The lost, unfinished, mythical albums

Aren't there rumours that Klaxons have an insane psych-prog album in the vaults that their label didn't come close to letting them release?

Oh, they released it as an EP. Carry on.

this is by no means mythical, but there was an original version of Heems' album with Bollywood samples that the label wouldn't clear, and Diplo & A-Trak beats that they wouldn't pay for.

the lost music i actually get worked up about is all the high-quality second line footage that stupid David Simon shot for Treme, and didn't do a thing with (except for like a 10 second clip in the show).

Green Day - Cigarettes and Valentines

granted it came out, thanks to Rhino, but it boggles my mind that there was a 1990's era Chicago album (Stone of Sisyphus) that completely fit this thread at one time, in that there were fans actually clamoring for it and posting threads about it and I think even circulating bootlegs. then they released it and most everybody else said it was typical boring mid-90s Chicago garbage.

The first US Maple album doesn't sound like the third one, does it?

And S&S were around for a few years before their first record.

and no incarnation of S&S sounded anything like any incarnation of US Maple. are you Ian Williams' mum or something?

The oft-mentioned single-LP version of Sandinista

was gonna say that more clash is not what we want, but actually you're calling for less clash so i'm ok with that

The only thing worse than US Maple are US Maple fans.

I keep not getting around to mentioning Ryan Adams.

Probably 2 albums' worth of really good Whiskeytown stuff, 3 or 4 unreleased solo albums, dozens and dozens of leftovers, sessions, demos and nonsense. Most of this stuff's floating around on the internets somewheres (although I haven't been able to find the pre- and post-"Heartbreaker" albums "Destroyer" and "The Suicide Handbook," supposedly two of the best).

i used to have those! they were great, sort of composite versions of gold and demolition