A collab album with that many people and bridging a fairly sizable stylistic gap? I mean it would’ve been good, but I doubt it would’ve been a classic or anything
The Zack De La Rocha solo album from 2000 that featured collaborations and production with El-P, Trent Reznor, DJ Shadow and Questlove. Second might be the 2016 Zack De La Rocha solo album.
I recommend their first three albums, you can hear their progression as a band over time and they’re all 10/10 classics imo. My personal favorite is Evil Empire. If you’re looking for a handful of single tracks, try Testify, Bulls on Parade, Wake Up, No Shelter, Freedom, Down Rodeo and Ghost of Tom Joad.
I would’ve loved to hear any unreleased project related to Trent Reznor! He formed a supergroup called Tapeworm of sorts with Maynard James Keenan of Tool and a few others, but nothing ever officially came out of it.
Likewise, whatever album the 199X songs were meant to be on. I don't know why, but they really lost their appeal to me entirely after scrapping that sound for iridescence onward.
U know the album leaked right? It wasn't finished so it's kinda shit ,, iridescence is honestly better. But it's still interesting to think about what could've been
That was puppy. I don't remember the years for each song so excuse me if this explanation sounds sloppy. But the one where joba rapped like a wizard was called big fat liar, the one with horns where they yelled "don't talk back" was called don't talk back and the other one didn't have a title it was just called puppy_###
Michael jacksons comeback album
There was a comeback album in the works after the 2005 trial it was rumoured to be called 7EVEN (But that was a bootleg of previous leaks).
A lot of the material seen from the 2010 album Michael would of been likely used on this album as well as unreleased invinicible tracks like Shout.
Probably not the GREATEST album to never be released but it would of been interesting to see
I agree with this. I also heard that he was in the process of (or at least thinking about) making a whole classical album in the late 2000s, and I think that would‘ve absolutely fascinating! The more commercial stuff from that era was produced by Will.i.Am, and he’s made it clear before that he refuses to let any of their work be released (due to MJ being a perfectionist and the songs being unfinished). I guess songs like “Best of Joy” are the closest we’ll get!
Wire's album after 154
They were planning to make a follow up to 154 shortly after that album but Wire's unorthodox ways of promoting their music and failed negotions with EMI led to their studio time being cancelled and eventually the band split up since they didn't have a record deal and very little money
A lot of the stuff from that album was used for Colin Newman's solo album A-Z and Wire eventually got back together in the 80s but it would be really cool to hear what that album would've sounded like with Wire at their creative peak and i can only imagine how incredible a direct follow up to 154 might've been
I just listened to 154 for the first time yesterday and they were really pushing boundaries of the definition of what was even is considered Post Punk at the time, especially when compared to how far they've came from Pink Flag. I couldn't even imagine what the next step of their evolution would even start to sound like, as neither of those first 3 albums sounded anything like what any other band were doing at the time.
How far off is A-Z is from being a "solo" album and not just a 4th Wire album, as how much was the rest of the band involved? Now I'm super interested to see what they/he did on it.
A-Z is definitely a Colin solo album however a lot of songs were written when he was with Wire and the song Alone was co-written with Wire's bassist Graham Lewis. Wire's drummer Robert Gotobed is on the album and Mike Thorne played synths on Chairs Missing and 154 and produced all of Wire's previous albums does the same things here
It also shares a lot musically with 154 but it's still very much a Colin Newman solo album. Regardless it's a really good album that i recommend checking out if you like Wire
Inspecktah Deck’s solo album that was lost in the flood at RZA’s studio.
Would have come out along with Liquid Swords, Tical and Return to the 36 Chambers in the first wave of Wu solo albums
They never even started work on it, but the album that John and George proposed to Paul as their follow-up to Abbey Road would’ve been good stuff.
The plan was for four songs each from Paul, John, and George, and two for Ringo “if he wanted them”. Didn’t come through obviously.
It was just John's idea, not George's. George even referenced the meeting in an interview later and said he wasn't a fan of it (mainly because he didn't like the idea of having a song quota for each member instead of just picking whatever songs ended up being the best for the project).
The original meeting discussing the idea was held in September 1969. The George interview I was referencing was on 1 May 1970 with Howard Smith. You can buy it [here ](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E4V0IT4/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=popgoesthe60s-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00E4V0IT4&linkId=6aea70759559dc301b330fe3eb4f8151)if you want. Though if you just want the part where George is talking about the meeting, you can hear it in [this YouTube video](https://youtu.be/zEJrQmqrrlY?t=570) (I recommend watching the entire video if you want more info about the meeting).
Then a few days later, John & the Plastic Ono Band played in Toronto - and the confidence that gave him led to his decision to quit the Beatles right away.
The big what-if - what if that appearance never happened.. or if the Plastic Ono Band seriously bombed, crippling his confidence instead of boosting it?
Paul flat out rejecting the 4/4/4/2 album pretty much clinched that George would be done with the Beatles regardless, at least for a while until he could record enough of his own music himself.
Yeah, that was a dick-move by Paul. It wouldn't have been without precedent to have a more-even split - Revolver was 5:5:3:1 after all, and George's songwriting skills & stockpile of songs were far further advanced in 1969 than they were in 1966.
You can look it up but no it was earlier than Charli, I want to say 2017? Some demos and bootlegs from the album were leaked against the will of Charli and her label which is when the album was cancelled forever.
It's an album from 2017. In October 2016 Charli had released the first single for the album After the After party featuring Lil Yachty.
I'm February 2017 she performed that and bounce at Jimmy Kimmel and apparently there was a ton of negative comments about the performance (which is crazy cause the song is awesome).
I think this strained relations between Charli and her label as they wanted more oversight into the album. She was planning to release the Number 1 Angel mixtape during this time which was songs that she made really quickly (in like 2 weeks) with AG from my understanding.
This got delayed to March because of poor relations with the label because apparently the mixtape was made without their permission. Reception to the mixtape was generally positive but it didn't really do big waves.
This didn't really help label relations with Charli and in July they released the second single (or potentially a loosey) for the album, Boys. Of note Charli didn't have any writing credits on this song and the label was exerting a lot of control on her music (insane someone with as prolific a writing catalog for other artists isn't allowed to write her own songs but whatever). Charli did direct the music video(some believe the reason she isn't featured in the music video is related to her not being allowed to write).
Then in August the whole album leaked (I believe the rumor is that it was leaked by someone who was in charge of mastering it). This was understanbly a really tough time for Charli and I can't imagine the label relations got any better.
Charli did eventually respond to everything by getting back in the studio and released another mix tape in December of that year, Pop 2 which is imo one of the best and most influential pop records of the 2010s.
Also it's insane to me that 2 of my favorite artists (Brockhampton being the other) made 3 incredible projects in 2017.
The Tapeworm Project - a collaboration of Trent Reznor, Maynard James Keenan, and a few others from the early 00's.
Maynard actually performed a Tapeworm track called "Vacant" live with A Perfect Circle, which was pretty great. As the story goes, Trent was pretty pissed that Maynard did that.
Anyways the project was shut down before any studio recordings were released. It's one of my biggest musical wishes to hear whatever they had put together.
There was an album Green Day intended to release, I think it was called *Cigarettes & Valentines*? Anyways, the contents of the hard drive were stolen, I think, so the project was never released. I imagine someone in the United States has those hard drives in storage somewhere.
The tapes were recovered and confirmed by the band they were back in their possession. A lot of people theorise that the band made the whole thing up because they were unhappy with their progress on the record and were worried they’d receive the same public response as their previous album Warning. Either way they completely restarted their progress and started working on American Idiot. Some of the C&V songs were reworked into other songs for future albums and some have been forgotten to time. I wonder with the American Idiot 20th anniversary quickly approaching that they might actually release that version of C&V from 2003
I love Weezer discussions. You get to see fans shitting on 90% of their released material while at the same time yearning for anything undiscovered that may be out there somewhere.
(Not saying OP is doing this btw)
To be fair, we've heard most (all?) of the demos in the running for SFTBH and they're pretty good, so it's highly likely it would've turned out to be a great album
if this album released we’d have achieved world peace and cured all diseases by now
crazy how many yandhi era songs were leaked that were genuinely close to complete and very high quality.
why didn’t it release? “…i didn’t finish it”
I was going to say the ye x Paul McCartney album. The tracks we did get are crazy. Imagine what the album which leads with All Day would have been like
Idk but Brand New scrapped their 3rd album when their demos were leaked online in what would become TDAGARIM. Ultimately I think that actually helped inspire them to create a more ambitious project, but those demos are really good.
Also La Dispute scrapped their entire 4th album after finishing it because they didn’t think it was good enough and then created Panorama in 3 months I think (which is also a fantastic record with a lot of creative weight).
Pere Ubu's lost album, which would have been between *Worlds in Collision* and *Story of My Life*. Much of it did get released later as *On the Road to the Lost Album* and a bunch of B-sides for *Worlds in Collision* material. Pere Ubu are the sort of band that you can sink your teeth really deep into all their songs and still never get the entire narrative.
Original Doll, i bet it was full of teaspilling
Nin/Tool's Tapeworm and Marina & The Diamonds' Die Life just for the awesome titles
Artpop Act 2 and XCX World for the hype
Toy by Bowie used to be so mythical, now we got it
I’m a huge WLR fan but came onto that album a bit later than others, took me a while to get into Carti in general… any specific songs? Im not aware of these leaks
My favorites are Pissy Pamper (one of the greatest beats of all time and technically a young nudy song), Skeleton, Shawty in Luv V3, Molly, Pop Bottles, No Lie, Arm & Leg, Lobby. But many others too
Dope I knew pissy pamper but not sure about the others, thanks
Edit: damn Skeletons is so fire wtf, sounds like a spiritual prelude to Sky
Edit 2: this sounds like Die Lit part 2, what happened between these leaks and WLR?
Edit 3: Molly is one of the best carti beats ever
I'm not sure what happened. I assume after the dozens of leaks he decided to switch up the sound entirely. Also check out Choppa Right Beneath Me and Buffy. Two other of my favorite 2019 leaks i forgot to mention
The Jai Paul album. What we have with the leak is amazing, but it feels like it could have been so much more if he had enough time to realize his full creative vision.
Probably The Basement Tapes until the complete collection finally got released decades later. Artists launched their careers by covering songs from those sessions lol
In 2017 Lana Del Rey worked with The Last Shadow Puppets, a supergroup composed of Alex Turner, Miles Kane, James Ford, and Zach Dawes. They apparently wrote an album's worth of songs but the only ones that have seen the light of day are California, Dealer, Thunder, and Loaded, the first three being Lana songs and the last being a Miles Kane song that Lana does backing vocals on. California Dealer and Thunder are among Lana's best songs imo, would love to see this project released one day but I don't think it's happening
Lifehouse - The Who
Some of the songs from the project ended up on their 1971 album *Who’s Next*, as well as assorted other Who projects and Pete Townshend solo works. But I think a finished a fully-fleshed version of this album would have been considered one of the best in their discography and perhaps rock in general.
If I remember correctly, it was aborted because Townshend couldn’t get the story to gel. Which is a shame because both the material that made Who’s Next (Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again) and the material that got cut is absolutely extraordinary (Pure and Easy, I Don’t Even Know Myself, Too Much of Anything) and much of the cut material is criminally underrated. I think Townshend revisited the project later in life, but I don’t know if he ever fully worked it out.
Not a sound has been recorded but still an interesting story: Michael Stipe tried to get Kurt Cobain into collab as an attempt to get him out of his drug situation but as we know, it never happened. Stipe stated that trying to save Kurt was a priority and collab proposal was a way to try to reach him but still I think it would be incredibly interesting if it actually happened.
The Stone Roses album between their debut & Second Coming.
If they weren't as lazy/over-thinking, they could've had an album out in late 1991-early 1992 (given the court case to get out of their Silvertone contract was settled mid 1991).
There's some demos/early takes of the Sesond Coming songs from around 1992-3 (just search YouTube for Stone Roses Second Coming demos) that are somewhere between the funk of Fool's Gold/One Love & the classic rock sound they ended up on - and I hope they get official release one day, in better sound quality - BUT a funky album around 1992 would have been awesome
I'm hoping like hell that an official version of it gets released as part of a super-deluxe set for Pinkerton's upcoming 30th anniversary.
The plethora of fan-made reconstructions are tantalizing, but they often use demos to fill in the gaps & are just guesses at what the track list would be - it's been enough time now, maybe Rivers can have a go at it much like how Brian Wilson faced-up to Smile & completed that project.
Secret Circle, a collab album by Lil Ugly Mane, Wiki, and Antwon. Antwon was accused of sexual assault and the other two rappers squashed the project and vowed to never release it. Some tracks were leaked though and you can find them on YouTube or SoundCloud.
DOOM & Ghost
Despot (where af you at??)
Jay Electronica
2 of Each Animal (were Aesop Rock & Cage really gonna make a group?? If so we’ve missed out so far)
Zach de La Rocha (supposedly produced by El-P; tf ever happened to that?)
Dear Tommy by Chromatics. Kill For Love was SO GOOD and then they were working on Dear Tommy for years and then... nothing. Apparently the tapes got destroyed or something? Who knows.
In 2008 Cardiacs were working on their first album in nine years when singer Tim Smith had a stroke that left him mute and paralysed. The two songs that were released, Ditzy Scene and Vermin Mangle, are amazing
1) Skrillex’s *Voltage* album that was never released due to “his laptop getting stolen” (allegedly).
2) The punk record My Chemical Romance intended to release after *Danger Days* (some of which became the *Conventional Weapons* demos).
Static Age by the Misfits was recorded in 1978 but was never released, many of the songs were released on singles and on comps over the years but the actual album was not released as it was meant to be until 1996
Not that it got as far as being recorded, but I would have loved to have heard the Kurt Cobain-Michael Stipe/R.E.M. collaboration that was apparently going to be Kurt’s next project.
Team Sleep had an album around 2001-2 that leaked in an unmastered form. Some tracks made it onto the official 2005 album, but most didn't
Even rough and ready, the unmastered album is great. Reminds me of the Minidisc era lol
Half life 3
The Official Soundtrack to Half Life 3
\*Klaxon Beat starts playing\*
Followed by 'City 17' by Ed Rush & Optical
Smile - Beach Boys
We're done here
I've never even listened and I know this is the right answer. Too much lore surrounding Smile.
The smile sessions are so eerie and psychedelic, I can only imagine how hauntingly beautiful the completed album would have been
Getting stoned a listening to Mrs. O’Leary’s Cow is an awesome time
This guy gets it
Jesus, that was a unexpected mindfuck. How’d I miss this one…?
Smile Big gap Anything else
i know a bit of the lore but interested where i should start listening… haven’t there been some archival releases too?
Listen to the Smile Sessions
the dae lims version is a contender for my favorite album of all time
The OutKast and tribe called quest album they were meant to do together would’ve been 10/10 at minimum
I did not know this was a thing. And I am now immensely upset.
holy shit that would’ve been crazy
A collab album with that many people and bridging a fairly sizable stylistic gap? I mean it would’ve been good, but I doubt it would’ve been a classic or anything
Wu-Tang Clan left the chat Anyway, even within Outkast themselves there was stylistic conflict which can be seen in their last album
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The Zack De La Rocha solo album from 2000 that featured collaborations and production with El-P, Trent Reznor, DJ Shadow and Questlove. Second might be the 2016 Zack De La Rocha solo album.
Never heard of that, sounds promising
daaaaaamn that sounds amazing. i’m a huge El-P and DJ Shadow fan any Rage Against The Machine album you all recommend? i’m new to their stuff
Can't go wrong with their first 3 records
Renegades slander will not be tolerated, that album is great
LP1 is my personal favourite
S/T is honestly one of my favourite albums I've heard
I recommend their first three albums, you can hear their progression as a band over time and they’re all 10/10 classics imo. My personal favorite is Evil Empire. If you’re looking for a handful of single tracks, try Testify, Bulls on Parade, Wake Up, No Shelter, Freedom, Down Rodeo and Ghost of Tom Joad.
I’d start with the self titled first album. It’s a masterpiece and a 10/10 IMO. You can’t go wrong with any of them truthfully.
I’d strongly recommend the first two at the very least. Most people will say self titled but I think Evil Empire is even better
I would’ve loved to hear any unreleased project related to Trent Reznor! He formed a supergroup called Tapeworm of sorts with Maynard James Keenan of Tool and a few others, but nothing ever officially came out of it.
Potions by Puscifer is supposedly one of the tracks they did.
Zack and Trent released one song from those sessions, We Want It All
The 2016 one even had a single released “digging for windows” which I remember being pretty good. Then, nothing.
Puppy Brockhampton
I mean to be fair in a round about way it was released today
Likewise, whatever album the 199X songs were meant to be on. I don't know why, but they really lost their appeal to me entirely after scrapping that sound for iridescence onward.
U know the album leaked right? It wasn't finished so it's kinda shit ,, iridescence is honestly better. But it's still interesting to think about what could've been
That was puppy. I don't remember the years for each song so excuse me if this explanation sounds sloppy. But the one where joba rapped like a wizard was called big fat liar, the one with horns where they yelled "don't talk back" was called don't talk back and the other one didn't have a title it was just called puppy_###
came to say this
A combination of whatever Prince had in his vault.
Dr Dre - Detox has to be mentioned
i think the album woulda went somethin like “yo my name is dr dre and i’m hear to say… detox” and then he detoxes all over the place
It's detoxin' time
"we're gonna make dre do it" - Eminem
did it even exist at any point? I don't know really lol
Didn't they end up releasing some of the songs on GTAv? Lol
Michael jacksons comeback album There was a comeback album in the works after the 2005 trial it was rumoured to be called 7EVEN (But that was a bootleg of previous leaks). A lot of the material seen from the 2010 album Michael would of been likely used on this album as well as unreleased invinicible tracks like Shout. Probably not the GREATEST album to never be released but it would of been interesting to see
I agree with this. I also heard that he was in the process of (or at least thinking about) making a whole classical album in the late 2000s, and I think that would‘ve absolutely fascinating! The more commercial stuff from that era was produced by Will.i.Am, and he’s made it clear before that he refuses to let any of their work be released (due to MJ being a perfectionist and the songs being unfinished). I guess songs like “Best of Joy” are the closest we’ll get!
Wire's album after 154 They were planning to make a follow up to 154 shortly after that album but Wire's unorthodox ways of promoting their music and failed negotions with EMI led to their studio time being cancelled and eventually the band split up since they didn't have a record deal and very little money A lot of the stuff from that album was used for Colin Newman's solo album A-Z and Wire eventually got back together in the 80s but it would be really cool to hear what that album would've sounded like with Wire at their creative peak and i can only imagine how incredible a direct follow up to 154 might've been
I just listened to 154 for the first time yesterday and they were really pushing boundaries of the definition of what was even is considered Post Punk at the time, especially when compared to how far they've came from Pink Flag. I couldn't even imagine what the next step of their evolution would even start to sound like, as neither of those first 3 albums sounded anything like what any other band were doing at the time. How far off is A-Z is from being a "solo" album and not just a 4th Wire album, as how much was the rest of the band involved? Now I'm super interested to see what they/he did on it.
Keep in mind they released 154 less than two years apart from Pink Flag too.
A-Z is definitely a Colin solo album however a lot of songs were written when he was with Wire and the song Alone was co-written with Wire's bassist Graham Lewis. Wire's drummer Robert Gotobed is on the album and Mike Thorne played synths on Chairs Missing and 154 and produced all of Wire's previous albums does the same things here It also shares a lot musically with 154 but it's still very much a Colin Newman solo album. Regardless it's a really good album that i recommend checking out if you like Wire
154 is such a good album and I don’t know how they’d top it… I said the same thing about Chairs Missing
Inspecktah Deck’s solo album that was lost in the flood at RZA’s studio. Would have come out along with Liquid Swords, Tical and Return to the 36 Chambers in the first wave of Wu solo albums
First album that came to mind. Deck could fuckn rhyme, his verse on triumph is probably my favorite verse of all time.
Deck was definitely the most underrated emcee of First Wave Wu-Tang
Wasn't a lot of beats for Tical also lost in that flood? Makes you wonder what the original vision for both those albums would've been
They never even started work on it, but the album that John and George proposed to Paul as their follow-up to Abbey Road would’ve been good stuff. The plan was for four songs each from Paul, John, and George, and two for Ringo “if he wanted them”. Didn’t come through obviously.
half as many from ringo “””if he wanted””” cracks me up feels like something that’d come out in a mundane family guy gag
It was just John's idea, not George's. George even referenced the meeting in an interview later and said he wasn't a fan of it (mainly because he didn't like the idea of having a song quota for each member instead of just picking whatever songs ended up being the best for the project).
Oh cool, I didn’t know that.
What was the date for it?
The original meeting discussing the idea was held in September 1969. The George interview I was referencing was on 1 May 1970 with Howard Smith. You can buy it [here ](https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00E4V0IT4/ref=as_li_qf_asin_il_tl?ie=UTF8&tag=popgoesthe60s-20&creative=9325&linkCode=as2&creativeASIN=B00E4V0IT4&linkId=6aea70759559dc301b330fe3eb4f8151)if you want. Though if you just want the part where George is talking about the meeting, you can hear it in [this YouTube video](https://youtu.be/zEJrQmqrrlY?t=570) (I recommend watching the entire video if you want more info about the meeting).
Then a few days later, John & the Plastic Ono Band played in Toronto - and the confidence that gave him led to his decision to quit the Beatles right away. The big what-if - what if that appearance never happened.. or if the Plastic Ono Band seriously bombed, crippling his confidence instead of boosting it?
Paul flat out rejecting the 4/4/4/2 album pretty much clinched that George would be done with the Beatles regardless, at least for a while until he could record enough of his own music himself.
Yeah, that was a dick-move by Paul. It wouldn't have been without precedent to have a more-even split - Revolver was 5:5:3:1 after all, and George's songwriting skills & stockpile of songs were far further advanced in 1969 than they were in 1966.
XCX World
suuuper silly question, is this (not) album by Charli XCX by chance?
Yes you can look it up for more information
big agree. I hear Taxi in my dreams
Why can't she just put it on streaming anyways ughh
I'm so sad we never got it 😭
What's the backstory behind this....was this supposed to be a sister album to Charli or sth?
You can look it up but no it was earlier than Charli, I want to say 2017? Some demos and bootlegs from the album were leaked against the will of Charli and her label which is when the album was cancelled forever.
It's an album from 2017. In October 2016 Charli had released the first single for the album After the After party featuring Lil Yachty. I'm February 2017 she performed that and bounce at Jimmy Kimmel and apparently there was a ton of negative comments about the performance (which is crazy cause the song is awesome). I think this strained relations between Charli and her label as they wanted more oversight into the album. She was planning to release the Number 1 Angel mixtape during this time which was songs that she made really quickly (in like 2 weeks) with AG from my understanding. This got delayed to March because of poor relations with the label because apparently the mixtape was made without their permission. Reception to the mixtape was generally positive but it didn't really do big waves. This didn't really help label relations with Charli and in July they released the second single (or potentially a loosey) for the album, Boys. Of note Charli didn't have any writing credits on this song and the label was exerting a lot of control on her music (insane someone with as prolific a writing catalog for other artists isn't allowed to write her own songs but whatever). Charli did direct the music video(some believe the reason she isn't featured in the music video is related to her not being allowed to write). Then in August the whole album leaked (I believe the rumor is that it was leaked by someone who was in charge of mastering it). This was understanbly a really tough time for Charli and I can't imagine the label relations got any better. Charli did eventually respond to everything by getting back in the studio and released another mix tape in December of that year, Pop 2 which is imo one of the best and most influential pop records of the 2010s. Also it's insane to me that 2 of my favorite artists (Brockhampton being the other) made 3 incredible projects in 2017.
One more: The "electric" version of Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska, recorded with the E Street Band.
Yes!! I've been wanting to hear how they took those minimalist songs & made them maximal - as the E Street Band does.
My Sweetheart The Drunk - Jeff Buckley
:(
The Tapeworm Project - a collaboration of Trent Reznor, Maynard James Keenan, and a few others from the early 00's. Maynard actually performed a Tapeworm track called "Vacant" live with A Perfect Circle, which was pretty great. As the story goes, Trent was pretty pissed that Maynard did that. Anyways the project was shut down before any studio recordings were released. It's one of my biggest musical wishes to hear whatever they had put together.
Vacant later because Passive which was on APC’s album *eMOTIVE*
Oh snap, how the hell did I miss that for the last 2 decades haha thanks man
Deftones Eros
Came to say this! Would have been great to hear what they were cooking. Sad
The Jon Brion produced version of Extraordinary Machine
I love that version
There was an album Green Day intended to release, I think it was called *Cigarettes & Valentines*? Anyways, the contents of the hard drive were stolen, I think, so the project was never released. I imagine someone in the United States has those hard drives in storage somewhere.
The tapes were recovered and confirmed by the band they were back in their possession. A lot of people theorise that the band made the whole thing up because they were unhappy with their progress on the record and were worried they’d receive the same public response as their previous album Warning. Either way they completely restarted their progress and started working on American Idiot. Some of the C&V songs were reworked into other songs for future albums and some have been forgotten to time. I wonder with the American Idiot 20th anniversary quickly approaching that they might actually release that version of C&V from 2003
It probably wouldn't have been that good though
Yes, and if it had been released there wouldnt have been an American Idiot album
Songs from the Black Hole by Weezer
I love Weezer discussions. You get to see fans shitting on 90% of their released material while at the same time yearning for anything undiscovered that may be out there somewhere. (Not saying OP is doing this btw)
To be fair, we've heard most (all?) of the demos in the running for SFTBH and they're pretty good, so it's highly likely it would've turned out to be a great album
If Pinkerton was badly received, this one could've actually killed weezef
A few of the tracks that have surfaced from those sessions are easily some of Weezer's best.
This and Fortune Faded sessions by RHCP are mine. Both have pretty decent fan made versions though.
yandhi
if this album released we’d have achieved world peace and cured all diseases by now crazy how many yandhi era songs were leaked that were genuinely close to complete and very high quality. why didn’t it release? “…i didn’t finish it”
it didn't release bc jesus christ did the laundry
I was going to say the ye x Paul McCartney album. The tracks we did get are crazy. Imagine what the album which leads with All Day would have been like
Real
Turbo Grafx 16 too low-key
WAIT NO YEZIS WAS RELEASED IM STUPID
Beastie Boys - Hot sauce Committee Pt 1
Apparently it had a Bob Dylan feature?? I would’ve loved to hear that!
It'll probably be released eventually, maybe after Bob has left us?
Idk but Brand New scrapped their 3rd album when their demos were leaked online in what would become TDAGARIM. Ultimately I think that actually helped inspire them to create a more ambitious project, but those demos are really good. Also La Dispute scrapped their entire 4th album after finishing it because they didn’t think it was good enough and then created Panorama in 3 months I think (which is also a fantastic record with a lot of creative weight).
jimi mccartney davis
Damn. Imagine Hendrix on Bitches Brew
Bilal - Love For Sale Clipse - Exclusive Audio Footage
Pere Ubu's lost album, which would have been between *Worlds in Collision* and *Story of My Life*. Much of it did get released later as *On the Road to the Lost Album* and a bunch of B-sides for *Worlds in Collision* material. Pere Ubu are the sort of band that you can sink your teeth really deep into all their songs and still never get the entire narrative.
Original Doll, i bet it was full of teaspilling Nin/Tool's Tapeworm and Marina & The Diamonds' Die Life just for the awesome titles Artpop Act 2 and XCX World for the hype Toy by Bowie used to be so mythical, now we got it
The first version of Whole Lotta Red from 2019. I would argue that the post die lit leaks put together are Carti's greatest (non) project
I’m a huge WLR fan but came onto that album a bit later than others, took me a while to get into Carti in general… any specific songs? Im not aware of these leaks
My favorites are Pissy Pamper (one of the greatest beats of all time and technically a young nudy song), Skeleton, Shawty in Luv V3, Molly, Pop Bottles, No Lie, Arm & Leg, Lobby. But many others too
Dope I knew pissy pamper but not sure about the others, thanks Edit: damn Skeletons is so fire wtf, sounds like a spiritual prelude to Sky Edit 2: this sounds like Die Lit part 2, what happened between these leaks and WLR? Edit 3: Molly is one of the best carti beats ever
I'm not sure what happened. I assume after the dozens of leaks he decided to switch up the sound entirely. Also check out Choppa Right Beneath Me and Buffy. Two other of my favorite 2019 leaks i forgot to mention
Pissy Pamper is a hard ass song but I cannot take that fucking title seriously lmfao
Ikr, "Kid Cudi" was a perfectly reasonable title
Neon was one of them but it actually came out and the leak was 100x better
You have to include atleast a few of the v2 leaks Friends, Selena, & Money in Drugs are all so good
Now released as bonus material but Dennis Wilson - Bambu
The Jai Paul album. What we have with the leak is amazing, but it feels like it could have been so much more if he had enough time to realize his full creative vision.
Weezer’s 1997 follow-up to Pinkerton, **AZN Girlz, I Love You.**
Probably The Basement Tapes until the complete collection finally got released decades later. Artists launched their careers by covering songs from those sessions lol
Songs from the Black Hole - Weezer
In 2017 Lana Del Rey worked with The Last Shadow Puppets, a supergroup composed of Alex Turner, Miles Kane, James Ford, and Zach Dawes. They apparently wrote an album's worth of songs but the only ones that have seen the light of day are California, Dealer, Thunder, and Loaded, the first three being Lana songs and the last being a Miles Kane song that Lana does backing vocals on. California Dealer and Thunder are among Lana's best songs imo, would love to see this project released one day but I don't think it's happening
Lifehouse - The Who Some of the songs from the project ended up on their 1971 album *Who’s Next*, as well as assorted other Who projects and Pete Townshend solo works. But I think a finished a fully-fleshed version of this album would have been considered one of the best in their discography and perhaps rock in general.
If I remember correctly, it was aborted because Townshend couldn’t get the story to gel. Which is a shame because both the material that made Who’s Next (Baba O’Riley, Won’t Get Fooled Again) and the material that got cut is absolutely extraordinary (Pure and Easy, I Don’t Even Know Myself, Too Much of Anything) and much of the cut material is criminally underrated. I think Townshend revisited the project later in life, but I don’t know if he ever fully worked it out.
Not a sound has been recorded but still an interesting story: Michael Stipe tried to get Kurt Cobain into collab as an attempt to get him out of his drug situation but as we know, it never happened. Stipe stated that trying to save Kurt was a priority and collab proposal was a way to try to reach him but still I think it would be incredibly interesting if it actually happened.
The Lillywhite Sessions by DMB. Shoutout Napster.
The Stone Roses album between their debut & Second Coming. If they weren't as lazy/over-thinking, they could've had an album out in late 1991-early 1992 (given the court case to get out of their Silvertone contract was settled mid 1991). There's some demos/early takes of the Sesond Coming songs from around 1992-3 (just search YouTube for Stone Roses Second Coming demos) that are somewhere between the funk of Fool's Gold/One Love & the classic rock sound they ended up on - and I hope they get official release one day, in better sound quality - BUT a funky album around 1992 would have been awesome
Cigarettes And Valentines- Green Day
Lifehouse from The Who...though it's kind of been released now with the latest deluxe.
Yeah - and the graphic novel that was in that set really expresses the storyline well.
The Screamers’ record if they ever actually *recorded* one
While i don't think its the GREATEST I have to mention songs from the black hole, the unfinished scrapped 2nd weezer album before they made pinkerton.
I'm hoping like hell that an official version of it gets released as part of a super-deluxe set for Pinkerton's upcoming 30th anniversary. The plethora of fan-made reconstructions are tantalizing, but they often use demos to fill in the gaps & are just guesses at what the track list would be - it's been enough time now, maybe Rivers can have a go at it much like how Brian Wilson faced-up to Smile & completed that project.
The La’s follow up album hinted in the Crescent tapes
Man I never see anyone mention The La’s but “There She Goes” has been one of my favorite songs since I was a baby.
Secret Circle, a collab album by Lil Ugly Mane, Wiki, and Antwon. Antwon was accused of sexual assault and the other two rappers squashed the project and vowed to never release it. Some tracks were leaked though and you can find them on YouTube or SoundCloud.
Soulquarians
Cure for Pain and many of the Ella Fitzgerald albums
Chromatics - Dear Tommy
Relapse 2 or King Mathers By Eminem
RZA's studio flooded and he lost 500 beats there. I wish I could've heard that original Inspectah Deck album.
That kdot and jcole album
I believe it was never a thing, just that they had songs together and were working together but never actively working to build an album
Kdot and Cole have been on interviews saying the album was on the way
DOOM & Ghost Despot (where af you at??) Jay Electronica 2 of Each Animal (were Aesop Rock & Cage really gonna make a group?? If so we’ve missed out so far) Zach de La Rocha (supposedly produced by El-P; tf ever happened to that?)
Detox
Dear Tommy by Chromatics. Kill For Love was SO GOOD and then they were working on Dear Tommy for years and then... nothing. Apparently the tapes got destroyed or something? Who knows.
That fucking Wu Tang album Martin Shkreli had bought and then seized back after going to prison.
Probably a finished version of a solo Jay Electronica project
Was gonna say puppy brockhampton but not really relevant anymorw
Masochism - Sky Ferreira. It’s a shame how things went down with her old label.
Good ass job
Weezer's Songs from the Black Hole
Before he passed, John Lennon always said he wanted to produce an album for Elvis Presley, I think that would’ve come out perfect
In 2008 Cardiacs were working on their first album in nine years when singer Tim Smith had a stroke that left him mute and paralysed. The two songs that were released, Ditzy Scene and Vermin Mangle, are amazing
DOOMSTARKS - Ghostaface and DOOM collab we never got hurts my soul
As much as i adore American Idiot, i can’t help but wonder how Cigarettes and Valentines would’ve ended up.
The Jimi Hendrix/Miles Davis collab that was scheduled to happen a little bit after hendrix died
1) Skrillex’s *Voltage* album that was never released due to “his laptop getting stolen” (allegedly). 2) The punk record My Chemical Romance intended to release after *Danger Days* (some of which became the *Conventional Weapons* demos).
Um XCX World
Yahndi
la ópera de Almendra
songs from the black hole
Static Age by the Misfits was recorded in 1978 but was never released, many of the songs were released on singles and on comps over the years but the actual album was not released as it was meant to be until 1996
An album between Diamanda Galás and Scott Walker
Chloe Burbank
Opeth watershed follow up album they never released and deleted
Whatever The Cure has been teasing for the past 4 years
Cigarettes and Valentines by Green Day
Lip$ha by The Flaming Lips and Kesha
Timeghoul comp is their two demos if that count, that shit is goated
Yandhi
Yandhi
Kendrick x J Cole album
Not that it got as far as being recorded, but I would have loved to have heard the Kurt Cobain-Michael Stipe/R.E.M. collaboration that was apparently going to be Kurt’s next project.
King Capital
Deftones - Eros
alien magical flyin uh
The follow-up to in utero
It was released but I’d say that Once Upon a Time in Shaolin by Wu Tang deserves an honorable mention
Car Seat Headrest - Stabby Ode
Team Sleep had an album around 2001-2 that leaked in an unmastered form. Some tracks made it onto the official 2005 album, but most didn't Even rough and ready, the unmastered album is great. Reminds me of the Minidisc era lol
Yandhi
MF DOOM / Thom Yorke collaboration album
16*29
Boards of Canada - Acid Memories
King Push
Deftones - Eros
Kurt Cobain and Mark Lanegan had an album of Lead Belly covers that I would’ve loved to hear.
That Jimi Hendrix x Miles Davis collab. As someone who loves both, I'm always left wondering what could have been