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Originally Posted by Antagon
That's a herculean task. And subject to personal preference, hence much debate.
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Well yeah, hence the word "challenge" in the thread title. I had originally made it much harder by adding a guideline about representing Lee-sung songs equally alongside Thurston- and Kim-sung, but then I realized the songs they sing on outnumber his 10:1.
The idea is to structure it in the same way as a typical "Greatest Hits" collection to give someone new to the band a taste of their overall sound. Anything beyond that would be overwhelming to the uninitiated. I included "The Diamond Sea", but I'm thinking of the shortened single edit.
Sacrifices will need to be made. I originally included "Halloween", "Kill Yr Idols" and more tracks off
EVOL, but I started running out of room for the later albums. Since I am a "rock guy" at heart, I wanted to include more tracks off
Goo and
Dirty, but I felt just having "Kool Thing" and "100%" represented their "hard alternative rock" phase well enough. I also ended up under-representing
A Thousand Leaves and
NYC Ghosts & Flowers since I have yet to get copies of those albums and have only heard a handful of tracks off them.
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And it would be tough to pick out single tracks off BMR due to the seemless structure courtesy of the segues.
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Just fade "Brave Men Run" out as the
Metal Machine Music loop kicks in. The album slams right into "Death Valley '69" and the song has a definitive ending.