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What if...

Posted by: NedKelly ()

Date: July 14, 2010 15:49

.. the newer albums only contained 10 songs, like the ones often praised here? (Exept for Exile of course)

Steel Wheels:
Sad Sad
Mixed Emotions
Terrifying
Hold on to your hat
Hearts for sale
Blinded by love
Rock and a hard place
Can't be seen
Almost hear you sigh
Slipping away

Voodoo Lounge:
Love is strong
You got me rocking
Sparks will fly
The worst
New faces
Out of tears
I go wild
Brand new car
Blinded by rainbows
Thru and thru

Bridges to Babylon:
Flip the switch
Low down
Already over me
You don't have to mean it
Out of control
Saint of me
Alway suffering
Too tight
Thief in the night
How can I stop

A bigger bang:
Rough justice
Let me down slow
Rain fall down
Streets of love
Back of my hand
She saw me coming
Biggest mistake
This place is empty
Oh no, not you again
Infamy

I think the albums would have been better. That would have resulted in a lot of left overs for the vault, just like in the old days. It would have forced the band to make their choice of songs more carefully, and thus resulted in better albums. And hopefully the left overs would never surface on later editions of the original albums.

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Re: What if...

Posted by: Habemi ()

Date: July 14, 2010 17:33

Let's see what really is interesting to listen to then...

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NedKelly
.. the newer albums only contained 10 songs, like the ones often praised here? (Exept for Exile of course)

Steel Wheels:
Sad Sad - no
Mixed Emotions - no
Terrifying - yes
Hold on to your hat - no
Hearts for sale - no
Blinded by love - no
Rock and a hard place - yes
Can't be seen - yes
Almost hear you sigh - yes
Slipping away - yes

That's 4

Voodoo Lounge:
Love is strong - yes
You got me rocking - yes
Sparks will fly - no
The worst - yes
New faces - no
Out of tears - yes
I go wild - no
Brand new car - no
Blinded by rainbows - no
Thru and thru - yes

That's another 5

Bridges to Babylon:
Flip the switch - no
Low down - no
Already over me - no
You don't have to mean it - yes
Out of control - yes
Saint of me - yes
Alway suffering - no
Too tight - no
Thief in the night - yes
How can I stop - no

That's another 3

A bigger bang:
Rough justice - yes
Let me down slow - no
Rain fall down - no
Streets of love - yes
Back of my hand - yes
She saw me coming - no
Biggest mistake - no
This place is empty - no
Oh no, not you again - no
Infamy

That's another 3

So I could propose to make one album out of four albums with 15 songs...the quality isn't there

'Till the next time we say goodbye'

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Re: What if...

Posted by: NedKelly ()

Date: July 15, 2010 01:07

I think all of the songs above are great songs. If they had been released in 71 they would have been like brown sugar and the rest of Sticky fingers now.

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Re: What if...

Posted by: guitarbastard ()

Date: July 15, 2010 01:48

hmmm....you're right that all those albums are too long and have too many fillers and would be better with less songs on it...
but any album with streets of love on it is a crap album! ;-)
will do my "yes/no" list another time...

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Re: What if...

Posted by: Marhsall ()

Date: July 15, 2010 04:16

A lot of the recent b-sides should take their place ON the albums... they are a lot better than the "filler" and I'm using that word nicely

"Well my heavy throbbers itchin' just to lay a solid rhythm down"

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Re: What if...

Posted by: baxlap ()

Date: July 15, 2010 07:40

I agree that each album should be cut to 10 songs. But I don't think I'd go with the 10 you've chosen in any case, and I'd use some of the B-sides on each album as well. Different strokes for different folks.

Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2010-07-15 07:41 by baxlap.

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Re: What if...

Posted by: treaclefingers ()

Date: July 15, 2010 09:19

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baxlap
I agree that each album should be cut to 10 songs. But I don't think I'd go with the 10 you've chosen in any case, and I'd use some of the B-sides on each album as well. Different strokes for different folks.

Well exactly...and if for instance, you replaced Streets of Love (which I don't even mind), or Let Me Slow Down with Under the Radar...it's a completely different album.

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Re: What if...

Posted by: skipstone ()

Date: July 15, 2010 09:26

Oh wow. Habemi likes...Rock And A Hard Place, You Got Me Rocking, Thru And Thru and Streets Of Love?

Uh huh.

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Re: What if...

Posted by: Habemi ()

Date: July 15, 2010 11:17

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skipstone
Oh wow. Habemi likes...Rock And A Hard Place, You Got Me Rocking, Thru And Thru and Streets Of Love?

Uh huh.

So? do you have something to add to your one-liner?

'Till the next time we say goodbye'

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Re: What if...

Posted by: Addicted ()

Date: July 15, 2010 12:55

Rather than throwing out tracks, I'd prefere they re-released with bonus tracks from the vaults. There's gold in those vaults, and the Exile re-release proved it.

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Re: What if...

Posted by: NedKelly ()

Date: July 23, 2010 11:48

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Addicted
Rather than throwing out tracks, I'd prefere they re-released with bonus tracks from the vaults. There's gold in those vaults, and the Exile re-release proved it.

I couldn't disagree more. Give me new music. Regarding throwing out songs, I guess it's different to every person which songs to keep and so on. But to compare the extras on Exile with A bigger bang? I'd keep A bigger bang any day.

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Re: What if...

Posted by: susannewortmann ()

Date: July 23, 2010 11:54

A Bigger Bang would still suck, even when it would had been a single only! grinning smiley