The Rolling Stones - Give Me A Hamburger To Go (1971)

I've recently come across another stash of out-takes from The Rolling Stones, with most of these being recorded at Olympic Sound Studios in 1970, during sessions for the 'Sticky Finger's album. Some are early versions of tracks which later appeared on their studio albums, and other have never seen the light of day. Stand-outs include a 1968 extended version of the 'Let It Bleed' track 'Loving Cup', an early take of 'Tumbling Dice titled 'Good Time Woman', and instrumental versions of 'Let It Loose' and 'Sweet Black Angel'. Some of the tracks had already appeared on my earlier post 'Travelin' Man', and so I've removed them and added in a special version of 'You Got The Silver' with a Mick Jagger vocal, and that left a very reasonable 42-minute album. One 1968 out-take caught my eye, with the unusual title of 'Give Me A Hamburger To Go', so I've titled the album after that song, and that gave me the opportunity to produce this cover based on it. 

Track listing

01 Loving Cup (1969 early long version)
02 Shake Your Hips (long version)
03 You Got The Silver (Mick Jagger vocal)
04 Sweet Black Angel (instrumental version)
05 Good Time Woman (early version of 'Tumbling Dice')
06 Sweet Virginia (early version)
07 Stop Breaking Down (early version with no harp)
08 Give Me A Hamburger To Go (1968 out-take)
09 Let It Loose (instrumental version)
10 Shine A Light (early version)

Daisy Dares You - Rush (2010)

Daisy May Keeley Coburn was born on 27 October 1993 in Great Dunmow, Essex, and came from a musical family, with her mother once working as a backing singer for Duran Duran and The The. She learned to play the guitar and piano when she was six years old, and on Boxing Day 2007 she played a song she had been writing called 'Hurt' to family and friends. A friend of her mother's, Matthew Marston, heard the song and invited her to his home studio to record it, and that led to collaborating with Marston on songs  written for her debut album, 'Rush'. After picking up widespread promotional coverage in the media from The Times, the BBC, and The Guardian as a young artist to watch for in 2010, she signed to Jive, a subsidiary of Sony Records, and her first single 'Number One Enemy', featured British rapper Chipmunk, reached the top 20 in the UK. Her musical genre varies from teen-pop to pop rock to electropop, and comparisons have been made between her and British singer-songwriter Lily Allen, as well as Canadian singer-songwriter Avril Lavigne. 'Rosie' was released as her second single in May 2010, and her album was scheduled to appear in June, but for reasons unknown she was dropped from Jive Records and the album was cancelled. A six-track sampler CD was issued to the press in advance of the proposed release date, and so by adding in a couple of live versions of songs from the official track-listing, plus a few early demos, we can put together a 43-minute approximation of Daisy Dares You's scrapped debut album from 2010.

Track listing 

01 Number One Enemy (feat. Chipmunk)
02 Rosie
03 You'll Be Fine
04 Who Will Buy
05 Rush
06 Daisy Dares You (Pegasus & Rokchild remix)
07 Idiot
08 Talk About The Weather
09 Over You  
10 Next Few Minutes
11 Hurt
12 Stuck & Still

Van Morrison & The Chieftains - Songs Of Innocence (1988)

Van Morrison first met The Chieftains at an Edinburgh rock festival, and they later joined up in Belfast during Morrison's No Guru tour. Following the tour, Morrison and Paddy Moloney met up and discussed recording an album together, with both of them having a list of songs that they wanted to include, and they eventually reached a consensus to cover two of Morrison's previously released tracks, with 'Irish Heartbeat' later becoming the title of the album, and the rest would be traditional Irish songs. According to Moloney, making the album was a way for Morrison to rediscover his Irish roots, having played blues, rock 'n' roll, jazz and more importantly soul, for many years, and so he wanted to come home to his Irishness with The Chieftains. The album was recorded on dates from September to December 1987 and in January 1988, and was released later that year. It consists of eight traditional Irish songs, plus re-workings of the Morrison songs 'Celtic Ray' and 'Irish Heartbeat', with 'Carrickfergus' being described by critic Denis Campbell as "a melancholic air worthy of Otis Redding". 'On Raglan Road' was adapted from a poem by Patrick Kavanagh and is the story of a man ensnared by a beautiful revenant, whom he had mistaken for a creature made of clay. 'Irish Heartbeat' received positive reviews from most critics, one of whom called it "some of the most haunting, rousing, downright friendly music of the year", and in the NME's round-up of albums of the year of 1988 it was ranked number 2. On 15 September 1988 Morrison and The Chieftains played a gig together at The Ulster Hall, Belfast, which was recorded for Ulster Television, and also broadcast on Channel 4 in the UK. For anyone who missed it, or just wants to hear this meeting of two of Ireland's most revered musical exports, here is the whole concert. 

Track listing

01 Tore Down A La Rimbaud 
02 In The Garden 
03 Rave On John Donne 
04 Did Ye Get Healed 
05 Star Of The County Down 
06 She Moved Through The Fair 
07 Ta Mo Chleamhnas Deanta 
08 I'll Tell Me Ma 
09 Carrickfergus 
10 Celtic Ray 
11 Marie's Wedding 
12 Boffyflow & Spike 
13 Goodnight Irene 
14 Moondance  

Neal Ford & The Fanatics - We Will If You Want To (1968)

At the end of 1964, Neal Ford (lead vocals), a veteran of the local pop scene with other groups like the Ramadas and the VIPs, formed the first line-up of Neal Ford & The Fanatics, which consisted of Johnny Stringfellow (lead guitar), Jon Pereles (rhythm guitar, vocals), W. T. Johnson (bass guitar), Dennis Senter (keyboards), and John Cravey (drums). Though not as experimental as Austin's The 13th Floor Elevators, the band possessed an appreciation for the British Invasion groups, and played organ-driven instrumentals, and an R&B-inspired set typical of other garage rock acts. At first, the group went relatively unnoticed performing cover versions of songs by The Animals, The Zombies, and James Brown locally in their own club named Teen Scene, until record producer Ray Rush saw promise in the developing band, specifically their spontaneous live act. As a result, Neal Ford & The Fanatics recorded the song 'I Will Not Be Lonely' at ACA-Recording Studios, and released the single in May 1965 on GINA records. It was among the first in Texas to note a "British influence", and received airplay in Houston which helped it reach the regional charts. Shortly thereafter, Ford was called up for the Naval Reserve, and so the band's recording activities came to a standstill until he was released in late 1965. When he returned, Senter was replaced by Steven Ames, while his older brother, Richard "Dick" Ames, created Tantara Records to release the group's second single, the folk rock tune, 'Bitter Bells', in January 1966. 

Through the summer of 1966, Neal Ford & The Fanatics' profile rose steadily, with extensive airplay in Houston, multiple appearances on the Larry Kane Show, and well-attended shows at a venue called the Catacombs, alongside nationally successful acts including The Beach Boys and The Lovin' Spoonful. By the summer of 1966, Ames had departed to pursue a management position for The Moving Sidewalks, and he was replaced by Vox organ virtuoso Lanier Greig, who created a new sound for the band, and collaborated with the members to pen more original compositions. In October 1966 the band recorded demos of songs including 'I Can't Go On' and 'Good Men (Are Hard To Find)', in order to earn a contract with the national label, Hickory Records. Two regionally successful singles followed, with 'I Will If You Want To' receiving national attention in September 1966, and 'Gonna Be My Girl' reaching number one in Houston in early 1967. 

Their debut album, 'Neal Ford & The Fanatics', was released in November 1967 on Hickory Records, but their next single, 'Wait for Me', failed to produce the national breakthrough the group anticipated, and none of their later offerings in 1968 met with the same acclaim as 'Gonna Be My Girl'. The band continued to perform on the local club circuit, but in 1969 Ford quit and eventually produced a solo album in 1971, while more songs without Ford were recorded but not distributed, and in October 1970 the group disbanded. Ford continued to play with various bands into the '70's, including the Neal Ford Foundation, which released an album in 1972, but for the most part they will be remembered for their earlier, edgier singles, and garage aficionados still acknowledge their versatility. During sessions for their 1967 album they recorded more material then was needed, and so by adding some of those tracks to a selection of their later singles, there's enough left over to imagine what a second album could have sounded like had it been released in 1968. 

Track listing

01 Good Men (Are Hard To Find) 
02 Mary Wanna Marry Me          
03 Don't Tie Me Down 
04 Movin' Along
05 Save Your Affection
06 The Jones 
07 I Can't Go On  
08 I Will If You Want To
09 Little World Girl  
10 Woman 
11 I'll Put My Boots On Backwards
12 Better Slow Down  
13 For You  
14 Pain  
15 Buttercup
16 The Seasons   

Upgrades

An interesting process that I have recently discovered about the MVSEP programme, which is what I use to extract horns from Chicago songs among other things, is that it has a function to split out speech, music and effects from a track, and if you run a scratchy 7" single through it, then it thinks that all the clicks, pops and surface noise are special effects, and it removes them. I have therefore been able to clean up a lot of old 7" vinyl that I've either bought for these posts, or found on youtube in less than pristine condition, and so I'm posting all of the ones that I can remember, which I've cleaned up and put in one 'Upgrades' folder. You can download from Soulseek, searching upgrades aiwe, or Mega, and then just take the tracks that you need and slot them into your folders. I've also replaced the old tracks in the original Soulseek and Mega files for anyone who hasn't tried these artists yet. 

Upgrades so far are:

Albert Lee - ...and on guitar
B. J. Arnau - Make It With You

Truly Smith - Yours Truly
I Love Him

GUNK - Bloomdido - applause during the tracks removed 

Speak No Evil

Bloomdido

Litha

Bill Oddie - Oddieties

Because She Is My Love

TV Heroes

Cockney Rebel

Face To Face - new rip and cleaned up

The Bevis Frond

Sexorcist - new rip and cleaned up

Design

Won't You Say You Love Me

Never Been In Love Like This Before

If you find any others while playing the albums then let me know and I'll see if I can improve their quality. 

Elephant Stone - Andromeda - The Best Of Elephant Stone (2024)

Inspired by his own ongoing Indian classical music discovery, Rishi Dhir formed Elephant Stone in Montreal in 2008. With Dhir singing lead and handling nearly a dozen instruments, he recorded the project's debut album with help from several guests, including producer Jace Lasek. It arrived in May 2009 on Dhir's own Elephants On Parade label, distributed by Fontana Records, and was quickly followed by 'The Glass Box' EP in 2010. The group then signed with Canada's Hidden Pony for 2013's eponymous 'Elephant Stone' record, by which time the band had settled into a regular line-up of Dhir, Gabriel Lambert on guitar, and Miles Dupire-Gagnon on drums. 'Three Poisons' arrived in 2014, also on Hidden Pony, and that year they were asked to contribute a tracks to 'A Psyche Tribute To The Doors on Cleopatra Records, for which they chose to cover 'L.A. Woman'. The band's fourth album, 'Ship Of Fools', was released in 2016 on Burger Records in 2016, before they returned with the five-song 'Live At The Verge', which captured a session at Toronto's Verge Music Lab in February 2017. The 'Ship Of Fools' remix EP 'Remix Of Fools' followed in September, but it three more years before we were to hear from the band again, when their fifth album, 'Hollow', appeared in 2020, featuring split guitar duties between Lambert and Robbie MacArthur. In 2022 they issued a French-language EP 'Le Voyage de M. Lonely dans la Lune', which saw MacArthur and Jason Kent taking over on guitar. Combining the influence of Indian classical music with the melodic style of British Invasion bands like the Kinks and the Beatles, the Canadian neo-psychedelic outfit were a breath of fresh air in 2009, and they have not disappointed with any of their releases since then, so if the band is new to you then this sampler will introduce you to the innovative world of Rishi Dhir. 

Track listing 

01 Sally Go Round the Sun (from 'Elephant Stone' 2013)
02 Lost in a Dream (from 'Back Into The Dream' 2024)
03 Andromeda (from 'Ship Of Fools' 2016)
04 Knock You From Yr Mountain (from 'The Three Poisons' 2014)
05 How Long (from 'The Seven Seas' 2009)
06 Hollow World (from 'Hollow' 2020)
07 A Silent Moment (from 'Elephant Stone' 2013)
08 Child of Nature (Om Namah Shivaya) (from 'The Three Poisons' 2014)
09 Where I'm Going (from 'Ship Of Fools' 2016)
10 Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin (from 'Elephant Stone' 2013)
11 We Cry for Harmonia (from 'Hollow' 2020)
11 Harmonia (from 'Hollow' 2020)
12 The Sea of Your Mind (from 'Elephant Stone' 2013)
13 I Am Blind (from 'The Seven Seas' 2009)

Sweeney Todd - If Wishes Were Horses... (1977)

Sweeney Todd formed in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1975, and originally consisted of vocalist Nick Gilder, guitarist Jim McCulloch, bassist Budd Marr, keyboardist Dan Gaudin and drummer John Booth. Their first single, 'Roxy Roller', became a No. 1 hit in Canada, holding the top position in the RPM national singles chart for three weeks beginning on 26 June 1976, and winning a Juno Award for the band. After releasing their debut album, 'Sweeney Todd', in 1975, Gilder and McCulloch left the band to pursue solo careers, and Clark Perry was brought in to replace Gilder on vocals, with Skip Prest taking over from McCulloch on guitar. Though he did record a second version of 'Roxy Roller', which reached number 90 in the US charts, Perry didn't work out, and he was replaced within a few months by Bryan Adams, who was 16 at that time. With Adams the band re-recorded and released a third version of 'Roxy Roller', but this time it only scraped into the US charts at number 99, and both releases were ordered to be pulled from stores by Chrysalis Records, the label who had signed Sweeney Todd's original lead singer Nick Gilder, as Gilder had his own solo version of the song out concurrently with the Sweeney Todd re-recordings. Following the minor success of the Adam's sung version of the single, the band recorded their second album 'If Wishes Were Horses...' in  1977, with Adams billed as "Bryan Guy Adams" on vocals. The record was unsuccessful, and Adams left the band after less than a year, and although they attempted to carry on with Chris Booth (John Booth's younger brother) on vocals, and Grant Gislason replacing Prest on guitar in 1978, they broke up before recording any further albums. The band re-united in 2000 and began working on 'The Sweeney Todd LP', and in 2007 Sweeney Todd, along with ex-vocalist Nick Gilder, headlined the Golden Spike Days Festival in Port Moody, British Columbia. Despite Nick Gilder going on to have a very successful solo career, releasing acclaimed albums 'You Know Who You Are' in 1977 and 'City Nights' in 1978, and hitting the charts the same year with 'Hot Child In The City', Sweeney Todd will mostly be remembered as the starting point of Bryan Adams' Grammy award-winning career in music. 

Track listing

01 If Wishes Were Horses
02 Tantalize
03 Until I Find You
04 Pushin' & Shovin'
05 #5243605-Smith
06 Song For A Star
07 Shut Up
08 All Of A Sudden
09 Wastin' Time
10 Say Hello Say Goodbye
11 Roxy Roller
12 Rue De Chance

Johnette Napolitano - Sound Of A Woman (1996)

In 1986 singer/bassist Johnette Napolitano co-founded Concrete Blonde with guitarist James Mankey, having worked with him under various name since 1982. Their first release was 'Concrete Blonde' in 1986, which included their debut single 'Still In Hollywood', and for their follow-up album, 'Free', they added a full-time bass guitarist, Alan Bloch, allowing Napolitano to focus on her singing without the burden of playing bass simultaneously. Their third album, 'Bloodletting' appeared in 1990, and became their most commercially successful, reaching number 49 in the United States album chart. Roxy Music drummer Paul Thompson replaced Rushakoff on 'Bloodletting' while Rushakoff was in treatment for drug addiction, and Napolitano also reassumed bass duties for this and all subsequent recordings. 1992's 'Walking in London' saw the return of original drummer Rushakoff due to Thompson's immigration issues, while the following year's successor, 'Mexican Moon', featured the 'Bloodletting' lineup with Thompson back on drums. As neither album achieved the commercial success of 'Bloodletting', Napolitano disbanded the group in 1994. After Concrete Blonde broke up, Napolitano recorded as a solo artist, releasing the albums 'Sketchbook' in 2002, 'Sketchbook 2'  in 2006, 'Scarred' in 2007, and 'Sketchbook 3' in 2010, but before the first 'Sketchbook' project she had recorded a solo album titled 'Sound Of A Woman in 1996, and she performed many of the songs on a solo tour opening for Paul Weller. It was set to be released on Concrete Blonde's old record label IRS (a subdivision of Island Records), but 1997/1998 was a bad time for Island, starting with the sudden departure of founder-CEO Chris Blackwell and ending with the total reorganization of the label, and so 'Sound Of A Woman' was lost in the shuffle. It's now extremely unlikely to ever be officially released, and the few cassette copies which leaked out are now rare and highly prized. 

Track listing

01 I'm Your Queen
02 The Sound Of A Woman
03 I Can Do Anything
04 Deliver
05 Something Fast
06 Todos Los Santos
07 Firefly
08 Human
09 Closer
10 Sleep
11 Lullabye For Fabiana

Kiley Dean - Simple Girl (2003)

Kiley Dean Bowlin was born on 12 April 1982 and raised in Alma, Arkansas, from where she moved to Orlando, Florida with her parents at the age of seven. She grew up singing in school and church, and at 17 she was singing back-up for Britney Spears on her 'Baby One More Time' and 'Oops! I Did It Again' tours. She signed to record producer Timbaland's Beat Club Records, an imprint of Interscope Records in 2002, and released her debut single, 'Make Me A Song' the following year, which was produced by Timbaland, but which underperformed at number 99 on the Billboard Hot 100. Despite this she was granted a second single with 'Who Will I Run To', before recording her Timbaland-produced debut album, 'Simple Girl', but although this was planned to be released in July 2003, due to the commercial failure of the singles it was shelved. In 2005, she started work on her second album under the name 'Blue Eyes', and released a single 'Lookin' For Love' to radio, while her second studio album 'Changes' was set to be released in 2006. It was preceded by the single 'Who I Am',  which was sent out to radio stations, but in 2007 she signed with Mathew Knowles' Music World Entertainment label, They were set to issue 'Changes' as her first release on her new label, but after six months she left the label, and so like her debut record, 'Changes' was shelved and also remains unreleased. In 2008, she joined Madonna on her 'Sticky & Sweet' tour as a backup vocalist, replacing Madonna's long-time backing singer Donna De Lory, who was pregnant at the time and unable to tour, and in 2010 she released the 'Changes' album digitally on the ReverbNation store, but it was only for a limited time, and is now unavailable. Later that year, she recorded a couple of remixes that were made available on YouTube and her Soundcloud accounts, but these are also now very hard to track down. In 2011 she joined the New Kids On The Block and Matthew Morrison tours as a back-up simnger, and in 2022 she re-joined Madonna's team, performing backup on her 'MDNA' and 'Rebel Heart' tours. In 2015 she launched a Kickstarter campaign to fund her 'Scream' EP, which successfully met its goal in February, and in July she premiered the EP's first single and music video 'Lockdown' to her backers, with the digital release made available in August, and in September the full EP was made available to her backers, with a digital release following a few weeks later. Despite working with a number of famous artists as a backing vocalist, Dean has never been lucky enough to release an album under her own name, and so to put that right here is her unreleased 2003 record 'Simple Girl'.  

Track listing

01 Blessed (Intro)
02 Cross The Line
03 Make Me A Song
04 No
05 Kiss Me Like That
06 Keep It Movin'
07 America
08 War Song
09 Simple Girl
10 As Days Gone By
11 Better Than The Day
12 Busy
13 Confused
14 Lovin' You
15 Should I

16 Who Should I Run To

17 I Know (Outro)

Nas vs. Jay-Z - God's Black (2005)

The Nas vs. Jay-Z beef is widely considered one of the greatest rivalries in hip-hop history, remembered not just for the lyrical fireworks but also for how it captured the competitive spirit of rap in the late 1990's and early 2000's. The roots of the conflict go back to the mid-1990's, when both rappers were rising stars representing different New York boroughs, with Nas from Queensbridge and Jay-Z from Brooklyn. Early tensions began when Jay-Z sampled Nas's voice on his 1996 single 'Dead Presidents' without Nas contributing a full verse. Although Nas was already hailed for his 1994 album 'Illmatic', regarded as one of the greatest rap albums ever, Jay-Z was building momentum with 'Reasonable Doubt' and later projects. For years, the two exchanged subliminal disses, never addressing each other directly but making it clear there was rivalry over the crown of "King Of New York". By 2001, the tension boiled over when Jay-Z released 'The Blueprint', which included 'Takeover', on which Jay-Z directly targeted Nas, criticizing his discography after 'Illmatic', mocking his sales, and accusing him of irrelevance. He also pointed to Nas's personal life, sharpening the attack beyond music, and 'Takeover' was seen by many as a bold move that positioned Jay-Z as New York’s top rapper. Nas struck back with 'Ether', a blistering response on his 2001 album 'Stillmatic', but whereas Jay's was a calculated critique, Nas's diss was emotional and venomous, filled with personal insults. He mocked Jay-Z's looks, accused him of being a follower, and suggested his success relied on other's creativity. 

The intensity of 'Ether' shifted public opinion, and while some critics argued that Jay-Z's 'Takeover' was more factual, many fans celebrated Nas for the raw, unapologetic energy of his response. For months, the beef dominated hip-hop discourse, with fans, DJs, and magazines debated which song was superior, and the rivalry became symbolic of larger cultural shifts, with Nas representing a gritty, introspective lyricism, and Jay-Z symbolizing commercial success blended with street credibility. Their clash revitalized interest in lyrical battles at a time when mainstream rap was leaning heavily into polished production and club anthems. Over time, however, the intensity cooled, and by 2005 the two had officially ended their feud, with Jay-Z, as president of Def Jam Records, signing Nas to the label, which was seen as a symbolic act of reconciliation. The two went on to perform together and collaborate on songs like 'Black Republican' in 2006 and 'Success' in 2007, cementing mutual respect after years of hostility, but in 2004, when this reconciliation was still was regarded as a pipedream, youtuber Milio crafted an album which imagined what a collaboration between the two rappers could have sounded like. Taking verses from each of them and working his magic, he made a record that sounds like they were actually in the studio together, and although it is now 20 years since it first appeared, it's still worth hearing as a precursor to what was to become a reality just twelve or so months later. 

Track listing

01 Winner's Circle
02 Wussup?
03 Ain't Goin Nowhere (feat. Macy Gray)
04 The Mossberg Anthem(feat. Big Kap, Fatman Scoop)
05 Spread Love
06 Living Proof (feat. AZ)
07 Quiet Storm 2 (feat. Havoc)
08 Contra (feat. DJ Clue)
09 Damn
10 Still Ain't Goin Nowhere (feat. Lil' Kim)
11 Hearts Go On (feat. Celine Dion)
12 Save Me
13 Who's The Best (feat. Biggie Smalls)

Bilbo Baggins - Dance To The Band (1978)

Bilbo Baggins were formed in Edinburgh in 1972, and included Colin Chisholm on lead vocals, Jimmy Devlin on bass, Gordon Liddle on drums, and Brian Spence and Gordon McIntosh on guitars. They were mostly known by many through their connection to the Bay City Rollers, and they shared the controversial Tam Paton as their manager, but they were in fact a completely different style of band, with their music leaning a lot more towards rock, with a more funky and fuller sound. The Roller connection did initially give them some good openings, but it really was a double-edged sword, as the serious music press did not warm to them, and they were often not included on radio playlists, although local radio stations and Radio Luxembourg were a lot more supportive. Their first few singles stayed frustratingly outside of the Top 50, probably due to lack of national radio play, which meant they did not get to appear on Top Of The Pops and gain the exposure of the then most important music show on TV. After their final split from Tam Paton management they were left with contractual disputes, and 1977 became a very difficult year for them as they tried to get back on track. By 1978 they were signed to Lightning records, but the tide of musical taste had turned away from pop and was embracing punk and New Wave, and so despite a change of image it was now too late for the band to achieve the commercial success they really deserved, although their 1978 single, 'She's Gonna Win', did peak at No. 42 on the UK Singles Chart. In total they released five singles on Polydor between 1974 and 1976, before shortening their name to Bilbo in 1978, and issuing a further four singles for Lightning Records. The band eventually split in 1979, and a 2014 re-union was thwarted by the UK's Intellectual Property Enterprise Court and the Saul Zaentz Company in the United States, which owns the rights to the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, and who objected to their name, saying that it "did not differentiate it clearly enough from the famous hobbit Bilbo"! Hopefully this collection of all their recorded music, bar a forgettable disco version of their last single, will reignite interest in the career of one of the forgotten glam-pop bands of the early 70's.  

Track listing

01 Saturday Night (single 1974)
02 Monday Morning Blues (b-side of 'Saturday Night')
03 The Sha-Na-Na-Na Song (single 1974)
04 Run With The Devil (b-side of 'The Sha-Na-Na-Na Song')
05 Hold Me (single 1975)
06 Dance To The Band (b-side of 'Hold Me')
07 Back Home (single 1976)
08 What's Goin' On (b-side of 'Back Home')
09 It's A Shame (single 1976)
10 Please Sir (b-side of 'It's A Shame')
11 I Can Feel Mad (single 1978)
12 Dole Q Blues (b-side of 'I Can Feel Mad')
13 She's Gonna Win (single as Bilbo 1978)
14 You Wanna Be Your Lover (b-side of 'She's Gonna Win')
15 America (single as Bilbo 1978)
16 He Mustn't Know (b-side of 'America')
17 Don't Blame It On Me (single as Bilbo 1978)

Peter Tosh - Brand New Second Hand (1971)

Winston Hubert McIntosh, professionally known as Peter Tosh, was born on 19 October 1944 in Westmoreland, the westernmost parish of Jamaica. He was abandoned by his parents and shuffled among relatives, and when he was fifteen, his aunt died and he moved to Trenchtown in Kingston, Jamaica. During the early 1960's, as an aspiring musician, he went to vocal teacher Joe Higgs, who gave free music lessons to young people, and through his contact with Higgs, Tosh met Robert Nesta Marley (Bob Marley) and Neville O'Reilly Livingston (Bunny Wailer). He then changed his name to Peter Tosh and the trio started singing together in 1962, with Higgs teaching the trio to harmonise and develop their music. By 1964, Tosh, Marley, and Bunny had formed the Wailing Wailers, with falsetto singer Junior Braithwaite, and backup singers Beverley Kelso and Cherry Smith. Initially, Tosh was the only one in the group who could play musical instruments, and according to Bunny Wailer, Tosh was critical to the band because he was a self-taught guitarist and keyboardist, and thus became an inspiration for the other band members to learn to play. The Wailing Wailers had a major ska hit with their first single, 'Simmer Down', and recorded several more successful singles before Braithwaite, Kelso and Smith left the band in late 1965. Marley spent much of 1966 in Delaware in the United States with his mother, and for a brief time was working at a nearby Chrysler factory. He returned to Jamaica in early 1967 with a renewed interest in music and a new spirituality, and as Tosh and Bunny were already Rastafarians when Marley returned from the US, the three became very involved with the Rastafari faith. Soon afterwards, they renamed their group the Wailers, and rejecting the up-tempo dance of ska, the band slowed their music to a rocksteady pace, and infused their lyrics with political and social messages inspired by their new-found faith. The Wailers composed several songs for the American-born singer Johnny Nash before teaming up with producer Lee "Scratch" Perry to record some of the earliest well-known reggae songs, including 'Soul Rebel', 'Duppy Conqueror', and 'Small Axe'. Although Tosh didn't record his debut solo album, 'Legalize It', until 1975/76, he'd been releasing solo singles in Jamaica since 1964, often with the Wailers as his backing band. For most of his records he was only allowed one song, with two different artists sharing each 7" disc, and so his solo discography is somewhat disjointed, but this album collects together all the songs that were either issued under his own name, or as b-sides of Wailers' singles, between 1964 and 1971, and includes a number of promo singles which were never officially released.  

Track listing

01 Hoot Nanny Hoot (single 1964)
02 Shame And Scandal (single 1965)
03 Amen (b-side of 'Habits' by The Wailers 1965)
04 Maga Dog (b-side of 'Hoolighans' by The Wailers 1965)
05 The Toughest (single 1966)
06 Rasta Put It On (Promo single 1966)
07 Lemon Tree (Promo single 1966)
08 Treat Me Good (b-side of 'Dancing Time' by The Wailers 1967)
09 Funeral (b-side of 'Thank You Lord' by The Wailers 1967)
10 Pound Get A Blow (b-side of 'Fire Fire' by The Wailers' 1967) 
11 Steppin' Razor (Promo single 1968)
12 Dem A Fi Get A Beaten (Promo single 1968)
13 Give Me A Ticket (Promo single 1969)
14 Once Bitten (single 1971)
15 Brand New Second Hand (single 1971)
16 Here Comes The Sun (Promo single 1971)
17 No Sympathy (single 1971)

The Weeknd - King Of The Fall (2014)

In July 2014 Canadian singer Abel Tesfaye, aka The Weeknd, released a promotional single titled 'King Of The Fall' to streaming services, to promote his King Of The Fall Tour. The song was later officially re-released by XO and Republic Records in September 2020, accompanying the release of his remixed track 'Rambo (Last Blood)' on the deluxe edition of Bryson Tiller's first studio album 'Trapsoul'. The initial release of 'King Of The Fall' followed that of his 2014 single 'Often', which was released a month prior, and the song is considered by critics and fans alike as being a staple song in his discography. The release of the two singles hinted to fans that a new album was on the horizon, and although Tesfaye had already began writing new songs, and had enough material for a new record, Republic Records offered him more opportunities to gain mainstream attention, and it was ultimately shelved. Instead, he released 'Earned It' on the soundtrack to James Foley's film '50 Shades Of Grey', and a collaboration with Ariana Grande on 'Love Me Harder'. His next official album was 2015's 'Beauty Behind The Madness', which included 'Often', but none of the songs that he'd recorded for the abandoned record, and so here they are in the form of an album that could have slotted in between 'Kiss Land' and 'Beauty Behind The Madness' in his discography. 

Track listing

01 Be God 
02 Potion  
03 Ebony 
04 In The 90's 
05 Devil May Cry 
06 Intrinsic Worth 
07 DBS OCT  
08 King Of The Fall
09 Lust Spell 
10 Quatre Neuf 
11 Pullin' Up 
12 In The Mood 
13 Marilyn / Witches And Panthers