Taylor Swift - Taylor's Versions (Re-Recordings Official Thread) Album • Page 207

Midnights is objectively not top 3 but damn if it hasn’t had some serious staying power for me. Tweak the tracklist a little and it’s her Tunnel of Love - the sneaky classic after the actual run of classics.

Problem with Lover is False God is the only song in the entire second half better than a 7.

 

by second half I hope you mean starting at track 11

 

death by a thousand cuts is the line for me, last good song other than false god

 

DBATC is my number 1 Taylor song on many days

 

Afterglow and Daylight are great

 

I have a soft spot for It’s Nice To Have A Friend, too

 

Afterglow is fantastic

 

Absolutely

 

Lover is my least favorite Taylor album and I don’t think it’s particularly close.

In the past 2 years I attempted to create a master spreadsheet of all songs and ranked them on each individual album, then against other track numbers (ie. all track 2s against each other), in the hopes of then using this info to create a list of favorite to least favorite. This method worked out ok for the top and bottom of the list, but the middle became too unwieldy and I took a break. But I do want to come back to it eventually. All of this to say, Lover did not fare well in the end.

Also unsurprisingly, with so many songs in the catalog, something I might not be into today might hit different (I am sorry) later, so it really is difficult to come to any definitive conclusions.

 

What’s your Midnights track list tweak? I think the second half of that album nosedives as well.

 

copy pastin from the album thread where I failed to revive discussion w this bad boy:

Lavender Haze
Maroon
Anti-Hero
You're On Your Own, Kid
Midnight Rain
Karma
Bejeweled
Would've, Could've, Should've
Sweet Nothing
Mastermind

could definitely hear an argument for Bigger Than the Whole Sky, You're Losing Me (if it counts), or Snow on the Beach but I think the above 10 is all killer no filler

 

Will have to try this. I have attempted and failed to make an alternate tracklist I think really works, but this looks pretty solid.

 

I guess we can shut down this thread, eh? Nothing gonna happen here, gonna migrate myself to the TTPD thread from now on I guess!

 

what about Debut TV?!

 

I'm putting money on it not being called Taylor's Version anymore, because the original is now her version. It's gonna be released as deluxe, re records, 2025 version, or something else

 

Idk, I know “Taylor’s Version” doesn’t carry the same meaning anymore, but still. It’s a pretty strong branding. Wouldn’t be that shocked if she still used it for that reason.

 

We'll see, but I'm pretty confident Taylor's Version is now a dead term

 

Pouring one out in advance for the fans who'll dutifully triple dip on the eventual Restoration Editions or whatever

 

Red (Definitive Edition)
- original album
- original deluxe tracks and b sides
- Taylor's Version
- Demos