Albums that are almost, but not quite part of a group's discography.

He doesn't get to decide . It's a fantastic album imho and certainly part of their discography. Again was also a patchwork.

 

The Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. It's sometimes considered to be a Bee Gees album even though only six of the tracks are by the Brothers Gibb.

Another soundtrack that often gets filed under its primary artist is The Woman in Red. Motown Records even put a sticker across the top of second and later vinyl editions that said, "New Stevie Wonder Album."

Closer to the spirit of the original post, the two albums by McGuinn, Clark and Hillman in 1979 and 1980 were 3/5 Byrds albums - the nearest things to new Byrds music between 1973 and 1990.

 

McDonald & Giles is almost a King Crimson album.

 

Squeeze
The Doug Underground
more like.

 

But those ARE considered by the band and by Universal (formerly Polygram) to be part of the official catalog. Kind of the reverse of the rest...none of the other band members appear on each others' albums, so they probably should not be part of the band's catalog. However, since they were linked by the artwork and being released simultaneously, they are!

 

Special AKA

 

That was a weird deal. The person selling that took forever to send me a copy, to the point I thought I'd been had. I sent a followup letter, and he apologized and sent me two copies. Sadly, I long ago sold the second copy. It sounds pretty good though. Really my favorite of their albums. I don't think it's a needledrop, either.

 

I once read a Fripp interview where he said if you took the best tracks off this and combined them with the best songs off In The Wake of Poseidon you'd have an album as strong as the debut.

 

I think Phil is on everything going back to the Great Buildings albums, other than Danny's two Geffen albums. Too bad "The Boyfriend" has never been on CD.

 

Otis Spann's "The Biggest Thing Since Colossus" and Jeremy Spencer's debut could be considered Fleetwood Mac LPs as most of the Green-era members play on them.

 

Mirror Ball is certainly considered part of Neil Young's discography, but not Pearl Jam's.

 

I would almost put Gary US Bond's Dedication album as a "Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band" album---if Bruce ever released one of his albums as credited to the entire unit. He wrote most of the songs and the E Streeters play on most of the tracks.

 

Pearl Jam fanatics (I spend some time on the PJ fan club forums) are generally big fans of "Mirror Ball" and consider an unofficial part of the PJ discography. And the 45 RPM "Merkinball" is a much sought after vinyl addition to both discographies.

 

Not to mention, Eddie Boyd's "7936 South Rhodes", which (like 'Colossus') is credited to "....with Fleetwood Mac".

 

Probably already mentioned.
'Garcia' and 'Ace'.

 

P.J. Proby's "Seven Week Hero" is essentially Led Zeppelin's first LP - it's Zep with P.J. singing lead, more or less. Not sure if Led Zeppelin wants the astoundingly racially-offensive track on that LP in their discography, though. XD

What else.... I can think of a couple bands that tend to incorporate the members' solo albums into their general discography - They Might Be Giants and the Bee Gees, particularly. (Note how many compilations have included "Saved By The Bell", for instance.)

It's a stretch, but what about "Music From The Body"? Isn't that sort of a forgotten cousin to "Atom Heart Mother"? Pink Floyd even shows up in their entirety on the final song.

 

From Genesis To Revelation
Basically an album made to order and nothing the band really felt artistically connected to.

 

Ha! Another record to add to the want list!

 

Leslie West - Mountain

Is this really Mountain's debut. Technically probably not but...anyway, this would be my fave Mountain album.

 

Ciccone Youth - The Whitey Album

Sonic Youth + Mike Watt

 

I refuse to accept Lulu as a Metallica album.

 

Interesting to hear this coming from Fripp. I agree with him. If the "Devil's Triangle" had been replaced with a fully Crimsonified "Birdman" suite, the second album could have been a real winner. As it is, I feel like both albums, though enjoyable enough, are missing something.

 

Steely Dan - You Gotta Walk It Like You Talk It
David Axelrod - Release of an Oath
Talking Heads - Tom Tom Club
Carole King - Now That Everything's Been Said

 

Peter wrote all the words on Lamb but he did not write most of the music. Mike cowrote two of the tracks on Voyage but Tony wasn't just going to record a Genesis album written by almost exclusively by Steve. In fact, Trick of the Tail featured Tony writing or cowriting every track.

 

And, of course, I think everyone here will agree that Garth Brooks should have to own up to that Chris Gaines thing.

Same with Prince and the thing.