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!

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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.