Prince - Crystal Ball (2 LP) (1987)

 

Side A:
1. Love and Sex
2. Eggplant
3. Crucial
4. Blanche

Side B:
5. Soul Psychodelicide
6. It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings
7. Adonis and Bathsheba

Side C:
8. When the Dawn of the Morning Comes
9. Emotional Pump
10. Cosmic Day
11. Walkin' in Glory

Side D:
12. Wally
13. I Need a Man
14. Promise to Be True
15. Jealous Girl

Going through the deluxe edition of Sign O' the Times, it had three discs of bonus tracks but the tracks that made up the last double album was mostly featured on the first disc. So these tracks are made up of the second and third discs of bonus tracks. Prince was working on two double album projects at the time but wanted to release this one as a triple album. The label made him cut it down to a double album, but he later said he wanted to release The Black Album the same year. He pulled it at the last minute and later released it in 1994 so he could've released this. Then he released a triple album of outtakes in 1998.

Grateful Dead - Kingfish (1976)

 

Side A:
1. Might as Well - Jerry Garcia
2. Lazy Lightnin' - Bob Weir
3. Razooli - Mickey Hart
4. They Love Each Other - Jerry Garcia
5. Home to Dixie - Bob Weir

Side B:
6. Happiness is Drumming - Mickey Hart
7. It Must Have Been the Roses - Jerry Garcia
8. Bye and Bye - Bob Weir
9. Sweet Sixteen - Mickey Hart

Here's another new Grateful Dead album made out of albums by solo members that came out the same year. This one is interesting cause technically only one of them was a solo album. Jerry released his album under his name but had already formed the Jerry Garcia Band around this time. Bob was in a band called Kingfish but he only shows up on the first album before leaving. And Mickey released an album with a band called the Diga Rhythm Group which was the most experimental of the bunch. It features an early instrumental version of Fire in the Mountain which would later get released on Shakedown Street.

Prince - Dream Factory (2 LP) (1986)

 

Side A:
1. Dream Factory
2. It's a Wonderful Day
3. Big Tall Wall
4. Teacher, Teacher
5. Sexual Suicide

Side B:
6. Rebirth of the Flesh
7. Train
8. Shockadelica
9. Good Love
10. And That Says What?

Side C:
11. Crystal Ball
12. Visions
13. A Place in Heaven
14. In a Large Room With No Light

Side D:
15. Power Fantastic
16. Last Heart
17. Witness 4 the Prosecution
18. All My Dreams

Prince was working on two double album projects in 1986, Dream Factory and Crystal Ball. After submitting a triple album version of his Crystal Ball album, the label made him cut it down to a double album and he released it under the name Sign O' the Times in 1987. However he cut out a whole other double album worth of outtakes. He would later make another album called The Black Album that was supposed to release that year, but he pulled it at the last minute and released Lovesexy the following year. It would later get released in 1994. Prince would also later release a triple album in 1996 and another one of outtakes called Crystal Ball in 1998. The version of Teacher, Teacher is an outtake of 1999 from 1982. 

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown - Strangelands (1970)

 

Side A: 
1. The Sound of the City
2. Purple Airport of Love
3. All Over the Country
4. The Lord Doesn't Want You
5. Beyond the Sea
6. Endless Sleep

Side B:
7. Planet of the Universe
8. Excitation Wavelength
9. Litmus Transformation
10. Opus Pocus
11. Crystalized Petard

This is the second album by The Crazy World of Arthur Brown but it was recorded in 1969 and went unreleased until 1988. When it was reissued it included the album Replicas by Rustic Hinge which were a spin-off of the second version of the band which recorded an album in 1970 but also went unreleased until 1988. Between these two albums I tried to make a decent second album, however the Rustic Hinge one was all instrumental. This could be due to their connection to another band called High Tide. Regardless I took out four tracks from the original and included four from the Rustic Hinge album.

Grateful Dead - Rolling Thunder (1972)

 

Side A:
1. Deal - Jerry Garcia
2. Black Throated Wind - Bob Weir
3. Fletcher Carnaby - Mickey Hart
4. Bird Song - Jerry Garcia
5. Walk in the Sunshine - Bob Weir

Side B:
6. Blind John - Mickey Hart
7. Sugaree - Jerry Garcia
8. Playing in the Band - Bob Weir
9. Young Man - Mickey Hart

Similarly to my Kiss and Yes albums, I put this one together by combining three solo albums made by members of the Grateful Dead in 1972. However they also all released albums in 1976, but two of them were released under a band name instead of the main members' name. The second side to Jerry's album had some weird electronic stuff going on which is pretty trippy. Also Bob's and Mickey's albums both had a version of Playing in the Band and Greatest Story Ever Told. Bob sang on both but the versions on Mickey's album had different names. I tried to keep it at around 40 minutes, but it meant I could only use three songs from each member. Playing in the Band first appeared on the 1971 Skull and Roses live album but appears here more fleshed out.

Toadies - Feeler (1998)

 

1. Push the Hand
2. City of Hate
3. Waterfall
4. What We Have We Steal
5. Mine
6. Dead Boy Boogie
7. Tornado
8. Joey, Let's Go
9. Suck Magic
10. Clarksville
11. Your Day
12. Send You to Heaven
13. Doll Skin

The Toadies were a band that reached success with their song Possum Kingdom in 1994. Fans eagerly waited for the band's second album and they attempted to record one in 1998 but their label refused to release it. Because of that their actual second album Hell Below/Stars Above didn't come out until 2001. Three of the songs would later make it to their second album, Push the Hand, What We Have We Steal, and Doll Skin, but the band would later attempt to rerecord the album in 2010, with an additional song getting rerecorded in 2015. In place of the original tracks ATF Theme, Pink, Twitch, and Littlefish, I included the three tracks that got rerecorded for the second album but didn't include the 2010 version exclusive Trust Game. 

Nirvana - With the Lights On (Disc 7) (2005)

 

1. Scentless Apprentice (1993 Demo)
2. Very Ape (Demo #2)
3. Onward Into Countless Battles (Dave's Meat Song)
4. Heart-Shaped Box (Demo)
5. I Hate Myself and Want to Die (Demo)
6. Milk It (Demo)
7. Moist Vagina (Demo)
8. Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip
9. I Hate Myself and Want to Die
10. Moist Vagina
11.  Marigold
12.  Sappy
13.  You Know You’re Right (Live 1993)
14.  Frances Farmer Will Have Her Revenge on Seattle (Live 1993)
15.  Pennyroyal Tea (Demo)
16.  You Know You're Right (Demo)
17.  Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam
18.  Radio-Friendly Unit Shifter/My Sharona (Live 1994)
19.  Sappy (Live 1994)
20.  Baba O’Riley (Live 1994)

This has been a daunting task to try to re-compile this thing. I had a whole alternate universe Nirvana box set made years ago, but I had to give it a major overhaul. This is based on the box set they put out in 2004 called With the Lights Out which had 3 CDs and a DVD. My initial version of it had 5 discs, but after a major overhaul it expanded to 8 CDs which I cut down to 7 CDs. So it'll take me a while to get through each disc.

For example it's taken us 7 discs to get through the original box set's 3 discs and yet here we are. It first starts with the In Utero demos and B-sides from 1993 but includes a few more. However I cut out The Other Improv as I used it as a bonus track on my album Bliss to mirror Gallons of Rubbing Alcohol Flow Through the Strip being used as a bonus track to In Utero. Marigold is from the Heart-Shaped Box single and Sappy was featured as a hidden track on the No Alternative compilation album. I ended it with some live tracks from 1994.