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OK... imagine Real World has contacted you as an enthusiastic user of these forums and asked you to compile a 22 track ultimate PG compilation album for Christmas release and replace Shaking the Tree and HIT forever. PG will endorse whatever you recommend and you will be credited on the album. The good news is that tracks can be culled from any authorised PG release (including audio from official DVDs), except Encore Series. Unfortunately it must be only one CD and it must contain EXACTLY 23 tracks (none of this "I couldn't choose 23 so I've listed 50 tracks" nonsense, the CD mastering studios are awaiting your list!) So, I beseech thee....submit your running order...

Confusingly I put 22 and 23 above. The challenge is 23 tracks! (ps. when are we going to get editing options on these forums??) Anyway, over to you compilers.

OOOOH YES! I decided to make sure that I had one from all albums (except the germans) since it is ultimate ( I go up to 24 but there is no 5) 1 Solsbury Hill Car 2 Humdrum Car 3 Indigo Scratch 4 And Through The Wire Melt 6 I Don't Remember Melt 7 Wallflower Security 8 At Night Birdy 9 On The Air Plays Live 10 That Voice Again So 11 A Different Drum Passion 12 Bread and WIne Passion 13Here COmes the Flood Shaking the Tree 14 In Your Eyes SWL 15 Across the River SWL 16 Make Tomorrow Ovo 17 Sky Blue Up 18 Signal to Noise Up 19 Downside Up Hit 20 Power of the HEar SMB 21Philadelphia SMB 22Red Rain New Blood 23Mercy Street New Blood 24Solsbury Hill Love Blood

Oh i forgot us. Add steam, Blood of eden, secret world and remove I don't remember,signal to noise and philadelphia

Hey very nice compilation AaronAKAAtrus! I'd buy that Now I have some time, here's my stab... 1. Here Comes The Flood (Growing Up live DvD) 2.Red Rain (So) 3. Humdrum (Car) 4. No Self Control (Melt) 5. San Jacinto (New Blood) 6. Secret World (SWL) 7. Love To Be Loved (US) 8. Shaking The Tree (SWL) 9. Family Snapshot (Melt) 10. DIY (plays live) 11. White Shadow (Scratch) 12. Intruder (New Blood) 13. Sky Blue (UP) 14. Mother of Violence (Scratch) 15. Solsbury Hill (Car) 16. Signal to Noise (Live Blood bonus cd) 17. Washing of the Water (US) 18. No Way Out (UP) 19. Mercy Street (So) 20. In Your Eyes (SWL) 21. Wallflower (New blood) 22. Biko (Melt) 23. Blood of Eden (New Blood bonus track) Wow, that was tough! It's surprising to look at this how much live stuff I've chosen ... more than I'd expected from Scratch and New Blood. Cant believe there's no Rhythm of the Heat etc etc.

Nice! I would buy yours also. I realise i forgot long walk home. ah well.

23 tracks is insanely tough, which is the point really. Takes a lot of thought. Im sure we could all do a new list everyday! ...I wondered if people would go for hits or for breadth or something else. I think you went went for breadth, in terms of albums covered for sure The tracks are only half of it, the running order is important too (and very important to PG as we know!). I think it might burn my list as a CD and see how it plays in the car

By the way, i think we only have four tracks (versions of tracks) in common! Amazing really.

Great thread OOU! Let let some of the STEAM out of my head and think about this of a bit and eventually you shall have my list. By that I do mean within a few days, not years as in PG record time. Could not resist, sorry. LOL

Ha ha, sure thing SR, it takes some thinking about! ...that goes for ANY new PG album

Understood! No big hurry on the new PG record, I've got lots of time left. I'm only forty, figure that gives me about 40-50 years. SOMETHING should happen by then, right?

Hey, let's make this really challenging and narrow it to 13. 1. Secret World (SW live) 2. Curtains (can't remember what the mix was called, but was released) 3. A Different Drum (Passion) 4. Red Rain (So) 5. San Jacinto (New Blood) 6. Kontakt! (German album) 7. Mirrorball (SM 8. Family Snapshot (3 or Melt) 9. Quiet Steam 10. I Go Swimming (Plays Live) 11. Whole Thing (BB 12. Home Sweet Home (2 or Scratch) 13. More Than This (Up) OK -- send me a photo of PG nekkid as payment.

Ah -- a capital B and a parenthesis automatically causes a I didn't realize that. Sorry. I still want my nekkid PG photo.

Never mind another half-baked compilation - here's PG's new album, including a completely unnecessary re-working of Animal Nation. . . 1. Artefact 2. The Waiting 3. Loss + 4. Beyond 5. Up From The Roots 6. Half Life 7. Captured for a Moment Forever 8. Frames 9 Animal Nation 10. Eye to Eye

Curtain Broad Mix Perhaps? Ah silly me- sticking to the albums.

13 is way less challenging TAWG! Don't be lazy you guys...23 tracks or you're in the Sin Bin

Um -- OK. 23, then. 1. Secret World (SW live) 2. Curtains (I think it was called the UTICA mix) 3. A Different Drum (Passion) 4. Red Rain (So) 5. San Jacinto (New Blood) 6. Kontakt! (German album) 7. Mirrorball (SMB 8. Family Snapshot (3 or Melt) 9. Quiet Steam 10. I Go Swimming (Plays Live) 11. Whole Thing (BBB 12. Home Sweet Home (2 or Scratch) 13. More Than This (Up) 14. Down to Earth (Wall-E soundtrack) 15. Don't Break This Rythm (Sledgehammer B-side) 16. Party Man (damn -- I forget the name of the movie) 17. DIY (Plays Live) 18. Mercy Street (N 19. Fisherman's Song (he didn't write it -- forget where that was from) 20. Summertime (Glory of Gershwin CD) 21. Sledgehammer (extended mix) 22. Slowburn (Car) 23. Here Comes the Flood (Shaking the Tree Mix)

TAWG- I like! Odd opener and closer. (The Uscita mix is the Broad mix fyi) party man is from virtuosity i think? i don't know the song.

update: PG has dropped Frames at the last moment and replaced it with a new mix of Shaking the Tree. . .

TAWG - interesting selections! But...Home Sweet Home. really?