I got sick of shuffling between several relatively short Features cds and decided to burn me a Features mix. I based it in some part on the Boro setlist, plus The Attic setlist. Anyhow, here's what it looks like:

01 - Circus (demo/promo version)
02 - Exorcising Demons (Mahaffey)
03 - See You Thru (Mahaffey)
04 - Kari-Ann (Mahaffey)
05 - 2x2 (Beginning)
06 - Oh My Love (Mahaffey)
07 - Walk You Home (Beginning)
08 - That's Me (Features EP)
09 - Serious (Mahaffey)
10 - The Beginning (Beginning)
11 - Jurley (Mahaffey)
12 - Leave It All Behind (demo/radio version)
13 - Darkroom (Mahaffey)
14 - 33 1/3 (Mahaffey)
15 - Armani Suede (Features EP)
16 - D Con (Radio One) (Spongebath Sampler)
17 - Paid to Think (Spongebath Sampler)
18 - Your Smile (Mississippi Album)
19 - Roger's Theme (Features EP)
20 - Thursday (Thursday/Rabbit March)
Hidden Track - Matt's Little Ditty (unknown origin)

I know, I'm a geek for including a hidden track, but I did it anyway.

I'm curious as to how others listen to The Features. If you have a mix tape/cd, whats on it? I'm guessing plenty have shows that they listen to, which would be nice.

Will

this toipc resembles a reeses cup commercial...

I listen to the live bootlegs. I also eat them in two big bites.

I listen to various mp3's. I also eat the middle first so it resembles a donut.

i have a cd i keep in in the car so i can rock out.........

Wiyum, I had the very same idea. Why carry around five or six short CD's when you can put your entire Features studio collection onto two discs? However, instead of ordering them in some random order, I did quite a bit of research to ensure that they were in chronological order. Here's my Features Studio Compliation track listing:

Disc I
Self-Titled EP
1. Armani Suede
2. Attention
3. Button My Shirt
4. That's Me
5. Waffle House Menu
6. Roger's Theme
7. Hey, Lou

Dortch Sessions
8. Extension Cord
9. Treehouse Club
10. Your Smile
11. Thursday
12. Matt's Little Ditty
13. Anti-Gravity Class of '93
14. D-Con (Radio One)
15. Rabbit March
16. Roger's Theme
17. That's Me

Soaking in the Center of the Universe
18. Engine Debris
19. Paid to Think
20. D-Con (Radio One)
21. Anti-Gravity Class of '93

Disc II
Unreleased Single
1. 33 1/3
2. Circus

Rawlings Sessions
3. Dark Room
4. Discotheque
5. Exorcising Demons
6. Kari Anne
7. Oh My Love
8. See You Through
9. Stagecoach

Mahaffey Sessions
10. Serious
11. Exorcising Demons
12. Kari Anne
13. 33 1/3
14. Dark Room
15. See You Through
16. Jurley
17. Oh My Love
18. Armani Suede

The Beginning
19. Stark White Stork Approaching
20. Walk You Home
21. Bumble Bee
22. The Beginning (Week One)
23. Two by Two

Unreleased Demo
24. Leave It All Behind


If anyone spots any errors in my categorization or chronology, please let me know.

I, too encountered this problem. Back when I could only download 40-60% of the songs I did have a CD with about 11 songs that lasted 14 minutes that I played over and over again BUT I have since acquired all the complete songs. Every Features song I own is on this CD and I tried to pace it like an album (which is a geeky thing to do). It's in my car now so this is from memory...

1. Stark White Stork Approaching
2. The Beginning
3. Anti-Gravity Class of '93
4. Armani Suede
5. Exorcising Demons
6. Paid To Think
7. Walk You Home
8. 33 1/3
9. Dark Room
10. Bumblebee
11. Leave It All Behind
12. Circus
13. Kari Anne
14. Two By Two
15. Thursday
16. See You Through

This is the CD that HaveSomeSoma, IWantElvis and myself have copies of.

(Edited by DigsySlattery at 1:36 pm on Aug. 25, 2002)

Tom...I thought that the material on the Spongebath comps was culled from the "Dortch Sessions". Am I wrong? If so, with whom/when/where did they record those 4 songs?

TF,

Your chronology is about right to me. However, though I've noted the differences in the Dortch and Soaking versions of D-Con (Radio One), I've never noticed any difference in the Antigravity Class of '93. Are they different?

Will

Jamie,

If Radio One is any indication, they were recorded with Dorcth, but somewhere along the line, they were re-mixed. I can listen to the two versions of Radio One that I have if you like and compile a list of diifferences, but I remember it being nearly nothing but the "trumpet solo" portion of the song. Nothing major and definitely the same recording sessions, just a different mix.

As I said above, Antigravity never seemed different to me.

Will

Yes, from everything I've heard, the sampler songs were recorded with Dortch in Mississippi. However, the versions that were put on the sampler were mixed a bit differently than the versions that would've been put on the album. As Wiyum said, "D-Con" has the biggest differences (different vocals and no horns). "Anti-Gravity" is a bit tougher. I carefully compared the two tracks and found some very minute differences between them. They just have a different "sound" to them. I don't know if they're different mixes or if it's just caused by varying quality in the two recordings I have. At any rate, I decided to keep both versions in my compilation.

I am a music geek as well so I also pace every mix cd that I make like an album, especially the features.

my cd consists of:

1. stark white stork approaching
2. walk you home
3. dark room
4. the beginning
5. speed of 33 1/3
6. leave it all behind
7. see you through
8. exorcising demons
9. kari-ann
10. paid to think
11. bumle bee
12. two by two
13. armani suede
14. thursday

a fairly good cd.

How can you call that just "fairly good"?

Do you not think the recordings do the songs justice? Is the order not that great?

Or...are you secretly not a fan of the Features?????? I knew we'd find one or two somewhere.

What the fuck? It's just a figure of speech.

I am a huge features fan. that cd kicks ass. it's just a figure of speech.

do i make myself clear?

or do you enjoy making me miserable?

(Edited by ray davies at 10:03 pm on Aug. 27, 2002)

The prior is wholly true, but I'm betting nowhere near as true as the latter...

Will

Sometimes I wish that elliott would come back and remind us all (yes, even me) that we take this thing way too seriously.

Okay...I think I can be pretty annoying. Want me to write one sentence posts about hippie-stuff? I think if I try hard enough I can forget all normal punctuation rules and throw logic out the window when constructing my sentences.

I'm pretty sure I spotted Elliot at the last show. No word on whether he managed to keep track of his pants this time.

A proper impression of the esteemed elliott would include numerous references to Jah Rastafari, Phish, Britney [sic], and spotlighing emo kids in Clarksville.

Hmm...on second thought I know nothing of Phish/Hippie culture and would like to keep it that way. I will place this task on someone else...

Why do you guys say you are music geeks when you make a compilation cd work like an album? That's the only way to do it, so it flows. People who do it otherwise are the real losers.

I suppose I'm a loser, then. I put everything I could find by the features on two discs in near chronological order. The first disc starts with the Self-Titled EP, goes into the Dortch sessions and ends with serious, circus and 33 1/3. The second is the more current stuff with the Rawlings sessions going into the Beginnning EP and ending with Rabbit March and Thursday. I ended both discs with the lower-quality recorded songs as sort of "bonus tracks". Plus, it's kind of a no-brainer to end with Thursday when God Save Rock'n'Roll isn't available (yet?). I prefer to listen to blocks of albums/sessions because of the differing quality and volume. Until I can get better mixing software, it seems like my best option. I'm sure I'm still a loser, though.

My favorite Features recording, though, is a live recoding of a Blue Kats Show of theirs from last year (I think).

So...you didn't read Tom Foolery's post from earlier in the thread?
I think the chronological order is the best way to go. It could be done other ways, but that's how I do it, too. However, Thursday and Rabbit March are part of the Dortch thing and are high quality. It can be hard to get a decent transfer from record to CD.


As for studio vs. live, I started trying to collect Features bootlegs around the time the Rawling sessions were made, and trust me, folks, at that time, there was NOTHING. I was happy to get what I found and later made. I tend to lean toward the studio stuff. I gravitate toward its clarity and quality. Live shows are good since so many great Features songs are not recorded or released, and some have terrible studio versions (Jurley, See You Thru, Circus). So I guess it's a tie.

I never heard Jurley live, but I dig the studi version.

See Your Though's studio version is also, I think, not a bad representation of how the song comes down live.

Will

I agree, Wiyum. Jurley and See You Thru from the Mahaffey Sessions are great.

So I have a new mix disc, a combination of Studio recordings and live versions where I Cool Edit Pro'd (poor man's protools) audience noise down and amplified the audio to max without peaking. Great sounding disc, an 80 minute with only 57 seconds unused, with the following tracklist, based on the recent Attic show combined with the Red Rose and with the other tracks thrown in in places where they would break up clumps of live or studio recordings so that it never settled into one or the other:

1. Stark White Stork Approaching (Beginning)
2. Circus (Live 8-24-02 12th and Porter Blightman)
3. Exorcising Demons (Mahaffey)
4. Look Out Below (Live 8-24-02 12th and Porter Blightman)
5. Oh My Love (Vinyl)
6. Darkroom (Mahaffey)
7. Someway, Somehow (Live 8-24-02 12th and Porter Blightman)
8. Kari-Anne (Mahaffey)
9. Blow It Out (Live 8-24-02 12th and Porter Blightman)
10. Walk You Home (Beginning)
11. Moonlight (undomumented live version from mp3 site)
12. Buffalo Head (Vinyl)
13. See You Through (Mahaffey)
14. Leave It All Behind (demo)
15. Bring on the Night (Live 8-24-02 12th and Porter Blightman)
16. The Beginning (Week One) (Beginning)
17. Growing Old (Live 8-24-02 12th and Porter Blightman)
18. 33 1/3 (Mahaffey)
19. God Save Rock 'n' Roll (Live 8-24-02 12th and Porter Blightman)
---10 sec silence---
20. Bumblebee (Beginning)
21. The Design (8-30-02 Blue Cats Blightman)
22. Action (Live 8-24-02 12th and Porter Blightman)
23. Two by Two (Beginning)
24. The Damage is Done (5-2-02 Boro Blightman?)
25. Thursday (Vinyl)

And it seems that this is what I'll be listening to til the new album comes out next April (wishful thinking, not fact or even an honest guess).

Will

I burned myself two features CD's

One CD that includes:
The Self-Titled cd
and The Begining CD on it also with a few SELF tracks

See if you can swim, there version of Hey Lou, Old rusted and Used, A live version of Trunk Fulla Amps and a few other songs are on there.

I have another Cd with All live tracks of the Features on there.

I made a tape from the two of these so i could play it in my Walkman on my to classes. Sometimes I can be seen on my way to an 8 o'clock class drumming along with Rollum, except I just beat along on my legs
I must look insane... But it wakes me up!

(Edited by Genius Girl at 3:42 pm on Jan. 8, 2003)

"Matt's Little Ditty" is only fifty-two seconds long. You should've squeezed it in there.

TF has made me a copy of these 2 CDs as well, and I agree that I like them better in chronological order. Plus, I like to know what era each song went into..The best part is that he wrote a brief history of each group of sessions and included it with the CD. The Features Studio Compilation CDs definitely rule me.

He probably had to get help from his roommate to accomplish this.

I have a mixed CD with some songs "Ray Davies" gave me, as well as stuff I have recorded at concerts. It goes in order as it would on an album (thanks in part to Jason)...

01 - Buffalo Head (12th & Porter)
02 - Walk You Home (Beginning EP)
03 - Darkroom (Demo)
04 - The Beginning (Beginning EP)
05 - 33 1/3 (Demo)
06 - Leave It All Behind (Demo)
07 - See You Through (Demo)
08 - Oh My Love (Demo - Different from Buffalo Head 45)
09 - Kari Anne (Demo)
10 - Action (12th & Porter)
11 - The Design (12th & Porter)
12 - Damage Is Done (12th & Porter)
13 - Moonlight (12th & Porter)
14 - Temporary Blues (12th & Porter)
15 - God Save RNR (12th & Porter)
16 - Bring On The Night (Boro 1-11-03)
17 - Exhibit A (Boro 1-11-03)
18 - Idea Of Growing Old (Boro 1-11-03)
19 - Someway, Somehow (Boro 1-11-03)
20 - Two By Two (Boro 1-11-03)
21 - Stark White Stork (Boro 1-11-03)
22 - Circus (Boro 1-11-03)
23 - The Way It's Mean To Be (Boro 1-11-03)
24 - There's A Million Ways... (Boro 1-11-03)
25 - Thursday (Boro 1-11-03)
26 - Armani Suede (Features EP)

It's good stuff.