Let's Play: God

[Wombi]

So this is something I was obsessed with about 4 years ago; basically we all know how important the ordering of tracks is on an album and which ones are excluded and included but obviously there is also about 100 different ways of doing it and the artist has to settle on one. So what I used to do is reorder the album and try and make it into a cohesive album with a new opening and closing track.

So I'm not sure whether this would count as a game, because really it's just for funsies, but in my book you can do whatever to the album; minus tracks, add tracks (as long as they're from the same sessions as the album, like a bonus track or a b-side that was omitted), change a double album to a singl, re-title if it takes your fancy and obviously re-order.

I got reminded of this yesterday when i was listening to R.E.M.'s "Out Of Time" and I couldn't help but think that it could have possibly been a better album with different ordering (mostly because I think Radio Song is a bit of a duffer) so here's my version:

R.E.M. Out Of Time

1. Belong
2. Me In Honey
3. Shiny Happy People
4. Country Feedback
5. Radio Song
6. Low
7. Texarkana
8. Half A World Away
9. Losing My Religion
10. Endgame
11. Near Wild Heaven

[Wombi]

So the age old question: what if Mellon Collie And the infinite Sadness were a single disc album?

well this is what Mine would look like:

The Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie And the Infinite Sadness (The Not-So-Infinite Edition)

1. 1979
2. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
3. Cupid De Locke
4. Here Is No Why
5. Thru The Eyes of Ruby
6. Farewell And Goodnight
7. Tonight Tonight
8. Galapogos
9. Bodies
10. Take Me Down
11. Love
12. Lily (My One And Only)
13. Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness

[19loveless91]

Oh yes, Mellon Collie is definitely an album that I would rather see as a single disc.. London Calling too.. I'll add my tracklists later

[Hayden]

I've actually done the same thing with Mellon Collie, and it clocks in at an hour 5 or something, it goes:

1) Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness
2) Tonight Tonight
3) JellyBelly
4) Zero
5) Bullet With Butterfly Wings
6) To Forgive
7) Muzzle
Porcelina Of The Vast Oceans
9) Thirty-Three
10) 1979
11) XYU
12) We Only Come Out At Night
13) Beautiful
14) Lily
15) Farewell & Goodnight

Much better

[Kiki]

You know I was once going to make a thread where I would ask how much the song order can effect an album. I was going to propose that if an artist would have done a different track list for some albums, they would have ended up on a different posistion of the overall chart. I'm not saying it will change drastically (Like The Bends getting higher than Ok Computer) but if we were able to see the "what ifs" I reckon a few albums would throw up some big surprises and make jumps or falls by more than 100 places.

I'll post some of my own soon.

[Applerill]

First off, let's do Mellon Collie.
1. Title Track
2. Tonight, Tonight
3. Zero
4. Here Is To Why
5. To Forgive
6. Love
7. Bullet With Butterfly Wings
8. 1979
9. We Only Come Out At Night
10. Cupid De Locke
11. Galapagos
12. An Ode To No One

[joyofdivision]

The Boy With The Arab Strap

1. It Could Have Been A Brilliant Career
2. Dirty Dream #2
3. The Boy With The Arab Strap
4. Seymour Stein
5. Simple Things
6. The Rollercoaster Ride
7. Slow Graffiti*
8. Sleep The Clock Around
9. Is it Wicked Not To Care?
10. Ease Your Feet In The Sea
11. This Is Just A Modern Rock Song*

* from 'Push Barman To Open Old Wounds'

[Wombi]

[joyofdivision]

Sorry it took me ten mins to do a proper one, I'm done with the negativity for now

He does have a lot in common with Oasis and Lady Gaga though

[Wombi]