Make a terrible tracklist for classic albums

Led Zeppelin III
Side A

Hats off (to Roy Harper)
Bron y aur stomp
Out on the Tiles
Celebration Day
Gallows Pole

Side B
Tangerine
Since I've been Loving You
Friends
Immigrant Song
That's the Way

Now that's when Atlantic would have pulled the plug on the mighty Zep, : "You won't hear from them again"
To make the mess complete, Jimmy changed the colorful spinning wheel sleeve cover (he didn't like it) to a complete white one. And the title switched from III to 'Hey Hey What can I do' ( a track that even didn't make it on the LP)

 

Or hide Teen Spirit in the pregap so most people can't find it.

 

Really? That makes no sense at all...

That is true. The UK Revolver cassette seems like the worst offender to me- on side two, you get four McCartney songs in a row, and then follows with the three most 'out there' tunes. No real sense of 'flow' at all.

Some artists really sweat blood over getting the running order of an LP just so, and it's easy to see why. Messing with it is just wrong.

 

John Coltrane, Ascension:
Side A: "Ascension (Part II)"
Side B: "Ascension (Part I)"

(The same silly joke can be done with Jethro Tull's Thick As A Brick and A Passion Play, among others).

 

Donald Fagen - The Nightfly

Maxine
Walk Between The Raindrops
I.G.Y.
Ruby Baby

The Goodbye Look
Greet Flower Street
New Frontier
The Nightfly

 

How's this grab ya:

Steely Dan, Gaucho:

Third World Man
Gaucho
My Rival
Time Out Of Mind
Glamour Profession
Babylon Sisters
Hey Nineteen

The Royal Scam:

The Fez
Green Earrings
Sign In Stranger
The Royal Scam
Caves Of Altamira
Everything You Did
Kid Charlemagne
Haitian Divorce
Don't Take Me Alive

The trick, in both of those cases, is making it past side one

Oh, hell...we got time for one more...

Countdown To Ecstasy:

Pearl Of The Quarter
Your Gold Teeth
My Old School
Razor Boy
King Of The World
The Boston Rag
Show Biz Kids
Bodhisattva

 

"Long Long Long" isn't a bad song. It's just kind of boring. I don't think "Savoy Truffle" is great, per se, but it has a fun vibe. I definitely would've put "Not Guilty" on the actual album in place of "Long Long Long" though.

 

Probably already mentioned, but I'd put the runout groove of Sgt Pepper 1st on side 1. The rest of that side is no longer relevant, so let's move to side 2.

Within Without You
She's Leaving Home
Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite
When I'm 64
and the grand finale...

Fixing a Hole

 

The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday

Side 1
CTA-102
Mind Gardens
Renaissance Fair
Why
Time Between

Side 2
Have You Seen Her Face
Everybody's Been Burned
My Back Pages
Thoughts & Words
Girl With No Name

 

I know what you mean, for me it would be 'bye bye Piggies'. A real Beatles low point for me. I don't think Not Guilty is anything special though.

 

Not terrible. Just a bit confusing.

 

While I have certainly heard all of THE WHITE ALBUM over 30 times in my life, to this day merely seeing the title "Long Long Long" does not enable me to summon to mind anything about it. It might be the only Beatles song of which that's true, minus some instrumentals.

 

"Long Long Long" stuck in my mind because the ending scared me a bit when I was a kid.

 

I think Long Long Long is beautiful.

 

Music For Airports
2/1
2
2/2
1
That'll mess people up.

 

Deliciously sadistic.

 

Banana & Louie & Train
Pet Sounds
Let's Go Away for a While
I Just Wasn't Made for These Times
You Still Believe in Me
Caroline No
Sloop John B

Waiting for the Day
That's Not Me
Wouldn't It Be Nice
God Only Knows
Here Today
I Know There's an Answer
That's Not Me

 

Billion Dollar Babies: Alice Cooper (1973)

SIDE ONE
Mary Ann (with the jarring intro abruptly beginning out of nowhere from the end of "Sick Things")
Sick Things
Billion Dollar Babies
I Love The Dead
Generation Landslide

SIDE TWO
Unfinished Sweet
No More Mr. Nice Guy
Elected (Single Edit)
Raped And Freezin
Hello Hooray (Single Edit)

There, that should be fairly un-cohesive with a couple of shortened versions thrown in to enhance its lackluster presentation.

The funny thing, though, is that it's actually hard to make a "great album bad". This thing has no flow but I'd certainly enjoy most the songs regardless.

 

Alice Cooper: School's Out (1972)

SIDE ONE
Grand Finale
Street Fight
Luney Tune
Alma Mater
Public Animal #9

SIDE TWO
Gutter Cat vs. The Jets
Blue Turk
School's Out (Single Edit)
My Stars

The songs remain great, but I think I screwed up the flow about as best as I can.

 

Chicago Transit Authority (1969)

SIDE ONE
Free Form Guitar 6:51
Prologue (August 29, 1968) 0:57
Listen 3:23
Poem 58 8:36

SIDE TWO
Liberation 14:40
Introduction 6:33

SIDE THREE
Someday (August 29, 1968) 4:16
Beginnings 7:55
I'm A Man 7:42

SIDE FOUR
South California Purples 6:12
Questions 67 & 68 5:02
Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? 4:35

For good measure, make the final two songs the edited single mixes, and turn an already short side four into an even shorter (and more peculiar) side four.

 

Brothers Out Of Arms:

The Man's Too Strong
Walk Of Life
Brothers In Arms
Money For Nothing
Your Latest Trick
One World
Why Worry
So Far Away
Ride Across The River

 

Led Zeppelin - In Through The Out Door (1979)

1. Carouselambra
2. Hot Dog
3. South Bound Suarez

4. All My Love
5. In The Evening
6. I’m Gonna Crawl
7. Fool In The Rain

Pretty rough going.

 

I think I must really have a weakness for this album because I actually kind of like that order! I might just try it!

 

The Fall, The Unutterable:

1. "Cyber Insekt"
2. "Two Librans"
3. "W.B"
4. "Sons of Temperance"
5. "Dr Bucks' Letter"
6. "Hot Runes"
7. "Way Round"
8. "Octo Realm/Ketamine Sun"
9. "Serum"
10. "Unutterable"
11. "Pumpkin Soup and Mashed Potatoes"
12. "Hands Up Billy"
13. "Midwatch 1953"
14. "Devolute"
15. "Das Katerer"

 

Not bad, actually. If that were it, we'd all be used to it and it'd seem natural.