The lost, unfinished, mythical albums

was going to be a triple lp, supposedly.

there are those demos from '68 (i think) on the gene clark flying high comp from an album session that went nowhere. unfortunate, cos they are great.

also there was the john fahey/red krayola session that a manager or someone took possession of and hasn't been seen since.

Beatles "Carnival of Light"? not an album but the only un-released full, finished Beatles track.

Can't imagine the US Maple/Bailey thing as being any good, given that Maple had to rehearse within an inch of their lives to sound a little like Storm & Stress.

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u shut yr mouth pal

also to chachi's point, Johnson and Shippy were doing Shorty probably what since the late 80s?

fuckin strom and stress gedda fuck outtaheah with that shit /joepesci

all those rza beats that he lost in a studio flood in the mid-90s, must have been a bunch of albums worth of stuff there? not sure how finished any of it was but i'm sure altered the trajectory of wu tang

Peter Gabriel was supposed to have an album called I/O culled from the same sessions that produced Up, but it never came out. He's apparently still working on an album of new material but it sounds like it probably won't be called I/O. He could call it Peter Gabriel, for old time's sake.

this thread reminds me that i still need to listen to the released version of 'Kamaal the Abstract' (Q-Tip's record that was shelved for eight years, i remember getting demos off Audiogalaxy).

Charli XCX's "punk" album, of course

And seconding Man Who Fell To Earth. I love that Bowie wrote that soundtrack just assuming Roeg wanted him to do it. Must have been an awkward conversation when he showed up with it.

Didn't Q Tip have another album after Kamaal the Abstract that still remain unreleased?

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