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.