Make a terrible tracklist for classic albums

Side 2 is almost too powerful.

Side 1 looks... interesting. It reflects side 1 of King Crimson’s Starless And Bible Black where everything turns moody after a powerful opening. I kinda like the thought of 4th Of July ending side 1, though.

Let’s see how I can dismember it...

Side 1:
1. MLK
2. 4th Of July
3. Indian Summer Sky
4. Promenade
5. A Sort Of Homecoming
6. Wire

Side 2:
1. Elvis Presley And America
2. Pride
3. Bad
4. The Unforgettable Fire

 

Evil Presence:

Side 1:
1. Hots On For Nowhere
2. Tea For One
3. Royal Orleans
4. Nobody’s Fault But Mine

Side 2:
1. For Your Life
2. Achilles Last Stand
3. Candy Store Rock

I think I’ve managed to absolutely destroy the atmosphere. If the album were sequenced like this I would at least understand the underwhelming rep it usually gets.

 

Or you could turn it into the “Single Fantasy” EP with the following tracklisting:

Kiss Kiss Kiss
Give Me Something
I’m Moving On
Yes, I’m Your Angel
Beautiful Boys
Every Man Has a Woman Who Love Him
Hard Times Are Over

 

King Crimson “Starless and Bible Black”:

Side A
Trio
Starless & Bible Black
The Night Watch
The Great Deceiver

Side B
The Mincer
Fracture
Lament
We’ll Let You Know

 

The Police-zenyatta Mondatta

1. Behind My Camel
2. Behind My Camel
3. Behind My Camel
4. Behind My Camel
5. Behind My Camel
6. Behind My Camel
7. Behind My Camel
8. Behind My Camel
9. Behind My Camel
10. Behind My Camel
11. Behind My Camel

 

I can't! LOL...sacrilege!

 

Too Low:

Side 1.
1. Subterraneans
2. A New Career In A New Town
3. Always Crashing In The Same Car
4. Warsawa
5. Be My Wife

Side 2.
1. Weeping Wall
2. Sound And Vision
3. Art Decade
4. What In The World (yup)
5. Speed Of Life
6. Breaking Glass

 

Make fun of it whatever you want, I think Long, Long, Long is amazing.

 

Piper At the Gates of Dawn

Chapter 24
Bike
Pow R Toc H
Matilda Mother (Belloc version)
Astronomy Domine
The Scarecrow

The Gnome
Flaming
Interstellar Overdrive
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
Lucifer Sam

 

Grand Funk Live Album

T.N.U.C. (w/ full drum solo)
Mean Mistreater
Into the Sun
Inside Looking Out
Paranoid
Heartbreaker
Are You Ready
In Need
Mark Says It's Alright

 

Metal Machine Music
Side 3
Side 1
Side 4
Side 2

 

Pixies "Doolittle":

La La Love You
Silver
Hey
Dead
I Bleed
Wave of Mutilation
Debaser

There Goes My Gun
Gouge Away
Monkey Gone To Heaven
No 13 Baby
Crackity Jones
Here Comes Your Man
Mr. Grieves
Tame


Van Morrison "Saint Dominic's Preview":

Listen to the Lion
Almost Independence Day
Saint Dominic's Preview

Redwood Tree
I Will Be There
Jackie Wilson Said
Gypsy

My goal here is to murder momentum with anticlimax.

 

In doing this too, I replicated your sequence.

 

Termite Album:

Side 1:
1. Goodnight
2. Don’t Pass Me By
3. Revolution 9
4. Piggies
5. Savoy Truffle
6. While My Guitar Gently Weeps
7. Sexy Sadie
8. Julia

Side 2.
1. The Continuing Story Of Bungalow Bill
2. Dear Prudence
3. Revolution 1
4. Yer Blues
5. Everybody’s Got Something To Hide...
6. Glass Onion
7. Happiness Is A Warm Gun
8. Cry Baby Cry

Side 3.
1. Can You Take Me Back
2. Why Don’t We Do It In The Road
3. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da
4. Martha My Dear
5. Mother Nature’s Son
6. Birthday
7. Back In The USSR

Side 4:
1. Blackbird
2. Helter Skelter
3. I Will
4. Rocky Raccoon
5. Honey Pie
6. I’m So Tired
7. Wild Honey Pie

See what I did there?

 

I think this thread should have ended with the guy who put "Mother" first on Synchronicity. I gave up trying to win the thread after reading that one.

I'll echo the guy who put the real running order of Goats Head Soup in the thread and nominate the actual running order of "It's only Rock and Roll" What a jumbled mess of a terrific album.

 

Fine, I'll quote him to give him his due. Well done sir. Mother-> Tea in the Sahara. A perfect WTF start to an album.

 

Which song would end side 1?

 

Terrible, i like it!

 

Beckola 1969

Girl from mill valley
Rice pudding
Plynth

Spanish boots
Hangmans knee
Jailhouse rock
All shook up

 

Beggars Banquet 1968

Dear doctor
Salt of the earth
Jigsaw puzzle
Stray cat blues
Prodigal son

No expectations
Parachute woman
Street fighting man
Sympathy for the devil
Factory girl

 

Wheels Of Fire 1968
(Live At The Fillmore)

Toad
Traintime

Spoonful
Crossroads

Exactly in reverse!

 

Disraeli Gears. 1967

Mothers lament
Blue condition
World of pain
Take it back
Were going wrong

Dance the night away
Swlabr
Strange brew
Tales of brave ulysses
Sunshine of your love
Outside woman blues

 

Fire and water 1970
Free

Don't say you love me
Oh i wept
Heavy load
Fire and water

Mr Big
All right now
Remember

 

Their Satanic Majesties Request 1967

Cosmic christmas (side 1 epilogue)
Sing this altogether c wot happens
Sing this altogether
Gomper (Instrumental end only)
2000 light years from home

On with the show
2000 Man
Citadel
She's a rainbow
In another land

 

Most of the proposals here just mix up some good songs in a less logical fashion.

But I agree that there's at least a side of stuff on the White album that's only saved by placement. Put all that stuff together and you have a bad acid trip.