Smashing Pumpkins - Pistachio (1996)

 

1. Knuckles
2. Zoom
3. New Waver
4. So Very Sad About Us
5. Phang
6. The Groover
7. Blast
8. U.S.A.
9. Tribute to Johnny
10. Feelium
11. Weeping Willowly
12. Rings
13. So So Pretty
14. Lucky Lad
15. Jackboot
16. Star Song

This is a fictitious second album that would be included with copies of my version of The Aeroplane Flies High. It includes most of the instrumentals from the Pastichio Medley that would be later released on reissues of TAFH and MCIS. Speed is the only song from the medley to have vocals though the last song technically has a bit of vocals from James Iha. 

Smashing Pumpkins - The Aeroplane Flies High (1996)

 

1. Cherry
2. The Boy
3. Set the Ray to Jerry
4. God
5. Mouths of Babes
6. Ugly
7. Marquis in Spades
8. Pennies
9. Transformer
10. Meladori Magpie
11. …Said Sadly
12. Rotten Apples
13. Believe
14. Medallia and the Gray Skies
15. The Bells
16. Jupiter's Lament
17. Blank
18. The Last Song

The Aeroplane Flies High was a five disc box set released by the Smashing Pumpkins after the release of the two disc album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. This included the Zero EP which included the Pastichio Medley which was a medley of 73 songs that the band recorded during this time in various states of availability. So the album contained 28 songs, followed by a further 19 songs from the box set not including covers or duplicates, and of the 73 songs from the medley 23 were found. That gives us a total of 70 songs which is more than the 57 songs that were recorded for the album. Nevertheless it means we have a lot of material to go through. The first half of the album is all electric and mostly includes the 1979 and Zero EPs. The second half of the album is all acoustic and mostly includes the Tonight, Tonight & Thirty-Three EPs. 

Guided by Voices - Tonics and Twisted Chasers (1996)

 

1. Satellite
2. Dayton, Ohio-19 Something and 5
3. My Thoughts Are a Gas
4. The Top Chick's Silver Chord
5. Ha Ha Man
6. At the Farms
7. Unbaited Vicar of Scorched Earth
8. Optional Bases Opposed
9. Look, It's Baseball
10. 158 Years of Beautiful Sex
11. When 2 Hours Seem Like 5
12. Jellyfish Reflector
13. The Kite Surfer
14. The Candyland Riots
15. Jabberstroker
16. Stabbing a Star
17. Canteen Plums
18. If We Wait
19. Trendspotter Acrobat
20. Heavy Metal Country
21. Delayed Reaction Brats
22. Sensational Gravity Boy
23. Madroom Assistance

In 1996, Guided by Voices released their last lo-fi album Under the Bushes, Under the Stars. They had a whole other album of outtakes called The Flying Party is Here that wouldn't be released for another two years. However they released another album that year called Tonics and Twisted Chasers as well as an EP called Sunfish Holy Breakfast. They used the same image as the cover so it made sense to combine them. Some songs are extended versions of other songs, and this album potentially gives UTBUTS two albums worth of outtakes. 

Pavement - Sordid Sentinels (1996)

 

1. Stare
2. Raft
3. Coolin' by Sound
4. Strings of Nashville
5. Jam Kids
6. Haunt You Down
7. Unseen Power of the Picket Fence
8. Nail Clinic
9. Saginaw
10. Sensitive Euro Man
11. Dancing With the Elders
12. Painted Soldiers

This is an album combining B-sides and bonus tracks from their seminal sophomore album Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain along with a couple tracks from the deluxe edition of Wowee Zowee that I didn't include on my 2 LP version. I had enough tracks to make another three side album like Wowee Zowee but I cut out a side's worth of tracks to make it closer to Crooked Rain. 

Guided by Voices - Not in My Airforce (1996)

 

1. Maggie Turns to Flies
2. The Natural Alarm
3. Girl Named Captain
4. Get Under It
5. Release the Sunbird
6. E's Navy Blue
7. Parakeet Troopers
8. Carnival Boy
9. Chance to Buy an Island
10. I've Owned You For Centuries
11. Martin's Mounted Head
12. Flat Beauty
13. King of Arthur Avenue
14. Gas Daddy Gas
15. Psychic Pilot Clocks Out
16. Prom is Coming
17. To My Beloved Martha
18. White Flyer
19. Double Standards Inc.
20. I Didn't Know
21. Hermit Stew
22. The Last Man Well Known to Kingpin

1996 turned out to be an insanely prolific year for Guided by Voices in this alternate universe. They released their last lo-fi album Under the Bushes, Under the Stars as well as the album Tonics and Twisted Chasers. Also UTBUTS produced enough outtakes to release an album two years later called The Flying Party is Here. So wouldn't it be crazy if they released another album this year? Well apparently both front men Robert Pollard and Tobin Sprout released solo albums in 1996, 1998, and 1999, giving us ideas for 3 potential albums as if we didn't have enough. 

Radiohead - Decompression Sickness (1996)

 

1. Maquiladora
2. Killer Cars
3. India Rubber
4. How Can You Be Sure?
5. The Trickster
6. Lewis (Mistreated)
7. Punchdrunk Lovesick Singalong
8. Permanent Daylight
9. Lozenge of Love
10. You Never Wash Up After Yourself
11. Talk Show Host
12. Bishop's Robes
13. Banana Co.
14. Molasses

For whatever reason, the Bends album had more B-sides than any other Radiohead album, including the My Iron Lung EP which contained six exclusive tracks and the Street Spirit (Fade Out) EP which contained four exclusive tracks. So you could make a secondary album out of these outtakes, like they would do with Kid Amnesiac. 

Boards of Canada - Old Tunes Vol. 2 (1996)

 

Side A:
1. We've Started Up
2. Staircase Whip
3. Statue of Liberty
4. To the Wind
5. David Came to Mahana'im
6. Sir Prancelot Brainfire
7. Mukinabaht
8. It's a Whole 'Nother Year
9. Kiteracer 2

Side B:
10. BMX Track
11. Low Scores
12. Zander Two
13. Magic Teens
14. Northern Plastics
15. Buckie High
16. I Love My New Shears
17. Breaking Nehushtan
18. Orange Hexagon Sun
19. Lick

The tracks on this volume seem to be all exclusive, so I just took out all the short songs and cut it down to the length of an average Boards of Canada album from around this time. 

Boards of Canada - A Few Old Tunes (1996)

 

Side A:
1. Spectrum 
2. Trapped 
3. Unhappy Cycling 
4. House of Abin'adab 
5. Finity 
6. Forest Moon 
7. Mansel 
8. She is P 
9. I Will Get It Tattooed 

Side B:
10. The Way You Show
11. King of Carnival
12. Sequoia
13. Boqurant
14. 5.9.78
15. Up the March Bank
16. Oirectine
17. Twoism 

This one is a bootleg demo tape as opposed to the unreleased studio album Boc Maxima. The tapes share some tracks in common so like I did before, I took out all the short and released tracks and replaced them with two bonus tracks from the Twoism EP tacked on the end. 

Boards of Canada - Boc Maxima (1996)

 

Side A:
1. Chinook 
2. Rodox Video 
3. Everything You Do is a Balloon 
4. Nova Scotia Robots 
5. June 9th 
6. Skimming Stones 
7. Sixtyniner 
8. Red Moss     

Side B:                                                      
9. Carcan                                 
10. Nlogax                               
11. M9                         
12. Original Nlogax           
13. Whitewater                                         
14. Hi Scores                                   
15. Seeya Later 

This was a demo tape that the Boards of Canada released before their first album Music Has the Right to Children in 1998. The songs segue into each other but most of them were found on other releases. Five of the songs would be on the first album but four of the songs were exclusive to the demo. Two of the songs were transitional so I took out seven of the songs and replaced them with two bonus songs from the Hi Scores EP tacked on the end.

They Might Be Giants - Superfueled Freaksicle (1996)

 

1. James K. Polk (Original Version) (1990) 
2. Stormy Pinkness (1990) 
3. Ant (1990) 
4. One More Parade (1990) 
5. Welcome to the Jungle (1992) 
6. I Blame You (1992)
7. Moving to the Sun (1992)
8. Cabbagetown (1992)
9. Siftin' (1992)
10. Why Does the Sun Shine? (1993)
11. Jessica (1993)
12. Whirlpool (1993) 
13. Spy (Original Version) (1993)
14. O Tannenbaum (1993)
15. Christmas Cards (1993)
16. Ondine (1994)
17. She Was a Hotel Detective (1994)
18. Mrs. Train (1994) 
19. 25 O'Clock (1995)
20. Sensurround (Soundtrack Version) (1995)
21. Unforgotten (1996)
22. We've Got a World That Swings (1996)

This is the sequel to the band's first compilation album Miscellaneous T which came out in 1991. It compiled B-sides from the band's first two albums but it's really an American version of a European release called Don't Let's Start which came out two years earlier and features one fewer track. It was released because 1991 had been a slow year for the band who still wanted to release something. This album picks up where that one left off with B-sides from the band's major label era starting with Flood in 1990 to Factory Showroom in 1996. The album was supposed to have been released around this time but never did as the group focused their efforts on Then: The Earlier Years instead comprising of more of their earlier material. 

The band planned on releasing it as a double disc with B-sides on one disc and remixes on the other. There was a fan-made version of this that existed in 1999, but the first disc included three remix tracks as well as some other tracks which I opted to exclude. It's also a single disc.