Rock Albums Reimagined

There are many rock album, especially during the “CD era,” that would’ve been better had they simply been trimmed down by a few tracks. Here are some such albums, with my suggested revised track listing. (I’m simply removing tracks for the betterment of the album here, not re-sequencing and/or adding new tracks not on the original album.)

Ryan Adams: Heartbreaker Reimagined (11 songs, 43 minutes)

  1. To Be Young (Is To Be Sad, Is To Be High)
  2. My Winding Wheel
  3. Amy
  4. Oh My Sweet Carolina
  5. Bartering Lines
  6. Call Me On Your Way Back Home
  7. Come Pick Me Up
  8. Why Do They Leave?
  9. Don’t Ask For The Water
  10. In My Time Of Need
  11. Sweet Lil’ Gal (23rd/1st)

Ryan Adams: Gold Reimagined (12 songs, 53 minutes)

  1. New York, New York
  2. Firecracker
  3. Answering Bell
  4. Le Cienega Just Smiled
  5. The Rescue Blues
  6. Somehow, Someday
  7. When The Stars Go Blue
  8. Nobody Girl
  9. Gonna Make You Love Me
  10. Wild Flowers
  11. Harder Now That It’s Over
  12. Goodnight, Hollywood Blvd.

Blur: Modern Life Is Rubbish Reimagined (11 songs, 47 minutes including the “Intermission” and “Commercial Break” which I would ditch as well)

  1. For Tomorrow
  2. Advert
  3. Colin Zeal
  4. Pressure On Julian
  5. Star Shaped
  6. Blue Jeans
  7. Chemical World
  8. Oily Water
  9. Villa Rosie
  10. Turn It Up
  11. Resigned

Blur: Parklife Reimagined (11 songs, 43 minutes)

  1. Girls and Boys
  2. Tracy Jacks
  3. End Of a Century
  4. Parklife
  5. Badhead
  6. To The End
  7. London Loves
  8. Trouble in the Message Centre
  9. Clover Over Dover
  10. Magic America
  11. This Is a Low

Eric Clapton: Just One Night Reimagined (9 songs, 57 minutes)

  1. Tulsa Time
  2. Early In The Morning
  3. If I Don’t Be There By Morning
  4. Worried Life Blues
  5. All Our Past Times
  6. After Midnight
  7. Double Trouble
  8. Blues Power
  9. Cocaine

The Cure: Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me Reimagined (14 songs, 57 minutes)

  1. The Kiss
  2. Catch
  3. Torture
  4. If Only Tonight We Could Sleep
  5. Why Can’t I Be You
  6. How Beautiful You Are
  7. Just Like Heaven
  8. All I Want
  9. Hot Hot Hot!!!
  10. One More Time
  11. Like Cockatoos
  12. Icing Sugar
  13. This Perfect Girl
  14. A Thousand Hours

Guns n’ Roses: Use Your Illusions Reimagined (12 songs, 77 minutes)

  1. Dust N’Bones
  2. Don’t Cry (Original)
  3. You Ain’t The First
  4. November Rain
  5. Coma
  6. Civil War
  7. 14 Years
  8. Yesterdays
  9. Breakdown
  10. Locomotive
  11. Estranged
  12. You Could Be Mine

Jimi Hendrix: First Rays/South Saturn Delta Reimagined (18 songs, 77 minutes)

  1. Freedom
  2. Izabella
  3. Night Bird Flying
  4. Angel
  5. Room Full Of Mirrors
  6. Dolly Dagger
  7. Ezy Ryder
  8. Drifting
  9. My Friend
  10. Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)
  11. Earth Blues
  12. In From The Storm
  13. Look Over Yonder
  14. Here He Comes (Lover Man)
  15. The Stars That Play With Laughing Sam’s Dice
  16. Midnight
  17. Pali Gap
  18. Drifter’s Escape

Iron Maiden: The Number Of The Beast

Remove “Gangland,” keep everything else

Iron Maiden: Piece Of Mind

Remove “Quest For Fire,” keep everything else

Iron Maiden: Powerslave

Remove “Back In The Village,” keep everything else

Elton John: Goodbye Yellowbrick Road Reimagined (12 songs, 57 minutes)

  1. Funeral For A Friend / Love Lies Bleeding
  2. Candle In The Wind
  3. Bennie and the Jets
  4. Goodbye Yellowbrick Road
  5. Grey Seal
  6. Jamaica Jerk-Off
  7. I’ve Seen That Movie Too
  8. Sweet Painted Lady
  9. All The Girls Love Alice
  10. Saturday Night’s Alright (For Fighting)
  11. Roy Rogers
  12. Harmony

John Lennon: Double Fantasy + Milk and Honey Reimagined (13 songs, 46 minutes)

  1. (Just Like) Starting Over
  2. Cleanup Time
  3. I’m Losing You
  4. Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
  5. Watching The Wheels
  6. Woman
  7. Dear Yoko
  8. I’m Stepping Out
  9. I Don’t Wanna Face It
  10. Nobody Told Me
  11. Borrowed Time
  12. (Forgive Me) My Little Flower Princess
  13. Grow Old With Me

Love: Out Here Reimagined (13 songs, 43 minutes)

  1. I’ll Pray For You
  2. Signed D.C.
  3. Listen To My Song
  4. I’m Down
  5. Stand Out
  6. Doggone (edited version from Studio/Live)
  7. I Still Wonder
  8. Love is More Thn Words (Or Better Late Than Never) (edited version from Studio/Live)
  9. Nice To Be
  10. Run To The Top
  11. Willow Willow
  12. You Are Something
  13. Gather ‘Round

Metallica: Load/Reload Reimagined (13 songs, 81 minutes – would need to do some editing here to get this down to the maximum CD length of 80 minutes)

  1. Ain’t My Bitch
  2. 2 x 4
  3. Until It Sleeps
  4. King Nothing
  5. Hero Of The Day
  6. Bleeding Me
  7. The Outlaw Torn
  8. Fuel
  9. The Memory Remains
  10. Carpe Diem Baby
  11. Where The Wild Things Are
  12. Low Man’s Lyric
  13. Fixxxer

Metallica: Hardwired…To Self-Destruct Reimagined (6 songs, 37 minutes)

  1. Hardwired
  2. Atlast, Rise!
  3. Now That We’re Dead
  4. Moth Into Flame
  5. Halo On Fire
  6. Spit Out The Bone

The Monkees: Head Reimagined (7 songs, 23 minutes)

  1. Porpoise Song – Theme From “Head”
  2. Circle Sky
  3. Can You Dig It?
  4. As We Go Along
  5. Daddy’s Song
  6. Do I Have To Do This All Over Again?
  7. Swami-Plus Strings

Nirvana: Incesticide Reimagined (11 songs, 33 minutes)

  1. Dive
  2. Sliver
  3. Stain
  4. Been A Son
  5. Turnaround
  6. Molly’s Lips
  7. Son Of A Gun
  8. (New Wave) Polly
  9. Aero Zeppelin
  10. Big Long Now
  11. Aneurysm

Nirvana: In Utero Reimagined (10 songs, 35 minutes)

  1. Serve The Servants
  2. Scentless Apprentice
  3. Heart-Shaped Box
  4. Rape Me
  5. Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge On Seattle
  6. Dumb
  7. Very Ape
  8. Milk It
  9. Pennyroyal Tee
  10. All Apologies

Pearl Jam: Vitalogy Reimagined (10 songs, 40 minutes)

  1. Last Exit
  2. Spin The Black Circle
  3. Not For You
  4. Tremor Christ
  5. Nothingman
  6. Whipping
  7. Corduroy
  8. Satan’s Bed
  9. BetterMan
  10. Immortality

Pearl Jam: No Code Reimagined (11 songs, 45 minutes)

  1. Sometimes
  2. Hail, Hail
  3. Who You Are
  4. In My Tree
  5. Smile
  6. Off He Goes
  7. Habit
  8. Red Mosquito
  9. Present Tense
  10. Mankind
  11. Around The Bend

Pearl Jam: Yield Reimagined (10 songs, 41 minutes)

  1. Brain Of J.
  2. Faithfull
  3. No Way
  4. Given To Fly
  5. Wishlist
  6. Do The Evolution
  7. MFC
  8. Low Light
  9. In Hiding
  10. All Those Yesterdays (plus hidden track “Hummus”)

Pearl Jam: Lost Dogs Reimagined (15 songs, 57 minutes)

  1. Sad
  2. Down
  3. Alone
  4. Undone
  5. Hold On
  6. Yellow Ledbetter
  7. Fatal
  8. Other Side
  9. Hard To Imagine
  10. Footsteps
  11. Wash
  12. Dead Man
  13. Strangest Tribe
  14. Last Kiss
  15. Brother

Pearl Jam: Riot Act Reimagined (12 songs, 45 minutes)

  1. Can’t Keep
  2. Save You
  3. Love Boat Captain
  4. Cropduster
  5. Ghost
  6. I am Mine
  7. Thumbing My Way
  8. You Are
  9. Get Right
  10. Green Disease
  11. 1/2 Full
  12. All Or None

Pearl Jam: Pearl Jam (Avocado Album) Reimagined (11 songs, 44 minutes)

  1. Life Wasted
  2. World Wide Suicide
  3. Severed Hand
  4. Marker In The Sand
  5. Parachutes
  6. Unemployable
  7. Gone
  8. Wasted Reprise
  9. Army Reserve
  10. Come Back
  11. Inside Job

Radiohead: Hail To The Thief Reimagined (11 songs, 46 minutes)

  1. 2 + 2 = 5
  2. Sit Down, Stand Up
  3. Stail To The Moon
  4. Backdrifts
  5. Go To Sleep
  6. Where I End and You Begin
  7. There, There
  8. A Punch Up At A Wedding
  9. Myxomatoss
  10. Scatterbrain
  11. A Wolf At The Door

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Stadium Arcadium Reimagined (14 songs, 66 minutes)

  1. Dani California
  2. Snow (Hey Oh)
  3. Stadium Arcadium
  4. She’s Only 18
  5. Slow Cheetah
  6. Strip My Mind
  7. Wet Sand
  8. Hey
  9. Desecration Smile
  10. Tell Me Baby
  11. Hard To Concentrate
  12. She Looks To Me
  13. Make You Feel Better
  14. Turn It Again

Smashing Pumpkins: The Aeroplane Flies High Reimagined (16 songs, 56 minutes)

Playlist from the box set excluding covers and Mellon Collie repeats (including alternate versions). Essentially this version of the album would be like Pisces Iscariot II.

  1. …Said Sadly
  2. Ugly
  3. The Boy
  4. Cherry
  5. Believe
  6. Set The Ray To Jerry
  7. Mouths Of Babes
  8. Tribute To Johnny
  9. Marquis In Spaces
  10. The Aeroplane Files High (Turns Left, Looks Right)
  11. Pennies
  12. Meladori Magpie
  13. Rotten Apples
  14. Medellia Of The Gray Skies
  15. Jupiter’s Lament
  16. The Last Song

Smashing Pumpkins: Machina Reimagined (10 songs, 43 minutes)

  1. The Everlasting Gaze
  2. Raindrops + Sunshowers
  3. Stand Inside Your Love
  4. I Of The Mourning
  5. The Sacred and Profane
  6. Try, Try, Try
  7. This Time
  8. Would
  9. With Every Light
  10. Age Of Innocence

Soundgarden: Badmotorfinger (10 songs, 53 minutes)

  1. Rusty Cage
  2. Outshined
  3. Slaves & Bulldozers
  4. Jesus Christ Pose
  5. Somewhere
  6. Searching With My Good Eye Closed
  7. Room A Thousand Years Wide
  8. Mind Riot
  9. Holy Water
  10. New Damage

Soundgarden: Down On The Upside Reimagined (12 songs, 51 minutes)

  1. Pretty Noose
  2. Rhinosaur
  3. Zero Chance
  4. Dusty
  5. Ty Cobb
  6. Blow Up The Outside World
  7. Burden In My Hand
  8. Never The Machine Forever
  9. Tighter & Tighter
  10. Switch Opens
  11. Overfloater
  12. Boot Camp

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band: The River Reimagined (15 songs, 66 minutes)

  1. The Ties That Bind
  2. Sherry Darling
  3. Two Hearts
  4. Independence Day
  5. Hungry Heart
  6. Out In The Street
  7. I Wanna Marry You
  8. The River
  9. Point Blank
  10. Cadillac Ranch
  11. Fade Away
  12. Stolen Car
  13. The Price You Pay
  14. Drive All  Night
  15. Wreck On The Highway

U2: Rattle and Hum Reimagined (11 songs, 53 minutes)

  1. Van Diemen’s Land
  2. Desire
  3. Hawkmoon 269
  4. Silver and Gold  – Live
  5. Angel Of Harlem
  6. Love Rescue Me
  7. When Love Comes To Town
  8. Heartland
  9. God Part II
  10. Bullet The Blue Sky – Live
  11. All I Want Is You

Wilco: A Ghost Is Born Reimagined (10 songs, 49 minutes)

  1. At Least That’s What You Said
  2. Hell Is Chrome
  3. Spiders (Kidsmoke)
  4. Muzzle Of Bees
  5. Hummingbird
  6. Handshake Drugs
  7. Wishful Thinking
  8. Company In My Back
  9. Theologians
  10. The Late Greats

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