OK, I'm trying to make a compilation of non-album songs for a single 12-14 song "CD". Anything goes but for live recordings I prefer soundboard quality. Include the holiday singles and B-sides (but nothing from Lost Dogs). The idea is to make something cool for my wife (who is a huge fan). Here's where I'm at - it's a bit long and I'm missing a ton of good stuff probably so already thinking it could be a 2CD mix.

Falling Down
Of The Earth
I've Got A Feeling
Crown Of Thorns (Vegas 2000)
Leatherman
Ole
Santa Cruz
Love Reign O'er Me
Slow Lukin (NYC 2010)
Mother (from Fallon)
Crazy Mary
Hold On (Acoustic)
No Jeremy
Corduroy (Alt. Take)
Puzzles & Games [I REALLY wish this was a louder recording]
Hunger Strike (live somewhere)

I'd lose "Mother" and replace it with "Brother" for the Ten reissue or "Happy When I'm Crying" or basically anything besides that Mother cover.

I've never heard a third of those songs.

Really? Well which ones? I'll point ya in the right direction.

Yeah, Happy When I'm Crying is a must for something like this.

Also, Angel (and possibly Real Thing, but hey, I think that's just me).

Yeah, not including Happy When I'm Crying means you lose immediately.

Sonic Reducer ('92 Xmas Single)
Last Soldier (2001 Xmas Single)
Just A Girl w/ original vocals (from same promo as Puzzles) <- underrated & much better than Hold On IMO

Best "Hunger Strike" is 10/6/09 Universal City

And if you're including b-sides then there are the b-side versions of:

Wash (alternate take)
Hard To Imagine (alternate take)
Alone (alternate take)
State Of Love And Trust (original mix)
Footsteps (no harmonica)


If you need help putting this together, let me know. I have all of this shit & I can fix the tracks that are too quiet too.

there is an additional take of hold on besides the LD and acoustic version that, if you like the original song at all, is good

Cameronia, I'm assuming your "alternate takes" all refer to the versions *not* included on Lost Dogs?

**Edit--given that the original post said "no Lost Dogs," this was quite possibly a really stupid question.

Anyway, I actually have one of these, and it looks like:

1. Wash (Alive single)
2. Angel
3. Alone (Go single)
4. Footsteps (Jeremy single)
5. Sunburn
6. Out of My Mind
7. Happy When I'm Crying
8. Soldier of Love (Last Kiss single)
9. Drifting (original 1999 single)
10. Education (alternate version from Lost Dogs promo)
11. U (Wishlist single)
12. Man of the Hour (demo)
13. Someday At Christmas
14. Speed of Sound (demo)

I actually have a few of these, but this is the one that gets played all the time.

The Ten Redux version of Brother makes me cry. I'd definitely go with either the rough mixes bootleg version or the version that was on the Lost Dogs promo CD.

Yeah, I have one of these for the car too.

("Rarities, etc.: 1991-1998")

1. Just a Girl (Ten outtake - from the promo disc)
2. Alone (Ten outtake - from the promo disc)
3. Brother (Ten outtake - from the promo disc)
4. Footsteps (original single version)
5. State of Love and Trust (Singles soundtrack mix)
6. Breath
7. Dirty Frank (original single version)
8. Crazy Mary
9. Hard to Imagine (Chicago Cab version)
10. Out of My Mind
11. I Got Shit
12. Long Road
13. Don't Gimme No Lip
14. Dead Man
15. Black Red Yellow (original single edit)
16. Leavin' Here
17. Happy When I'm Crying
18. U (original single version)
19. Leatherman

Yeah, totally different (later) versions than on "Lost Dogs".

The mix of SOLAT on RVM is an alternate mix drenched in reverb...pretty strange since they stripped the reverb from the "Ten" songs on the same album.

I've Got a Feeling
Footsteps (Jeremy version or NAIS version)
Yellow Ledbetter (daughter version)
Master/Slave (it's a separate track on the Japanese Ten)
Alone (go version)
Angel
Leatherman
State of Love & Trust (RVM version)
Man of the Hour/demo
The Kids are Alright
Love, Reign O'er Me
Santa Cruz

Yeah, after a near-decade of living with the Singles soundtrack, hearing that "SOLAT" mix was a real WTF moment.

To me the Lost Dogs/RVM mixes will always be the "alternate" takes.

if you don't mind subtle changes the versions of undone and Black, Red, Yellow on LD is slightly different than the versions that appear on the actual singles.

There is another version of Dead Man out there too

Thanks guys... I've got the list up to 26 songs (two 13 song "CDs"). I'm trying to sequence them now in a way that makes sense (studio v. live? - I don't know). There are a lot of great songs out there. I could probably do a third CD of alternate takes and random instrumental stuff too.

I was about to post something positive about you spenno, for your possible inclusion of "The Real Thing". Then I read this. I'm so disappointed.

Listened to Real thing today....great song...who is playing there? all band minus eddie or just jeff and stone?

It was Stone, Jeff, and Dave A, from what I remember.