most famously long-delayed/never-released albums

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― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

chinese democracy

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

detox

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe not so famously so, but Paul Pena's New Train fits the bill.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

technopop

― zappi (joni), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

purple haze

― adam west (adamwest), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Every Seal album.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

That Stone Roses record that ended up being not worth the effort and/or hype.
(Forget the title, can't be arsed to look it up.)

― Tantrum The Cat (Tantrum The Cat), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

TITLE TK

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

elastica - the menace

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Boston "THIRD STAGE"

Took 'em eight years to fuse power ballads to synthesized sounds of rockets taking-off. Incredible. "Amanda" and "Cool the Engines" are classic.

― Justin Farrar (Justin Farrar), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

That last Beastie Boys album.

Every Killing Joke record since Extremities.... lazy fuckers.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

old ramon, red house painters (finally released, disappointingly)

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

weezer http://www.filter-mag.com/news/interior.1679.html

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

That Robert Smith solo album.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Large Professor: "Buy the album when I drop it." What, 9 years later?

― Chris Marx, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

...seem to recall something about My Bloody Valentine...

― snazz, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Extraordinary Machine

― reo, Friday, 24 September 2004 18:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The Black Album.

― briania (briania), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

alexinnyc otm

ive been working on one for 12years

― kephm (kephm), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Kevin Shields solo album tentatively title "It's About Bloody Time!"

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

old ramon, red house painters (finally released, disappointingly)

disappointingly??!? wha?

― frankE (frankE), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

KMD Black Bastards (released after ten or so years finally.)
The mid-90s Large Professor solo album (that supposedly sucks.)

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 24 September 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

The Zappa/Ensemble Modern album of Edgard Varese music.

― Rock Hardy (Rock Hardy), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

does the nirvana box set count?

― chewbacca, Friday, 24 September 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

It certainly should! It's at least had one of the most public displays of constant pushbackitude.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 24 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

climate of hunter

― amateur!!st, Friday, 24 September 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

old ramon, red house painters (finally released, disappointingly)

disappointingly??!? wha?

disappointingly to me because of Cruiser's dumb lyrics and it just wasn't as good as I thought it should have been. I would have minded less if it had come out on time and there wasn't years of building anticipation.

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Resident Alien - It Takes a Nation of Suckers to Let Us In (yet another Prince Paul side project)

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:56 (twenty-one years ago)

(Paul actually mentioned in an interview that various label heads' "what the hell is this?" reaction to it was one of the first things that led to his mainstream hip-hop production status to start fading ca. '91-'92 or so.)

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Friday, 24 September 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

that Michael Stipe solo rekkid seems loathe to materialise too

― t\'\'t (t\'\'t), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh yeah, I Am the Answer Grape. I thought it was more of a running interview joke than an actual album.

― joseph cotten (joseph cotten), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the wait for next studio albums from:

Carl Craig
Kate Bush

― DJ Martian (djmartian), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Jimi Hendrix and Love - THE EVERLASTING FIRST

Supposedly Jimi and Arthur recorded an album together in 1970, but Arthur has't been able to release it due to contract disputes. The title track did make it onto False Start, though.

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 September 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Crystal Ball

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 September 2004 23:33 (twenty-one years ago)

the ridiculously long wait for a new Pink Floyd album (ten years and counting!) Come on Floyd! Reunite, goddammit!!

― Mr. Snrub, Friday, 24 September 2004 23:35 (twenty-one years ago)

please floyd, do not reunite!

― mookieproof (mookieproof), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:39 (twenty-one years ago)

the ridiculously long wait for a new Pink Floyd album (ten years and counting!) Come on Floyd! Reunite, goddammit!!

Good lord, why would you want that to happen? It's not like they've got another Dark Side... crammed up their collective butt. They're done. So long, and thanks.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 24 September 2004 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Resident Alien - It Takes a Nation of Suckers to Let Us In (yet another Prince Paul side project)

hey n*te....do you know anything about this....it's funny I was just thinking about this album a few weeks ago...I used to get the Source religiously and I remember distinctly that they ACTUALLY reviewed a single by Resident Alien....i remember them saying it was really bugged....or maybe it was the whole album...but someone there had heard something about it.....MAAAN I would love to hear this...It was supposed to be released on his boutique label that he had in the late 80s early 90s (which I cannot remember the name of)......If you know anything more about this i would love to hear it....

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Saturday, 25 September 2004 00:25 (twenty-one years ago)

the neil young box set, decade 2, or whatever the hell it's supposed to be called. for a while there, it was on reprise records' official release schedule pretty much every year.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:31 (twenty-one years ago)

dennis miller's "bamboo"

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

haha. what the fuck did i just type? dennis wilson. dennis wilson!!!!

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Stereogum is saying that a Neil Young Greatest Hits set is coming out, with just fifteen tracks. (Scroll down past the Elton John talk.)

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.internetweekly.org/images/dennis_miller_card.jpg

― JaXoN (JasonD), Saturday, 25 September 2004 01:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Magik Markers lp. Jesus Fuck.

― Don, Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:05 (twenty-one years ago)

That Prince Paul Resident Alien shit reminded me of THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY!! Who was supposed to be in on that? Mike D, the RZA, Prince Paul, Beck, Bjork, Tjinder Singh, Trent Reznor I think? Yeah, pretty much all of that late-'90s Grand Royal indie-rap crew + associates. I remember being so excited about that album in high school and I'm STILL waiting on it.

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Err, to clear things up, I'm really NOT waiting on that album anymore. But it hasn't been released (unless there are a LOT of star-studded unreleased tracks from the Handsome Boy Modeling School sessions).

― Mike Ouderkirk (Mike Ouderkirk), Saturday, 25 September 2004 05:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I know Resident Alien actually released a single ("Mr. Boops") on Paul's Dew Doo Man imprint but I have been unable to unearth any sign of a full album. ego trip's book of rap lists hinted that it's pretty ill.

― alfalfa romeo (natepatrin), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:12 (twenty-one years ago)

On the Neil Young tip, don't forget about his unreleased/shelved/dismantled 70s LPs like Homegrown and Chrome Dreams.

― Doobie Keebler (Charles McCain), Saturday, 25 September 2004 16:23 (twenty-one years ago)

the hushpad album.

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Peter Gabriel to thread.

― Al (sitcom), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

did q-tips "kamaal the abstract" lp ever come out? i remember hearing a couple of tracks and being v. unimpressed..

― zappi (joni), Sunday, 26 September 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

A somewhat offtopic but still odd side note:
If you ever find a copy of Dennis Miller's first book out there, the very first essay is about Liberals....
...and its a passionate, ringing endorsement of Liberalism.
I suspect the real Dennis Miller is locked in an underground bunker right now, and the one on TV nowadays is a "Pod Person".

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Sunday, 26 September 2004 02:55 (twenty-one years ago)

The Good, The Bad and The Ugly = Prince Paul, Dan the Automator and Mike Simpson of the Dust Brothers. I'm not sure who was supposed to be who in that equation.

I talked with Prince Paul when his last record came out and he describe the record as "half-finished" which I took as a polite way of saying that it'll never come out.

Also, whomever called out Large Professor upthread was totally OTM. That record is hella boring.

― ng, Sunday, 26 September 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

billy nicholls "would you believe"
joy zipper "american whip" (er, not so famously)

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Huono Visuaas by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 27 September 2004 00:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Lucinda Williams Car Wheels On A Gravel Road, many years in the making but worth the wait.

― Jim Reckling (Jim Reckling), Monday, 27 September 2004 02:34 (twenty-one years ago)

A somewhat offtopic but still odd side note:
If you ever find a copy of Dennis Miller's first book out there, the very first essay is about Liberals....
...and its a passionate, ringing endorsement of Liberalism.
I suspect the real Dennis Miller is locked in an underground bunker right now, and the one on TV nowadays is a "Pod Person".
-- Lord Custos Epsilon (L.Custo...), September 26th, 2004.

yeah seeing him now is just so disheartening.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Wasn't there supposed to be a Flavor Flav album like five years ago?

Forced Exposure was supposed to put out a R.Meltzer/Mike Watt/George Hurley/Joe Biaza record to make good on the Minutemen's intended Meltzer collaboration (D.Boon died with the lyrics in his pocket they say), but it was never recorded. Too bad, that.

― Mike Dixon, Monday, 27 September 2004 03:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Hated retrospective

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:19 (twenty-one years ago)

did someone mention prince's black album?

― darragh.mac (darragh.mac), Monday, 27 September 2004 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Kamaal the Abstract is an excellent record. I don't understand why it wasn't released--"Feelin'" is terrific, so is "Do You Dig You".

― cybele (cybele), Saturday, 9 October 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

- The scrapped third Teardrop Explodes album (eventually mixed up and put out in 89 i think)
- The Bible's reunion album in whenever it was, 94?
- Propaganda's 2000 album with the 'A Secret Wish' line-up
- The Smiths' first LP recorded with Troy Tate producing

and on the 'wishful thinking' list...
- The La's second album
- the follow-up to 'Loveless'

― darren (darren), Saturday, 9 October 2004 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, whomever called out Large Professor upthread was totally OTM. That record is hella boring.

I love this record. A lot. It was just called "The LP" and the single "I Jus Wanna Chill" fits the album's mood to a t - evocative, relaxed, spacey, beautiful. Any of you twits orgasming over the Junior Boys and then DARE to call "The LP" boring....grrrrr ;)

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

- Whatever that next Guns'n'Roses album is going to be called
- Anything ever released by The Blue Nile
- "Up" by Peter Gabriel
- The Neil Young Box Set

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:45 (twenty-one years ago)

only good songs on the large pro are "stay chizzled" with nas and "in the sun" with q-tip. the rest rendered me unconscious.

― Rollie Pemberton (Rollie Pemberton), Sunday, 10 October 2004 05:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Nah we're talking about "The LP," I agree "First Class" is awful though.

― djdee2005 (djdee2005), Monday, 11 October 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

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