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!

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.