Playing God
Each installment took a flawed album the writer loved and rebuilt it — rearranging the track order, swapping in superior B-sides, live tracks, remixes, or outtakes for inferior filler. Andrew Unterberger rebuilt New Order's Movement. Nick Southall rewired The Verve's Urban Hymns. J. Edward Keyes fixed R.E.M.'s Up. The ultimate music nerd fantasy, enabled by file sharing and CD burning.
60 entries — newest to oldest
| U2 - Poopropa | Andrew Unterberger | (7) | 2007-10-16 |
| The Police – Synchronized Machinery | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2007-09-26 |
| Bloc Party - A Weekend in the City | Andrew Iliff | (1) | 2007-05-25 |
| Kate Bush - Aerial | Mike Orme | (0) | 2007-04-19 |
| Songs in the Key of Life | Zeth Lundy | (0) | 2007-01-17 |
| The Mountain Goats - Tallahassee | Peter Galassi and Nate DeYoung | (0) | 2006-02-20 |
| Treating Dandruff by Decapitation | Cameron Macdonald | (4) | 2006-01-23 |
| Garbage – Version 2.0 | Matt Sheardown | (5) | 2006-01-09 |
| Gorillaz: Gorillaz | Mike LeChevallier | (0) | 2005-12-20 |
| Radiohead: Pablo Honey | Andrew Gaerig | (9) | 2005-12-05 |
| Constantines: Shine A Light | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2005-11-21 |
| U2: The Joshua Tree | Jack Feerick | (0) | 2005-10-31 |
| Playing God With The Verve’s Urban Hymns | Nick Southall | (18) | 2005-10-17 |
| Bob Dylan: Time Out Of Mind | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2005-10-10 |
| Playing God With R.E.M.'s Up | J. Edward Keyes | (0) | 2005-09-26 |
| The Juan Maclean: Less Than Human | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2005-09-12 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness | Cosmo Lee | (23) | 2005-08-01 |
| Gomez: Liquid Skin | Brad Shoup | (2) | 2005-07-18 |
| The Who: Who Are You | Justin Cober-Lake | (0) | 2005-07-04 |
| Playing God With Whatever: The 90s Pop Culture Box | Andrew Unterberger | (35) | 2005-06-20 |
| Nine Inch Nails: The Fragile | Ross McGowan | (0) | 2005-05-23 |
| Daft Punk: Homework | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2005-05-09 |
| The Cure: Wish | Scott McKeating | (0) | 2005-04-25 |
| LCD Soundsystem: LCD Soundsystem | Anthony Miccio | (0) | 2005-04-11 |
| Wilco: Being There | Todd Hutlock | (0) | 2005-03-28 |
| Outkast: Stankonia | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2005-03-14 |
| Wilco: Summerteeth | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2005-02-14 |
| Scissor Sisters: Scissor Sisters | Erick Bieritz | (2) | 2005-01-18 |
| Mogwai: Young Team | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2004-12-07 |
| Pulp: This is Hardcore | Edward Oculicz | (5) | 2004-11-23 |
| The Cure: Wild Mood Swings | Peter Parrish | (0) | 2004-11-09 |
| The Notorious B.I.G.: Life After Death | Josh Drimmer | (0) | 2004-10-26 |
| Pixies: Doolittle | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2004-09-14 |
| Superpitcher : Here Comes Love | Todd Burns | (0) | 2004-08-31 |
| Disco Inferno: DI Go Pop | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2004-08-17 |
| Oasis: Definitely Maybe | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2004-08-03 |
| Jay-Z: The Black Album | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2004-07-20 |
| Orbital: Works | Nick Southall | (0) | 2004-07-06 |
| Wilco: A Ghost is Reborn | Ben Welsh | (0) | 2004-06-21 |
| The Beatles: The White Album | Todd Burns | (0) | 2004-06-08 |
| The Manic Street Preachers: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours | Kilian Murphy | (0) | 2004-05-25 |
| Pavement: Wowee Zowee | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2004-05-11 |
| Kanye West: The College Dropout | Andrew Unterberger | (10) | 2004-04-30 |
| Blackalicious: Blazing Arrow | Dom Passantino | (2) | 2004-04-06 |
| VA: Lost in Translation Soundtrack | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2004-03-25 |
| Teenage Fanclub: Thirteen | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2004-03-11 |
| The Rapture: Echoes | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2004-02-24 |
| Pink Floyd: The Wall/The Final Cut | Todd Burns | (5) | 2004-02-10 |
| The Magnetic Fields: 69 Love Songs | Nate De Young | (0) | 2004-01-27 |
| Mark Eitzel: The Invisible Man | Scott McKeating | (0) | 2004-01-06 |
| Belle & Sebastian: The Boy With The Arab Strap | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2003-12-16 |
| Tori Amos: Tales of A Librarian | Dom Passantino | (0) | 2003-12-02 |
| Sean Paul: Dutty Rock | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2003-11-18 |
| Spiritualized: Amazing Grace | Ian Mathers | (0) | 2003-11-04 |
| Radiohead: Amnesiac | Josh Love | (0) | 2003-10-14 |
| My Bloody Valentine: Loveless | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2003-09-30 |
| Wu-Tang Clan: Forever | Scott McKeating | (0) | 2003-09-16 |
| Prince: Sign O’ the Times | Edwin Faust | (1) | 2003-09-03 |
| Primal Scream: Vanishing Point | Scott McKeating | (0) | 2003-08-19 |
| New Order: Movement | Andrew Unterberger | (0) | 2003-07-22 |