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B-Sides that you think should be on the record (and where to put them)

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Tom:
I remember we discussed this at length once. If you were to use 'Culling of the Fold' it should replace 'When the War Came'. 'Sons and Daughters' was great way to finish imo but if you were to replace that you could use 'After the Bombs'.

squawk:
All the unreleased things for Elliott Smith's From a Basement on the Hill should have been on the album. But they weren't finished, so... oh well.

Radiohead and Belle and Sebastian are masters at great B-sides, I don't really know where to start with those guys.

I also really love "No Key, No Plan" off of Okkervil River's Black Sheep Boy Appendix. I'm not sure where I would stick it on Black Sheep Boy, but it'd probably be like. Before "Get Big"? That's a hard one.

spoon_of_grimbo:
why Idlewild left "a distant history" off "the remote part" i'll never know.  the chorus is fucking epic.  it'd work well at the end of the album, with the current closing track acting like a long build up and intro to it.

Tom:

--- Quote from: TheFuriousWombat on 21 Apr 2009, 21:39 ---"Broken Window" from the B-Side of Arcade Fire's "Keep the Car Running" single is brilliant. It's massive, driving and powerful. Musically explosive and chaotic and lyrically great as well, it really should have been on the album itself. In fact, a lot of the B-sides from that album are really terrific. "Surf City Eastern Bloc" is another incredible track (also over 6 minutes long) that is epic as hell with all sorts of horns and choral style vocals. It's brilliant. Not sure if it really fits on the album though. It's sound is a little too...well I don't know how to describe it but 'Neon Bible' is pretty unrelentingly dark and sounds pretty menacing until some of its later moments. Maybe this song would work well before 'No Cars Go' but that might be too much "Epic" all at once, thus sorta drowning out the rest of the album.

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I've always thought that the album would have benefited from having only 10 tracks finishing with either the new 'No Cars Go', 'My Body is a cage or any one of the b-sides after 'Windowsill'.

Thrillho:
Why Nick Cave left 'Swing Low' off Nocturama is beyond me, it's by some distance the best song from those sessions and could've replaced almost anything on there. It'd certainly make a better closer than 'Babe, I'm On Fire.'

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