Fixed Your Album

R.E.M.'s late period contains one album’s worth of great music

Let's build it, then! (I Fixed Your Album, Ch. 11)

Apr 3 •

Let's all cheer up Drake

By turning the cumbersome "Scorpion" into the pop-rap masterpiece it might have been (I Fixed Your Album, Ch. 10)

Jan 10 •

The House That Heaven Rebuilt

To salute my beloved Japandroids (RIP), here is an unsolicited re-sequencing of their debut album "Post-Nothing." (I Fixed Your Album, Ch. 9)

Nov 18, 2024 •

‘Village Ghetto Land’ sounds even more radical a half-century later

While we're here, let's commit blasphemy and “fix” Stevie Wonder's Songs In the Key of Life

Nov 4, 2024 •

I Fixed Your Album: “The Tortured Poets Department (Troy’s Version)” actually kicks ass

In which Taylor Swift rescues the album in a literal sense while degrading it in a figurative one.

May 7, 2024 •

I Fixed Your Album: Justin Timberlake's two-part '20/20' ordeal could have been a much less draining experience

My services are always available.

Apr 2, 2024 •

I Fixed Your Album: Literally any tracklist for The 1975's "Notes On a Conditional Form" would be better than the one they went with

It's probably the most batshit sequencing job I've encountered on a major album

Dec 8, 2023 •

I Fixed Your Album: Outkast's mammoth 'Speakerboxxxx/The Love Below' can be a rap classic with some major edits

Jul 13, 2023 •

I Fixed Your Album: Turning 'The Wall' into a coherent single record is surprisingly difficult

Nobody besides Roger Waters actually cares what *happens* on "The Wall," right?

Jun 2, 2023 •

I Fixed Your Album: 'No Code' did not have to be Pearl Jam's 'difficult' album...or did it?

A more accessible Pearl Jam record in 1996 wouldn't have saved alt-rock.

May 20, 2023 •

I Fixed Your Album: The perfect 'Kid A'/'Amnesiac' hybrid requires some serious heresy.

Hasn't every Radiohead fan imagined "Kid A" and "Amnesiac" as a single record with no filler? Well, I finally solved the puzzle.

May 4, 2023 •

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