The Small Faces - 1862 (1969)

 

Side A:
1. The Autumn Stone
2. Red Balloon
3. Call It Something Nice
4. I Can't Make It
5. The Universal
6. Wham Bam Thank You Ma'am

Side B:
7. Don't Burst My Bubble
8. Every Little Bit Hurts
9. Donkey Rides, A Penny, A Glass
10. Patterns
11. Wrist Job
12. Natural Born Woman

This was an album that the Small Faces were intending to make after their fourth album Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. However there were a good chunk of tracks that didn't have vocals so a compilation album was released instead called The Autumn Stone, kind of like what happened with The Hollies. One of the instrumental tracks called The Pig Trotter would later be released as a bonus track to the first Humble Pie album as a track called Wrist Job.

The Zombies - R.I.P. (1969)

 

Side A:
1. I'll Call You Mine
2. Imagine the Swan
3. If It Don't Work Out
4. Don't Cry for Me
5. I Know She Will
6. Walking in the Sun
7. I'll Keep Trying

Side B:
8. She Loves the Way They Love Her
9. Smokey Day
10. Girl Help Me
11. I Could Spend the Day
12. I'm Going Home
13. Nothing's Changed
14. How We Were Before

If you remember my last post about The Zombies, I talked about their lesser known collection of singles between their only two albums but they had an unreleased album recorded after their last one. It was officially released in 2000 but all the tracks were originally featured on a box set called Zombie Heaven from 1997. I took out one track which was an instrumental called Conversation Off Floral Street so I replaced it with a track I didn't include before. 

Herman's Hermits - Rock 'n' Roll Party (3 LP) (1970)

 

Side A:
1. Little Boy Sad
2. Story of My Life
3. Oo-ee Baby
4. Listen People
5. What is Wrong, What is Right 

6. I Can Take or Leave Your Loving

Side B: 
7. Marcel's
8. Biding My Time
9. Wait for Me, Here I Come
10. A Year Ago Today
11. The Colder It Gets
12. Big Ship

Side C:
13. Sleepy Joe
14. Just One Girl
15. London Look
16. Sunshine Girl
17. Nobody Needs to Know

Side D:
18. Something's Happening
19. My Sentimental Friend
20. My Lady
21. Here Comes the Star
22. It's Alright Now

Side E:
23. Daisy Chain (Edit)
24. Years May Come, Years May Go
25. Smile, Please
26. Bet Yer Life I Do
27. Searching for the Southern Sun

Side F:
28. Lady Barbara
29. Don't Just Stand There
30. Big Man
31. Wings of Love
32. Mum and Dad

As you can tell, I love examining these British Invasion bands like The Kinks and The Hollies, but with different albums being released in England and America, it can make their discographies confusing. In the case for Herman's Hermits, they were a band I never got into much cause some of their songs became novelties. But here's some info I found online in regards to an unreleased album by them. "The Both Sides Now MGM discography lists two Herman's Hermits albums that were supposed to have the catalog numbers SE-4590 and SE-4601, but were never released." Then someone else had this to say. "Herman's Hermits were supposed to have recorded an album similar to the Beach Boys' Party album and an album of cover songs. These albums were never released and the covers album was reported to have around 50 tracks (!!!)." But wasn't the Party album already a covers album? There was an expanded version of that one that revealed a lot of outtakes but that's its own blog post. Regardless, if this guy separated the two parts of the album's story then there must be another one out there.

Here's another bit of info that I found online. "MGM Records had scheduled a Herman's Hermits album titled Sleepy Joe but never issued it." I don't know where this guy got this info from, but he also has this to say. "Other than the title track, I wasn't sure what should be included on this album. I've seen no track list for it. But the band's Blaze album was re-released in 2001 with a dozen bonus tracks, including Sleepy Joe, and I thought aha! The only bonus cut I didn't include was the song The Most Beautiful Thing in My Life because it already appears on Mrs. Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter." I don't have much evidence of this, but my theory is that if they were planning on releasing two more albums before breaking up, then one would be the "party" album of covers and the other would be the "new" album of original material. 

The last album they released in 1968 was a soundtrack from a movie named after a song they released three years before that. The movie wasn't great either so their album sales were on a decline. But I'm sure they would've liked to have released a final album. Like what if they combined both ideas and simply released a double album of all their unreleased outtakes? So I went through their bonus tracks on album rereleases as well as songs from their British versions of albums that didn't make it on the American versions of them and came up with 3 albums worth. So the Sleepy Joe album could be one of them but I didn't just wanna copy and paste this guy's track listing for it. As for the cover I used an AI image colorizer.

But what the guy failed to mention was that the bonus tracks for Blaze actually featured two songs from the soundtrack, plus both rereleases shared a bonus track, so basically I’m short by a song. I think I used all the tracks I could’ve so I went with an edited version of the instrumental track Daisy Chain from the soundtrack which combines both parts. I also included a couple previously unreleased songs from a box set but I stuck them on the first album despite not knowing when they were recorded. The final result is 3 half hour albums.

Timebox - Moose on the Loose (1969)

 

Side A:
1. Yellow Van
2. Tree House
3. Poor Little Heartbreaker
4. Baked Jam Roll in Your Eye
5. Black Dog
6. Country Dan & City Lil

Side B:
7. Eddie McHenry
8. Barnabus Swain
9. Promises
10. Stay There
11. Timebox
12. Gone is the Sad Man

Timebox were a band that existed for a brief time in the late '60s that put out a couple singles but not an album. Though they recorded an album that for whatever reason never came out. I found out about them cause two of its members would later go on to join The Rutles so some of their songs would be used in their alternate universe discography. Apparently the album was supposed to be released in 2018 with this track listing but it never came out. The person who made the Rutles albums also included two more tracks to this album to make it about 40 minutes. But as shown in their compilation albums, they actually recorded enough material to release two albums.

Your Heart - Fall (2010)

 

1. Bianca
2. The River and the Valley
3. Overturned
4. Would Would Would
5. Sadly
6. Autumn Leaves
7. Tell Me If You Like Me
8. I Like You
9. Romance, Bay Street
10. I Want to Be Where the Birds Sing
11. Breakfast

Your Heart was an indie rock side project by Andrew Huang of Songs to Wear Pants To fame, similar to the Girl album I did before. He had some side projects in the late 2000s and early 2010s before focusing solely on music released under his own name. With this he set out to make albums based on the seasons, but he only made two Summer and Autumn before giving up on it and releasing the other two Spring and Winter under his own name in 2014. However he released two mini albums during its original incarnation, Fall and Spring Fling. Fall included one song from the Autumn album and one that would later go on the Spring album. Spring Fling also had some songs that would later go on Spring. Basically this combines tracks from both albums.

Prince - Crystal Ball (2 LP) (1987)

 

Side A:
1. Love and Sex
2. Eggplant
3. Crucial
4. Blanche

Side B:
5. Soul Psychodelicide
6. It Ain't Over 'Til the Fat Lady Sings
7. Adonis and Bathsheba

Side C:
8. When the Dawn of the Morning Comes
9. Emotional Pump
10. Cosmic Day
11. Walkin' in Glory

Side D:
12. Wally
13. I Need a Man
14. Promise to Be True
15. Jealous Girl

Going through the deluxe edition of Sign O' the Times, it had three discs of bonus tracks but the tracks that made up the last double album was mostly featured on the first disc. So these tracks are made up of the second and third discs of bonus tracks. Prince was working on two double album projects at the time but wanted to release this one as a triple album. The label made him cut it down to a double album, but he later said he wanted to release The Black Album the same year. He pulled it at the last minute and later released it in 1994 so he could've released this. Then he released a triple album of outtakes in 1998.

Grateful Dead - Kingfish (1976)

 

Side A:
1. Might as Well - Jerry Garcia
2. Lazy Lightnin' - Bob Weir
3. Razooli - Mickey Hart
4. They Love Each Other - Jerry Garcia
5. Home to Dixie - Bob Weir

Side B:
6. Happiness is Drumming - Mickey Hart
7. It Must Have Been the Roses - Jerry Garcia
8. Bye and Bye - Bob Weir
9. Sweet Sixteen - Mickey Hart

Here's another new Grateful Dead album made out of albums by solo members that came out the same year. This one is interesting cause technically only one of them was a solo album. Jerry released his album under his name but had already formed the Jerry Garcia Band around this time. Bob was in a band called Kingfish but he only shows up on the first album before leaving. And Mickey released an album with a band called the Diga Rhythm Group which was the most experimental of the bunch. It features an early instrumental version of Fire in the Mountain which would later get released on Shakedown Street.