Allright, since I brought up fan-created tracklists for a completed 2CD Machina album in the vinyl collectors thread and @
high def ultra-realism mentioned an interest in seeing mine, here I go.
Let me start this off just by by saying I kind of owe a debt to Netphoria's soniclovenoise for compiling his rather great 2CD Glass And The Machines Of God compilation. Can't link to it directly since it contains commercially released material, but it's not hard to find. Listening to this thing put a lot of the pieces in place for me, and made me realize it was still possible to get it closer to how Billy probably envisioned it.
To get the best possible overview of how Machina's running order should look like, one needs only to take a look at
this summary Billy wrote of the plot mid-2000 and this chart of his describing the cycle that shows where a few songs should go:
Now my current tracklist is by no means definitive. It's a work in progress, a bloated director's cut. It includes every single potential track From MI and MII that could be part of the story, and still needs editing; there are a few tracks that could arguably serve similar functions plot-wise, wherein one or the other could be considered superfluous. A couple I'm not entirely sure should even be on the album. With a bit more work, I intend to pare it down to something saner, but for now my tracklist is 3CDs, and I'm, say...80% sure most things are roughly where they should be, give or take a little bit of space, assuming it belongs. This doesn't take into account specific versions of songs - it pinpoints lyrical allusions, but I've tried to make it flow well as much as possible with the versions I used, which I'll get to when I elaborate further.
Without further ado:
Disc 1:
01. Glass' Theme
02. The Imploding Voice
03. Cash Car Star
04. Stand Inside Your Love
05. The Sacred And Profane
06. Glass + The Ghost Children
07. Innosence
08. Let Me Give The World To You
09. Real Love
10. Raindrops + Sunshowers
11. Vanity
Disc 2:
01. White Spyder
02. Lucky 13
03. Dross
04. Go
05. Speed Kills
06. Blue Skies Bring Tears
07. Heavy Metal Machine
08. The Crying Tree Of Mercury
09. Wound
10. Try, Try, Try
11. This Time
Disc 3:
01. The Everlasting Gaze
02. Saturnine
03. In My Body
04. I Of The Mourning
05. If There Is A God
06. Slow Dawn
07. Home
08. Here's To The Atom Bomb
09. With Every Light
10. Age Of Innocence
Seeing as how I'll probably need to devote a paragraph or two per song for justifying why everything is where it is, I'll get started on that later and do it in chunks as I have free time available to me. Lord knows I'll probably wind up shuffling stuff around as I go through the tracks one by one.