Hi Brad and Brad, and Jate and Kessi,
Tremendous idea by Michael Glendon. This was a really fun thought experiment and I enjoyed hearing your 12-track lists. I know this wasn't meant to be a contest between you four on who had the "best" track list, but if I were to pick a favorite of mine it would be Kate's. As I've gotten older I have come to enjoy more eclectic music and I love the fact she starts with Dance and ends with Hard to Imagine. I never would have thought to book end a tracklist with those, but they both work so well.
Kate | Jessi | Brad L. | Brad B. |
Dance of the Clairvoyants | Wasted Reprise | Last Exit | Last Exit |
You Are | Life Wasted | Hail, Hail | Hail, Hail |
In My Tree | Save You | Blood | Tremor Christ |
Wishlist | Sad | In My Tree | Alive |
Tremor Christ | Tremor Christ | Do the Evolution | Black |
Hail, Hail | In My Tree | Present Tense | Rearviewmirror |
Oceans | Rival | Corduroy | Light Years |
Of the Girl | Oceans | Rearviewmirror | Given to Fly |
Sad | Do the Evolution | Given to Fly | You Are |
Rearviewmirror | Quick Escape | Unthought Known | Seven O'Clock |
Gone | Rearviewmirror | Quick Escape | Buckle Up |
Hard to Imagine | Fatal | Release | Release |
For my tracklist, I looked at it in a Side A and B format like the Brads. For my opening track, it came from watching the Live at the Garden show many times and hearing what the DVD opens with. Ever since hearing Arc in the background as fans are entering MSG, it's been a track I've wanted to see how it works, kicking off a record. The closer is Present Tense. I would love to see this as a closer in a setlist of theirs, the outro is my perfect ending to a tracklist. I put Given to Fly right after Arc, because the euphoric beginning to Given to Fly seemed to compliment the beautiful tribute to the nine individuals honored from Roskilde. After doing this, I found myself filling out the rest of both sides of the record as a flow of euphoria. I wanted to open the second side with Wasted Reprise as a calm before the storm to then go into Alive and Quick Escape, which both feature the adrenaline-filled Mike Effen McCready blowing my mind.
Side A | Side B |
Arc | Wasted Reprise |
Given to Fly | Alive |
Unthought Known | Quick Escape |
In My Tree | You Are |
Alright | Of the Girl |
In Hiding | Present Tense |
I would love to hear your guys thoughts on the flow of this tracklist. I played it a handful of times on Spotify to test it out, and I'm enjoying it very much.
Forced to endure, what I could not forgive,
Chris
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