Create a "Best Of"

[Barney Rubble]

Does one of your favourite bands not have a decent Best Of collection available?

Perhaps you'd just like to see a collection of said band's songs from a certain era available on one album.

Perhaps it's a new band that doesn't have enough album material to record a Best Of yet, but whose live recordings, B-sides and rarities would make for a good album on their own.

Whatever the case, I thought it might be interesting to come up with some ideas for something like this. I got the idea when I was thinking earlier about how if Guns N' Roses had released Use Your Illusion as one album instead of two, it would have been a lot better. So without further ado, I present...

Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion

1. Civil War
2. Don't Damn Me
3. Bad Obsession
4. November Rain
5. Locomotive
6. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
7. Double Talkin' Jive
8. You Could Be Mine
9. Get In The Ring
10. Estranged
11. Yesterdays
12. Live And Let Die
13. Don't Cry

And another one, just for good measure - I've even named it, I'm that cool...

Hyper Music - The Best Of Muse 2001-2006

1. New Born
2. Starlight
3. Citizen Erased
4. Map Of The Problematique
5. Plug In Baby
6. Sing For Absolution
7. Darkshines
8. Assassin
9. Time Is Running Out
10. Showbiz
11. Bliss
12. Supermassive Black Hole
13. Invincible
14. Muscle Museum
15. Hysteria
16. Feeling Good
17. Stockholm Syndrome
18. Knights Of Cydonia

[nightprowler10]

Good idea. If AC/DC ever released such an album, it should look like this:

AC/DC - Strap it on: 2 Discs

1. Hell's Bells
2. If you want blood
3. Back in black
4. Gone Shootin'
5. Ballbreaker
6. Jailbreak
7. T.N.T
8. Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
9. Rocker
10. Highway to Hell
11. High Voltage
12. Shot Down In flames
13. What's Next to the moon?
14. Thunderstruck
15. Ain't No fun (waiting around to be a millionaire)
16. Its a long way to the top
17. Bedlam in Belgium
18. Shoot to thrill
19. Guns for hire
20. Let there be rock
21. Whole lotta rosie
22. For those about to rock (we salute you!)

"You Shook Me all night long" misses out due to it being a pop music song.

[pasag]

Nice idea.

The Beatles - all double albums, 10 songs each side.

Early days
1. I Saw Her Standing There
2. Anna (Go to Him)
3. Do You Want to Know a Secret
4. Please Please Me
5. All My Loving
6. Devil in Her Heart
7. Till There Was You
8. Money (That's What I Want)
9. A Hard Day's Night
10. If I Fell
11. And I Love Her
12. Can't Buy Me Love
13. No Reply
14. I'm a Loser
15. I'll Follow the Sun
16. Eight Days a Week
17. Help!
18. You've Got to Hide Your Love Away
19. Ticket to Ride
20. Yesterday

The Peak
1. Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
2. Nowhere Man
3. Michelle
4. In My Life
5. Eleanor Rigby
6. Here, There and Everywhere
7. Got to Get You Into My Life
8. For No One
9. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
10. A Day in the Life
11. Hey Jude
12. Magical Mystery Tour
13. Flying
14. I Am the Walrus
15. Hello Goodbye
16. Strawberry Fields Forever
17. Penny Lane
18. Baby You're a Rich Man
19. All You Need Is Love
20. Your Mother Should Know

The End
1. Dear Prudence
2. Galss Onion
3. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
4. Yer Blues
5. Sexy Sadie
6. Savoy Truffle
7. Only a Northern Song
8. All Together Now
9. Hey Bulldog
10. All You Need Is Love
11. Two of Us
12. Across the Universe
13. I Me Mine
14. I've Got a Feeling
15. Let It Be
16. Come Together
17. Something
18. Here Comes the Sun
19. You Never Give Me Your Money
20. The End

Best band tbh.

[FaaipDeOiad]

I'll have a go at a Nick Cave one. Exclusively for the Bad Seed period, roughly split between the old and new material, but with a bias to the pre-Nocturama stuff, largely because it's better. Only two studio albums missing material.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Best Of
01. Cabin Fever!
02. Saint Huck
03. Tupelo
04. Train Long-Suffering
05. Your Funeral... My Trial...
06. The Carny
07. Sad Waters
08. The Mercy Seat
09. Deanna
10. Papa Won't Leave You, Henry
11. John Finn's Wife
12. Do You Love Me?
13. Red Right Hand
14. The Ballad of Robert Moore and Betty Coltrane
15. Henry Lee
16. Into My Arms
17. West Country Girl
18. As I Sat Sadly By Her Side
19. Darker With The Day
20. O Children

So much good stuff left out, even with 20 tracks.

[Langeveldt]

Idlewild - Best Of

1. Let me Sleep Next to the Mirror
2. Idea Track
3. Century after Century
4. Finished it Remains
5. Tell me ten words
6. Stay the Same
7. Little Discourage
8. No Emotion
9. Quiet Crown
10. Out of Routine
11. These Wooden Ideas
12. Roseability
13. Blame it on Obvious Ways
14. American English
15. A Modern way of Letting Go
16. As if I hadn't slept
17. El Capitan
18. Love Steals us from Loneliness
19. Scottish Fiction
20. In Competition for the Worst Time

Bloc Party - Best of
1. Banquet
2. Helicopter
3. Price of Gasoline
4. Africanism
5. The Prayer
6. This Modern Love
7. Pioneers
8. So here we are
9. She's hearing voices
10. Positive Tension
11. Compliments

[pasag]

Belle & Sebastian 1996-2006

1. The State I Am In
2. Wrapped Up In Books
3. This Is Just A Modern Rock Song
4. I'm Waking Up To Us
5. I'm A Cuckoo
6. Like Dylan In The Movies
7. The Boy With The Arab Strap
8. I Don't Love Anyone
9. You Know My Wondering Days Are Over
10. Another Sunny Day
11. Get Me Away From Here, I'm Dying
12. The Stars of Track and Field
13. If She Wants Me
14. A Summer Wasting
15. Step Into My Office, Baby
16. You're Just a Baby
17. Electronic Renaissance
18. Funny Little Frog

[steds]

One for Sleater-Kinney.

Entertain
All Hands On The Bad One
Big Big Lights
You're No Rock n' roll Fun
Step Aside
Jumpers
One More Hour
I Wanna Be Your Joey Ramone
Get Up
Turn It On
Little Babies
Sympathy
Dance Song '97
A Quarter To Three

[pasag]

Pink Floyd

Pre Dark Side Of The Moon
1. Astronomy Domine
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Interstellar Overdrive
4. Bike
5. The Gnome
6. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
7. Atom Heart Mother
8. Summer '68
9. If
10. One Of These Days
11. Fearless
12. Pillow Of Winds
13. San Tropez
14. Echoes
15. Wot's... Uh the Deal

Post Dark Side Of The Moon
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (complete)
2. Wish You Were Here
3. Welcome to the Machine
4. Dogs
5. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
6. Another Brick In The Wall part 2
7. In The Flesh?
8. Goodbye Blue Sky
9. Young Lust
10. Mother
11. Hey You
12. Comfortably Numb
13. Run Like Hell
14. In The Flesh
15. Your Possible Pasts
16. The Fletcher Memorial Home
17. When The Tigers Broke Free
18. Learning to Fly
19. Wearing the Inside Out
20. High Hopes

Didn''t include DSOTM as I can't bring myself to chop it up.

[GIMH]

Originally Posted by Barney Rubble

Does one of your favourite bands not have a decent Best Of collection available?

Perhaps you'd just like to see a collection of said band's songs from a certain era available on one album.

Perhaps it's a new band that doesn't have enough album material to record a Best Of yet, but whose live recordings, B-sides and rarities would make for a good album on their own.

Whatever the case, I thought it might be interesting to come up with some ideas for something like this. I got the idea when I was thinking earlier about how if Guns N' Roses had released Use Your Illusion as one album instead of two, it would have been a lot better. So without further ado, I present...

Guns N' Roses - Use Your Illusion

1. Civil War
2. Don't Damn Me
3. Bad Obsession
4. November Rain
5. Locomotive
6. Knockin' On Heaven's Door
7. Double Talkin' Jive
8. You Could Be Mine
9. Get In The Ring
10. Estranged
11. Yesterdays
12. Live And Let Die
13. Don't Cry

And another one, just for good measure - I've even named it, I'm that cool...

Hyper Music - The Best Of Muse 2001-2006

1. New Born
2. Starlight
3. Citizen Erased
4. Map Of The Problematique
5. Plug In Baby
6. Sing For Absolution
7. Darkshines
8. Assassin
9. Time Is Running Out
10. Showbiz
11. Bliss
12. Supermassive Black Hole
13. Invincible
14. Muscle Museum
15. Hysteria
16. Feeling Good
17. Stockholm Syndrome
18. Knights Of Cydonia

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I'll have a crack at combining the Illusions

Er. 28 songs, My World and the UYI1 version of Don't Cry miss out

[PhoenixFire]

Radiohead - In no particular order

1) Karma Police
2) Electioneering
3) The Bends
4) Creep
5) Just
6) Knives Out
7) Backdrifts
8) Street Spirit (Fade out)
9) Kid A
10) Indian Rubber
11) Sulk
12) Fake Plastic Trees

[Barney Rubble]

Originally Posted by GeraintIsMyHero

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

I'll have a crack at combining the Illusions

Er. 28 songs, My World and the UYI1 version of Don't Cry miss out

Haha, I thought you'd pick up on that. Oddly I also thought you were the one I first heard say that.

TBH though, as much as I love the UYI albums, there's a bit of filler on there which could have been reserved for B-sides or even another separate album further down the line - the track listing I've provided would have been a damn good effort on its own.

[Tom Halsey]

Good idea for a thread.

Best of Rakim

1. I Know You Got Soul
2. My Melody
3. I Ain't No Joke
4. Paid In Full
5. Follow The Leader
6. Microphone Fiend
7. Lyrics of Fury
8. Let The Rhythm Hit 'Em
9. Mahogany
10. In The Ghetto
11. Juice
12. What's On Your Mind?
13. It's Been a Long Time
14. The Mystery (Who is God?)
15. When I Be On The Mic
16. I'll Be There

[BoyBrumby]

Excellent idea for a thread!

I'll do my favourite band first. I'll limit myself to fourteen songs as it seems a decent length for a best of compo. The order is simply vaguley chronological.

Crisp Songs, Salted Lyrics: The Best of The Smiths

1) Hand in Glove (Hatful of Hollow version)
2) Reel Around The Fountain (The Smiths version)
3) What Difference Does it Make? (Hatful of Hollow version)
4) This Charming Man
5) Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
6) Please, Please, Please Let me Get What I Want
7) How Soon is Now?
8) What She Said
9) That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
10) The Queen is Dead
11) I Know it’s Over
12) Cemetry Gates
13) Death of a Disco Dancer
14) Paint a Vulgar Picture

& the best pop band ever:

Forever Fabulous: The Best of The Beatles

1) Twist & Shout
2) A Hard Day’s Night
3) Daytripper
4) Norweigan Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
5) Paperback Writer
6) Eleanor Rigby
7) I’m Only Sleeping
8) Tomorrow Never Knows
9) Strawberry Fields Forever
10) Penny Lane
11) A Day in the Life
12) Lady Madonna
13) Helter Skelter
14) Come Together

It can't be done. Fourteen's too few!

[Swervy]

How about condensing the Beatles White album into one disc, of not much more than 40 minutes.....

I have done it and its damned hard to do. Have messed with the running order so it sounds more like a proper album.

SIDE ONE

1. Back In The USSR
2. Dear Prudence
3. Glass Onion
4. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
5. I'm So Tired
6. Everybodys Got Something To Hide Except For Me And My Monkey
7. Julia

SIDE TWO

1. Birthday
2. Revolution 1
3. Sexy Sadie
4. Cry Baby cry
5. Helter Skelter
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Now that my friends would have had the makings of maybe the greatest album of all time, as it is it has to make do with maybe in the all time top 10

[Swervy]

Originally Posted by BoyBrumby

Excellent idea for a thread!

I'll do my favourite band first. I'll limit myself to fourteen songs as it seems a decent length for a best of compo. The order is simply vaguley chronological.

Crisp Songs, Salted Lyrics: The Best of The Smiths

1) Hand in Glove (Hatful of Hollow version)
2) Reel Around The Fountain (The Smiths version)
3) What Difference Does it Make? (Hatful of Hollow version)
4) This Charming Man
5) Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
6) Please, Please, Please Let me Get What I Want
7) How Soon is Now?
8) What She Said
9) That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
10) The Queen is Dead
11) I Know it’s Over
12) Cemetry Gates
13) Death of a Disco Dancer
14) Paint a Vulgar Picture

& the best pop band ever:

Forever Fabulous: The Best of The Beatles

1) Twist & Shout
2) A Hard Day’s Night
3) Daytripper
4) Norweigan Wood (This Bird Has Flown)
5) Paperback Writer
6) Eleanor Rigby
7) I’m Only Sleeping
8) Tomorrow Never Knows
9) Strawberry Fields Forever
10) Penny Lane
11) A Day in the Life
12) Lady Madonna
13) Helter Skelter
14) Come Together

It can't be done. Fourteen's too few!

wot no Rain, She Said She said, Happiness Is A Warm Gun, Hey Bulldog