Artists with an unusually large amount of interesting unreleased material

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Influenced by the unreleased Prince thread this one. Obviously, a box set of unreleased Prince material would be just as great as Springsteen's "Track" box set.

But there are others too. Personally, I would have loved to hear some of the material that Paddy McAloon worked on for a new Prefab Sprout album in-between "Jordan...The Comeback" and "Andromeda Heights" - apparently, he started working og several ambitious concept albums and then dropped all of them, and I am certain that a Prefab Sprout box set would be able to include a lot of interesting unheard material.

Any other acts that have such a goldmine of interesting unreleased material?

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 00:46 (twenty-one years ago)

actually, springsteen's tracks did a good job of convincing me that the boss had an unusually large amount of uninteresting unreleased material.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Robert Smith and Billy Corgan to thread (no matter what naysayers may allege).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 00:52 (twenty-one years ago)

frank zappa

― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 03:31 (twenty-one years ago)

what kinda stuff does Robert Smith have unreleased?

ive heard both the glove and blue sunshine, and wasnt really impressed with either. they werent bad tho.

― JD from CDepot, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 04:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Dylan

― shookout (shookout), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 05:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Smith's recorded at least two, maybe three unreleased solo albums.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Can
The Monkees (except it's all been released now)

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Bowie's rejected soundtrack for The Man Who Fell To Earth has never been released.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't fat bobs stuff on join the dots ?
i would buy anything from : michael jackson,paul mccartey,prince , stevie wonder,madonna (before 1990),u2,crowded house,plsit enz or janet jackson,erasure,inxs

― lygon, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Neil Young has been talking about releasing some 10 CD set out of his archieves for years. I would imagine that some of those recordings would be quite a good listen if a fan.

― earlnash, Tuesday, 30 November 2004 11:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Good call for Paddy McAloon / Prefab Sprout, that would probably have been my first choice.

Second choice: Tom Waits

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

isn't fat bobs stuff on join the dots ?

there's maybe three previously unreleased tracks in the 320 minutes, none of them interesting, one of them just a new re-recording of A Forest, and his solo things remain resolutely unreleased (except one got performed in a late-80s radio session or summat).

they have loads of demos with possibly-interesting early versions of songs, which might crawl into light of day on the remaster bonus discs. I like Lime Green & Tangerine quite a bit better than Wrong Number. though it may be an anomaly.

― kit brash (kit brash), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Any idea what Green Gartside was doing between those two 1991 singles and "Anomie And Bonhomie"? Or what Kratwerk were doing between "Electric Café" and "Tour De France Soundtracks"? I mean, I haven't heard about anything concrete, but I would expect there is quite a well of unreleased material out there.

Also, XTC recorded a lot of music between "Nonsuch" and "The Apple Venus" that I suppose all of it didn't find the way into any of their 99-00 albums.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes but surely Andy Partridge released everything he's ever recorded by now?

― We Buy a Hammer For Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Btw. Peter Gabriel's material between "So" and "Us", and later, between "Us" and "Up" I am not asking for. Apparently, he was too busy saving the world to be able to make music (apart from weird side projects such as "Passion" and "OVO")

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

arthur russell. about a million hours of different versions and unreleased tracks. and I want it all.

― simon 803 (simon 803), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Dusty Springfield, if the tracks on the expanded Dusty in Memphis and Dusty in London comps are any indication.

― Joseph McCombs (Joseph McCombs), Tuesday, 30 November 2004 16:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Bob Mould. That's what I want for christmas...

― John 2, Friday, 3 December 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

ten years pass...

The The and Prefab Sprout are the kings of unreleased records.

I'm really curious about the songs that Massive Attack recorded with Shara Nelson
post-Blue Lines. According to her, it's quite a large cache of material

― beamish13, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:10 (ten years ago)

I assume Makoto Kawabata, but I guess he ends up releasing a lot of it anyway.

― :wq (Leee), Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:14 (ten years ago)

Underworld have loads and loads of stuff in their vaults I would imagine

― frogbs, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 16:52 (ten years ago)

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