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Post by Deleted on Jan 25, 2019 4:16:44 GMT -5
Hey there. Im wondering what other groups out there have had cool unfinished or abandoned albums. I know asking for bootleg downloads is against the rules, but if bootlegs exist out there somewhere, please share the names if you're aware of them. Might be cool to hear some of this stuff.
The Biggest Ones I can think of are Black Gold by Jimi Hendrix, Lifehouse for the Who and Household Objects for Pink Floyd.
With the first, it's absolutely insane to me that it hasn't been released or even booted yet. Jimi is one of the most milked dry artists out there--practically every time he ever touched a guitar has been thrown out and exploited for every last cent. And yet here is this amazing mythical collection he was working on before his passing and we still haven't heard the damn thing.
With the second, even though I like the Who, they're a good deal away from being one of my top favorite bands. I find their rock operas interesting but also indulgent and somewhat exhausting to sit through. So even though I can respect this one for being so ambitious, it probably wouldn't have been exactly my cup of tea.
With the third, I respect the idea and the two released tracks are better than I would have thought just hearing the concept (an entire album recorded using household objects). But I find it unlikely they could have done a whole album of this without it getting redundant or annoying.
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Post by The Cap'n on Jan 25, 2019 11:02:43 GMT -5
Captain Beefheart's Bat Chain Puller is a phenomenal one, recorded in the mid-70s but not officially released until 2012. Because (as Frank Zappa said) Beefheart had a tendency to sign any piece of paper someone put in front of him, the legal status around the recordings was murky. Frank Zappa and Herb Cohen entered a legal dispute that led to Zappa keeping the master recordings unreleased because Cohen--Zappa's business manager at the time--reportedly used Zappa's royalties to fund the label for which the album was recorded. I think it's one of Beefheart's best couple of albums, really right up with his best. Some of the tunes were re-recorded for other albums (sound familiar, Beach Boys fans?), including on Shiny Beast (Bat Chain Puller) (and again, I ask, does the semi-retitling of the recycled songs sound familiar?), but for the most part those versions are generally regarded as inferior. That's certainly my opinion. After FZ died, his widow allowed the album to see the light of day.
Speaking of the workings of Mr. Zappa in the mid-70s, he recorded an album titled Lather (with the umlat or whatever it's called over the a) in the mid-70s, but wasn't allowed to release it by the label (the same label with the Bat Chain Puller controversy). If I remember my history correctly, he instead played it once on a radio broadcast over the airwaves, and that was that. The music was released in different forms on a series of mid-to-late 70s albums, Zappa In New York, Sleep Dirt, Studio Tan and Orchestral Favorites. Again, after FZ died, Gail Zappa allowed the release of the album as originally intended as a 3-disc set in the mid-90s.
The Velvet Underground had a so-called lost album that would have been their fourth, following their 1969 self-titled album. Some of the material ended up on Loaded (their actual fourth album), some ended up on Lou Reed's early solo albums, and some was released on the posthumous (of the band, not of the members) 80s releases like VU and Another View. It contains a lot of my favorite VU songs, like the fantastic "Stephanie Says," "The Ocean," "Ride Into the Sun," "Andy's Chest," and "Foggy Notion"--songs that for the most part belie the noise-rock or proto-punk reputation of the band and highlight melody, tenderness, and humor.
Prince famously had the Black Album, a would-be 1987 album that was canceled at the last minute by Prince (who reportedly decided it was evil) but then eventually released as a limited edition album by Warner Bros. in 1994 (and canceled from the catalogue a year or so later). It's ... not great.
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Post by kds on Jan 26, 2019 2:04:26 GMT -5
Black Sabbath got back together in 2001 with plans to release a new album with Rick Rubin producing. They even debuted a song called Scary Dreams in concert that summer that was pretty good.
They supposedly had 4-6 songs written or recorded before Sharon Osbourne decided that Ozzy Osbourne would be better off doing a solo album, Down to Earth released later in 2001.
The original Sabbath toured again in 2004 and 2005, but never went into the studio.
After a stint with Ronnie James Dio back on vocals (rebranded as Heaven and Hell until Dio's death in 2010), Sabbath reformed in 2011 and did go back into the studio with Rick Rubin. However, none of the material that appeared on the 2013 album, 13, was from that 2001 period, and other than some audience recordings of Scary Dreams, none of it has ever surfaced.
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Post by Jason (The Real Beach Boy) on Jan 27, 2019 13:20:12 GMT -5
In 1991 Serge Gainsbourg had written and made plans to record a blues album in the United States but sadly died before recording could begin. The idea of this dirty old bastard of pop music recording a blues album makes the mind boggle.
Os Mutantes recorded a progressive rock album in 1973, O A e o Z, which was a considerable departure from their earlier material and was never released until 1992 when interest in the band grew. All of the tracks were long with many instrumental segments and the band's lyrics took a turn for the bizarre.
Not a lost album per se but considering the amount of material it remains a bit puzzling that Pink Floyd's music recorded for the film Zabriskie Point was never an album of its own.
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