The Great Unreleased COMPILATIONS

They really had more than one disc worth of genuine 'hits'?

I'm a huge Weller freak, but even a well-curated compilation trek through TSC's catalog would end up being pretty heavily weighted with singles. If you're looking to go beyond the singles, you probably have the original albums (or the box set) anyways.

 

Rhino Handmade was supposed to release a Deluxe Edition of the J Geils Band's Live Full House but it got nixed.

 

Rhino Handmade is the great "What If" for so many favorite artists. Really seemed like it was a great business model, but so many potential concepts fell by the wayside.

 

Sony was planning to release this Electric Reflections box set of Frank Marino and Mahogany Rush but it was cancelled.

CD 1 - TRACK
ALBUM
TIME
HE'S CALLING
EYE OF THE STORM
10:21
THE EMPEROR
MAHOGANY RUSH IV
07:10
HEY LITTLE LOVER
WORLD ANTHEM
04:51
IN MY WAYS
WORLD ANTHEM
06:13
SISTER CHANGE
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
04:43
ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
04:34
ALL MY LIFE
BONUS TRACK
05:34
YOU GOT LIVIN'
WHAT'S NEXT
04:36
FINISH LINE
WHAT'S NEXT
04:07
RUNNIN' WILD
POWER OF ROCK AND ROLL
07:11
STORIES OF A HERO
JUGGERNAUT
08:00
FREE
JUGGERNAUT
05:19
JUGGERNAUT
JUGGERNAUT
05:02
TOTAL TIME:
1:17:41
CD 2 - TRACK
ALBUM
TIME
I'M GOING AWAY
MAHOGANY RUSH IV
04:06
MAN AT THE BACK DOOR
MAHOGANY RUSH IV
03:40
IT'S BEGUN TO RAIN
MAHOGANY RUSH IV
06:27
REQUIEM FOR A SINNER
WORLD ANTHEM
06:01
TRY FOR FREEDOM
WORLD ANTHEM
11:28
CAN'T HELP MYSELF
BONUS TRACK
03:05
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
07:45
ROCK N ROLL HALL OF FAME
WHAT'S NEXT
04:06
MONA
WHAT'S NEXT
04:24
SOMETHING'S COMIN' OUR WAY
WHAT'S NEXT
06:42
GO STRANGE
POWER OF ROCK AND ROLL
06:30
AIN'T DEAD YET
POWER OF ROCK AND ROLL
06:59
MAYBE IT'S TIME
JUGGERNAUT
06:03
TOTAL TIME:
1:17:16
CD 3 - TRACK
ALBUM
TIME
STRANGE DREAMS
JUGGERNAUT
05:01
MIDNIGHT HIGHWAY
JUGGERNAUT
03:43
INTRO - THE ANSWER
MAHOGANY RUSH LIVE
05:31
DRAGONFLY
MAHOGANY RUSH LIVE
05:29
KING BEE - BACK DOOR MAN
MAHOGANY RUSH LIVE
08:58
WOMAN
TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED
05:25
LOOK AT ME
BONUS TRACK (LIVE)
04:28
POPPY
BONUS TRACK (LIVE)
10:35
JOHNNY B. GOODE
MAHOGANY RUSH LIVE
05:22
ELECTRIC REFLECTIONS OF WAR
MAHOGANY RUSH LIVE
03:19
THE WORLD ANTHEM
MAHOGANY RUSH LIVE
03:56
LONG AGO
FULL CIRCLE
04:26
RISE ABOVE
FROM THE HIP
11:37
TOTAL TIME:
1:17:50

 

The Doors- U.S.A. Singles Collection

 

Queen - Anthology Box Sets
Long promised but never appeared. also complete complete BBC Sessions, was actually mentioned as forthcoming on a cd single but never came to pass.

 

If you compile all of the bonus EPs that came with the recent Queen remasters, you can easily assemble a four-disc Anthology type package (I should know - I stopped waiting for the real thing and did this myself)!

As for The Idle Race Anthology, this was supposedly a true labour of love for official archivist Rob Caiger, only for a combination of personal health issues, label disinterest then finally a large portion of his archive being "lost" to make the project disappear for good. Similarly, proposals for expanded remasters for the ELO albums Eldorado, Discovery and Time that would bring these in line with more recent titles also vanished from release plans, while a 30th anniversary 2CD Deluxe Edition of Secret Messages was shot down by none other than Jeff Lynne, who still insists that Beatles Forever officially remains locked away in the vault, even though any fans curious to hear this can already do so easily online. Additionally, it's claimed he didn't want such a long-demanded Legacy archival title stealing the spotlight from his own new releases on the Frontiers label. Again, it's not that difficult to create your own version if you know exactly what he originally intended...

 

Here is the history of how The Rolling Stones Black Box - Necrophilia - Stone Relics became the lesser Metamorphosis.

JUNE, 1975
THE BLACK BOX, COMPILED BY BILL WYMAN (DECCA ACETATE, ALTERNATIVE
TO METAMORPHOSIS)
A1 Bright Lights, Big City (Reed)
A2 Cops And Robbers (Harris)
A3 I’d Much Rather Be With The Boys (Oldham, Richards)
A4 Little Red Rooster (Dixon)
A5 Down The Road Apiece (Raye)
A6 Don’t Lie To Me (Whittaker)
B1 If You Let Me
B2 Godzi (Nanker, Phelge)
B3 Panama Powder Room
B4 Gold Painted Nails
B5 Fanny Mae (Brown, Robinson)
B6 Down In The Bottom (Dixon)
Cut A1: Recorded at IBC Studios, London, March 11, 1963.
Cut A2: Recorded at Camden Theatre, London, March 19, 1964.
Cut A3: Recorded at Demo session, Decca Studios, London, late February, 1965.
Cut A4, A5: Recorded on the British tour, March 5-18, 1965.
Cut A6: Recorded at Chess Studios, Chicago, June 10 or 11, 1964.
Cut B1: Recorded at Olympic Sound Studios, London, November 9-26, 1966.
Cuts B2, B3: Recorded at RCA Studios, Hollywood, August 4-12, 1966.
Cut B4: Recorded at Olympic Sound Studios, London, October 16, 21 or 23, 1967.
Cut B5: Recorded at “Saturday Club”, BBC radio show, August 20, 1965.
Cut B6: Recorded at Chess Studios, Chicago, June 11, 1964.

“METAMORPHOSIS”

IT TOOK THREE YEARS OF MAJOR AND MINOR CHANGES TO RELEASE TWO FINAL VERSIONS OF ‘METAMORPHOSIS’. THE ALBUMS WERE OUT IN TIME FOR THE FIRST VENUES OF THE 1975 TOUR OF AMERICA; EVEN IF ROLLING STONES RECORDS PROMOTED THE TOUR WITH THEIR OWN FIRST GREATEST HITS COMPILATION ALBUM, ALL THE INTEREST WAS CAPTURED BY THE LONG AWAITED AND MUCH RUMOURED ‘METAMORPHOSIS’. THE HISTORY OF ‘METAMORPHOSIS’ BEGINS IN 1972 WHEN KLEIN’S ABKCO RECORDS WAS ALLOWED TO RELEASE ONE MORE ALBUM OF IN-EDIT MUSIC, THE LAST ONE, AS FROM THE SETTLEMENT BETWEEN KLEIN HIMSELF AND THE ROLLING STONES. THE CHOSEN FATHER OF THE FORTHCOMING NEWBORN WAS ALLAN (a.k.a. AL) STECKLER. INSTEAD OF GATHERING B-SIDES AND MINOR HITS, HE PREFERRED TO GO BACK TO THE DUSTY ARCHIVES AND TRIED TO GIVE LIFE TO SONGS LEFT DEAD IN THE VAULTS. MAYBE, HE THOUGHT - WITH SELF IRONY - THAT A LITTLE DOSE OF NECROPHILIA WAS REQUIRED WHEN DIGGING SONGS OUT OF DUST AND ‘NECROPHILIA’ WAS THE PROPOSED TITLE FOR HIS COMPILATION. HE TEAMED WITH FABIO NICOLI (ART DIRECTOR AND COVER DESIGNER) AND ANDREW OLDHAM (PRODUCER) AND THEIR PROJECT GOT VERY CLOSE TO THE FINAL OKAY. ‘NECROPHILIA’ WAS GIVEN A CATALOGUE NUMBER (ABKCO AB-4224), SOME HARD-CARD TRIPLE GATEFOLD PROOF SLEEVES WERE MADE AND SOME ACETATES WERE MADE AT THE STERLING SOUND STUDIOS, NYC, ON 12 OCTOBER 1972. TWO OF THE 17 SONGS OF THE ACETATES ARE NOT LISTED ON COVER TRACK-LISTING AND SO WE CAN SUPPOSE THAT SLEEVES WERE PRINTED AT A LATER TIME. THE TWO-SIDED ACETATE PLAYS:
· A1. OUT OF TIME
· A2. DON’T LIE TO ME
· A3. HAVE YOU SEEN YOUR MOTHER, BABY, STANDING IN THE SHADOWS
· A4. THINK
· A5. HEAR IT
· A6. SOMETHING JUST STICK IN YOUR MIND
· A7. AFTERMATH (Nanker-Phelge)
· A8. I’D MUCH RATHER BE WITH THE BOYS (Richards-Oldham)
· A9. ANDREW’S BLUES (Nanker-Phelge-Spector)
· B1. PAY YOUR DUES
· B2. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL
· B3. HEART OF STONE
· B4. EACH AND EVERYDAY OF THE YEAR
· B5. SLEEPY CITY
· B6. TRY A LITTLE HARDER
· B7. BLUE TURNS TO GREY
· B8. WE’RE WASTING TIME
SONGS ‘DON’T LIE TO ME’(A2) AND ‘LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL’(B2) WERE DROPPED AND DO NOT APPEAR ON THE AFORE MENTIONED DEFINITIVE TRACK-LISTING PRINTED ON PROOF SLEEVES.
FABIO NICOLI USED A PHOTOGRAPH OF THE GROUP SHOT BY GERED MANKOWITZ IN PREPARATION OF ‘BETWEEN THE BUTTONS’ ALBUM COVER AND ANDREW OLDHAM PROVIDED THE USUAL NOTES FOR BACK COVER. WITH PROOF SLEEVES MADE AND EVERYTHING ELSE READY FOR THE FINAL STEP THE PROJECT WAS STOPPED - AS FAR AS KNOWN - BEFORE THE MAKING OF TEST PRESSINGS. IT’S HARD TO TELL THE REASON WHY THIS PROJECT WAS STOPPED. WE CAN SAY THAT THE ALBUM WAS NOT CONSIDERED BELOW THE GROUP’S STANDARD LEVEL OF QUALITY (NINE OF THESE SONGS WILL BE OKAYED FOR ‘METAMORPHOSIS’), WE CAN SAY THAT THE TITLE COULD BE EASILY CHANGED IF CONSIDERED TOO ‘STRONG’ OR OFFENSIVE. AT LAST, WE CAN SUPPOSE THAT THE EXPLOSIVE SUCCESS OF THE ROLLING STONES’ LATEST TOUR OF AMERICA COULD DEMAND A BEST SELLER ALBUM FOR CHRISTMAS TIME AND NOT A COLLECTION OF LEFTOVERS.
‘NECROPHILIA’ WAS SHELVED, BUT NOT FORGOTTEN. IN 1974, ALLEN KLEIN AND THE TEAM BILL WYMAN/CHARLIE WATTS COMPILED, SEPARATELY, 2 SETS TO BE PROPOSED TO DECCA MANAGEMENT IN TAPE FORM.
“WE WANTED TO HAVE IT DONE HISTORICALLY, SO THAT IT WOULD HAVE AT LEAST HAD A VALUE TO COLLECTORS”(BILL WYMAN) AND SO “WE SPENT MONTHS GOING OVER MATERIAL”(CHARLIE WATTS) AND “WE PROVIDED AN ALBUM WHICH HE (KLEIN) TURNED DOWN. I SELECTED ABOUT 18 TITLES, LAID IT ALL OUT HISTORICALLY, WITH DETAILS”(BILL WYMAN.)
THE WATTS AND WYMAN’S SELECTION WAS QUICKLY RENAMED ‘THE BLACK BOX’ DUE TO ITS PROPOSED PACKAGE CONSISTING OF A THIN BLACK BOX TOGETHER WITH A BOOKLET OF OLD PHOTOGRAPHS, PRESS CLIPPINGS AND RELATED EPHEMERA AND TIED WITH A RED RIBBON. ACCORDING TO THE VERY FEW INFORMATION WE HAVE KLEIN SELECTED 14 SONGS (8 OF WHICH FROM THE REJECTED ‘NECROPHILIA’ PROJECT) AND WYMAN 12 SONGS (ONLY 2 OF THEM WERE ON ‘NECROPHILIA’ TOO).
ONCE AGAIN, ACETATES OF BOTH SELECTIONS WERE MADE AND PLAY:

DISC ONE (ALLEN KLEIN’S SELECTION)
· 1. OUT OF TIME (A)
· 2. DON’T LIE TO ME (A,
· 3. SOMETHING JUST STICK IN YOUR MIND (A)
· 4. EACH AND EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR (A)
· 5. I’D MUCH RATHER BE WITH THE BOYS (Richards-Oldham)(A,
· 6. SLEEPY CITY
· 7. WE’RE WASTING TIME (A)
· 8. TRY A LITTLE HARDER (A)
· 9. SATISFACTION (live version)
· 10. FANNY MAE (Levy-Glasco-Lewis)(
· 11. I DON’T KNOW WHY (Riser-Hunter-Judkins-Hardaway)
· 12. DOWNTOWN SUZIE (Wyman)
· 13. MEMO FROM TURNER
· 14. I’M GOING DOWN

A.....ALSO ON ‘NECROPHILIA’ ACETATE;
B.....BOTH ON KLEIN’S AND WYMAN’S SELECTIONS;
C.....ALSO ON BILL WYMAN’S SELECTION FOR ‘THE BLACK BOX’

DISC TWO (BILL WYMAN’S SELECTION)
· 1. IF YOU LET ME
· 2. GODZI
· 3. PANAMA POWDER ROOM
· 4. GOLD PAINTED NAILS
· 5. FANNY MAE (Levy-Glasco-Lewis)(
· 6. DOWN IN THE BOTTOM (Dixon) - a.k.a. MEET IN THE BOTTOM
· 7. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (Reed)
· 8. COPS AND ROBBERS (McDaniel)
· 9. I’D MUCH RATHER BE WITH THE BOYS (Richards-Oldham) (A,
· 10. LITTLE RED ROOSTER(live at Regal Theatre, Edmonton, London on 5.3.66)(Dixon)
· 11. DOWN THE ROAD APIECE(live at Regal Theatre, Edmonton, London on 5.3.66)(Raye)
· 12. DON’T LIE TO ME (A,

NO PROOF SLEEVES ARE KNOWN TO EXIST, NO CATALOGUE NUMBER WAS CHOSEN AND NO TEST PRESSINGS HAVE EVER SURFACED, BY NOW. “WE GAVE HIM (KLEIN) OUR ALBUM AND HE SAID NO” (CHARLIE WATTS). ONCE AGAIN, THE PROJECT WAS STOPPED.
IN 1975, TWO COMPILATION ALBUMS WERE PREPARED. THE FORMER WAS CALLED ‘STONE RELICS’ AND WAS STOPPED, AS USUAL, AT THE ACETATE STAGE. ITS SELECTION INCLUDED SOME WELL-KNOWN A’s AND B-SIDES , BUT ALSO WAS ENRICHED WITH FOUR UNTURNED STONES:
‘STONE RELICS’
· 1. LOOKING TIRED
· 2. TELL ME, BABY (Broonzy)
· 3. DOWN IN THE BOTTOM (Dixon)(C) - a.k.a. MEET ME IN THE BOTTOM
· 4. HI-HEEL SNEAKERS (Higgenbotham)
· ?. A NUMBER OF PREVIOUSLY RELEASED SONGS

‘STONE RELICS’ - A BRITISH DECCA RECORDS ACETATE - WAS ABANDONED WHEN DECCA RECEIVED THE SET OF TAPES OF ‘METAMORPHOSIS’ AS PART OF ABKCO AGREEMENT. THE SONGS OF THESE TAPES HAD TO BE CONSIDERED MUCH MORE WORTH OF RELEASE THAN THE BRITISH EFFORT OF ‘STONE RELICS’ WAS. THE TAPES WERE RECORDED ON TWO DIFFERENT ACETATES BOTH KNOWN AS ‘METAMORPHOSIS’. THE FIRST ACETATE IS ONE-SIDED AND INCLUDES 7 SONGS; EXCEPT FOR TWO DIFFERENT MIXES (‘FANNY MAE’ AND ‘I’M GOING DOWN’) IT COLLIDES WITH THE B-SIDE OF THE DEFINITIVE BRITISH VERSION OF THE ALBUM. THE OTHER ACETATE WAS OKAYED AND BECAME THE BRITISH ‘METAMORPHOSIS’ WE ALL KNOW.

‘METAMORPHOSIS’ ACETATE 1
· 1. I DON’T KNOW WHY (Riser-Hunter-Judkins-Hardaway)
· 2. IF YOU LET ME
· 3. JIVING SISTER FANNY (mix 1)
· 4. DOWNTOWN SUZIE (Wyman)
· 5. FAMILY
· 6. MEMO FROM TURNER
· 7. I’M GOING DOWN (mix 1)

‘METAMORPHOSIS’ ACETATE 2
· A1. OUT OF TIME (A)
· A2. DON’T LIE TO ME (A)
· A3. SOMETHING JUST STICK IN YOUR MIND (A)
· A4. EACH AND EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR (A)
· A5. HEART OF STONE (A)
· A6. I’D MUCH RATHER BE WITH THE BOYS (Richards-Oldham) (A)
· A7. SLEEPY CITY (A)
· A8. WE’RE WATING TIME (A)
· A9. TRY A LITTLE HARDER (A)
· B1. I DON’T KNOW WHY (Riser-Hunter-Judkins-Hardaway)
· B2. IF YOU LET ME
· B3. JIVING SISTER FANNY (mix 2)
· B4. DOWNTOWN SUZIE (Wyman)
· B5. FAMILY
· B6. MEMO FROM TURNER
· B7. I’M GOING DOWN (mix 2)

THE OLD MANKOVITZ/NICOLI COVER HAS BEEN SUBSTITUTED WITH LINDA GUYMON’S GRAPHIC, AL (a.k.a. ALLAN) STECKLER - DO YOU REMEMBER HIM? - IS STILL CREDITED AS RESEARCHER AND COMPILER OF THE SELECTION AND ANDREW OLDHAM’S LINER NOTES HAVE BEEN PRESERVED AND USED - PLEASE, TAKE NOTE - WITHOUT ANY CORRECTION FOR ‘METAMORPHOSIS’.
OLDHAM QUOTES AND THANKS A LOT OF FRIENDS FOR THEIR HELP IN PLAYING ALONGSIDE WITH THE ROLLING STONES IN THE SONGS OF ‘NECROPHILIA’/’METAMORPHOSIS’. THE MATTER IS THAT HIS LIST OF MUSICIANS WAS COMPILED FOR THE ORIGINAL TRACK-LISTING OF ‘NECROPHILIA’, BUT ONLY 9 OF THE PREVIOUSLY SELECTED SONGS ARE ON ‘METAMORPHOSIS’. JUST FOR EXAMPLE, THE PRESENCE OF GENE PITNEY, GRAHAM NASH AND PHIL SPECTOR WAS STRICTLY RELATED TO ‘ANDREW’S BLUES’; THE SONG’S BEEN SCRATCHED, BUT THEIR NAMES ARE CREDITED ON COVER LINER OF ‘METAMORPHOSIS’. “IT’S JUST A LOT OF JUNK REALLY”(CHARLIE WATTS).

ANYWAY, ON 6 JUNE 1975 THE ALBUMS WERE IN THE SHOPS:
‘METAMORPHOSIS’ (GB, DECCA RECORDS SKL 5212)
· A1. OUT OF TIME (3:20)
· A2. DON’T LIE TO ME (2:00)
· A3. SOMETHING JUST STICK IN YOUR MIND (2:25) - NOT ON USA EDITION
· A4. EACH AND EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR (2:48)
· A5. HEART OF STONE (3:46)
· A6. I’D MUCH RATHER BE WITH THE BOYS (2:09)(Richards-Oldham)
· A7. SLEEPY CITY (2:50)
· A8. WE’RE WASTING TIME (2:41) - NOT ON USA EDITION
· A9. TRY A LITTLE HARDER (2:16)
· B1. I DON’T KNOW WHY (3:00)(Riser-Hunter-Judkins-Hardaway)
· B2. IF YOU LET ME (3:18)
· B3. JIVING SISTER FANNY (2:45, mix 2)
· B4. DOWNTOWN SUZIE (3:51)(Wyman)
· B5. FAMILY (3:30)
· B6. MEMO FROM TURNER (2:42)
· B7. I’M GOING DOWN (2:50, mix 2)

‘METAMORPHOSIS’ (USA, ABKCO RECORDS ANA-1)
· A1. OUT OF TIME (3:20)
· A2. DON’T LIE TO ME (2:00)
· A3. EACH AND EVERY DAY OF THE YEAR (2:48)
· A4. HEART OF STONE (3:46)
· A5. I’D MUCH RATER BE WITH THE BOYS (2:09) (Richards-Oldham)
· A6. SLEEPY CITY (2:50)
· A7. TRY A LITTLE HARDER (2:16)
· B1. I DON’T KNOW WHY (3:00)(Riser-Hunter-Judkins-Hardaway)
· B2. IF YOU LET ME (3:18)
· B3. JIVING SISTER FANNY (2:45, mix 2)
· B4. DOWNTOWN SUZIE (3:51)(Wyman)
· B5. FAMILY (3:20)
· B6. MEMO FROM TURNER (2:42)
· B7. I’M GOING DOWN (2:50, mix 2)


SINCE IT’S RELEASE, ‘METAMORPHOSIS’ NEVER REACHED THE STATUS OF A MAJOR ROLLING STONES RECORD. IT’S NEVER BEEN RE-MASTERED, IT’S NEVER BEEN AVAILABLE ON CD AND IT’S NOT IN PRINT ANYMORE; THE LAST RE-ISSUE WAS STARTED IN SEPTEMBER 1988 BY GERMAN LONDON RECORDS AND WAS STOPPED IN MARCH 1990. WHETHER ‘METAMORPHOSIS’ IS ROLLING STONES MUSIC OR NOT HAS ALREADY BEEN DEBATED MANY A TIMES AND I DON’T THINK IT WOULD BE SOMEHOW USEFULL TO DISCUSS THIS SUBJECT ONCE MORE. SURELY ‘METAMORPHOSIS’ IS NOT THE BEST - OR THE MOST INTERESTING, IF YOU PREFER - COMPILATION THAT COULD BE ARRANGED FROM THE BUNCH OF SONGS SELECTED BY THE TRIO STECKLER, KLEIN & WYMAN.

AS FAR AS KNOWN, SONGS THAT REMAINED IN THE ACETATES ARE:

1. AFTERMATH (Nanker-Phelge)
2. ANDREW’S BLUES (Nanker-Phelge-Spector)
3. BRIGHT LIGHTS, BIG CITY (Reed)
4. COPS AND ROBBERS (McDaniles)
5. DOWN IN THE BOTTOM (Dixon) - a.k.a. MEET ME IN THE BOTTOM
6. DOWN THE ROAD APIECE (live version)(Raye)
7. FANNY MAE (Levy-Glasco-Lewis)
8. GODZI
9. GOLD PAINTED NAILS
10. HEAR IT
11. HI-HEEL SNEAKERS (Higgenbotham)
12. I’M GOING DOWN (mix 1)
13. JIVING SISTER FANNY (mix 1)
14. LET THE GOOD TIMES ROLL
15. LITTLE RED ROOSTER (live version)(Dixon)
16. LOOKING TIRED
17. PANAMA POWDER ROOM (instrumental)
18. PAY YOUR DUES
19. SATISFACTION (live version)(only if not from ‘got LIVE if you want it!’LP)
20. TELL ME, BABY (Broonzy)

Sorry about the Caps as I cut and pasted this from the IORR web site


The above releases would have been much better than what ultimately became Metamorphosis.

 

Jimi Hendrix - First Rays Of The New Rising Sun - The material has been spread over various posthumous compilation albums.

Hendrix had written a few conceptual track listings. The following track list written on a 3M tape box has no title and is not in Hendrix's handwriting:[6]
Side A

1. Dolly Dagger
2. Night Bird Flying
3. Room Full Of Mirrors
4. Belly Button Window
5. Freedom

Side B

1. Ezy Rider
2. Astro Man
3. Drifting
4. Straight Ahead
5. Freedom

Side C

1. Night Bird Flying
2. (Drifter's Escape)
3. (Come Down On Me)
4. Beginnings [scored out]
5. Cherokee Mist [scored out]
6. (Angel)

Side D
This section was blank.
On the track listing above, "Freedom" is on both side A and B, and "Night Bird Flying" is on both side A and C. Also, on the handwritten track listing, two songs on side C have lines through them. It is noteworthy that Hendrix did not include many other songs which he had been working on during the summer of 1970, including "Izabella," "Lover Man," "Stepping Stone," "Hey Baby (New Rising Sun)," "Earth Blues," "In From The Storm," "Bleeding Heart," "Burning Desire," "Can I Whisper In Your Ear," "Hear My Train A'Comin'," "Midnight Lightning" and "Send My Love To Linda."
Other proposed track listings
The last track listing available is for an LP entitled Strate Ahead [sic], which is in Hendrix's handwriting.[6] It is unknown what the crosses, ticks and dashes signify:
->Strate Ahead-> x [sic]

1. Ezy Ryder x
2. Room full of Mirrors x-
3. Earth Blues - Today √
4. Valleys of Neptune -
5. Have you heard* - √ *aka "Straight Ahead"
6. Cherokee Mist - instr.
7. Freedom x √
8. Steppin Stone √
9. IZABella √
10. Astroman x -
    • Page 2/3
11. Drifters Escape
12. Angel
13. Burning Desire
14. Nightbird Flying
15. Electric Lady - Slow.
16. Getting My Heart Back Together Again
17. Lover Man
18. Midnight Lightning
19. Can I Whisper In Your Ear - slow
20. Sending My Love - slow to medium
21. This Little Boy
22. Locomotion
23. Dolly Dagger
24. The New Rising Sun (Hey Baby)

These lists include several new songs that were in the process of being created. Some can be heard now on various releases, in early stages of development; others are difficult to identify. It is unknown whether "Sending My Love" is the same song as "Sending My Love to Linda." The song "Burning Desire" only exists in live rehearsal/concert versions and nothing of "Locomotion" is known beyond a couple of early lyric lines on a piece of paper. The identity of the song "Electric Lady-slow" is impossible to ascertain. "This Little Boy" appears to have no references and has disappeared without a trace. Most of the rest of the songs were almost finished when Hendrix died.

 

Track list for proposed 1988 Alan Douglas project Hendrix/Dylan cd ep

Like A Rolling Stone - Live 4/1968 Generation Club NYC w/Al Kooper - Edited version on the OOP Lifelines
All Along The Watchtower - Electric Ladyland version
Drifter's Escape - Loose Ends version - Alternate mix now on South Saturn Delta
Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window? - 10/17/1967 BBC Rhythm And Blues - Now released on BBC Sessions
Like A Rolling Stone - Live Monterey Pop Festival 1967
All Along The Watchtower - Live 8/30/1970 Isle Of Wight

 

Here is the original proposed track listing for Crash Landing by Jimi Hendrix

Crash Landing
Somewhere
Power Of Soul (listed as Anything Is Possible (With The Power))
New Rising Sun
Message To Love
Scat Vocal Lead 1 Scat Vocal 2 Lead Vocal 2 ? -
Stone Free
Peace In Mississippi
Here Comes Your Lover Man

Here is the proposed track listing for the cancelled Multicolored Blues by Jimi Hendrix

Seven Dollars In My Pocket
Hootchie Cootchie Man
Midnight Lightning
Lee Blues
Izabella Blues
Blue Suede Shoes
Farther On Down The Road
Winter Blues
Slow Time Blues
Blues For Me And You
Last Thursday Morning
Comin' Down Hard On Me Baby

 

This is one I would buy.
John Sebastian and Lovin' Spoonful
Rare And Live

 

Here was the proposed track listing for this.

“LIVE” FULL HOUSE (DELUXE EDITION)
Track Listing
Disc 1: Friday, April 21, 1972
1. “Sno-Cone”*
2. “Wait”*
3. “Gonna Find Me A New Love”*
4. “(Ain’t Nothin’ But A) House Party”*
5. “Homework”*
6. “Pack Fair And Square”
7. “Looking For A Love”*
8. “Cry One More Time”*
9. “Whammer Jammer”*
10. “Cruisin’ For A Love”*
11. “Serves You Right To Suffer”*
12. “First I Look At The Purse”*
13. “Floyd’s Hotel”*
14. “Hard Drivin’ Man”*
15. “I Don’t Need You No More”*
Disc 2: Saturday, April 22, 1972

1. “Sno-Cone”*
2. “Wait”*
3. “Gonna Find Me A New Love”*
4. “(Ain’t Nothin’ But A) House Party”*
5. “Homework”
6. “Pack Fair And Square”*
7. “Looking For A Love”
8. “Cry One More Time”*
9. “Whammer Jammer”
10. “Cruisin’ For A Love”
11. “Serves You Right To Suffer”
12. “First I Look At The Purse”
13. “Floyd’s Hotel”*
14. “Hard Drivin’ Man”
15. “I Don’t Need You No More”*
16. “(Ain’t Nothin’ But A) House Party” – Encore*
*Previously Unissued

 

I think it was a joke, because the first one was called "Vol. 1" (which I also think was a joke, as they'd already decided to call it a day by that point)...

 

A compilation of Elliot Smith's non-album tracks would be nice.

 

Oh, I had no idea it was a "vol. 1." Always had the box set so I never bothered with any singles compilations.

 

Well, for anyone but Weller completists, it's to be avoided – too much tampering with the songs – and the much later Greatest Hits is a far better comp.

 

The Velvet Underground Bootleg Series after Vol. 1.

-Simon (bluej's son)

 

There was a circulating list of the projected VU Bootleg Series releases that went public years ago. For the most part, it was familar bootlegs (some of which have gone on to be officially released in all or part) but I'd still love to find someone with that list again as I neglected to save it.

 

The supposed contents of The Beach Boys Brother Years 2CD rarities set:

DISC ONE:
1. Add Some Music To Your Day (alternate version with different lyrics)
2. I'm Going Your Way (Dennis' companion track to "Slip On Through")
3. Forever (alternate version)
4. Back Home (1970 recording)
5. Lady
6. Sound Of Free
7. Big Sur (original version)
8. Wouldn't It Be Nice To Live Again
9. 'Til I Die (Brian's piano demo)
10. Seasons In The Sun
11. Old Movie (early version of "Cuddle Up" from the SURF'S UP sessions)
12. Brand New Day (unreleased Dennis song for SO TOUGH)
13. All Of My Love
14. I've Got A Friend (studio version)
15. We Got Love
16. Carry Me Home
17. Out In The Country
18. We Gotta Groove
19. Michael, Row The Boat Ashore
20. On Broadway
21. Mony, Mony
22. Rock & Roll Music (long version, with extra verse)
23. Running Bear
24. Shake, Rattle & Roll
25. Sea Cruise (with Mike lead vocal)
26. Ruby Baby
27. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'

DISC TWO:
1. Gimme Some Lovin'
2. Marilyn Rovell
3. Deep Purple
4. It's Trying To Say (aka "Baseball")
5. Lines
6. New England Waltz
7. How's About A Little Bit (Of Your Sweet Lovin')
8. Go And Get That Girl
9. Mike, Come Back To L.A.
10. Companion
11. It's Not Too Late
12. California Feeling (L.A. LIGHT ALBUM outtake)
13. Calendar Girl
14. Looking Down The Coast
15. Jamaica Farewell (KTSA outtake)
16. Goin' To The Beach
17. Surfer Suzie
18. I'll Always Love You
19. Da Doo Ron Ron (KTSA outtake)
20. I'm A Man (Brian original from 7/80)
21. River Deep, Mountain High
22. Be My Baby
23. Stevie
24. Don't Fight The Sea
25. Runaway (unreleased 1982 single)
26. At The Hop
27. The Spirit Of Rock 'n' Roll

 

There's a Squeeze boxed set released in the '90s named Six of One... (consisting of their first 6 albums, natch) that was supposed to be followed up by a box of the next 6 albums in their catalog, titled ...Half Dozen of The Other.

The Simple Minds album by album thread discusses the 12" collection that never came out.

Oh, and the liner notes of the later editions of EMI's Living In Oblivion series mentioned a Volume 6 and a video, but it stopped at Volume 5 (and I think one of the key compilers died).

 

The The's 45 rpm collection was supposed to have a sequel with all of the b-sides, many of which were never on CD... Still bummed...

 

What about Insane Clown Posse's "The First Six" boxed set? That's disappeared without a trace.

Besides... the final product (which apparently DOES exist, just not in public hands) was disappointing; they originally planned expanded versions of the first six Joker's Cards, with extra tracks originally cut from the albums; what they ended up creating was the six albums as-is, slapped together in a box.

And speaking of ICP, several years back a proposed rarities collection (in the vein of 'Forgotten Freshness') called "Rare and Unheard" leaked online, in unfortunately rather poor quality. This would've been nice to have officially, as everything on it is either unique to that compilation or incredibly rare.

Not sure if this ever existed outside of Internet mumbles, but does anyone else remember talk of a Beatles compilation called "2", which would've included tracks featuring only two Beatles? Kind of a lame idea.

Around the same time, a possible compilation called "Heavy" was mentioned - years later, this became "Tomorrow Never Knows."

 

The Dead or Alive 12" compilation that was supposed to come out a decade ago. Shame.

 

Rhino's Andy Zax-produced comps of unreleased Rod Stewart material (beyond Sessions) and the comp of b sides / rarities / soundtrack songs...due 2011 or so. ..they could now fill a little gap in the calendar around Christmas (his new album won't be out until this time next year) but are unlikely to appear..