rank the songs on third/sister lovers

can't think clearly about the rest at the moment.

bonus tracks:
1. dream lover
2. nature boy
3. whole lotta shakin goin on
4. downs
5. till the end of the day

I always program the Ryko CD thusly:

9-10-1-11-18-13-12-14-4-5-17-3-6-7-8-2

I think that "Kizza Me" works as an opening number, but what else is out there?

6. Holocaust

* The next three are interchangable period *
7. Kizza Me
8. Thank You Friends
9. Jesus Christ
* the rest of the album *

1. Kanga-Roo
2. Holocaust
3. Big Black Car
4. Nighttime
5. Take Care
6. Thank You Friends
7. Femme Fatale
8. Blue Moon
9. Kizza Me
10. For You
11. Jesus Christ
12. You Can't Have Me
13. Stroke it Noel
14. O Dana

>Haha @ eddie hurt: I program it to the Italian boot LP that I first heard which had the best sequencing. The Ryko sequencing (and the subsequent liners contradict itsself!!!) is piss poor.

the first LP of this album, the PVC release from '78, has what I've always thought is the best sequence, so that be how I program it when I really want to hear it all the way through (which isn't all that often). Absolutely, the Ryko release sequence isn't good at all, and according to Rick Clark's liners Chilton and Dickinson could agree only on the first three and the last song in the sequence. I always thought beginning it with "Stroke It Noel" and ending with "Thank You" made perfect sense. What is the song order on the Italian boot you refer to, gygax!? The PVC is:
Stroke It-For You-Kizza-You Can't Have Me-Nightime-Blue Moon-Take Care (side A); Jesus Christ-Femme-O, Dana-Big Black-Holocaust-Kanga-Thank You.

The Ryko liners say they could only agree on the sequence of the last song but the liners say HOLOCAUST!!! (or something other than ends the proper sequence on the Ryko CD, nb: I am not a rock critic).

KangaRoo is so impossibly perfect. If you ever get the chance to play a Mellotron, immediately listen to this song afterward. Excellent on every level. My favorite song on the record easily.

i do like "kizza me" as an album opener, but everything else on the ryko disc is just so random.

it seems like there should be a 33 1/3 book about this album

There's one in the works for Radio City, I think...

eh not as interested in the production of that one. I mean, its a great album but there are fewer "how did they do that?" moments for me than there are on Third/Sister Lovers

i didn't 'get' this album until last week.

right now, this is my list:

1. stroke it noel
2. o, dana
3. jesus christ
4. kanga-roo
5. thank you friends
6. big black car
7. blue moon
8. holocaust
9. kizza me
10. take care
11. nightime
12. for you
13. femme fatale
14. you can't have me

The sequencing issues with this album are so weird -- I fell in love with Third/Sister Lovers via the Ryko version, so that sequence sounds "right" to me, though the above arguments make sense too ... Can't think of another favorite record of mine that doesn't have a "definitive" version. Maybe "I Often Dream of Trains" by Robyn Hitchcock -- that one has been futzed with many times ...

Track sequencing or even this crazy thread: C/D: Eight-track alternate sequencing?

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followed closely by Kangaroo & Holocaust (I only like Big Star songs covered by 4AD artists, apparently). All the rest are swell as well.

I have got to go back and dig out my copy of this album.

do y'all know the story about nature boy? jim dickinson was walking with a crutch or a cane at the time when they were recording. jim was playing piano. in the background of the song you can hear one of jim's kids, who i guess is now a musician in his own right (though it was kinda downhill from there), playing on a little toy organ. and half way through, he bumped into jim's crutch, resting against the piano, and knocked it over. the really really beautiful thing is that you can hear that it makes alex smile, and after you hear the crutch, you can hear the smile creep into his voice. i seem to remember it's at like 2.20?, but i forget. it is a nice story.

aw i can't hear any of that on my rykodisc copy ;_;

re: conversations above, i've never known any tracklistings other than the rykodisc. it'd be fun to know it some other way. i pretty much love every song though... i think mixing them up would well mix things up. does the rykodisc miss anything?

1. thank you friends
2. kangaroo
3. oh dana
4. take care
5. jesus christ
6. nighttime
7. stroke it noel
8. for you
9. kizza me
10. blue moon
11. nature boy
12. dream lover
13. holocaust
14. you can't have me
15. big black car
16. till the end of the day
17. downs
18. whole lotta shakin goin on

i love this disc so much i feel like radio city would be a lot easier to order for me and maybe others.

3. stroke it noel
9. nightime
4. kanga-roo
10. holocaust
7. thank you friends
11. big black car
6. jesus christ
1. o, dana
5. for you
12. kizza me
13. femme fatale
8. blue moon
2. take care
14. you can't have me

Wow, sooooooo long since I heard this album!

What an amazing album for a snowy day.

updated list:

1. stroke it noel
2. nightime
3. blue moon
4. o, dana
5. take care
6. jesus christ
7. thank you friends
8. big black car
9. kanga-roo
10. holocaust
11. kizza me
12. femme fatale
13. for you
14. you can't have me

1. stroke it noel
2. kanga-roo
3. take care
4. nightime
5. blue moon
6. holocaust
7. for you
8. kizza me
9. jesus christ
10. thank you friends
11. o, dana
12. femme fatale
13. you can't have me
14. big black car

1.Kanga-roo
2.Nighttime
3.Blue Moon
4.O, Dana
5.Holocaust
6.Thank You Friends
7.For You
8.Kizza Me
9.Stroke It Noel
10.Femme Fatale
11.Jesus Christ
12.Til the End of the Day
13.Take Care
14.Nature Boy
15.Big Black Car
16.Dream Lover
17.Whole Lotta Shakin Goin On
18.Down
19.You Can't Have Me