Side A:
1. We Dance
2. Rattled by the Rush
3. Black Out
4. Brinx Job
5. Grounded
6. Serpentine
Pad
Side B:
7. Motion
Suggests
8. Father to a Sister of Thought
9. Extradition
10. Best
Friends Arm
11. Grave
Architecture
12. AT&T
Side C:
13. Flux = Rad
14. Fight This
Generation
15. Kennel
District
16. Pueblo
17. Half a Canyon
18. Western
Homes
Side D:
19. Brink of
the Clouds
20. False
Skorpion
21. Easily
Fooled
22. Kris Kraft
23. Mussle Rock
(Is a Horse in Transition)
24. Give It a
Day
Side A:
1. Big Barn Bed
2. My Love
3. Get on the Right Thing
4. One More Kiss
5. Little Lamb Dragonfly
Side B:
6. Single Pigeon
7. When the Night
8. Loup (1st Indian on the Moon)
9. Medley: Hold Me Tight/Lazy Dynamite/Hands of Love/Power Cut
Side C:
10. Night Out
11. Country Dreamer
12. Seaside Woman
13. I Lie Around
14. Mama's Little Girl
15. I Would Only Smile
Side D:
16. Mary Had a Little Lamb
17. Tragedy
18. Little Woman Love
19. Hi, Hi, Hi
20. The Mess
21. Live and Let Die
Red Rose Speedway was originally supposed to be a double album, but the label didn't think the material was sufficient enough to warrant a double album given the lack of sales of Wings' first album Wild Life. However this would also be the first album to credit the band as Paul McCartney and Wings instead of just Wings to help increase the sales. One commenter I saw thought it was funny that around this time Yoko was allowed to release a rock double album and Paul wasn't, and honestly I think Yoko's album was better, but I cut it down to a single album. A double album version of it exists but includes a couple live tracks, so I just made the original version the first two sides and made the outtakes the next two sides.
Side B:
8. Jennifer Eccles
9. Wings
10. Try It
11. Water on the Brain
12. When Your Light's Turned On
13. Pegasus
14. Listen to Me
The last album I talked about by The Hollies was Bus Stop, an album that's American in origin but combines tracks that didn't get issued on American versions of their albums. Well they actually do have an unreleased album which would've been their last before Graham Nash left the band and joined Crosby, Stills, and Nash. If we're to assume that this album will be American too then we can't use tracks that were already on American versions of albums but we can use tracks that didn't make it onto them. I also didn't wanna use tracks from the first Crosby, Stills, and Nash album cause it would've been out of our timeframe but I think we have enough tracks without it.
As mentioned in my last post about The Kinks, they planned to release an album alongside Village Green Preservation Society in 1968 called Four More Respected Gentlemen but chose not to, so the songs would later be released across two compilations, The Kinks Kronikles and The Great Lost Kinks Album. The title of the latter has been described as misleading cause only two songs from Gentlemen made it onto Great Lost. It turns out that most of these tracks actually came from an album they planned to release alongside Arthur (Or the Decline and Fall of the British Empire) in 1969 called Where Was Spring?
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This was an album that the Small Faces were intending to make after their fourth album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. However there were a good chunk of tracks that didn't have vocals so a compilation album was released instead called The Autumn Stone, kind of like what happened with The Hollies. One of the instrumental tracks called The Pig Trotter would later be released as a bonus track to the first Humble Pie album as a track called Wrist Job.
Side D:
18. Something's Happening
19. My Sentimental Friend
20. My Lady
21. Here Comes the Star
22. It's Alright Now
Side E:
23. Daisy Chain (Edit)
24. Years May Come, Years May Go
25. Smile, Please
26. Bet Yer Life I Do
27. Searching for the Southern Sun
Side F:
28. Lady Barbara
29. Don't Just Stand There
30. Big Man
31. Wings of Love
32. Mum and Dad
As you can tell, I love examining these British Invasion bands like The Kinks and The Hollies, but with different albums being released in England and America, it can make their discographies confusing. In the case for Herman's Hermits, they were a band I never got into much cause some of their songs became novelties. But here's some info I found online in regards to an unreleased album by them. "The Both Sides Now MGM discography lists two Herman's Hermits albums that were supposed to have the catalog numbers SE-4590 and SE-4601, but were never released." Then someone else had this to say. "Herman's Hermits were supposed to have recorded an album similar to the Beach Boys' Party album and an album of cover songs. These albums were never released and the covers album was reported to have around 50 tracks (!!!)." But wasn't the Party album already a covers album? There was an expanded version of that one that revealed a lot of outtakes but that's its own blog post. Regardless, if this guy separated the two parts of the album's story then there must be another one out there.
Here's another bit of info that I found online. "MGM Records had scheduled a Herman's Hermits album titled Sleepy Joe but never issued it." I don't know where this guy got this info from, but he also has this to say. "Other than the title track, I wasn't sure what should be included on this album. I've seen no track list for it. But the band's Blaze album was re-released in 2001 with a dozen bonus tracks, including Sleepy Joe, and I thought aha! The only bonus cut I didn't include was the song The Most Beautiful Thing in My Life because it already appears on Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter." I don't have much evidence of this, but my theory is that if they were planning on releasing two more albums before breaking up, then one would be the "party" album of covers and the other would be the "new" album of original material.
The last album they released in 1968 was a soundtrack from a movie named after a song they released three years before that. The movie wasn't great either so their album sales were on a decline. But I'm sure they would've liked to have released a final album. Like what if they combined both ideas and simply released a double album of all their unreleased outtakes? So I went through their bonus tracks on album rereleases as well as songs from their British versions of albums that didn't make it on the American versions of them and came up with 3 albums worth. So the Sleepy Joe album could be one of them but I didn't just wanna copy and paste this guy's track listing for it. As for the cover I used an AI image colorizer.
But what the guy failed to mention was that the bonus tracks for Blaze actually featured two songs from the soundtrack, plus both rereleases shared a bonus track, so basically I’m short by a song. I think I used all the tracks I could’ve so I went with an edited version of the instrumental track Daisy Chain from the soundtrack which combines both parts. I also included a couple previously unreleased songs from a box set but I stuck them on the first album despite not knowing when they were recorded. The final result is 3 half hour albums.
Side A: 1. We Dance 2. Rattled by the Rush 3. Black Out 4. Brinx Job 5. Grounded 6. Serpentine Pad Side B: 7. Motion Suggests 8. Father ...
