Diamonds in the Mine

Making albums that never existed out of the scraps they left behind, and cleaning up the messes they made

[acid-in-the-grass]

When MCR does the super bowl and breaks out this bitch

[acid-in-the-grass]

Could've been a double album:

Rolling Stones Aftermath

Rolling Stones Some Girls

Sufjan Stevens Carrie & Lowell

Who My Generation

Who A Quick One

Who Sell Out

Who's Next

Beach Boys 20/20

Beach Boys Sunflower

Genesis Trespass

Fleetwood Mac Future Games

Panic! at the Disco Vices & Virtures

Weezer Green album

Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here

Leonard Cohen Songs of Leonard Cohen

Neil Young Zuma

[theonion]

Declaring that he wasn’t about to turn down a fat check for shitting out some hits, rock icon Bruce Springsteen said, “Fuck it, a gig’s a gig,” Monday as he agreed to headline the controversial Freedom 250 concert series on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. “I may get some flack from the fans, but I can always win them back by expressing regret later on, some BS about being misled by the show’s organizers,” said Springsteen, adding that he simply couldn’t say no to an all-expenses-paid trip that would get him the hell out of New Jersey for a night or two.

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[iamthealmightytor]

i need…i need to burn a paper kingdom cd…

[acid-in-the-grass]

I really want it on vinyl:

Side One (19 minutes)

Fake Your Death

Witch

Bike Thief

Operation Day

Side Two (20 minutes)

Falling Down

Birthday Girl

Dark Cloud

Wake Up!

Louder

Side Three (18 Minutes)

Narita Airport

War Beneath the Rain

Paper Swords

Dive

Side Four (18 minutes)

High Hopes

Into Your Arms

Dogs

Perfectly Well

Don't You Get Behind That Bus! (Hidden track)

Or:

Side One: 25 minutes

Fake Your Death

Witch

Bike Thief

Operation Day

Falling Down

Birthday Girl

Side Two: 20

Dark Cloud

Wake Up!

Louder

Narita Airport

War Beneath the Rain

Side Three: 23

Paper Swords

Dive

High Hopes

Dogs

Perfectly Well

Side Four: 23

Into Your Arms

Batman Map

Memories (Instrumental)

Watching the World (Short/Trimmed version)

Eggman

Gaway Song

Don't You Get Behind That Bus!

[nonbinary-jakey]

the thing about "white boy stuns cashier by ordering in flawless sumerian" is like. if anyone was going to do that it would be mf doom. mf doom would probably have released a concept album in attic greek at this point if he hadn't been killed by the british government. just because he wanted to fuck with people

[altonascends]

Sorry killed by the Brit’s. What. Huh. Explain.

[slumberditch]

he had multiple illnesses exacerbated by the stress caused by the british government’s treatment of his and his family’s citizenship for one, and as this article explains, his death was due to a reaction to medicine given to him by doctors in Leeds, who were hours late with their response to his reaction, even though his wife was urging them to help him. so yeah. fuck every british institution ever and rest in peace to the greatest of all time.

[acid-in-the-grass]

Tim Buckley: Happy Sad Double album [1969]

Side One: 17 min

Happy Time [Works in Progress]

Buzzin' Fly [Happy Sad]

Hi Lily, Hi Lo [Works in Progress]

Wayfaring Stranger [Works in Progress]

Side Two: 16 min

Chase the Blues Away [Works in Progress]

G*psy Woman [Happy Sad]

Side Three: 16 min

Ashbury Park 1 [Works in Progress]

Song to the Siren [Works in Progress]

Strange Feelin' [Happy Sad]

The Father Song [Works in Progress]

Side Four: 18 min

Sing a Song for You [Happy Sad]

Love from Room 109 at the Islander (On Pacific Coast Highway) [Happy Sad]

Dream Letter [Happy Sad]

1968 was Tim Buckley's year. Though he didn't release an album that year, he wrote and recorded some of his best material in this time, and it would drip out between 1969 and 1970 on a handful of releases. Depending on how you count "Ashbury Park 1", these 12-13 songs were recorded for the sessions that would produce Buckley's fantastic Happy Sad LP. Pretty much every song he cut during these sessions was fantastic, and few would go to waste. Happy Time and Chase the Blues Away would find their way onto the subsequent release Blue Afternoon, and Song to the Siren would find a home (and a new far-out arrangement) on 1970's Starsailor LP. "Ashbury Park 1" is an early version of an early version of one of the parts of Love from Room 109 that bears very little resemblance to the final product. "Father Song" would stay in the vault, while "Wayfaring Stranger" and "Hi Lily Hi Lo" were covers.

[21stcenturyschizoidcat]

Organizational chart for internal use

Just for You EP [UK] May 1964

Soft as the Dawn [IDWTSYA]

Leave Me Alone [IDWTSYA]

Lonely Avenue [IDWTSYA]

Roving Rambler

In Touch [UK] December 1964

Freight Train [IDWTSYA]

Land of Oden [IDWTSYA]

A Mess of Blues [IGTP]

Two Little Lovebirds [IDWTSYA]

Barbara Allen

I Still Love You [IGTP]

I Don't Want to See You Again [IDWTSYA]

My Babe [IDWTSYA]

Willow Garden [IDWTSYA]

Love Me, Baby [IDWTSYA]

I Don't Care What They Say [IGTP]

My Little Girl's Gone

Ain't That Lovin' You, Baby

Leave Me In The Rain

Hurtin' and Lovin' [UK] October 1965

Don't Pity Me [TLW]

Tears Don't Stop [IGTP]

Who's Loving You [TLW]

Whatcha Gonna Do 'Bout It? [IGTP]

Crying in the Rain [TLW]

Hurtin' is Lovin' [TLW]

Cry to Me [TLW]

Someone Ain't Right [IGTP]

Any Day Now (My Beautiful Bird) [TLW]

Broken Promises [TLW]

When the Black of Your Eyes Goes to Grey [TLW]

All Shook Up [IGTP]

Peter & Gordon [UK] June 1966

Let It Be Me [W]

I Know A Man [W]

Colour Blue [KIRA]

A Young Girl [KIRA]

Black, Brown, and Gold [W]

A Stranger with a Black Dove [KIRA]

Woman [W]

There's No Living Without Your Loving [W]

Morning's Calling [LG]

Wrong from the Start [W]

Start Trying Someone Else [LG]

A Boy With Nothing [KIRA]

Baby, I'm Yours [LG]

Homeward Bound [KIRA]

Somewhere... [UK] December 1966

High Noon [W]

The Green Leaves of Summer [W]

If I Fell [W]

Exodus Song [LG]

As Long As I Have You [W]

Love is a Many Splendored Thing [LG]

3:10 To Yuma [W]

A Taste of Honey[LG]

Till There Was You [LG]

When I Fall In Love [LG]

Young & Beautiful [LG]

Somewhere [W]

UK Singles

Nobody I Know [IDWTSYA] May 1964

I Would Buy You Presents [KIRA] September 1964

I Go To Pieces [IGTP] November 1964

True Love Ways [TLW] 1965

If You Wish [IGTP] 1965

To Know You is to Love You [TLW] 1965

I Told You So [TLW] 1965

Lady Godiva [LG] September 1966

Knight in Rusty Armour [KIRA] 1966

The Flower Lady [KIRA] 1966

To Show I Love You [KIRA] 1966

I Don't Want to See You Again [US] December 1964

I Don't Want to See You Again

Nobody I Know

My Babe

Willow Garden

Two Little Lovebirds

Land of Oden

Freight Train

Love Me, Baby

Soft as the Dawn

Leave Me Alone

Lonely Avenue

I Go To Pieces [US] April 1965

I Go To Pieces

Sleepless Nights

Tears Don't Stop

If You Wish

All Shook Up

Whatcha Gonna Do 'Bout It?

Good Morning Blues

Someone Ain't Right

A Mess of Blues

I Still Love You

I Don't Care What They Say

True Love Ways [US] July 1965

Don't Pity Me

Cry to Me

To Know You is to Love You

I Told You So

Who's Loving You

Any Day Now (My Beautiful Bird)

Crying in the Rain

Hurtin' is Lovin'

Broken Promises

When the Black of Your Eyes Turns to Grey

True Love Ways

Woman [US] March 1966

Woman

Wrong from the Start

As Long As I Have You

Let It Be Me

Green Leaves of Summer

High Noon

I Know A Man

Brown, Black, and Gold

3:10 to Yuma

Somewhere

There's No Living Without Your Loving

Lady Godiva [US] January 1967

Lady Godiva

Exodus Song

Young & Beautiful

When I Fall In Love

A Taste Of Honey

Baby, I'm Yours

Love is a Many Splendored Thing

Morning's Calling

Start Trying Someone Else

If I Fell

Till There Was You

Knight in Rusty Armour [US] March 1967

Knight in Rusty Armour

Stranger with a Black Dove

To Show I Love You

A Boy With Nothing

My First Day Alone

Colour Blue

The Flower Lady

I Would Buy You Presents

Baby What You Want Me To Do

Homeward Bound

A Young Girl (Of Sixteen)

Notes:

I've not included their debut album as it was identical on both sides of the pond with the exception of the closing track being dropped for no reason in the states. I also haven't included their last two LPs on account of they didn't see a UK release, so there's only the US versions.

[acid-in-the-grass]

Corrections: I also didn't include their "Peter and Gordon sing Nashville" on account of it was a US exclusive release too.

[acid-in-the-grass]

In my mind atm

Leonard Cohen double album debut

Tim Buckley Happy Sad double album

Alternate Who discography

[lotlooting]

Joan Baez photographed by Alain Gaveau, 1960s

[sexchangedotcom]

dude turn on music. any album

[alexiaroselikethewine]

I get that sex and drugs are fun but even im like. at least have a 3rd thing. at least one more hobby. you can have a 3rd hobby. this isnt a purity thing this is a some of u are fucking boring thing.

[kittygirltitty]

rock & roll

[alexiaroselikethewine]

girl i just walked into that one like a coyote with a painted tunnel

[folkimplosionmusic]

From Strange Feelin' FB Group - Thank you

[theonion]

The Onion’s Exclusive Interview With Gregory Bovino

Gregory Bovino, who was responsible for immigration enforcement operations in Minnesota, has been ousted as the U.S. Border Patrol’s “commander at large.” The Onion sat down with Bovino to discuss his career at the agency.

[prettyoddfever]

do you know when each demo of camisado, time to dance, and nails came out in chronological order? thx

The first demo of It’s Time To Dance was posted to purevolume around October 24, 2004. That's the one Pete heard.

The band started to record the “Nails for breakfast and tacks for snacks” demo in early November 2004. The untitled demo was posted on purevolume in mid-November (this is related). Ryan posted the lyrics on his lj too (here’s that tightpants post too just because).

the second version of It's Time to Dance (cause boys will be boys) was posted on purevolume around January 20, 2005. Here's more info.

I’m not sure exactly when the Relax Relapse demo was posted… I only know it wasn’t up yet in February 2005 but it was definitely on purevolume by April. They also used that demo on the summer samplers.

here's more about the samplers too

[prettyoddfever]

UPDATE WITH NEW DEMOS 🎉

Ryan said in a summer 2006 interview that “we wrote Fever in three months and recorded it in a month.” That timeframe pretty much lined up with other interview quotes and everything the band shared online while the events were unfolding. It sounded like the Panic guys wrote most of AFYCSO in spring 2005 (obvs It's Time to Dance & Nails were done in fall 2004 before they were signed). Various comments from the band led me to believe that a lot of writing also happened in the studio in summer 2005, to the point where some of the demos might have functioned as very basic drafts for a song that they'd be recording soon? But sometimes Ryan separated the season of writing from the season of recording, so I'm not certain.

We can see that Ryan at least had some lyrics for Build God ready two weeks before the band left for Maryland (even though the actual demo skips some of those lyrics and is much closer to the final version). The lyrics for Lying is the Most Fun likely wouldn't have formed until Ryan's gf cheated on him in late spring 2005.

Brendon told Hearts & Sleeves in February 2006: “A lot of the second half [of the album] was written in the studio and recorded in like the last five days. So that was really tough. We were stressing out pretty bad. We didnʼt have some songs written."

To me, several of these demos seem more like the band mapping out their ideas rather than them genuinely trying to show a complete song at full effort like It's Time to Dance or Relax Relapse.

The exact number of song drafts that the band brought to the studio changed depending on the interview, but they usually said they had 3-7 drafts ready for Matt Squire to look at, and then he helped them piece things together, gave them ideas, edited their songs, helped them find their direction, etc. A couple relevant quotes:

Brent said: "I can’t even say how much [Matt] helped us structure those songs and turned them into real songs and gave us a direction. We went in there with 5 solid songs but then we had other songs that were just kind of pieces… that guy – he’s a genius. He really is.”

Spencer said in fall 2005 that “As far as the recording goes, all credit goes to Matt Squire. He really helped piece this together.”

Brendon talking about Matt Squire in summer 2006: "I love that guy… He had so many good ideas that fit perfectly. I should say we had pieces of songs and put them together. We had seven or eight full songs, and then he edited every single one of them. He really helped us out with some ideas. We were really uptight when we were writing. We were like, ‘Man this sucks. We have to work on this chorus.’ He was like, ‘No, man, the chorus is good. Leave it alone.’"

The guys explained several times that the verses for IWSNT were written a day before Brendon had to sing them since the band had to be done in the studio a couple days later. They also talked about how they couldn’t fit all of the lyrics into some songs, but they still left them in the cd insert so fans could know what the full picture was. I was curious to see if certain demos ever actually included the extra lines.

So here are the other demos yay!

side note: Ryan turned 19 about a month after Panic left the studio, so he was 18 during the writing of the demos and the recording process. Brendon turned 18 in the middle of everything. Spencer & Brent were 17.

[lirislilium]

🍂

[21stcenturyschizoidcat]

I don't know, but it seems

That every single dream's

Painting pretty pictures in the air

Then crumbles in despair

And then starts to bend

Until by the end

It's a nightmare

But!

I'm gonna give all that I've got to give

Cross my heart, and I hope to live

I don't know, but it's true

So many things you do

Please you so, they leave you feeling warm

It's the calm before the storm

For the habit grows

And before you know it

You're deformed

But!

I'm gonna give all that I've got to give

Cross my heart, and I hope to live

I don't know, but I see

That everything is free

When you're young, the treasures you can take

But the bridge is bound to break

And you reach the end

Screaming it's all been

A mistake

But!

I'm gonna give all that I've got to give

Cross my heart, and I hope to live

[21stcenturyschizoidcat]

Cross My Heart

Phil Ochs — Pleasures of the Harbor

Released 1967 on A&M records, Pleasures of the Harbor represents Phil Ochs taking a nosedive into the Baroque Pop scene of 1967. With lessons from the previous year's In Concert, Phil adds more personal songs to the lineup while making his political commentary subtler (while no less biting). Ochs for the first time eschews his standard acoustic-and-vocal for orchestral textures, making liberal use of piano, strings, and wind instruments, all while allowing songs more room to breathe. The shortest of the songs is the opener "Cross My Heart" at 3:20, while the closing "Crucifixion" runs a hearty 8:42.

Among the explicitly political songs are the satirical songs "The Party" "Miranda" and the semi-hit "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends". Meanwhile the earnest political songs consist of the slower and pensive "Flower Lady" and the haunting "Crucifixion", the latter of which features liberal tape and electronic effects (almost acting as a sound painting). Meanwhile, "I've Had Her" is perhaps an oblique rumination on Phil's separation from his wife in 1965 (as was the inspiration for his song "Changes" on his In Concert album). The title track, then, is a narrative about a sailor visiting a sex worker during his brief visit to land, and later joining his shipmates at the bar set to a lush string and guitar arrangement that truly encapsulates the beauty of human connection, in whatever form.

Phil opens with his most immediately personal song, "Cross My Heart" is a message of determination and deliberately choosing optimism in the face of pessimistic and even frightening circumstances. Against the bouncing bass, happy melody, and the twinkling flutes, it can be easy to miss the fear in the verses: verse one details a dream turning into a nightmare, verse two opaquely details someone falling into addiction, and the final verse is a reflection on time passing by before one is fulfilled. Against nightmare, addiction, time, and death, Phil will still give all that he can give, but he doesn't want to die.

[lyriumrain]

Another wonderfull secret