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.

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...they could be disc 3 with some covers or remixes or collabs.

19 tracks on disc 1 opening with 'Noisebox' 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.