Posted on 04/24/2021 1:31:27 PM PDT by mylife
Pop history is littered with the albums that could’ve been, the albums we could’ve heard. Sometimes we call these “lost” albums, the works that never quite came into focus, that suggest some path not fully taken. Sometimes we simply call them “unreleased,” albums we know were supposed to exist and were supposed to materialize and yet were held back. A more aggressive term there could be “shelved,” albums seemingly complete and ready to be unveiled and subsequently met with a concrete decision that there was some reason they shouldn’t be.
There are as many possibilities for what that “reason” might be as there are permutations in the actual crafting of an album. Sometimes an over-eager artist begins talking up a new album as they are working on it, with a name and set of themes all figured out, only to run into creative burnout and abandonment of the project; on the other hand, sometimes new inspiration strikes in the moment and takes them to a totally new place, one necessitating they don’t look back and muddle the story. And while concerns of vision might be the more righteous cause for an album disappearing into the ephemera of time, more often it has to do with the bleaker realities of life, and of the music industry.
When it comes to a “shelved” album, the cause is almost always some kind of label or industry machinations —
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There's one in every crowd.
<< the author sure likes Neil Young...>>
Time Fades Away (1973, live) is an obscure Neil album of high quality. And Tonight’s the Night (‘73, studio) is even better.
* although Tonight’s the Night was recorded in ‘73, it wasn’t released until ‘75.
sedan delivery...
Perused the list, nothing interesting except for Marvin Gaye, he was a genius. Listen to Trouble Man, a masterpiece. Hauntingly beautiful with a final good bye of “movin’ down the line....”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kduvcqx-BU
On Youtube. All 36 minutes (both sides of the vinyl record.
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Brian Ferry (and company) covers “Like a Hurricane”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTOcbONX5rs
appetite for destruction... guns n roses...
how there very “out there”
how very “out there”
Quincy Jones “Walking in Space”
Bubble Puppy (i.e. any rock band from Texas) A Gathering of Promises is better than anything that froot loop Neil Young ever did! ...and yes, I did waste my money on one of his concerts
Any music made after 1980 shouldn’t make the list.
Rock n roll’s been going downhill ever since Buddy Holly died.
Regarding Neil Young.
I loathe and despise him.
Yes, I am hypocritical for not hating all the leftist p.o.s. “artists” like him. Yet. I am adding to the list, though.
But he took advantage of our great country while maintainting Canadian citzenship for decades. Then recently took dual citizenship with US included-—and said “Now I am free to say as an American how much I hate Donald Trump and his fascist followers and what I want to do to them....” and much worse. He also dumped his loyal and loving wife for a mistress despite the fact that his wife went throuigh decades of suffering over his genetic problem that resulted in a child born with severe special needs.
Lifelong bandmate and friend David Crosby was outraged and said in a Sept. 12, 2014 article——
Crosby also made it clear that he doesn’t think much of Young’s new girlfriend (rumored to be actress Daryl Hannah). “Thirty-seven years! That’s a freakin’ miracle,” he continued. “And I just don’t feel the urge to go try something new. And I happen to know that he’s hanging out with somebody that’s a purely poisonous predator now. And that’s karma. He’s gonna get hurt. But I understand why it happened. I’m just sad about it. I’m always sad when I see love get tossed in the gutter.”
Do you know the new May, 2021 issue of Mojo has a big article on Marvin Gaye? You’d like it, I’m sure. If not at your Barnes &Y Noble then maybe ebay or direct from publisher.
As soon as the full box set of Basement Tapes in his bootleg series for Bob Dylan came out, plus the Cutting Edge box set of 1960s studio outtakes, I have felt calm and peaceful about the need for lost albums to be rescued. Until then I was unsettled and yearning for the lost music.
I was one of the few hundred to own the first genuine white bootleg album of Bob Dylan, bought at an upstairs hippie store when it first came out. Boy did that start a trend.
Clinton Heylin’s book Bootleg: The Secret History of the Other Recording Industry tells a lot.
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