The Byrds - Byrds '69

 

Alternate album 1969

01 This Wheel's On Fire

02 Child of the Universe

03 Candy

04 Bad Night at the Whiskey

05 King Apathy III

06 Your Gentle Way of Loving Me

07 Old Blue

08 Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man

09 Lay Lady Lay

10 Stanley's Song

11 Nashville West

Another Byrds album and period re-imagined. This time it's 1969's 'Dr. Byrds & Mr. Hyde'. 

Opinions are split over this album and it was also one of the worst selling. Bob Johnson's poor production didn't help, but the 90's Columbia re-issues cleaned it up a bit.

I thought the main problem was the flow; on this alternate version I've placed all the psychedelic and fuzz toned songs on side 1 and the country material on side 2 (beginning with 'Your Gentle Way of Loving Me').

In addition to this I removed the medley of 'My Back Pages/B.J. Blues/Baby What You Want Me to Do' and included an alternate version of the non album single 'Lay Lady Lay' and the album outtake 'Stanley's Song'.

Other alternate Byrds albums:

Byrds '66 

Ideas As Maps (1967)

Universal Mind Decoder (1968)

The Ballads Of Easy Rider (1969)

Wilco - 21st Century

 

Bootleg 2001

Disc 1:

01 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

02 Ashes of American Flags

03 I'm the Man Who Loves You

04 Magazine Called Sunset

05 Reservations

06 Kamera

07 Not for the Season

08 Alone

09 Nothing Up My Sleeve

10 Venus Stop the Train

11 Cars Can't Escape

12 Poor Places

13 Won't Let You Down

14 Heavy Metal Drummer

15 Let Me Come Home

16 Woodgrain

17 The Good Part

18 Bob Dylan's 49th Beard

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20 More Like the Moon

Disc 2:

01 I Am Trying to Break Your Heart

02 Ashes of American Flags

03 I'm the Man Who Loves You

04 Magazine Called Sunset

05 Reservations

06 Camera

07 Not for the Season

08 Alone

09 War on War

10 Pot Kettle Black

11 Rhythm

12 Poor Places

13 The Good Part

14 Heavy Metal Drummer

15 Handshake Drugs

16 Let Me Come Home [Instrumental]

17 Alone

18 Courduroy Cutoff  Girl [Instrumental]

19 Jesus, Etc. [Live]

20 I'm the Man Who Loves You [Live]

Wilco are not an obvious choice for this blog, but twenty years ago they released their most experimental album 'Yankee Hotel Foxtrot'. Along with it came two bootlegs, 'Engineer Demos' and 'YHF Demos' containing several alternate versions and enough unused original songs for at least another album.

I combined these along with the contemporary 'More Like The Moon' E.P. and a couple of b-sides.

From my own stash of 2000's CDr's.

 

Various Artists - Spring 2021

 

01 James Harphem - The Witches and the Grinnygog (Intro)

02 Gabor Szabo - Galatea's Guitar

03 Shelley - The War

04 The House In The Woods - Walk Four - Homeward Bound

05 The Neighb'rhood Childr'n - Long Years In Space

06 Christian Scott a Tunde Adjuah - X. Adjuah (I Own the Night)

07 Bing & Ruth - Police Police Police Police Police

08 James Harphem - The Witches and the Grinnygog (Distorted broadcast)

09 Didier's Sound Spectrum - Spectrum

10 Unknown - Perverse Isabelle - Elle est Prête (Edit)

11 Sunforest - Magician in the Mountain

12 Jesse Sparhawk - Light Cycle/Tetrahedra

13 James Harphem - The Witches and the Grinnygog (Outro)

14 Haruomi Hosono - Original BGM

Throughout the first lockdown of 2021, I watched 'The Witches and the Grinnygog'; a BBC children's television program from 1983. I included the main themes and a piece of the broadcast that had distorted sound.

 'Galatea's Guitar' by Gabor Szabo is some Hungarian jazz folk from 1968. From the album 'In Dreams'.

'The War' by Shelley was the b-side of their only single, 'Please Please Please', from 1966.

The House In The Woods is a pseudonym of Pye Corner Audio. Released on Bandcamp 2020.

The Neighb'rhood Childr'n were San Francisco contemporaries of Jefferson Airplane in 1966/67.

Jazz pal Vincent recommended the Christian Scott a Tunde Adjuah track from 2020.

'Police Police Police Police Police' is New York ambient minimalism from the 2014 album 'Tomorrow Was The Golden Age'.

'Didier's Sound Spectrum' is 2002 Swedish funk.

'Perverse Isabelle' was a 1975 sexploitation film by Jose Benazeraf. The soundtrack composer is unknown. Thanks Escapists Advisor.

Sunforest I've included on many a mix. 1970 hippie psych.

The Jesse Sparhawk track was taken from the 2006 Various Artists album 'Imaginational Anthem - Volume Two'. Released on the Tompkins Square label.

Haruomi Hosono 'Original BGM' was taken from 'BGM 1980-2000'.