Offer changes in a good song that you think would make it better

1. outrageous cherry - no escape from the infinite - cut at least half of the instrumental section in the middle and add 2 more verses
2. robin hitchcock - sattelite - add more verse+chorus

3. "Long Black Veil" by John Anderson should have a big gospel rave-up at the end.

4. Wichita Lineman should have another verse or two.

5. Remove the voice of Einar Orn from "Hit" by the Sugarcubes *

*this same point holds true for every Sugarcubes song.

4. Wichita Lineman should have another verse or two.

but then you'd run the risk of turning it into a narrative. part of its appeal lies in the sense of incompleteness it leaves you with, as if the narrator wrote a much longer song but left out a bunch of verses to avoid revealing some private shame.

do you think "Ode to Billy Joe" would be a stronger song if Bobbie tacked on a verse or two explaining that Billy threw a rag doll off the bridge & then killed himself because he couldn't come to grips with his own gayness? heresy, I say!

6. remove a verse and chorus from mazzy star's '5 string serenade', thus rendering the album perfect

7. extend "When You Rock in the Room" by Jackie DeShannon so it ends on a powerful drumbeat instead of fading out.

originally written by Arthur LEE
XPOST

7b. er, change the title back to "When You Walk in the Room" while you're at it, Jackie :-/

8. Cut most of the long outro out of many songs.
for example:
eurpean oil - destroyer
built to spill - stab
9. add mote verse=chorus to pavement's pueblo, infinite spark.
10. raise Malkmus vocals higher at the mix in Loretta's Scars

xpost: OTM I hate when they overextend the outro. Barabajagal by Donovan is one of my favorite songs of his but it always gets on my nerves how the outro only consists of the chorus repeated until madness.

I dunno, it helps me remember what his name was

11. Intersperse another three verses to "By The Time I Get To Phonix":

1. Petriefied Forest: While she's having breakfast Glen stops into the gift shop to buy some multi-hued wood.

2. Santa Fe: While she's in an important sales meeting, Glen admires the craftsmanship of the local artisans.

3. Fayetteville: While she gets up in the middle of the night to pee, Glen has a western omelette at the Iron Skillet.

lol!