The Who - Lifehouse (2 LP) (1971)

Side A:
1. Baba O'Riley
2. Bargain
3. Love Ain't For Keeping
4. My Wife
5. The Song is Over

Side B:
6. Getting in Tune
7. Going Mobile
8. Behind Blue Eyes
9. Won't Get Fooled Again

Side C:
10. Water
11. Naked Eye
12. I Don't Even Know Myself
13. Postcard
14. Now I'm a Farmer

Side D:
15. Time is Passing
16. Too Much of Anything
17. Pure and Easy
18. Let's See Action
19. Heaven and Hell

In 1971, The Who were planning on releasing a double album rock opera called Lifehouse, similar to Tommy 2 years before it and Quadrophenia 2 years after it. For whatever reason it was cut down to a single album and retitled Who’s Next? Fans have been speculating on what tracks would’ve been on a double album version for years, including Pete Townshend who worked on the unreleased tracks long after the album came out. One user I saw even made double and triple versions of the album. Regardless of story continuity, I wanted to see if I could make a second album from these outtakes. One resource is the Lifehouse Chronicles which includes a couple acoustic demos that I’m opting to exclude. 

There was a 5 song EP that was supposed to come out in 1970 but never did. I figured if they didn't release it as an EP, they could release it as the first half of the album. Most of them would later get released on the Odds and Sods compilation, sometimes only on reissues. The second side would consist of outtakes relating to Lifehouse and other tracks from this time which Odds and Sods also partially include. 

Yoko Ono - Fly (1971)

 

Side A:
1. Midsummer New York
2. Mind Holes
3. Don't Worry Kyoko
4. Mrs. Lennon
5. Hirake (Open Your Box)
6. O'Wind (Body is the Scar of Your Mind)

Side B:
7. Mind Train
8. You

Ok so here's an idea for an album I saw. Someone took all of John Lennon's tracks from Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey and combined them. Apparently the Yoko songs don't blend together well but combining all of her tracks together wouldn't make up a full album. Then there was another idea I saw. Someone said you could combine all the tracks from John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band and Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band and release it as a double album. I listened to Yoko's album and I think those tracks would clash even harder. 

Apparently she wouldn't start making rock music until her third album Approximately Infinite Universe, but both that one and Fly are double albums. Both John and Yoko recorded 5 albums in the 70s but one of Yoko's albums wouldn't get released until the 90s. With that in mind I listened to the rest of her albums, so here's my attempt at releasing this as a single album.

The first idea I had was combining the rock songs from side B with the side long song Fly from side D, but when I listened to Fly, I thought it was terrible. People like to say that Yoko sucks at singing, but I bet most of them haven't listened to her sing for 23 minutes with 5 minutes of backwards music at the end. Instead I chose Mind Train as the album closer, but the both sides wouldn't have been equal in length so I also included the songs You from side C and Midsummer New York from side A.