The Stooges - Open Up and Bleed (2 LP) (1975)

 

Side A:
1. I Got a Right
2. Hey, Peter
3. I'm Hungry
4. Gimme Some Skin
5. Johanna

Side B:
6. Scene of the Crime
7. Open Up and Bleed
8, Cock in My Pocket
9. I'm Sick of You

Side C:
10. I Got Nothin'
11. Rubber Legs
12. Head On
13. Wild Love

Side D:
14. My Girl Hates My Heroin
15. She Creatures of the Hollywood Hills
16. Till the End of the Night

The Stooges were a legendary band that only released three albums. Their last one was released in 1973, though fans have speculated about what a fourth album by them would be like. They would later go on to release a fourth album in 2007, but after the release of the third album, lead singer Iggy Pop went on to have a solo career. He released his first three albums in 1977, though one of which was an album recorded in 1975 called Kill City. I used one track from it as well as a 6 CD box set of Raw Power outtakes called Heavy Liquid to make this. I mostly focused on discs 3 and 4 which had low quality rehearsal tapes though I thought disc 3 had slightly better quality. 

Devo - Mechanical Man (1975) (upgrade)

 

Side A:
1. Mechanical Man
2. Auto Modown / Space Girl Blues
3. Live Forever
4. Falling in Love Again
5. Shimmy Shake
6. Hubert House

Side B:
7. Bamboo Bimbo

8. Baby Talkin' Bitches
9. U Got Me Bugged
10. 37
11. Chango
12. Fraulein

Hey did you know Devo had enough material to put out an album in 1974? Well technically they did except there's one problem. Mechanical Man was recorded in 1975, not 1974! And neither were a couple other songs on my original album. Apparently the recording dates I had were inaccurate but have since been updated. Although this would mean I would have to split this album into two albums. I took out tracks and replaced them with others.

John Lennon / Ringo Starr - Verses (1975)

 

Side A:
1. Going Down on Love
2. Whatever Gets You Thru the Night
3. What You Got
4. #9 Dream
5. Nobody Loves You (When You're Down and Out)

Side B:
6. (It's All Down to) Goodnight Vienna
7. Oo-Wee
8. Snookeroo
9. All By Myself
10. No-No Song
11. Only You (And You Alone)
Bonus Track - John and Ringo Advertise Their Albums

This might sound crazy but I remember reading about a supposedly lost John/Ringo collaboration album that was supposed to come out in 1975 called Verses. I tried looking up info about it but I couldn't find anything, but I swear it was something I read online and not something I made up. Because of that, all info about this album is fictional, but it consists of the best tracks from John's Walls and Bridges album and Ringo's Goodnight Vienna album from 1974. The only question I couldn't answer was why would it have been put together?

Both albums were recorded in the summer of 1974 and released in the fall of that year, but both artists also put out compilation albums in the fall of 1975, John's Shaved Fish album and Ringo's Blast From Your Past album. It was said that after John had released Rock 'n' Roll in 1975, he planned on releasing another album that year of all new material, but when Yoko got pregnant with Sean, he had to stop recording all new music for about 5 years. 

Giving us a timeline of about March to October 1975, I think the album would've come out in the summer, in August about a year after all the tracks were recorded. Though if you were a Ringo fan who was excited about Goodnight Vienna coming out in November 1974, you would've had to wait a year before you could listen to songs by Ringo you would've already heard. So again the question is why would it have been put together? 

When I was trying to find a cover I could use for this, I found a pic of them claiming to be from 1975, but upon further research it was more likely that it was taken in 1976. I found out though that they probably had the best relationship between any two Beatles after their break-up, so I think it would've been John's idea to put it out to help promote Ringo's album. I also found out that Ringo recorded a voiceover for a TV commercial promoting John's album and John recorded a voiceover for a TV commercial promoting Ringo's album. Also John wrote the titular track for Ringo to record. The final cover I went with was something simplistic I put together using White Album-era photos. I included both of the advertisements as a bonus track but it's only 1:30 long. 

Bob Dylan - Basement Tapes (1975)

Side A:
1. Odds and Ends
2. Million Dollar Bash
3. Lo and Behold!
4. Clothes Line Saga
5. Apple Suckling Tree
6. Please, Mrs. Henry
7. Tears of Rage

Side B:
8. Too Much of Nothing
9. Yea! Heavy and a Bottle of Bread
10. Quinn the Eskimo
11. Tiny Montgomery
12. You Ain't Goin' Nowhere
13. Open the Door, Homer
14. This Wheel's on Fire

This is based on the 1975 album Basement Tapes by Bob Dylan and The Band. When the tapes were recorded in 1967, they became legendary. Some songs from the tape became part of the first rock bootleg Great White Wonder in 1969. So there had been a demand for an official release of the tapes for years, but when it was released in 1975, the fans were unhappy. Many criticized the songs which only featured The Band as unnecessary, but the tracks were recorded around the same time and were officially unreleased up to that point. Many others criticized the use of overdubbing with new parts recorded for the album by The Band, as well as the fact that the Dylan material represented wasn't among his best. 

Excluded tracks included I Shall Be Released and Quinn the Eskimo. In total, there were 16 songs with Bob Dylan and 8 songs with The Band. Because of this, an official release of the tapes came out in 2014 as part of Bob Dylan's Bootleg Series Vol. 11. There were 139 tracks across 6 CDs. But I feel like if you took out the tracks by The Band and two more of the lengthy tracks from the original album, it's pretty easy to turn a 2 LP set into a 1 LP album. The only real change I made is that I replaced Crash on the Levee with Quinn the Eskimo.