Talk:The Spine Surfs Alone: Rarities 1998-2005

No Answer?

Is No Answer a contender for this compilation? HotelDetectiveInTheFuture🪗 talk 🎸 15:49, 14 September 2024 (EDT)

It could be! I'm not certain about it though, depends on what kind of rarities are going to be on the album. If its a situation where they're literally trying to put a bunch of stuff on vinyl that isn't already, then I could see some old 2000s Dial-A-Song tracks like No Answer on there. It is supposedly 20 tracks after all. --Robot Parade (talk) 18:28, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

I really don't see TMBG putting a phone-quality recording on this. I'm hoping for Tumbleweed or maybe even What Is Everyone Staring At? TitanicFog (talk) 19:59, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

Hypothetical Track List

This made me think of what the tracklist actually could be. Here's my hypothesis.

1. All of The Spine Surfs Alone - Obviously
2. Caroline, No - I don't see a world where it's not included. The only Other Thing song not included in that original EP digital release. Has to be on there.
3. Santa Claus - This and Feast Of Lights are the two Holidayland songs I see as most likely on the album. O Tannenbaum is a little too old for it to make it onto the record imo.
4. Feast Of Lights
5. King Weed - The best Brave New World song not included on another release. It should be on the record. Whether or not it will, I think it has a good chance.
6. Monsters Of Mud - This one I think is a given. Recently put out through IFC downloads and just a pretty good track.
7. Clowntown
8. All 4 tracks off of Bed, Bed, Bed - These songs have barely been released anywhere else. They have to be on there.

I could very well see a world where one side is the rarities and b-sides from their adult catalogue and the other is several tracks from their children's releases. I'm iffy on what, if anything, from TMBG Unlimited gets included. There's such a wealth of content that my best guess is that some of the stuff they've released through 2024 IFC could be on there, like Ram On.

Songs I don't see on the record

• Working Undercover For The Man (EP) - Most of these tracks are on They Got Lost which I hope will just get its own vinyl release. I don't see the point in using space for those songs when they're already on their own compilation record. And Radio TMBG would be a waste of space.
  • Same logic applies to everything else on They Got Lost like McSweeney's and All Alone
• Dan Vs. Cog and Cut The Strings - I know they'd want to physically release the BNW tracks, but I don't see their place on the record. Maaaybe Dan Vs. Cog, but hopefully not Cut The Strings
• O Tannenbaum - See above
• Venue Songs - This will (hopefully) just get its own vinyl release. Don't have a whole side of a rarities album dedicated to ANOTHER album. --Robot Parade (talk) 18:28, 15 September 2024 (EDT)

Re: Working Undercover for the Man - welp. Yeah, why would they include those? I guess there's Robot Parade (Adult Version)... --ColorOfInfinity (talk) 20:35, 19 November 2024 (EST)

Okay so I was wrong lol

Welp, I got 8/21 of the tracks right lol. (My Ram On pull at the end there kept me from only correctly guessing that the namesake of the album was going to be on the album, lol) I didn't even think of the tracks off of Sever Tire Damage as an option, and totally neglected the compilation tracks they did at the time. Still not a big fan of Working Undercover EP being on there, but oh well. There's still hope for us They Got Lost believers that we may get a vinyl reissue in my lifetime. Still bummed out about the absence of anything from the Why Does The Sun Shine? EP. --Robot Parade (talk) 13:17, 24 November 2024 (EST)