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Ian


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Totally piggybacking on David's "Dream This is Hardcore" thread. What about "We Love Life"?

For me it would be as follows:

  1. After You (it would only work as the first track)
  2. Weeds
  3. The Night That Minnie Timperley Died
  4. The Trees
  5. Wickerman
  6. The Quiet Revolution
  7. The Birds in Your Garden
  8. Bob Lind
  9. Bad Cover Version
  10. Cuckoo
  11. Sunrise

As for the cuts - "Weeds II" is extremely weak and lets the album down for me after the strong start of its "parent" track. "I Love Life" is a bit too noisy, "Roadkill" just isn't quite as appealing as "Cuckoo" and I don't think both would have worked on the album. As for singles:

Weeds / Sunrise - in about September 2000 i.e. straight after the small concerts and festivals to keep the momentum going. "Weeds" there to get the airplay for those of them that decided "Sunrise" was too long. I would consider this as a gap-bridging single as opposed to a comeback single.

After You - in Summer 2001. Easy hit single before the album.

Then the album.

Bad Cover Version

The Night That Minnie Timperley Died



-- Edited by Ian on Monday 20th of August 2012 07:44:27 PM

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andy


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I'll place After You at the end if you don't mind :D

Weeds
The Night That Minnie Timperley Died
Cuckoo
The Trees
The Quiet Revolution
Wickerman
The Birds in Your Garden
Bob Lind
Bad Cover Version
After You
Sunrise

Singles :

Weeds
The Birds in Your Garden
After You

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I wouldn't change anything about the album if I had my way. I don't believe After You fits the overall texture of the album.

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Personally I find this extremely tricky. I think the album works quite well, agreed WeedsII is pointless and I Love Life shoudln't have made the cut.

Personally I think they would have been better off making a mini album with the following tracks:

1. Weeds
2. Trees
3. Wickerman
4. Birds in Your Garden
5. Sunrise


This would have gvien the mini album a really nature feel. This would have given the band more time to work on a truly sensational new alubumwith tracks such as Minne and Bad Cover Version and produced a more energetic album.

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I think it would have been quite cool to have Weeds on the album then as a b-side an extended cut of Weeds which was actually Weeds and Weeds II as one track. Weeds II is something I like listening to OCCASIONALLY.

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...but i love 'weeds II' and 'roadkill'

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Me too! (just in moderation or WII)

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saw119 wrote:

I wouldn't change anything about the album if I had my way. I don't believe After You fits the overall texture of the album.

 

Well it would have to have been reworked. that's how i was picturing it anyway



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Is it just me who sees 'Minnie Timperley' as one of the tracks that really drags this album down? I note David's comment about giving it a 'more naturey feel', which I can agree with...but saving Minnie Timperley for the next 'brilliant' album sounds like a horrible idea! I always thought it's the most TIH-sounding of the WLL songs. It just feels like a throwback...

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Album:

Weeds / Weeds II / The Night That Minnie Timperly Died / The Birds In Your Garden / Roadkill / Wickerman / Yesterday / I Love Life / Bob Lind / Quiet Revolution / Cuckoo / Trees / Sunrise

Singles:

I Love Life (8 weeks before album): bridges the gap with TIH and with a great video which starred an indie actor this could be huge

The Birds In Your Garden (1 week before the album): introducing the 'nature/mature' feel of the album

Yesterday (two-three months after release just before the festivals): throw-a-way single, just there to promote the album, sounds nice to the ears.

Sunrise (half a year-9 months after release): closing down the period with a good video and a nice way to go out.



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andy wrote:
saw119 wrote:

I wouldn't change anything about the album if I had my way. I don't believe After You fits the overall texture of the album.

 

Well it would have to have been reworked. that's how i was picturing it anyway

 I appreciate that but WLL is a very difficult album to do this 'dream' version of. I think it carries too much baggage and we know a little too much about it's tortured lifecycle. Picking songs like Quiet Revolution seem a bit wrong as they weren't part of the album sessions and never formed part of WLL. Maybe a better suggestion would be, what is your dream version of the 'Quiet Revolution' album? That would include those earlier songs, gotta include Forever In MY Dreams & Yesterday, but dismiss those songs written and recorded after that album was scrapped (so you can still have Wickerman etc). Maybe After You would fit perfectly on Quiet Revolution?



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We must nearly have enough tracks to make that Quiet Revolution album now.

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