Roll Your Own... "Dead In The Boot"

Dead In The Boot. The B-sides/rarities album that's been mentioned a few times over the years. What should go on it? Okay, yes, ideally a three or four disc box set would be ideal. But what if it were a single, 80 minute CD, much like Oasis' The Masterplan? What do you choose? What do you leave off? Do you pick covers over original band compositions? And how do you sequence it?

I put my thinking cap on. And this is Allyn's Dead in the Boot:

1. Hotel Istanbul
   
2. Teardrop
   
3. The Long War Shuffle
   
4. About Time
   
5. Lucky With Disease
   
6. Strangeways to Holcombe Hill
   
7. The Good Day
   
8. A Regret
   
9. Wurzel
   
10. My Finger
    
11. Gentle As
    
12. The Drunken Engineer
    
13. Lullaby
    
14. Working Class Hero
    
15. Theme From Munroe Kelly (2004)
    
16. Brave New Shave
    
17. Loss
    
18. Our Little Boat
    
19. Love Blown Down
    
20. Live On My Mind

That's my take on a single-disc B-sides/rarities album. The heavier tracks open the "album," the instrumentals mark tonal shifts, and the closing tracks get at one of the common themes in Elbow's work -- the power of love and the consequences of its loss, which is why I close with the cover of "Live On My Mind." Besides being beautiful, it's also a gentle note on which to end the "album."

Any other takers?

Disc 1 1998-2003

Disc 2 2003-2005


Cannot possibly leave any of them off

I like the elbow Bs chronological... the progression from the proggy roots, to the dark experimentalism of the Cast of Thousands Bs, to the variety in the last two, LOTFW b sides and TSSK b sides

The links to the above appear to be the tracklisting of what would have been the double album of 2007 before parting company with V2.
So before the TSSK Bs emergence...these could make up disc 3 together with some of their covers or remixes or collabs.

19 tracks on disc 1 opening with all the Noisebox tracks, through to 'Loss' as last track.

20 tracks on disc 2 starting with 'Whisper Grass' and ending with 'Gentle As'



Hey allyn, how could you leave off Whisper Grass, The Crow, Waving from Windows, George lasooes the Moon?

Disc 1 (link didn't work)

1 Powder Blue 4:36
2 Red 3:31
3 George Lassoes the Moon 6:37
4 Theme From Monroe Kelly 5:48
5 Can't Stop 4:20
(Noisebox)

6 None One 3:45
7 Kisses 2:07
8 Wurzel 2:14
9 George Lassoes the Moon 5:50
10 Vum Garda 7:55
11 About Time 5:45
12 The Crow (acoustic) 2:35
13 About Time (acoustic version) 2:02
14 Suffer 3:31
15 Lucky With Disease 3:47
16 One Thing That Was Bothering Me 4:51
17 Stumble 3:39
18 Puckfair 3:10
19 Loss 3:15

http://musicbrainz.org/release/04feca46-9b67-458d-b146-519352c9cc8d.html




Disc 2

1 Whisper Grass 4:29
2 Brave New Shave 3:47
3 Love Blown Down 4:29
4 Not a Job (edit) 3:48
5 Teardrop 4:05
6 Lay Down Your Cross 4:40
7 Live on My Mind 4:51
8 Theme From Munroe Kelly 2004 - Guy's Snaps 3:33
9 Grace Under Pressure 3:41
10 Waving From Windows 4:17
11 Strangeways to Holcombe Hill in 4.20 4:22
12 My Finger 2:43
13 McGreggor 2:31
14 The Good Day 3:44
15 Snowball 5:00
16 Mexican Standoff (Spanish version) 3:55
17 The Drunken Engineer 2:14
18 Leaders of the Free World (edit) 3:52
19 The Long War Shuffle 4:23
20 Gentle As 2:58

http://musicbrainz.org/release/39e195f9-e197-4134-a64a-708e626f8a98.html

I'll go have a think about how disc 3 could have been with the TSSK Bs and some rarities.

What's Hotel Istanbul?

The Final Track wrote:

What's Hotel Istanbul?

Wasn't it on the "Grounds for Divorce" single? It's seven minutes long and really intense.

allyngibson wrote:

The Final Track wrote:

What's Hotel Istanbul?

Wasn't it on the "Grounds for Divorce" single? It's seven minutes long and really intense.

And bloody brilliant, i'm pretty sure i still know all the words!

I have a track called Hotel Istanbul on my B-Side Collecton (Strangeways, Here We Come) but it's just Grounds For Divorce played on the radio. It's not on youtube, is it?

Hotel Istanbul is one of my favourite b-sides ever. Its brilliant !

You can't get it on official download, i bought the CD off Amazon just to get the track. it was a limited edition, but i'm not sure how many were released.

(maybe someone could upload it to their page on Mrs Womans site - elbowfans ning so you can hear it- I was goin to but when i ripped mine to this pc it went on as a WMA file and it needs to be MP3 to upload)

Ahhhhhg, I'm never gonna hear it...I could also try the Multimedia Section at Coldplaying. If it can't be found there, it doesn't exist

ChrissyBoy wrote:

(maybe someone could upload it to their page on Mrs Womans site - elbowfans ning so you can hear it- I was goin to but when i ripped mine to this pc it went on as a WMA file and it needs to be MP3 to upload)

I'm almost entirely sure I've uploaded it, but as it took me about 10 minutes to work out where the link was to upload music I'm not that confident...

try this..?

al wrote:

ChrissyBoy wrote:

(maybe someone could upload it to their page on Mrs Womans site - elbowfans ning so you can hear it- I was goin to but when i ripped mine to this pc it went on as a WMA file and it needs to be MP3 to upload)

I'm almost entirely sure I've uploaded it, but as it took me about 10 minutes to work out where the link was to upload music I'm not that confident...

try this..?

It-it's beautiful how do I download

The Final Track wrote:

al wrote:

try this..?

It-it's beautiful how do I download

You don't... well there might be a sneaky way of grabbing it via a firefox plugin, not sure.

I would send it to you, but (a) PIRACY FUNDS TERRORISM and (b) I don't think I've got it any more. It is lovely though.

Lee Spoons wrote:

The Final Track wrote:

al wrote:

try this..?

It-it's beautiful how do I download

You don't... well there might be a sneaky way of grabbing it via a firefox plugin, not sure.

I would send it to you, but (a) PIRACY FUNDS TERRORISM and (b) I don't think I've got it any more. It is lovely though.

I got it now, and piracy does not fund terrorism in any remote way