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

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.