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.

The Rolling Stones - Could You Walk on the Water? (1966)

 

Side A:
1. Mother's Little Helper
2. Take It or Leave It
3. What to Do
4. 19th Nervous Breakdown
5. Out of Time

Side B:
6. Ride On, Baby
7. Sittin' on a Fence
8. Sad Day
9. Long, Long While
10. I'd Much Rather Be With the Boys
11. My Girl
12. Looking Tired

When the Rolling Stones were working on their Aftermath album, they originally planned to call it Could You Walk on the Water? and gave it a release date of March 10, 1966. It had a tracklist of 10 tracks in which 5 of them made it on the Aftermath album which had 14 tracks. However before they could issue it, The Beatles made a controversial statement that they were more popular than Jesus, and they used the cover for an American compilation called Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) which came out later that month. Aftermath wasn't be released till April.

However the American version was released in July which took out four tracks from the British version and instead included the song Paint It Black which was released as a single in May. Not only that but they released a single called 19th Nervous Breakdown in February which didn't get included on Aftermath but would later get included on Big Hits. So I thought what if we took these four extra tracks along with others like Breakdown to form this proposed album?

Some tracks wouldn't be released till they were featured on other compilation albums like Flowers in 1967 and Metamorphosis in 1975. Only the track Looking Tired was never officially released even though it was included in the original tracklist for the album. However I did include some songs from earlier in 1965 to round out the album.

Daniel Johnston - 1990 (1990)

 

1. Funeral Home
2. Held the Hand
3. Some Things Last a Long Time
4. Tears Stupid Tears
5. Don't Play Cards With Satan
6. True Love Will Find You in the End
7. Whiz Kid
8. Ain't No Woman Gonna Make a George Jones Outta Me
9. Big Big World
10. Her Blues
11. Ghost of Our Love
12. December Blues
13. Hard Time
14. Girls

1990 is arguably Daniel's best known album other than his unfinished album Hi, How Are You? It contains the songs Some Things Last a Long Time and True Love Will Find You in the End, though a demo of the latter was originally released on his Retired Boxer album from 1984. The majority of the album was recorded in 1988 but the sessions were also left unfinished when Daniel suffered a mental breakdown. In fact the album was supposed to be called 1989 and released that year but it couldn't be finished in that time.

1990 was also not Daniel's first attempt at recording a studio album. His first one would be Continued Story from 1985 where he was backed by a band called the Texas Instruments. However following the release of 1990, Daniel released two EPs. The Big Big World EP was released in 1991 but was recorded in 1986 and features Daniel being backed by a different band called the Rhythm Rats. Next is the Laurie EP which released in 1992 but was recorded in 1989.

The first half of the album is the "solo" half and features tracks from 1990 as well as a version of the song Whiz Kid which is from the Laurie EP but originally came from the Merry Christmas album. The second half is the "band" half and features tracks from the Continued Story album and the Big Big World EP.

Limp Bizkit - Results May Vary (2003)

 

1. Let It Go

2. Armpit

3. Just Drop Dead

4. Crack Addict

5. Relentless

6. Press Your Luck

7. Shot

8. Almost Over

9. Build a Bridge

10. Lean on Me

11. Cowgirls From Hell

12. Masturbation

13. Poison Ivy

14. Until the End

15. Lonely World

16. Why?

Results May Vary was released as the fourth album by the band Limp Bizkit, and it was considered one of the worst albums of all time. The most interesting thing about it is that MTV recorded the making of it as part of a short lived show called Album Launch, and there were only a couple episodes but this was apparently the worst of the bunch. The album went through a long delay period meaning lots of songs were getting written and then thrown out. I was surprised to find that the album and a playlist of outtakes I found were both 16 tracks at 68 minutes. The album was half heavy and half mellow with the outtakes being mostly heavy, so I mostly used the outtakes but replaced some songs with others whenever it felt needed. I didn't wanna include either single when they were called the third worst song and second worst cover of all time. 

Just Drop Dead and Crack Addict were released as promotional singles. Let It Go and Shot were bonus tracks. Armpit was originally from their 1995 demo. Lean on Me and Why? were from their Greatest Hitz album. Crack Addict and Cowgirls From Hell sounded like they were unfinished but were fixed in fan-made versions including an extended version of Crack Addict.

The Who - Empty Glass (1981)

 

Side A:
1. Bitter and Twisted - Roger Daltrey
2. Rough Boys - Pete Townshend
3. Try Me - John Entwistle
4. Free Me - Roger Daltrey
5. Jools and Jim - Pete Townshend

Side B:
6. Talk Dirty - John Entwistle
7. My Time is Gonna Come - Roger Daltrey
8. Cat's in the Cupboard - Pete Townshend
9. I'm Coming Back - John Entwistle
10. Gonna Get Ya - Pete Townshend

This is my last in a series of albums where I combine solo albums released by members of The Who. This is the same year they put out their Face Dances album but all the members also feature on Roger Daltrey's album so that could've been a Who album. For this one I'm using Roger Daltrey's album McVicar, Pete Townshend's Empty Glass, and John Entwistle's Too Late the Hero. It was John's first solo album in 6 years but his also his last one. Also being that this is the '80s, the band's music sounds more new wave but heavier than the other solo albums. 

The Who - Rough Mix (1977)

 

Side A:
1. Parade - Roger Daltrey
2. My Baby Gives It Away - Pete Townshend
3. You Can Be So Mean - John Entwistle
4. Avenging Annie - Roger Daltrey
5. Keep Me Turning - Pete Townshend

Side B:
6. Leon - Roger Daltrey
7. Misunderstood - Pete Townshend
8. Drowning - John Entwistle
9. Don't Worry Baby - Keith Moon
10. Say It Ain't So, Joe - Roger Daltrey

This is the second of three albums I'm planning on making by combining tracks from members of the Who's solo albums. All of these albums were released between the years of 1975 and 1977. Keith Moon released his only solo album during this period meaning they all released at least one album so I had at least four albums I could use.

For this I'm using Roger Daltrey's One of the Boys, Pete Townshend's Rough Mix, John Entwistle's Mad Dog, and Keith Moon's Two Sides of the Moon. In our first album in this series, John released two albums around this time, but this time Roger released two albums around this time. I figured both of them would've sounded alike so I just picked One of the Boys. But John's album sounded like '50s rock and roll like his one before it, and Keith's album was marred by drug problems, so I named this album after Pete's album cause it was rough trying to mix it together. 

The Who - Rigor Mortis Sets In (1974)

 

Side A:
1. One Man Band - Roger Daltrey
2. There's a Heartache Following Me - Pete Townshend
3. Apron Strings - John Entwistle
4. Thinking - Roger Daltrey
5. Sheraton Gibson - Pete Townshend

Side B:
6. The Story So Far - Roger Daltrey
7. Content - Pete Townshend
8. I Feel Better - John Entwistle
9. Reasons - Roger Daltrey
10. Who Cares? - John Entwistle

This is the first in a set of three albums that combines tracks from solo albums by members of The Who. Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, and John Entwistle all released albums around 1972-73 at the same time as working on Rock is Dead, Long Live Rock which became Quadrophenia. 

For this I'm using Roger Daltrey's album Daltrey, Pete Townshend's album Who Came First?, and John Entwistle's album Nursery Rymes. John actually released two albums around this time, but his other album Rigor Mortis Sets In was more in the style of '50s rock and roll, though both that album and Pete's included a cover of a song from the '60s as well as songs that would end up on my reconstruction of the Lifehouse album. I found a version of the cover of Rigor Mortis that didn't have an artist name which I could use for my cover. John's albums ended up being the heaviest but I decided to use his other one. Also it would've been more of a collaborative album but maybe they would release this than Odds and Ends. 

The Who - Rock is Dead, Long Live Rock (1972)

 

Side A:
1. Relay
2. Get Inside
3. Riot in the Female Jail
4. Long Live Rock
5. Put the Money Down
6. Can't You See I'm Easy

Side B:
7. Join Together
8. Four Faces
9. We Close Tonight
10. You Came Back
11. Joker James
12. Anymore

This is my take on the unreleased album Rock is Dead, Long Live Rock by The Who which would later become Quadrophenia. There was a tracklist that I found for it online but it only had 9 songs and 2 of them would later be included on Quadrophenia. However the Quadrophenia deluxe edition included two discs of demos that I could use. Some of these songs might've technically been written for Quadrophenia but it's worth noting that all the songs were recorded in 1972. 

The Who - Who's for Tennis? (1968)

 

Side A:
1. Someone's Coming
2. Early Morning Cold Taxi
3. Glittering Girl
4. Girl's Eyes
5. Melancholia
6. Pictures of Lily
7. Doctor, Doctor

Side B:
8. Glow Girl
9. Little Billy
10. Faith in Something Bigger
11. Magic Bus
12. Call Me Lightning
13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
14. Dogs

After the release of their album A Quick One, The Who's next album was planned to be called Who's Lily? after their recent single Pictures of Lily. However they had an idea to create an album that sounded like a pirate radio station, full of fake commercials and unrelated songs, and from that they developed the Who Sell Out album and the Who's Lily? idea was dropped. I've seen blogs try to recreate Who's Lily? I've also seen blogs try to make a double album version of The Who Sell Out. Both albums seem possible to recreate, but they basically use the same songs so it has to be one or the other. I tried to make a double album version of The Who Sell Out once but felt like I didn't have enough songs to choose. Maybe this idea will fare better.

Who's Lily? seems to be if they took just the songs from The Who Sell Out and combined them with other songs from the era like Pictures of Lily. Though apparently they also had plans to release an album in 1968 that didn't get finished either. I realized that if you combined the non-album songs from 1967 and 1968 together it would be enough for a full album.

One criticism of the Who Sell Out is that the pirate radio idea disappears midway through the second side although the band recorded more jingles that they could've used. Some outtakes included covers like Summertime Blues and In the Hall of the Mountain King as well as instrumentals like Sodding About and... In the Hall of the Mountain King. In fact there were plans around this time to release an instrumental EP but it never got released.

The Who - Jigsaw Puzzle (1966)

 

Side A:
1. I'm a Boy
2. Run Run Run
3. Don't Look Away
4. So Sad About Us
5. I Need You
6. Disguises
7. In the City

Side B:
8. Boris the Spider
9. Whiskey Man
10. See My Way
11. Happy Jack
12. A Quick One, While He's Away

This is an alternate version of The Who's second album A Quick One. I found an initial tracklist online which had 12 tracks though the final version had 10 tracks. It included the covers Heat Wave and Barbara Ann as well as the instrumental Cobwebs and Strange but excluded the song So Sad About Us and the mini-suite A Quick One While He's Away. It also included the song Circles which was released on the American version of their first album which would've came out earlier in the year. But the American version of A Quick One replaced Heat Wave with their song Happy Jack. With all these changes and lots of songs to choose from, I replaced Cobwebs with the song Disguises which came from the same EP as Circles. 

The Who - Introducing the Who (1966)

 

Side A:
1. I'm a Man
2. I'm the Face
3. Here 'Tis
4. Zoot Suit
5. Leaving Here
6. I Can't Explain
7. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
8. Barbara Ann          

Side B:
9. Daddy Rolling Stone
10. Bald Headed Woman
11. Lubie (Come Back Home)
12. Shout and Shimmy
13. Heat Wave
14. Motoring
15. Anytime You Want Me

I originally envisioned this as an alternate version of The Who's first album, but I think there's actually enough songs to make a secondary album. Most of these songs are covers since this is from their "Maximum R&B" period, but it includes tracks like I'm a Man which was left off the American version of their first album and replaced with Circles, and Heat Wave which I left off my take on their second album but was actually an outtake from the first album. Either way this would've been released between their first and second album. 

Summercamp - Tonight! (2001)

 

1. The One I'm Without

2. Like a Wave

3. That Don't Mean Nothin'

4. The Funny One

5. Hear Me Now

6. Open Up

7. Unscrew

8. Happy

9. Escapism

10. Uncoordinated

11. Perfect Little Thing

12. Call Her Tomorrow

13. Face

14. Far Away Look

Summercamp was another one of those bands that only released one album. It turns out they recorded a second album but it went unreleased and also never had a name or artwork for it. The Tonight! EP was their final release but was only released in Japan. This reminds me a lot of the story of Radish, and when I looked up the album on YouTube it wasn't there, so I uploaded it!

You can listen to it here!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuHBVHPZSTh70swYfK3gfR99Kx8E7GULI

Talking Heads - Melody Attack (1981)

 

Side A:
1. Big Business - David Byrne
2. Things Fall Apart - Jerry Harrison
3. Wordy Rappinghood - Tina Weymouth
4. My Big Hands (Fall Through the Cracks) - David Byrne
5. Slink - Jerry Harrison
6. Genius of Love - Tina Weymouth

Side B:
7. Big Blue Plymouth (Eyes Wide Open) - David Byrne
8. The New Adventure - Jerry Harrison
9. As Above, So Below - Tina Weymouth
10. What a Day That Was - David Byrne
11. Magic Hymie - Jerry Harrison
12. Lorelei - Tina Weymouth

The Talking Heads didn't release an album this year, but they all released solo albums which could be combined to make an album. David Byrne released The Catherine Wheel soundtrack although he only sings on a couple of the tracks. Jerry Harrison also released an album called The Red and the Black and Tina Weymouth started a side project called Tom Tom Club with TH drummer Chris Frantz and released their first album that year. So I thought if I didn't have a lot of David material to include I could make it a more collaborative album, which would be unusual for a TH album. Although these songs never made it onto a TH album, the band did perform them live and some songs made it onto Stop Making Sense. 

Lou Reed and Metallica - Lulu (2011)

 

1. Brandenburg Gate
2. The View
3. Pumping Blood
4. Mistress Dread
5. Iced Honey
6. Hate Train
7. Just a Bullet Away
8. Frustration
9. Little Dog
10. Hell and Back
11. Rebel of Babylon

When Metallica released their collaboration record with Lou Reed in 2011, it was called even worse than St. Anger, and indeed one of the worst albums of all time. But it would also turn out to be Lou's last album before his death in 2013. It spans across two discs and is longer than the length of a single disc. So I thought how could we improve it? Three of the album's ten tracks are longer than 10 minutes, and later that year they released an EP of outtakes from Death Magnetic. So I thought I could take out the three tracks longer than 10 minutes and replace them with the four tracks from the EP and now it's short enough to fit on a CD!

Sonic Youth - Chelsea Light Moving (2013)

 

1. Sleeping Where I Fall - Thurston Moore
2. By the Window - Lee Ranaldo
3. Alighted - Thurston Moore 
4. Last Mistress - Kim Gordon
5. Empires of Time - Thurston Moore
6. Ambulancer - Lee Ranaldo
7. Groovy and Linda - Thurston Moore
8. Actress - Kim Gordon
9. Burroughs - Thurston Moore
10. Home Chds - Lee Ranaldo
11. Frank O'Hara Hit - Thurston Moore

Sonic Youth broke up in 2011 but their last album was released in 2009. When they broke up they had been around for 40 years and were one of the longest running bands in alternative. And yet what if they didn't break up and made one more album? In 2013 Thurston and his band Chelsea Light Moving released their only album. But also this year Kim released the album Coming Apart with her band Body/Head and Lee released an album called Last Night on Earth as Lee Ranaldo and the Dust which features SY drummer Steve Shelley. Lee was known for having the fewest songs on their albums but since Kim's album is experimental he gets a step up.