Crosby, Stills, and Nash - Melody (2 LP) (1978)

 

Side A: Graham Nash
1. Grave Concern
2. You'll Never Be the Same

3. Oh! Camil (The Winter Soldier)

4. On the Line

5. Another Sleep Song

Side B: Stephen Stills
6. Turn Back the Pages

7. In the Way

8. Shuffle Just as Bad

9. Cold Cold World

Side C: Crosby and Nash
10. Take the Money and Run

11. Low Down Payment

12. Fieldworker
13. Love Work Out

Side D: Crosby and Nash
14. Spotlight

15. J.B.'s Blues

16. Foolish Man

17. Out of the Darkness

Similar to the Volume 4½ album by the Traveling Wilburys, I felt like I had so much material I could go through that I could make a second album. Not only do we have solo albums from three of the four members, we also have the band split up into a dichotomy of sorts with David Crosby and Graham Nash getting together to form Crosby and Nash who had three albums but we'll use two of them, and Stephen Stills and Neil Young getting together to form The Stills-Young Band. 

When David Crosby and Graham Nash released their album Wind on the Water in 1975, it was their second album but it was also their first in a three album deal with ABC Records. So they released their third album in 1976 and their fourth album in 2002! How did it take them 27 years to finish their contract? Well after recording the third album, they got back together with Stephen Stills and released a new fourth CSN album instead of Human Highway. But when they released their fourth album in 2002, it was a double album! I didn't include Neil on this one cause I mostly used up the tracks from the Stills-Young Band album and he also had a bunch of solo albums around this time that would've been too much to listen to so I mostly focused on four albums.

Captain Beefheart - Bat Chain Puller (1978)

 

1. The Floppy Boot Stomp
2. Tropical Hot Dog Night
3. Brick Bats
4. Harry Irene
5. You Know You're a Man
6. Bat Chain Puller
7. When I See Mommy I Feel Like a Mummy
8. Owed t' Alex
9. Candle Mambo
10. Love Lies
11. The 1010th Day of the Human Totem Pole

This is an album that was first recorded in 1976 but got re-recorded and released in 1978. Due to legal issues, the album couldn't be released as planned and was re-recorded in 1978. Some of the unreleased songs from the original version made it onto later Beefheart albums. In 1982, his legal troubles settled and he intended on using half of the tracks from the original album on his new album Ice Cream for Crow. Unfortunately, he was only able to include two of the tracks on the album. The original version would eventually be released in 2012 with some exclusive songs. 

Regardless of album continuity, I listened to both versions and picked the songs I liked the best. I ended up taking out the instrumentals Ice Rose and Suction Prints and replaced them with Brick Bats from Doc at the Radar Station and The 1010th Day of the Human Totem Pole from Ice Cream for Crow. I also took out the last track Apes-ma for being a short spoken word recording. The album ends up being two minutes longer without it. 

Kiss - Best of Solo Albums (1978)

1. Tonight You Belong to Me - Paul Stanley
2. Rip It Out - Ace Frehley
3. See You in Your Dreams - Gene Simmons
4. Wiped Out - Ace Frehley
5. Love in Chains - Paul Stanley
6. Radioactive - Gene Simmons
7. New York Groove - Ace Frehley
8. Wouldn't You Like to Know Me? - Paul Stanley
9. Speedin' Back to My Baby - Ace Frehley
10. It's Alright - Paul Stanley

In 1978, Kiss made rock history when every band member released their own solo album on the same day. A best of album was put out at the time, but after listening to the solo albums, I decided I liked Paul's and Ace's albums the most and Gene's and Peter's albums the least. So my version of it has mostly Paul and Ace songs.