I love the way Wake Up goes into Long Defeat though. I think an extra song actually does the album well.
Listening to the album now and just slotted "Sea Change" in between "Seneca" and "Black Honey". Works well enough for me, I think I may keep it that way.
haha I almost made the joke about how I'd replace Blood in the Sand with Blood clots and Wake Up with Yellow Belly but I think that would be too good and make people who think this album is their best mad.
Identity Crisis In Your Hands T&C Deadbolt In Years to Come So Strange I Remember You Under a Killing Moon Silhouette The Melting Point of Wax For Miles Of Dust and Nations Red Sky Firebreather The Arsonist Lost Continent Broken Lungs Daedalus Child of Dust The Weight Circles Beggars Yellow Belly Blinded Cataracts Hurricane Black Honey Death from Above Flags of Dawn Red Telephone Sea Change
Oh geeze. Let's see. This will be minus Identity Crisis and Alchemy Index 3/4 because I never listen to those albums. The Red Death Trust The Beltsville Crucible Under A Killing Moon Paper Tigers Hoods On Peregrine Atlantic For Miles Of Dust And Nations The Messenger The Flame Deluge Digital Sea The Weight Talking Through Glass/We Move Like Swing Sets Beggars Yellowbelly Promises Call It In The Air The Window Death From Above Whistleblower The Weight of Glory Lullaby Sea Change
I assume this is 3 best tracks from each album plus B-sides? If so: Phoenix Ignition Ultra Blue A Torch To End all Torches Kill Me Quickly In Years to Come Betrayal is a Symptom Under a Killing Moon Blood Clots and Black Holes The Abolition of Man For Miles Of Dust and Nations Like Moths to Flame The Messenger Burn the Fleet Firebreather Daedalus Come All You Weary Broken Lungs All The World is Mad At the Last The Great Exchange Yellow Belly Promises Words in the Water Black Honey Hurricane The Long Defeat Motion Isn't Meaning Red Telephone Flags of Dawn
Deadbolt Trust The Beltsville Crucible Cold Cash And Colder Hearts Silhouette Hoods On Peregrine The Earth Will Shake Of Dust And Nations Red Sky Firebreather The Arsonist Digital Sea Broken Lungs Daedalus Come All You Weary All The World Is Mad Circles Beggars Yellow Belly Words In The Water Anthology The Window The Long Defeat Death From Above
just 4 releases for me TAITA (yeah the singles are the best tracks) -Stare At The Sun -All That's Left -The Abolition of Man Vheissu -For Miles -Hold Fast Hope -The Earth Will Shake Fire/Water (doing two of each cause fucking all of these are 10/10 songs) -The Arsonist -Burn The Fleet -Night Diving -The Whaler Air/Earth (same) -Daedalus -The Sky Is Falling -Come All You Weary -The Earth Isn't Humming (I know they didn't write it but the cover is so much better than the original)
The Earth Will Shake Music Box Red Sky Firebreather The Arsonist Open Water Daedalus The Earth Isn't Humming Broken Lungs Circles At The Last Beggars Yellow Belly Words In The Water Anthology Hurricane The Long Defeat Black Honey
Not necessarily best/favorite, I think the idea is a "starter pack" to get someone introduced to the band. So you might focus on songs that represent the sound of that album/era the best, or show off a side of the band not represented by other songs. At least that's the way I approach these.
Here's mine. I'm cheating with TAI and I have no shame about it; I thought about picking 3 from each volume, but thought that was a bit too far. Phoenix Ignition To What End? Ultra-Blue Deadbolt In Years To Come So Strange I Remember You (Live version from If We Could Only See Us Now) Under a Killing Moon The Melting Point of Wax The Artist In the Ambulance The Earth Will Shake Stand and Feel Your Worth Red Sky Firebreather The Arsonist Digital Sea The Whaler Broken Lungs Daedalus The Earth Isn't Humming (MySpace Transmissions version) Come All You Weary The Weight Circles Beggars Yellow Belly Call It In the Air Anthology Hurricane The Window Death From Above Flags of Dawn Helter Skelter Sea Change I took a couple liberties, and Illusion was the hardest for me to choose for some reason. I need to listen to that again tomorrow, it's been a while.
Identity Crisis Phoenix Ignition T & C Deadbolt Trust To Awake and Avenege the Dead Cold Cash and Colder Hearts Stare at the Sun The Artist in the Ambulance For Miles Like Moths To Flames Music Box The Messenger The Whaler Moving Mountains All the World is Mad The Weight Beggars Yellow Belly Promises Listen Through Me Hurricane The Long Defeat Stay With Me
Deadbolt Awake Beltsville Moon Cold cash Artist Music box Image Red sky Firebreather Burn the fleet Digital sea Earth isn't humming Broken lungs Moving mountains In exile Circles Glass Whistleblower Death Stay
Identity Crisis To What End T&C Betrayal is a Symptom Where Idols Once Stood To Awake and Avenge the Dead Under a Killing Moon Hoods on Peregrine Don't Tell and We Won't Ask Between the End and Where We Lie Atlantic Music Box The Messenger Digital Sea The Whaler A Song for Milly Michaelson Daedalus Silver Wings The Weight In Exile At the Last Yellow Belly Words in the Water Anthology The Window The Long Defeat Stay with Me Red Telephone Flags of Dawn Motion Isn't Meaning
I'm kind of surprised at all of the Deadbolt picks, it's one of my least favorite songs on that album. Still great, but I prefer most of the album to it.
Same, but if it had the extended ending that they do live then that'd be another thing. I dig all the picks for All The World is Mad but almost everyone left out Black Honey and Burn the Fleet.....
So, this is somewhat uncomfortable as no one outside family has heard my voice in many, many years. However, there was an empty house locally (during the window in which the owners had moved out) that I was walking through and decided to take a few rough Thrice takes. Must have been Andy talking about the natural reverb on Manchester Orchestra's new album that was the inspiration; this hollow building was almost pleading for music. Anyway, here is a vocal snippet of the ending of Beggars.