Sex Pistols - The Great Rock 'n' Roll Swindle (1979)

 

Side A:
1. Belsen Was a Gas
2. I Wanna Be Me
3. Did You No Wrong
4. Satellite
5. Don't Give Me No Lip
6. (I'm Not Your) Steppin' Stone

Side B:
7. Substitute
8. Lonely Boy
9. Silly Thing
10. Black Leather
11. No Fun 

The Sex Pistols infamously only released one album before breaking up. In a quest for more material, producer Dave Goodman found an old rehearsal tape and based a movie around their story. Tracks from the tape were featured on the soundtrack from the movie. It's not great but it might be the closest to an official second Sex Pistols album. The first track "Belsen Was a Gas" is included as an edited live performance. There exist two studio versions: one with Johnny on vocals which has a ghostly effect on his voice, and one with train robber Ronnie Biggs on vocals (???). The most famous version though is the live performance since Johnny sings. 

In one part of the tape they do a cover of "Johnny B. Goode" for some reason, but then Johnny says he doesn't know the words and wants to play "Roadrunner" instead. So they play that song but he still doesn't remember the words! The album consists of B-sides from singles and cover songs from the tape that were staples at early shows. After Johnny left the group in 1978, the band recorded some tracks without him for the soundtrack, including some with other members. 

Nirvana - Heaven is a Hoax (1997)

 

1. Drowned in the Sun
2. Suffer
3. Lavender
4. Flower on a Grave
5. Cuts
6. Like New (feat. Layne Staley)
7. Star
8. Dream Song
9. Culture Abuse
10. Come on Death
11. Seattle Abridged
12. Vasectomy in Four Countries

In my Nirvana alternate universe discography, I only made one posthumous album which was Bliss from 1995 because I didn't feel as though there was enough material to make a second one. But in the years since then, there were a lot of fan made Nirvana albums being uploaded to YouTube, some tracks using Kurt soundalike AI vocals to make completely new songs. The most famous example would be Drowned in the Sun, which was supposedly all created by AI to sound like a Nirvana song but was uploaded by a YouTuber named Good Luck Chuck. Then there was the fan made song Smother which had AI written lyrics that were in the style of Nirvana but was recorded by a YouTuber named Kurt Connor. However I feel like this one is less original, but I found a similarly named song called Suffer made by If Kurt Cobain Lived. 

The idea for this person's album is that by 2000, Kurt Cobain was working on his first solo album, but it would be intentionally unlistenable to piss off any record executive that would be interested in releasing it. I loved this idea, especially the idea that at least one track would be a sound collage made from the experimental tracks from the Montage of Heck soundtrack. This can be represented on the track Culture Abuse. Lavender might be an answer song to Hole's Violet, and some other songs like Flower on a Grave could also be a hit single. The instrumentation was all fan made which gives some songs a loose feeling and make some vocals sound more robotic. 

Technically there were some fan made band mockups that I didn't use on the last album, as well as tracks from the Foo Fighters' album The Colour and the Shape, though the idea of making a solo album with songs that used AI vocals intrigued me. There is also the idea of simply using songs by obscure bands that sounded like Nirvana, though I don't necessarily like this idea. 

Bob Dylan - Great White Wonder (1977)

 

Side A:
1. Bonnie Ship the Diamond
2. All American Boy
3. Get Your Rocks Off
4. Johnny Todd
5. Tupelo

6. One for the Road

Side B:
7. I'm Your Teenage Prayer
8. Four Strong Winds
9. The French Girl
10. Joshua's Gone Barbados
11. Baby Ain't That Fine
12. Rock, Salt, and Nails

This is a sequel to my single album version of his Basement Tapes double album from 1975. With the release of The Bootleg Series Vol. 11, we have a whole slew of songs we could use. Also Dylan never released an album in 1977, so I thought maybe he could put out more tracks from the tapes for its 10 year anniversary and name it as a tribute to the bootleg that initially brought the tapes to public attention. On the box set, the tracks from the original album appear on discs 3 and 4, and there's a couple new tracks on there we could use for our sequel. Though some were unfinished like "The Hills of Mexico" and some were just short like "Down on Me". To fill it out we can include tracks from disc 2 which is where “Tiny Montgomery" originates from. 

Rancid - Life Won't Wait (1998)

 

1. Bloodclot
2. Hoover Street
3. Black Lung
4. Stop
5. New Dress
6. Warsaw
7. Tattoo
8. The Brothels
9. Leicester Square
10. Backslide
11. Who Would've Thought
12. Cash, Culture and Violence
13. Cocktails
14. The Wolf
15. 1998
16. Empros Lap Dog
17. Brad Logan
18. Turntable
19. Something in the World Today
20. Corazón de Oro

Coming off the success of their last album, ...And Out Came the Wolves in 1995, Rancid's next album went through a lengthy recording process, tracking over 50 songs with most of them being unreleased. Some of the songs were reggae sounding and two were even recorded in Jamaica. The final result took three years and has 22 tracks at over an hour long, making it their longest album. I was able to find 10 more tracks from around this time mostly from the B Sides and C Sides compilation so I wanted to see if I could replace the reggae tracks.

Radiohead - Decompression Sickness (1996)

 

1. Maquiladora
2. Killer Cars
3. India Rubber
4. How Can You Be Sure?
5. The Trickster
6. Lewis (Mistreated)
7. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
8. Permanent Daylight
9. Lozenge of Love
10. You Never Wash Up After Yourself
11. Talk Show Host
12. Bishop's Robes
13. Banana Co.
14. Molasses

For whatever reason, the Bends album had more B-sides than any other Radiohead album, including the My Iron Lung EP which contained six exclusive tracks and the Street Spirit (Fade Out) EP which contained four exclusive tracks. So you could make a secondary album out of these outtakes, like they would do with Kid Amnesiac. 

The Misfits - Walk Among Us (1982)

 

Side A:
1. 20 Eyes
2. I Turned Into a Martian
3. All Hell Breaks Loose
4. Vampira
5. Nike A Go Go
6. Hatebreeders
7. Night of the Living Dead
8. Skulls

Side B:               
9. Violent World
10. Devil's Whorehouse
11. Astro Zombies
12. Braineaters
13. Halloween
14. London Dungeon
15. Horror Hotel
16. Ghouls' Night Out
17. Where Eagles Dare
18. Halloween II

When the Misfits recorded their first album, it was actually not their first time doing so. They previously recorded two albums, the first being Static Age which was recorded in 1978 and released in 1996 and the second being 12 Hits From Hell which was recorded in 1980 and unofficially released in 2001 but has never been officially released. Static Age was 35 minutes long while 12 Hits From Hell and Walk Among Us are both about 25 minutes long. The former serves as a demo of the latter and they share six songs in common. I thought if we can't officially release 12 Hits From Hell, why not include the exclusive tracks as an expanded version on their first album? I used the single version of Where Eagles Dare. 

The Zombies - Here's What Remains (1967)

 

Side A:
1. She's Coming Home
2. I Must Move
3. I Want You Back Again
4. Whenever You're Ready
5. I Love You
6. Is This the Dream?
7. Don't Go Away
8. Remember You
9. Just Out of Reach

Side B:                              
10. Indication                                           
11. Gotta Get a Hold of Myself                     
12. Goin' Out of My Head                 
13. She Does Everything For Me                   
14. You Make Me Feel Good                           
15. Leave Me Be                   
16. Tell Her No                       
17. Kind of Girl                   
18. It's Alright With Me                   
19. Sometimes                   

The Zombies were a well-known band from the late '60s despite only releasing two albums. Their legendary long-lost album R.I.P. was finally released in 2000, but a couple years before it there was a box set released called Zombie Heaven. It contained tracks from R.I.P. but also compiled non-album tracks from 1964 to 1967 which could be their own album. There's a lot of material here which is longer than the typical Zombies album but I liked most of it. The first side is all from 1965 and the second side is from 1966, 1967, and 1964.