The old hidden album

[Drealm]

I want to share one of my greatest fantasy about music.

Imagine a band you love and possess all the albums: you know all of them by heart. Maybe the band is dead, or their new albums are not as great as their old ones. You sometimes wish you could "forget" an album and rediscover it just to have this incredible feeling again of discovering a new, good album from this band.

Then, imagine a band that, on purpose, record a whole album in their best times, but never release it, never talk about it, nobody knows it's existence.

So they continue their career normally, doing new albums. When they break up, or simply stop doing music, they announce that they have a last, new album. So everybody is exited about this announcement.

After listening to it, you tell yourself "how the hell they did that, this album is so great, it almost sound as if it was a good old album". And this is...true. After reading carefully the booklet, you realize the album was recorded many years ago when they were at their top.

What a great surprise it would be.

But to my knowledge, no band ever did something like that on purpose, just to give a gift to their fans.

For example, imagine Metallica announce there was an album recorded with the old bassist Cliff Burton between Ride the Lightning and Master of Puppets...I think every fans would freak out.

So I hope some of you enjoyed this fantasy as much as I do!

[Tiggi]

The only possible example I can think of is ex-Beach Boy Brian Wilson's Smile album.

It was written decades ago, and then shelved. Rumours about it have circulated for years, and now BW is back in the land of the sentient, he's completed & released it to enormous approval.

There must be other examples...

[Trumpton Riots]

There's a band called The Residents who recorded an album they called Not Available, which they planned not to release until the band had forgotten that they had made the album. However, they ended up releasing it in 1978, four years after recording it.

And also this sometimes happens with classical composers - Beethoven is generally regarded as having written 9 symphonies, but he was planning on a 10th when he died. In the late eighties, a musicologist called Barry Cooper constructed the first movement of this symphony using various sketches Beethoven had made for it. Also, apparently he wrote a very early symphony, before his official 1st Symphony, that remains lost.

[bryce]

i forget who but a famous rapper died and then new albums kept coming out... maybe it was 2pok or however it's spelled:tongue:. other than that elvis came out with a new song a couple years ago, but i don't think it was on purpose.

[Paddis]

i forget who but a famous rapper died and then new albums kept coming out... maybe it was 2pok or however it's spelled:tongue:. other than that elvis came out with a new song a couple years ago, but i don't think it was on purpose.

From what I've heard, 2Pac had recorded a few albums when he died. His record company then decided to release these after his death.

An unreleased song by Michael Jackson leaked out on the internet a while ago, although I don't believe it was complete.

[Drealm]

So I like to see that it can happen somehow. Very interesting!