The Graveyard of Ideas

Hey guys, it's Derrick. This is my two year anniversary post. I wanted to do something different to celebrate, but instead, I've decided to dedicate less time to the blog. In the past year, I've noticed that a lot of the unreleased album reconstruction blogs that I follow have either stopped posting or have been posting less often, and I've decided to do the same. And so, this is a list of some of the ideas I had for posts that I couldn't go through with for one reason or another. I'll start off by saying there was one band with a bunch of unreleased albums that I wanted to make a post about but never knew how. And that band is The Beach Boys. I had at least two ideas for posts for Beach Boys albums that I wasn't able to go through with for reasons & more that you'll see...

1. The Beach Boys - Adult/Child + Love You - Adult/Child is an unreleased album that was supposed to follow the Love You album but they released the M.I.U. Album instead. They're both pretty short so I wanted to combine them but I thought that their styles would be too different. 

2. The Beach Boys - Party! (2 LP) - This album is also pretty short but a box set of outtakes called Uncovered and Unplugged was released which made me wanna go through them. There weren't enough outtakes to make an hour long double album but you could make an expanded version. I talked about this one in my post about Herman's Hermits though I saw one blog recreate this. 

3. Van Morrison - Contractual Obligations - This half hour long bootleg was a tape that Van Morrison supposedly delivered his label as his next album. I listened to it but I decided I couldn't do anything with it.

4. Skip Spence - Oar - I listened to this for the first time hoping to make a post about it for the blog. There was even a box set of outtakes but I decided I couldn't do anything with it.

5. Oasis - Be Here Now - I listened to this for the first time hoping to make a post about it for the blog. I decided I couldn't do anything with it but then another blog I like made his own version.

6. The Kinks - Preservation Acts 1 & 2 - I listened to both of these albums with the intention of combining them into a single album. Act 2 was even a double album. In the end though I decided I couldn’t do anything with them.

7. Tom Lehrer - The Remains of Tom Lehrer - I was gonna make a post about a single disc version of this box set but Needlejuice Records released a CD mainly focused on his orchestral work. It basically had all the tracks on this album except for two solo piano tracks.

8. Ringo Starr - Can't Stop Lightning - This is an alternate tracklist to the album Stop and Smell the Roses. The unused songs were released as bonus tracks on the CD reissue, but after I listened to them, I decided I couldn't do anything with it.

9. Car Seat Headrest - Nervous Young Man - I listened to this double album for the first time hoping to make a single disc version and then make a post about it for the blog, but I decided I couldn't do anything with it.

I guess there weren't that many ideas that I ended up not using which is good. I was inspired to make this post after my Velvet Underground posts cause I also listened to their unreleased fourth album and thought that I couldn't do anything with it but then I found someone asking "What if Nico never left the Velvets?" and that inspired me to re-listen to it. Anyway I have some ideas for posts but I need to listen to some more music first. Doing this blog is fun and helps me listen to music that I otherwise wouldn't.

The Rolling Stones - Some More Girls (1979)

 

Side A:
1. Claudine
2. So Young
3. Do You Think I Really Care?
4. When You're Gone
5. No Spare Parts

Side B:
6. Don't Be a Stranger
7. We Had It All
8. Tallahassee Lassie
9. I Love You Too Much
10. Keep Up Blues
11. You Win Again

The Rolling Stones recorded 50 songs for their album Some Girls but the released version only had 10 tracks. Some of the tracks would later be included on other albums such as Tattoo You, but when it was reissued it included a second disc of outtakes from the album.

The Rolling Stones - Could You Walk on the Water? (1966)

 

Side A:
1. Mother's Little Helper
2. Take It or Leave It
3. What to Do
4. 19th Nervous Breakdown
5. Out of Time

Side B:
6. Ride On, Baby
7. Sittin' on a Fence
8. Sad Day
9. Long, Long While
10. I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys
11. My Girl
12. Looking Tired

When the Rolling Stones were working on their Aftermath album, they originally planned to call it Could You Walk on the Water? and gave it a release date of March 10, 1966. It had a tracklist of 10 tracks in which 5 of them made it on the Aftermath album which had 14 tracks. However before they could issue it, The Beatles made a controversial statement that they were more popular than Jesus, and they used the cover for an American compilation called Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) which came out later that month. Aftermath wasn't be released till April.

However the American version was released in July which took out four tracks from the British version and instead included the song Paint It Black which was released as a single in May. Not only that but they released a single called 19th Nervous Breakdown in February which didn't get included on Aftermath but would later get included on Big Hits. So I thought what if we took these four extra tracks along with others like Breakdown to form this proposed album?

Some tracks wouldn't be released till they were featured on other compilation albums like Flowers in 1967 and Metamorphosis in 1975. Only the track Looking Tired was never officially released even though it was included in the original tracklist for the album. However I did include some songs from earlier in 1965 to round out the album.

Daniel Johnston - 1990 (1990)

 

1. Funeral Home
2. Held the Hand
3. Some Things Last a Long Time
4. Tears Stupid Tears
5. Don't Play Cards With Satan
6. True Love Will Find You in the End
7. Whiz Kid
8. Ain't No Woman Gonna Make a George Jones Outta Me
9. Big Big World
10. Her Blues
11. Ghost of Our Love
12. December Blues
13. Hard Time
14. Girls

1990 is arguably Daniel's best known album other than his unfinished album Hi, How Are You? It contains the songs Some Things Last a Long Time and True Love Will Find You in the End, though a demo of the latter was originally released on his Retired Boxer album from 1984. The majority of the album was recorded in 1988 but the sessions were also left unfinished when Daniel suffered a mental breakdown. In fact the album was supposed to be called 1989 and released that year but it couldn't be finished in that time.

1990 was also not Daniel's first attempt at recording a studio album. His first one would be Continued Story from 1985 where he was backed by a band called the Texas Instruments. However following the release of 1990, Daniel released two EPs. The Big Big World EP was released in 1991 but was recorded in 1986 and features Daniel being backed by a different band called the Rhythm Rats. Next is the Laurie EP which released in 1992 but was recorded in 1989.

The first half of the album is the "solo" half and features tracks from 1990 as well as a version of the song Whiz Kid which is from the Laurie EP but originally came from the Merry Christmas album. The second half is the "band" half and features tracks from the Continued Story album and the Big Big World EP.

Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary (2003)

 

1. Let It Go

2. Armpit

3. Just Drop Dead

4. Crack Addict

5. Relentless

6. Press Your Luck

7. Shot

8. Almost Over

9. Build a Bridge

10. Lean on Me

11. Cowgirls From Hell

12. Masturbation

13. Poison Ivy

14. Until the End

15. Lonely World

16. Why?

Results May Vary was released as the fourth album by the band Limp Bizkit, and it was considered one of the worst albums of all time. The most interesting thing about it is that MTV recorded the making of it as part of a short lived show called Album Launch, and there were only a couple episodes but this was apparently the worst of the bunch. The album went through a long delay period meaning lots of songs were getting written and then thrown out. I was surprised to find that the album and a playlist of outtakes I found were both 16 tracks at 68 minutes. The album was half heavy and half mellow with the outtakes being mostly heavy, so I mostly used the outtakes but replaced some songs with others whenever it felt needed. I didn't wanna include either single when they were called the third worst song and second worst cover of all time. 

Just Drop Dead and Crack Addict were released as promotional singles. Let It Go and Shot were bonus tracks. Armpit was originally from their 1995 demo. Lean on Me and Why? were from their Greatest Hitz album. Crack Addict and Cowgirls From Hell sounded like they were unfinished but were fixed in fan-made versions including an extended version of Crack Addict.

The Who - Empty Glass (1981)

 

Side A:
1. Bitter and Twisted - Roger Daltrey
2. Rough Boys - Pete Townshend
3. Try Me - John Entwistle
4. Free Me - Roger Daltrey
5. Jools and Jim - Pete Townshend

Side B:
6. Talk Dirty - John Entwistle
7. My Time is Gonna Come - Roger Daltrey
8. Cat's in the Cupboard - Pete Townshend
9. I'm Coming Back - John Entwistle
10. Gonna Get Ya - Pete Townshend

This is my last in a series of albums where I combine solo albums released by members of The Who. This is the same year they put out their Face Dances album but all the members also feature on Roger Daltrey's album so that could've been a Who album. For this one I'm using Roger Daltrey's album McVicar, Pete Townshend's Empty Glass, and John Entwistle's Too Late the Hero. It was John's first solo album in 6 years but his also his last one. Also being that this is the '80s, the band's music sounds more new wave but heavier than the other solo albums. 

The Who - Rough Mix (1977)

 

Side A:
1. Parade - Roger Daltrey
2. My Baby Gives It Away - Pete Townshend
3. You Can Be So Mean - John Entwistle
4. Avenging Annie - Roger Daltrey
5. Keep Me Turning - Pete Townshend

Side B:
6. Leon - Roger Daltrey
7. Misunderstood - Pete Townshend
8. Drowning - John Entwistle
9. Don't Worry Baby - Keith Moon
10. Say It Ain't So, Joe - Roger Daltrey

This is the second of three albums I'm planning on making by combining tracks from members of the Who's solo albums. All of these albums were released between the years of 1975 and 1977. Keith Moon released his only solo album during this period meaning they all released at least one album so I had at least four albums I could use.

For this I'm using Roger Daltrey's One of the Boys, Pete Townshend's Rough Mix, John Entwistle's Mad Dog, and Keith Moon's Two Sides of the Moon. In our first album in this series, John released two albums around this time, but this time Roger released two albums around this time. I figured both of them would've sounded alike so I just picked One of the Boys. But John's album sounded like '50s rock and roll like his one before it, and Keith's album was marred by drug problems, so I named this album after Pete's album cause it was rough trying to mix it together.