Your own alternate/expanded album playlists

[Tikwid]

In which you combine album tracks, EP tracks, and singles to create an improved version of an album. Anyone else do this?

One playlist I particularly like is combining David Bowie's Blackstar with the tracks from the No Plan EP (which I've bolded), to create a fully cohesive work with (to me) a more intense dramatic climax and a real sense of closure at the end. The running order:

Blackstar
When I Met You
'Tis A Pity...
Lazarus
Sue
Girl Loves Me
Killing A Little Time
Dollar Days
Can't Give Everything Away
No Plan

[Dr Syntax Head]

Kid A and Amnesiac as one album

[Natnar]

Alternate Expanded Hounds Of Love

Running Up That Hill
Hounds Of Love
Experiment IV (Video version)
Mother Stands For Comfort
Cloudbusting (Video version)
The Big Sky (Single Mix)

And Dream Of Sheep
Under Ice
Waking The Witch
Watching You Without Me
Jig Of Life
Hello Earth
The Morning Fog

My Lagan Love
Under The Ivy
Burning Bridge
The Handsome Cabin Boy
Not This Time

[Custard]

Funnily enough, I kept thinking whether to start a similar thread recently!

I've got a million, will post a couple tonight. Yeah, look excited!

[SteveDave]

Their Satanic Majesties Request

Dandelion
Citadel
In Another Land
2000 Man
Sing This All Together/Sing This All Together (See What Happens)

She's A Rainbow
The Latern
Gomper
2000 Light Years From Home
We Love You

Taking off On With The Show, adding Dandelion and We Love You and moving Sing This All Together to make it one song with Sing This All Together (See What Happens)

[SteveDave]

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road made into a single LP

Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting
Sweet Painted Lady
Grey Seal
Candle In The Wind

Bennie And The Jets
Your Sister Can't Twist (But She Can Rock N Roll)
Harmony
Social Disease
I've Seen That Movie Too

[Custard]

Now I love the Manics as much as the next man, but even the most ardent of fans would have to admit that This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours is a bit of a flabby, overlong chore to get through.

So in my ideal version I'd remove some of the chaff, and replace it with killer, upbeat b-sides from the period, such as Black Holes For The Young and Prologue To History.

It makes for a far more satisfactory listen to mine ears, and is also shorter and sweeter

[Custard]

This is more of an extension job, but Radiohead's King Of Limbs was just too slight for me, so I added the awesome Supercollider and Staircase to beef it up. Bit criminal they wasn't on there to begin with

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

My first mp3 player was a bit on the crap side and couldn't read the ID3 tags on tracks. One upshot of his was that it had a tendency to play tunes in alphabetical order, which I found works really well for Blues For the Red Sun by Kyuss.

[Brundle-Fly]

Modern Life Is Less Rubbish - Blur

"For Tomorrow"
For Tomorrow Primrose Hill longer version
"Advert"
"Colin Zeal"
"Pressure on Julian"
"Star Shaped" –
"Blue Jeans" –
"Chemical World" –
Chemical World. Langer/Winstanly version
"Intermission" –
"Sunday Sunday" –
When The Cows Come Home
Popscene
"Oily Water" –
"Miss America" –
"Villa Rosie" –
"Coping" –
Coping -Andy Partridge version
"Turn It Up" –
"Resigned" –
"Commercial Break" –
My Ark

and the perfect ending with the single that never was...

Young And Lovely

[garbed_attic]

Great idea for a thread!

(New) New Adventures in Hi-Fi

"How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us"
"The Wake-Up Bomb"
"New Test Leper"
"Undertow"
"E-Bow the Letter"
"Leave"
"Departure"
"Bittersweet Me"
"Be Mine"
"Binky the Doormat"
"Zither"
"So Fast, So Numb"
"Low Desert"
"Electrolite"

[Custard]

Oasis - The Great Lost Album (possible title The Masterplan)

[Johnny Textface]

I'm sure there's a decent album in "Hail to the thief" somewhere.

[Sebastian Cobb]

My first mp3 player was a bit on the crap side and couldn't read the ID3 tags on tracks. One upshot of his was that it had a tendency to play tunes in alphabetical order, which I found works really well for Blues For the Red Sun by Kyuss.

Mine was a creative one that had no meaningful concept of directory structure.

[Custard]

My attempt to make the last two Arcade Fire records more palatable

Reflektor



Everything Now

[SteveDave]

Has anyone had a go at a better flowing tracklist for Big Star's "Third/Sister Lovers"?

The version I had on CD in the 90s had about 20 songs on it and was front loaded with the uptempo ones.

[Gradual Decline]

Slayer - Redux In Blood

01. Angel of Death
02. Necrophobic
03. Altar Of Sacrifice
04. Jesus Saves
05. Aggressive Perfector
06. Postmortem
07. Raining Blood

Cutting out the not quite-good-enough tracks from side 2 of Reign In Blood along with the perennially tedious Piece By Piece from side 1, with the addition of the 1986 version of Aggressive Perfector - admittedly this track isn't exactly canon.

[Dr Rock]

I made an alternate version of Coldplay's album A Head Full Of Dreams by replacing all the tracks with the Best Of Kid Creole & the Coconuts.

[SteveDave]

Blonde On Blonde in 52.32

Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
One Of Us Must Now (Sooner Or Later)
Visions Of Johanna
I Want You
Leopard Skin Pill-Box Hat
Just Like A Woman
Most Likely You'll Go Your Way And I'll Go Mine
4th Time Around
Obviously Five Believers
Sad Eyed Lady Of The Lowlands

[daf]

The Beatles - All Things Must Pass (December 1970)



Side 1 : (22:04)
Mother
My Sweet Lord
Every Night
Cold Turkey
What Is Life

Side 2 : (22:48)
Instant Karma
Maybe I'm Amazed
Isolation
Man We Was Lonely
Junk
God
All Things Must Pass

[SteveDave]

More fast numbers needed ^

[daf]

Secret Hidden Bonus 10" Mini LP sealed into the gatefold :

Side 3 : (17:21)
Give Peace a Chance
Lovely Linda
I Found Out
Art of Dying
That Would Be Something
Hold On

Side 4 : (16:12)
Hot as Sun-Glasses
Apple Scruffs
Look at Me
Let It Down
Love
My Mummy's Dead

[Dr Rock]

Thanks daf, been meaning to put together such a 'what if?' Album.
Anyone got an alternate alternate version?

[Dr Syntax Head]

This is more of an extension job, but Radiohead's King Of Limbs was just too slight for me, so I added the awesome Supercollider and Staircase to beef it up. Bit criminal they wasn't on there to begin with

Supercollider is bloody ace. The basement Session version is brilliant

[daf]

Thanks daf, been meaning to put together such a 'what if?' Album.

Cheers - Here's another

The Beatles - Imagine (1971)



Side 1 : (22:51)
Imagine
Eat At Home
Crippled Inside
It Don't Come Easy
Monkberry Moon Delight
Jealous Guy

Side 2 : (22:02)
Gimmie Some Truth
Wah-Wah
Uncle Albert / Admiral Halsey
How?
The Back Seat Of My Car

- - - - - - - - - - - -

Fan Club only bonus Mini LP :

Side 3 : (18:50)
Another Day
Early 1970
Heart Of The Country
Oh Yoko
Long Haired Lady

Side 4 : (14:03)
How Do You Sleep
Dear Friend
Oh My Love

[greenman]

To be blasphemous a single album London Calling...

London Calling
Brand New Cadillac 
Rudie Can't Fail
Spanish Bombs
Lost in the Supermarket
Clampdown
The Guns of Brixton
Death or Glory
The Card Cheat
Train In Vain

[greenman]

Screamadelica with the longer Orb mix of Higher than the SUn and a couple of tracks from the Dixie Nacro EP replacing Shine Line Stars, the spookey cover of Carry Me Home makes a much better ending track IMHO.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ4x1YB88_s

Moving on Up
Slip Inside This House
Don't Fight It, Feel
Higher Than the Sun(Orb Mix)
Inner Flight
Come Together
Loaded
Damaged
Screamadelica
I'm Coming Down
Higher Than the Sun(Dub mix)
Carry Me Home

[Brundle-Fly]

Daf, what would you make of this as a fantasy tracklisting? 

[daf]

Pretty good : "A Collection Of Newies . . . But Grewies" - in the shops for Christmas 1973.

(Odd to see 'C Moon' in there - I threw it out of my potential album line-ups pretty early)
I'd pop My Love towards the end of side 1 - putting it as track two loses a bit of momentum at a crucial early stage.
Something like this :

Side 1
Instant Karma!
Hi Hi Hi 
Back Off Boogaloo
Give Me Love (Give Me Peace on Earth)
My Love
Happy Xmas (War is Over)

Side 2
My Sweet Lord
It Don't Come Easy
C Moon (if we must!)
Bangladesh (Live - the studio version isn't half as good)
Imagine
Live and Let Die

[Dr Rock]

As a pedant I would like to point out that 'Instant Karma!' has and always has an exclamation point. This is dropped so many times, in cover versions, compilations etc.