Track By Track for recording artists, harkening back to the era when albums, or even CDs, framed our understanding of their work.
The idea is to pick the best first track from an
artist, then the second and third, etc. The end result wouldn't be the
best CD from that artist, but an interesting combination of bests by
song position on CD (or album). You get the idea. Examples are posted below.
Track By Track of Violent Femmes:
1 Blister In The Sun
2 No Killing
3 Dating Days
4 Add It Up
5 I Know It's True But I'm Sorry To Say
6 Hallowed Ground
7 Rejoice and Be Happy
8 I Held Her in My Arms
9 Telephone Book
10 Good Friend
11 Cold Canyon
12 Gimme The Car
13 I'm Free
Track By Track of The Fall:
1 Mansion
2 Pacifying Joint
3 Theme From Sparta F.C.
4 Feeling Numb
5 It's a Curse
6 Spinetrack
7 New Face In Hell
8 Two Steps Back
9 Van Plague?
10 And Therein...
11 Paint Work
12 I Am Damo Suzuki
13 Big New Prinz
14 The N.W.R.A.
15 Hit The North
Track By Track of Chris Rice:
1 Questions For Heaven
2 Go Light Your World
3 Sometimes Love
4 Big Enough
5 Smile
6 Lemonade
7 Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing
8 Me and Becky
9 Thirsty
10 Life Means So Much
11 Circle Up
Track By Track of Garth Brooks:
1 We Shall Be Free
2 How You Ever Gonna Know
3 Wrapped Up In You
4 The Gift
5 Friends in Low Places
6 Wild Horses
7 Unanswered Prayers
8 It's Midnight Cinderella
9 Night Rider's Lament
10 Wolves
11 The Dance
Track By Track of Holly Cole:
1 Take Me Home
2 Don't Let the Teardrops Rust Your Shining Heart
3 If I Were a Bell
4 So And So
5 Purple Avenue
6 Larger Than Life
7 I Thought of You Again
8 Ev'rything I Got
9 Little Boy Blue
10 Make It Go Away
11 I Told Him That My Dog Wouldn't Run
12 Heart of Saturday Night
Track By Track of Black Sabbath (original, Ozzy):
1 War PIgs
2 After Forever
3 Junior's Eyes
4 Iron Man
5 The Thrill of It All
6 Hand of Doom
7 Spiral Architect
8 Dirty Women
9 St. Vitus Dance
Track By Track of Elvis Costello:
1 The Other Side of Summer
2 Every Day I Write the Book
3 The Beat
4 Veronica
5 Alison
6 Shipbuilding
7 (The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes
8 Less Than Zero
9 Human Hands
10 London's Brilliant Parade
11 Little Savage
12 Two Little HItlers
13 Peace In Our Time
14 You Little Fool
15 Town Cryer
Track By Track of Led Zeppelin:
1 Immigrant Song
2 What Is and What Should Never Be
3 Fool in the Rain
4 Stairway To Heaven
5 Misty Mountain Hop
6 Kahsmir
7 Ramble On
8 That's The Way
9 Bring It On Home
Track By Track of Dead Kennedys:
1 Soup Is Good Food
2 Too Drunk To F#$%
3 When Ya Get Drafted
4 Let's Lynch the Landlord
5 Dog Bite
6 Nazi Punks F#$% Off
7 Shrink
8 Halloween
9 I Kill Children
10 Stars and Stripes of Corruption
11 Bleed For Me
12 Ill in the Head
13 Holiday in Cambodia
14 Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go Around)
15 Gone With My Wind
16 Night of the Living Rednecks
17 Chickenshit Conformist
Track By Track of The Moody Blues:
1 Question
2 The Story in Your Eyes
3 Long Summer Days
4 Emily's Song
5 Driftwood
6 The Land of Make-Believe
7 Never Comes The Day
8 Painted Smile
9 Melancholy Man
10 Sorry
11 Have You Heard, Part 1
12 The Voyage
13 Have You Heard, Part 2
Track By Track of Sophie B. Hawkins:
1 Strange Thing (Walking in my Blue Jeans)
2 No Connection
3 Don't Don't Tell Me No
4 As I Lay Me Down
5 Carry Me
6 Sweetsexywoman
7 Before I Walk On Fire
8 Only Love (The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty)
9 Listen
10 Lose Your Way
11 Mr. Tugboat Hello
12 Feeling Good
13 Soul Lover
Track By Track of The Boomtown Rats:
1 Like Clockwork
2 Diamond Smiles
3 Drag Me Down
4 Another Piece of Red
5 Mary of the 4th Form
6 I Don't Like Mondays
7 Nothing Happened Today
8 The Elephant's Graveyard
9 Banana Republic
10 Rat Trap
11 Hurt Hurts
12 Up All Night
Track By Track of The Jam:
1 The Modern World
2 To Be Someone (Didn't We Have a Nice Time)
3 Private Hell
4 Set the House Ablaze
5 Start!
6 Running on the Spot
7 In The City
8 Man in the Corner Shop
9 Carnation
10 Time For Truth
11 A' Bomb in Wardour Street
12 Down in the Tube Station at Midnight
Track By Track of The Residents:
1 Constantinople
2 Harry The Head
3 The Weatherman
4 The Angry Angakok
5 How to Get a Head
6 Smelly Tongues
7 The Aging Musician
8 Die In Terror
9 Nobody Laughs When They Leave
10 Daddy's Poems
11 Walter Westinghouse
12 Timmy
13 Hello Skinny
14 The Nameless Souls
15 Love Leaks Out
16 Burning Love
17 Viva Las Vegas
18 Boneless Boy (Remix 2014)
19 Loss Of Innocence
20 The Simple Song
Track By Track of Jethro Tull:
1 With You There To Help Me
2 Cross-Eyed Mary
3 Bouree
4 Dark Ages
5 Wond'ring Aloud
6 Skating Away on the Thin Ice of a New Day
7 One Brown Mouse
8 Heavy Horses
9 A Song For Jeffrey
10 Two Fingers
11 Wind-Up
Track By Track of Yes:
1 The Revealing Science of God (Dance of the Dawn)
2 And You And I
3 The Ancient (Giants Under the Sun)
4 Into The Lens
5 Love Will Find a Way
6 Perpetual Change
7 Astral Traveler
8 Survival
9 Hearts
Track By Track of Todd Snider:
1 New Connection
2 Yesterday's and Used To Be's
3 Just Like Old Times
4 Beer Run
5 Alright Guy
6 Crooked Piece of Time
7 Turn It Up
8 Trouble
9 A lot More
10 Once He Finds Us
11 Somebody's Coming
12 Late Last Night
13 Talkin' Seattle Grunge Rock Blues
14 Doublewide Blues
Track By Track of XTC:
1 Respectable Street
2 The Mayor of Simpleton
3 Senses Working Overtime
4 That's Really Super, Supergirl
5 The Loving
6 Yacht Dance
7 Your Dictionary
8 Scarecrow People
9 Merely A Man
10 It's Nearly Africa
11 The Man Who Sailed Around His Soul
12 Burning With Optimism's Flames
13 War Dance
14 Sacrificial Bonfire
15 The Ugly Underneath
Track By Track of DC Talk:
1 So Help Me God
2 Colored People
3 Jesus Freak
4 What If I Stumble
5 Say the Words
6 Voices Praise Him
7 Socially Acceptable
8 Like It, Love It, Need It
9 Take It To The Lord
10 The Hardway
11 What Have We Become
12 Supernatural
13 Red Letters
14 There Is a Treason At Sea
15 Will Power
16 Word 2 the Father
Track By Track of Pink Floyd:
1 The Post War Dream
2 Learning To Fly
3 Nobody Home
4 Wish You Were Here
5 The Great Gig in the Sky
6 Mother
7 Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
8 In The Flesh
9 Brain Damage
10 The Final Cut
11 Not Now John
12 Another Brick In The Wall 3
13 Goodbye Cruel World
Track By Track of The Alan Parsons Project:
1 Let's Talk About Me
2 Eye in the Sky
3 Days Are Numbered (The Traveller)
4 The Cask of Amontillado
5 Winding Me Up
6 Damned If I Do
7 The Fall of the House of Usher: Arrival
8 Day After Day (The Show Must Go On)
9 Nothing Left To Lose
10 Old And Wise
11 To One in Paradise
Track By Track of Deaf School:
1 Don't Stop The World
2 Golden Shower
3 Thunder and Lightning
4 What a Week
5 Capaldi's Café
6 Ronny Zamora (My Friend Ron)
7 Get Set Ready Go
8 Nearly Moonlit Night Motel
9 Room Service
10 Hi Jo Hi
11 Snapshots
12 Final Act
Track By Track of The Beatles:
1 Taxman
2 Eleanor Rigby
3 Any Time At All
4 Hey Bulldog
5 Octopus's Garden
6 I Am The Walrus
7 While My Guitar Gently Weeps
8 Strawberry Fields Forever
9 Penny Lane
10 Sun King
11 All You Need Is Love
12 Piggies
13 Got To Get You Into My Life
14 Nowhere Man
15 Carry That Weight
16 The End
17 You Can't Do That
18 Long Tall Sally
19 And I Love Her
20 Dizzy Miss Lizzie
21 If I Fell
22 She Loves You
Track By Track of The Who:
1 You Better You Bet
2 I Can't Explain (Live)
3 Pinball Wizard
4 The Real Me
5 Go To The Mirror!
6 My Generation
7 I Can See For Miles
8 Sensation
9 Won't Get Fooled Again
10 A Quick One While He's Away
11 Pictures of Lily
12 Welcome
13 Tommy's Holiday Camp
14 We're Not Gonna Take It
Track By Track of The Rolling Stones:
1 Sympathy for the Devil
2 Mixed Emotions
3 Wild Horses
4 Some Girls
5 Tumbling Dice
6 She's a Rainbow
7 Get Off My Cloud
8 19th Nervous Breakdown
9 Dead Flowers
10 Shattered
11 Waiting on a Friend
12 (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction [live]
Track By Track of Bob Dylan:
1 Like a Rolling Stone
2 Alberta No. 1
3 Visions of Johanna
4 Slow Train
5 I Want You
6 A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall
7 Knockin' on Heaven's Door
8 Just Like a Woman
9 You Angel You
10 The Man in Me
11 It Ain't Me Babe
12 Sugar Baby
13 Froggie Went A-Courtin'
Track By Track of Crosby-Nash; Crosby, Stills & Nash; Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young:
1 Suite: Judy Blue Eyes
2 Wasted On The Way
3 Southern Cross
4 Helpless
5 Woodstock
6 Page 43
7 Simple Man
8 Just a Song Before I Go
9 Foolish Man
10 Fieldworker
11 Immigration Man
Track By Track of Maria McKee (without Lone Justice):
1 I've Forgotten What It Was in You (That Put the Need in Me)
2 To Miss Someone
3 Am I the Only One (Who's Ever Felt This Way)?
4 Only Once
5 Panic Beach
6 I Can' t Make It Alone
7 More Than a Heart Can Hold
8 Show Me Heaven
9 Why Wasn't I More Grateful (When Life Was Sweet)?
10 A Good Heart
11 Drinkin' in my Sunday Dress
12 Starving Pretty
13 Has He Got a Friend
14 Backstreets
Track By Track of Laurie Anderson:
1 Sharkey's Day
2 Walk The Dog
3 Born, Never Asked (Part 1, continued)
4 Talk Normal
5 Only an Expert
6 Beautiful Red Dress
7 The Day the Devil
8 Let X=X
9 O Superman (live, NYC)
10 Poison
11 Mach 20
12 Private Property
13 I Dreamed I Had To Take a Test …
14 Same Time Tomorrow
15 The Mailman's Nightmare
16 Difficult Listening Hour
17 Language Is a Virus
18 Dog Show
19 Lighting Out for the Territories
20 Violin Walk
Track By Track of Third Day:
1 Tunnel
2 You Are So Good To Me
3 Cry Out to Jesus
4 Love Song
5 Your Love Oh Lord
6 It's a Shame
7 Consuming Fire
8 God of Wonders
9 May Your Wonders Never Cease
10 Innocent
11 Medley: Give/Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus/With or Without You…
12 Take My Life (live)
13 I Will Hold My Head High
Track By Track of Joni Mitchell:
1 Coyote
2 For Free
3 Free Man in Paris
4 Carey
5 No Apologies
6 Come in from the Cold
7 Nothing Can Be Done
8 River
9 A Case Of You
10 Big Yellow Taxi
11 Woodstock
12 Both Sides, Now
Track By Track of Brian Eno:
1 Burning Airlines Give You So Much More
2 Music For Airports 2/1
3 Baby's On Fire
4 Mother Whale Eyeless
5 King's Lead Hat
6 I'll Come Running
7 Julie with…
8 The True Wheel
9 China My China
10 Quartz
11 Becalmed
12 Hazard
13 Everything Merges With The Night
14 Spirits Drifting
15 Task Force
16 Dear World
17 Iced World
Track By Track of The Cure:
1 Boys Don't Cry
2 Pictures of You
3 The Hanging Garden
4 Lovesong
5 Why Can't I Be You?
6 How Beautiful You Are …
7 Fascination Street
8 Killing an Arab
9 Just Like Heaven
10 Disentegration
11 The Promise
12 end
Track By Track of Sounds Of Blackness:
1 Born in a Manger
2 I’m Going All The Way
3 You Are The One
4 Hold On (Change is Comin')
5 Testify
6 Twenty Four and Back Again
7 God Cares
8 Hold On (Don't Let Go)
9 Your Wish is My Command
10 We Give You Thanks
11 He Holds the Future
12 The Drum (Africa To America)
13 A Spiritual Medley: I'll Open My Mouth To the Lord…
14 So Far Away
15 Strange Fruit
16 Time For Healing
17 Harambee [Let Us All Pull Together]
Track By Track of Flipper:
1 Sex Bomb
2 Life is Cheap
3 Ha Ha Ha
4 Love Canal
5 Way of the World
6 Talk's Cheap
7 Nothing
8 Living for the Depression
9 Get Away
10 Brainwash
11 Sacrifice
12 If I Can't Be Drunk
13 Life
14 The Wheel
15 Flipper Blues
Track By Track of Van Morrison:
1 Ain't Nothing You Can Do
2 Saint Dominic's Preview
3 Sweet Thing
4 Have I Told You Lately
5 Into the Mystic
6 Inarticulate Speech of the Heart No. 1
7 Why Must I Always Explain
8 Cypress Avenue
9 See Me Through Pt 2 (Just a Closer Walk With Thee)
10 Ivory Tower
11 Cleaning Windows
12 Only a Dream
13 Tupelo Honey
14 Moondance/My Funny Valentine
Track By Track of Jars Of Clay:
1 Disappear
2 Dead Man (Carry Me)
3 Collide
4 I Need You
5 Trouble Is
6 Faith Enough
7 Show You Love
8 Flood
9 I'm in the Way
10 Much Afraid
11 Hymn
12 Water Under the Bridge
13 They'll Know We are Christians by Our Love
Track By Track of Don Ellis:
1 Tears of Joy
2 Despair To Hope
3 Bulgarian Bulge
4 Euphoric Acid
5 Theme from The French Connection
6 Old Man's Tear
7 Great Divide
8 Pussy Wiggle Stomp
9 Parting
10 Dew
Track By Track of Al Stewart:
1 Time Passages
2 Amsterdam
3 Gethsemane, Again
4 Accident on 3rd Street
5 You Should Have Listened to Al
6 Samuel, Oh How You've Changed!
7 Rocks in the Ocean
8 Night of the 4th of May
9 Optical Illusion
10 Hipposong
1 Roadhouse Blues
2 Soul Kitchen
3 Love Me Two Times
4 Peace Frog
5 L.A. Woman
6 Ship Of Fools
7 Hyacinth House
8 The Spy
9 The Soft Parade
10 Yes, The River Knows
11 The End
Track By Track of Dire Straits:
1 Tunnel Of Love
2 Romeo and Juliet
3 Walk Of Life
4 Communique
5 Hand In Hand
6 Sultans Of Swing
7 In The Gallery
8 Wild West End
9 Brothers in Arms
Track By Track of Talking Heads:
1 Burning Down The House
2 With Our Love
3 Girlfriend Is Better
4 Once in a Lifetime
5 Life During Wartime
6 Stay Up Late
7 Dream Operator
8 People Like Us
9 This Must Be The Place (Naïve Melody)
10 Psycho Killer
11 The Big Country
Track By Track of Linda Ronstadt:
1 Still Within the Sound of My Voice
2 Party Girl
3 Freezing
4 Hummin' To Myself
5 Someone To Watch Over Me
6 Long, Long Time
7 Poor, Poor Pitiful Me
8 (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
9 Girls Talk
10 Tell Him
11 When Something is Wrong with My Baby
12 Lush Life
Track By Track