Links Are Getting Fixed

I've noticed a lot of download links are dying (as I write this in September 2026). This is because the download services I use let the links go dead if nobody downloads a particular file within a certain time period. (I just checked, and for Bestfile it's 25 days, for upload.ee it's 50 days, and for Pixeldrain it's two months.) For the last couple of weeks, I've been slowly but surely fixing a lot of dead links as I move away from using upload.ee, where most of the dead links are.

I've been reluctant to do this just because it's a big pain in the butt (and this is a labor of love blog I only do due to my love of music and wanting to share it). I realized though the main thing holding me back is I've been adding two download links per album, Bestfile and Pixeldrain. I really like Pixeldrain. They make it very easy to do batch uploads. But with Bestfile, one can only upload five files at a time. Even then, about half of the time, the upload doesn't work and I have to do it again. This can turn uploading hundreds of albums into a really unpleasant chores. There have been rare times when I've had to upload an album five or six times before Bestfile succeeded with it. By contrast, Pixeldrain never fails.

So I realized that I'm probably never going to get around to uploading all those old albums with Bestfile, due to the bad and inconsistent upload system. I decided instead to only use Pixeldrain links for previously posted albums. But for newly posted ones, I'll still use both Pixeldrain and Bestfile, because I know some people have trouble with Pixeldrain for whatever reason.

Here's how things stand. I have over two thousand albums with Pixeldrain and Bestfile links. I had about another two thousand with upload.ee links. In the past weeks, I've replaced 500 of those with Pixeldrain links. I haven't done that in any special order, but I'm tackling certain bands first (often just because they're easy). For instance, I've done Belle and Sebastian, the Byrds, Aimee Mann, Beck, CSN(Y), Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Led Zeppelin, Morgan James, the Indigo Girls, the Velvet Underground, Van Morrison, and a lot more. Plus, I've done all the "various artists" albums, which mostly consist of rock festivals. So if you've been having trouble with download links for any of those, give them another try. 

Meanwhile, I'll keep plugging away fixing more links. However, one reason it's taking time is that, while I'm at it, I'm also reviewing the cover art and making improvements when I see ones I don't like. Usually that's because of low-res/ blurry issues. Previously, I had been using Krea AI, but I'm too cheap to play and now they only allow four free uses per 24 hours. But recently I've discovered Ask Gemini does a really great job improving and/or colorizing images, and I can do at least a couple dozen per day. So if you dig through albums posted from previous years, you may find some cover changes, hopefully for the better. Gemini has a habit of wanting to make content changes while it's upgrading the detail level. But I've learned how to give extremely detailed and specific instructions to stop it from doing that.

I hope in a couple of months, maybe sooner, virtually all of the links will be working again, and with cover art I'm happy with. Knock on wood. If there are some musical acts where you want the links fixed sooner rather than later, please let me know and I'll see what I can do.

The Isle of Wrght 1970 Festival Revisisted

In 2023, I posted the vast majority of all the music I could find from the 1970 Isle of Wight rock festival. It's a big one. In my opinion, it's right up there with the granddaddy of all rock festivals, Woodstock in 1969, in terms of the big name musicians and the musical quality of the festival. At that time, though, there were a few sets I didn't post, because the sound quality didn't meet my usual standards.

Now, I'm posting those missing bits. Specifically, I'm posting the sets by Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens. Most everything else I posted from the festival are from soundboard-level quality recordings. But for those three, we only have audience bootlegs, probably all recorded by the same person, since they sound similar. They all share the same problems. For instance, there was a lot of wind blowing against the microphones, which marred the recordings. There also were frequent airplanes flying overhead, sometimes quite loudly. There were people talking near to the taper. Worst of all, the sound quality of the recordings were just okay, probably due to mediocre tape recorders being used.

So that's why I didn't post these sets back then. But there has been a lot of improvement in audio editing technology in just the last three years. So I gave these a try. A big problem was the wind blowing on the microphone noises. Luckily, the audio editing program Izotope has a filter just to get rid of those exact kinds of noises. I ran most of the songs through that filter, and got rid of most of it (but not all!). I used other tricks, like separating out the lead vocals and boosting them over the muck. I also used MVSEP to reduce reverb and get rid of noise. 

The good news is, I consider these sets sound decent enough for me to post them now. But beware! There's still a lot of problems. One can only do so much with problematic source material. I'll post the Donovan, Joan Baez, and Richie Havens sets after posting this.

It so happens that all three of these sets are from the last day of the festival, August 30, 1970. If you're going to download some of them, I'd also suggest re-downloading the other sets from that day. The reason is, the Donovan set is the second one, so that becomes the new "Part 2," and all the sets after that are renumbered with their album titles. By the end of the day, there are nine parts instead of six. Furthermore, the song numbering for each part continues from the last part, so all that changes too. There ends up being 163 songs instead of 115, so there are lots of changes on all the sets from that day.

On top of that, I've made some minor changes to the cover art of some of the other albums, now that the technology for that has been improving as well. That includes changing some of the covers from the other days of the festival, specifically the sets by Chicago, Procol Harum, Ten Years After, John Sebastian, the Who, and Emerson, Lake and Palmer. So you might want to redownload those as well.

Two "New" Kinks Songs from the 1960s!

I'm a massive Kinks fan. As I've said here before, they're my second favorite band, only behind the Beatles. And I think they were at their absolute best from about 1966 to 1970, when they were writing tons of songs, and when even their "bad" songs were pretty darn good. So I was delighted to discover two Kinks songs from 1969 have recently become publicly available: "Darling, I Respect You" and "Let's Take Off All Our Clothes." 

They haven't been officially released. Instead, a mysterious person or group called the "Johnny Kidd Fan Club" apparently gave them to Prof. Stoned, who runs a great music blog: http://profstoned.com/ He added them to an improved collection of Kinks BBC tracks which he released in mid-August 2026. I don't know who or what the Johnny Kidd Fan Club is, but they're doing some great work. In recent years, they've made public unreleased music from the Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Fleetwood Mac, Cream, the Animals, and much more. May they keep up the good work!

Here's the known history behind these two songs. Ray Davies, the main songwriter for the Kinks, was commissioned to write songs for a six-episode 1969 BBC series called "Where Was Spring?" Apparently, he did five, and his versions (backed by the Kinks) were broadcast on each show weeks with animations made to fit the lyrics. All of the episodes have been lost, apparently, although some stills from the animations survive. Two of the Kinks were later officially released: "Where Did the Spring Go?" and "When I Turn Off the Living Room Light." The other three were considered lost, mostly. A version of "Darling, I Respect You" did make some bootlegs, but the sound quality was truly terrible, to the point that I found it unlistenable. Now, somehow, 56 years later (!), we have very good sounding versions of "Darling, I Respect You" and "Let's Take Off All Our Clothes." Only "We Are Two of a Kind" still remains completely unknown and unbootlegged.

There was a little bit of audience applause at the starts and ends of these songs, even though they're clearly studio versions. I surmise that's because each skit or scene in the BBC TV show ended with applause, and trailed into the next one. I used the MVSEP program to wipe out most of the clapping. 

Instead of posting links to just these two newly discovered songs, I've added them into a compilation of non-album tracks I made called "Where Was Spring" (named after the long-lost BBC TV show). You can find them here as tracks 3 and 11:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-kinks-where-was-spring-1969.html

You also can find them at Prof. Stoned blog, with lots of other top quality Kinks BBC material. 

Are these two songs long lost masterpieces? No. They're pretty slight and light. Each of them is only about two minutes long. But, as I said above, in the late 1960s, even "bad" Kinks songs were pretty good. So I'm very psyched to finally be able to enjoy these.

A slightly new look! And a big project coming soon

Fabio from Rio has been increasingly helpful with this blog. Lately, he's been encouraging me to change the background image of various album covers. He thought that instead of random officially released albums, it should consist of covers I've made for this blog. I had to agree with him. So he helped me make that change. I selected some covers more or less at random. The only logic was that I tried to include the most popular musical acts on this blog.

So that's one change. Another is that Fabio designed a new header for this blog page. He came up with the vinyl record logo on the left, using AI. On the right, he and I agreed we could have what looked like part of a shelf of CDs. At this point, they're all albums that have been posted here, randomly selected. But we may change what albums are there. We'll see. We're open to suggestions.

One more thing. If you look closely at both the background image and the stack of CDs, one album that can be seen is "The Maximum Wall" by Pink Floyd. I've been talking about posting that for... well, let's just say a very long time now. But it's close. It's all finished, and I'm just waiting for a little feedback from a few people. So expect that in the next few days, knock on wood. In the stack of CDs it's very thick, because it's actually a quadruple album!

To whet your appetite for this album, here's a couple of images we made from the 180 page booklet that goes with the album. The booklet includes imagery for every song, plus descriptions of the editing changes, if any, and quotes from band members about the song, again if any. 

Our priority was always to use art created by Gerald Scarfe, who did all the art for the 1979 album. But in a majority of cases, we couldn't find a fitting image for a particular song, so Fabio made one, again using AI. Or, sometimes, we were able to find other art, such as screenshots from the Wall movie. 

The above image was made by Scarfe. Here on the right is a second image, made by Fabio's AI. 

Anyway, I hope you like the new background and header. And look forward to the "Maximum Wall" appearing here very soon.
 

Pink Floyd Again

My, how time flies. A few years ago, I posted at this blog that I was coming close to posting an expanded version of "The Wall" album by Pink Floyd. My idea was to expand it as much as reasonably possible, using extended versions and extra songs and so forth. There's a surprising amount of such material, enough to double the total length of the album, which already was a double album. I came very close to finishing that project. But then I got a list of sound edits from a diehard Pink Floyd fan, and I lost my momentum to finish the project. It was good enough for me to listen to, and frankly, that's the main reason I make these albums, because I enjoy listening to the music.

So I was just sitting on that project for a long time without doing the last small amount of work to finish it and post it. Guest poster Mike Solof has copy of the version I made and has been privately prodding me to post it, easily at least a hundred times, but I never got off my lazy butt to finish it. Recently, though, another guest poster, Fabio from Rio, made some pretty interesting artwork for his theme albums about vegetables (with the help of an AI program). That gave me the idea to ask him to make artwork for my "Wall" project, which I'm calling "The Maximum Wall." While I have been traveling around in Europe, this last month, Fabio made dozens of really great pictures to illustrate a lyrics and notes book that is part of this project, basically one picture per song. So we are very close to finishing this project, and I think it's going to be even better than before, thanks to this new artwork. I just need to do some more work on it when I get back from vacation to finish some loose ends.

However, there is one more thing I would like to see to improve the art for this project even more. If you are a big fan of the album, you probably know that an artist named Gerald Scarfe made all of the artwork for the album. We have found some appropriate pictures made by Scarfe that we are using. But when Fabio tried to make more pictures in Scarfe's distinctive style, his AI program wouldn't allow it, due to copyright issues. So I'm wondering if anyone would be able to help with this. We already have all the pictures we want. But it would be great to convert some of them to more of a Scarfe style, to have a more consistent overall style to the artwork. If you think you have the artistic and or AI picture making skills to help with this, please let us know in the comments.

Otherwise, this project is very close to completion, and I am aiming to post it in the next few weeks, knock on wood.

Bowie Improvement

When I posted a David Bowie 1990 BBC concert back in 2022, the sound quality had issues. Yesterday, a commenter named Captcrunch pointed out a better sounding version. So I replaced the whole thing. It sounds significantly better now. I speak of this one:

David Bowie - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Milton Keynes National Bowl, Milton Keynes, Britain, 8-5-1990

Here's the link to the improved version:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/07/david-bowie-bbc-sessions-volume-7-in.html

Thanks to Captcrunch. And if anyone else finds better versions of albums than what I've posted, let me know and I'll make the upgrade. 

Covered Covers

I recently announced that I've updated all the links for the 150 or so "Covered" albums. And I mentioned that I made changes to many of the album covers for them while I was at it. 

The changes were mostly pretty minor, to be honest. A lot of it was standardizing the size of the text. And, for instance, for some albums, I wrote "The Best Of" and others I just wrote "Best Of." So I standardized that kind of thing as well. But I did make changes to the pictures too. I even replaced some of the pictures entirely, for instance for two of the Bacharach and David volumes. 

So, if any of that matters to you, redownloading 150 plus albums is a big pain in the ass. I got a request today by a commenter named Private Beach to make just the changed covers available. I decided that was reasonable. Thus, here's a zip file with all of the 150 or so album covers. Not all of them were changed, but the vast majority were (if only in subtle ways).

https://pixeldrain.com/u/ZajSf728

But note that if you download this, you still have to put each one of them in with the albums they belong to. 

Covered Albums

This is just a note to say that, over the past few days, I've updated all the links for all of the "Covered" albums posted on the blog so far. There are 154 of those by now, with more coming soon. I'd noticed that many of the links were from upload.ee, and are starting to die. So I redid all the album links, whether they were broken yet or not, to make sure there were at least two links for all of those albums. While I was at it, I also made some small improvements to the cover art for many of the albums.

This is a good moment to take stock of how that series is going. So far, I've profiled 75 songwriters or songwriting teams. I have about another 35 ready to go, cover art and all. I tend to drag my feet on posting those though, because I have to put more effort than usual into the write-ups for them. But I'm making a concerted effort to get to those lately. Some of the bigger names already finished include the Bee Gees, George Harrison, Gamble and Huff, Tom Petty, and Max Martin. 

But I also have plans to make albums for dozens more. A lot of those I haven't even started yet. For some, I'm getting key help from Fabio from Rio. Some of the ones where I'm getting closer include Bob Dylan, Ray Davies, Brian Wilson, Lennon and McCartney, Jagger and Richards, Leonard Cohen, Joni Mitchell, Paul Simon, Prince, and Willie Nelson. But there are many more than that on the wish list. 

If you have suggestions for songwriters I might be overlooking, and/or if you want to get involved to help pick songs, please let me know. In particular, I'd also like to deal with the great songwriters from the pre-rock and roll era, but I struggle with that since I'm not very familiar with a lot of that music. Thanks.

Another Poll

Here's a really interesting thing that just happened. Yesterday, somebody posted a list of dozens of newly liberated bootlegs, nearly all of them recorded at the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, New York. They're generally from about 2012 to 2024, though there are some exceptions. (The venue closed in 1976 after many decades, then reopened in 2012, so it's everything interesting since the reopening.) They include many of the biggest name musical acts to pass through there. Here's the list (scroll down the thread a bit to see it):

https://www.guitars101.com/threads/you-didnt-get-this-from-me.843644/

Actually, I see that's only a partial list. Here's a PDF file of the complete list, which is twice as long:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/86W6nJCY

If you're interested, I highly recommend you grab the ones you want for yourself, while the grabbing is good. Who knows, the links may all die at any time. 

There's good news and bad news. The good news is that, of the ones I've sampled so far, the sound quality is fantastic. Every single one is a soundboard. Many also are high quality videos. The bad news is that most of them are mono, and most are just a single sound or video file, with no song list or anything else. I can't do anything about the mono, but I could fix the other issues. I want to take some of these and give them my usual treatment, chopping them into mp3s, giving them song titles, making cover art, and so forth. But I can only do that for a small percentage of this very long list, especially since I have so much other music I want to post too.

So that gets me to a poll. If you want to see me fix up and post certain concerts from that list, please write which ones you want the most. Just give the artist name and year, and I can figure out the rest. To keep things reasonable, please list no more than ten. I don't know how many I will convert, but I'll try to do at least the top vote getters. Thanks.

The Flying Byrds Brothers Fly Higher

A few days ago (as I write this in mid-February 2026), I posted a 1970 concert in which the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Bros played extensively together. One commenter noted that there was recording of an earlier part of that concert with the same excellent sound quality. I looked into it, and found that recording, which indeed sounds as good as the rest. So I added it in. It extends the concert by 50 minutes.

Here's the link (or just scroll down a bit):

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-flying-burrito-bros-byrds-flying.html

This addition works out very nicely, because only one of these added Byrds songs, from the early show, was repeated when the Byrds and Flying Burrito Bros played together in the late show. 

Thanks to Psyclist for pointing out the existence of this extra material.  

SoulseekQT

I mentioned a couple of times recently that I was having some computer troubles in recent weeks. I finally got that cleared up, but at the price of having to reinstall Windows, which means I've had to reinstall all my computer programs. The reason I mention this to you is because it meant I reinstalled SoulseekQT too. 

I was able to get back to my old account there: albumsthatshouldexist. But I had shared folders one by one, sharing only the albums I've shared on this blog and not everything else. (That's so I don't share the many hundreds of albums I plan on posting but aren't ready yet.) To reshare everything that way, I would have had to individually select over 3000 folders. That was a pain in the ass, and then I'd have to do it all over again the next time I had a big computer problem. So I've decided to do things a different way. Instead, I've moved copies of all the albums I've posted at this blog into one folder, and I'm just sharing that folder. It's been a few days since I did that, and some people are starting to download albums, so you may find them if you search SoulseekQT. (Although I would warn that SoulseekQT has grown so big that you don't connect with everyone else on the network all the time. It's a random luck thing, and sometimes you have to wait a few days as the program rotates you to different parts of the network.) 

Anyway, I can be long-winded at times, but there's a reason I'm mentioning this. I've never seen what my SoulseekQT files look from the perspective of another person on the network, but I've had people complain that my files can be hard to understand because the names of the albums could be seen, but not the names of the musical acts. Now, for instance, all the Kinks albums will be in a folder called "Kinks" that is also shared. So hopefully that will make it easier for you if you want to download a bunch of my music via SoulseekQT.

Good Month

Just a quick note. Today, I noticed that I made 92 posts in the month of January, 2026. That was the most prolific month since I've started this blog, by a fair margin. (A few were announcements, but still.) Let's hope there are more months like that. Who knows, someday I may even post 100 albums in a month, knock on wood.

Some Improvements

I'm glad to announce that after a week long ban, I'm allowed to use Pixeldrain for download links again. So I just updated all the links I'd posted in the last week. I'm very happy about that, because I find the Pixeldrain links to be better than the BestFile ones.

Also, recently, I've been taking advantage of the MVSEP program's "denoise" filter. It used to be the only way to get rid of hiss was with an audio editing filter called "noise reduction." But this is a crude technique, and it often got rid of music along with hiss, so I had a rule to only use it on talking tracks. However, thanks to improved AI-based technology, the denoise filter works much better. 

Let me show an example. This is a screenshot of the Audacity program, where I do most of my music editing. It's a song by the band Glass Menagerie. I took the screenshot after using the denoise function to split the song into noise, at the bottom, and everything else. You can see there's a fair amount down there. Once I split it like this, all I have to do is delete that track, and save the rest. It's easy, and it makes a huge difference on songs like this one that had lots of hiss. This example was chosen more or less at random. For some songs, the hiss level is much greater.

So, using this technique, I made improvements to the following albums.

The Blues Project - The Matrix, San Francisco, CA, 9-1966

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-blues-project-matrix-san-francisco.html

Glass Menagerie - BBC Sessions (1968-1969) 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/03/glass-menagerie-bbc-sessions-1968-1969.html

Tracy Chapman - WMFO Studio, Tufts University, Medford, MA, 1-2-1984

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/11/tracy-chapman-wmfo-studio-tufts.html 

Fairport Convention - Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 9-13-1968 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/11/fairport-convention-concertgebouw.html

Derek & the Dominos - Marquee Club, London, Britain, 8-11-1970 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/11/derek-dominos-marquee-club-london.html

Joni Mitchell - Eastern Rain - Non-Album Tracks (1966-1967) 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/02/joni-mitchell-eastern-rain-various.html

Lucinda Williams - McCabe's Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA, August 9, 1991 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/05/lucinda-williams-mccabes-guitar-shop.html

Dusty Springfield - On TV and Radio, Volume 1: 1964-1966

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2018/05/dusty-springfield-on-tv-and-radio-1964.html

So if you like any of those albums, I recommend you redownload them. They sound better now. For the Joni Mitchell, Glass Menagerie, and Dusty Springfield ones, just a handful of songs needed improvement. And with Springfield, I still want to work through her other "On TV and Radio" albums. I'm sure there's more hiss there too.

Furthermore, an alert commenter noted that about six minutes was somehow missing to this album. I don't know what happened there, but it's fixed now. 

Donald Byrd - A New Perspective (On a New Perspective) (1964) (A Mike Solof guest post)

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/09/donald-byrd-new-perspective-on-new.html

Getting back to the hiss issue, I found the above albums to fix by searching my blog for the word "hiss" and seeing which of the albums that came up still needed improvement with that. But I'm sure there are many more that could be improved this way. I don't have time to go back and relisten to the thousands of albums I've posted to figure this out. So if you can think of albums I've posted with hiss problems, let me know, and I'll check to see if they can also be improved. Once I post an album here, I want to make sure it's presented with the best sound quality possible, even if that means more work to fix things. Thanks.

Problem Again

This is just a quick note that I've been banned from using Pixeldrain again, due to another copyright issue. This time, it was the acoustic version of David Bowie's "Ziggy Stardust" album. The BestFile link still works for that one though. Previously, when I've been banned from Pixeldrain, it's only lasted a week. Let's hope that's the case this time too. Assuming it is, I'll backfill the links once it's working again. But in the meantime, it'll just be BestFile links. 

Oh, also, Pixeldrain has announced that the amount of time they allow until a link goes dead due to inactivity will be cut in half, from 120 days to 60 days. So far, I've almost never had any Pixeldrain links go dead, but I guess that will be changing.

Re-Re-Squeezed, and More

Just yesterday, I posted an announcement that said I'd found a better copy of a 1984 BBC concert by Difford and Tilbrook, the two singer-songwriters in the band Squeeze. Today, musical friend Progsprog saw that, and realized he had a version with equally excellent sound, but also four songs that were missing from the other version. So he sent it to me. I added those songs in, and I've updated that album again. Now it's fifteen minutes longer than before, and much better. 

A big thanks to Progsprog, for noticing and helping out.

Here's the link to that one:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/difford-tilbrook-squeeze-bbc-in-concert.html

Furthermore, these announcements helped me remember that I made some additions to a few other albums in the last month, but I forgot to make an announcement about them. So here is such an announcement, better late than never.

First comes the name of the album. Then the names of the songs that were recently added. Then the link to get you to the album to download it. 

Lenny Kravitz - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: In Concert, Wembley Arena, London, Britain, 11-27-1993
Sister (Lenny Kravitz)
Flower Child (Lenny Kravitz)
It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over (Lenny Kravitz)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/10/lenny-kravitz-bbc-sessions-volume-2-in.html

Tim Buckley - BBC Sessions (1967-1974) 
Love from Room 109 at the Islander [On Pacific Coast Highway] (Tim Buckley)
The Train (Tim Buckley)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/05/tim-buckley-bbc-sessions-1967-1974.html

Joan Armatrading - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1973-1977 
Woncha Come on Home (Joan Armatrading with Georgie Fame)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/04/joan-armatrading-bbc-sessions-volume-1.html

Love Sculpture (with Dave Edmunds) - BBC Sessions (1968-1969) 
The Rebel [Edit] (Love Sculpture)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2021/11/love-sculpture-with-dave-edmunds-bbc.html

Don McLean - BBC Sessions, Volume 1: 1971-1982
11 Prime Time (Don McLean)
12 talk (Don McLean)
13 Colour TV Blues (Don McLean)
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/05/don-mclean-bbc-sessions-volume-1-1972.html

The Who - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: 1971-1981
04 Peg Leg Peggy (John Entwistle)
05 My Wife (John Entwistle) 
https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2019/06/the-who-bbc-sessions-1971-1981.html

Once I post albums on this blog, I'm determined to keep updating them if I find more songs or better sound quality.

Re-Squeezed

Back in January 2025, I posted a BBC concert by Difford and Tilbrook, the two main singer-songwriters in the band Squeeze. It's from 1984, during the only time in the 1980s they put out an album under their own name instead of using the Squeeze name. Unfortunately, the sound quality wasn't as good as one would expect, even after some tinkering. 

Happily, today I noticed the music blog "Voodoo Wagon" recently posted a version from a different source, and it sounds great. So I've updated the album with that better source. Here's the link if you want to redownload it:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/01/difford-tilbrook-squeeze-bbc-in-concert.html 

Kool Again

Just yesterday, I posted a Kool and the Gang BBC concert from 1981. In my write-up, I lamented that the album lacked two of their biggest hits that had already been released, "Jungle Boogie" and "Ladies' Night." Progsprog saw that, and it turns out he has a slightly different version of the same concert. It was exactly the same until the end. Then, it had "Ladies' Night" as the second to last song, plus a longer version of the last song, "Celebration." Together, the additions make up 14 minutes, mostly because "Ladies' Night" is quite long. So if you downloaded it already, I suggest you download this revised version. And thanks again to Progsprog for his help.

Songwriters' Circle Redo

Earlier in 2025, I posted an episode of the BBC TV show "Songwriters' Circle," that had the singer-songwriters Graham Gouldman, Ron Sexsmith, and Fran Healy take turns performing their songs. Unfortunately, I had to piece that together from various YouTube videos, and a couple of songs (plus spoken intros to other songs) were missing. But recently, a kind person named Alan sent me the entire show, with excellent sound quality. So I redid the album from scratch.

Here's the link to the updated version: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2025/02/graham-gouldman-fran-healy-ron-sexsmith.html

And thanks to Alan. I love it when these sorts of flaws get fixed. 

Dead Man Walks Again

I got a tip from a commenter the other day, pointing to an additional song from the "Dead Man Walking" 1998 concert that I posted here in 2022. I investigated further, and found out that the entire Tom Waits set from the show somehow was leaked to the public with excellent sound quality about a week ago (as I write this in mid-November 2025). That's eight songs, over half an hour long, almost like a mini-Tom Waits concert.

So I've updated the album with those extra songs included. Here's the link to the post if you want to update your version: 

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/02/various-artists-dead-man-walking.html

And thanks to aranyláz for giving me the tip!

Don McLean Again, and Chris Isaak

Just yesterday, I posted a BBC album of Don McLean performing at the Glastonbury Festival in 2011. The version I posted was 36 minutes. But musical friend Progsprog saw that post, realized he has a longer version, and sent that to me. So I just updated that album. Now, it's 58 minutes long. So if you've downloaded it already, you might want to go back and get the longer version. Thanks to Progsprog for the timely help.

Also, a few days ago, a commenter name Kris pointed out that he had a better sounding version of the  1991 Chris Isaak BBC concert I'd posted back in 2022. He gave a link, and sure enough that version does sound better. So I've just updated that one. Here's the link:

https://albumsthatshouldexist.blogspot.com/2022/12/chris-isaak-bbc-in-concert-town-and.html

Note that I've also renamed it to "BBC Sessions, Volume 1" because I found material for a "Volume 2," which I plan on posting here soon. 

And thank you as well, Kris. It would be great if more people could send me stuff they think I should post that I'm missing, especially BBC material. If you have a vast collection and want to send me a list to see if I might find something useful in it, please do!