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Wow! I've just reinvented one of the first albums I fell in love with. Thanks to the technology of CD burning, I just did this:

1. Wake Up Boo! (Music For Astronauts)
2. Fairfax Scene
3. From the Bench at Belvedere
4. Joel (Justin Warfield Mix)
5. Find the Answer Within (High Llamas Mix)
6. Reaching Out From Here (High Llamas Mix)
7. Martin, Doom! It's Seven O'Clock (Stereolab Mix)
8. Stuck on Amber
9. Charles Bukowski is Dead
10. Blues for George Michael
11. Twinside
12. Wilder

heehee, I ommited the abhorrent It's Lulu and the scene spoiling 4AM conversation and replaced them with b-sides from the album.

So yeh, this is the thread where you reinvent a favourite album so you can rediscover it using alternate versions of tracks or replacing them with more appropriate tracks. Try and be subjective yet methodical in your approach. Does anyone already do this anyway?

― dog latin (dog latin), Thursday, 20 March 2003 01:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Amber who?

― bahtoology, Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:11 (twenty-three years ago)

I sort of do this, but I don't substitute anything, except sometimes in my imagination (like by saying, for example, Blue Oyster Cult's "Agents of Fortune" would have been better if the outtake of "Fire of Unknown Origin" had been included instead of.... um... what should it be? "Debbie Denise"? "This Ain't The Summer of Love"? Hm!)

With some of the Cinevox Goblin soundtrack reissues, I just separate out the extra music (often a track on the CD will be put together from short cues recorded for the film, edited one after another) and shuffle the order around a bit, so that I can appreciate the differences in cues and takes as they were recorded. I just find that it's harder for me to listen to if I hear versions of the same short themes, unindexed, several times in a row - it just spoils the narrative qualities of the cues that I think were more or less intended.

― tom (other one), Thursday, 20 March 2003 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

1. Purr
2. Drunken Butterfly
3. Genetic
4. Shoot
5. Sugar Kane
6. Hendrix Necro
7. Wish Fulfillment
8. On The Strip
9. Theresa's Sound-world
10. JC

― Al (sitcom), Thursday, 20 March 2003 05:59 (twenty-three years ago)

nearly forgot. sacrilegeous but yeh. Here goes: Kid Amnesiac:

1. Morning Bell/Amnesiac
2. Optimistic
3. Packt Like Sardines In A Crushd Tin Box
4. How To Disappear Completely
5. Idioteque
6. You And Whose Army?
7. I Might Be Wrong
8. Everything In Its Right Place
9. Life In A Glasshouse
10. Pyramid Song
11. The National Anthem
12. Morning Bell

MelissaW is gonna hate me!

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 02:06 (twenty-three years ago)

you delete 'it's lulu' and yet you keep 'wilder'? hmmm...and those high llamas remixes are pretty but dull like most things sean o'hagan touches.

― keith (keithmcl), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:32 (twenty-three years ago)

keith, it's just i've listened to the album so many times the originals just skip past me. It's Lulu is extremely obnoxious and imho one of their few offences of their career. Wilder is okay, not great, just an average end song. Maybe Friendship Song or And Tomorrow The World would have been better but to be honest the later tracks I'm less tired of because I wouldn't always get round to them on all listening sessions.

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 03:56 (twenty-three years ago)

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