Norah Jones & Marian McPartland - Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Tanglewood, Lenox, MA, 8-30-2003

Here, I continue my campaign to show that Norah Jones's musical career is much more interesting than her hit singles and albums would indicate. This shows her getting much more acoustic and jazzy than usual, as she plays songs from the Great American Songbook with a piano as the only musical backing.

This technically is a concert recording, but you'd never know it. The audience noise has been removed so thoroughly, and the sound quality is so excellent, that it should be considered more like a long in studio radio performance. Also technically, Jones plays all the songs with famed pianist Marian McPartland, but it's hard to tell. McPartland certainly never sings, and since they're both playing pianos, it's hard to tell who is playing what. The bottom line is it sounds like Jones plus a piano to me.

I've added five bonus tracks at the end, but it would be impossible to tell unless you closely examine the mp3 tags (or read this). The bonus tracks come from around the same time, and also were done just with Jones and McPartland on piano, so the sound is exactly the same. The only difference is that on the main recording, Jones does all standards from the pre-rock and roll era, while on the bonus tracks she does a couple of the songs she made famous, including her big hit "Don't Know Why."

It's interesting to hear her do her songs in such a stripped down fashion, but mainly this is about hearing Jones perform the standards in her unique style. It's a mystery to me why she hasn't actually released an album like this yet.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Mean to Me (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
02 Lover Man (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
03 Walking My Baby (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
04 Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
05 Melancholia (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
06 Tenderly (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
07 Summertime (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
08 Easy Living (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
09 A Foggy Day in London Town (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
10 In the Dark (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
11 Comes Love (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
12 Don't Know Why (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
13 Peace (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
14 The Nearness of You (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15603480/NorahJ_2003_TnglewoodJazzFestivl__8-30-2003_atse.zip.html

The cover shows McPartland and Jones over a piano. But I don't know where and when it was taken. But it's most likely from 2002 or 2003, since that's when they collaborated.

Beck - Touch Dolphins - Rare Live Songs (2001-2005)

I mentioned in my last Beck post that I'd follow that up with an album of live Beck songs from the same time period. Here it is.

If you've been following this blog much, you've probably noticed that I like to remove the audience noise a lot. That's true, but sometimes that's not a good idea, such as when audience interaction is a key part of the song. That's the case here on many songs, such as "Days of '92." In other cases here, the recording just had a live concert sound to it and/or the audience noise overlapped the music. So I've retained the audience noise for all the songs here.

The music on this album is all over the place. I've organized the songs chronologically, which leads to some strange juxtapositions, such as a funk megajam followed by a cover of an Elliott Smith song! But I think that's kind of neat, to show the vast stylistic diversity of Beck.

Most of the songs here are cover versions. The ones I believe are Beck originals are: "Acoustic Blues," "Evil Things," "Days of '92," "Cherry Blossom Song," and "Touch Dolphins." During this time period, Beck sometimes would make up songs on the spot, or at least have only a rough idea of what he was doing. The last three songs here are like that.

A great case in point is "Touch Dolphins." He only played this song three times, and each time was significantly different. And by the way, I must say I find the song totally hilarious! (More for the overall concept and vibe than any specific jokes.) It's one of my favorite songs by him, and is a good example of why I enjoy his stuff so much. Who else but Beck would ever play a song mocking the trend of touching dolphins?

By the way, note that the songs here often have more variable sound quality. Some of the songs are at soundboard level of quality, but a lot of them were taken from audience recorded bootlegs. 

The song "Back Streets of Scottsdale (Scottsdale Revolution)" is an unusual one. For this tour, about a dozen times, Beck made up a song on the spot about the town he was playing in. All of them were vastly different, and all of them had titles starting with "Back Streets of..." This is the only one I've been able to find in good quality. 

"L'Anamour," a duet with French singer Jane Birkin, is a bonus track. Beck sings in French! It's only a bonus track due to slightly subpar sound quality.

01 Acoustic Blues [Early Version of Farewell Ride] (Beck)
02 Evil Things (Beck & Eddie Vedder)
03 I'm Set Free (Beck & Thom Yorke)
04 Days of '92 (Beck)
05 Grow Fins (Beck)
06 Who Loves the Sun (Beck)
07 Lovesick Blues (Beck)
08 Back Streets of Scottsdale [Scottsdale Revolution] (Beck)
09 You're the One that I Want (Beck & Sia)
10 Cherry Blossom Song (Beck)
11 Funk Megajam [Crazy in Love - Hot in Herre - Under Pressure - Erotic City - Beautiful - Humpty Dance] (Beck)
12 Ballad of Big Nothing (Beck)
13 Clementine (Beck)
14 Nothing in This World Can Stop Me Worrying about that Girl (Beck)
15 Touch Dolphins (Beck)

L'Anamour (Beck & Jane Birkin)
Last Fair Deal Gone Down (Jack White & Beck)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15126542/BeckH_2001-2005_TouchDolphns_atse.zip.html

Since I enjoy the song "Touch Dolphins" so much, I had to make it the title song. I decided to go in a very literal direction with the cover art, using a generic photo of someone touching dolphins.

Beck - Feel Good Time - Non-Album Tracks (2002-2004)

Beck did a lot of interesting things in the early 2000s that didn't make it onto any of his official albums. Unfortunately, not all of that sounds like excellently recorded studio material. So I'm dividing his stray tracks from this time into two categories: studio (or studio sounding) songs, and live songs, with audience noise and warts and all.

I've already released one album of studio sounding material covering 2000 and 2001. This continues that, covering 2002 to 2004. Following this album, I'll post another album of live songs covering 2001 to 2005.

This album contains a song that should have been a big hit for Beck: "Feel Good Time." This song was co-written by Beck, but it heavily samples the song "Fresh Garbage" by Spirit. Beck recorded it and was going to release it, but Pink heart of it somehow, and Beck gave the song to her, for some reason. His vocals were wiped and replaced by hers. She went on to have a number three hit with it in Britain. The Beck version still remains unreleased, but was posted on the producer's website at one point.

That song sounds like the sort of thing you'd hear on a pop station in 2003. But the rest of this album is far different. Most of them have an acoustic and/or country sound. The vast majority also are cover versions, from 2002 ("Do You Realize") all the way back to 1931 ("I'm So Glad"). As far as I can tell, there are only two other Beck originals, "Rosalie" and "Killing Kindness."

But still, it's a really good album, with most of the covers being interesting and unusual choices. Also, the sound is excellent. A few of the songs do come from concert bootlegs, but they are taken from pristine soundboards and the audience noise is removed, so they sound just like studio tracks.

01 Do You Realize (Beck)
02 Rosalie (Beck)
03 Beechwood Park (Beck)
04 Feel Good Time [Fresh Garbage] (Beck)
05 Kangaroo (Beck)
06 I'm So Glad (Beck)
07 Killing Kindness (Beck)
08 She Thinks I Still Care (Beck)
09 Magnolia (Beck)
10 Sleepless Nights (Beck)
11 True Love Will Find You in the End (Beck)
12 Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime (Beck)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15127174/BeckH_2002-2004_FeelGoodTme_atse.zip.html

I took the cover art from a Beck remix version of "Feel Good Time." I don't know where it comes from, but I really like it. All I did was add the words "Feel Good Time."

The Byrds - She Don't Care about Time - Non-Album Tracks (1965-1967)

Since I've started posting some albums by the Byrds, here's another one. To me, the Byrds from 1965 to 1967 were at their peak, and they recorded some of my favorite music ever. This album gathers up all the stray tracks from that time, so of course the music here is great. ;)

There are a couple of incidental tracks here, especially instrumentals, but there are some classic songs too. So overall, this album is just as solid as the other albums the Byrds released in those years. There are a few A- or B-sides, but for the most part, these songs weren't released until archival releases many years later.

Note that I'm keeping to my usual policy of avoiding alternate versions of songs officially released elsewhere. So, for instance, I'm not including either of the alternate versions of "Why," even though those versions are interesting and popular. Probably some point down the line I'll post an album just of interesting alternates like that one.

Back in 2018, I made a couple of mash-ups of Byrd songs. With "Bound to Fall," I paired an instrumental version lacking vocals with the vocals from Byrds bassist Chris Hillman some years later. With "Stranger in a Strange Land," a song by David Crosby, I had an instrumental version by the Byrds, but no known version of the Byrds or Crosby ever singing it. However, I did find a version of the song by folk duo Blackburn and Snow, and I merged that with the Byrds instrumental.

For this album, I'm including the mash-up of "Bound to Fall" at the end, since it's all the Byrds, even though it is a mash-up. But "Stranger in a Strange Land" mixes the Byrds with another artist, so that arguably isn't the Byrds anymore. Thus, I'm including that, but only as an optional bonus track.

01 She Has a Way (Byrds)
02 You and Me [Instrumental] (Byrds)
03 The Day Walk [Never Before] (Byrds)
04 She Don't Care about Time [Single Version] (Byrds)
05 It's All Over Now, Baby Blue (Byrds)
06 I Know My Rider [I Know You Rider] (Byrds)
07 Psychodrama City (Byrds)
08 If I Hang Around [Acoustic Demo] (Byrds)
09 Roll Over Beethoven (Byrds)
10 Lady Friend (Byrds)
11 Don't Make Waves (Byrds)
12 Flight 713 [Instrumental] (Byrds)
13 It Happens Each Day (Byrds)
14 Triad (Byrds)
15 Moog Raga [Instrumental] (Byrds)
16 Bound to Fall [Mash-Up Mix] (Byrds)

Stranger in a Strange Land [Mash-Up Mix] (Blackburn & Snow with the Byrds)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700739/TBYRDZ1965-1967_SheDntCreabutTime_atse.zip.html

I made the cover using a photo of the five original Byrds. I'm not sure what year it comes from, but I'd guess around 1966.

The Indigo Girls - Shame on You - Acoustic Versions (1994-1998)

My series of albums with acoustic versions of the Indigo Girls' most beloved songs continues.

The album covers the time period in which the studio albums "Swamp Ophelia" (1994) and "Shaming of the Sun" (1997) were released. Four of the songs were officially released, mostly as B-sides. But it doesn't matter much if it was officially released or not, because the unreleased songs all come from in-person radio appearances, with pristine sound. In fact, two of the unreleased songs come from the same exact radio appearance as one of the officially released ones, and you can't tell the difference in sound quality.

There's not much else to say here except if you like the Indigo Girls when they're stripped down to just their great vocal harmonies and their acoustic guitars, as I do, you should enjoy this.

By the way, I've got one more album in this series to post eventually. It covers 1997 to 2003. (My interest in the duo drops significantly after that.)

01 Reunion [Acoustic Mix] (Indigo Girls)
02 Dead Man's Hill [Acoustic Mix] (Indigo Girls)
03 Mystery [Acoustic Mix] (Indigo Girls)
04 The Wood Song (Indigo Girls)
05 Three Hits (Indigo Girls)
06 Power of Two (Indigo Girls)
07 Least Complicated (Indigo Girls)
08 Get Out the Map (Indigo Girls)
09 Shame on You (Indigo Girls)
10 It's Alright (Indigo Girls)
11 Everything in Its Own Time (Indigo Girls)
12 Shed Your Skin (Indigo Girls)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15853450/TIngidoGs_1994-1998_ShameonYouAcousticVersions_atse.zip.html

I chose to call this album "Shame on You" mainly so I could use this album cover and not have to make my own. This is the cover to the "Shame on You" single, with some extra text added by me at the bottom.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Mystery of Love - Non-Album Tracks (2010-2016)

This is the last of eight stray tracks albums I've made for Tom P., when he played either with Mudcrutch or the Heartbreakers. This deals with the last few years of his life. Tom P., rest in peace.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

Some of the songs come from the "An American Treasure" box set, and one is a bonus track. Three more are P.'s contributions to a tribute album to J. J. Cale put together by Eric Clapton.

Three more songs actually don't have P. involved at all, but are solo works from key Heartbreakers Mike Campbell or Benmont Tench. So far, Campbell has released very little solo material, and his song here, "Feelin' High," is from a very obscure single. But I think it's a worthy song, and he also happens to sing a lot like P. Tench put out a solo album in 2014, and I've only included what I considered the two best songs.

There's another three songs on this album which are frustratingly obscure: "Mystery of Love," "Lookin' for Daddy," and "How Much Do You Need." They haven't been released on any physical format at all, but were played on P.'s radio show in the year before his death. They're good songs, and hopefully this album will help give them more exposure.

Although this is the last of the P. stray tracks albums, I have a lot more of his material to post. P. liked to perform cover songs in concert. I've created an even longer series of albums just containing all of those live covers. That'll be coming soon.

This album is 53 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/Koz1XqfN

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/xbjwxYriOQ4tmKf/file

I'm not sure when the photo I used for the cover art was taken, but it looks to be from the last years of P.'s life. I think having him bow out is a fitting cover for an album of music near the end of his life.

The Zombies - Tell Her No - Non-Album Tracks (1964-1965)

Here's the second album from an alternate universe where the Zombies weren't treated like crap by their record company. As I mentioned in my previous Zombies post, the band was only allowed to release one album from 1964 to 1967, a time when many other bands of their caliber were releasing two albums a year.

It turns out the Zombies had enough material to keep up with those other bands. But they were relegated to releasing singles only (aside from that one album, "Begin Here"). The time covered with this album was arguably the band's commercial peak, after having hits with "She's Not There" and "Tell Her No," so nearly all of the songs were actually released at the time, on that album or as singles.

The exception are three songs performed only on the BBC. But the recording of these songs sounds just as good as any studio recording of the time, with no crowd noise and no annoying DJ talking over the music. So for this album and the rest of this series, if the Zombies did a song where there's a BBC recording and nothing else, I'm treating that like just any other studio track.

01 Tell Her No (Zombies)
02 The Way I Feel Inside (Zombies)
03 I Can't Make Up My Mind (Zombies)
04 You've Really Got a Hold on Me - Bring It On Home to Me (Zombies)
05 Can't Nobody Love You (Zombies)
06 I Got My Mojo Working (Zombies)
07 Work 'N' Play [Instrumental] (Zombies)
08 Soulville (Zombies)
09 For You My Love (Zombies)
10 She's Coming Home (Zombies)
11 I Must Move (Zombies)
12 Remember You (Zombies)
13 I Want You Back Again (Zombies)
14 Rip It Up (Zombies)
15 Just Out of Reach (Zombies)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701161/TZOMBIS1964-1965_TllHrNo_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I found a cover of a "Tell Her No" EP. But the titles of the four songs on it were written in small print at the bottom. I didn't like that, so I erased those and replaced it with just "Tell Her No" in a much larger font size.

Larkin Poe - Run for Your Money - Non-Album Tracks (2017-2018)

I'm bummed that I feel obliged to make this album, because this truly is an album that shouldn't exist. I'm a big fan of Larkin Poe, as can be seen by the way I keep posting their music alongside many of the greatest musicians of all time.

But they're not nearly as popular as they should be. I think a big reason for that is that they keep making terrible decisions over how to release their music to the public. Earlier in their career, they had a strange habit of releasing only EPs, releasing six in a row! EPs don't get noticed and reviewed the way full albums do, so that's strange. More recently, they released "Reskinned" in 2016, half of which was the exact same recordings of the same songs on their previous albums. Then they released "Peach" in 2017, and "Venom and Faith" in 2018. Both are excellent albums, but both are just over 30 minutes long. (Note that I "fixed" "Reskinned" in a previous post by adding a bunch of unreleased original songs that are different than any of these songs.)

Why, for the last three albums, have they released albums that are short? It leaves the impression that they don't have enough material, but that's not true. Witness this album, which is made up entirely of songs they have been playing in concert since at least before the recording of their most recent album, and all but two of the songs are originals ("Rollin' and Tumblin" and "Never Been to Spain"). Why haven't these songs been included on album?! To my ears, this album is just as good as either of their last two albums. The song quality can be seen by the fact that they play many of these songs in concert a lot. In fact, according to setlist.fm, a few are some of their most played songs.

If there ever has been a recent band sabotaging their popularity by poor choices about how to release their music, it's this band! Hopefully, this album will help ameliorate that somewhat. Hopefully also many or most of these songs will end up on their next album. If so, I'll take this post down to help with their record sales.

By the way, I've included one song only as a bonus track, in part because it's a cover and in part because the crowd noise means the sound quality is a notch below the rest of the album (which, by the way, has excellent sound). It's a cover of Black Sabbath's "War Pigs." Like most of the songs on this album, they're in full rocking mode.

01 Run for Your Money (Larkin Poe)
02 Might as Well Be Me (Larkin Poe)
03 Dark Matter (Larkin Poe)
04 Poor Folk (Larkin Poe)
05 Rollin' and Tumblin' (Larkin Poe)
06 Summertime Sunset (Larkin Poe)
07 Black Echo (Larkin Poe)
08 Atomic No. 33 (Larkin Poe)
09 Breaking Me Up (Larkin Poe)
10 Never Been to Spain (Larkin Poe & Mark Agnesi)

War Pigs (Larkin Poe)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15262098/LarkinP_2017-2018_RnforYourMoney_atse.zip.html

For the cover, I found a 2018 photo of Larkin Poe (i.e., Rebecca and Megan Lowell - Rebecca is the one looking forward), but I replaced a blah all-white background with something more interesting.

The Byrds - Acoustic Sessions - Non-Album Acoustic Tracks (1964)

The Byrds recorded a lot of songs in 1964, before they hit it big, and before they even were calling themselves "the Byrds." These recordings have been packaged in many ways, usually with "Preflyte" in the title. I decided to split them into two, with the full-band versions on one album and the acoustic versions on the other. As you can tell from the album title, this is the acoustic album.

With this album, I'm not worrying if I repeat some songs from the other 1964 album, or from later Byrds albums, because the fact that they're acoustic versions makes them sufficiently different and interesting. There are a few songs that would appear on the 1965 "Mr. Tambourine Man" album - "Here Without You," "I Knew I'd Want You," "You Won't Have to Cry," and "Mr. Tambourine Man."

But what really fascinates me is that the song "Everybody's Been Burned" is also included here. That song wouldn't be released by the Byrds until the 1967 "Younger than Yesterday" album. Yet this version is basically exactly the same, minus the instrumentation to flesh it out. The song is written by Byrd member David Crosby, so clearly he had songwriting skills years before it has generally been realized.

Also, the first song here is actually still unreleased, and is a Crosby solo performance dating back to 1962 or even 1961! His vocals sound great even back then. I wonder if that's an original song too.

Speaking of Crosby, some of the other songs are actually Crosby solo performances too. Plus, there are a bunch of solo performances by Gene Clark, who was the main singer and songwriter in the Byrds at the time. Rather than having a big bunch of Crosby songs in a row, and then another bunch of Clark's, I've tried to scatter both throughout the album, to give it more variety.

Oh, one of those Clark solo songs is rather odd if you listen to the lyrics: "All for Him." In it, Clark sings about another man he's fallen in love with. No, Clark wasn't secretly bisexual or the like. It turns out this was a demo for a song he wrote that was intended for a female singer.

One more note. There's one more song, another solo Clark song, that I failed to include: "I'd Feel Better." That's because I consider it such a poor song that I can't even bear to add it as a bonus track. The lyrics are simple and trite and the melody nothing special. I'm mentioning it in case you're a die-hard completist, in which case please track it down elsewhere.

01 It's Been Raining (David Crosby)
02 Why Can't I Have Her Back Again (Gene Clark)
03 All for Him (Gene Clark)
04 You Showed Me [Acoustic Demo] (Byrds)
05 I Knew I'd Want You [Acoustic Demo] (Byrds)
06 If There's No Love (Gene Clark)
07 You Won't Have to Cry [Acoustic Demo] (Byrds)
08 Tomorrow Is a Long Ways Away [Acoustic Demo] (Byrds)
09 The Way I Am (Gene Clark)
10 Everybody's Been Burned (David Crosby)
11 That Girl (Gene Clark)
12 Mr. Tambourine Man [Acoustic Demo] (Byrds)
13 I'm Just a Young Man (David Crosby)
14 The Only Girl I Adore [Demo] (Byrds)
15 A Worried Heart (Gene Clark)
16 Brotherhood of the Blues (David Crosby)
17 She's the Kind of Girl (Gene Clark)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700648/TBYRDZ1964_AcustcSessons_atse.zip.html

Originally, I made the album cover using a 1965 black and white photo of the band that shows them holding acoustic instruments. I figured it fits well with the acoustic theme. But over a year later, I looked at it again and was displeased at the lack of color. So I picked a different photo of them from 1965, but this one in color. Then, in 2023, using superior new computer technology (the program Palette), I colorized that pic too.

Here is the original photo, colorized, in case you prefer it. For both versions, I added the appropriate record company logo and stereo logo.

The Byrds - You Showed Me - Non-Album Tracks (1964)

I think the Byrds are one of the great 1960s musical acts. And yet I've only posted two songs of theirs here, both of which are mash-ups I've made. It's high time I post more from them, so I'm starting here.

This is my version of the "Preflyte" sessions from 1964. In short, the Byrds didn't release an album until 1965, "Mr. Tambourine Man." But it turned out they did a lot of recording in 1964, before they got any widespread attention at all. (They didn't call themselves "The Byrds" yet, going by "The Jet Set" or "The Beefeaters. But for simplicity's sake, I'm calling them the Byrds, since it's the exact same five people.)

In 1969, an album from these sessions called "Preflyte" was released, and it did well both commercially and critically. In fact, it was just about the first archival rock release. But that was just the start, because these sessions got repackaged several times, with different songs each time: "In the Beginning," "The Preflyte Sessions," and "Preflyte Plus."

I decided to make two albums out of all this material. One would be the best album the Byrds could have released, without using any of the songs they put on their later albums. (There are about four of those.) This is that album. The other collects the best of all of the acoustic versions of the songs. I'll post that shortly.

It turns out that, in addition to the Byrds doing some recording in 1964, Byrds member David Crosby did some recording with a full band too. There are four good songs, but they only feature Crosby singing. Rather than putting them all together at the end, I've scattered them throughout the album.

I also found two instrumentals from 1964 by Byrds bassist Chris Hillman, done with a bluegrass group he was briefly in, called the Hillmen. These songs have Hillman showing his instrumental prowess playing mandolin, not bass. I've added them in too.

The result is a mere 33 minute long album, but that's fine because that was a typical album length in those days. I think this album would have caused many to sit up and take notice in 1964, because the classic Byrds sound and songwriting was already in full bloom.

I really don't like the name "Preflyte," because this imagines an album that could have been released in 1964, and obviously the name "Preflyte" only makes sense in retrospect. The obvious hit single is the song "You Showed Me." In 1968, the Turtles covered it and had a big hit with it, even though it had a 1964 sound that was totally out of step with musical trends in 1968. Surely then it would have been a hit in 1964, if it had been properly promoted. The usual thing to do was name the album after the hit, so that's what I'm doing here (even though it's an imagined hit).

01 You Showed Me (Byrds)
02 The Airport Song (Byrds)
03 Come Back, Baby (David Crosby)
04 Tomorrow Is a Long Ways Away (Byrds)
05 Boston (Byrds)
06 The Reason Why (Byrds)
07 Willie Jean (David Crosby)
08 For Me Again (Byrds)
09 Wheel Hoss [Instrumental] (Hillmen)
10 Let's Get Together (David Crosby)
11 You Movin' (Byrds)
12 Don't Be Long [It Won't Be Wrong] (Byrds)
13 Please, Let Me Love You (Byrds)
14 Jack of Diamonds (David Crosby)
15 Blue Grass Chopper [Instrumental] (Hillmen)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17362744/TBYRDZ1964YuShowdMe_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/DE3QqJi4

For the album cover, I took a photo from the artwork of one of the Preflyte releases. Then I added the text and the same record company and stereo logos found on the next Byrds album. I upgraded it with the Krea AI program.

David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now - Non-Album Tracks (1974-1976)

Sometimes, these stray track compilations of mine can be a hodgepodge mainly for die-hard fans of a particular artist. But I think this album of David Bowie's is quite strong. If you like his music, you should grab these mp3 files.

This album covers his 1975 "Young Americans" soul phase for the most part, so it's stylistically consistent. (The last song dates to the 1976 "Station to Station" era.) About half of the songs are covers, but Bowie puts his unique stamp on them. The cover medley "Foot Stompin' - I Wish I Could Shimmy like My Sister Kate" predates his recording of his big hit "Fame," but note how some parts of that hit song can already be heard in this.

In 1976, Bowie lent a very big hand to Iggy Pop. Not only did he produce Pop's album "The Idiot" (which was released in early 1977), but he co-wrote every single song on it. Then he did the same in 1977 for Pop's next album, "The Passenger," writing or co-writing the vast majority of the songs there too. Unfortunately, "Sister Midnight" appears to be the only one of these songs that Bowie did himself in that era. (He would later make a big hit out of the co-write "China Girl," record a version of the co-write "Neightborhood Threat" to his 1984 album "Tonight," and also perform  the co-write "Lust for Life" in concert in 1996.) Perhaps somewhere in some vault there are more recordings of Bowie doing these songs.

This album is 52 minutes long.

UPDATE: On May 18, 2023, I updated the mp3 download file. I found two very rare unreleased Bowie originals, "I Am a Laser (The Gouster)" and "Shilling the Rubes." Bits of these had been floating around the Internet. I had included a partial, edited version of "Shilling the Rubes," with some parts repeated to make it a fuller song. But now I can toss that version away and replace it with the full, unedited version. 

In 2016, an archival box set called "Who Can I Be Now" included an album called "The Gouster" that is an early version of his 1975 album "Young Americans." Sadly, that didn't include either "I Am a Laser (The Gouster)" and "Shilling the Rubes," even though they gave the album the title "The Gouster," which is the subtitle of one of those songs! So, sadly, it seems these two songs will remain unreleased. But at least now we have the full versions with great sound quality.

01 Knock On Wood (David Bowie)
02 Here Today, Gone Tomorrow (David Bowie)
03 Foot Stompin' - I Wish I Could Shimmy like My Sister Kate (David Bowie)
04 Shilling the Rubes (David Bowie)
05 I Am a Laser [The Gouster] (David Bowie)
06 John, I'm Only Dancing Again (David Bowie)
07 It's Hard to Be a Saint in the City (David Bowie)
08 After Today (David Bowie)
09 Who Can I Be Now (David Bowie)
10 It's Gonna Be Me (David Bowie)
11 Sister Midnight (David Bowie)

https://www.upload.ee/files/17362468/DAVDBWE1974-1976WhoCnIBNow_atse.zip.html

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/dt6ympKn

For the album cover, I used a 1975 photo of Bowie.

The White Stripes - Who's to Say - Non-Album Tracks (2003)

The White Stripes were a prolific band. Usually, for every album they released, they'd have another album's worth of stray tracks.

This is a case in point. In 2003, they released the album "Elephant." All of the songs here are also from 2003. Four of them come from B-sides. But that also was the year Jack White had some songs on the "Cold Mountain" soundtrack, so I've included those. The rest are unreleased, generally live songs with the audience noise removed. Three of those come from a rare (for the time period) solo concert by guitarist Jack White.

By the way, "Cold Brains" is a song by Beck, and "Hear My Train A-Comin'" is a song by Jimi Hendrix. Anybody who covers both Beck and Hendrix is okay by me. ;)

In short, if you like the White Stripes, you should like this.

01 Black Jack Davey (White Stripes)
02 Good to Me (White Stripes)
03 Who's to Say... (White Stripes)
04 St. Ides of March (White Stripes)
05 Wayfaring Stranger (Jack White)
06 Never Far Away (Jack White)
07 Great High Mountain (Jack White)
08 Everywhere I Go, I'm Always There (White Stripes)
09 Dyin' Crapshooter's Blues (Jack White)
10 Cold Brains (Jack White)
11 Fragile Girl (Jack White)
12 Mr. Cellophane (White Stripes)
13 Hear My Train A-Comin' - Ball and Bisquit (White Stripes)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701099/TWHITSTRPES2003_WhostoSy_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I took a 2003 concert poster, cropped it, and changed some lettering to add in the album title.

Belle & Sebastian - Heaven in the Afternoon - Non-Album Tracks (2006-2010)

This is the seventh Belle and Sebastian stray tracks album I've posted. I have one more to post after this. Oh, and band leader Stuart Murdoch had a side project called God Help the Girl in 2009 and 2010. I've got an album coming that's just the stray tracks from that.

So clearly, this is a group where almost half of their recorded output hasn't come out on album. And, as usual with this album, I think their non-album stuff is consistently good.

As I've done with past albums by them, I'm including the best songs from solo projects. This time around, that's six of the 14 songs, mostly by either Isobel Campbell or Murdoch. Most of the non-solo stuff are B-sides or bonus tracks connected to the Belle and Sebastian albums released in 2006 and 2010.

UPDATE: On February 4, 2021, I updated the mp3 download file. I found one song I'd missed, a cover of the Badfinger hit "No Matter What," from an unreleased radio station appearance.

01 Heaven in the Afternoon (Belle & Sebastian)
02 Long Black Scarf (Belle & Sebastian)
03 I Took a Long Hard Look (Belle & Sebastian)
04 Are You Going to Leave Me (Isobel Campbell)
05 No Matter What (Belle & Sebastian)
06 Cassaco Marron (Belle & Sebastian)
07 Are You Coming Over for Christmas (Belle & Sebastian)
08 Eyes of Love (Future Pilot AKA with Stuart Murdoch & Sarah Martin)
09 Florence's Sad Song (Stuart Murdoch)
10 Another Saturday [Wild Mountain Thyme] (Stuart Murdoch)
11 Suicide Girl (Belle & Sebastian)
12 Last Trip (Belle & Sebastian)
13 Sunrise (Isobel Campbell)
14 Blue Eyes of a Millionaire (Belle & Sebastian)
15 Fly (Stuart Murdoch)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15832824/BellenS_2006-2010_HeavnintheAfternoon_atse.zip.html

The cover art comes from a 2015 concert poster. Unfortunately, as usual, such posters are rectangular and album covers are square. So I squished things vertically below the woman's waist to make it fit. I also removed some text at the bottom and added in the album title.

The Beach Boys - Caribou Ranch - Non-Album Tracks (1974-1975)

In 1973, the Beach Boys released "Holland," the latest in a long series of albums that tended to come at least once a year. And then... nothing. The band was riding a big wave of popularity, thanks to the release of the greatest hits album "Endless Summer" in 1974 that did surprisingly well, going all the way to number one in the charts in the US. But they didn't put out another album of new material until 1976, and by that time, their critical momentum was lost. 

From the mid-1970s onward until today, the band essentially turned into an "oldies" band, playing their earlier greatest hits the vast majority of the time, with their new material of much less interest to the average fan. 

It turns out the band was having big personnel problems. They tried recording a new album in 1974 and 1975 at Caribou Ranch in Colorado, but they couldn't get it together. The main problem, it seems, was genius Brian Wilson. His father died in mid-1973, and that sent him into a spiral of heavy drug use and general bad behavior. His voice deteriorated significantly due to heavy cocaine use and smoking, and he pretty much gave up on music. Rumors of him spending an entire year in bed date to around this time. So, with Brian as the creative leader of the group, it's no wonder they couldn't put finish an album.

That said, a lot of recording was done, and what I've heard sounds pretty good. Much music recorded around this time has never been made public, not even on bootleg, but there's enough for me to put this album together. However, I had to dig pretty deep in order to find enough material. I included "Good Timin'" and "It's OK"even though they weren't released until 1979 and 1976 respectively, because they actually were recorded during this time. I'm also including an early version of Dennis Wilson's "River Song" that was recorded in 1974, even though another version would be released on his 1977 solo album "Pacific Ocean Blue." I'm also including a Dennis Wilson song "Holy Man" that was recorded during this time, but he never got around to adding the vocals. So, many years later, a Dennis Wilson sound alike finished it off, and that version got officially released. Furthermore, I've included a solo piano version of "Disney Girls," even though that song was on an earlier Beach Boys album. I just think this very is really cool.

On top of all that, I went to some lengths in order to include a version of "You Are So Beautiful." Although Dennis Wilson isn't officially credited as a co-writer to the hit song by Billy Preston, it is widely believed that he did help write it. He played it in concert frequently from 1975 onwards, but unfortunately all the versions I've heard are just a snippet of about one minute long, with lots of audience singing. So I've stitched together different versions to create a full performance that's almost three minutes long.

Add all those songs together, plus the rest, and you get an album that's 37 minutes long. Clearly, this was not a creative high point for the band. But they could and should have put together an album to keep their career going, especially since there are reports that there was a lot more recorded that has yet to be released. Plus, they could have drawn on the volumes of songs that had been recorded in previous years and were still unreleased and totally unheard of at the time. Oh well.

01 Good Timin' (Beach Boys)
02 Holy Man (Dennis Wilson with Taylor Hawkins)
03 California Feelin' [Demo] (Brian Wilson)
04 It's OK (Beach Boys)
05 My Love Lives On (Beach Boys)
06 River Song [Early Version] (Beach Boys)
07 Child of Winter (Beach Boys)
08 Barnyard Blues (Beach Boys)
09 Don't Fight the Sea (Beach Boys)
10 In the Back of My Mind [Demo] (Brian Wilson)
11 Disney Girls [Solo Version] (Bruce Johnston)
12 You Are So Beautiful [Live] [Edit] (Beach Boys)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16376710/TBECHBYS1975CarbuRnch_atse.zip.html

I kind of cheated with making the cover art. I found a photo of the barn at the Caribou Ranch near Boulder, Colorado, where the Beach Boys and many other big name artists recorded in the 1970s. I also found another photo that wasn't very good, but included the Caribou Ranch sign over the road leading to the place. I liked the sign and the barn, so I combined the two photos. I figured there's no good place left to add "The Beach Boys," so I just left that off.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Next Time You See Memphis - Non-Album Tracks (2003-2010)

Here's yet another stray tracks album for Tom P. and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

I'm especially proud of making this album, because of the extra legwork it took me to find all the songs to put on it. In 2003, P. played a series of concerts at the Vic Theatre in Chicago. He hardly ever played original songs in concert before putting them on album, but he played no less than five new songs in those shows. Stranger still, he didn't release any of them at the time. One, "Melinda," came out on the "Live Anthology" in 2009. A studio version of another, "Two Men Talking," came out in 2018, but this was a 2010 version that was significantly different and two minutes shorter. Yet another, "Black Leather Woman," came out on a DVD of a concert in 2009, but not in any audio recording format.

I was able to find soundboard 2003 versions of those three songs easily. But the remaining two, "My New Guitar" and "Next Time You See Memphis" proved to be much trickier. In the vastness of the Internet, I could only find a few references that these songs existed at all! I had to resort to contacting a bunch of die-hard P. fans at a P. message board before I was able to find someone who had a recording of them.

So these are very rare. And yet they're good songs. I'm really puzzled by their obscurity, even on bootlegs. Clearly, P. was in a bluesy mood in those Chicago shows. He played a bunch of blues covers, and all five of the original songs are bluesy to some degree. Perhaps he didn't release them because he figured the typical P. fan didn't expect such a bluesy sound from him.

Anyway, those five songs make up the first half of this album. The rest consists of all studio tracks, though two of them remain unreleased. There's more than enough material here for P. to have released another solid album in the mid-2000s, if he'd wanted to.

This album is 49 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/hshhbWpM

alternate:

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

The cover art comes from a bootleg of one of the Chicago 2003 shows. Very similar art appears on an official DVD of one of those shows. However, I believe both of those took their art from one of the concert posters of the shows.

The Bangles - You Were On My Mind - Various Acoustic Songs (2000-2011)

I've finished posting all the Bangles' stray tracks album I've made. But I consider this as essential to any Bangles fan. It's them performing many of their best songs in the studio in a semi-acoustic style.

The Bangles reformed in 1999 after being broken up for about ten years. Since reuniting, they haven't caught the world on fire like they did the first time around, but they're just as musically talented. Unfortunately, key member Michael Steele left in 2005, turning the foursome into a threesome. But this is from before her departure.

The songs come from 2000 and 2003, but in terms of the music you can't notice the gap of three years. The first four songs are technically recorded in front of an audience, but with the clapping stripped away, you can't tell. The entire thing sounds like an "unplugged" show recorded in a studio, which means their excellent harmonies are on display.

Many of the songs are from their 2003 album "Doll Revolution," but I think those songs sound better here in this stripped-back form. They also do a cover of the 1960s folk rock hit "You Were On My Mind" which doesn't appear on any of their albums.

This album is 57 minutes long.

01 Eternal Flame (Bangles)
02 Ride the Ride (Bangles)
03 You Were on My Mind (Bangles)
04 Manic Monday (Bangles)
05 The Rain Song (Bangles)
06 Something that You Said (Bangles)
07 A Hazy Shade of Winter (Bangles)
08 Here Right Now (Bangles)
09 September Gurls (Bangles)
10 Stealing Rosemary (Bangles)
11 Tear Off Your Own Head [It's a Doll Revolution] (Bangles)
12 Between the Two (Bangles)
13 Through Your Eyes (Bangles)
14 What a Life (Bangles)
15 Anna Lee [Sweetheart of the Sun] (Bangles)
16 Let It Go (Bangles)
17 A Hazy Shade of Winter [Fully Acoustic Version] (Bangles)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16700530/TBANGLS2000-2011_YouWreonMyMndAcustic_atse.zip.html

I'm not sure where or when the cover art photo comes from, but it seems certain it's from the early 2000s, before Steele left the band.

The Who - Rock Is Dead - Long Live Rock - Non-Album Tracks (1971-1973)

Here's the next stray tracks album from the Who.

This has been a difficult album for me to make, because I originally did it a different way. The basic idea is that the Who were planning an album in 1972 to be called "Rock Is Dead - Long Live Rock." The song "Love Live Rock" obviously was a centerpiece of that. However, some of the songs planned for this album were apparently never recorded by the Who, or if they have been, they've never reached the public.

Furthermore, a couple of the songs that were recorded by the Who were later included on their 1973 album "Quadrophenia," and I wouldn't want to include songs that are on that very well-known album.

Wikipedia has a good page about the unfinished album:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Is_Dead%E2%80%94Long_Live_Rock!

Originally, I made a version of this album with Pete Townshend demos substituting for the songs the Who never recorded or released. But I've also posted a series of Townshend albums at this blog that already include those songs, and I don't want to use the exact same recordings on different albums if I can help it.

So I was left with an album that's too short. Luckily, I was able to beef it up by adding some songs intended for "Quadrophenia" that didn't make the final cut of that album. Some of these songs were recorded by the Who around 1979 for the soundtrack of the "Quadrophenia" movie. I had to be careful not to use those versions. Luckily, demos or other versions from the 1972 to 1973 time frame do exist for most of them. I also included a cover version, "Road Runner," from 1971, to help make the album long enough.

So this is a patchwork album. But the Who were in their prime during this time period, so it doesn't matter much because everything they did was very good.

There's one more cover song from 1971 that I considered including to make the album sufficiently long: "Going Down." However, I don't consider it as good of a song as the others on the album, so I've only included it as a bonus track.

Without that song, the album is 33 minutes long, which is shorter than I'd like. Hopefully, someday some other songs the Who did around this time will get released, such as their version of the obscure Townshend song "Ambition." Townshend played an acoustic version of it in 2005, and said it just missed being included on  the super deluxe version of "Quadrophenia." (You can find it at this blog on the "In the Attic" Townshend album.)

01 The Relay (Who)
02 Put the Money Down (Who)
03 When I Was a Boy (Who)
04 [I'm A] Road Runner (Who)
05 Four Faces (Who)
06 Long Live Rock (Who)
07 Joker James (Who)
08 We Close Tonight (Who)
09 Join Together (Who)

Going Down (Who)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/RCc8ee39

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/l4yeuLPj2lO4i9v/file

The cover art was made by Jon Hunt, and taken from his blog of alternate album covers. In 2025, I colorized it with the help of the Kolorize program.

The Zombies - She's Not There - Non-Album Tracks (1964)

A while back, I was asked to fix the discographies of the Zombies and the Yardbirds. The Yardbirds are still coming, but here's the start to the Zombies.

It's understandable to ask for a reorganization of the Zombies' music, because they've been treated very badly over the years. Basically, they never were popular enough for their record company to treat them seriously. They only issues two albums and a bunch of singles while they were together in the 1960s, and one of those albums, the classic "Odessey and Oracle," came out after the band broke up.

What I've discovered is that the Zombies recorded enough music for six albums, not two! That's an amazing difference! And they had a high consistency, so it's pretty much all good stuff. I'm getting nearly all of their music from the 1997 box set "Zombie Heaven." This has to be one of the best and most influential of all box sets, and probably was the key factor for critics to reassess their legacy, ultimately resulting in them getting into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

But while that box set did a big service in putting all of the Zombies' music in one place, including lots of previously unreleased material, I think it can be organized better. For one thing, it's four CDs of about 70 minutes each. I think the Zombies are better served by albums less than 40 minutes each. That's how their music was meant to be heard back in the day. For instance, their two albums released in the 1960s were 33 and 35 minutes long respectively.

Also, the box set organizes their music thematically, for instance by songs that were officially released at the time and those that weren't, and those that were played at the BBC. I think it makes much more sense to organize the songs chronologically. So, using the box set's extensive liner notes, I figured out which month and year each song was recorded, and used that. (I've included that info in the album field of the mp3 tags to help me keep things straight.)

So here's the first of the six albums I've made. These albums include all the song they recorded minus the "Odessey and Oracle" album. There's no need for me to post that here because it's perfect the way it is. After I post all that, I may also post alternate versions of some of the songs done in the studio or at the BBC.

Naturally, I'm titling this "She's Not There" for one of their biggest hits, and I'm putting that song first. It also happens to be one of the first things they recorded. The Zombies were great from the very start.

01 She's Not There (Zombies)
02 Summertime (Zombies)
03 It's Alright with Me (Zombies)
04 You Make Me Feel Good (Zombies)
05 Leave Me Be (Zombies)
06 Woman (Zombies)
07 Kind of Girl (Zombies)
08 Sometimes (Zombies)
09 Early One Morning (Zombies)
10 Road Runner (Zombies)
11 Sticks and Stones (Zombies)
12 I Don't Want to Know (Zombies)
13 I Remember When I Loved Her (Zombies)
14 What More Can I Do (Zombies)
15 Walking in the Sun (Zombies)
16 I'm Going Home (Zombies)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701158/TZOMBIS1964_ShesNtThre_atse.zip.html

The cover comes from one of the many cover variants of the "She's Not There" single.

Velvet Underground - I'll Keep It with Mine (1966) (MASH-UP)

Here's something that's pretty weird, and I'm curious if anyone has feedback on it.

Today, I was going to post a Velvet Underground (VU) stray tracks album, but first I went poking around the Internet to see if I'd missed anything. I came across a 1966 live recording of the VU doing the Bob Dylan song "I'll Keep It with Mine," with vocals by Nico. This really surprised me. I knew Nico recorded that song on her first solo album, 1967's "Chelsea Girls." But while about half of the songs from that album had backing by most of the VU, that song was not one of them.

So this would have been a really nice find, except that while the bootleg recording had decent sound, Nico's vocals were so low in the mix as to be nearly inaudible. No doubt that's why it hasn't appeared on any of the VU's archival releases, because hearing faint vocals is much worse than no vocals at all. But then I had a crazy idea: what if I took Nico's vocals from her performance of that song on "Chelsea Girls" and add them to the recording?

There was a big problem with this, in that VU performed the song totally differently. On the "Chelsea Girls" album, Nico does a folky version of the song, with strings and flutes as pretty much the only musical backing. But the live VU version, while lacking drums, has a slow but driving rock and roll rhythmic guitar backing. It's a really unusual version of the song in general, and some of the chord structure had to be changed to get the rhythmic pattern to work. Plus, there were differences in pitch and tempo. It turned out the two versions were in totally different keys,and I had to try to sync them up. I also had to try to isolate just the vocals from the "Chelsea Girls" version, and I'm very inexperienced in doing that.

But I gave it a go anyway just as an experiment, and much to my surprise, it kind of works! Since Nico's vocals can be faintly heard on the VU version, one can tell that it turns out she sings the song nearly exactly the same way in both versions, despite the totally different backing.

I made a lot of changes to tempo and pitch and so on, and the final result is far from perfect. Sometimes, some of the strings from the "Chelsea Girls" version can be heard, and sometimes the faint Nico vocals from the VU version can be heard, and sometimes the timing of the vocals doesn't quite match up with the musical backing. But, all in all, I'm pretty happy at how this turned out, given that it was a Hail Mary that it would even come close to working. Hopefully, this is close to how the song actually would have sounded if one had been there in person.

Like I said, I'd be really curious to see what other people think. Is this a travesty or kind of a long-lost VU and Nico song? And I just made a rough guesstimate to match the keys from the two versions - does that sound okay? I can change it if you think it's a bit flat or sharp.

I must admit that I have next to no knowledge in how to properly do this sort of thing - I'm just winging it. Perhaps someone with real musical editing skills can take the two original versions and mash them up in a better way. I'd love to hear an improvement.

I have included this edit as a bonus track for a Velvet Underground stray tracks album. You can find that here:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/09/the-velvet-underground-wrap-your.html

John Fogerty - Hoodoo (1976)

With this blog, I've been concentrating on posting albums that I've compiled myself. But there also are "albums that should exist" that have been bootlegged but never released, don't need any changing, and should reach a wider audience. I plan on posting lots of those too, by and by. Here's one.

Here's a short history of this album. Although John Fogerty was wildly successful with his band Creedence Clearwater Revival in the late 1960s and early 1970s, he had trouble getting any momentum going with a solo career after CCR broke up in 1972.

He put out two solo albums, "Blue Ridge Rangers" in 1973 and "John Fogerty" in 1975, but neither of them sold very well. "Blue Ridge Rangers" is all covers of country songs, so you probably won't like it if you're not into country music. But 1975's "John Fogerty" sounds exactly like a CCR album and is just as good as any CCR album, so you should definitely hear that if you like CCR at all. Two of the songs on it, "Rockin' All Over the World" and "Almost Saturday Night," weren't hits at the time for Fogerty, but have been covered by many other artists since, and sometimes have been hits.

Fogerty submitted a new album, "Hoodoo," to his record company in 1976. A single of two songs from it, "You Got the Magic" backed by "Evil Thing," was released, and barely scraped the bottom of the charts. After that failure, Fogerty and the record company agreed not to release the album. It's been sitting in the vaults ever since. Although it's been widely bootlegged, Fogerty has made clear in interviews that he never plans on releasing it, though he's said he might want to redo some of the songs from it someday.

So, was it a good call not to release the album? Admittedly, it's not a great lost treasure, and it's not even as strong as "John Fogerty" from the year before. But Fogerty has been remarkably consistent in his career, so even a "bad" Fogerty album is pretty good. The main problem, I think, is that Fogerty's music was out of sync with what was popular at the time. Remember, already by 1976, disco has essentially taken over. Disco fever was so overwhelming that artists from the Rolling Stones to Ethel Merman recorded disco songs, and those who didn't often had plunging record sales. Fogerty kept on doing his chooglin' CCR thing regardless of musical trends - and still does to this day. In retrospect, that was much better than him getting trendy with disco, but he suffered for it at the time.

Sadly, Fogerty was so discouraged by the failure of this album to even get released that he stopped making music for several years. He finally would have a big comeback with his "Centerfield" album nine years later.

This album is 30 minutes long.

01 You Got the Magic (John Fogerty)
02 Between the Lines (John Fogerty)
03 Leave My Woman Alone (John Fogerty)
04 Marchin' to Blarney [Instrumental] (John Fogerty)
05 Hoodoo Man (John Fogerty)
06 Telephone (John Fogerty)
07 Evil Thing (John Fogerty)
08 Henrietta (John Fogerty)
09 On the Run (John Fogerty)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/844SPHtY

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/1INGC7BCPQnfHuc/file

The "Hoodoo" album was so close to being officially released that all of the artwork for it had been completed. So this is just the exact intended cover. The only problem is it's a bit low-res. If anyone has a better version, please let me know and I'll upgrade it. 

In March 2025, I upgraded the image with the use of the Krea AI program. But that could only help so much, since the original lacked clarity.

Paul McCartney - We All Stand Together - Non-Album Tracks (1981-1984)

There are so many musical artists with so many albums that should exist! I'll still trying to finish up the careers of some artists I've started, rather than move onto new ones willy nilly. Thus, here's more Paul McCartney even though I haven't posted any of John Lennon's solo stuff yet. That, and a lot more, is coming eventually.

This album covers the stray tracks from 1981 to 1984, which is when he released "Tug of War" in 1982 and "Pipes of Peace" in 1983. There are a lot of nice songs here, even though he was essentially coasting with "Pipes of Peace," filling that album with songs that didn't make the much better "Tug of War." One of the songs here, "We All Stand Together," even was a number three hit in Britain, though I don't think it was released as a single in the US.

Oh, and he also released the soundtrack to "Give My Regards to Broad Street." Ugh. I consider that a critical mistake both as a movie and an album. The album mostly consists of remakes of Beatles and McCartney solo songs, only these remakes aren't as good. There are only three new songs. For your typical McCartney fan, those are the only three songs from the album that you need. So I've included them here, at the end.

01 Stop, You Don't Know Where She Came From (Paul McCartney)
02 Simple as That [Demo] (Paul McCartney)
03 I'll Give You a Ring (Paul McCartney)
04 Rainclouds (Paul McCartney)
05 For No One [Acoustic Version] (Paul McCartney)
06 Ode to a Koala Bear (Paul McCartney)
07 On the Wings of a Nightingale [Demo] (Paul McCartney)
08 The Honorary Consul [Instrumental] (Paul McCartney)
09 We All Stand Together (Paul McCartney)
10 Lindiana (Paul McCartney)
11 No More Lonely Nights (Paul McCartney)
12 Not Such a Bad Boy (Paul McCartney)
13 No Values (Paul McCartney)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15259174/PaulMcC_1981-1984_WeAllStndTogethr_atse.zip.html

The photo used for the cover art is a black and white photo that I colorized, taken from the photo shoot for the video to "We All Stand Together."

Van Morrison - Live Rarities, Volume 1: 1970-1971

If it hasn't been made obvious already, I'm a big fan of Van Morrison music in the 1960s and 1970s. (I think he's much more hit or miss since then.) I've been trying to post the best of his live music from that time.

To that end, I've posted four of his best concerts in full, from 1968, 1970, and two from 1971. Then I posted an alternate version of his classic 1973 live album "It's Too Late to Stop Now," but only using songs not on the official album OR on any of the other four live albums I've posted here. He played such a wide variety of songs in the early 1970s that that was possible, and using only soundboard quality recordings to boot.

But those five live albums don't gather up all of his worthwhile live material. There are other songs he played here and there that are interesting, usually due to their rarity. For instance, every now and then he might pull out a song he used to do with his mid-1960's band Them, or a cover version he almost never did, or a lesser known and rarely played original. This is the first of a number of albums that collects such live stray tracks.

Be warned that the sound quality in this series isn't always great. I pretty much used up the excellent soundboard recordings with my previous live postings. There are some soundboard sourced songs here sometimes, but more often one has to rely on audience recorded bootlegs. That said, I have certain standards I set for myself. I rejected a bunch of interesting songs because the sound quality wasn't listenable, in my opinion.

It's worth downloading this album for the first song here, "Astral Weeks," alone. But even though its one of his most celebrated songs, he only played it about eight times total in the 1970s. Luckily, this version comes from a pristine soundboard, and it's a great one, where the song that's seven minutes long on the studio is extended to twelve minutes here. Unfortunately, the balance was way off, with the vocals too low and the saxophone too loud. But it turns out the vocals were mostly in one stereo channel and the saxophone in the other, so I was able to boost or lower the volume of each channel to make this much more listenable.

For the remainder of this album, there are two songs former played by Them ("You're the One (That I Adore)" and "Mystic Eyes"), and one very rare original, "Beautiful Obsession." The rest are covers.

If you like this album, the series continues chronologically with four more albums. Like this one, each one is about 45 minutes long.

01 Astral Weeks (Van Morrison)
02 You're the One [That I Adore] (Van Morrison)
03 Sweet Little Sixteen (Van Morrison)
04 Danny Boy (Van Morrison)
05 Rock Me Baby (Van Morrison)
06 Beautiful Obsession (Van Morrison)
07 Mystic Eyes (Van Morrison)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701211/VANMRRSN1970-1971_LivRritiesVolum1_atse.zip.html

I made the cover by taking a screenshot from a YouTube video of a 1970 concert performance.

Tom P*tty & the Heartbreakers - Sweet William - Non-Album Tracks (1996-2001)

Here's another stray tracks album for Tom P. and the Heartbreakers.

(Note that I'm not using the full name of this artist due to concerns about copyright issues.)

In terms of released albums, this was not a particularly impressive time, with just the "She's the One" soundtrack and "Echo" albums being released in those seven years. But P. was staying busy all the while, as this album of stray tracks demonstrates. It contains five originals, two remade originals, and the five covers. One of the remade originals, "On the Street," was originally done by P.'s first band, Mudcrutch. The other, "Surrender," was first done in the late 1970s, but never put on an album at that time.

One of the songs here, "Goldfinger," is done by a group called the Blue Stingrays. That's just an alias for P.'s band the Heartbreakers, which put out an album of surf music instrumentals in 1997. I only included one song from that album, because it's a specialist appeal, but I think their version of this movie theme in particularly cool, and P. and the Heartbreakers played it in concert around that time.

This album is 41 minutes long. 

I'm not including the track list due to copyright issues. But you can find it in the mp3 download file.

https://pixeldrain.com/u/wDE7t92u

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/RZSUJ4OuCB1hjuE/file

The cover art is based on a 2010 concert poster. I made some changes, including removing the text "Tom P*tty and the Heartbreakers" near the bottom and replacing it with "Sweet William."

The Kinks - Did Ya - Non-Album Tracks (1986-1992)

The last years of the Kinks, the late 1980s and early 1990s, were not a good time for their music. Their albums were critically and commercially unsuccessful, and were a mere shadow of their great earlier works. But, in my opinion, that was due more to poor song selection and production choices. Ray and Dave Davies could still write very good songs, though admittedly they weren't at their peak in this era.

This is yet another stray tracks album. Even though these are supposedly the "leftovers," I'd argue that the songs here make up a stronger album than some Kinks albums at the time, such as "Think Visual" or "UK Jive." Replacing some of the weaker tracks on those albums with some of the stronger ones here could have resulted in much better albums.

Three of the songs (tracks 9, 10, and 11) come from a 1991 EP called "Did Ya." Two songs, tracks 4 and 5, come from the live album "Live: The Road," although one of them, "The Road," is actually a studio track. "Quiet Life" is from a movie soundtrack. Three more comes come from a Dave Davies archival album, "Fragile," and the last song comes from a different Dave Davies archival album. "Bright Lights" was a bonus track, and "The Million Pound Semidetached" comes from yet another archival album, "Waterloo Sunset."

One song here, "How Do I Get Close," actually comes from the studio album "UK Jive." But this is an unreleased version performed on a TV show that is an improvement on the album version, in my opinion.

Note that two songs here, "Did Ya" and "Look through Any Doorway," also appear on my revised version of the Kinks' last album, "Phobia." This is a different version of "Look through Any Doorway," so I suppose the duplication is okay. I think "Did Ya" better fits here, since it was released in 1991, two years before "Phobia," but it's included as an official "Phobia" bonus track, so I guess it can go there too.

The is the last of my Kinks stray tracks albums. But it isn't the last of Kinks stuff that I plan on posting, since they're one of my very favorite musical groups.

This album is 48 minutes long.

01 Quiet Life (Ray Davies)
02 Give Something Back (Dave Davies)
03 No More Mysteries (Dave Davies)
04 It [I Want It] (Kinks)
05 The Road (Kinks)
06 The Million Pound Semidetached (Kinks)
07 Bright Lights (Kinks)
08 Look through Any Doorway [Open Up Your Heart] [Demo] (Dave Davies)
09 Days [1991 EP Version] (Kinks)
10 New World (Kinks)
11 Did Ya (Kinks)
12 I've Got Your Number [Demo] (Dave Davies)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15485577/TKnks_1985-1992_DdYa_atse.zip.html

The cover is the exact cover of the 1991 "Did Ya" EP.

Norah Jones - Day Dreaming - Non-Album Tracks (2003-2004)

Norah Jones is a real problem for me. Namely, once I post an album here, I don't want to make changes to it. But Jones has a seemingly bottomless number of stray tracks, lots of them very obscure. Every time I think I've found all her songs that I want to include on my compilation albums, I'll go down some Internet rabbit hole and end up finding a bunch more.

And the weird thing is, the vast majority of them are really good. In fact, I've made the argument in past Jones postings that her non-album songs are better overall than those on her albums. That's because her albums tend to suffer from a certain "easy listening" sameness, whereas she stretches herself with a variety of interesting and classic material with her non-album tracks, which usually take the form of collaborations with other artists.

That said, I think I've found nearly all of the rare Jones songs I'm likely to find, so I'm going to press forward with posting more of her albums. If I end up adding to or changing them later, oh well. She's a special case, due to her virtual second career guest singing (lead!) and playing for others.

This album fits the pattern of all the other stray track albums of hers I've made. I'm sorry Norah, you're a good songwriter, but I'd rather hear you bringing your special voice and style to great classic songs. On this album, she does songs made famous by Dolly Parton ("Grass Is Blue"), Elvis Presley ("Love Me Tender"), Aretha Franklin ("Day Dreaming"), Waylon Jennings ("Wurlitzer Prize"), and more, including some songs from the so-called Great American Songbook.

This album is 42 minutes long.

01 What Makes You (Jesse Harris & Norah Jones)
02 Beautiful Friendship (Norah Jones & Marian McPartland)
03 I Could Lie to You (Noam Weinstein & Norah Jones)
04 Why Can't He Be You (Norah Jones)
05 The Grass Is Blue (Norah Jones)
06 Wurlitzer Prize [I Don't Want to Get Over You] (Norah Jones)
07 Moon Song (Norah Jones)
08 Stella (Norah Jones & Jim Campilongo)
09 These Foolish Things (Norah Jones)
10 Day Dreaming (Norah Jones)
11 Rita (Rachel Loshak & Norah Jones)
12 Love Me Tender (Norah Jones)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696760/NORHJNS2003-2004_DyDreaming_atse.zip.html

I made the cover based on a photo from the early 2000s. But I don't know the exact year or other details of where the photo is from.