Guided by Voices - Tonics and Twisted Chasers (1996)

 

1. Satellite
2. Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 5
3. My Thoughts Are a Gas
4. The Top Chick's Silver Chord
5. Ha Ha Man
6. At the Farms
7. Unbaited Vicar of Scorched Earth
8. Optional Bases Opposed
9. Look, It's Baseball
10. 158 Years of Beautiful Sex
11. When 2 Hours Seem Like 5
12. Jellyfish Reflector
13. The Kite Surfer
14. The Candyland Riots
15. Jabberstroker
16. Stabbing a Star
17. Canteen Plums
18. If We Wait
19. Trendspotter Acrobat
20. Heavy Metal Country
21. Delayed Reaction Brats
22. Sensational Gravity Boy
23. Madroom Assistance

In 1996, Guided by Voices released their last lo-fi album Under the Bushes, Under the Stars. They had a whole other album of outtakes called The Flying Party is Here that wouldn't be released for another two years. However they released another album that year called Tonics and Twisted Chasers as well as an EP called Sunfish Holy Breakfast. They used the same image as the cover so it made sense to combine them. Some songs are extended versions of other songs, and this album potentially gives UTBUTS two albums worth of outtakes. 

Devo - From the Past (1974)

 

Side A:
1. I'm a Potato
2. Buttered Beauties
3. Private Secretary
4. Ono
5. Man From the Past
6. Doghouse Doghouse

Side B:
7. Can You Take It?
8. A Plan for U
9. All of Us
10. The Rope Song
11. I Been Refused
12. I Need a Chick

Hey did you know Devo had enough material to put out an album in 1974? Yeah so Mechanical Man as it turns out was not recorded in 1974. So I had to take some tracks out but I was actually able to replace them with some tracks that turned out to be recorded in 1974. 

Blind Idiot God - Undertow (1988)

 

1. Stravinsky/Blasting Off
2. Shifting Sand
3. Tired Blood
4. Wide Open Spaces
5. Subterranean Flight
6. Dark & Bright
7. Sawtooth
8. Atomic Whip
9. Rollercoaster
10. Wailing Wall
11. Purged Specimen

Blind Idiot God were an instrumental rock band that only put out a couple albums during their initial run. However some of the tracks were reggae which can mostly be identified by the appearance of the word dub in the song names. I'm not a fan of that genre so I tried taking those tracks out and combining two albums together. There were a couple covers that I also took out. 

The Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O'Clock (1985)

 

Side A:
1. 25 O'Clock
2. Bike Ride to the Moon
3. My Love Explodes
4. What in the World?

Side B:
5. Your Gold Dress
6. The Mole From the Ministry
7. Open a Can of Human Beans
8. Tin Toy Clockwork Train

The Dukes of Stratosphear were a psychedelic side project of the band XTC. They recorded two albums under this name but their first album was less than half an hour long. While I didn't do much to edit the album, I added two bonus tracks to make it about as long as the second one.

Joy Division - Still (1981)

 

Side A:
1. Exercise One
2. Ice Age
3. The Sound of Music
4. Glass

5. Walked in Line
6. The Only Mistake

Side B:
7. The Kill

8. Something Must Break

9. Dead Souls
10. Leaders of Men

11. Digital

12. Transmission

Joy Division were a band that only existed for four years, breaking up after main leader Ian Curtis killed himself at the age of 23. But in that time they recorded 53 songs, 19 of which appeared across two albums. That gives us 34 songs to make a third album out of but we only need about ten. Since then there have been a couple compilation albums that try to include all the songs like Still and Substance. However this album tries to take that material and form it into a third album.

The album Still was a 2 LP set but the first record was all mostly studio outtakes except for the last track which was a live cover of a Velvet Underground set. It's also ten tracks so I thought it would be a good place to start but we would have to replace the last track with some more tracks. One of the tracks though is the B-side Dead Souls which would later go on to be a popular track. I took out the last track and replaced it with tracks from Substance.

Devo - Mechanical Man (1975) (upgrade)

 

Side A:
1. Mechanical Man
2. Auto Modown / Space Girl Blues
3. Live Forever
4. Falling in Love Again
5. Shimmy Shake
6. Hubert House

Side B:
7. Bamboo Bimbo

8. Baby Talkin' Bitches
9. U Got Me Bugged
10. 37
11. Chango
12. Fraulein

Hey did you know Devo had enough material to put out an album in 1974? Well technically they did except there's one problem. Mechanical Man was recorded in 1975, not 1974! And neither were a couple other songs on my original album. Apparently the recording dates I had were inaccurate but have since been updated. Although this would mean I would have to split this album into two albums. I took out tracks and replaced them with others.

The Who - Magic Bus (1968)

 

Side A:
1. Disguises
2. Glow Girl
3. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
4. Faith in Something Bigger
5. Little Billy
6. Call Me Lightning
7. I'm a Boy

Side B:
8. Magic Bus
9. Someone's Coming
10. Doctor, Doctor
11. Dogs
12. Pictures of Lily
13. Substitute
14. In the City

I've been wanting to make a second post about the Who during my classic rock marathon. So when I heard that they put out a compilation album to promote a newly released single with the word bus in it, I was like hey that's what the Hollies did but two years earlier! And while I didn't think I had enough material to make a new version of Bus Stop, I had more than enough material to make a new version of Magic Bus. I took out songs that previously appeared on albums and one song that was a cover and included a few new songs.