Radiohead - Surface (1998)

 

1. Palo Alto
2. True Love Waits
3. Lift
4. Man of War
5. I Promise
6. A Reminder
7. Get Around
8. Polyethylene (Part 2)
9. Pearly
10. Last Flowers
11. Attention
12. Belly Button
13. Motion Picture Soundtrack

When it came to the albums of Radiohead, I always thought that The Bends was the one that had the most B-sides, though I considered OK Computer to be a close second contender. I thought there was enough material to make a second album though I didn't like all of it. Following the release of OK Computer, the band was suffering from burnout and unsure of their direction. They knew that making a successful follow-up would be difficult, and they didn't release their next album till 2000, though they recorded enough material for a second album around this time. A bonus disc containing B-sides and unreleased tracks from this time was released on the 20th anniversary reissue OKNOTOK, but since then the Minidiscs (Hacked) compilation and the OK Outtakes bootleg were also released. So I had enough material to replace the songs I didn't like. Some of the songs would later go on to other albums, like Motion Picture Soundtrack on Kid A, Last Flowers on In Rainbows disc 2, and True Love Waits on A Moon Shaped Pool. 

Aphex Twin - Analogue Bubblebath (1992)

 

1. Analogue Bubblebath
2. Isopropophlex
3. En Trance to Exit (with Schizophrenia)
4. AFX 2
5. Digeridoo
6. Untitled
7. Alien Fanny Farts
8. Flaphead
9. Phloam
10. Polynomial-C
11. Tamphex (Hedphuq Mix)
12. Phlange Phace
13. Dodecahedron

The story of how Aphex Twin's music got released is the stuff of legend. Richard D. James reportedly signed a record deal with the label Mighty Force while tripping on acid at a rave, who would later put out his Analogue Bubblebath EP in 1991 which would be his first release. The EP was originally released under the name The Aphex Twin but would later be credited as AFX when reissued in 1994. He would later release his Analogue Bubblebath Vol. 2 EP under the label Rabbit City which included the song Digeridoo. The song would later get picked up by R&S Records as a single.

Now it's been said that James went to Belgium where R&S was located with a box of demo tapes he made, and from those tapes they assembled what would be his first album Selected Ambient Works 85-92. But by the time his first album was released, he had already put out several EPs on different labels over the past year. He put out 7 EPs and I'm using 4 of them. The ones I'm not using are two Joyrex EPs released as Caustic Window & the Pac-Man EP released as Power-Pill.

Weezer - Dusty Gems and Raw Nuggets (1995)

 

1. Mykel and Carli
2. Susanne
3. Jamie
4. Lullaby for Wayne
5. Paperface
6. Thief, You've Taken All That Was Me
7. Let's Sew Our Pants Together
8. I Can't Forget the Way
9. Windows Down
10. Superman
11. Dawn Sets Upon Us
12. Just What I Needed

Ah yes, the original Green Album. When I was doing my original run of alternate universe Weezer albums last year, I started with the outtakes from Pinkerton cause I didn't feel as though I had enough outtakes from their first album to make a whole second album. But I was mostly basing this off of an album called Dusty Gems and Raw Nuggets which was the second disc of their 10th anniversary reissue in 2004. However in that time, Rivers had been uploading a lot of his early demos including some outtakes from the first album. Some of which later appeared on their 30th anniversary reissue in 2024. So I thought what was I thinking? I have enough outtakes from the first album to make a second album! In fact I could make an even earlier album too.  

The Banana Splits - Long Live Love (1969)

 

Side A:
1. Long Live Love
2. It's a Good Day For a Parade
3. Pretty Painted Carousel
4. I Enjoy Being a Boy
5. That's the Pretty Part of You
6. The Very First Kid on My Block 

Side B:
7. The Beautiful Calliopa
8. Let Me Remember You Smiling
9. The Show Must Go On
10. I'd Be a Millionaire
11. Adam Had 'Em
12. You Had Your Chance

The Banana Splits were one of a couple fake bands that got popular in the late 60s along with The Archies and Max Frost and the Troopers. They were more well known for their TV show but released one album in 1968. There were enough songs in their discography for a second album, however the last four were from the TV show and were never professionally recorded. 

Bob Dylan - Another Way Home (1963)

 

Side A:
1. House Carpenter
2. Rocks and Gravel
3. Quit Your Low Down Ways
4. Worried Blues
5. Kingsport Town
6. Let Me Die in My Footsteps
7. Walls of Red Wing       

Side B:
8. Rambling, Gambling Willie
9. Baby, I'm in the Mood for You
10. (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle
11. Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
12. The Death of Emmett Till
13. Hero Blues
14. Milk Cow Calf's Blues
15. Whatcha Gonna Do?

The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan was his second album and his only album released this year. Yet he had enough outtakes from it to release a second album this year. The album had an original tracklist that got aborted. One of these was a song called Talkin' John Birch Blues. The talking blues was a form of blues that featured talking over music instead of singing and was popularized by Woody Guthrie. Bob Dylan was invited to perform on The Ed Sullivan Show and wanted to play the song. The network wouldn't let him and wanted him to play a different song, but he refused and walked off the stage. This controversy caused the label to not include the song on the album. So because of this, he would record a new song a year later to the day called Talkin' World War III Blues. Though he had another talking blues song that I used on this one. Most of these songs would later get released on the Bootleg Series Volume 1.

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.