All killer, no filler - make a so-so album into a kickass EP

I've found myself making quite a few custom playlists to do this lately - trimming away duds and songs that don't fit, tweaking the running order, occasionally adding a stray b-side released at the same time. What albums are good candidates for this? Track listings too, please.

Nicki Minaj - Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded
1. Roman Holiday
2. Come on a Cone
3. I Am Your Leader ft. Cam'ron & Rick Ross
4. Beez in the Trap ft. 2 Chainz
5. Hov Lane
6. Roman Reloaded ft. Lil Wayne
7. Stupid Hoe
8. Gun Shot ft. Beenie Man

Took some tracks from Fall Be Kind to make the album they should have...

Animal Collective - Merriweather Cut & Paste Pavillion

1. Graze
2. Brothersport
3. Bluish
4. On A Highway
5. What Would I Want Sky
6. Lion In a Coma
7. Summertime Clothes
8. No More Runnin

glad whiney deigned to participate in *this* mental exercise

Spoon - Ga Ga

1. Don't Make Me A Target
2. The Ghost Of You Lingers
3. You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb
4. Don't You Evah

Looking at my AC post upthread, I can conclude that the best logical step for the album after Centipede Hz would be an ambient record.

David Bowie - Young Americans

Young Americans
Win
Fascination
Right
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Across The Universe
Can You Hear Me (removed, 'Right' is a better song with a similar feel)
Fame
Who Can I Be Now? (added, although it's on the Rykodisc CD straight after 'Fame' anyway)

Spoon - Ga Ga

u crazy

yeah, i like that album all the way through and a lot of the ones you missed off too..

The thread where you turn an average LP into an amazing EP by removing half the songs

That thread is hilarious. Needs some blink tags as well.

Damn, knew it had to have been done before. Didn't think to search for 'LP'.

Also, careful with your strikethrough tags, kids.

not classics but...

Teenage Fanclub - A Catholic Education:

Everything Flows
Catholic Education
Too Involved
Critical Mass
Every Picture I Paint
Eternal Light
Everybody's Fool

Butthole Surfers - Piouhgd:

Revolution, Pts. 1 & 2
Hurdy Gurdy Man
Blindman / No, I'm Iron Man
Something
P.S.Y.
Barking Dogs

that only cuts about 10 minutes of throwaway garbage off piouhgd, but it turns a disappointing album of standard length into a good short one.

i tend to do this a lot on my itunes library, and untick the songs that ruin the album for me. it tends to be the odd song rather than a whole bunch, though.

Burial - Untrue

Archangel
Near Dark
Endorphin
Etched Headplate
Shell of Light
UK
Raver

R.E.M. Monster
-
What's the Frequency, Kenneth?
I Don't Sleep I Dream
Strange Currencies
I Took Your Name
Circus Envy
You

Sum 41 - 7 Series: All Killer No Filler

allmusic: Sum 41's entry in Island/Universal's 7 Series is a seven-track version of 2001's platinum disc All Killer No Filler. Six of the album's tracks have been removed, albeit somewhat randomly, leaving 20 minutes of peppy punk-pop and one great hit single, the infectious "Fat Lip."

1. Nothing on My Back
2. Fat Lip
3. Rhythms
4. Motivation
5. In Too Deep
6. Handle This
7. Pain for Pleasure

Why would you want to get rid of In McDonalds from Untrue?!

The Clash - Combat Rock

Car Jamming
Should I Stay or Should I Go
Rock the Casbah
Straight To Hell
Atom Tan
Inoculated City

The Cure - The Top

1. Shake Dog Shake
2. Birdmad Girl
3. Dressing Up
4. The Caterpillar

Metallica - Metallica

Sad But True
Wherever I May Roam
Through the Never
Of Wolf and Man
The God That Failed

^correct

Weezer – Weezer (2001)

1. Photograph
2. Hash Pipe
3. Knock-Down Drag-Out
4. Island In The Sun

Weezer – Make Believe

1. Perfect Situation
2. This Is Such A Pity
3. The Other Way
4. The Damage In Your Heart

Weezer – Weezer (2008)

1. Miss Sweeney
2. Pig
3. The Angel And The One
4. The Spider

Weezer – Raditude

1. The Prettiest Girl In The Whole Wide World
2. Tripping Down The Freeway
3. Run Over By A Truck
4. The Underdogs

Weezer – Everything Will Be Alright In The End

1. Ain't Got Nobody
2. I've Had It Up to Here
3. The British Are Coming
4. Eulogy for a Rock Band

That 'The Top' is a disgrace, but then I adore the whole thing

1. Planet Telex
2. Nice Dream
3. Just
4. My Iron Lung
5. Bullet Proof... I Wish I Was
6. Black Star

^^^ yeah good choices. Not sure I love Black Star that much. I'd swap it out for an era b-side, Talk Show Host or something.

DMX - ITS DARK AND HELL IS HOT

ruff ryders anthem
get at me dog
x is coming
stop being greedy
niggas done started something

While we're at it, I would chop'n'screw HTTT thusly:

2 + 2 = 5
Myxomatosis
There There
A Punch Up At A Wedding
Sit Down, Stand Up
I Will
We Suck Young Blood
Wold At The Door
Scatterbrain

Actually in my Bends I'm going to swap the order of Nice Dream and Just.

I prefer Talk Show Host to a couple of the tracks I've included as well, but isn't that cheating?

By the way, how could you not have Wolf as the final track?

yeah I swapped em round at last minute. I think I was wrong. I would greatly prefer HTTT if they'd had Sit Down, Stand Up as the lead in track on side 2 instead of coming straight after 2 + 2 = 5. I like a good buildy track, but it has to lead into SOMETHING, or be earned somehow and the double climax that opens HTTT always frustrated me.

I agree it's probably the weakest bit of sequencing they've done.

but with two of their best songs, weird

Cutting "Fake Plastic Trees", "Street Spirit", "High and Dry" in favor of "(Nice Dream)" just screams challops. Not that it's a bad song or anything—there are no bad songs on this album—but it's never done much for me, apart from the guitar solo (and even that's probably just a pavlovian response: 'Oh right, the next two songs are real rippers!')

here's Working For A Nuclear Free City's Businessmen And Ghosts, btw, without any of the stuff copied over from the debut album and then reduced into the England EP

Soft Touch
Heaven Kissing Hill
England
All American Taste
Je Suis Le Vent
Nancy Adam Susan
Asleep At The Wheel

^^^a proper 10/10, this

Cutting "Fake Plastic Trees", "Street Spirit", "High and Dry" in favor of "(Nice Dream)" just screams challops.

Possibly a challop, but a genuinely held one.

nice dream is the best song on The Bends.

the first 4 tracks on Tortoise - It's All Around You would make a killer EP

Mellon Collie

1) Take Me Down
2) Cupid de Locke
3) Thirty Three
4) Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
5) Farewell and Goodnight
6) Tonight Tonight
7) 1979
8) By Starlight
9) Beautiful

you have literally done a mellon collie redux without thru the eyes of ruby

you have done that

some interesting choices and omissions there Frederik.

The Half-Life of Pablo

Ultra Light Beam
Famous
Feedback
I Love Kanye
FML
Real Friends
No More Parties in LA
Waves
30 Hours (Soundcloud Version without Ad-Libs)

x-post: It flows really well in this version. But there's not a lot of guitar on it.

nice dream is the best song on The Bends.
― TARANTINO! (dog latin), Friday, May 6, 2016 12:54 PM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I can see saying it's the most *complete*, 'perfect', balanced song on the LP, structurally -- fwiw it's the only one I can imagine listening to several times in a row on repeat

XTC - Mummer

1. Great Fire
2. Wonderland
3. Ladybird
4. Frost Circus (Edit)
5. Love on a Farmboy's Wages

Jay-Z - The Blueprint 2

1. Excuse Me Miss
2. Hovi Baby
3. The Watcher 2
4. Some People Hate
5. All Around the World
6. Poppin' Tags
7. La La La (Excuse Me Again)