My aim was to do playlists with "all" songs fo each album, because I am tired to have all songs "dispersed" on albums, maxis, singles, comps, hard drives, etc...
When I listen to an album, I want to hear "all songs from that era", I mean all songs from the sessions
for studios albums, that was quite easy :
I put B sides just after the last songs, and some demos when avalaible. same for extended versions.
For example, I put the WDYTYG demo from MFN comp at the end of Communique album, just after follow me home, or I put early demos and sultans single with Eastbound train on my first album playlist. It's like I had a deluxe version of the first album
Same for the making movies song or the solid rock demo, in the MM album playlist
I put the WII and STP extended versions in the STP album playlist in place of "normal" versions; therefore, when I listen to STP album, I have all full music recorded at the time avalaible
etc...
ok easy for studio albums
but for live albums....
For Alchemy, I added industrial disease, Expresso love, and twisting by the pool from the 23/07/83 bootleg. I found it logic as the official album is made from one gig (except the drum brek at the end of slid rock).
Then I added Portobello Belle found on YT which is the mix between the MFN comp version and the audience version (that comes from 20/06/83, thanks to Brunno), as I thought that if it had been released in 84, Mark would have likely chose this version as he chose it in 88.
And I added it never rains from sheffield (the best sounding version) because it was the only song played on the LOG tour not featuring in the alchemy concert.
So, it makes a consistent setlist reaagrding the tour and I have all songs, either officially released ones or ones from the same evening, or the only other one from he tour.
For Real Live Roadrunning, the same :
I merged songs from the DVD and from he CD (so with all that matters, even if it was not played at the LA gig), I added Michelaneglo from the LA gig (audience boot), and then I added donkeytown (best sounding version I found) because it was the only other song from the tour not played at the gig. Thus I have a consistent setlist which is a good report from the tour imho.
But for OTN, too difficult to do the same :
1) the official album merges several venues and we don't know which ones on which songs for sure. So, even if we had songs from all gigs used, difficult to chose which song to put on the setlist
2) there are too many "bonus" songs from the tour, and when I started to merge them in my playlist it made an unconsistent setlist, and it was not necessarily fun to listen to all of them in a row (which is the aim of course : having fun to listen to the playlist...
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so I decided to keep it simple :
I merged songs from the album and from the Encores Maxi single (making the DVD's setlist) and added Sultans, TR and TYL from wobburn abbey (the best sounding imho, because On every planet lacks of reverb and audience sound, imho).
Thus, I have a consistent playslit, with a complete setlist representative of what was played at that time (around april-may-june 92) and fullier as the official album.
For Live at the BBC, we don't know exactly whic gig it was (except it was in july 78 ?) and too uch "bonus" songs in 78, so I let it like that
For the SOS comp bonus disc, I used the Swinging golden hearts bootleg as it is the same gig
Besides that, I will buy another SD card and put bootlegs on it. (well may I will have to buy more than one card...
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But generally I just pick some songs, and rarely listen to a whole gig, so maybe a live best-of comp for each tour would be the best option for me, but it's so hard to choose among all these versions
