statcat

Who are some bands with unreleased material that you would like to hear? I mean songs that you know exist but have never been released at all (could be alternate versions or just completely unreleased material) I know lots of stuff has cropped up on bootlegs, but even then there isn't everything that is in the vaults.

Here's some of my thoughts:

Easybeats- lots of unreleased material especially from the early days. I've read a list which had a ton of songs I never even heard of.

AC/DC Bon Scott years- with Bonfire a few of these songs came out but there's still several things that didn't. Stuff like this: http://www.crabsodyinblue.com/acdcimarebel.htm

Fillmore- I'm led to believe that a number of fillmore shows were recorded in the 60s and are still in the vaults. I would like to hear a great quality yardbirds show or many others in particular.

islandclaws

Even though I was immensly satisfied with Danzig's "Lost Tracks" set, I know there's still plenty of gold left to mine from some of their recording sessions. I hope there's a Vol. 2 set for sometime down the line.

WMAangel

Anything by Pearl Jam....it is well known that they have extra unreleased songs that haven't ever been leaked on bootlegs...you can even clearly see some of them on the inside cover of the Lost Dogs compilation!

Supposedly Axl Rose has a lot more songs recorded from the past 15 years of working on Chinese Democracy....I'll believe it when I see (or hear) it though....I know many people hated that album and anything "new" GNR, but I am still a fan and want to hear what else he's cooked up....

Obviously a collection of unreleased Michael Jackson would sell like hotcakes at the moment...

project86

I would like to one day hear Weezers 2nd album that was never released.

Giles

the second album from the British group Straw - only a four song single was released as their swan song 'Sailing of the Edge of the World' (how appropriate and unfortunate, since it was an epic gorgeous song).

reverie

Oingo Boingo. They could fill a box set plus with their unreleased stuff!

Also; Peter Gabriel. I heard once that he had a ton more material for "Up" than was released.

cungar

I have a collection of 65 unreleased Gabriel tracks that includes some unreleased stuff from Up

brokenhanger

Off the top of my head, the third JJ72 album that was recorded and mastered but the record company refused to release until they had a Top 20 single [I think it was...], so the band broke up. It's out there somewhere...

The Infidel

Prince has a pretty legendary "vault" of unreleased material.

Tscott

Juliana Hatfield - God's Foot. Some of the songs got re-recorded and released elsewhere, but it's a shame this album never saw the light of day.

Also Tori Amos and Michael Stipe recorded a song together for some soundtrack. The song wasn't used and was never released. I've always wanted to hear it.

House13

I don't want to hear anymore of it but I want to know how much more unreleased material Tupac has. I mean seriously the dude can't be dead. Look at how many friggin albums that have come out in the past 13 years.

panchor

Van Halen. According to Eddie Van Halen he has tons of unreleased songs. Also, there are several songs from the David Lee Roth era that never made it into their records.

The Bus

Beck has done several songs with P. Diddy, but P. Diddy refused to release them. This was around the time of Odelay.

orangecrush

I would be interested in hearing some of the songs R.E.M. did for Monster. Supossedly, they recorded over 50. If Weezer has an unreleased 2nd record, I would be all ears for that as well.

RagingBull80

The rest of the Smile material from the Beach Boys. A Smile box set would make me a very happy guy.

al_bundy

why don't the bands release some low quality versions for free on the websites and then see what the fans like and make higher quality versions for an official release?

BackStJoe

The biggest would probably be the second Buckingham/Nicks disc...

Hixx

Whatever happened to the Hendrix/Stills album that was unearthed last year?

I'd love to hear that.

Also I'd be interested to hear some of the stuff from Michael Jackson's vaults that got mentioned around the time of his death. Given his popularity I'd bet it's likely that it gets released in the somewhat near future.

Mike86

Songs From the Black Hole by Weezer would be interesting to hear even though some of the material for it has now been released on Rivers Cuomo's Alone discs.

rw2516

Led Zeppelin's Black Album. Kidding

The Stones are notorious for recording 2-3 albums worth of material for each album. Some has shown up on later LPs and a lot is on bootlegs. They are often asked about releasing the stuff but have no interest in doing so. Almost like they don't "get" or understand this trend of everybody putting out their studio leftovers.

Dan

Tapeworm

Supermallet

With the exception of the song "Heaven," Tattoo You is all material the Stones rejected from Goat's Head Soup through Emotional Rescue.

And the obvious answer to the OP's question is Prince.

UAIOE

I'd like to hear any 1989-1996 unreleased Smashing Pumpkins stuff.

I'm hoping there is more out there than the demo stuff I have found on the web.

reverie

Second..?! There was another. You learn something new everyday!

orangecrush

I think this is actually being worked on. But, I wouldn't expect anything anytime soon.