Whiskeytown, "HAPPY GO BYE BYE" [re-imagined LP]

WHISKEYTOWN

Happy Go Bye Bye   (1999)

1. Don't Wanna Know Why
2. Jacksonville Skyline
3. Tilt-a-Whirl*    [Deserters E.P.]
4. Mirror, Mirror 
5. The Ballad of Carol Lynn
6. What the Devil Wanted
7. Don't Be Sad
8. Crazy About You
9. My Hometown
10. Reason to Lie
11. Paper Moon
12. Under Your Breath

I used the Pneumonia pre-release promo LP mix sans "Easy Hearts", "Bar Lights" and "To Be Evil". If Ryan Adams hadn't taken two years to finish the production with Ethan Johns. The released version on Lost Highway in 2001 was supposed to have twenty songs across a 2xLP set--it was negotiated down to 16 (wouldn't be the first time--lol). The other songs from the sessions "Tilt-A-Whirl", "Choked Up", "Tell Me What Else Can I Do Wrong Tonight", "Listen to the Radio", "In My Time of Need", "A Song For You" (not the same version on the GP tribute) and one song that has not circulated--"Bring Me Down"; probably a loud rock number like "Revenge"...A six-track E.P. was to be released titled Deserters; as a companion disc (to appease RA--no doubt). They did---and they didn't.

Urge Overkill, "UO" [imagined LP]

Urge Overkill

UO   (1998)

Zooey Suicide     [Debutante]

City Strikes*   [Electric Airlines  demo]

Dirty Work     [Debutante]

June*   [Electric Airlines  demo]

Los Angelena      [Debutante]

Silk*   [Electric Airlines  demo]

Motion Sickness*   [Electric Airlines  demo]

Queen of the Gangsters   [Debutante]

Remember*   [Electric Airlines  demo]

Black Satin Jacket    [Debutante]

Over the Top    [Electric Airlines  demo]

Rani (Don't Waste It)    [Debutante]

Tracks*   [Electric Airlines  demo]

Blue Wallpaper   [Debutante]

Oh, if only the Urge to carry on was there in 1998. These are the best tracks from Nash Kato's 2000 solo effort, Debutante. That album had several songs co-written with one Blackie Onassis (UO's ersthwhile drummer this period). King Roeser left the band in 1997 due to a split between him and Kato. The remaining duo of Kato and Onassis moved from Geffen to Sony 550 Music while Roeser formed Electric Airlines with his brother John. The latter group's 14-track demo has several Urge-worthy cuts sang by King that immediately hearken back to the group's 1995 swan-song Exit the Dragon (a personal favourite of mine). Balancing King's dark moods with Kato's  fun loving swagger can be found again here!  Blackie O does not play on the tracks; but King Roeser's replacement St. Nils Cyr does. This is the closest we can get to the great lost UO album that could've followed Exit the Dragon. I did enjoy Urge's 2011 comeback record....or at least, some of the tunes ("Effigy", "Quiet Person" and the title track--"Rock n' Roll Submarine"-- are great).  Due to a need for a catchy single, I included Kato's cover "Dirty Work" by Steely Dan (because we need a "Positive Bleeding" on here).  Modelling the tracklist on Saturation (loosely)--we're starting the LP off with "Zooey Suicide" much akin to "Sister Havana"....King sings "City Strikes" (a dark rocker with an Urge worthy hook and riff), then "Dirty Work", and then back to King with "June" (the instrumental break even reminds me of "Back on Me").  Why the hell not?  Sounds just right. With all the many album fixers out there...NO one has done this one....I'm almost positive. Let me know what ya think?  Or don't.

Nirvana, "VERSE CHORUS VERSE" [imagined LP]

NIRVANA

Verse Chorus Verse  (1994)

You Know You're Right       [Nirvana]

Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam (rehearsal demo)         [With the Lights Out box set]

Do Re Mi     [Sliver: The Best of the Box]

Moist Vagina  (2013 mix)        [In Utero 20th Anniversary edition]

Return of the Rat   [With the Lights Out box set]

Oh the Guilt   [With the Lights Out box set]

Curmudgeon       [Nevermind  re-issue]

Talk to Me*    [With the Lights Out box set DVD]

Verse Chorus Verse    [With the Lights Out box set]

Old Age   [With the Lights Out box set]

Aneurysm (demo)         [With the Lights Out box set]

Even in His Youth    [Nevermind  re-issue]

D-7       [With the Lights Out box set]

Opinion        [With the Lights Out box set]

Ain't It a Shame         [With the Lights Out box set]

Spank Thru*  (Peel Session)     [Outcesticide bootleg boxset*]

Token Eastern Song      [With the Lights Out box set]

Blandest       [With the Lights Out box set]

Clean Up Before She Comes     [With the Lights Out box set]          

                                              

Ryan Adams and the Cardinals, "GOODNIGHT ROSE" [LP re-imagined]

RYAN ADAMS & THE CARDINALS

Goodnight Rose  (2007)

GOODNIGHT ROSE

TWO HEARTS

EVERYBODY KNOWS

OH MY GOD, WHATEVER, ETC.

TEARS OF GOLD

THE SUN ALSO SETS

OFF BROADWAY

THESE GIRLS (Rock Version)

I TAUGHT MYSELF HOW TO GROW OLD
---------- Unofficially unreleased but circulating just about everywhere.

AS Ryan Adams calls it, 'The Real Version of Easy Tiger"--regarding the  2007 'CURTAINS OF LIGHT' session. EASY TIGER was hailed as a 'comeback' for Ryan Adams; part of a 'new image' campaign to show he had 'matured' and 'settled' musically. The results some could say is a 'by-the-numbers' Ryan Adams CD. The album was billed as a solo release when actually it was a group effort recorded by The Cardinals as a unit with producer Jamie Candiloro acting as a sixth member on keyboards. Allegedly, over 60 songs or so were chosen from to be voted for inclusion in the final tracklist. It was recorded alongside the (then) unreleased double album III/IV (and probably Ryan's sci-fi metal concept record, Orion, as well). 

Here's a list of other known songs unreleased from these sessions (mostly non-circulating):

"Lonely is As Lonely Does", "HEAVEN", "Rollin' with the Punches", "Party Clown", "24/7", "Temples of God". Two songs, "Alice" and "Nobody Listens to Silence" have been released as bonus tracks.