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Alternate track listings for the albums

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Sometimes I feel like the track listing for an album doesn't capture the right feel. It buries some key songs in the latter half, doesn't start or end with enough energy, or its bonus track(s) are better than some of the main album songs.

I revamped the track listings for four Alter Bridge albums. I didn't do Blackbird because I really didn't know what to do with the closer (none of the songs really have a strong ending), and I didn't do Fortress because I think it's fine the way it is.

One Day Remains:
1. One Day Remains
2. Watch Your Words
3. Open Your Eyes
4. Broken Wings
5. Save Me
6. Shed My Skin
7. The End Is Here
8. Down To My Last
9. Metalingus
10. In Loving Memory
11. Burn It Down
12. Find The Real (Bonus track)

AB III:
1. Slip To The Void
2. Isolation
3. Ghost Of Days Gone By
4. Show Me A Sign
5. I Know It Hurts
6. Fallout
7. Wonderful Life
8. Coeur D'Alene
9. Breathe Again
10. Make It Right
11. All Hope Is Gone
12. Home
13. Life Must Go On
14. Words Darker Than Their Wings
15. Zero (Bonus track)
16. Still Remains (Bonus track)

The Last Hero:
1. Show Me A Leader
2. The Writing On The Wall
3. My Champion
4. Cradle To The Grave
5. Crows On A Wire
6. The Other Side
7. Losing Patience
8. Last Of Our Kind
9. Island Of Fools
10. Twilight
11. Poison In Your Veins
12. You Will Be Remembered
13. The Last Hero
14. This Side Of Fate (Bonus track)

Walk The Sky:
1. One Life
2. Wouldn't You Rather
3. Pay No Mind
4. Godspeed
5. Indoctrination
6. In The Deep
7. Native Son
8. Tear Us Apart
9. Clear Horizon
10. Take The Crown
11. Last Rites
12. Forever Falling
13. The Bitter End
14. Walking On The Sky
15. Dying Light (Bonus track)
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Oh yeah...
And it's Lzzy Hale!

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Lots of members thought Clear Horizon belong behind One Life. I've tried it and I sort of see it, but I think I see it as a later song.

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The only album order which I can recall disagreeing with at all was Walk the Sky. I really hate One Life as an opener. I think In the Deep would have made a much better opener. They could have done almost anything after that.

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davidstvz wrote: Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:06 am The only album order which I can recall disagreeing with at all was Walk the Sky. I really hate One Life as an opener. I think In the Deep would have made a much better opener. They could have done almost anything after that.
I don't like One Life as an opener either. But, I wanted to keep the same number of songs as on the original album.

The intro of In The Deep makes for a good opener, but the song as a whole isn't characteristic of their best album openers (Slip To The Void, Cry Of Achilles, Show Me A Leader). Honestly, none of the songs on the album are.
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They should have extended the synthy intro to 'Walking on the Sky' and made that the opening track.

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Dan Dando wrote: Tue Oct 12, 2021 2:44 pm They should have extended the synthy intro to 'Walking on the Sky' and made that the opening track.
Good idea, but a little too slow to be the opening track. Plus, then there wouldn't be anything epic to close the album because I wish Dying Light wasn't part of the main album.
I'm in love with somebody...
Found someone who completes me...
I'm in love with somebody...
Oh yeah...
And it's Lzzy Hale!

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maximzub wrote: Tue Oct 12, 2021 9:32 am
davidstvz wrote: Tue Oct 12, 2021 8:06 am The only album order which I can recall disagreeing with at all was Walk the Sky. I really hate One Life as an opener. I think In the Deep would have made a much better opener. They could have done almost anything after that.
I don't like One Life as an opener either. But, I wanted to keep the same number of songs as on the original album.

The intro of In The Deep makes for a good opener, but the song as a whole isn't characteristic of their best album openers (Slip To The Void, Cry Of Achilles, Show Me A Leader). Honestly, none of the songs on the album are.
No, it's not ideal, but I think it's the best option they had. Wouldn't You Rather, for me, isn't much better than Show Me a Leader which I particularly dislike and the opening portion One Life... I've never been a big fan of that kind of intro. Get to the music! They did at least make it it's own track so it can easily be skipped... but I also hate skipping!

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