Using non-Dude Ranch Scott songs, make a single great album

[M!ke]

Alright, I'm sure I'm not the only fan here that rarely revisits pre-Dude Ranch albums in full.  I'm sure people like Davey Jones would be insulted by such rhetoric, but it is what it is, I know I'm not alone here.  There are a lot of great non-Dude Ranch Scott songs, but I've never felt that Buddha as a whole or Cheshire Cat as a whole are particularly great albums (and I never revisit Flyswatter or the second demo (21 Days), they're great pieces of blink history, but not things I ever actually put on beyond probably the 1st and only time I ever checked each one out).  So, just as I recall someone making a thread for people to make a single great Skiba era album with all the Skiba era music we have, I thought it might be fun to see what we each might put together for like an alternate universe early blink album that came out before Dude Ranch that was almost equally as amazing an album that Dude Ranch has always been.

Here's what I put together:

1. Carousel (Buddha version)
2. M+M's
3. Wrecked Him
4. Touchdown Boy
5. Dancing With Myself
6. Peggy Sue
7. 21 Days
8. Toast and Bananas (Cheshire Cat version)
9. Wasting Time
10. Mutt (original Scott version)
11. Zulu
12. The Girl Next Door

runtime: 34:29

 

Some things I'll note: Degenerate from Buddha is a great track, but because the superior Dude Ranch version exists also with the same 3 recording it, I felt it shouldn't be added.  Conversely, I feel that Mutt (Scott version) can be added because it's the different lineup and it can act pretty much how Buddha's Degenerate acts: an early version of a song that would be rerecorded 2 albums later, but in this case there is merit because of the different drummers and how different Tom sounds when he sings on the song. I do recognize that it's strange to include a song that chronologically came out after Dude Ranch, but it fits the bill, and we're just kinda pretending to rewrite history here, so whatever.

 I do feel that 2 covers is a bit much (Dancing With Myself and The Girl Next Door), but they're so good, I couldn't not include them.  Heck, I was tempted to include Good Times as the intro track, but I felt that 3 covers would really be too much; however it would be a good way to incorporate a jokier track into the album, and I really do think it could work as an intro track.  I dunno, tell me your thoughts on that one, I may just have to adjust this to a 13 track album, again the only reason I hesitate is that 3 covers does feel like a bit much even if 1 is a quick old tv show theme song joke cover. Finally, one of the best Scott era tracks I could include here that fits the bill is I Wont Be Home For Christmas, however, because it is a Christmas song, and it just feels strange to have one random holiday song in the middle of this kind of album (not to mention that the production quality is too good and pretty much sounds like it could have come from the Enema sessions).

 

I know that we're all still basking in the glow of a great new album, but this topic has been on my mind a lot lately because of those song of the week posts or whatever. And I've listened to this faux album a couple of times now, and I love it, it really almost does feel like some sort of alternate reality first album for the band.  So I dunno, if this intrigued or inspired you, share your tracklists.  And if I upset any oldschool fans that love the older albums through and through, then I do apologize, this is just a reflection of my personal taste in blink, that's all.

[Aria]

This takes me back in time to your creative mind posts you used to always start. 

[Jan Mortensen]

1. Strings

2. Touchdown Boy

3. Sometimes

4. 21 Days

5. M&Ms

6. Mutt og

7. Romeo & Rebecca 

8. Cacophony

9. Girl Next Door

10. Wasting Time

[Ghent]

This would be hard for me to do because I listen to Dude Ranch and prior in terms of complete albums. Dating back to when I first got them on CD, I just don’t really pick out individual songs off of them. I listen to the whole thing start to finish.

You could probably embarrass me as a blink fanboy, catching me not being able to identify song names even though I know every word.

[Coightstradamus]

This thread is so insulting to Cheshire Cat. Should not be allowed tbh.

[Coightstradamus]

I could get doing it for the demo albums and lone singles released etc. But Cheshire Cat deserves way better than to just be lumped in with “the rest” category.

[boxelder]

1. Wrecked Him
2. m+m's
3. Zulu
4. Fentoozler
5. Sometimes
6. Waggy
7. Cacophony
8. Wasting Time
9. Touchdown Boy
10. Does My Breath Smell?
11. Lemmings
12. Carousel

[M!ke]

27 minutes ago, Russel Coight said:

This thread is so insulting to Cheshire Cat. Should not be allowed tbh.

That's fair, I do respect that opinion even though I just don't personally relate. 

[M!ke]

55 minutes ago, Protagonist Jan said:

1. Strings

2. Touchdown Boy

3. Sometimes

4. 21 Days

5. M&Ms

6. Mutt og

7. Romeo & Rebecca 

8. Cacophony

9. Girl Next Door

10. Wasting Time

Not a fan of Carousel? 

[Jan Mortensen]

Just now, M!ke said:

Not a fan of Carousel? 

Not as much as 90% of the fans are.  

[blinkAVARacer]

1. Carousel

2. M+M's

3. Zulu

4. Touchdown Boy

5. Peggy Sue

6. Cacophony

7. Toast and Bananas

8. Wrecked Him

9. Wasted Him

10. Romeo and Rebecca

11. 21 Days

[Aria]

Chesire Cat and Buddha hold such a special place in my heart. Really vivid memories of listening to them for the first time. 

[Aria]

I don't understand why M+Ms was pretty much completely erased/shelved. Especially considering it's Mark's wife's favorite blink song lol.

[Monkey Chips]

Just for fun I decided I'd give this a go... 

1] Carousel

2] Zulu

3] Touchdown Boy

4] Peggy Sue

5] Toast and Bananas 

6] Just About Done

7] Depends

8] TV

9] Reebok Commercial

10] Sometimes

11] Fentoozler

12] Cacophony

[Ghost]

2 hours ago, Aria said:

I don't understand why M+Ms was pretty much completely erased/shelved. Especially considering it's Mark's wife's favorite blink song lol.

I don't get it either. It's an amazings ong I'd love to hear live this days. Algo brings me huge beautiful summer memories.

[Kay]

I love cheshire I cant imagine considering it this way, and a lot of the odd ends and flyswatter tracks are class.

[Elisa]

You should listen to Cheshire front to back and consider it the real album that it is. If you want a mixtape of non-album songs though:

1. Zulu
2. Wrecked Him
3. 21 Days
4. Don't
5. Family Next Door (super underrated)
6. Better Days (super underrated)
7. Reebook Commercial
8. Marlboro Man
9. Alone (super underrated)
10. Girl Next Door

[Thibaut182]

Surprised to see that their cover of "Dead Man's Curve" gets no appreciation !

Mark and Tom's harmonies are on point, weird that they never played it live hmmm

[M!ke]

59 minutes ago, Elisa said:

You should listen to Cheshire front to back and consider it the real album that it is. If you want a mixtape of non-album songs though:

1. Zulu
2. Wrecked Him
3. 21 Days
4. Don't
5. Family Next Door (super underrated)
6. Better Days (super underrated)
7. Reebook Commercial
8. Marlboro Man
9. Alone (super underrated)
10. Girl Next Door

I've listened to it through plenty of times, it's fine, but in my opinion weak (especially compared to Dude Ranch) with a bunch of the songs that have just never done much of anything for me, but a few are great classics though, those are the ones that made my cut here haha. 

[Champ182]

9 hours ago, Ghent said:

You could probably embarrass me as a blink fanboy, catching me not being able to identify song names even though I know every word.

Exact same here on Cheshire Cat haha