Red Mosquito

Breakerfall
Sad
Light Years
Nothing as it Seems
Insignificance
Grievance
Rival
Parting Ways


Better record

stip wrote:Breakerfall
Sad
Light Years
Nothing as it Seems
Insignificance
Grievance
Rival
Parting Ways


Better record

Oh sweet God, no.

PHATJ wrote:

stip wrote:Breakerfall
Sad
Light Years
Nothing as it Seems
Insignificance
Grievance
Rival
Parting Ways


Better record

Oh sweet God, no.

Yeah. NaiS is still on it.

one of the reasons I hold lightning bolt (and backspacer) in the esteem I do. While there aren't many truly top shelf songs on either of those albums, they are also albums where for the most part there's nothing I really need to cut. Even the weaker songs (excepting supersonic) are, at worse, fine.

Can't Keep
Save You
Down
Cropduster
Ghost
I am Mine
You Are
Get Right
Undone
1/2 Full
Man of the Hour


Better record

stip wrote:Can't Keep
Save You
Down
Cropduster
Ghost
I am Mine
You Are
Get Right
Undone
1/2 Full
Man of the Hour


Better record

Oh stip, you are so wrong.

stip wrote:one of the reasons I hold lightning bolt (and backspacer) in the esteem I do. While there aren't many truly top shelf songs on either of those albums, they are also albums where for the most part there's nothing I really need to cut. Even the weaker songs (excepting supersonic) are, at worse, fine.

Mankind, Lukin and Around The Bend are better than many songs on those albums.

I even enjoy I’m Open, but All Night would have been better, with I’m Open as a second b-side on a single.

stip wrote:Can't Keep
Save You
Down
Cropduster
Ghost
I am Mine
You Are
Get Right
Undone
1/2 Full
Man of the Hour


Better record

This is very good, but I don’t think it’s right adding Man Of The Hour. Love Boat Captain is a must for Riot Act. The heart of the album.

One of these days I'll perfect my personal Binaural tracklist.

stip wrote:one of the reasons I hold lightning bolt (and backspacer) in the esteem I do. While there aren't many truly top shelf songs on either of those albums, they are also albums where for the most part there's nothing I really need to cut. Even the weaker songs (excepting supersonic) are, at worse, fine.

There are almost zero songs from LB or Backspacer that I like more than anything from the albums the preceded them.

stip wrote:one of the reasons I hold lightning bolt (and backspacer) in the esteem I do. While there aren't many truly top shelf songs on either of those albums, they are also albums where for the most part there's nothing I really need to cut. Even the weaker songs (excepting supersonic) are, at worse, fine.

What a fascinating way to think about this. This is like saying you like a baseball team because all the hitters between .215 and .235

PHATJ wrote:There are almost zero songs from LB or Backspacer that I like more than anything from the albums the preceded them.

Same. I'd maybe go 4-5 songs from both records that are in the top half of the catalogue for me.

mkay0 wrote:

stip wrote:one of the reasons I hold lightning bolt (and backspacer) in the esteem I do. While there aren't many truly top shelf songs on either of those albums, they are also albums where for the most part there's nothing I really need to cut. Even the weaker songs (excepting supersonic) are, at worse, fine.

What a fascinating way to think about this. This is like saying you like a baseball team because all the hitters between .215 and .235

PHATJ wrote:There are almost zero songs from LB or Backspacer that I like more than anything from the albums the preceded them.

Same. I'd maybe go 4-5 songs from both records that are in the top half of the catalogue for me.

4-5 songs each?!? Lol. I think I have one total song from the two albums combined in my top half of PJ songs. One. That’s not an exaggeration.

I might’ve misinterpreted what you were saying. Looking again, I think you meant 4-5 songs total, not each. Still, that’s way too many!

PHATJ wrote:I might’ve misinterpreted what you were saying. Looking again, I think you meant 4-5 songs total, not each. Still, that’s way too many!

4-5 total was what I meant, and it's probably more like three.

mkay0 wrote:

PHATJ wrote:I might’ve misinterpreted what you were saying. Looking again, I think you meant 4-5 songs total, not each. Still, that’s way too many!

4-5 total was what I meant, and it's probably more like three.

perfect

Love
Binaural
Vs.
Gigaton
Ten
Yield
Vitalogy
No Code
Riot Act

Like
*Rarities*
Avocado
*Lost Dogs 1*
*Lost Dogs 2*

Dislike
Backspacer
Lightning Bolt

stip wrote: To be fair, many albums improve when you just cut the three weakest songs and replace a fourth.

It's the degree of difference that is of note to me. It's not just that it improves it's that it becomes my favorite album.

Anders wrote:

stip wrote:Can't Keep
Save You
Down
Cropduster
Ghost
I am Mine
You Are
Get Right
Undone
1/2 Full
Man of the Hour


Better record

This is very good, but I don’t think it’s right adding Man Of The Hour. Love Boat Captain is a must for Riot Act. The heart of the album.

Did MOTH come out after Riot Act or before? If after I agree.

stip wrote:

Anders wrote:

stip wrote:Can't Keep
Save You
Down
Cropduster
Ghost
I am Mine
You Are
Get Right
Undone
1/2 Full
Man of the Hour


Better record

This is very good, but I don’t think it’s right adding Man Of The Hour. Love Boat Captain is a must for Riot Act. The heart of the album.

Did MOTH come out after Riot Act or before? If after I agree.

After

stip wrote:Breakerfall
Sad
Light Years
Nothing as it Seems
Insignificance
Grievance
Rival
Parting Ways


Better record

If I was going to do this, I would go:

Breakerfall
Sad
Education
In The Moonlight
Light Years
Nothing As It Seems
Thin Air
Insignificance
Of The Girl
Rival
Sleight of Hand

That is a better record but it also feels like a different record. What I did with No Code doesn't change the album as much as our lists change Binaural.