TS: A Trip to Marineville VS Jane from Occupied Europe

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JfOE

For the dubby instrumentals. Really, the only thing that Swell Maps were actually good at.

Jane gets the edge. This is definitely a band whose discography was much smaller than they deserved, as I think the followup to Jane would have been even better.

me, I like the punky Swell Maps. Always preferred the first LP.

my favorite is some LP i have called "Sweep the Desert"

the only one of these two i know is Jane and I love that record.

Then gain knowledge of "Marineville" immediately sir! It gets my vote, love both however.

For the dubby instrumentals. Really, the only thing that Swell Maps were actually good at

And this is bollocks, by the way

almost impossible choice, but Jane gets my vote by a neck.

Robot Factory and Raining In My Room, such a great way to start and finish an album.

A Trip to Marineville is great! Jane... is almost perfect.

Jane

I always think that Jane is my favorite, and then Midget Submarines comes on...

MARINEVILLE

For the songs. Really, the only thing that Swell Maps were actually good at.

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Marineville. I got a full mooooonnn...

For the songs. Really, the only thing that Swell Maps were actually good at.

Agree to disagree (they were great at both the tunes *and* the more experimental stuff), but their most "songy" songs are on Jane From Occupied Europe. "Helicopter Spies", "Let's Buy a bridge", "cake shop girl", "Secret Island", "Bleinheim Shots" which segues amazingly into "a raincoat's room".

I mean, yeah, A Trip To Marineville is awesome too, but I usually only go back to that one for "Midget Submarines", "Harmony In Your Bathroom"(!!!), and "Full Moon/B.L.A.M.!/Full Moon Reprise".

And then there's the Collision Time Revisted comp which has all the best from their entire discography. That was my introduction to Swell Maps and I think it's probably the best career retrospective of any band.

agreed trip maker. those bomp comps were nice and all, but collision time revisited has been needing a repress for years! my dubbed tape aint gonna last forever.

Yeah, and its got "Let's Build a Car" ferchrissakes. Epic selected the tracks and running order himself. It's so perfect. The Munster 2lp 180g reissues are pretty nice, as well. I missed the singles box, though.

"Lets build a car" is one of the my favourite songs ever: totally awesome.

another point for the European/Mute edition of Jane From Occupied Europe: it has the definitive version of "Let's build a car" without the accidentally truncated fuzz gtr intro. (Is this version preserved on the Secretly Canadian issues?)

Trip Maker OTM WRT Collision Time. That was my intro to the band, too, and it remains, song for song, my favorite Swell Maps record. Wish I still had it...

(Is this version preserved on the Secretly Canadian issues?)
Let's Build A Car isn't on either of the Secretly Canadian cd issues,i think. Nor is it on the new-ish Munster reissues. It's on the Bomp/Total Energy/Alive reissue of Marineville, though. I'm not sure if I've heard this truncated intro version that Mackro is talking about. Sounds lame.

What's the deal with Let's Build a Car? Seems like it should come at the very top of any list of the band's essential songs. But it's often left off anthologies (like the Alive comps) and expansive reissues (like the Munster LPs). Are the rights owend by C.M. Burns?

It was in that singles box that Munster did. Yeah, seems like a no-brainer for inclusion on any Swell Maps compilation.

"Let's Build a car" leads off Collision Time Revisited, and I assume this also has the non-truncated fuzz guitar intro (like the bonus track on the Jane FOE Mute/EU CD), but of course, Collision Time Revisited isn't in print these days apparently.

There were two Alive comps, International Rescue and Sweep The Desert. The former was more Nikki heavy; the latter more Epic heavy. The former one does have "Let's Build a car". It's LOUDER than on the Mute/EU editions, but it's the first instance of "Let's build a car" where part of the intro was truncated.

Since then, it seems every inclusion of that song thereafter uses this truncated-intro version, even the Swell Maps 7" box on Munster.

My only guess about the mishandling of "Let's build a car" is because the remaining members don't think it's a big deal and/or thinks it's funny -- otherwise, it would have been taken care of.

Maybe it's just the LP of International Rescue that omits Car. Stupid obsolete audio format.

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As it should be. Both are fucking amazing though.