Hey! Remember the much discussed, Rosetta Stone of record discoveries that was the Velvet Underground disk discovered in a Chelsea, N.Y. basement in 2002? The record (which was recorded in April, 1966) was originally sold for 75 cents at a Manhattan flea market, but was auctioned off to a bidder for an insane $155,401 on eBay earlier this month. And while that bid turned out to be a fake, the authenticated disk was eventually sold to a real live collector for a still-impressive $25,000. NOW tracks purporting to be from this recording have appeared online. It is still to be determined if THESE tracks are from the auctioned record, but in any case, it’s totally fun to check out potentially original versions of these familiar songs like “Heroin” and “Venus In Furs.” The record has been described as the primitive first “finished” version of the LP that Andy Warhol shopped to Columbia as a ready-to-release debut album by his pet proteges in “The Velvet Underground.”
Geeking out over this gritty gold from the vault got us thinking about all the other lost albums we’ve always wanted to hear. We’d pick the following three.
- The Lost Record, Cat Power: Recorded and delivered to Matador in 1999 for release after Moon Pix, it was shelved at Cat’s request so she could release The Covers Album instead.
- Cigarettes and Valentines, Green Day: Billie Joe has said this record, which was meant to follow 2002’s Shenanigans but never hit the racks because the masters were stolen from the studio, was “good stuff” but not “maximum Green Day.” We’d like to decide for ourselves.
- Chinese Democracy, Guns N’ Roses: For starters we’d love to hear the NIN-influenced industrial rock version from the late 90s, though the one they’ve been promising this decade would be fine as well.
Which lost albums would you most like to hear?
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