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I've always loved Floor, and their recent reunion shows have gotten me all juiced up on them again (especially considering that last Torche record didn't really do it for me. Which reminds me, if you happen to have any suggestions for a good 'summer record' for 2011, post 'em in the comments, ok?). If you didn't happen to have a spare $250 for the deluxe vinyl box set of Below & Beyond, here's the low-class mp3 scumbag version for you (although I do feel compelled to steer everyone towards this, on the off-chance that you don't want to be a total dick).

I'm pretty sure that, aside from the s/t LP, this just about covers every single thing the band has ever written, considered writing, or just briefly mentioned in passing on their way to Wal-Mart one sunny afternoon. It's, uh...extensive. Lots of alternate versions, demos and live material, all of varying sound quality but unequivocal heaviness. In fact, the sheer amount of material that they had recorded over the years but never actually released really drives home the fact that Floor were not only much busier than anyone could have suspected, but definitely a little bit... odd. How odd, you ask? Take a journey through the back catalogue of one of the heaviest heavies ever to down-tune their strings off their guitars and find out for yourself.

Tracklist:
Disc 1 Riddim of Silence
1. Ides of June
2. Throttle
3. The Following
4. Beneath the Floor
5. Sloth II
6. Mi-Mi Cat
7. Sunday
8. K-Tel Presents
9. When the Pigs Broke Free
10. Bombs
11. Leaving Winona
12. Meaning It's Over
13. Nigh
14. Stevecleaner
15. Ready
16. Loanin'
17. Figbender
18. Heather

Disc 2 Pillars of Irem
1. Pillars of Irem (Hymn To AZTh)

Disc 3 Fuck You. For Now.
1. Chelsea Girl Blues
2. Slomophobe
3. Iommi
4. Chelsea/Pigs
5. E.H.S. (Every Happy Slumber)
6. Floyd
7. Madonna
8. Silver Balls
9. When Tracks Bleed
10. Follow the Jack
11. #1 In Tokyo
12. ?
13. Goddard
14. Slugthrower
15. Namaste (Live)

Disc 4 Dove
1. Dove
2. Namaste
3. Floyd
4. Figure It Out
5. Who Are You
6. In A Day
7. Nothing I Remember

Disc 5 Saturnine and Tears
1. The Pulse
2. Forever Or Nothing
3. Dead Wrong
4. Fair Is Subjective
5. A Bun In the Oven
6. Figbender
7. V Song
8. Carneyvil of Lites
9. West
10. Ein
11. DYKBCH
12. Merciless Dawn
13. Sappy (NBV)

Disc 6 Somewhere In Miami/305 Alive
1. Somewhere In Miami (The Pulse/West/Ein/Figbender)
2. 305 Alive (Bombs/That Would Be No On the Rabbit/Merciless Dawn/V Song/Loanin'/Figbender)

Disc 7 Self Titled + Outtakes
1. Scimitar
2. Return To Zero
3. Downed Star
4. Iron Girl
5. Night Full of Kicks
6. Twink
7. Sneech
8. Assassin
9. Kallisti - Song For Eris
10. Ein
11. Figured Out
12. Tales of Lolita
13. V Song
14. Bombs To Abbadon
15. Xian (The Jingle-Jangle of A Thousand Lost Souls)
16. Stalker

Disc 8 It's Not the Same
1. Twilight
2. Diamonds Dave's Are Forever
3. Scimitar
4. Return To Zero
5. Downed Star
6. Iron Girl
7. Night Full of Kicks
8. Twink
9. Sneech
10. Assassin
11. Kallisti
12. Figured Out (Screwed N' Chopped)
13. Tales of Lolita
14. Bombs To Abbadon
15. Ignis
16. The Ladder
17. On the Money
18. Charge of the Brown Recluse
19. Ein
20. Serendipitous Montage 10/02

Disc 1 & 2
Disc 3 & 4
Disc 5 & 6
Disc 7 & 8

*Thanks to mook and the (possibly defunct?) blog the Music Compendium for the links.