All of Ghost's albums are potential classics, at worst

**noel411** · 06-22-2016, 03:21 AM

Take 'Bulletproof Wallets' for example.

The original tracklist looks like this...

1. "Intro"
2. "Maxine"
3. "Flowers"
4. "Never Be the Same Again"
5. "Teddy" (Skit)
6. "Theodore"
7. "Ghost Showers"
8. "Strawberry"
9. "The Forest"
10. "The Juks"
11. "Walking Through The Darkness"
12. "Jealousy" (Skit)
13. "The Hilton"
14. "Ice" (Interlude)
15. "Love Session"
16. "Street Chemistry"

But if you were to alter it slightly, and come up with something like this...

1. Bring Da Ruckus
2. Wu Tang: 7th Chamber
3. Can It Be All So Simple
4. Da Mystery of Chessboxin
5. Protect Ya Neck
6. Tearz
7. Cash Still Rules/Scary Hours
8. Strawberry (Replace Ghost's verse with his 'Heart Gently Weeps' verse)
9. Visionz
10. Older Gods
11. It's Yourz
12. Triumph
13. Impossible
14. Little Ghetto Boys
15. Deadly Melody
16. The Projects

You'd have a classic album. It goes without saying that Ghost's original vision for this album would've been very similar to my proposed tracklisting. I place absolutely no blame whatsoever on Ghost for the way the actual album turned out. You'd be a fool if you did.

If you made a few minor changes to the tracklistings of all his other shithouse albums (ie. everything after 'Supreme Clientele'), like I did with this one, you'd have a discography full of classics [which you arguably(?) already do anyway].

For me personally, I like to pretend all of his albums do have the tracklistings I envision for them, and just call them all classics anyway.