Warchild 40 year remix

Slartibartfast wrote: I got mine.  Pricey but they did a hell of a package.  So  a side question for those that have it, if you were to take all the tracks from the two CDs that aren't redundant (Warchild II  and Sealion II) and include the orchestral bits, how would you arrange it to make one mega album?

Oooh - this sounds fun!

1. The Orchestral WarChild Theme / WarChild (I think it would be cool to combine the two - have the rock band version erupt from the orchestral)

2. The Beach

3. Queen And Country                                 

4. Waltz Of The Angels

5.  Good Godmother

6. Ladies                               

7. Glory Row            

8. Pan Dance

9. Back-Door Angels            

10. Sealion                

11. Quartet    

12. Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day                        

13. Field Dance                                 

14. Rainbow Blues                

15. Tomorrow Was Today                

16. Bungle In The Jungle                                          

17. Mime Sequence

18. Saturation                   

19. March, The Mad Scientist

20. Only Solitaire                                          

21. Paradise Steakhouse       

22. The Third Hoorah                                   

23. Two Fingers

     "The Beach" is so early on, because it was meant to be the opening scene of the film, so having the orchestral version segue into the rock band version of the title track / theme would be a cool way of setting the tone for a rock band / orchestral hybrid album. I also thought it would be fun to sprinkle the orchestral pieces throughout as many of them reference "The Third Hoorah" which is meant to be some kind of finale. The bit of continuity would be fun, I think. I elected to include the rock band version of "The Third Hoorah" only, because it seems to contain the lyrics that are integral to the concept of the album and needs to come near the end; a proper climax.

I also put "Quartet" at the split between sides 1 and 2 of the original album to make a sort of interlude. I think it would be fun to have it there, a sort of rock / classical hybrid that I think should come in the middle of the program. I also thought it would be cool to put the two acoustic pieces together ("Solitaire" and "March the Mad Scientist"), because this seems such a Tull thing to do; they often group the simple, stripped back acoustic pieces together such as on side 1 of Aqualung.  Finally, I felt the album ended best on "Two Fingers" - a nice coda to finish the ultimate climax that is "The Third Hoorah", just like the original albums.

Discuss!