Guided by Voices - The Door is Much Smaller (1993)

 

1. The Terrible Two
2. Dank Star Ground Control
3. Flesh Ears From June
4. Shifting Swift is a Lift
5. The Fool Ticket
6. Exploding Anthills
7. Sickly Sweet
8. Unshaven Bird
9. Boston Spaceships
10. Drugs & Eggs
11. Grope
12. Heavy Crown
13. Home by Ten
14. Hallway of Shatterproof Glass
15. Shocker in Gloomtown
16. Alien Lanes
17. Break Even
18. Big School
19. Damn Good Mr. Jam
20. Glow Boy Butlers
21. Gelatin, Ice Cream, Plum...
22. Bye Bye Song

Like I said in my post about the early unreleased GBV album Learning to Hunt, I went through the first two Suitcase box sets looking for material to use for a classic era album, around 92-93. I didn't find a lot of good material at first cause most of the good stuff was from the late '80s. Eventually I found enough material to make an album. I used Suitcases 1, 2, and 4 and two EPs. 

Beck - Fresh Meat and Old Slabs (1993)

 

1. Let's Go Moon Some Cars
2. Goin' Nowhere Fast
3. Sucker Without a Brain
4. Deep Fried Love
5. Mexico
6. Fume
7. Leave Me on the Moon
8. Heartland Feeling
9. Steve Threw Up
10. Death is Coming to Get You
11. Hollow Log
12. Totally Confused
13. Trouble All My Days

Similarly to my last post, this was based on a demo tape that Beck put out before his debut album. Technically they share a couple songs, though I haven't listened to that one and I'm not really familiar with his discography, so I'm not sure if that one "counts". It also shared some songs with Stereopathetic Soulmanure which I did listen to and made a post about, so I cut out those songs even though I liked the versions on this better. It also includes the song Steve Threw Up which was released as a single in 1994. I also cut out a couple short songs and all the intros.

Modest Mouse - Tube Fruit, All Smiles, and Chocolate (1993)

 

1. Tossing Your Weight
2. Measure My Sleep
3. Bliss Phones Explanation
4. Custard Toothed Alpha Bet
5. Race Car Grin
6. The Gravity Involved in Climbing
7. Super Saver Day
8. Piggy Tails Buries Carburetor in the Desert
9. Go On Out, Come On, Carry Off (On)
10. Livin' Your Life in Two
11. Uninvited
12. Immigration Office Spelling Bee
13. Ignoring Each Other, Together, For It
14. My Name on a Letter in the Mailbox
15. Bulldozers on High
16. Novocain / Peppermint Soda

Modest Mouse released a couple demo tapes before their first album came out in 1995. In fact, one of the demos called Sad Sappy Sucker was supposed to be their debut but didn't get released till after the popularity of their third album in 2001. However this demo came before it and seems to feature all exclusive songs. One of the songs Race Car Grin is not to be confused with Race Car Grin You Ain't No Landmark from Sucker, though I like this one better. I cut out some songs to make it about an hour. 

Frank Zappa - The Yellow Shark (2 CD) (1993)

Disc One:
1. Intro
2. The "Dog Breath" Variations
3. Uncle Meat
4. Outrage at Valdez
5. Times Beach/Movement II
6. III Revised
7. The Girl in the Magnesium Dress
8. The Be-Bop Tango
9. Ruth is Sleeping
10. None of the Above
11. Pentagon Afternoon
12. Questi Cazzi Di Piccione
13. Times Beach/Movement III
14. Food Gathering in Post-Industrial America, 1992
15. Welcome to the United States
16. Pound For a Brown
17. Exercise #4
18. Get Whitey
19. G-Spot Tornado

Disc Two:
1. Library Card
2. This is a Test
3. Jolly Good Fellow
4. Roland's Big Event/Strat Vindaloo
5. Master Ringo
6. T'Mershi Duween
7. Nap Time
8. 9/8 Objects
9. Naked City
10. Get Whitey (Prototype)
11. Amnerika Goes Home
12. None of the Above (Revised & Previsited)
13. Wonderful Tattoo!

Though there weren't a lot of changes that needed to be made to make this, Frank Zappa's last album made while he was alive, The Yellow Shark, was originally intended to be a 2 CD album. Here's something from 1997 I found while doing research on this album. "The Yellow Shark was originally conceived by FZ as a two disk set, but for various reasons was shortened to one. Rumor is, that it contained rehearsals, improvisations, readings and even FZ playing a solo with the Ensemble. Teams are searching the vaults for the missing masters day and night... and for what reason? Will there ever be another release? No one knows, Stay tuned." 

A second album made from rehearsals of the Yellow Shark concerts from 1992 was eventually released in 1999 called Everything is Healing Nicely. In making this album, I listened to the second disc for the first time where I only edited out 30 seconds from the middle of Master Ringo cause the vocalist messed up. The rest of it really paints a picture of what they sounded like. 

Operation Ivy - Complete Discography (1993)

 

1. Knowledge
2. Sound System
3. Jaded
4. Take Warning
5. The Crowd
6. Bombshell
7. Unity
8. Vulnerability
9. Bankshot
10. One of These Days
11. Gonna Find You
12. Bad Town
13. Smiling
14. Caution
15. Freeze Up
16. Artificial Life
17. Room Without a Window
18. Big City
19. Missionary
20. Junkie's Runnin' Dry
21. Here We Go Again
22. Hoboken
23. Yellin' in My Ear
24. Sleep Long
25. Officer
26. I Got No
27. Healthy Body (Uncut Version)
28. Someday
29. Plea for Peace
30. Trouble Bound
31. Uncertain
32. Hangin' Out
33. Left Behind
34. Old Friendships
35. Hedgecore

36. Steppin' Out

Operation Ivy were a short lived band that only released one album, Energy in 1989. But their music was released on two compilation albums in the 90s, Operation Ivy and Seedy. While the first is an expanded version on their first album that has since gained a following, Seedy is a compilation album that no one seems to remember. It never got reissued and I wasn't able to find a good quality version of it online. Nevertheless it made me wanna ask "Would it be possible to fit their discography onto a single CD?" And the answer surprisingly is yes! 

Seedy begins with an uncut version of Healthy Body from the Hectic E.P. If you cut out the original version, you would have just enough to fit it on a CD. However what my friend Aidan did was keep the original version and replace the uncut version with the unreleased song Face That Screams, which would also fit on a CD. I decided to not include it but I also took out the outro.