Search and Destroy: Albums that don't exist.

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Albums that could have been conceivably been made while the artist(s) spent way too long making the actual follow up, and/or changed the musical direction so radically that there should have been a halfway-house to ease the transition.

e.g.

1) Scritti Politti - "The Sweetest Word"

Scritti left rough trade and signed to Virgin Records. Immediately, they wrote a number of tracks that set their stall out more towards a clean pop/funk direction, but kept the basic nucleus of live drums / backing singers and occasional jazz leanings. "The Sweetest Word" was the last hurrah before Tom and Niall left, and S.Gartside left to carry the scritti banner with David Gamson, etc...

2) The Stone Roses - "Damson Jam"
Ian Brown and co head for the studios immediately after Spike Island, under the impression that as they were on a roll, they could write, record and release a new LP in two days of concentration. The resultant album contained only four long tracks, and was seen as an awful mess, full of blues jamming, way off key singing and Cressa's dancing dubbed over on a separate sound channel. Three years later,"The Second Coming" arrived and was hailed as a "return to form", after which, the band went from strength to strength. The album went through some reappraisal seven years later,and was hailed as a qualified success, although the four minute gong solo on "It's happening" still gets mostly skipped over.

― mark grout (mark grout), Saturday, 19 March 2005 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'd love to have heard some of those recordings Green did with Nile Rodgers around 1983.

― Quit glaring at Ian Riese-Moraine! He's mentally fraught! (Eastern Mantra), Saturday, 19 March 2005 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The Ol' Dirty Bastard double album which he described plans for when the Wu-Tang Clan went on Westwood. The 'negative' disc would have a picture of the projects on it and the 'positive' (Osirus) disc would have a picture of some pyramids.

― Flyboy (Flyboy), Saturday, 19 March 2005 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Apparently, Paddy McAloon worked on several concept albums between "Jordan...The Comeback" in 1990 and "Andromeda Heights" in 1997. Would have loved to hear all of them.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 19 March 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the cocteau twins album they recorded after Milk and Kisses but never finished.

― kyle (akmonday), Saturday, 19 March 2005 23:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The album Springsteen should have released between "Born to Run" and "Darkness." Alternately, the album he should have released instead of "Born in the USA" (as much as I like "BitUSA").

― Josh in Chicago (Josh in Chicago), Sunday, 20 March 2005 00:57 (twenty-one years ago)

the the's pornography of despair.
although i managed to snag a 'copy' via p2p. not as good as i had expectations of.
the future tapes, as mentioned in the heaven 17 inside sleeves. Not sure if the golden age of the future was the same.

― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Sunday, 20 March 2005 08:55 (twenty-one years ago)

c'mon!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 21 March 2005 08:56 (twenty-one years ago)

the manic street preachers' followup to the holy bible, described in a memo from richey to nicky as "pantera crossed with nine inch nails." a far cry from what we finally got!

― J.D. (Justyn Dillingham), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:02 (twenty-one years ago)

John Lennon survives the gunshot wound, Harrison is in remission and the Beatles reform in 2007 in the midst of a full-on White Stripes revival. Finding their funk rock in the middle of a thick electro soup, they proceed to defy all expectations and manage to outsell every up and coming Strokes copyist of the day with their brand new album.

"Come Together?" Lennon says. "What a load of old bollocks. We only wanted to be the Sex Pistols, truth be told."

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Monday, 21 March 2005 09:14 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

Mmmm.

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 12 May 2005 09:35 (twenty-one years ago)

There were quite some XTC albums in the process during the mid 90s, that were never released, weren't there?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Thursday, 12 May 2005 11:11 (twenty-one years ago)

three months pass...

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:37 (twenty years ago)

A Love album between "Forever Changes" and "Four Sail". There's supposed to be such an album, called "Gethsemane", but it turns out it never existed.

― Raymond Douglas Dadaismus (Dada), Thursday, 8 September 2005 08:49 (twenty years ago)

three years pass...

...

― Mark G, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 12:10 (sixteen years ago)

Otis Redding was supposedly planning on creating soul music's own "Sgt. Pepper" (w/"Dock of the Bay" as the centrepiece) before he died. Whatever the hypothetical results, that's a pretty mindblowing concept (altho less mindblowing than the notion of "destroying" albums that don't exist.)

― New display name coming soon (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 12 August 2009 14:20 (sixteen years ago)

No-one's mentioned this yet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Black_Room ?

― DavidM, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 15:34 (sixteen years ago)

^That sounded so promising.

― Alex in NYC, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 15:40 (sixteen years ago)

Lennon and Robert Wyatt album

― CaptainLorax, Wednesday, 12 August 2009 16:51 (sixteen years ago)

ten years pass...

"Albums that don't exist" being a different thing now.

― Mark G, Saturday, 28 December 2019 13:19 (six years ago)

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