The Rolling Stones - Going Down - Non-Album Tracks (1969)

Here's the next in a series of albums gathering all of the Rolling Stones' stray tracks. The last album covers 1968; this one covers 1969.

Just like 1968, the Stones had so many quality stray tracks from the year 1969 that there's enough for an entire album. And also like 1968, most of these are songs that still haven't been officially released, or only released on obscure albums. Of course, the number one hit single "Honk Tonk Women" is a big exception to this.

Also, I generally tried to avoid any sort of duplication with the songs on official albums, but also with songs on my other alternate albums. But this time I'm including the song "Memo from Turner" when I put it on the 1968 album too. The reason for that is because this version is significantly different from the other version. I think both versions are very much worth listening to. This is the one that was technically credited to Mick Jagger as a solo artist, and would be featured in the movie "Performance" a year later.

Three of the songs here are from the album "Jamming with Edward," which is kind of an oddity. It has most of the Stones on it, including Jagger singing the songs, but it also prominently features Ry Cooder and Nicky Hopkins, so it wasn't billed as a Stones album, even though the songs are all outtakes from Stones recording sessions. There's one song on there, "Blow with Ry," that I thought went on way too long (11 minutes), so I edited it down to six minutes.

Like the 1968 album I made, I think this is a really solid album, even though it's mostly obscurities and unreleased stuff. That's because, as I mentioned in a previous post, the Stones have held back nearly all of their 1960s material except for what got released at the time, due to a conflict with their record company, so they haven't done any bonus tracks or deluxe editions or box sets or the like (except for their material from 1972 or more recent, due to a different record company having the rights to that material).

"I'm Yours and I'm Hers" is a rare cover version the band played in concert in 1969. Unfortunately, the sound quality is only good enough for bonus track status.

This album is 45 minutes long, not counting the bonus track.

UPDATE: On January 28, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. Previously, I had the song "The Sun Is Shining" as a bonus track only, due to poor sound quality. But I found a soundboard bootleg version that sounded much better, so I added it in with the other songs.

01 Honky Tonk Women (Rolling Stones)
02 Hillside Blues [I Don't Know the Reason Why] (Rolling Stones)
03 Memo from Turner (Mick Jagger)
04 The Sun Is Shining (Rolling Stones)
05 Blow with Ry [Edit] (Rolling Stones with Ry Cooder & Nicky Hopkins)
06 I Don't Know Why (Rolling Stones)
07 I'm Going Down (Rolling Stones)
08 Jiving Sister Fanny (Rolling Stones)
09 Highland Fling [Instrumental] (Rolling Stones with Ry Cooder & Nicky Hopkins)
10 Cocksucker Blues [Schoolboy Blues] (Rolling Stones)
11 It Hurts Me Too (Rolling Stones with Ry Cooder & Nicky Hopkins)

I'm Yours and I'm Hers (Rolling Stones)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701029/TROLLNGSTNES1969_GongDwn_atse.zip.html

The cover art is from the "Honky Tonk Women" single. I only made a few edits, especially changing the text.

Fairport Convention - At the BBC: The Judy Dyble Era (1967-1968)

I'm a big fan of Fairport Convention, specifically in the late 1960s and early 1970s when Richard Thompson was a member. Each of their albums from that time period are great, but on top of that, they did a lot of songs for the BBC, many of which never got on any of their albums at the time.

At first, a single CD compilation of their BBC performances came out called "Heyday." Then that was upped to a four CD box set called "Live at the BBC" in 2007 that covered their BBC performances from 1967 to 1974. But even that wasn't enough, and more BBC performances have dribbled out here and there on various archival releases.

This is the start of a series that gathers up all their BBC performances of good sound quality from that early era and organizes it chronologically. I did a similar thing with Dusty Springfield's TV and radio performances. However, that included only songs not recorded by her in the studio. Whereas this includes all songs performed on the BBC, because Fairport Convention often would perform their songs differently while Springfield almost always stuck close to her studio versions, However, I don't include multiple versions of the same song, unless there's an unusual reason to do so.

For about the first year of Fairport Convention's existence, the main vocalist was Judy Dyble. In mid-1968, she left and was replaced by Sandy Denny. This first album of BBC performances collects stray tracks just from when Dyble was in the band. It works out that there's 36 minutes of music from that time, which is a nice album length for that era.

Actually, there wouldn't have been enough material for a good album length except for two songs performed on a French TV station, "Morning Glory" and a nearly eight minute version of "Reno, Nevada."  (I'll include any good TV or radio performance, even if it wasn't actually performed on the BBC.) Surprisingly, color video footage of the band on that French TV station exist on YouTube, and it's quite an interesting watch. (Search for the band name and song name and you'll find it.) It's just about the only color video of the band from its early years.

By the way, only four out of the ten songs below were also on the band's self-titled first album, the only one with Dyble on it.

01 Let's Get Together (Fairport Convention)
02 One Sure Thing (Fairport Convention)
03 Lay Down Your Weary Tune (Fairport Convention)
04 Chelsea Morning (Fairport Convention)
05 Violets of Dawn (Fairport Convention)
06 If [Stomp] (Fairport Convention)
07 Time Will Show the Wiser (Fairport Convention)
08 If I Had a Ribbon Bow (Fairport Convention)
09 Morning Glory (Fairport Convention)
10 Reno, Nevada (Fairport Convention)

https://www85.zippyshare.com/v/HmzD4rur/file.html

For the cover, I took a screenshot from the YouTube video of "Reno, Nevada." By the way, that's Ian Matthew in front, Richard Thompson in the middle, and Judy Dyble in the background.

Bob Dylan - Bob Dylan's Blues - Non-Album Tracks (1962)

Yesterday, I posted a Bob Dylan album of stray tracks from around the time of his first album, the one simply called "Bob Dylan" that was released in early 1962. This leaves me with the problem of what to put on the next album of stray tracks, because he recorded a TON of songs before releasing "The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan" in 1963.

Luckily, there's a perfect solution for my problem, because just one month after "Bob Dylan" was released, Dylan was back in the studio, and he recorded an album's worth of new material. By the time "Freewheelin'" finally would get released, these songs would be old hat to him, so none of them would make it on that album. Furthermore, there even was a planned title for this album: "Bob Dylan's Blues."

So all I had to do was gather up the songs from the best available sources and put them together in roughly the order they were recorded over a several day period. And that was made easy for me too, because all the songs that hadn't been officially released already were released on an obscure album put out a few years ago called "The 50th Anniversary Collection: The Copyright Extension Collection, Volume I." As you can tell from the title, it was released in a very limited number just to make sure the record company would keep legal rights to the copyrights for each of the song performances (which is a problem for them in Europe). In some cases, there were multiple takes of the same songs, so I had to pick the best takes.

Dylan was writing more of his own songs, but he still wasn't confident enough to give up on doing covers. Five of the 12 songs on this album were written by somebody else:

[I Heard That] Lonesome Whistle
Baby, Please Don't Go
Wichita Blues [Going to Louisiana]
Going to New Orleans
Milk Cow [Calf's] Blues

Here's the full tracklist:

01 Let Me Die in My Footsteps (Bob Dylan)
02 Rambling Gambling Willie (Bob Dylan)
03 Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues (Bob Dylan)
04 The Death of Emmett Till (Bob Dylan)
05 [I Heard That] Lonesome Whistle (Bob Dylan)
06 Sally Gal (Bob Dylan)
07 Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues (Bob Dylan)
08 Rocks and Gravel [Solid Road] (Bob Dylan)
09 Baby, Please Don't Go (Bob Dylan)
10 Wichita Blues [Going to Louisiana] (Bob Dylan)
11 Going to New Orleans (Bob Dylan)
12 Milk Cow [Calf's] Blues (Bob Dylan)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15105597/BobD_1962d_BbDylnsBlues_atse.zip.html

I was surprised at how few color photos I could find of Dylan from before 1964 or even 1965. This photo I used appears to be from the same photo session as the photo I used for the earlier 1962 Dylan album I posted here. I removed the yellow couch he was sitting on to make the similarity less obvious.

Fleetwood Mac - I Believe My Time Ain't Long - Non-Album Tracks (1967)

I've already posted a couple of quasi-Fleetwood Mac albums, one centered on guitarist Peter Green's work with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, and one of Christine McVie's short solo career before she joined Fleetwood Mac, back when she was known as Christine Perfect. Now it's time to start in on actual Fleetwood Mac music.

The early years of Fleetwood Mac, back when they were a blues band led by Peter Green, are a mess. They put out a few albums in Britain which I consider the official albums of the time, so I don't want to duplicate any songs on those - "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac," "Mr. Wonderful," and "Then Play On." But they actually recorded a lot more studio material than that (if one includes things like their BBC recordings). I've made no less than six albums of stray tracks, just from their material prior to 1970. And, with only a few songs as exceptions, that doesn't even count their live material from that time.

Here's the first of those six albums (and I've got a lot more from after 1970!). Fleetwood Mac only had one official release in 1967, a single with "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" as the A-side. But their first official album, "Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac," came out in February 1968, and all of it was recorded in 1967, starting as early as April. So, in addition to containing the A- and B-sides of their 1967 album, this contains outtakes of their first album, which could have been released at the end of 1967 before even their first album, if they'd really wanted to do that.

Now, an album of outtakes might not sound that appealing. But at the time the band was mainly doing covers of blues classics, and frankly I think it's debatable which is better, the songs they put on the album, or the songs they left off. Basically, if you like Fleetwood Mac doing the blues, you'll like it all.

I've added one oddity at the end, because I couldn't figure out anywhere else to put it. It's the instrumental "Soul Dressing" by a short-lived band called "Peter B.'s Looners." This is worthy of inclusion because both Peter Green and Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac were in the band when this song was recorded in 1966, and it has some nice guitar work by Green.

01 I Believe My Time Ain't Long (Fleetwood Mac)
02 Ramblin' Pony (Fleetwood Mac)
03 Drifting (Fleetwood Mac)
04 Watch Out (Fleetwood Mac)
05 A Fool No More (Fleetwood Mac)
06 Mean Old Fireman (Fleetwood Mac)
07 Can't Afford to Do It (Fleetwood Mac)
08 Fleetwood Mac [Instrumental] (Fleetwood Mac)
09 Allow Me One More Show (Fleetwood Mac)
10 First Train Home (Fleetwood Mac)
11 Soul Dressing [Instrumental] (Peter B.'s Looners)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15115657/FleetwodMc_1967d_IBelieveMyTimeAintLng_atse.zip.html

The cover art is based on the cover for the "I Believe My Time Ain't Long" single, which is also why I gave the album that title. I made some changes, mainly with the placement of the text, and also removing the text of the B-side song title.

Bob Dylan - Introducing Bob Dylan - Non-Album Tracks (1961-1962)

I've already posted a couple of alternate Bob Dylan albums, both from the 1970s. But now I'm going to get serious and post a series of albums to catch all his stray tracks from the 1960s, especially all of the songs he wrote (minus a few clunkers that just aren't worth hearing).

Dylan has been a very prolific songwriter, especially in the early 1960s. Yet he only put out one or two albums a year in that time when he could have easily put out more. (In addition to this one, I have five more Dylan albums I've made of stray songs written by him before he went electric in 1965!) As a result, a lot of other artists, especially folk musicians, did covers of his unreleased songs. Only decades later have more of Dylan's own versions been gradually officially released, but in a very scattered fashion.

I want to start this series by going all the way back to when he first started recording his songs, in late 1961 for the album "Bob Dylan" that came out in March 1962. Unfortunately, that album wasn't that great. On the plus side, it introduced Dylan to the world, but his main genius is songwriting, and it only included two songs he wrote. As a result, the album only sold a few thousand copies, and it wasn't until his next album, 1963's "Freewheelin' Bob Dylan," that he really set the musical world on fire.

For the first album in this series, I'm looking only at songs done prior to the release of "Bob Dylan" to see what else he could have put on that, and make an alternate version that contains none of the same songs. I mainly want to focus on the songs he wrote in time to have included them on that album. At the time, Dylan was performing dozens, if not hundreds, of cover songs, so I'm only going to include the very best of those.

Unfortunately, in early 1962, Dylan hadn't written that many good songs yet. These are the following ones I'm including:

Hard Times in New York Town
Man on the Street
Poor Boy Blues
Ballad for a Friend
Standing on the Highway

There are some other early songs that are simply not very good, so I didn't include them, such as  "When I Got Troubles." Also, some others I did include are sort of a grey area between an original and a cover song, because as part of the folk tradition of using a traditional melody and adding new lyrics. For instance, "I Was Young When I Left Home" is considered an original Dylan song by Wikipedia, but it's heavily based on the traditional song "Nine Hundred Miles" in both lyrics and melody.

I added some covers, or semi-covers, to give the album a good length of 35 minutes. All of them have been officially released on various archival albums, with the exception of "Black Cross (Hezikiah Jones)," which I think is one of the most hard-hitting political songs he ever did, even if he didn't write it.

All in all, I consider this a better album that the official "Bob Dylan" album which could have been released in the same month.

"Bonnie, Why'd You Cut My Hair" is not much of a song, but there's an interesting story behind it. In 1961, Dylan planned to return to his home in Minnesota to visit his parents for a holiday. His hair had grown long, and he didn't want them to see him like that, so he asked a friend, Bonnie Beecher, to cut his hair. She did, but later when his hip friends saw how short his hair was, they teased him for it. Thus he made up this song. 

This album is 36 minutes long.

01 Hard Times in New York Town (Bob Dylan)
02 Man on the Street (Bob Dylan)
03 Bonnie, Why'd You Cut My Hair (Bob Dylan)
04 Dink's Song (Bob Dylan)
05 He Was a Friend of Mine (Bob Dylan)
06 I Was Young When I Left Home [Nine Hundred Miles] (Bob Dylan)
07 Black Cross [Hezikiah Jones] (Bob Dylan)
08 House Carpenter (Bob Dylan)
09 Poor Boy Blues (Bob Dylan)
10 Ballad for a Friend (Bob Dylan)
11 Standing on the Highway (Bob Dylan)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/nqTwaQ4E

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/W5BFkHW3jeTsqqF/file

I had a very hard time finding any color photos of Dylan in his early years. If the picture I used isn't from 1962, it must be from 1963. Later, I sharpened the image with the Krea AI program.

Derek and the Dominos - Layla Album Outtakes (1970)

I recently posted an album of alternative versions of songs from Derek and the Dominos' "Layla" album. This is a companion piece to that, except it contains the group doing songs not on that album, and also not on the imagined follow-up album "Devil Road" (with a couple of exceptions).

In my opinion, if you have this, and the alternates and Devil Road albums I just mentioned, plus of course the "Layla" album itself, you should have all of the worthy studio material from this group. A lot of extra material has been released, but in my opinion, much of that isn't very good. For instance, some long jams that meander for nearly 20 minutes each (and don't feature Duane Allman - I included the one that does have him). Whereas there are a number of other outtakes that are good and haven't been released.

One of the songs, "Till I See You Again," sounds very different than the others. That's because it's drummer Jim Gordon singing. Gordon was a singer-songwriter as well as a very talented drummer. During the Layla sessions, he came in early to record his own songs, in the hopes that one or more of them could get on the Layla album, or possibly for a solo album. Gordon would later slowly go insane and murder his own mother, putting him in prison for the rest of his life. As a result, Gordon's songs probably will never be officially released, even though they're pretty good.

01 Tell the Truth [A-Side Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
02 Roll It Over [B-Side Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
03 Mean Old World [Acoustic Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
04 Till I See You Again [Jim Gordon on Vocals] (Derek & the Dominos)
05 Tender Love [Instrumental] (Derek & the Dominos)
06 Got to Get Better in a Little While (Derek & the Dominos)
07 Blues Power (Derek & the Dominos)
08 It Hurts Me Too [Acoustic Instrumental] (Derek & the Dominos)
09 I've Been All Day [Instrumental] (Derek & the Dominos)
10 Jam IV [Eric and Duane Duel] (Derek & the Dominos & the Allman Brothers Band)
11 Mean Old World [Rehearsal Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
12 Matchbox (Derek & the Dominos with Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/o9C7DPZg

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/7QSnDCzWeMgCmcY/file

The cover is another one of only a very limited number of photos of Derek and the Dominos including Duane Allman (who is wearing a tie-dye T-shirt). Bobby Whitlock is just behind Eric Clapton, looking extremely stoned.

In May 2025, I upgraded the image with the use of the Krea AI program.

The Who - Ready Steady Who - Non-Album Tracks (1966)

As I mentioned previously, for almost every Who album, one could make another Who album from the stray tracks around that time period. This is the companion album for the 1966 album "A Quick One."

In 1966, rock groups typically put out singles of songs that weren't on their albums, plus usually unique B-sides for each. The Who did that with "Substitute," "I'm a Boy," and "Happy Jack." Plus, they appeared on a special version of the TV show "Ready Steady Go" focusing of them, which was called "Ready Steady Who" for the occasion. They then released a five-song EP also called "Ready Steady Who" to capitalize on the appearance.

Given that albums weren't that long in 1966, that already makes up most of an album. Add in a few more stray tracks and one gets an album that's 40 minutes long. Some of the songs could be called filler, but others, like the A-sides, are all-time classics.

There's one song I debated whether or not to include. In December 1965, actually on the "Ready Steady Go" TV show, the Who played a curious instrumental called "You Rang." It's not a great song, though it does show off Keith Moon's drum skills, and the song quality is below everything else here. So I stuck it on the end, as a bonus track of sorts.

In 2019, the Who released a new studio album simply called "Who." "Got Nothing to Prove" and "Sand" are "new" Who songs released as bonus tracks to that album. But in fact, both songs are Pete Townshend demos from 1966 with new overdubs to make them have a fuller, Who-like sound. "Sand" is only available on very hard to find versions of the album, such as the Japanese edition, so I've decided to make them available here. I've decided to treat these as Who songs instead of Pete Townshend songs, since they've been officially released as such. Townshend sings lead vocals on both, but he sang the occasional lead vocal on Who albums going back to their very first album, so that's nothing unusual.

01 Substitute (Who)
02 Circles [Instant Party] [Second Version] (Who)
03 Sand (Who)
04 I'm a Boy (Who)
05 In the City (Who)
06 Happy Jack (Who)
07 I've Been Away (Who)
08 Got Nothing to Prove (Who)
09 Disguises (Who)
10 Batman (Who)
11 Bucket T (Who)
12 Barbara Ann (Who)
13 Man with the Money (Who)
14 My Generation - Land of Hope and Glory (Who)
15 You Rang [Instrumental] (Who)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/epk6ejWY

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/5Y1bmKGZh3Eo5LZ/file

The cover is the cover for the "Ready Steady Who" EP. For once, I didn't have to change a thing.

Stevie Wonder - Live 1969-1970

I like soul/R&B music a lot, especially from back in its 1960s and 1970s heyday. But for whatever reason, it doesn't seem to lend itself to alternative albums as much as some other genres.

One big exception to that though is Stevie Wonder. Unfortunately, I think of all the true musical greats, Wonder has been the stingiest when it comes to allowing the release of archival material, especially considering that it is widely believed that he has hundreds, if not thousands of songs he's written that he's never released.

I really look forward to the day when Wonder's musical archives are opened up. Until then, we mostly have to content ourselves with live material, because he often would perform songs live and then never put them out on album. Plus, just hearing any live music from him at all is a treat, because there's the weird fact that he's only officially released four live albums in his long career, and none of them are very good. One was in 1963, before his career really got started, and one was in 1995, well after his prime years were over. He also put out not one but two live albums in 1970.

Strangely, given Wonder's great musical talent, both of those 1970 albums are poorly regarded, are out of print, and have been largely forgotten. At the time, Motown Records owner Berry Gordy was on some weird kick of trying to turn his stars into cabaret or supper club performers that would do Broadway-type songs for white middle America. Most Motown live albums in the 1960s and early 1970s were ruined because of this. Wonder's two 1970 live albums suffered some from this problem somewhat, where he was obliged to perform hits of the day that didn't really suit him (but suited Gordy's supper club vision), like "Sunny" and "By the Time I Get to Phoenix," and even the "Love Theme to Romeo and Juliet."

That would have been bad enough, but the two albums also suffer from poor performances and sound quality issues. It's well known that Wonder let his recording contract with Motown expire when he turned 21 in mid-1971, and then was able to renegotiate a much better contract with much greater artistic freedom. Perhaps Motown was trying to squeeze the most out of him before potentially losing him by rushing out two live albums based on whatever material they happened to have lying around.

Whatever, the case may be, Wonder could have and should have put out a much better live album in 1970. This is the attempt to make that album. I've only included two songs from his album "Live" and three songs from his other album "Live at the Talk of the Town." The rest are all unreleased and come from TV show performances, because there are no good bootlegs of him that I know of from this year, so that's the only way to get high sound quality.

Speaking of Wonder's hundreds of unreleased songs, even though I had a very limited amount of material to work with to make this album, I was able to find two good songs that he played live in 1970 and were never officially released on any album: "If You Feel" and "On the Outside."

This album is an hour and ten minutes long, which doesn't really fit as a single or double album in that era, but oh well. The first five songs are actually from 1969.

01 Blowin' in the Wind (Stevie Wonder & Glen Campbell)
02 For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder & Diana Ross)
03 I Don't Know Why (Stevie Wonder)
04 A Place in the Sun - Uptight [Everything's Alright] - Nothing's Too Good for My Baby - It's Not Unusual (Tom Jones & Stevie Wonder)
05 For Once in My Life - Thank You Love - For Once in My Life (Stevie Wonder)
06 Everybody's Talkin' (Stevie Wonder)
07 Sunny (Stevie Wonder)
08 We Can Work It Out (Stevie Wonder)
09 You Met Your Match (Stevie Wonder)
10 If You Feel (Stevie Wonder)
11 On the Outside (Stevie Wonder)
12 Heaven Help Us All (Stevie Wonder)
13 Give Your Love (Stevie Wonder)
14 Bridge Over Troubled Water (Stevie Wonder)
15 I Was Made to Love Her (Stevie Wonder)
16 Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours (Stevie Wonder)
17 Money [That's What I Want] (Stevie Wonder)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15852594/StevieW_1969-1970_LiveAlternte_atse.zip.html

The cover art uses a photo of Wonder performing on the Dick Cavett show in 1970.

Oingo Boingo - Ain't This the Life - Non-Album Tracks (1976-1979)

Oingo Boingo is a very underrated band, in my opinion. Their first three albums in particular are solid all the way through. They were extremely popular in Southern California in the 1980s, but on the rare occasions they got nationwide recognition, it was for some of their lesser efforts, like the song "Weird Science."

They also are a band that has been more or less ignored since they broke up. Their main singer and songwriter Danny Elfman has gone off to great fame and fortune composing movie soundtracks, and it seems he's put the entire Oingo Boingo experience behind him. There have been no rereleases with bonus tracks, or deluxe editions, or box sets, or rarities compilations, or the like. And that's a shame, because it turns out the band recorded all sorts of good songs that never got on any of their albums, and many of them never even got officially released at all.

It took a long time for the band to hit it big. The group was actually formed in 1972, and for a long time it was a surrealist performance art theatrical troupe led by Danny's brother, Richard Elfman. This album covers the tail end of the early years, mostly after they morphed into a new wave band led by Danny. (Up until 1979, they went by the name "The Mystic Knights of Oingo Boingo," but for simplicity's sake I'm just using "Oingo Boingo" for everything here.) The band put out two EPs and had lots of good songs that never even got released at all before their first album "Only a Lad" came out in 1981.

I think this album is as good or better than most of their other albums. It's a shame that the group's recordings have been so neglected by their record company.

The second and third songs, "You Got Your Baby Back" and "Ballad of the Caveman," are from an obscure 1976 single. "You Got Your Baby Back" is a 1950s parody song that comments on the strange kidnapping saga of Patty Hearst (look it up if you don't know her story). Three more songs towards the end of the album, "Forbidden Zone," "I'm So Bad," and "I'm Afraid," also have been officially released, but on very obscure releases. The rest of the songs are officially unreleased. But all but one of them are studio demos and sound very good.

The one song demoted to a bonus track, "Only a Lad," sounds great. It was the band's first hit. However, this is an earlier EP version. I've only included it as a bonus track since it's the same song as the hit. But I figure some people might want to hear the alternate version. 

This album is 52 minutes, not including the bonus tracks.

The bonus tracks are "Goodbye, Goodbye," "Only a Lad [EP Version]," and "Wolverine." The band would later release "Goodbye, Goodbye" on a movie soundtrack in 1982, but this is a fairly different demo version. It sounds fine and is only a bonus track because I put other versions on other albums. That's the same situation with "Only a Lad," this version sounds fine, but it's just an alternate to the more famous version. "Wolverine" is a nice original. The sound quality was a bit rough, which is why it's a bonus track. But I used the audio editing program X-Minus to boost the vocals and hopefully improve the sound somewhat.

01 Acapella Ditty (Oingo Boingo)
02 You Got Your Baby Back (Oingo Boingo)
03 Ballad of the Caveman (Oingo Boingo)
04 Don't Go in the Basement (Oingo Boingo)
05 St. James Infirmary (Oingo Boingo)
06 Nuclear Babies (Oingo Boingo)
07 California Girls (Oingo Boingo)
08 Make It Right (Oingo Boingo)
09 I Must Be Dreaming (Oingo Boingo)
10 Marching in Time (Oingo Boingo)
11 Because of You (Oingo Boingo)
12 Ain't This the Life (Oingo Boingo)
13 Forbidden Zone (Oingo Boingo)
14 I'm So Bad (Oingo Boingo)
15 I'm Afraid (Oingo Boingo)
16 Gotta Get Out (Oingo Boingo)

Goodbye, Goodbye [Demo Version] (Oingo Boingo)
Only a Lad [EP Version] (Oingo Boingo)
Wolverine [Edit] (Oingo Boingo)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16088606/OINGBO1976-1979_AintThsLfe_atse.zip.html

The cover art is based on the cover of their 1979 EP. Apparently, that EP had a number of different covers, mostly with different coloring. I picked one I liked, and also changed the text.

The Kinks - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1967-1969

This is the second volume of the Kinks performing for the BBC. As with the first volume, my main goal here is to post versions of these songs without the annoying talk of the BBC DJs over the beginnings and endings of many of the songs.

It turns out that it was a lot easier for me to remove the DJ talk on this album. That's because that many of the BBC versions here actually are very similar to the recorded versions. I'm not entirely sure what the rules were in that era, but I believe the BBC had some requirement that a certain percentage of music played on the BBC had to be live recordings instead of just playing the records. But in the late 1960s, the Kinks' music grew increasingly complicated, which meant it was increasingly difficult for them to replicate the sound of their records in a live context, at least unless they could use various session musicians like keyboardist Nicky Hopkins or backing vocalist (and Ray Davies' first wife) Rasa Davies, who was the secret ingredient for songs like "Waterloo Sunset" and "Death of a Clown."

As a result, it appears the BBC often let the Kinks bend the rules, such as playing the exact instrumentation from the record for a certain song but recording new vocals to make it a new version. In such cases, it was easy for me to go back to the original record and patch in a part of it to replace the section where the DJ was talking. The downside though is that the BBC versions here often aren't that different.

Also, I found a couple of songs that weren't included on the BBC box set, "At the BBC." One is the version of "Dandy" that starts the album. The other is a medley of "Last of the Steam Powered Trains" and "Picture Book." I'm not sure why that wasn't included on the official record, because it is from the BBC and it was actually done completely live. (You can find videos of the performance on YouTube.)

I have more albums of the Kinks at the BBC still to come. Those include many more songs that didn't get on the official box set.

01 Dandy (Kinks)
02 Love Me Till the Sun Shines [Edit] (Kinks)
03 Death of a Clown [Edit] (Kinks)
04 Good Luck Charm [Edit] (Kinks)
05 Sunny Afternoon (Kinks)
06 Autumn Almanac [Record Version with New Vocals] [Edit] (Kinks)
07 Harry Rag [Edit] (Kinks)
08 Mr. Pleasant [Edit] (Kinks)
09 Susannah's Still Alive [Edit] (Kinks)
10 David Watts [Edit] (Kinks)
11 Waterloo Sunset [Edit] (Kinks)
12 Days (Kinks)
13 Love Me Till the Sun Shines (Kinks)
14 Monica [Edit] (Kinks)
15 The Village Green Preservation Society (Kinks)
16 Animal Farm [Record Version with New Vocals & Bass] [Edit] (Kinks)
17 Last of the Steam Powered Trains - Picture Book [Live] (Kinks)
18 Plastic Man [Record Version with New Vocals] (Kinks)
19 King Kong [Remixed Version with New Vocals] (Kinks)
20 Do You Remember Walter [Record Version with New Vocals] [Edit] (Kinks)
21 Victoria [Remixed Record Version with New Vocals] (Kinks)
22 Mr. Churchill Says [Remixed Record Version with New Vocals] [Edit] (Kinks)
23 Arthur [Record Version with New Vocals] (Kinks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/R6sWejKE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/OXDiddJ4izby1Y5/file

Like the other albums in this series, I used the basic design of the cover of the "At the BBC" box set, But I changed the picture of the Kinks to one I like better. The photo comes from an appearance at the Top of the Pops in 1967. I also changed the background colors so each volume in the series can be easily distinguished from each other.

Maria McKee - Sweetest Child - Non-Album Tracks (1993)

I posted a Maria McKee album here recently that essentially was a complimentary album to her first solo album, 1989's "Maria McKee." This is a complimentary album to her second solo album from 1993, the great "You Gotta Sin to Get Saved."

Like the previous album I posted, this is a studio album made up of demos, B-sides, live tracks (with crowd noise edited out), and the like. McKee is a great artist with a great voice, so of course this is great too. ;)

Only four of the songs are officially released. "Sweetest Child" is an A-side. "I Wish I Was Your Mother" and "This Thing (Don't Lead to Heaven)" are B-sides. "Opelousas (Sweet Relief)" is from a various artists tribute album. The rest are studio outtakes or from soundboard level quality bootlegs.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Sweetest Child (Maria McKee)
02 Silver and Gold [Through the Master's Eyes] (Maria McKee)
03 My Blue Ridge Mountain Boy (Maria McKee)
04 My Old Flame [Acoustic] (Maria McKee)
05 I Wish I Was Your Mother (Maria McKee)
06 Opelousas [Sweet Relief] (Maria McKee)
07 Shake a Hand (Maria McKee)
08 This Thing Don't Lead to Heaven (Maria McKee)
09 Put It Off until Tomorrow [Acoustic] (Maria McKee & Emmylou Harris)
10 Nothing Takes the Place of You (Maria McKee)
11 Then You Can Tell Me Goodbye (Maria McKee)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15848151/MariMcK_1992-1993_SweetstChld_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I used the cover of the "Sweetest Child" single. However, I found that cover disappointingly bland, since it mostly just featured the song title in big letters and McKee's name in much smaller letters, plus a doodle of a baby. It seems especially a shame not to include any picture of McKee, since she's quite pretty. So I did some rearranging and added in a photo of her from the "I'm Gonna Soothe You" single.

James Taylor - Acoustic Cover Songs (1970)

I'm not that big of a James Taylor fan. I really like his first three albums (from 1968, 1970, and 1971), but I feel he often coasted or repeated himself after that.

However, 1970 was a banner year for him. Early in the year, he released the album "Sweet Baby James," which went on to sell millions.

There are two bootleg concerts of him from early 1970 that I like a lot. Both of them are pristine soundboards, and in both of them he performed solo acoustic. One nice thing about both shows is that instead of just playing his own songs, he performed lots of cover songs that never got released on any of his albums. He has a way of taking songs from all sorts of genres and "James Taylor-ifying" them in a pleasing, mellow way.

What I did was take all of the cover songs not on any albums of the era and edit out the talking and the clapping. It makes for an excellent 52 minute long album that is very much in the vein of "Sweet Baby James."

All the songs are sourced from the two concerts I mentioned above, except for the last two tracks. One of those is from another 1970 acoustic concert, while the last track is a song from Taylor's first album done as a duet with Bobbie Gentry on the BBC in 1969.

By the way, I recommend hearing the entire concerts these song are drawn from (the Jabberwocky Club from February 1970 and Harvard University from April 1970). Taylor is very entertaining, with lots of talking and joking between songs. Sadly, after 1970, he seems to have switched to a different style of concert, with a lot less talking and a lot fewer or no odd cover songs.

01 Diamond Joe (James Taylor)
02 Will the Circle Be Unbroken (James Taylor)
03 Dixie (James Taylor)
04 Hallelujah, I Love Her So (James Taylor)
05 Pretty Boy Floyd (James Taylor)
06 Yesterday (James Taylor)
07 Duncan and Brady (James Taylor)
08 Hush-a-Bye (James Taylor)
09 If I Needed Someone (James Taylor)
10 People Get Ready (James Taylor)
11 Satisfied Mind (James Taylor)
12 With a Little Help from My Friends (James Taylor)
13 Mannish Boy (James Taylor)
14 Okie from Muskogee (James Taylor)
15 Greensleeves (James Taylor)
16 [He Played Real Good] For Free (James Taylor)
17 In My Reply (James Taylor)
18 Diamonds in the Rough (James Taylor)
19 Up on the Roof (James Taylor)
20 Something's Wrong (James Taylor & Bobbie Gentry)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16693309/JAMSTYLR1970_AcoustcCovrSongs_atse.zip.html

The cover art is based on a picture from Taylor appearing at the BBC in 1970.

Sheryl Crow - You Want More - Non-Album Tracks (1994)

Sheryl Crow is a musician that doesn't get enough respect. Yes, she's very mainstream, but she's a talented songwriter and an excellent singer. And I like how her music is based in classic rock.

She also is the kind of artist who leaves stray tracks all over the place, in the form of B-sides, soundtracks, duets, live covers, and other rarities. A lot of that is high quality music that just doesn't happen to fit on her albums.

In 1993, Crow hit it big with her album "Tuesday Night Music Club." She didn't put out another album until 1996, but she was recording lots of music all the while. Here's a compilation of songs from 1994. I think this makes up a solid album, with all but three of the songs written by her. (The three covers are: "Cold Turkey," "Solitaire," and "Heart of Gold.")

This album is 46 minutes long.

01 Coffee Shop (Sheryl Crow)
02 Killer Life (Sheryl Crow)
03 Essential Trip of Hereness (Sheryl Crow)
04 Cold Turkey (Sheryl Crow)
05 Live with Me (Rolling Stones & Sheryl Crow)
06 You Want More (Sheryl Crow)
07 Solitaire (Sheryl Crow)
08 Rodeo (Sheryl Crow)
09 On the Outside (Sheryl Crow)
10 Heart of Gold (Sheryl Crow)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15104577/SherylC_1994_YouWntMore_atse.zip.html

The album cover is based on the cover for the "All I Wanna Do" single, with just the text changed.

Pink Floyd - Point Me at the Sky - Non-Album Tracks (1968-1969)

As I previously stated here, lots of great Pink Floyd stray tracks have been officially released, but the problem is they weren't logically organized into listenable albums.

I already posted one album of stray studio tracks from 1967. This is a continuation of that, gathering all their stray tracks from 1968 and 1969. It's enough for a solid 41-minute long album. The break between this album and the one I posted before is right when Syd Barrett was removed from the group.

This doesn't include any BBC performances or other live versions. I'll include those in future posts.

In 1969, Pink Floyd recorded some instrumental music for the movie "The Committee." That's the subject of a different album posted here. Most of the songs on that don't stand on their own, but I think one of them is good enough for those who don't want to hear the whole soundtrack performance. So I've added, "The Committee, Part 8" to this album.

01 It Would Be So Nice (Pink Floyd)
02 Julia Dream (Pink Floyd)
03 The Committee, Part 8 [Do You Play Bridge] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
04 Point Me at the Sky (Pink Floyd)
05 Careful with that Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)
06 Song 1 [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
07 Roger's Boogie (Pink Floyd)
08 Hollywood [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
09 Theme [Beat Version] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
10 Embryo [Studio Version] (Pink Floyd)
11 Biding My Time (Pink Floyd)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/93vqH7m2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/h6vj2AKpTXTnHtT/file

The cover is from a poster for a 1967 Pink Floyd concert. I'd already decided to call the album "Point Me at the Sky," after one of the songs, and this seems to fit.

The Jam - Beat Surrender - Non-Album Tracks (1982)

Here's the last of three albums gathering up all of the Jam's stray band tracks. It covers just 1982, and reflects Paul Weller's growing interest in soul music, with about half of the tracks cover versions of famous soul songs.

I say "band tracks," because I also have albums I plan on posting eventually of the Jam doing band demos of songs on their other albums, as well as acoustic demos.

As I mentioned previously, the Jam has been thoroughly covered with a box set and deluxe or super deluxe versions of all their albums. Even so, this album has a nice unreleased rarity, a cover of "I Think You Got Your Fools Mixed Up" by Brenton Wood.

By the way, my general rule is to not include songs that are on other albums. "Precious" is on the Jam's 1982 album "The Gift." But the version of that song included here is two minutes longer, and in my opinion is much better.

01 Precious [12 Inch Version] (Jam)
02 The Bitterest Pill [I Ever Had to Swallow] (Jam)
03 The Great Depression (Jam)
04 I Got You [I Feel Good] (Jam)
05 Pity Poor Alfie - Fever (Jam)
06 A Solid Bond in Your Heart (Jam)
07 War (Jam)
08 Move On Up (Jam)
09 Stoned Out of My Mind (Jam)
10 Shopping (Jam)
11 I Think You Got Your Fools Mixed Up [Demo] (Jam)
12 Beat Surrender (Jam)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700759/TJAMM1982_BetSurrndr_atse.zip.html

The album cover is just the cover to the "Beat Surrender" single, except I wiped out the names of the B-sides.

Crosby, Stills and Nash - Try to Find Me - Non-Album Tracks (1986)

The alternative history where Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young put out lots of albums together continues.

As I said in my last post, of the imagined 1980 CSN album "Melody," most of the 1980s were a dark time for CSN. I remember being shocked when I saw CSNY reunite for Live Aid in 1985. Nash and Young looked fine, but Crosby and Stills both looked like they weighed close to 300 pounds each, and seemed barely there. It turns out both of them had severe drug problems for most of the decade. On top of that, the group's style of music was out of step with popular tastes at the time.

CSN almost put out an album in 1985 or 1986. I have a 1985 bootleg where Nash mentions the month the album would be coming out in his between song chatter. But for whatever reason, it didn't come out. Maybe the record company thought it wouldn't sell enough, or maybe Crosby's second major drug bust and year in prison starting in 1985 put things on hold. When Crosby got out in 1986, he'd finally gotten over his drug habit, and Neil Young promised he'd reunite if and when that happened, so perhaps they ditched a CSN album in favor of a CSNY one (which would eventually come out in 1988).

Be that as it may, there's not much interest today in what CSN was doing in the mid-1980s, so very little of this lost album has come out on later archival releases or on bootlegs. But still, I think I've put together a solid album by basically gathering the best of what CSN was doing in the mid-1980s.

As with the last album in this series, "Melody," I've allowed myself to use songs from their solo albums, since so few people own those albums. Unfortunately, the albums Stills and Nash put out in the mid-1980s were low points for both of their careers, so there's no much to salvage from those. (I ended up using one song from each.) I also used the two studio tracks on the 1983 CSN album "Allies," which also later wound up as bonus tracks on the 1982 album "Daylight Again."

For about half the album, I used live tracks with the crowd noise edited out. Luckily, there are some high quality soundboard concert recordings from this time. Crosby was in really bad shape in 1984, deep in the throes of a series crack cocaine addiction, but somehow he pulled himself together to sing a really great version of "(He Played Real Good) For Free."

To be honest, chances are the lost 1985 or 1986 CSN album probably wouldn't have been very good. They almost certainly would have given in to the temptation to use current production techniques that didn't suit their music at all, such as extra loud drumming and lots of synthesizers. But with 20/20 hindsight, I'm able to avoid those pitfalls and select songs and performances that have stood the test of time. They may have been going through a dark time, but they still were coming up with enough quality new songs to make what could have been a solid album.

01 50-50 (Stephen Stills with Graham Nash)
02 Lonely Man (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
03 Distances (Crosby & Nash)
04 War Games (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Love Is the Reason (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
06 Tomorrow Is Another Day (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
07 Vote (Crosby Stills & Nash)
08 Flying Man (David Crosby)
09 Raise a Voice (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
10 Sad Eyes (Graham Nash)
11 Right by You (Stephen Stills)
12 Try to Find Me (Graham Nash)
13 [He Played Real Good] For Free (David Crosby)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17363404/CROSBSTLLSNSH1986TrytFndMe_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/x1zREDVt

As I mentioned above, Crosby and Stills looked like hell around this time. Crosby looked particularly bad because he came out of a prison with nearly all of his hair shaved off. So I figure if there ever was a time when a group wouldn't have wanted a photo of themselves on the cover, this was it. I found a CSN concert poster from the 1990s and made some changes to it, especially by adding the album cover title.

Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, Volume 7: 1970-1971

Here is the seventh of the Dusty Springfield albums that contains songs she only did on TV or the radio and never recorded in the studio. It's practically an entire alternate career for her in the 1960s and early 1970s.

Most of the previous albums in this series each covered one year, But this time, one album covers two years. That's because her popularity started to wane in the early 1970s, and she had fewer appearances on TV and radio. That would culminate in her recording an album in 1974 that her record company wouldn't release, and then her essentially going into retirement for a few years. So this marks the end of an era for her.

Every single song on this album is officially unreleased. By this time, her own series of British TV shows had come to an end. So these are generally appearances she made on the TV shows of other stars, such as Tom Jones, Lulu, Marty Feldman, and Englebert Humperdinck. 

The sound quality varies. It's not great, because these generally come from YouTube videos. But I didn't include anything I'd consider a tough listen.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Ain't No Mountain High Enough (Dusty Springfield & Engelbert Humperdinck)
02 Everybody Gets to Go to the Moon (Dusty Springfield)
03 I'm Gonna Make You Love Me (Dusty Springfield & Tom Jones)
04 Free the People (Dusty Springfield & Lulu)
05 Joy to the World (Dusty Springfield & Lulu)
06 A House Is Not a Home (Dusty Springfield & Burt Bacharach)
07 The Look of Love (Dusty Springfield with Burt Bacharach)
08 Rain (Dusty Springfield)
09 Sweet Sweetheart (Dusty Springfield & Tom Jones)
10 People Get Ready (Dusty Springfield)
11 It's Too Late (Dusty Springfield)
12 Take Me to the Pilot (Dusty Springfield)
13 Nothing Rhymed (Dusty Springfield)
14 Ain't No Sunshine (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/bepCbbbR 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/4Bmw8FZxWikofD1/file

The cover photo is from an unknown 1972 TV show.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program.

Beck - Totally Confused - Non-Album Tracks (1994)

As I mentioned previously, Beck was so prolific in the 1990s that for each album he put out in that decade, there's at least another album of original songs.

That's especially the case with 1994, when he first broke big with his hit single "Loser." This album contains only songs done with a full band, which were mostly released on B-sides. I have an entire other album I'll be posting soon of original Beck songs from 1994 that were done acoustically. And that doesn't include his acoustic performances on the KCRW radio station in the 1990s, which are worthy albums on their own in my opinion, so I'll be posting those too.

Note that the last two songs are from 1995, but I included them here because they didn't fit elsewhere.

Also note that two of the songs here are variants of songs on his 1994 album "Mellow Gold." But I'm including them here because I felt they're significantly different. One is "Soul Suckin' Jerk [Reject]," which is two minutes longer than the "Soul Suckin' Jerk" on "Mellow Gold," and has different lyrics. The other is "Got No Mind," which is a variant of "Pay No Mind (Snoozer)."

If you like "Mellow Gold," you'll definitely like this.

01 MTV Makes Me Wanna Smoke Crack [Lounge Version] (Beck)
02 Corvette Bummer (Beck)
03 Alcohol (Beck)
04 Fume (Beck)
05 Soul Suckin' Jerk [Reject] (Beck)
06 In a Cold Ass Fashion (Beck)
07 Assikzz Powergrudge [Payback '94] (Beck)
08 Got No Mind [Pay No Mind] [Snoozer] (Beck)
09 Totally Confused (Beck)
10 Casio [Good Stuff] (Beck)
11 Flavor, Part 2 (Jon Spencer Blues Explosion with Beck)
12 Glut (Beck)
13 Untitled [We Are Bacteria] (Beck)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15124582/BeckH_1994c_TotallyConfusd_atse.zip.html

The cover art is based on a rare variant of the cover art for the "Loser" single. I only added some text at the bottom. I picked the album title from one of the song titles.

Derek and the Dominos - Layla Album Alternates (1970)

In my opinion, "Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs" by Derek and the Dominos is one of the greatest albums of all time, and the highlight of Eric Clapton's long career.

Over the years, outtakes from the recording sessions for the album have been made public, either officially or through bootlegs. For this album, I've collected the best alternate versions of the songs from the album to create an alternate version of the album. There are 14 songs on the original album; I found alternates for 10 of them. In addition, there are outtakes of different songs recorded during those sessions, but I'll save that for another album.

One great thing about the Layla album is the guitar interplay between Clapton and Duane Allman. Some, but not all, of the songs here have Duane playing on them. One good example of the alternate version of the song "Layla." Strangely, despite there being multiple official releases of Layla with entire extra discs of bonus tracks, this version has only ever come out on bootleg. In fact, nearly all of the takes here are from bootlegs.

01 Layla [Alternate Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
02 I Looked Away [Alternate Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
03 Have You Ever Loved a Woman [Alternate Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
04 Bell Bottom Blues [Instrumental Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
05 Tell the Truth [Alternate Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
06 Anyday [Alternate Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
07 It's Too Late [Alternate Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
08 Keep on Growing [Instrumental Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
09 Why Does Love Got to Be So Sad [Alternate Version] (Derek & the Dominos)
10 Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out [Instrumental Version] (Derek & the Dominos)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MPLoWhKE

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/saJajjVYOzcz6Qy/file

The cover is one of the very few photos of Derek and the Dominos that includes Duane Allman. In May 2025, I improved the image with the use of the Krea AI program.

Jimi Hendrix - Hear My Train A-Comin' - Non-Album Tracks (1969)

It's been a while since I've posted any Jimi Hendrix, but I've got a lot more from him to post. Before I get to live, acoustic, and other material, I first want to continue my series of albums containing songs not on the studio albums released in his lifetime.

I've already posted an album of non-album tracks from his "Are You Experienced?" through "Electric Ladyland" period. This album covers late 1968 (after "Electric Ladyland" was released) through about April 1969, when the Experience broke up. This also only covers studio work with the Experience, as Hendrix already started doing some music with Buddy Miles and others in early 1969. (The next album in the series will cover everything between the end of the Experience and the start of the Band of Gypsys later in 1969.)

This time period was a difficult one for Hendrix. He wasn't getting along well with bassist Noel Redding, musically or otherwise, but it took him a while before he got around to breaking up the Experience. He also didn't seem to know how he wanted to follow up the great "Electric Ladyland."

Even so, Hendrix was constantly coming up with new material. In fact, even though this covers only a six month period, I had a hard time cutting this down to something that could fit on a vinyl album in that era. Those that didn't make the cut include the instrumentals "Crying Blue Rain" and "Noel's Tune," as well as an early version of "New Rising Sun" and a remake of "Red House."

I did include a Noel Redding song - "I Don't Mind" - even though I don't think it has Hendrix playing on it, because each of the Experience albums typically had a Redding song on it, and I think this is one of Redding's few good songs. "Cat Talking to Me" also has vocals from drummer Mitch Mitchell, surprisingly enough.

In my opinion, the highlight of the album is "Hear My Train A-Comin'." He played the song many times in concert, and also attempted in many times in the studio, but never released any version of it in his lifetime. It's debatable which studio take is best, but they're all gond and I figured it makes sense if he released it early on so people could better appreciate it when he played it in concert so often.

Normally, I don't include the same song on multiple albums. But my earlier stray tracks collection has "Stone Free" on it, and this one does too. That's because the Experience rerecorded the song in early 1969. The thinking was that the song only came out as a B-side in late 1966, so lots of fans missed it, but it was a really good song, so the new version was going to be an A-side off the new Experience album. Of course that never came to be, since the Experience didn't release another studio album before breaking up.

These six months were a transitional time for Hendrix, and this album clearly isn't an all time classic like "Electric Ladyland," but I still think it's got a lot of good stuff on it. And, in my opinion, it makes a lot more sense to listen to Hendirx by grouping his songs into time period rather than the scattershot approach of many later archival albums.

By the way, this album is 49 minutes long. That would have been very long for the era, but still doable. For instance, "L.A. Woman" by the Doors in 1971 was 50 minutes long.

01 Stone Free [1969 Version] (Jimi Hendrix)
02 Shame, Shame, Shame [It's Too Bad] (Jimi Hendrix)
03 Lover Man (Jimi Hendrix)
04 I Don't Mind (Noel Redding)
05 Midnight [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix)
06 Gloria (Jimi Hendrix)
07 Hear My Freedom (Jimi Hendrix)
08 Peace in Mississippi [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix)
09 Cat Talking to Me (Jimi Hendrix with Mitch Mitchell)
10 Hear My Train A-Comin' (Jimi Hendrix)
11 The New Rising Sun [Instrumental] (Jimi Hendrix)

https://www77.zippyshare.com/v/kE8c0Or0/file.html

The album cover comes from a cool picture included in the archival release "Valleys of Neptune." I just added the text to it.

George Harrison - Cosmic Empire - Non-Album Tracks (1970-1971)

Here's something that I think is really great.

Because the Beatles didn't allow many George Harrison songs on their records, he'd created a stockpile of unreleased songs by 1970. Even after releasing the triple album "All Things Must Pass" that year, he still had a bunch of quality songs left over. And yet, he didn't release another studio album until 1973, which was an eternity in those days.

This is the album that Harrison could have released in 1971. It has two new songs, "Bangladesh" and its B-side "Deep Blue." But other than that, these are all outtakes from "All Things Must Pass." Personally, I think this album is solid all the way through, possibly his best solo album behind only "All Things Must Pass" and "Cloud Nine."

However, this may be a controversial album for some people, because I've used five songs that one might consider "outfakes." They're songs Harrison sang and played on acoustic guitar, and were later released on the "Beware of ABKCO" bootleg, which I've posted here already. The controversial part is that, in recent years, someone named "walrusz" overdubbed other instruments and backing vocals to turn the simple acoustic versions into full band versions.

Normally, I stay far, far away from that sort of thing. In fact, I think these are the only "outfakes" I've allowed in my entire music collection. But I'm making an exception here because the overdubs are just so very well done! If I didn't tell you, I doubt you'd ever even suspect that the overdubs came years later, because they're so tastefully done. For instance, there's slide guitar that sounds exactly like Harrison's style, played by someone who clearly is a talented musician. Please give these a try, because with Harrison having passed away, the odds are he never did anything with these songs beyond the "Beware of ABKCO" demo versions, so this is the only way to hear them as they should have been. Even the demo versions may never be officially released.

Besides, if you have an issue with those, there's still over 30 minutes of other songs on this album that are all original recordings. With the exception of the "Bangladesh" A- and B-sides, none of them have been officially released. None of those songs are on "Beware of ABKCO" either (aside from the Walrusz overdubbed ones).

Note that I wasn't sure if I should include "I'll Still Love You (Whenever)." It's a good song, but it clearly is a very rough version, with Harrison mumbling his way through most of the lyrics. I ultimately decided to include it, but I edited out a couple of minutes of the worst mumbling. The take was too long and repetitive anyway, so I think it works much better as a three minute song than a five minute one.

Oh, also, I made two small edits to "You." Harrison was singing a guide vocal on that, and at various points in the song he loudly says "Bridge" and "Second bridge" to make sure his band members know when to change chords. I removed those by patching in a few seconds from elsewhere in the song each time.

So yeah, there's some editing and manipulation of these songs. But the bottom line is you'll have a really nice George Harrison album that you didn't have before.

01 It Don't Come Easy (George Harrison)
02 I Live for You (George Harrison)
03 Cosmic Empire (George Harrison with Overdubs by Walrusz)
04 Dehra Dun (George Harrison)
05 Window, Window (George Harrison with Overdubs by Walrusz)
06 Everybody, Nobody (George Harrison with Overdubs by Walrusz)
07 Bangladesh (George Harrison)
08 Deep Blue (George Harrison)
09 You (George Harrison)
10 Mother Divine (George Harrison with Overdubs by Walrusz)
11 Nowhere to Go (George Harrison with Overdubs by Walrusz)
12 Gopala Krishna (George Harrison)
13 Going Down to Golders Green (George Harrison)
14 I'll Still Love You [Whenever] [Edit] (George Harrison)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15119244/GeorgeH_1971_CosmicEmpire_atse.zip.html

The cover is based on a 1971 photo. I had a lot of options of what to call the album, but for some reason "Cosmic Empire" just sounded right to me.

The Kinks - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1964-1965

You know what I really, really hate? BBC recordings where the DJ talks all over the start and/or the end of the song! UGH! It's bad enough to not be able to really hear the music due to the talking, but I especially hate how smarmy and insincere the DJs of the 1960s sound. It's like they tried so hard to sound "hip" but came off instead sounding like an insincere and pushy used car salesman.

I especially dislike Brian Matthew, whose voice is all over the Kinks' box set. He sounds especially insincere with his forced enthusiasm.

Most of the Kinks' performances for the BBC have been released on a box set called "At the BBC," which is great, except for those damn annoying  DJs talking over the music. I've broken the BBC box set into album-sized chunks, and also added songs they'd missed whenever I could. For this first album, covering 1964 and 1965, I was only able to add two songs - "Got Love If You Want It" (live, but done on the BBC), and "I Am Free."

I was able to use audio editing programs to wipe out the DJ talking while keeping the underlying music. Generally speaking, those are the songs with "[Edit]" in their names.

If you're like me and you just want to hear the Kinks without the hype of the smarmy DJ, this is for you. And if you like this, I've got a lot more BBC recordings without the DJ talk, not just of the Kinks but of many other bands. I plan on posting that here bit by bit.

01 Cadillac (Kinks)
02 You Really Got Me (Kinks)
03 Little Queenie [Edit] (Kinks)
04 Got Love If You Want It (Kinks)
05 I'm a Lover, Not a Fighter [Edit] (Kinks)
06 I've Got that Feeling (Kinks)
07 All Day and All of the Night [Edit] (Kinks)
08 You Shouldn't Be Sad [Edit] (Kinks)
09 Tired of Waiting for You (Kinks)
10 Everybody's Gonna Be Happy [Edit] (Kinks)
11 This Strange Effect [Edit] (Kinks)
12 See My Friends (Kinks)
13 Hide and Seek [Edit] (Kinks)
14 Milk Cow Blues (Kinks)
15 Got My Feet on the Ground (Kinks)
16 Never Met a Girl like You Before (Kinks)
17 Wonder Where My Baby Is Tonight (Kinks)
18 Till the End of the Day (Kinks)
19 A Well Respected Man (Kinks)
20 Where Have All the Good Times Gone (Kinks)
21 I Am Free (Kinks)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/MoLUBZFF

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/uVpdkrWVb55tm0x/file

Like the other albums in this series, I used the basic design of the cover of the "At the BBC" box set, But I changed the picture of the Kinks so I could use one in full color. The photo comes from 1964. I also changed the background colors so each volume in the series can be easily distinguished from each other.

Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, Volume 6: 1969-1970

Here's still more of Dusty Springfield's alternate career, playing songs on TV or the radio that she never put on any studio recording.

Dusty had soul! If you don't think so, just check out her cover of Jackie Wilson's "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher." And it took a lot of chutzpah to cover the Jackson Five's "I Want You Back." As usual, she nails it. She does show her more schmaltzy side here with some songs, such as her duets with Tom Jones and Burt Bacharach, but it's top notch schmaltz. ;)

The only officially released songs from this album are: "I Say a Little Prayer," "To Love Somebody," and "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher."

Note that one song here, "Those Blues - Goin' to Chicago" is a medley that was edited from an even longer medley. Right were Springfield stopped singing, the Osmond Brothers took over. The youngest Osmond at the time, who looked to be about five years old, had a solo spot that traumatized my ears. I've saved you from sharing that trauma, unless you think it's "cute" when little kids wail out of key. I edited this so the final chord rings out, hopefully giving the song a sense of completion.

This album is 41 minutes long.

01 Just Walk in My Shoes (Dusty Springfield)
02 Morning Please Don't Come (Dusty Springfield & Tom Springfield)
03 Ain't Nothin' but a House Party (Dusty Springfield)
04 I Say a Little Prayer (Dusty Springfield)
05 Love Is like an Itching in My Heart (Dusty Springfield)
06 You've Made Me So Very Happy (Dusty Springfield)
07 Those Blues - Goin' to Chicago [Edit] (Dusty Springfield & Andy Williams)
08 Melting Pot (Dusty Springfield & Cilla Black)
09 [Your Love Keeps Lifting Me] Higher and Higher (Dusty Springfield)
10 To Love Somebody (Dusty Springfield)
11 I'll Never Find Another You - Georgy Girl - A World of Our Own (Dusty Springfield)
12 I Want You Back (Dusty Springfield)
13 Knowing When to Leave (Dusty Springfield)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/e2mq6HCY 

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/NuBlyc7huJ9Qh8i/file

I'm not sure exactly when the cover photo is from, but I'd guess around 1970.

In August 2025, I improved the cover detail with the help of the Krea AI program.

The Jam - Going Underground - Non-Album Tracks (1980-1981)

As I mentioned in my previous post of a Jam album, I was able to gather up all of the Jam's stray tracks and make three albums from them. This is the second one, covering 1980 and 1981.

Like the last Jam album I made, this is high quality stuff, with some of the greatest songs of all time on it, such as "Going Underground."

Archival releases of Jam material has been very thorough. Not only was there a five disc box set that included just about everything they did, but there have been deluxe or even super deluxe versions of all their albums. Despite that, I've included two songs in excellent sound quality that still remain unreleased, both covers: "My Mind's Eye," and "Give Me Just a Little More Time".

The Jam released studio albums in 1980 and 1982, but not 1981. Most of the songs here are from 1981, so you can basically think of this as their 1981 album that should have been. A lot of the songs here turn out to be covers (tracks 3, 5, 6, 7, 12, 13, 15, 17, 18, and 19).

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Going Underground (Jam)
02 The Dreams of Children (Jam)
03 Rain (Jam)
04 Liza Radley (Jam)
05 My Mind's Eye (Jam)
06 And Your Bird Can Sing (Jam)
07 Stand by Me (Jam)
08 Funeral Pyre (Jam)
09 Disguises (Jam)
10 Absolute Beginners (Jam)
11 Tales from the Riverbank (Jam)
12 Get Yourself Together (Jam)
13 Big Bird (Jam)
14 Pop Art Poem (Jam)
15 Every Little Bit Hurts (Jam)
16 Walking in Heaven's Sunshine (Jam)
17 Sweet Soul Music (Jam)
18 Give Me Just a Little More Time (Jam)
19 Waterloo Sunset [Demo] (Jam)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700765/TJAMM1980-1981_GoinUndrgrundVariusSngs_atse.zip.html

The cover is based on the cover of the "Going Underground" single. Most versions of that cover art were of a bad picture, in my opinion, but luckily I found a rare version that looks much better. I hardly changed a thing for this one, except to increase the contrast to make it more black instead of a bland dark grey.

Crosby, Stills & Nash - Melody - Non-Album Tracks (1980)

The alternate history in which Crosby, Stills, Nash and/or Young stayed together more often to make albums continues.

At this point, I'm going to change my rules on what I put on these albums somewhat. Previously, I hadn't used any versions of songs taken directly from solo albums unless there was an unusual reason to do so. But, unfortunately, by about 1980, the commercial fortunes of Crosby, Stills and Nash sagged, in part due to shifting tastes but also due to them putting out work that was less impressive than before. So while many people today have early solo albums like Nash's "Songs for Beginners," I think only die hard fans have Nash's 1980 album "Earth and Sky." Thus, from now on, I may use songs from solo albums like that to make these alternate albums stronger.

By 1980, CSN was in a bad state. Both Stills and Crosby tried to put out solo albums that year, but their record companies wouldn't let them, for fear of poor record sales. It was surprising Crosby tried to put out any music at all, because he was getting deep into a crack cocaine addiction that would nearly kill him before he finally went straight after going to prison in the mid-1980s. All the songs on his proposed solo album had been written a couple of years earlier, or before. Nash did put out his "Earth and Sky" album, but hardly anybody noticed. It originally was going to be a Crosby-Nash album, but Nash found Crosby too tough to deal with, due to the drug problem.

To make matters worse, CSN was on the outs with Neil Young. Young put out a song called "Thrasher" on his acclaimed 1979 album "Rust Never Sleeps" that pretty directly called out CSN for being "lost in crystal canyons," probably a reference to Crosby's drug use. Young concluded, "So I got bored and left them there, they were just dead weight to me." As a result, aside from one appearance at a Crosby-Nash concert in 1978, Young wouldn't do anything with CSN until Live Aid in 1985.

As a result, it would be way too much of a stretch for me to try to make this a CSNY album. In fact, there isn't even much of the three of them working together on this album, since they were going their own ways most of the time in this era.

That said, the three of them still made some good music from time to time. Already by 1980, there were some tentative attempts at recording another CSN album. I've only taken two songs from that though, because most of what's available are the same songs that would appear on their 1982 album "Daylight Again." (And one of the songs here is a bonus track from that which was actually done in 1980.) Stills in particular seems to have be active and writing lots of songs, but most of his studio efforts around this time for his unreleased album have never been officially released or even bootlegged. Still, his "Spanish Suite" which closes out this album is one of his career highlights, in my opinion.

Although 1980 was a dark time for CSN, and things would stay dark for much of the 1980s, there's still enough good music from their faltering efforts to make solo albums, a C-N album, or a CSN album to put together an album with solid songs all the way through it, even if most of them don't have much of a group feeling.

Note that I put a version of "As I Come of Age' on an earlier album in this series, but I'm putting it on again here because CSN did a remake of it despite having a CSN version released on a 1975 Stills solo album already, and this version is somewhat different. Plus, it's one of the few songs they did around this time with all three of them singing impressively together.

Also note that two of the Crosby songs would later appear in different versions on his 1988 solo album "Oh Yes I Can." A lot of the songs on that album actually date from the 1970s, before he lost the better part of a decade to his crack addiction.

01 As I Come of Age (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
02 Drive My Car (David Crosby with Stephen Stills)
03 Barrel of Pain [Half-Life] (Graham Nash)
04 Feel Your Love (Crosby, Stills & Nash)
05 Earth and Sky (Graham Nash)
06 Dear Mr. Fantasy (Stephen Stills & Graham Nash)
07 Magical Child (Graham Nash)
08 Melody (David Crosby)
09 Out of the Island (Crosby & Nash)
10 Spanish Suite (Stephen Stills with Herbie Hancock)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17363410/CROSBSTLLSNSH1980Meldy_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/e97sRa1X

For the album cover, I used the cover of a CSN bootleg that had a style reminiscent of the 1970 CSNY album "Deja Vu" that I thought looked pretty good. But I made some changes, including changing the picture in the middle.