The "Your perfect album" game

Octahedron

I don't know if this has been done before, but, let's give it a go anyway for something to do.  

Basically, you pick a band, and you take all of that band's albums (obviously therefore if the band has only got a few albums it's going to be easier to pick!) and make an album out of the songs on it. If they don't all have a similar number of songs, go for an "average" across the board.

So here's how it works... It's a little complicated. I'm picking The Darkness. They have 4 albums currently. STANDARD versions only! No bonus tracks, etc. Their albums have 10, 10, 11 and 10 tracks respectively. So we'll just go for a 10 track album to make it an average... 

I take all 4 of the first tracks from the 4 albums. Pick a favourite. That's my perfect album's track one, and so on. 

So here goes...

1. Black Shuck (from Permission to Land)
2. Open Fire (from Last of our Kind)
3. With a Woman (from Hot Cakes)
4. Roaring Waters (from Last of our Kind)
5. Love is Only a Feeling (from Permission to Land)
6. Hazel Eyes (from One Way Ticket to Hell... and Back)
7. Mudslide (from Last of our Kind)
8. Friday Night (from Permission to Land)
9. Love on the Rocks With No Ice (from Permission to Land)
10. Street Spirit (Fade Out) (from Hot Cakes)

Done. 

Anyone else want to play?

Moss

My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

All of it

 

BloodEagle

Too many to choose from with Slayer, but in the interests of creating what I think would be a cohesive sounding album I've narrowed it down to these- 
1. Chemical Warfare (Haunting the Chapel)
2. Evil has no Boundaries (Show No Mercy)
3. At Dawn they Sleep (Hell Awaits)
4. Angel of Death (Reign in Blood)
4.5 Altar of Sacrifice 
5. South of Heaven 
6. Dead Skin Mask (Seasons)
8. Criminally Insane (Reign in Blood)
9. Necrophiliac (Hell Awaits)
10. Post Mortem / Raining Blood 

guitarfishbay

Assuming they were re-mixed and re-mastered to all sound like they came from one album:

Muse - 

Origin of Symmetry tracks 1-6
Stockholm Syndrome
The Small Print
Sunburn
Cave

dtr

Here's mine for Pavement.  5 albums, averaging 13.4 songs each...

1.  "Summer Babe (Winter Version)" (Slanted And Enchanted)

2.  "Rattled By The Rush" (Wowie Zowie)

3.  "Transport Is Arranged" (Brighten The Corners)

4.  "In The Mouth A Desert" (Slanted And Enchanted)

5.  "Old To Begin" (Brighten The Corners)

6.  "Platform Blues" (Terror Twilight)

7.  "Gold Soundz" (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)

8.  "Father To A Sister of Thought" (Wowie Zowie)

9.  "Speak, See, Remember" (Terror Twilight)

10. "Heaven Is A Truck" (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)

11. "Starlings Of The Slipstream" (Brighten The Corners)

12. "Fillmore Jive" (Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain)

13. "Jackals, False Grails: The Lonesome Era" (Slanted And Enchanted)

thecolourbox

Predictably I'll choose The White Stripes, assuming all of these songs could be produced to sound like the production on Get Behind Me Satan, the arrangements can be the same.

1	Dead Leaves and the Dirty Ground	(White Blood Cells)
2	Black Math	(Elephant)
3	The Big Three Killed My Baby	(The White Stripes)
4	I Just Don't Know What to do with Myself	(Elephant)
5	Apple Blossom	(De Stijl)
6	Sister Do You Know My Name	(De Stijl)
7	Ball and Biscuit	(Elephant)
8	White Moon	(Get Behind Me Satan)
9	Hardest Button to Button	(Elephant)
10	Screwdriver	(The White Stripes)
11	Red Rain	(Get Behind Me Satan)
12	St James Infirmary Blues	(The White Stripes)
13	I Fought Piranhas	(The White Stripes)
14	I'm Lonely but I Ain't that Lonely Yet	(Get Behind Me Satan)

Interestingly my favourite actual albums are De Stijl And White Blood Cells which feature the least in this list...strange.

PolarityMan

Lateralus

RobDavies

Metallica

1. No remorse
2. Metal militia
3. Ride the lightning
4. Fight fire with fire
5. Creeping death
6. Trapped under ice
7. Battery
8. Disposable heroes
9. The thing that should not be
10. Blackened

RobDavies

Megadeth

1. Mechanix
2. Wake up dead
3. Good mourning/Black Friday
4. Peace sells
5. Liar
6. Hook in mouth
7. Holy wars
8. Rust in peace...Polaris
9. Kick the chair
10. Sleepwalker
11. Headcrusher

PolarityMan

RobDavies said:

Metallica

1. No remorse
2. Metal militia
3. Ride the lightning
4. Fight fire with fire
5. Creeping death
6. Trapped under ice
7. Battery
8. Disposable heroes
9. The thing that should not be
10. Blackened

wtf? fight fire with fire, no remorse, trapped uner ice and metal militia beat out the likes of master of puppets, one, harvester of sorrow, no leaf clover, call of ktulu? 

RobDavies

PolarityMan said:

RobDavies said:

Metallica

1. No remorse
2. Metal militia
3. Ride the lightning
4. Fight fire with fire
5. Creeping death
6. Trapped under ice
7. Battery
8. Disposable heroes
9. The thing that should not be
10. Blackened

wtf? fight fire with fire, no remorse, trapped uner ice and metal militia beat out the likes of master of puppets, one, harvester of sorrow, no leaf clover, call of ktulu? 

Yeah. 

Read the thread title.  It's not called 'What you think other people might like'. 

octatonic

Porcupine Tree:

1. Open Car
2. Anesthetize
3. Deadwing
4. Fear of a Blank Planet
5. Halo 
6. Arriving Somewhere but Not Here
7. Blackest Eyes
8. Gravity Eyelids
9. Bonnie The Cat
10. Lightbulb Sun

DarnWeight

Husker Du

I'm including Everything Falls Apart And More (early singles/tracks compiled) and Metal Circus (which at 7 tracks straddles the EP/Mini-LP divide), which comes in at a 16 track average over all the studio "albums"...

1. In A Free Land (Everything Falls Apart And More)
2. Diane (Metal Circus)
3. Something I Learned Today (Zen Arcade)
4. Chartered Trips (Zen Arcade)
5. Pink Turns To Blue (Zen Arcade)
6. Celebrated Summer (New Day Rising)
7. Perfect Example (New Day Rising)
8. Games (Flip Your Wig)
9. Private Plane (Flip Your Wig)
10. Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely (Candy Apple Grey)
11. Dead Set On Destruction (Candy Apple Grey)
12. Eiffel Tower High (Candy Apple Grey)
13. Ice Cold Ice (Warehouse: Songs And Stories)
14. It's Not Peculiar (Warehouse: Songs And Stories)
15. No Reservations (Warehouse: Songs And Stories)
16. Up In The Air (Warehouse: Songs And Stories)

...Should really have their cover of Eight Miles High in there, but kept it to originals only, with a 12:4 Mould:Hart split.  Couple of personal faves in there which might not otherwise make a critics "best of" (Perfect Example and Private Plane, in particular).

dtr

Having another go, and attempting the impossible this time... Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.  16 studio albums averaging 10.1 songs each which means six albums can't get a look in, so I've not allowed more than one song from any album.

1.  Tupelo (The Firstborn is Dead)

2.  Stagger Lee (Murder Ballads)

3.  Loverman (Let love in)

4.  Brompton Oratory (The Boatman's Call)

5.  The Ship Song (The Good Son)

6.  When I First Came To Town (Henry's Dream)

7.  Slowly Goes The Night (Tender Prey)

8.  Long Time Man (Your Funeral... My Trial)

9.  Push The Sky Away (Push The Sky Away)

10. Babe, I'm on Fire (Nocturama)

Bucket

I'm going with Silver Sun. I'm only familiar with their two major-label releases, they have two more independent ones which I plan to pick up soon. But based on the first two albums:

1: Golden Skin (from Silver Sun)
2: I'll See You Around (from Neo Wave)
3: Dumb (from Silver Sun)
4: Julia (from Silver Sun)
5: Yellow Light (from Silver Sun)
6: Scared (from Neo Wave)
7: There Goes Summer (from Neo Wave)
8: Sharks (from Neo Wave)
9: Service (from Silver Sun)
10: Lava (from Silver Sun)
11: Mustard (from Neo Wave)
12: Dead End (from Neo Wave)
13: Animals' Feet (from Silver Sun)

That'd be one fucking hell of a good album. There are several tracks from each album that I wish I didn't have to leave out, too.

lasermonkey

Cocteau Twins. The median and mode are 10 per album, so I'll go with that.
1: Lazy Calm (Victorialand)
2: Lorelei (Treasure)
3: Iceblink Luck (Heaven Or Las Vegas)
4: For Phoebe Still A Baby (Blue Bell Knoll)
5: Pandora (Treasure)
6: Cico Buff (Blue Bell Knoll)
7: Fotzepolitic (Heaven Or Las Vegas)
8: Eperdu (Milk And Kisses)
9: The Thinner The Air (Victorialand)
10: Frou-Frou Foxes In Midsummer Fires (Heaven Or Las Vegas)

And yes, I'm not making up those song titles!
I'd still rather listen to the albums as they were released, in their entirety.

PolarityMan

RobDavies said:

PolarityMan said:

RobDavies said:

Metallica

1. No remorse
2. Metal militia
3. Ride the lightning
4. Fight fire with fire
5. Creeping death
6. Trapped under ice
7. Battery
8. Disposable heroes
9. The thing that should not be
10. Blackened

wtf? fight fire with fire, no remorse, trapped uner ice and metal militia beat out the likes of master of puppets, one, harvester of sorrow, no leaf clover, call of ktulu? 

Yeah. 

Read the thread title.  It's not called 'What you think other people might like'. 

Calm down. It was an expression of surprise.