I woulnd't actually cut anything from In Defense. I get why some would, but the sprawl and the fact that it took me a very long time to actually become familiar with the whole thing is all part of it. Like when I saw them for the first time and they played Spay Me which I hadn't heard (at least not enough to know it), it was so fun to come home and look that one up. At this point I love it all, even if I have clear favorites that I go back to a lot more. That being said if I had to cut it down (bolds are my true favorites): Skinny Mean Man No Soul That Is Why Surgically Removing the Tracking Device This is Fucking Ecstasy The Church Channel Shiksa Baby Girl, I'm a Blur R*****ed In Love An Insult To The Dead Sorry, Dudes. My Bad Spay Me The Truth Is, You Should Lie With Me About Falling Spores Have At Thee! Hangover Song Plea
Tickle Me Red was originally supposed to be on the album and it got replaced when Max wrote An Insult To The Dead. Really wish Tickle Me Red was on the track list.
"Tickle Me Red" is truly the GOAT Don't think there's enough I'd want to cut to make IDOTG any shorter than like 16 tracks so I'll take it as is, warts and all. My first SA album and I have a lot of junior high/high school memories associated with it.
Tickle Me Red is sometimes my favorite Say Anything song. anyway, most of IDOTG is good, not all of it is essential and some of it has aged fucking terribly lyrically speaking (we know the ones), but for the most part I have always felt it was a p damn good double record all things considered. I couldn’t cut enough songs to make it a single disc that would feel meaningfully better than what we got, personally. plus, imo, the unwieldiness of it is a feature and not a bug
1. Skinny, Mean Man 2. No Soul 3. That Is Why 4. Surgically Removing the Tracking Device 5. This Is Fucking Ecstasy 6. The Church Channel 7. Shiksa (Girlfriend) 8. Baby Girl I'm a Blur 9. People Like You Are Why People Like Me Exist 10. Spay Me 11. In Defense of the Genre 12. About Falling 13. Spores 14. We Killed It 15. Have at Thee! 16. Hangover Song 17. Plea Would be my version. All killer, no filler.
Realistically for me it's: IARB/In Defense > TBC/SWYA/IR > Hebrews > Saves the Day Trilogy > OA/IDTIIS/Anarchy/Baseball > 9/STD Self-Titled So with a lot less of these ">>>" I'm more willing to hear y'all out. And I'll give you that Saves the Day is a lot more consistent. Edit: Ok Oliver Appropriate is probably not better than any of the trilogy albums so I moved that.
oh lord, here I go IARB > SWYA > IR > STA > UTB > Daybreak > 9 > Saves The Day > TBC > Say Anything = Anarchy > IDOTG > Hebrews > OA > CSD > Baseball > IDTII