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Could Binaural have been a 'classic' double LP?

2-feign-reluctance2-feign-reluctance TigerTown, USA Posts: 23,143
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Once Lost Dogs came out, did anyone put together the original Binaural tracklist from 1999 (or whenever that was leaked on the old board)? I have played with the track list a few times and come up with a double LP playlist. Would love to see you all take a stab and creating what could have been (IMHO) a double LP full of goodness.
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    HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,418
    I definitely have the "original tracklisting" as a playlist on my iPod!
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 (xx) / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24
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    bootlegger10bootlegger10 Posts: 15,540
    People like me would probably say it would have been a stronger single LP if they left off Breakerfall, God's Dice, Thin Air and Evacuation.
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    RiotZactRiotZact Posts: 6,206
    It's already my favorite album, add those songs and it's just unfair.
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    blindmuleblindmule Albany, NY Posts: 138
    bootlegger10 said:

    People like me would probably say it would have been a stronger single LP if they left off Breakerfall, God's Dice, Thin Air and Evacuation.

    Wow - I love all of those songs!
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    dannydanny Posts: 2,270
    yep
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    dankinddankind I am not your foot. Posts: 20,827
    :pensive:
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    pearldavidsonpearldavidson PA Posts: 1,356
    bootlegger10 said:

    People like me would probably say it would have been a stronger single LP if they left off Breakerfall, God's Dice, Thin Air and Evacuation.

    Damn. Breakerfall is one of my favorites off that record.
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    my2handsmy2hands Posts: 17,117
    I am unaware of the original tracklisting
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    DiRtYyELLoWoCeAnDiRtYyELLoWoCeAn Medford, Ma Posts: 1,605
    ^ It had sad and wishing well etc...
    ;
    BOS 9/28/04, 9/29/04
    MTL 9/15/05
    HRTFD 5/13/06
    BOS 5/24/06, 5/25/06
    VEGAS 7/6/06
    CHI 8/5/07
    NJ 6/19/08
    NYC 6/25/08
    HRTFD 6/27/08
    MANSFLD 6/28/08, 6/30/08
    E.V. BOS 8/1/08
    CHI 8/23/09, 8/24/09
    PHILLY 10/30/09, 10/31/09
    BOS 5/17/10
    CHI 7/19/13
    WOOSTA 10/15/13, 10/16/13
    HRTFD 10/25/13
    BOS 8/5/16, 8/7/16
    BOS 9/2/18, 9/4/18

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    HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 35,833
    pearldavidson said:

    bootlegger10 said:

    People like me would probably say it would have been a stronger single LP if they left off Breakerfall, God's Dice, Thin Air and Evacuation.

    Damn. Breakerfall is one of my favorites off that record.
    mine too.
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    HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 35,833
    edited May 2016
    my2hands said:

    I am unaware of the original tracklisting

    from wikipedia:

    When the track listing for Binaural was first released in late March 2000, it was quite different from the final version.[52] Some tracks that were originally on the album were dropped and not released until the 2003 rarities compilation, Lost Dogs,[44] and "Gods' Dice" was added to the final version. The original version is as follows:

    "Breakerfall"
    "Insignificance"
    "Evacuation"
    "Letter to the Dead" (Later renamed to "Sad")
    "Rival"
    "Grievance"
    "Light Years"
    "Of the Girl"
    "Thin Air"
    "Nothing as It Seems"
    "Fatal"
    "Sleight of Hand"
    "Soon Forget"
    "In the Moonlight"
    "Parting Ways"
    "Education"
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    boyo79boyo79 Warrington, UK Posts: 6,525
    Nah, Binaural is classic as it is.

    Looking at that tracklist, ending on Education instead of Parting Ways would have been a huge mistake!
    2000: Manchester
    2006: Dublin; Leeds; Arnhem
    2007: London
    2009: Manchester
    2012: Manchester I & II : EV Manchester : Soundgarden Shepherds Bush
    2013: Brad Manchester : Soundgarden Manchester
    2014: Amsterdam I & II; Berlin; Leeds; Milton Keynes
    2018: Berlin; London II; Boston II

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    Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,728
    boyo79 said:


    Looking at that tracklist, ending on Education instead of Parting Ways would have been a huge mistake!

    I agree with that and the "flow" of the original tracklist seems a bit off. But not including the songs they chose not to include is a head-scratcher. Evacuation over Sad, In The Moonlight, Fatal, and Education?
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden

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    igotid88igotid88 Posts: 27,409
    DiRtYyELLoWoCeAn said:

    ^ It had sad and wishing well etc...
    ;

    Wishing Well was Ten era I believe. And it's a cover.
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    PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,543
    Ledbetterman10 said:

    boyo79 said:


    Looking at that tracklist, ending on Education instead of Parting Ways would have been a huge mistake!

    I agree with that and the "flow" of the original tracklist seems a bit off. But not including the songs they chose not to include is a head-scratcher. Evacuation over Sad, In The Moonlight, Fatal, and Education?
    They were saving them for Lost Dogs. ;) Seriously. Lost Dogs is a great album, and I don't wish for one second that any of those songs weren't on it. Binaural is perfect the way it is IMO.
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    HesCalledDyerHesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,418
    Why does Evacuation get shit on so much? I mean, come on - a diss on Evacuation is a diss on the OP.
    Star Lake 00 / Pittsburgh 03 / State College 03 / Bristow 03 / Cleveland 06 / Camden II 06 / DC 08 / Pittsburgh 13 / Baltimore 13 / Charlottesville 13 / Cincinnati 14 / St. Paul 14 / Hampton 16 / Wrigley I 16 / Wrigley II 16 / Baltimore 20 (xx) / Camden 22 / Baltimore 24
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    Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,728
    PJ_Soul said:


    They were saving them for Lost Dogs. ;) Seriously. Lost Dogs is a great album, and I don't wish for one second that any of those songs weren't on it.

    There might be some truth to this; that they saved them to fill out the inevitable rarities album.
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden

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    HughFreakingDillonHughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 35,833
    HesCalledDyer said:

    Why does Evacuation get shit on so much? I mean, come on - a diss on Evacuation is a diss on the OP.

    never understood the Evacu-hate-ion.
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    Spiritual_ChaosSpiritual_Chaos Posts: 29,020
    Evacuation works better than God's Dice. If we are just to talk about Binaural.
    "Mostly I think that people react sensitively because they know you’ve got a point"
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    gotsome420gotsome420 Posts: 528
    pearldavidson said:

    bootlegger10 said:

    People like me would probably say it would have been a stronger single LP if they left off Breakerfall, God's Dice, Thin Air and Evacuation.

    Damn. Breakerfall is one of my favorites off that record.
    My thoughts exactly!
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    igotid88igotid88 Posts: 27,409
    I don't think they knew at the time they were going to release a b-sides and rarities album.
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    igotid88igotid88 Posts: 27,409
    I said in a previous thread and it's just my opinion. That if B.O.B. had produced Binaural. We might have the original tracklisting version. I could see him pushing Sad and the early version of Light Years.
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    PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,543
    edited May 2016
    igotid88 said:

    I don't think they knew at the time they were going to release a b-sides and rarities album.

    Who knows (although I actually think it's likely that they did know that, at least in a vague kind of way... it's a pretty normal thing for bands to do once they have several albums), but either way, I'm really glad that everything that's on LD is on it.
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    SmallestOceansSmallestOceans Posts: 13,542
    Spiritual_Chaos said:

    Evacuation works better than God's Dice. If we are just to talk about Binaural.

    How so?
    Worcester1 13, Worcester2 13, Hartford 13, San Diego 13, Los Angeles1 13, Los Angeles2 13
    Trieste 14, Vienna 14, Gdynia 14, Leeds 14, Milton Keynes 14, Denver 14
    Central Park 15
    Fort Lauderdale 16, Miami 16, Tampa 16, Jacksonville 16, Greenville 16, Hampton 16, Columbia 16, Lexington 16, Philly1 16, Philly2 16, NYC1 16, NYC2 16, Quebec City 16, Ottawa 16, Toronto1 16, Toronto2 16, Fenway1 16, Fenway2 16, Wrigley1 16, Wrigley2 16


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    mcrokmcrok Posts: 628
    I did not know this. Wow, they should re-issue it like this...imagine if they played this in Toronto
    96 - Ft Lauderdale
    98 - ATL; WPB I & II
    00 - WPB I & II
    03 - Boston I; Detroit I & II
    04 - Boston VFC I & II
    05 - Borgata II
    08 - WPB; NY MSG I & II
    10 - CLE
    12 - Music Midtown; EV Jax II; EV Orlando I&II
    13 - BWI; CVille; CLT
    14 - Memphis
    16 - Jax; Gville; Cola; Fenway II
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    PJ_SoulPJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 49,543
    boyo79 said:

    Nah, Binaural is classic as it is.

    Looking at that tracklist, ending on Education instead of Parting Ways would have been a huge mistake!

    I think Parting Ways is PJ's very best album closer, so yeah, that would have been horrible!
    With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be careful. Strive to be happy. ~ Desiderata
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    EarlWelshEarlWelsh Buffalo, NY Posts: 1,103
    I know I'm alone here but I don't think Sad is all that great. It's main chorus melody is lifted from a song by The Cure, which I'm sure is unintentional. It just doesn't do much for me.
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    mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 27,888
    With "you are" as #1, evacuation could be the second worst live song performed by pj. I won't even rank in the moonlight since it wasn't good enough to make binaural but it was terrible at pj20 and philly 1 this past year. after they played it at philly 1 Ed said something along the lines of "we shouldn't play that one again live." yea I understand some of you will defend these songs like you wrote them but realize 99% of the crowd listening to them will be checking their phones as they are being played.
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    Ledbetterman10Ledbetterman10 Posts: 16,728
    edited May 2016
    mcgruff10 said:

    With "you are" as #1, evacuation could be the second worst live song performed by pj. I won't even rank in the moonlight since it wasn't good enough to make binaural but it was terrible at pj20

    You Are rules and Josh Homme performing with Pearl Jam was awesome.
    Post edited by Ledbetterman10 on
    2000: Camden 1, 2003: Philly, State College, Camden 1, MSG 2, Hershey, 2004: Reading, 2005: Philly, 2006: Camden 1, 2, East Rutherford 1, 2007: Lollapalooza, 2008: Camden 1, Washington D.C., MSG 1, 2, 2009: Philly 1, 2, 3, 4, 2010: Bristol, MSG 2, 2011: PJ20 1, 2, 2012: Made In America, 2013: Brooklyn 2, Philly 2, 2014: Denver, 2015: Global Citizen Festival, 2016: Philly 2, Fenway 1, 2018: Fenway 1, 2, 2021: Sea. Hear. Now. 2022: Camden

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    mcgruff10mcgruff10 New Jersey Posts: 27,888
    Ledbetterman10 said:

    mcgruff10 said:

    With "you are" as #1, evacuation could be the second worst live song performed by pj. I won't even rank in the moonlight since it wasn't good enough to make binaural but it was terrible at pj20

    You Are rules and Josh Homme performing with Pearl Jam was awesome.
    You are rules for 1% of the crowd. Otherwise it s like watching paint dry.
    I'll ride the wave where it takes me......
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