The ILM Fan-made "BEST OF" PROJECT -- All are welcome! Pick your band, make your own Best Of or Anthology! (DON'T POST TRACK LISTS YET PLZ)

The way this works is simple. You pick a band you love and know the discography of very well. You create a best of album that could possibly fit on one or two CDs -- no more than two cds worth of tracks. This is about an anthology length compilation not a box set!

Firsties get dibs. The quick response gets the band. You want The Beatles or the Velvets? Better post first and call dibbs!

NO FILE SHARING.... Please post a tracklist when you are ready. OR BETTER YET -- A shared spotify playlist. I am willing to prepare one for anyone whose band and track choices are up on spotify but they personally do not have a spotify account.

You all have TWO WEEKS to devise your compilations - and you'd better come up with clever names for them.

Other rules:
1. You can have two compilations. So if you want to do a really obscure band comp and also one for a more well-known act that is ok. Or you can pick two well-known acts or two obscure ones. Its up to you! Just watch the thread and don't pick anyone else's band or artist choice.

2. Don't be lazy. Don't use the tracklist of some existing comp... use your own imagination and judgements. Its all up to you!

Does this make sense? Be sure to ask any questions you might have. And since I am starting this thing I get first choice! My two bands are:

-- Ween
-- Yo La Tengo

There you have it folks! If you think this is a stupid thing please don't bother posting. On Sept. 8, in a little over a week an a half now a new thread will be made for you all to go nuts and post your tracklists and everything. This thread is just for reserving artists you want to make comps of, please hold of posting tracklists until the new thread pops up in due time. Thank you so much.

Ready... set... GO!!!

I'm calling Joni Mitchell and uh -- I don't know. I'll think of my second later.

Screaming Trees
Redd Kross

Please post your choices using BOLD so others can easily tell whats been selected so far...

Joni Mitchell

i didnt choose husker du and funkadelic cuz i could never have limited myself to 2 cds each lol

gonna take outrageous cherry and for against

considered section 25 but my fandom is slanted against their first 2 albums so wouldn't be fair

gonna take outrageous cherry and for against

You mean:

For Against
Outrageous Cherry

right?

Spacemen 3

CD1
1. Take Me To The Other Side
2. Walkin' With Jesus
3. Honey
4. Rollercoaster
5. Hypnotized
6. Feel So Good
7. Things'll Never Be The Same
8. Revolution
9. Ode To Street Hassle
10. Losing Touch With My Mind
11. We Sell Soul
12. Call The Doctor
13. Ecstasy Sympathy / Transparent Radiation

CD2
1. Big City
2. How Does It Feel?
3. I Believe It
4. O.D. Catastrophe
5. When Tomorrow Hits
6. Sometimes
7. Billy Whizz / Blue 1
8. Drive / Feel So Sad
9. Little Doll
10. Suicide
11. Lord Can You Hear Me?

yes xpost

Arthur Russell - I'll probably do with- and without-Spotify versions because a lot of the great stuff isn't on there.

Does this have to be like a greatest hits, or can it be thematically organized?

Does this have to be like a greatest hits, or can it be thematically organized?

― Mordy, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 5:59 PM (15 seconds ago) Bookmark

It can be a best of, or an anthology -- an anthology can be based on different criteria, of course, and yes it can be done by "theme" or a b-sides collection or singles or whatever! Thanks for asking!

Monster Magnet

Man...ILM. Every band I think of, I just think "there's someone else here who knows waaaay more about this band than I do."

who cares if they do, just book it!

Jay-Z

Also complicating matters is that a lot of bands I like only seem to have 1-2 albums, so there's not much material to choose from.

WHY IS IT SO HARD?! *scrolls through iTunes*

it doesn't matter if someone knows more about a band, if you love them - choose them! your quick posting proves your dedication way more than some ephemeral academic knowledge.

my second is Charming Hostess

Alright, I'm going for (ILX-despised) The Microphones/Mt. Eerie

Blue Oyster Cult

The White Stripes

(lots of cover versions)

Jimmy the Exploder
The Big Three Killed My Baby
Cannon
St. James Infirmary Blues
You're Pretty Good Looking (For a Girl)
Apple Blossom
Little Bird
I'm Bound to Pack It Up
Jolene
Party of Special Things to Do
Fell In Love With a Girl
Hotel Yorba
Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground
Same Boy You've Always Known
Seven Nation Army
Hardest Button to Button
I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself
You've Got Her in Your Pocket
Blue Orchid
Little Ghost
My Doorbell
The Denial Twist
As Ugly As I Seem
Take Take Take
Icky Thump
You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told)
Conquest
Catch Hell Blues
Sugar Never Tasted So Good

(think that'll fit into 80 minutes?)

(maybe not)

I'm also going to be a total asshole and call

Kraftwerk

XXP i don't know... will it? I'm not the compiler, you are!

Z_S you are attempting to choose 3 bands AFAIK...

think he's counting Microphones/Mt. Eerie as one

it's the same dude, so i guess that makes sense

Rasputina
The Police

Ok then... Abbott you only get 2, sorry.

lol and mod magic makes me look mad!

Yeah, sorry I am counting Microphones/Mt. Eerie as one because they're both the same dude (Phil Elvrum) playing more or less by himself with occasional help from friendz. Hope that's cool

yes that is fine Z S

The Roots
MF DOOM

mf doom now we are talkin!

sorry make that MF DOOM + All side projects + KMD

Talk Talk

BTW!!!

I'm not keeping track of who choose what just what's been taken, so you'd better remember what bands/artists you all chose.

Magic Dirt

Been thinking about this anyway.

Michael Hurley
Muslimgauze

og man this is too hard, don't have any space for any guest verses or breaks or anything off that dope Monster Island Czars album :(

CAN

You have two weeks to make your comp! settle down and think it through!

I've done The Grifters as three ~80min cds but I can knock it down to two
I would eventually like to tackle Motorpsycho unless someone else wants it

Pavement

Sleater-Kinney
The Blue Notes and all affiliated projects (Brotherhood of Breath, Assagai, Spear, Isipingo, etc.)

Magic Dirt

Been thinking about this anyway.

― dlp9001, Wednesday, August 25, 2010 9:44 PM (18 minutes ago)

I did a super-duper Magic Dirt compilation a few years ago (before the most recent album came out). One double disc of album tracks, one double disc of b-sides. I'll be interested to compare and contrast when yours shows up.

xpost

(i haven't even heard all of the various Blue Note derivatives, but plenty to make up an anthology. which really needs to exist in real life, there's a staggeringly great boxset to be compiled.)

a) i don't see the point of doing a collection where most of the tracks are gonna be on one of the band's hits comps
b) they have a lot of great tracks that aren't/couldn't be singles and delve into areas they are less associated with

i hope that explains it all

in that spirit, I will try to do The Rolling Stones excluding any songs from: Hot Rocks, More Hot Rocks, or Forty Licks.

just make it out of songs from sucking in the 70's and made in the shade.

and rolled gold. and time waits for no one. and solid rock. and slow rollers. and metamorphosis.

and no stone unturned. and rock 'n' rolling stones. and milestones. and gimme shelter. and stone age. and through the past darkly. and big hits (high tide and green grass).

haha... they do have a ridiculous amount of hits collections. These seem to be the bestselling though... maybe the Big Hits collections too.

Who's doing Waits? I would find that extremely hard to even narrow down to two discs.

LIST OF ARTISTS ALREADY TAKEN

The Able Tasmans
Al Green
Arthur Russell
Autechre
Bardo Pond
The Beatles
Björk
The Blue Notes (and all affiliated projects)
Blue Öyster Cult
Boards of Canada
The Bonzo Dog Band
Brian Jonestown Massacre
CAN
The Chameleons
Charming Hostess
The Clash
The Cure
Dagmar Krause
Dionne Warwick
The Divine Comedy
Foetus/Foetus related
For Against
Fountains of Wayne
Fugazi
Genesis
Gong
The Grifters
Husker Du
Jay-Z
Jefferson Airplane/Great Society/Etc
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Joni Mitchell
The Kent 3
Kevin Ayers
The Kinks
Kleenex Girl Wonder/Graham Smith
Kraftwerk
Les Savy Fav
Liz Fraser
Low
Luna
Magic Dirt
Marissa Marchant
The Mekons
Melvins
MF DOOM + All side projects + KMD
Michael Hurley
The Microphones/Mt. Eerie
"M.I.K.E." Dierickx
Mike Patton
Modest Mouse
Momus
Monster Magnet
Motorpsycho
Muslimgauze
MX-80 (Sound)
My Bloody Valentine
Neil Young
Neptunes
Nico
Oh Sees
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Ornette Coleman
Outrageous Cherry
Pavement
Peter Hammill
PJ Harvey
The Police
Pram
Prince
Rain Parade
Rasputina
Redd Kross
Ride
The Rolling Stones
The Roots
Roots Manuva
Roxy Music
Saint Etienne
Screaming Trees
Serge Gainsbourg
Shoes
Simple Minds
Sleater-Kinney
Smog/BC
Spacemen 3
Sparklehorse
Sparks
Spoon
The Soft Boys
The Sound
Steely Dan
Stereolab
Stew/The Negro Problem
Super Furry Animals
Swans
The System
Talk Talk
Thin White Rope
Todd Rundgren
Tom Waits
UK Subs
Ween
The White Stripes
XTC
Yo La Tengo

I hope I caught everyone so far. If you can't remember what artists you snagged I feel bad for you son. I got 99 problems but my tracklists ain't 2 or even 1.

I have a question..should we be trying to get in the ballpark length-wise of existing best-of's for our chosen artist? Mine's coming in at just under 2 hours, but I keep thinking if there is already a best of release extant that can get on one cd, I should try to make it roughly the same length.
(Also, Scott and Soto, would you consider providing me with a you-send-it file of the Same Old Scene b-side "Lover"? I don't have it, can't get it, and remember loving it but can't put it on my list until I hear it in my sequence...if not, no worries)

My Beach Boys dibs didn't make the list. Can't wait to hear Fountains of Wayne and YLT.

For my second list I pick:

Squeeze

I can't decide whether to do a single-disc companion to Singles: 45s and Under, or succumb to my weakness and do a full-fledged double.

single-disc companion

I do this sort of thing frequently, especially when I pick up a compilation and want more, but not the artists entire catalog. Maybe I'll post some of those, too.

I'm not going to be able to doThe Soft Boys so throw it back in the pool.

plenty of Conway? you guys are nuts.

twas a joek, tho if it were me, I might make room for "Lovelee Sweet Darlene"

i wasn't joeking ;_;

Really want to do a Peter Murphy solo best-of but I've already claimed two artists... ;_;

Louis Philippe

I'll do Nas, but I gotta warn that I'm kinda a herb when it comes to the dude.

Fuck it, I'll do Pearl Jam too, cuz I've been feeling nostalgiac for that shit lately.

I'll do Nas, but I gotta warn that I'm kinda a herb when it comes to the dude.

― Parenthetical Grillz, Sunday, 5 September 2010 19:23 (36 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

1 - 10. Illmatic
11. Nas is Like
12. Made You Look
13. Stillmatic - the one that didn't make it through sample clearance

(Not thaaaat much of a herb.)

Magma

Elvis Presley

Felt

Ok-pixies is mine can&pixies. yeah!!

Stone Roses

Nah just kidding... I'll pick um...

Jorge Ben
The Zombies

I was going to request Jorge Ben, ty!

omg anticipation the day approacheth ladz

Damn excited about Louis Phillippe, Swans, Oh Sees!

I pick

US Maple

Who's doing Dagmar?

The Clientele

Cool, I'll have a a final list up soon and then tomorrow morning (US time) I'll start the new thread! I'm so glad so many decided to participate this is gonna be fun. The more effort you put into it the more enjoyment you will get from showing off your cool/perfect/odd/revisionist/conceptual/etc. compilations!

Oh by the way, any straglers have 1 hour to choose artists/bands... This ends at 12 o'clock Sedona Time Rift Standard Time (Arizona Standard Time Zone). So that should be 12:00 PST. Which is GMT -8:00.
Check out http://www.worldtimezone.com/ if you really want to know when this thing closes down in your area.

My Beach Boys dibs didn't make the list. Can't wait to hear Fountains of Wayne and YLT.

― skip, Tuesday, August 31, 2010 6:47 PM (1 week ago)

sorry skip that's been fixed...

Here's the big list, everybody!

The Able Tasmans
Al Green
Arthur Russell
Autechre
Bardo Pond
Beach Boys
The Beatles
Björk
The Blue Notes (and all affiliated projects)
Blue Öyster Cult
Boards of Canada
The Bonzo Dog Band
Brian Jonestown Massacre
CAN
The Chameleons
Charming Hostess
The Clash
The Clientele
The Cure
Dagmar Krause
Dionne Warwick
The Divine Comedy
Elvis Presley
Felt
Foetus/Foetus related
For Against
Fountains of Wayne
Fugazi
Genesis
Gong
The Grifters
Husker Du
Jay-Z
Jefferson Airplane/Great Society/Etc
Jonathan Richman & the Modern Lovers
Joni Mitchell
Jorge Ben
The Kent 3
Kevin Ayers
The Kinks
Kleenex Girl Wonder/Graham Smith
Kraftwerk
Les Savy Fav
Liz Fraser
Louis Philippe
Low
Luna
Magic Dirt
Magma
Marissa Marchant
The Mekons
Melvins
MF DOOM + All side projects + KMD
Michael Hurley
The Microphones/Mt. Eerie
"M.I.K.E." Dierickx
Mike Patton
Modest Mouse
Momus
Monster Magnet
Motorpsycho
Muslimgauze
MX-80 (Sound)
My Bloody Valentine
Nas
Neil Young
Neptunes
Nico
Oh Sees
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Ornette Coleman
Outrageous Cherry
Pavement
Peter Hammill
Pearl Jam
Pixies
PJ Harvey
The Police
Pram
Prince
Rain Parade
Rasputina
Redd Kross
Ride
The Rolling Stones
The Roots
Roots Manuva
Roxy Music
Saint Etienne
Screaming Trees
Serge Gainsbourg
Shoes
Simple Minds
Sleater-Kinney
Smog/BC
The Soft Boys
The Sound
Spacemen 3
Sparklehorse
Sparks
Spoon
Squeeze
The Sound
Steely Dan
Stereolab
Stew/The Negro Problem
Super Furry Animals
Swans
The System
Talk Talk
Thin White Rope
Todd Rundgren
Tom Waits
UK Subs
US Maple
Ween
The White Stripes
XTC
Yo La Tengo
The Zombies

If you posted a claim on a band and it isn't on it, better speak up before I post the new thread in the morning.

Perhaps some mod could update the title indicating that THIS THREAD IS NOW CLOSED, at least for NEW DIBBS/BAGSIES.

This is totally going to be fun. Looking forward to a lot of these!

Who's doing Dagmar?

― The Bartered Bride (Ówen P.)

I am, although I haven't finished yet (whoops). I believe I read on twitter you were doing a collaboration with her - can't wait!

Go on then, I'll risk the absurd task of doing The Fall. Utter hubris of course.

uh, I'll put that in bold - The Fall.

It's already past the deadline! Do HMHB as well though. I'll take Six By Seven and uh lol FINE Cardiacs if we're allowed to sneak in last-minuters.

ugh, i didn't see that somehow, apologies. only just noticed the thread. I'll do one anyway, and whack it up on spotify.

I have already done a rival Fall Spotify playlist. We will duel. :D

I'm doing my Screaming Trees one now, and it's looking damn great.

whens kick off then?

The ILM Fan-made BEST OF/ANTHOLOGY Compilation project -- POST Tracklists, Cover Art, Liner notes, editorials, spotify links and/or otherwise LEGALLY obtained streaming album lists HERE!

about 45 minutes ago

a mod should lock this thread

well since you asked so nicely