Where would you have put "Genetic" on "Dirty" if Kim and Thurston hadn't been such dicks?

It would've been the best track on this record so easily that this is kinda impossible. Hendrix Necro is great too, for that matter. My least-liked SY album.

Even more dickish is putting a Sex Pistols rip called Stalker on the vinyl version, rather than restoring Genetic. Maybe they were annoyed at Mote being so good on Goo.

otm about 'Stalker', but I don't agree that 'Genetic' would have been the best song on the album: 'Theresa', 'Sugar Kane', 'Wish Fulfillment', 'Chapel Hill' and 'JC' are a few of their very best songs.

Yeah those are all great, it's just I connect emotionally with Genetic in a way that's pretty rare for me with SY (probably cos it's about his son). And it rocks hard (Steve Shelley's especially amazing on it iirc)

Put it after Youth Against Fascism and bump Crème Brûlèe (feel free to bump Nic Fit at the same time). Tough call though, this is a really strong album (also Lee has probably my favourite song here in Wish Fulfillment).

I'd replace "Youth Against Fascism" and "Nic Fit" with it. Thurston's attempts to shore up punk cred don't add much to the record.

The version here cooks. I might leave the recorded version as a B-side.

damn i haven't heard or thought of this song in MANY years. it's SO good -- i would put it in the second half of the album because i always thought those songs were kinda boring.

my head is spinning because the only reason i know this song is because this guy who stalked me left the 100% CD single on my car as a gift and i was conflicted because i loved this song so much (and 100% but Genetic was magically good) but i was in my first year of college, recovering from a long slide of bad events, and this dude's letters and unwanted attention were the last thing i needed. so confusing.

wow I totally forgot about this song. I also heard it on the CD single. I dunno. I'd have bumped Nic Fit for this definitely. Nic Fit seems like the ultimate b side.

Put it at the start. I'd happily go further and erase '100%' and 'Swimsuit Issue', such that it goes immediately into 'TSW'. It would indeed have "affected the sound of the album". I might even have refrained from selling it!

Thurston Moore in talking shit shocker

First track. It's more of a middle of side 1, perhaps side 1 closer, but I really, really dislike "100%" and "Genetic" just fucking rules.

i can imagine bob mould singing this on an album i would never hear. until the patented youth drift at the end there.

otm

i never listen to genetic

i also require performance of the original album to be on period-authentic instruments

Original baseball bat from Letterman U&K

Next up: Where would you have put "I Promise" on "OK Computer"?

this song has been stuck in my head ever since i saw this thread. over and over and over that one part -- "i see it, i believe, somehow i know it's true"

xp no way. Lift, maybe

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a worthy winner there.

i loved genetic when it came out. still got it on orange concentric groove vinyl which skipped between tracks (cos it was concentric grooved).