THE ROLLING STONES, "Black and Blue" [re-imagined LP]

THE ROLLING STONES

Black and Blue   (alt.)

Drift Away*

Ain't Too Proud to Beg   [It's Only Rock n' Roll]

I Don't Know Why   [Metamorphosis]

Criss Cross Man*

Memo from Turner    [Metamorphosis]

Through the Lonely Nights*

32-20 Blues*

Living in the Heart of Love* 

Family     [Metamorphosis]

Shame, Shame, Shame*

Downtown Suzie     [Metamorphosis]

Fast Talking, Slow Walking*

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I've read somewhere the title of this LP was originally a play on words for a proposed collection of R&B covers. Ultimately, "Ain't Too Proud to Beg" ended up on the It's Only Rock n' Roll LP while "Shame, Shame, Shame" and "Drift Away" were left on the shelf. By using some outtakes from the group's previous LP sessions (mostly with departing guitarist Mick Taylor) we have 12 songs--including covers of Stevie Wonder and Robert Johnson--clocking in at 46 minutes. Some of these tunes would see release on Metamorphosis in 1975. 'What about the original Black and Blue' you ask? Re-title it Worried About You and include "Worried About You" and "Slave" from Tattoo You. I follow Album Fixer's Rolling Stones discography for all the rest. The result is two improved LPs (at the loss of the two previous mentioned compilations released instead).

SISTER LOVERS [re-imagined LP]

SISTER LOVERS

Sister Lovers  (1974)

Stroke it Noel  (backward intro)

Lovely Day  (Fry rough mix)

Nighttime  (Fry rough mix)

Blue Moon   (Fry rough mix)

Til the End of the Day   (alt. mix #2 / Lesa vocal)

Big Black Car  (rough mix)

Holocaust   (rough mix)

Downs  (Fry rough mix)

Kanga Roo   (Fry rough mix)

Femme Fatale   (Fry rough mix)

For You  

Jesus Christ

Take Care  (alt. version / Alex vocal)

Kizza Me  (Fry rough mix)

Nature Boy  (Fry rough mix)

Mañana

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All tracks taken from Complete Third box set. This is a re-imagining of the infamous Big Star album that was finally released in 1978 without a set title or running order(!)  Such was the state of affairs at the time--nobody could even agree on who the band's name is that put it out. Some call it an Alex Chilton affair with back-up musicians including Big Star bandmate Jody Stephens and his 'muse' at the time, Lesa Aldridge. Her sister also was dating Stephens at the time. This led Chilton to coin the 'Sister Lovers' phrase that has been used as a title for the album and even suggested as the name of the band itself, lol. Listening to the alternate mixes, I split the album into two halves. This mix is mostly done by engineer John Fry. The other disc I will do next will focus on the Dickinson mixes. Stay tuned!

George Harrison, "APPLE JAM" [imagined LP]

GEORGE HARRISON

Apple Jam   (1971)

It's Johnny's Birthday
Plug Me In
I Remember Jeep
Thanks for the Pepperoni
Out of the Blue
Isn't it a Pity (version two)*

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Inspired by the beatles.what.if.blogspot, I went ahead and assembled this idea he proposed. His artwork, too. All the songs are on the 'jam' disc of All Things Must Pass. "Isn't it a Pity (version two)" I included as a 'bonus track' since the rest of the songs from the original 3LP were distributed among the two Beatles reunion discs or used for the single-disc version in our shared timeline (as it were). I think this would have been a Zapple release, much like Back in Your Safely Beds would have been (projected release for early '69--I added "Palace of the Bird King" in between "Mary Jane" and "Revolution 9"; flows well).  Due to all the solo releases in 1970 (Sentimental Journey; Plastic Ono Band; All Things Must Pass; McCartney; Beaucoups of Blues) as well as the band's supposed farewell LP Everest, this little disc of jams most likely would be issued in '71. Harrison would go on contribute to the next Beatles LP Through Many Years as well as organize the Concert for Bangladesh. A nice little background for driving....or whatever ;)  It's a must have for completists, I s'pose.

NEIL YOUNG and Crazy Horse, "Odeon-Budokan" [imagined LP]

NEIL YOUNG and Crazy Horse

Odeon-Budokan   (1976)

ODEON (29:43)

Tell Me Why

Stringman

Human Highway

Down by the River

Cortez the Killer

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BUDOKAN (37:03)

Mellow My Mind

Too Far Gone

No One Seems to Know

Country Home

Don't Cry No Tears

Drive Back

Cowgirl in the Sand

Lotta Love

The Losing End (When You're On)

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A proposed double LP collecting live recordings from Neil and Crazy Horse's concerts at The Budokan in Japan and the Odeon Ballroom in London. For whatever reason, Neil abandoned the Horse temporarily to record and tour with Stephen Stills and his backing group as The Stills/Young Band. A failed CSNY reunion was attempted during those sessions and aborted (with Stills allegedly wiping Crosby and Nash's harmony overdubs). The resulting record Long May You Run failed to live up to expectations from the two ex-Buffalo Springfield guitarists--known for their dueling solos and overall competitive nature onstage and off. The chemistry wasn't there and Young decided he'd had enough on the way to the next gig--with Stills and his band oblivious as the drove ahead in their own bus--telling the driver to detour to Nashville where he would get on a plane and subsequently reunite with the Horse---admitting he'd "made a mistake" (*according to Jimmy McDonough's great book, Shakey). 

While some of the band's extendedly hazy versions of "Cowgirl" and "Down by the River" can go on a bit much (lol); there are some standout solo performances you won't hear anywhere else. "Human Highway" and "Mellow My Mind" played on banjo; the unreleased piano solos "No One Seems to Know" and "Stringman"; and the band's debut of the Zuma-era outtake "Country Home". The sound quality was ripped from YouTube and converted to mp3. This will have to do until we get the official release in Neil Young's supposedly forthcoming next box set of unreleased archives. Until then! 

THE BEATLES, "1970 / 1975" [imagined 3xLP retrospective]

THE BEATLES

Best-of: 1970/1975  (1980)

Side A

God      [Plastic Ono Band]

What is Life?    [All Things Must Pass]

Step Inside Love / Los Paranoias     [Anthology 3]

Beaucoups of Blues   [Beaucoups of Blues]

Working Class Hero   [Plastic Ono Band]

All Things Must Pass   [All Things Must Pass]

Side B

Teddy Boy   [McCartney]

It Don't Come Easy    [Everest*]

My Sweet Lord    [All Things Must Pass]

Instant Karma!   [Everest*]

Junk    [McCartney]

Wah-Wah     [All Things Must Pass]

Oo You    [Through Many Years*]

Early 1970   [Through Many Years*]

Side C

Isn't it a Pity - Version Two*  [All Things Must Pass]

Maybe I'm Amazed   [Through Many Years*]

Jealous Guy   [Imagine]

Every Night     [Through Many Years*]

Oh My Love  [Imagine]

Let it Down    [Through Many Years*]

Side D

Too Many People   [Ram]

How Do You Sleep?  [Imagine]

Deep Blue  [Living in the Material World][

Big Barn Bed   [Out the Blue*]

Oh Yoko!  [Imagine]

Side E

I'm the Greatest   [Out the Blue*]

The Light That Has Lighted the World    [Living in the Material World]

My Love   [Red Rose Speedway]

Out the Blue   [Out the Blue*]

Living in the Material World   [Out the Blue*]

When the Night  [Out the Blue*]

Side F

Here We Go Again   [Out the Blue*]

Dark Horse (early take)*   [Dark Horse]

Only One More Kiss   [Out the Blue*]
You Can't Catch Me   [Rock 'N Roll]

Goodnight Vienna (It's All Down to) - Reprise   [Goodnight Vienna]


Special thanks to the The Beatles What If blogspot  for the original cover art.

EAGLES, "The Long Run" [re-imagined 2xLP]

EAGLES

The Long Run  (alt.)

The Long Run

I Can't Tell You Why

In the City

The Disco Strangler

Take a Ride (Heavy Metal)*    [Heavy Metal soundtrack]

Heartache Tonight

King of Hollywood

Rivers (of the Hidden Funk)*   [There Goes the Neighborhood]

The Sad Cafe

----------------------------Disc 2   - Live at the Los Angeles Forum, 10/ 20-22/ 76

Saturday Night

Seven Bridges Road

Wasted Time

Hotel California*

Take It to the Limit*              [Hotel California - 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition]

New Kid in Town*           [Hotel California - 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition]

Doolin-Dalton - Reprise II

Desperado

Life in the Fast Lane*     

Take It Easy*

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I was inspired to do this one by a recent post on Albums Forgotten Reconstructed. In the spirit of using the proposed half studio / half live 2LP idea, I used the LA Forum versions in the the original order like the late Glenn Frey wanted. I cut the two weakest studio cuts (IMO) and replaced them with a couple Don Felder tracks that were started but left unfinished during The Long Run sessions (or rather 'The Long One" as it was begrudgingly starting to become for the frustrated band). Felder would sing the song himself on the soundtrack to the animated film Heavy Metal. The other tune--originally titled "You're Really High, Aren't You?" (something like that) was subsequently finished by Joe Walsh for his next solo album, There Goes the Neighborhood. For the live disc, I followed the running order close as I could from the LA Forum gigs. I sourced the Hotel California 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition  and the Eagles Live 1976-80 project from the Albums Forgotten Reconstructed page to get the versions not on the original 1980 LP and cut the redundant ones already on the studio side. Overall, I think it's a better listen than the original counterparts. R.I.P., Glenn Frey.

THE BEATLES, "Yesterday...and Today" / "Revolver" [re-imagined LPs]

THE BEATLES

Yesterday...and Today  (1966)

Nowhere Man       [Rubber Soul]

I've Just Seen a Face      [Help!]

You Like Me Too Much    [Help!]

Tell Me What You See    [Help!]

If You've Got Trouble*    [Anthology 2]
Some Other Guy*    [Live At The BBC]

And Your Bird Can Sing     [Revolver]

That Means a Lot*   [Anthology 2]

Doctor Robert   [Revolver]

12-Bar Original*   [Anthology 2]

Yesterday   [Help!]

Bad Boy   [Past Masters]

THE BEATLES

Revolver   (alt.)

Taxman

Eleanor Rigby

I'm Only Sleeping

Love You To

Here, There and Everywhere

She Said She Said

Good Day Sunshine

Yellow Submarine

Paperback Writer*   [Past Masters]

Rain*    [Past Masters]

For No One

I Want to Tell You

Got to Get You into My Life

Tomorrow Never Knows