Replace One

what's the point of this? 

I'd replace "Wondering" from World Record with "Still Life" from Still Life, but I'd probably make "Meurglys III, The Songwriter's Guild" the last track. I'm not sure where I'd place "Still Life".

^^^^ Some rambling thoughts as is my wont.

"Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech" (Thomas Hobbes).

Life is like broken pencil, pointless. I find the exercise clear enough, and have done such things with mix-tapes in my youth. My point was to create a tape of music that I altogether loved.

On a more generally philosophical note: Just go with the flow, or flow elsewhere is often my motto. I've come to the conclusion that one must bring one's own meaning to the seeming madness of life, the universe, and everything, or at least bring one's own sense of purpose to various proceedings.

As illustrated by the OP, I probably would also choose Dark Side on the Moon, but "Money" would be the obvious one to replace for me. I guess I'll replace it for this exercise with "The Gunner's Dream" off of The Final Cut.

I really like Obscured by Clouds, otherwise I'd choose from that or More (Cirrus Minor).

And I'll try Comus. Taking my favourite by Comus, First Utterance, I'll replace "Bitten" from it (I wouldn't want to remove it as its creepy atmosphere works beautifully in the context), and I'll replace it with the song "To Keep From Crying" from the album To Keep From Crying (but it wouldn't really fit well as First Utterance works as a sort of concept album -- I'd put it at the the end of the album which might work as some strange coda or epilogue like thing).

Both of those changes would actually lessen the albums for me.

I'll try replacing a Magma Kobaia track with one off Merci, but again it definitely would not improve Kobaia, and in fact would mar it -- nah, cant do it, love the whole thing and the flow too much.

I'll have to give this more thought, as I can't right now think of any that quite work for me, but of my choices, the Comus change works best for me. Even if I wouldn't actually do it now with mix tapes or CD-R's, it works as a neat thought experiment and mental challenge for me (but then I'm mentally challenged enough as it is, one might say).


Edited by Logan - September 09 2019 at 13:47

Umm... perhaps replace Battle of Epping Forest from Selling England with In the Cage. Though it would work better if it were to replace it with The Knife.

Rainbow Rising... replace do you close your eyes with Kill The King for LL RnR and you've got the perfect album

I started with Rush, but realized I'd be pulling a song from a later album and replacing a song on an early album, and the sound/style difference would just be to jarring.  So I'm doing multiple Rush entries by phase.

Love Kate Bush, good one. MY favourites are probably The Kick Inside, Hounds of Love and The Dreaming. I'll do The Kick Inside. For fun, I'll replace "L'Amour Looks Something Like You" with "Wow" from Lionheart, and I'll put it in the track 8 position, and for added fun, I'll rename "Wow" "L'Amour Looks Something Like Vaseline".

Edited by Logan - September 13 2019 at 16:44

Yes - Fragile: Replace "Cans and Brahms" with "Madrigal". Rick still gets to show off his classical chops, and Fragile could use a few more actual songs.

ForestFriend wrote: Yes - Fragile: Replace "Cans and Brahms" with "Madrigal". Rick still gets to show off his classical chops, and Fragile could use a few more actual songs.

Actually, for me the perfect replacement on Fragile for "Cans and Brahms" would have been Cahterine of Aragon, which I understand Wakeman actually wrote for Fragile, and even features just about the whole Yes line-up, but wasn't able to use it because of the recording companies. Yet, of course, 6 Wives isn't nearly the worst album, either from Wakeman, nor compared with the Yes discography.