. What Godzilla Said to God... (3:42) from Mercury
9. The President's Test for Physical Fitness (3:51) from the Hello Amsterdam CD single
10. Fearless (4:33) from San Franscisco
11. Wish the World Away (3:11) from San Franscisco
12. No Easy Way Down (3:39) from 60 Watt Silver Lining
13. Free of Harm (3:21) from West
14. The Boy With the Hammer in a Paper Bag (5:53) from the Invisible Man
15. Ladies & Gentlemen (3:17) from Love Songs for Patriots
16. Another Morning (3:21) from Love Songs for Patriots
17. Patriot's Heart (6:01) from Love Songs for Patriots
18. Home (4:27) from Love Songs for Patriots

Squeeze Sings Trini Lopez and Nana Mouskouri: More Songs for People Who Already Own Singles: 45s and Under

Disc One
1. Back Track (Packet of 3 EP, 1977)
2. Remember What (Squeeze, 1978)
3. Bang Bang (Squeeze, 1978)
4. Revue (Cool for Cats, 1979)
5. It's Not Cricket (Cool for Cats, 1979)
6. Vicky Verky (Argybargy, 1980)
7. Separate Beds (Argybargy, 1980)
8. Someone Else's Heart (East Side Story, 1981)
9. Piccadilly (East Side Story, 1981)
10. In Quintessence (East Side Story, 1981)
11. Messed Around (East Side Story, 1981)
12. Yap Yap Yap (“Messed Around” B-Side, 1981)
13. When the Hangover Strikes (Sweets from a Stranger, 1982)
14. Points of View (Sweets from a Stranger, 1982)
15. I Can't Hold On (Sweets from a Stranger, 1982)
16. Picking Up the Pieces (Difford and Tilbrook, 1984)
17. Hope Fell Down (Difford and Tilbrook, 1984)
18. Hits of the Year (Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti, 1985)
19. I Learnt How to Pray (Cosi Fan Tutti Frutti, 1985)
20. What Have They Done (“When the Wind Blows” Soundtrack, 1986)
21. Striking Matches (Babylon and On, 1987)
22. Footprints (Babylon and On, 1987)
23. Hourglass (Babylon and On, 1987)
24. Trust Me to Open My Mouth (Babylon and On, 1987)

Disc Two
1. She Doesn't Have to Shave (Frank, 1989)
2. Rose I Said (Frank, 1989)
3. Slaughtered Gutted and Heartbroken (Frank, 1989)
4. Melody Motel (Frank, 1989)
5. Sunday Street (Play, 1991)
6. Walk a Straight Line (Play, 1991)
7. Letting Go (Play, 1991)
8. Crying in My Sleep (Play, 1991)
9. Maidstone (“Sunday Street” B-Side, 1991)
10. The Truth (Play, 1991)
11. Third Rail (Some Fantastic Place, 1993)
12. Everything in the World (Some Fantastic Place, 1993)
13. Images of Loving (Some Fantastic Place, 1993)
14. Some Fantastic Place (Some Fantastic Place, 1993)
15. Walk Away (Ridiculous, 1995)
16. Electric Trains (Ridiculous, 1995)
17. Daphne (Ridiculous, 1995)
18. Sleeping with a Friend (Domino, 1998)
19. This Road (“The Truth About Cats and Dogs” Soundtrack, 1996)

A few of the YouTube links are live versions when I couldn’t find the studio versions. “Striking Matches” is a remix. “This Road” is an early mix with some different lyrics, but it’s still the best non-LP Squeeze song ever.

As for the title, Trini Lopez and Nana Mouskouri are mentioned in the lyrics of “Piccadilly” and “Daphne” respectively.

The Dog's Frolics - The Best of the Bonzo Dog Band

1. Look at Me, I’m Wonderful (Part 1 - Dressing Room)
2. Mr. Apollo
3. Jollity Farm
4. Rockaliser Baby
5. Shirt [Song Only - Fade in at 2:27]
6. What Do You Do?
7. Narcissus
8. We Were Wrong
9. Hello Mabel
10. I Want to Be With You
11. Rhinocratic Oaths
12. Death Cab for Cutie
13. Hunting Tigers Out in “Indiah”
14. The Bride Stripped Bare by “Bachelors”
15. 11 Moustachioed Daughters
16. Look at Me, I’m Wonderful (Part 2 - On Stage)
17. The Intro and the Outro
18. Humanoid Boogie
19. I’m Bored
20. Ali Baba’s Camel
21. Cool Britannia
22. Quiet Talks and Summer Walks
23. Look Out, There’s a Monster Coming
24. We Are Normal [Song Only - Fade in at 1:25]
25. Piggy Bank Love
26. Tent
27. Trouser Press
28. Canyons of Your Mind [B-Side Version]
29. Kama Sutra
30. I’m the Urban Spaceman

No "Rise" on the American Music Club comp? That's the track that hooked me in the first place.

Something I Learned Today: The Best Of Husker Du

Disc 1:
1. Sunshine Superman (Everything Falls Apart)
2. Everything Falls Apart (Everything Falls Apart)
3. In A Free Land (Everything Falls Apart)
4. Real World (Metal Circus)
5. It's Not Funny Anymore (Metal Circus)
6. Diane (Metal Circus)
7. Something I Learned Today (Zen Arcade)
8. Never Talking To You Again (Zen Arcade)
9. Chartered Trips (Zen Arcade)
10. Pinks Turns To Blue (Zen Arcade)
11. Turn On The News (Zen Arcade)
12. Flip Your Wig (Flip Your Wig)
13. Makes No Sense At All (Flip Your Wig)
14. Hate Paper Doll (Flip Your Wig)
15. Green Eyes (Flip Your Wig)
16. Games (Flip Your Wig)

Disc 2:
1. New Day Rising (New Day Rising)
2. Girl Who Lives On Heaven Hill (New Day Rising)
3. I Apologize (New Day Rising)
4. Celebrated Summer (New Day Rising)
5. Terms Of Psychic Warfare (New Day Rising)
6. Books About UFOs (New Day Rising)
7. Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely (Candy Apple Grey)
8. Sorry Somehow (Candy Apple Grey)
9. Too Far Down (Candy Apple Grey)
10. Hardly Getting Over It (Candy Apple Grey)
11. These Important Years (Warehouse)
12. Ice Cold Ice (Warehouse)
13. Could You Be The One (Warehouse)
14. Up In The Air (Warehouse)
15. Eight Miles High (single a-side)
16. All Work And No Play (Don't Want To Know b-side)

This is the decidedly poppier side of Husker Du, my personal preference. I know there's more room on each disc but these 32 tracks capture everything that was great about the band and shows off their tremendous songwriting. Sometimes less is more.

Before They Sold Their Soul: The Best Of Simple Minds, 1979-1984.

Disc 1:
1. Someone (Life In A Day)
2. Life In A Day (Life In A Day)
3. No Cure (Life In A Day)
4. Chelsea Girl (Life In A Day)
5. Real To Real (Reel To Real)
6. Naked Eye (Reel To Real)
7. Citizen (Dance Of Youth (Reel To Real)
8. Carnival (Shelter In Suitcase) (Reel To Real)
9. Factory (Reel To Real)
10. Premonition (Reel To Real)
11. Changeling (Reel To Real)
12. Calling Your Name (Reel To Real)
13. I Travel (Empires And Dance)
14. Today I Died Again (Empires And Dance)
15. Celebrate (Empires And Dance)
16. This Fear Of Gods (Empires And Dance)
17. Twist/Run/Repulsion (Empires And Dance)
18. Thirty Frames A Second (Empires And Dance)

Disc 2:
1. Kaleidoscope (Celebration)
2. In Trance As Mission (Sons And Fascination)
3. Sweat In Bullet (Sons And Fascination)
4. 70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall (Sons And Fascination)
5. Love Song (Sons And Fascination)
6. Seeing Out The Angel (Sons And Fascination)
7. Theme For Great Cities (Sister Feelings Call)
8. The American (Sister Feelings Call)
9. 20th Century Promised Land (Sister Feelings Call)
10. Someone, Somewhere In Summertime (New Gold Dream)
11. Promised You A Miracle (New Gold Dream)
12. New Gold Dream (New Gold Dream)
13. Glittering Prize (New Gold Dream)
14. Up On The Catwalk (Sparkle In The Rain)
15. Speed Your Love To Me (Sparkle In The Rain)
16. Waterfront (Sparkle In The Rain)

Great job on Husker Du. The only three favorites that jump out at me as missing are "Newest Industry," "Divide and Conquer," and "Love Is All Around." But you've got most all of them. (I'm one of those poppy Husker Du guys.)

I like the look of your Eitzel / AMC anthology Preseident Keyes, but I would find room for "Goodbye To Love", and the Songs of Love Live take on "Nothing Can Bring Me Down" on even a one-disc best-of.

needs "sleeping beauty" from golden age also. and cape canaveral from SF. too close to that band to be subjective about a best-of I think.

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Disc 1:
1. Basscadet (Incunabula, 1993)
2. Second Bad Scepe (Anvil Vapre, 1995)
3. Dael (Tri Repetae, 1995)
4. Domnique Dalcan - Aveugle & Sourd (Autechre Mix) 1996
5. Stereolab - Refractions in the Plastic Pulse (Feebate Mix) Remixed by Autechre (1997)
6. Arch Carrier (LP5, 1997)
7. Pen Expers (Confield, 2001)
8. Gaekwad (Peel Session 2, 2001)
9. Gantz Graf (Gantz Graf, 2002)
10. V-Proc (Draft 7.30, 2003)
11. LCC (Untilted, 2005)
12. Simmm (Quaristice, 2008)

Disc 2:
1. Piezo (Amber, 1994)
2. Saint Etienne - Like A Motorway (Skin Up, You're Already Dead) (Autechre Remix) (1994)
3. Vletrmx (Garbage, 1995)
4. Keynell 4 (Keynell (Gescom), 1996)
5. Draun Quarter (Envane, 1997)
6. Cichli (Chiastic Slide, 1997)
7. Krib (Cichli Suite, 1997)
8. Pir (EP7, 1999)
9. Drane (Peel Session, 1999)
10. Os viex3 (Oversteps, 2010)

Tried to cover their whole career, no more than one pick from each release. Since they've never been given the best-of treatment I tried to avoid being too obscure or personal with the selection. Disc one mostly showcases their harder, glitchier side, disc two is more melodic/ambient. No helpful descriptive titles though, they don't seem to fit in with the aesthetic.

Disc 2 contains one Gescom track, in theory Gescom is a loose collective any one of whom could have worked on it, but I'll be damned if Keynell isn't by Autechre alone, it contains so many of their sonic signatures. Keynell 4 in particular, the one chosen here, is a masterpiece of the layering and timing of simple elements.

Youtubes are just standard fan uploads, except for Gantz Graf which has the critically acclaimed video by Alex Rutterford.

er, Autechre, btw

and should just be 'Second Scepe'

VERY nice job on the Autechre comp. Is there no more room to squeeze in something from Move of Ten? (I would pick "pce freeze 2.8i" or "Iris was a Pupil," depending on which disc had room. Although, actually, I would break the "no more than one pick from each release" rule and add TR's "Eutow" first, if I could just squeeze in one more track on disc 2.)

Tracks I didn't know before browsing through your comp: the three remixes you picked, Keynell 4. Enjoyed all four of these.

Sorry Whiney, that came off a little passive aggressive. Not trying to throw down a gauntlet or anything, I would be genuinely interested to see what you'd come with. Can't get my head round Adult Themes I'm afraid. Maybe I was the wrong man for the job.

Still think my selection is two discs of great songs though.

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i may do this when I get my CD collection out of storage!

Nice work on the Autechre anthology, ledge, although I would have probably included Montreal or Nil from Amber. I haven't heard their most recent releases so will have to check out some of the tracks in your comp.

The Simple Minds best of is one of my favourite compilations so far. I recently put on Real to Real Cacophony and fell in love with it all over again. Great stuff Gerald.

Thanks, dude. Yeah "Reel To Real" seemed over-represented with 8 tracks but, damn, they're all so good! Most people are completely unaware of anything before "New Gold Dream", I wish this comp was real. "Early Gold" is as close as it gets, and it's paltry I comparison.

My second compilation.

You Still Can't Beat Me For Rock and Roll - Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers 1971-1988

Disc 1
1. New Kind of Neighborhood (1988)
2. Ice Cream Man (1977)
3. It's You (1986)
4. She Cracked (1972)
5. Emaline (1979)
6. The Neighbors (1983)
7. Dignified & Old (1972)
8. Affection (1979)
9. The Beach (1985)
10. Somebody to Hold me (1983)
11. The New Teller (1976)
12. Just About Seventeen (1986)
13. Everything's Gotta be Right (1988)
14. I Wanna Sleep in Your Arms (1972)
15. Not Yet Three (1983)
16. Now is Better Than Before (1985)

Disc 2
1. That Summer Feeling (1983)
2. Roadrunner (1971)
3. I Must be King (1985)
4. Neon Sign (1986)
5. Abdul & Cleopatra (1979)
6. Afternoon (1977)
7. Rockin' Shoppin' Center (1976)
8. The Desert (1986)
9. Hospital (1971)
10. Chewing Gum Wrapper (1985)
11. You're the One For me (1983)
12. I Love Hot Nights (1988)
13. My Love is a Flower (Beginning to Grow) (1979)
14. Someone I Care About (1972)
15. The Morning of our Lives (Live) (1977)
16. Ancient Long Ago (1986)

xpost. Yeah I when I saw your track listing I did think that's quite a few from Real to Real but then I flicked through the album and totally got why you couldn't leave any of your choices off, it's such a great album.

The only song I would have added would have been Destiny which is my favourite song from the first album but it's a great introduction for anyone who doesn't know they were a great band to begin with. It's been stated many times but they really are one of the bands who had the biggest drop in quality going from brilliant to utter shit.

"I also want to have Casio keyboards on sail boats" - Arthur Russell

Limiting myself to one length of CD made matters difficult, given Russell's penchant (and mine) for extended jams. I feel bad about not including more Loose Joints material, "Tiger Stripes", "The Platform on the Ocean", some more from Instrumentals...But I stand by my selection, there's not a single track I don't love.

1. Dinosaur - Kiss Me Again
2. Loose Joints - Tell You (Today)
3. Dinosaur L - #5 (Go Bang)
4. Arthur Russell - In the Light of the Miracle*
5. Arthur Russell - Let's Go Swimming (Gulf Stream Dub)
6. Arthur Russell - That's Us/Wild Combination
7. Arthur Russell - Hop on Down
8. Arthur Russell - Lucky Cloud*
9. Arthur Russell - See-Through
10. Arthur Russell - She's the Star/I Take this Time
11. Arthur Russell - Instrumentals 1 Part 1
12. Arthur Russell - A Little Lost
13. Bright and Early - Love is Overtaking Me
14. Flying Hearts - What it's Like

* These are versions from Another Thought

Spotify
Because of gaps in the Spotify catalogue, the playlist has a butchered 8-minute version of "Kiss Me Again" and the Francois Kervorkian remix of "Go Bang!" rather than the version from 24 -> 24 Music.

ledge, VERY nice job on the AE comp!!

Thanks! Fwiw, a couple of my selections on disc 1 were constrained by trying to squeeze it onto one cd - would prob have preferred Second Bad Vilbel (hence the typo), and Clipper instead of Dael. But these are minor quibbles. also Gelk instead of Gaekwad might have been a more populist choice, but the latter was just too awesome imo to leave out.

MX-80 SOUND – Roadblock Of Sound (The First Decayed 1976-1986)

1.Train To Loveland (1:46) Big Hits EP, 1976
2.Myonga Von Bontee (2:58) Big Hits EP
3.Tidal Wave (3:15) Big Hits EP
4.Man On The Move (3:55) Hard Attack LP, 1977
5.You’re Not Alone (3:39) Hard Attack LP
6.Civilized/Demeyes (5:17) Hard Attack LP
7.Afterbirth/Aftermath (4:27) Hard Attack LP
8.Felonious Funk (4:37) Live at the Library LP, recorded 1977
8.Lost In My Own Neighbourhood (4:49) (unreleased; recorded live at Monroe County Public Library, 1977)
8.Lady In Pain (2:50) Subterranean Modern LP, 1979 (Various Artists)
9.Someday You’ll Be King (3:18) Out of The Tunnel LP, 1980
10. White Night (4:17) b-side of “Someday You’ll Be King” single, 1980
11. Follow That Car (3:56) Out of The Tunnel LP
12. Gary & Priscilla (4:35) Out of The Tunnel LP
13. Metro-Teens (4:57) Out of The Tunnel LP
14.Face of The Earth (3:46) Crowd Control LP, 1981
15. Why Are We Here (2:55) Crowd Control LP
16. Night Rider (4:25) Crowd Control LP
17. Monster From Japan (2:20) Existential Lover cassette, 1986
18.I Have Lived Too Long (1:54) Existential Lover cassette
19. Mommy, Jimmy and Me (2:37) Existential Lover cassette
20. Orson (1:34) Existential Lover cassette

ledge, no Lexis - "Hynpotise (AE slow mix)"? For shame. If I'd put an AE comp together, I maybe would've had some more bangers in the "Eutow" vein (like "Calbruc") as opposed to the crunchy glitchy stuff, though including "Calbruc" would've knocked out "Cichli," and I don't think anyone is that poxy fulish.

Totally agree with "Keynell 4" -- in a weird way, the rest of the tracks sound a bit too like Autechre to be actually made by Booth and Brown (i.e. more like their buddies emulating their sound) but "Keynell 4" has got enough twists and flourishes to strike me as a genuine B&B production.

Ace graphic, though. Kind of prefer that the band name doesn't appear in that post, only the graphic and the track list, just in keeping with Ae's obscurity.

thanks for the shout out regarding my MBV one, though it was way easier than one would imagine it being (that being: easy). i just included something from each EP/LP in my collection (that would be all of them) ... actually i guess i kinda fail as a "greatest hits" artist. had i done that i probably would've just stuck loveless on a cd and screwed with the order of the songs.

You'll Never Go To Heaven - The Best of Michael Hurley
1 Open Up 2:52 (armchair boogie 1971)
2 I'm Gettin' Ready To Go 3:52 (snockgrass 1980)
3 The Portland Water 3:48 (wolfways 1994)
4 It Must Be Gelatine 2:55 (ida con snock 2009)
5 Blue Driver 3:39 (hi fi snock uptown 1972)
6 Slurf Song 3:16 (have moicy 1976)
7 Nat'l Weed Grower's Assoc. 3:08 (weatherhole 1999)
8 Eyes Eyes 3:15 (wolfways)
9 Grapefruit Juice Blues 4:24 (snockgrass)
10 The Beggar's Terms 3:31 (weatherhole)
11 Hog of the Forsaken 4:34 (ida con snock)
12 You'll Never Go To Heaven 2:36 (watertower 1987)
13 Werewolf 4:31 (armchair boogie)
14 I Can't Help Myself 3:20 (ida con snock)
15 Ditty Boy Twang 3:08 (sweetkorn 2002)
16 Ducks Yas Yas 4:17 (live in vienna 1995)
17 Driving Wheel 3:43 (have moicy)
18 Ragg Mopp 2:38 (ida con snock)
19 Vanessa 2:24 (weatherhole)
20 Water Train 2:58 (hi fi snock uptown)
21 Got Over It 3:51 (sweetkorn)
22 You Gonna Look Like A Monkey 3:57 (snockgrass)
23 Lush Green Trees 3:10 (watertower)

Hurley is notable for having numerous different versions of his songs scattered across his many albums, sometimes separated by decades of time. I am very particular about which ones I prefer, hence the large chunk from the relatively recent Ida Con Snock LP. The only wild card here is the live-in-Vienna version of "Ducks Yas Yas", courtesy of tape traders.

No idea how to do Spotify, sorry. My ILX webmail works if that helps. I know emil.y was excited about my Muslimgauze picks, but I have lost the tracklist for the best-of I made once upon a time and have to start from scratch. Gimme a couple of days.

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The Way We Were Before - The Zombies

1. The Way I Feel Inside
2. She's Not There
3. Summertime
4. Tell Her No
5. Whenever You're Ready
6. Is This the Dream
7. It's Alright With Me
8. I Want You Back Again
9. This Will Be Our Year
10. Time of the Season
11. Care of Cell 44
12. How we were before

Here's a bonus comp:

Let There Be Rock: The Best Of The Drive-By Truckers

Disc 1:
1. Demonic Possession (Gangstabilly)
2. The Living Bubba (Gangstabilly)
3. Panties In Your Purse (Gangstabilly)
4. 18 Wheels Of Love (Gangstabilly)
5. Bulldozers And Dirt (Pizza Deliverance)
6. Uncle Frank (Pizza Deliverance)
7. Ronnie And Neil (Southern Rock Opera)
8. The Three Great Alabama Icons (Southern Rock Opera)
9. Zip City (Southern Rock Opera)
10. Let There Be Rock (Southern Rock Opera)
11. Women Without Whiskey (Southern Rock Opera)
12. Life In The Factory (Southern Rock Opera)
13. Shut Up And Get On The Plane (Southern Rock Opera)
14. Angels And Fuselage (Southern Rock Opera)

Disc 2:
1. Outfit (Decoration Day)
2. Sounds Better In The Song (Decoration Day)
3. Careless (Decoration Day)
4. Do It Yourself (Decoration Day)
5. The Day John Henry Died (The Dirty South)
6. Carl Perkins' Cadillac (The Dirty South)
7. Lookout Mountain (The Dirty South)
8. Gravity's Gone (A Blessing And A Curse)
9. Easy On Yourself (A Blessing And A Curse)
10. Two Daughters And A Beautiful Wife (Brighter Than Creation's Dark)
11. Daddy Needs A Drink (Brighter Than Creation's Dark)
12. Self Destructive Zones (Brighter Than Creation's Dark)
13. That Man I Shot (Brighter Than Creation's Dark)
14. A Ghost To Most (Brighter Than Creation's Dark)
15. Puttin' People On The Moon (live) (Live From Austin, TX)
16. TVA (The Fine Print)

I find that Cooley's songs jump out at me, hence a health dose from him. But I imagine this will be fairly controversial as DBT fans don't always agree on the best stuff on each album. And that's a credit to the strength of the material. I haven't had a chance to mull over the new album enough to make picks - I'd have to bump stuff from here, too, and I wouldn't want to!

I'm sorry guys, I think mine is going to take a little while longer. It's tough doing this when you have don't have a computer to work from. On the upside, I think my limited access to the mister's computer may produce a webmailable artefact. And you will want it. Oh yes.

i cant even remember who you are doing

Dagmar Krause, mofo. It will be awesome.

Stereolab
Banach-Tarski Rhubarb Moderator (with Explosions) - A Collection of Their Greatest Hits!

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Disc One: 1991-1996
01. Three-Dee Melodie - 5:03, from Mars Audiac Quintet (1994)
02. French Disko - 4:27, originally appeared on the Jenny Ondioline EP (1993)
03. New Orthophony (full version) - 6:26, initially unreleased (recorded 1994); taken from Aluminum Tunes (Switched On, vol. 3) (1998)
04. Avant Garde M.O.R. - 4:10, from The Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (1993)
05. The Way Will Be Opening - 4:10, originally appeared on the Super-Electric 10" (1991); taken from Switched On (1992)
06. Pack Yr Romantic Mind - 5:06, from Transient Random-Noise Bursts w/ Announcements (1993)
07. Pop Quiz - 3:44, originally appeared on the Music for the Amorphous Body Center soundtrack EP (1995)
08. Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (mellow) - 1:45, from The Groop Played Space Age Bachelor Pad Music (1993)
09. Golden Ball (studio) - 6:26, originally appeared on the Jenny Ondioline EP (1993)
10. Les Yper-Sound - 4:05, from Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996)
11. Crest - 6:05, from Transient Random-Noise Bursts w/ Announcements (1993)
12. Changer - 4:11, from AMC Radio 1 Sessions (2002); original version on the Stunning Debut Album 7" (1991)
13. Nihilist Assault Group (Parts 1, 2, 3) - 7:13, originally appeared on the Wow & Flutter EP (1994)
14. Peng 33 - 2:58, from AMC Radio 1 Sessions (2002); original version on Peng! (1992)
15. Lo Boob Oscillator - 6:37, originally appeared on the Lo Boob Oscillator 7" (1993)
16. Ping Pong - 3:02, from Mars Audiac Quintet (1994)
17. Cybele's Reverie - 2:56, originally appeared on the Cybele's Reverie EP (1996)
18. Tone Burst (Country) - 2:13, initially recorded for an abandoned split- 7" w/ Spectrum (1993)

Disc Two: Jenny Ondioline
19. Jenny Ondioline - 18:08, from Transient Random-Noise Bursts w/ Announcements (1993)

Disc Three: 1996-2008
20. Metronomic Underground - 7:55, from Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996)
21. L `Exotisme Intérieur - 3:22, from the Explosante Fixe 7" (2008)
22. One Finger Symphony - 2:06, from Chemical Chords (2008)
23. Caliméro (w/ Brigitte Fontaine) - 6:27, from the Caliméro / Cache Cache 7" (1998)
24. Miss Modular - 4:29, from Dots & Loops (1997)
25. Kyberneticka Babicka pt. 1 - 4:32, originally appeared on the Kyberneticka Babicka 7" (2005); taken from Fab Four Suture (2006)
26. Olv 26 - 5:42, from Emperor Tomato Ketchup (1996)
27. Spinal Column - 2:53, from the Miss Modular EP (1997)
28. Theme from 'Get Carter' - 3:23, originally appeared on the Volume 14 - Reading '95 comp. (1995)
29. Plasmids (w/ The High Llamas) - 1:23, from Turn On (1997) - a split LP w/ The High Llamas
30. Mass Riff - 4:26, from the Instant "O" in the Universe EP (2003)
31. Cellulose Sunshine - 2:36, from Chemical Chords (2008)
32. Vonal Declosion - 3:34, from Margerine Eclipse (2004)
33. University Microfilms International - 4:02, from the Rose, My Rocket Brain EP (2004)
34. Fluorescences - 3:23, originally appeared on the Fluorescences EP (1996)
35. Brakhage - 5:31, from Dots & Loops (1997)
36. Moodles - 7:23, originally appeared on the Captain Easychord EP (2001);
37. Escape Pod (From the World of Medical Observations) - 3:57, originally appeared on The Free Design EP (1999)
38. Jump Drive Shut-Out - 2:38, from the Solar Throw-Away 7" (2006)

Notes:

Somewhere here or elsewhere, I recently read a reasonable argument for Stereolab as a proper "singles band," and they are to the extent that they have a lot of 7"s that are a real pain in the ass to track down, but ultimately there is no convenient way to navigate their catalog. Actually, their best material is spread across so many formats & tucked away in so many nooks & crannies that, were it not for the helpful Switched On compilations & box sets, seeking any kind of comprehensive overview would be a fool's errand. I have been collecting their records since 1992 &, while I can't claim to have everything, I have hopefully taken in enough over the years to be able to assemble something approximating a reasonable, general "best-of" compilation.

Chronologically & stylistically, Emperor Tomato Ketchup is an obvious dividing line - it is their last release to feature any of the VU/motorik tendencies of their early years & their first to embrace the post-rock, IDM, pop & jazz elements which informed their later records. So the installments are divided b/w pre-&-post-1996 tracks, with ETK tracks on either side & "Jenny Ondioline" presented separately as their career centerpiece (duh). I realize I cheated a bit by extending the play length to encompass an extra disc, The Groop's catalog is difficult enough to pare down w/o having to make space for a twenty-minute superjam.

Obviously, this is ridiculously subjective, so I encourage ILXors to mess w/ the trax lineup & argue for their substitutions/omissions/etc. b/c I am aware that Stereolab is pretty sacred business around here.

*Listen to this playlist (on Grooveshark - sorry, no Spotify, but this should work universally).

*Webmail me for a link to yr own copy..

Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, "Souvenir"

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Disc 1 - "Radio"
01. Electricity - 3:39, Single (1979)
02. Red Frame/White Light - 3:10, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980)
03. Messages - 4:06, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980)
04. Enola Gay - 3:33, Organisation (1980)
05. Souvenir - 3:39, Architecture & Morality (1981)
06. Joan of Arc - 3:48, Architecture & Morality (1981)
07. Joan of Arc (Maid of Orleans) - 4:12, Architecture & Morality (1981)
08. Telegraph - 2:57, Dazzle Ships (1983)
09. Locomotion - 3:53, Junk Culture (1984)
10. Talking Loud and Clear - 4:20, Junk Culture (1984)
11. (Forever) Live and Die - 3:38, The Pacific Age (1986)
12. Sailing on the Seven Seas - 3:45, Sugar Tax (1991)

Disc 2 - "Semaphore"
01. Almost - 3:40, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (1980)
02. Stanlow - 6:30, Organisation (1980)
03. She's Leaving - 3:28, Architecture & Morality (1981)
04. Sealand - 7:47, Architecture & Morality (1981)
05. Georgia - 3:24, Architecture & Morality (1981)
06. Dazzle Ships (Parts II, III & VII) - 2:21, Dazzle Ships (1983)
07. The Romance of the Telescope - 3:27, Dazzle Ships (1983)
08. Silent Running - 3:34, Dazzle Ships (1983)
09. All Wrapped Up - 4:25, Junk Culture (1984)
10. La Femme Accident - 2:50, Crush (1985)
11. If You Leave - 4:30, Single (1986)

Pillbox, can't wait to sink into the SLab comp, but I'm pretty sure that AMC Radio 1 Sessions ought to be ABC Radio 1 Sessions?

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[Jorge Ben] - Jorge Ben

1. A Banda do Zé Pretinho (A Banda do Zé Pretinho, 1978)
2. Chove Chuva (Samba Esquema Novo, 1963)
3. Zagueiro (Solta o Pavão, 1975)
4. Take It Easy, My Brother Charles (Jorge Ben, 1969)
5. Oba Lá Vem Ela (Força Bruta, 1970)
6. Ponta De Lança Africano (Umbabarauma) (África Brasil, 1976)
7. Os Alquimistas Estão Chegando Os Alquimistas (A Tábua de Esmeralda, 1974)
8. Amante Amado(A Banda do Zé Pretinho, 1978)
9. Ive Brussel (Salve Simpatia, 1979)
10. Carolina, Carol Bela (Carolina 12", 1969
11. Georgia (Tropical, 1977)
12. Comanche (Negro E Lindo, 1971)
13. Menina Mulher da Pele Preta (A Tábua de Esmeralda, 1974)
14. Mas que Nada (Samba Esquema Novo, 1963)
15. Pais Tropical (Jorge Ben, 1969)
16. Santa Clara Clareou (Bem Vinda Amizade, 1981)

Jorge Ben has released over 30 albums so I tried to limit the compilation to what I consider his most essential songs up until 1981. Hopefully this songs will pique interest to newcomers and will prompt them to check out the rest of his catalogue.
Spotify doesn't work in my country terribly sorry for not providing a streaming playlist.
Cover is a lazy revamp of his 1969 self titled album so I decided to be extra lazy and give the same title to the compilation.
Hope you enjoy.

xp - yr right, AMC was a typo.

Pixies-24 favorites
1.Debaser
2.Allison
3.Alec Eiffel
4.Vamos
5.Velouria
6.Cactus
7.No.13 baby
8.Wave of mutilation
9.Subbacultcha
10.Levitate me
11.Monkey gone to heaven
12.Ana
13.Silver
14.Rock music
15.U-mass
16.Gouge away
17.Gigantic
18.There goes my gun
19.The sad punk
20.The happening
21.Bone machine
22.Space(I believe in)
23.Hey
24.Motorway to Roswell

xp - Thanks for the Jorge Ben! I only have the s/t and Africa Brasil (AB being one of my favourite albums ever), I'll check out the other selections.

that stereolab comp is going to kick so much ass at work today. Someone said earlier than 2 discs seems like both too much and not enough. 90 minutes is probably the right amount of Stereolab.

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The Best of The (Square) Roots Crew

1. Writers Block (Organix)
2. Rising Down (Rising Down)
3. Rolling Heat (Phrenology)
4. Dynamite! (Things Fall Apart)
5. Don't Feel Right (Game Theory)
6. The Seed 2.0 (Phrenology)
7. Table of Contents Pt. 1 & 2 (Things Fall Apart)
8. 75 Bars (Black's Reconstruction) (Rising Down)
9. Proceed (Do You Want Me?!!!!??!)
10. Break You Off (Phrenology)
11. Push Up Ya Lighter (Illadelph Halflife)
12. Walk Alone (How I Got Over)
13. Don't Say Nuthin (The Tipping Point)
14. Distortion To Static (From The Ground Up EP)
15. Guns Are Drawn (The Tipping Point)
16. Clones (Illadelph Halflife)
17. Do You Want Me?!!!!??! (Do You Want Me?!!!!??!)
18. Dear God 2.0 (How I Got Over)
19. You Got Me (The Roots Come Alive)
20. What They Do (Illadelph Halflife)

Email me at samuelpooley @ gmail .com for either the doom or the roots and i'll get back to you in the next couple days.

I'm putting together my beach boys comps and am having an existential fanboy crisis over whether to put in "Girl Don't Tell Me" over "California Girls". Everything else is pretty much set. It's basically impossible to justify but I really want to do it.

do it then. its a highly subjective best of from yr point of view and i think we all like this thread because of such personal touches.

" New Pop-Wunderkind ": Todd Rundgren's Golden Era (1970-1978)

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Disk One: Does Anybody Love You?

1. We Gotta Get You A Woman ( Runt ,1970)
2. Love Of The Common Man ( Faithful ,1976)
3. *Marlene *Skip to 4:14 ( Something/Anything ,1972)
4. *Determination *Skip to 1:34 ( Hermit Of Mink Hollow ,1978)
5. The Range War ( Runt:The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren ,1971)
6. Does Anybody Love You? ( A Wizard, A True Star ,1973)
7. All The Children Sing ( Hermit Of Mink Hollow ,1978)
8. Slut ( Something/Anything ,1972)
9. *Believe In Me *Skip to 4:33 ( Runt ,1970)
10. Just One Victory ( A Wizard, A True Star ,1973)
11. *Lucky Guy *Skip to 2:32 ( Hermit Of Mink Hollow ,1978)
12. I Saw The Light ( Something/Anything ,1972)

Disk Two: A Dream Goes On Forever

1. Wailing Wall ( Runt:The Ballad Of Todd Rundgren ,1971)
2. Couldn't I Just Tell You ( Something/Anything ,1972)
3. A Dream Goes On Forever ( Todd ,1974)
4. You Don't Have To Camp Around ( A Wizard, A True Star ,1973)
5. Piss Aaron ( Something/Anything ,1972)
6. Real Man ( Initiation ,1975)
7. Hello It's Me ( Something/Anything ,1972)
8. You Need Your Head ( A Wizard, A True Star ,1973)
9. Can We Still Be Friends ( Hermit Of Mink Hollow ,1978)
10. The Night The Carousel Burned Down ( Something/Anything ,1972)
11. Hurting For You ( Hermit Of Mink Hollow ,1978)
12. It Wouldn't Have Made Any Difference ( Something/Anything ,1972)

* Finally got around to doing this and I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. I download Rundgren's complete discography about 4 months ago and slowly started dipping into all his LP's, having previously only heard 'Hermit Of Mink Hollow'. I would now consider myself to be slightly obsessed with his songs. Genius isn't a word to be used lightly, but the amount of brilliant production, chord progressions, hooks and melodies is undeniable. My interest kind of trailed off after Hermit....there are some decent tracks from later albums, but overall they pale in comparison to his best period (1970-1978). I sequenced it in a build up and release way, that avoids having too many ballads in a row and hopefully sustains interest. Also, some tracks kind of compliment & bleed into each other (e.g the cymbals and synths of 'All the Children Sing' flows nicely into the style of 'The Night The Carousel Burned Down' . Mainly, I just wanted to make a decent introduction to Todd Rundgren, thus the inclusion of obvious tracks like 'I Saw The Light', 'Hello It's Me' etc. Anyways, have a listen and see what you think.

I've been doing Spotify playlists for the compilations I'm most interested in, links are below for anyone who wants them:

Stereolab

OMD Disc 1

OMD Disc 2

Pixies

Haven't forgotten my XTC and Rain Parade lists, just back from holiday, will organise once decompressed.

Those Stereolab and Roots comps look unreal. Can't wait to dig into them.

Yeah, excellent work on the 'lab, Pillbox. Kudos in particular for not doing it chronologically, which is the obvious temptation but not very Stereolab-esque (cf. Switched Ons 2 and 3 and the Oscillions box), and for the way you deal with the millstone that is Jenny O.

Including a track by Turn On is my only quibble. A separate "Stereolab side projects" best of / anthology is surely called for! ;)

Unrest, Can't Sit Still: 1986 - 1993

1. "Yes She Is My Skinhead Girl" (7-inch mix), from International Hip Swing
2. "Winona Ryder" (Xx Version), from B.P.M. (1991-1994)
3. "Malcolm X Park," from Malcolm X Park
4. "I Do Believe You Are Blushing," from Imperial f.f.r.r. (Deluxe Edition)
5. "Can't Sit Still," from Malcolm X Park
6. "Suki," from Imperial f.f.r.r. (Deluxe Edition)
7. "The Gas Chair," from Malcolm X Park
8. "Nation Writer," from Isabel Bishop e.p. CD
9. "Bavarian Mods" (Remix), from B.P.M. (1991-1994)
10. "Cherry Cherry" (7" 45 version), from Imperial f.f.r.r. (Deluxe Edition)
11. "Imperial," from Imperial f.f.r.r. (Deluxe Edition)
12. "Angel I'll Walk You Home," from Perfect Teeth
13. "Where Are All Those Puerto Rican Boys," from "Cath Carroll" promotional CD
14. "Cath Carroll," from Perfect Teeth
15. "Champion Nines," from Imperial f.f.r.r. (Deluxe Edition)
16. "Teenage Suicide" (credited to "Naomi Wolff"), from Teenbeat 50
17. "Cats," from Fuck Pussy Galore" (And All Her Friends) CD/compilation
18. "June," from Imperial f.f.r.r. (Deluxe Edition)
19. "Make Out Club," from Perfect Teeth
20. "Christina," from Malcolm X Park
21. "Wednesday & Proud (7" Remix), from Imperial f.f.r.r. (Deluxe Edition)

^feeling this

hey guys who emailed me about roots/doom - i promise i will get off my arse and download the last couple tracks i don't have on my pc, compile it up and send it to you by friday. surprisingly busy two weeks, sorry!

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‘I have heard, you wish to walk me through your meadow’

XTC – Post Breakdown 1983-2000

Disc 1.
1. Summer’s Cauldron - Skylarking
2. Ladybird - Mummer
3. I Remember The Sun – The Big Express
4. Harvest Festival – Apple Venus
5. In Loving Memory Of A Name - Mummer
6. Season Cycle – Skylarking
7. The Wheel & The Maypole – Wasp Star
8. Earn Enough For Us – Skylarking
9. Across This Antheap – Oranges & Lemons
10. Rook – Nonsuch
11. Beating Of Hearts – Mummer
12. Wrapped In Grey – Nonsuch
13. Another Satellite – BBC Version

Disc 2.
1. Red Brick Dream – B-Side
2. Knights In Shining Karma – Apple Venus
3. Chalkhills & Children – Oranges & Lemons
4. Me & The Wind – Mummer
5. The Ugly Underneath – Nonsuch
6. The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul – Skylarking
7. One Of The Millions – Oranges & Lemons
8. Ballet For A Rainy Day – Skylarking
9. River Of Orchids – Apple Venus
10. Deliver Us From The Elements – Mummer
11. Easter Theatre – Apple Venus
12. Extrovert – Rag & Bone Buffet
13. Sacrificial Bonfire - Skylarking

The Yo La Tengo compilation is terrific. I would replace Untitled with Nowhere Near since From A Motel 6 is on the other disc and is a better version of the same song, but I made a playlist and have been jamming it most of the week now and I'm loving it. Nice work.

XTC – Post Breakdown 1983-2000

What's the point of leaving out the best 5-6 years of the band??

Okay, well I don't agree that those were necessarily the best years. But the point of dealing only with the second half of their career was because I feel that a lot of it was/is rather unfairly maligned.

A+++ on the bonzo dog band comp imo.

i will get to my foetus thirlwell thing after i survive yet someone elses wedding this weekend

Maresnest - much respect for your eternal love of XTC, but I gotta say I'd have significantly different picks from the albums. 5 tracks from Mummer, just 1 from The Big Express, and 7 from Skylarking? That seems unbalanced, I guess you're down on TBE but it's my all-time fave. Tracks you didn't pick that I'd substitute:

Mummer: Great Fire / Human Alchemy
The Big Express: Wake Up / All You Pretty Girls / This World Over
Oranges & Lemons: Garden Of Earthly Delights / Poor Skeleton Steps Out
Nonsuch: The Ballad Of Peter Pumpkinhead
Wasp Star: Boarded Up

Funny that I think of Unrest as a band that put out 2 or 3 albums (not technically correct, but that's how it feels) and yet they seem awfully hard to reduce to one CD. No major complaints with the compilation (well, maybe the absence of She Makes Me Shake Like A Soul Machine) but it's still missing a fair amount of stuff I love.

A+++ on the bonzo dog band comp imo.

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You have justified my love.

I'm glad I could work in both the light (What Do You Do, Quiet Walks) and the heavy (We Are Normal, 11 Moustachioed Daughters) to show that the music was as good as the comedy. Should have squeezed in "My Brother Makes the Noises for the Talkies" though.

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Jorge Ben - Jorge Ben

1. A Banda do Zé Pretinho (A Banda do Zé Pretinho, 1978)
2. Chove Chuva (Samba Esquema Novo, 1963)
3. Zagueiro (Solta o Pavão, 1975)
4. Take It Easy, My Brother Charles (Jorge Ben, 1969)
5. Oba Lá Vem Ela (Força Bruta, 1970)
6. Ponta De Lança Africano (Umbabarauma) (África Brasil, 1976)
7. Os Alquimistas Estão Chegando Os Alquimistas (A Tábua de Esmeralda, 1974)
8. Amante Amado(A Banda do Zé Pretinho, 1978)
9. Ive Brussel (Salve Simpatia, 1979)
10. Carolina, Carol Bela (Carolina 12", 1969
11. Georgia (Tropical, 1977)
11. Comanche (Negro E Lindo, 1971)
12. Menina Mulher da Pele Preta (A Tábua de Esmeralda, 1974)
13. Mas que Nada (Samba Esquema Novo, 1963)
14. Pais Tropical (Jorge Ben, 1969)
15. Santa Clara Clareou (Bem Vinda Amizade, 1981)

Stream at Grooveshark.

K, here's the Jorge Ben compilation available for stream. Spotify is unavailable in my country so I used grooveshark. Only song I couldn't find is Georgia, which is a shame since it's a nice balearic exercise which I thought fitted great between Carolina and Comanche. Hope you enjoy.

Hey Gerald, you are right about the balance issue. On choosing, the idea of balance didn't come into it at-all for me.

If I had given myself a another track per cd I would most likely have included 'Seagulls Screaming' and 'Train Running Low On Soul Coal'

It does give the impression that I may be down on TBE, but I do dig it's many charms.

FWIW Red Brick Dream (a TBE b-side) is my favourite XTC song of all time.

I've noticed that the songs I leave off are often the ones that stay stuck in my head days after finishing a mix--in the case of Unrest, "Lucifer Rising."

Pete that looks like a really nice Unrest comp.

Although nothing from kustomkarnal?

I've tried to get into Kustom Karnal, and won't ever sell it, but it just feels like a misfire top to bottom.

got to take the rough with the smooth sometimes...

was there a time limit for people to post their tracklists? can i post a replacement if someone hasn't posted theirs?

You're welcome to take The Cure and/or Prince, I don't think I'm gonna get around to 'em. :(

I began working on Kraftwerk but felt awful because I couldn't really imagine anyone enjoying my mix - there's nothing on there that will surprise existing Kraftwerk fans (I like a lot of their older semi-rare stuff but it doesn't really flow on a mix very well with their more well-known electropop stuff), and it doesn't really serve as a very good intro for non-Kraftwerk fans because my fav songs by them are pretty predictable - you could probably go to allmusic.com and look for the songs with checkmarks by them and do just as well. I listened to a working version of the playlist and just felt like shit so I stopped.

I gave up on Microphones/Mt. Eerie because, after not really listening to his stuff for a couple years, I realize I loved the way they sounded sitting by myself in my car on the roof of my lol college parking garage, hilariously stoned and poofing out battie smoke through a doob tube, more than it sounds to me today after working for the man all day. When I was in <3 with the microphones I used to be able to bike out to a trail and walk around in the woods and lay in the middle of some guy's field all day without anyone bothering me or caring that I was gone. Now I'm stuck in the city, bummed out, etc, and the music doesn't really transport me to a different place so much as painfully remind me of good times that I can't get back to anymore. /emo So I quit making that one as well.

Sorry, I suck!

I'm going to get around to the Smog/Callahan one... someday. I know how it sounds in my head, I just haven't gotten around to doing it.

Brilliant choice to end the Stereolab compilation with Jump Drive Shout Out.

ZS i'd be really interested in seeing both mixes. I've only dabbled in Kraftwerk and know nothing about Microphones/Mt Eerie, so can only be curious. Isn't the key to this that you just throw out what you like regardless of whether it's sequenced well or rare or well known? I'd love to see/hear your window onto those two if you still feel up to it :)

you could probably go to allmusic.com and look for the songs with checkmarks by them and do just as well

I did just that for Kraftwerk and in the end it didn't do much for me aside from a few obvious things I already dug. They're a very difficult band to anthologize.

Pillbox, listening to and digging Stereolab right now, have never really heard any of this before!

I now am not only procrastinating but also am stuck just posting on my tooch - one day when you least expect it, y'all may get a compilation or two in ya mailbox.

with a vol.2 featuring stuff they've released since you promised

Sorry, I suck!

Yes you do! I was looking forward to your Elverum comp! (I'm only familiar with Glow 2 and Twas Hot.)

Mine is almost ready! Had loads of distractions but now the time for Dagmar approacheth.

Saturday night probably isn't the best time for this, is it? But still...

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Some Questions About Dagmar Krause

Disc 1 – My Work Takes Me Out of Town

1. Some Questions About Hats (Slapp Happy/Henry Cow, Desperate Straights, 1974)
2. Song of Investment Capital Overseas (Art Bears, The World as it is Today, 1981)
3. Ballad of (Bourgeois) Welfare (Tank Battles: The Songs of Hanns Eisler, 1988)
4. Working at the Ministry (Slapp Happy, Ça Va, 1998)
5. In Two Minds (Art Bears, Hopes and Fears, 1978)
6. Sweetheart (Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause, Babble, 1979)
7. Casablanca Moon (Slapp Happy, Acnalbasac Noom, rec. 1973, rel. 1980)
8. The Young Lieutenant (Commuters, 1982)
9. War (Henry Cow, In Praise of Learning, 1975)
10. Victory (News from Babel, Work Resumed on the Tower, 1984)
11. FREEDOM (Art Bears, The World as it is Today, 1981)
12. He’s Out Now (I.D. Company, I.D. Company, 1970)
13. Surabaya Johnny (Supply and Demand – Songs by Brecht, Weill & Eisler, 1986)

Disc 2 – Slapp a Happy Platter on the Gramophone

1. Dawn (Slapp Happy, Acnalbasac Noom, rec. 1973, rel. 1980)
2. Heading for Kyoto (Slapp Happy, Sort Of, 1972)
3. Im Gefängnis Zu Singen (Supply and Demand – Songs by Brecht, Weill & Eisler, 1986)
4. First Things First (Art Bears, Winter Songs, 1979)
5. Black Gold (News From Babel, Work Resumed on the Tower, 1984)
6. Dünne, Gläserne Frauen (I.D. Company, I.D. Company, 1970)
7. Everybody’s Slimmin’ (Slapp Happy, bonus track on Acnalbasac Noom, rel. 1990)
8. Seven (Dagmar Krause & Marie Goyette, A Scientific Dream and a French Kiss, 1998)
9. Betty Dupree (City Preachers, Der Kürbis, Das Transportproblem Und Die Traumtänzer, 1969)
10. The Secret (Slapp Happy, Casablanca Moon, 1974)
11. Alabama Song (Supply and Demand – Songs by Brecht, Weill & Eisler, 1986)
12. Blue Flower (Slapp Happy, Sort Of, 1972)
13. It Really Doesn’t Matter/We Know Who We Are (Kevin Coyne & Dagmar Krause, Babble, 1979)