Yoko Ono's "Walking on Thin Ice" and "Milk and Honey Fantasy" - 1981 and 1983 Solo Albums

When it comes to John Lennon's two final solo albums, both with Yoko Ono - 1980's Double Fantasy and 1984's Milk and Honey - people often tend to combine John's tracks from both of them to make a purely John Lennon solo album. Many, myself included, have played this game before, each having their own twist on it. But what about the tracks by Yoko? More often than not, the Yoko songs are discarded, the main reason being that they don't mix well with the John songs despite the intention behind it.

Originally, both Double Fantasy and Milk and Honey were intended by the couple to represent a conversation between a husband and wife, which is why the songs alternate between singers. With only the John songs, the listener is better able to relate to him as a househusband. But is there a way to salvage the Yoko tracks and make an album out of them?

Actually, there is. Two albums, in fact. Yoko's 1997 album A Story was actually recorded in 1974 during John's lost weekend, and many of the tracks included were later re-used for future albums. I've used that as a reference in order to make these albums feel more complete, so that meant tracks from both Season of Glass and It's Alright (I See Rainbows) were utilized. This is based upon the assumption that John and Yoko both did solo projects instead of duet albums and John was never killed. The latter point is mostly to explain why tracks from both of Yoko's solo albums are included, as I doubt the majority of Season of Glass would've existed if John lived.

Walking on Thin Ice (1981)

Side A (21:00)

1. Walking on Thin Ice - 6:00 (non-album single)

2. Give Me Something - 1:35 (Double Fantasy)

3. I'm Moving On - 2:13 (Double Fantasy Working Version)

4. Dogtown - 3:22 (Season of Glass)

5. It Happened - 5:08 (B-side)

6. Kiss Kiss Kiss - 2:42 (Double Fantasy)

Side B (20:15)

7. Yes, I'm Your Angel - 3:08 (Double Fantasy)

8. She Gets Down on Her Knees - 4:13 (Season of Glass)

9. Beautiful Boys - 2:55 (Double Fantasy)

10. Will You Touch Me - 2:37 (Season of Glass)

11. Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him - 4:02 (Double Fantasy)

12. Hard Times are Over - 3:20 (Double Fantasy)

The main inspiration for this was Uncle Dan's Double Milk and Honey Fantasy boxset from 2018, in which for one of the discs, he combined all of Yoko's tracks (barring "Let Me Count the Ways") from both albums into one, with the inclusion of "Walking on Thin Ice", which provided the album title. I wanted to go for a similar approach, albeit my version will focus solely on tracks from Double Fantasy, as well as a few from Season of Glass and the "Walking on Thin Ice" single. Overall, enough material for a complete album running at 41 minutes.

Walking on Thin Ice begins with the title track, running for the whole six minutes; this will be the album's lead single, albeit an edited version is utilized instead. Following this is "Give Me Something" and "I'm Moving On", the latter of which is the version with Cheap Trick as the backing group. Next is the first of the Season of Glass tracks, "Dogtown", which was originally recorded in 1974 before being reused in 1981. Also worked on in 1974 is "It Happened", the B-side of "Walking on Thin Ice", now being promoted to an album track; both sides of the single dominate Side A, which concludes with "Kiss Kiss Kiss", much like Uncle Dan's version did.

Side B utilizes similar cues to Uncle Dan, beginning with "Yes, I'm Your Angel". Following is "She Gets Down on Her Knees", another 1974 track, and then "Beautiful Boys" and "Will You Touch Me", the latter of which makes three tracks originally included on Season of Glass. The album concludes similarly to the original Double Fantasy with a one-two punch of "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him" and "Hard Times are Over", the latter of which also originated in A Story.

So how does Walking on Thin Ice compare to Double Fantasy, much less any theoretical John solo album from 1980? Compared to Double Fantasy, it's obviously more cohesive as we can hear Yoko taking a more pop route with her music. But alas, it will inevitably pale compared to her husband's work, which many Beatle fans will likely prefer. Depending on lyrical content, more tracks from Season of Glass could be included, but as it stands, Walking on Thin Ice is a pretty solid album overall.

And now, the 1983 solo Yoko album!

Milk and Honey Fantasy (1983)

Side A (17:14)

1. My Man - 3:56 (It's Alright)

2. Don't Be Scared - 4:35 (extended version)

3. Sleepless Night - 3:53 (extended version)

4. O' Sanity - 1:05

5. Open Your Soul to Me - 3:45 (Onobox)

Side B (17:02)

6. Your Hands - 3:04

7. Forgive Me, My Love - 3:11 (Onobox)

8. Loneliness - 3:47 (It's Alright)

9. You're the One - 4:34 (extended version)

10. Tomorrow May Never Come - 2:26 (It's Alright)

Right out of the gate, the problem with compiling Yoko's tracks from Milk and Honey is that they're quite short, running at a combined length of a little less than 16 minutes. Even more so if we cut "Let Me Count the Ways" - a track that leads into John's "Grow Old with Me" - running at about 13 and a half minutes. Fortunately, there do exist longer versions of most of the songs on Onobox from 1992, extending the combined length to a little over 17 minutes, albeit I imagine that getting a hold of it is pretty hard. That's more or less a whole side figured out, so now it came down to at least doubling the length and getting creative.

Milk and Honey Fantasy begins with "My Man" from It's Alright, which was originally written in 1980 while John was still alive, yet Yoko didn't record this until after he'd been murdered. Once again taking cues from Uncle Dan, we follow that with the extended versions of "Don't Be Scared" and "Sleepless Night", and then "O' Sanity", the shortest Yoko track from the sessions at just slightly over one minute. The first side concludes with "Open Your Soul to Me", an outtake considered for Double Fantasy, but was later recorded during the sessions for Season of Glass.

The second side begins with "Your Hands", followed by "Forgive Me, My Love", another outtake considered for Double Fantasy, but again, re-recorded for It's Alright; it was even considered for a musical John and Yoko were planning before he was killed. Next is "Loneliness", yet another track originally started in 1974, followed by the extended version of "You're the One" and concluding with "Tomorrow May Never Come", the latter of which was also first recorded in 1974. Originally, I wanted to include "There's No Goodbye", a demo that eventually ended up on Take Me to the Land of Hell in 2013, but I opted against it instead.

Admittedly, Milk and Honey Fantasy is quite short, running at just 34 minutes, mainly because I was unsure as to which songs were about John after his death. But hopefully it turns out okay, especially with the extended versions of some songs helping the length a bit. That being said, a couple of more tracks wouldn't hurt. Both albums combined will fit onto a single CD.

Neil Young's "Hawks and Doves" - A 1980-1981 Compilation

With Neil Young putting out a new album this month, titled World Record and with his most frequent backing group Crazy Horse, I figured that I'd post something to mark this occasion, knowing that this is his 45th studio album since putting out his eponymous debut in 1969. Seriously, 45 albums across a period of over 50 years! But of course, he's also recorded at least six more albums' worth of songs that haven't been released in any form until his Archives series, beginning in 2009 with Vol. 1: 1963-1972 and Vol. 2: 1972-1976 eventually coming out in 2020, with Vol. 3 1976-198? due out in 2023 - hopefully!

Like I mentioned in a previous post, The Reconstructor did a revision of Neil Young's 1970s discography, although since the release of Archives Vol. 2, it's since been reworked. I did an Excel sheet compiling the revised Neil Yong discography, and so far, everything up until Hitchhiker follows what The Reconstructor has in mind; the only 70s albums that aren't final (yet) are American Stars n' Bars (which I've reworked as an odds and ends album of outtakes from 1971-1976), Oceanside, Countryside (the original title for Comes a Time) and a reworked Rust Never Sleeps. Of course, the sheet is far from a finished product, and things up until 1987 (at least, from what I've read online thus far) are subject to change. But today, I figured I'd go into a little more detail regarding Neil's first two albums of the 1980s.

Hawks and Doves and Re-ac-tor both marked the beginning of a commercial downturn for Neil Young, at least until 1989's Freedom. Although most of Rust Never Sleeps had been recorded in 1978, it was actually released the following year, as by that point, he'd had a son born with cerebral palsy, and that took up a lot of his time just caring for him. Yet he'd managed to take the time to record some new material during the first two years of the new decade, and by 1982, he was touring once again, and getting into petty squabbles with David Geffen.

With Hawks and Doves, the first side consisted of unreleased material from 1974 to 1977, while the second side was all new material recorded in early July 1980, and yet the album was still not even half an hour long! Heck, the second side was just short of thirteen minutes! Meanwhile, Re-ac-tor was close to 39 minutes in length, but that was because two tracks - "T-Bone" and "Shots" - were pretty lengthy, the former running at nine minutes, and the latter almost eight. Without those two tracks, Re-ac-tor comes up at nearly 22 minutes. Put them together, and the combined length is just short of 35 minutes, with two wildly uneven sides. Clearly, Neil was padding out his albums due to what was going on in his personal life, but if he was that focused on raising his son Ben, why couldn't he have waited it out before recording an album, let alone releasing one?

Luckily, there is a way around this. There were some songs during that timeframe that Neil didn't release at the time (or at all), and so I utilized those to help bring the album up to a reasonable length.

Hawks and Doves (1981)

Side A (22:29)

1. Opera Star - 3:31

2. Surfer Joe and Moe the Sleaze - 4:15

3. Get Back on It - 2:14

4. Southern Pacific - 4:07

5. T-Bone - 3:47 [edit]

6. Rapid Transit - 4:35

Side B (22:16)

7. Coastline - 2:24

8. Stayin' Power - 2:17

9. Winter Winds (Turbine) - 3:15 (unreleased 1980 live recording)

10. Motor City - 3:11 (unreleased 1980 live recording)

11. Union Man - 2:08

12. Comin' Apart at Every Nail - 2:33

13. Are There Any More Real Cowboys? - 3:01 (original Old Ways 1 version)

14. Hawks and Doves - 3:27

One would assume that right out of the gate, this album wouldn't work because the country sound of Hawks and Doves and the proto-grunge vibes of Re-ac-tor clash with each other, and they'd be right. However, the way I've arranged the album was so that the heavier tracks would take up the first side, and the second side would be largely country. All tracks from Side A come from Re-ac-tor with "Motor City" (we'll get to that) and "Shots" (pushed forward to Rust Never Sleeps, first played live in 1978) removed, and "T-Bone" cut down to less than four minutes. I've provided a link to my edit of the track, but if you're curious, here's how I edited it down:

About half a minute of the opening guitar intro is cut in two different places (0:15-0:27 and 0:39-0:55), meaning that Neil's vocal comes in at the 33-second mark. The next edit comes in at 1:59 up to 3:20, removing the entire third verse (which is basically the same as the first) and merging the second verse's four "got mashed potato" lines with the fourth verse's two "ain't got no T-bone" lines, thereby making them a whole new verse. The next cut is from 4:10 to 5:51, which not only cuts the sixth verse (again, a repeat of the first), but it also allows the fifth verse with its two "got mashed potato" lines to transition into the seventh, right at the first "ain't got no T-bone" line. The third "ain't got no T-bone" comes from a guitar solo, shortened at 5:59 to 6:26. The final edit combines the eighth and ninth verses, with a cut between 7:10 and 8:36. Overall, well over five minutes have been cut entirely, and each of the four new verses sound unique to one another as opposed to repeating paired counts of "got mashed potato" and "ain't got no T-bone" between them.

The track arrangement of Side B is based upon that of a lone concert that Neil Young did in 1980, as detailed in a post by Albums That Should Exist, with the inclusion of "Are There Any More Real Cowboys?", which is said to have originated during the Re-ac-tor sessions, using the original recorded version for the first version of Old Ways from 1983. We don't have the 1980 recording, so that will do for now. Two other tracks, "Winter Winds (Turbine)" and "Motor City", come from the 1980 concert; in the case of the latter, I used that version instead of the official version to give the album some variety. The remaining five tracks all come from Hawks and Doves.

There are two other tracks from the Re-ac-tor sessions that have yet to be released - "Get Up Now" and "To Me, To Me". We still don't know how they sound, and I'm not sure how they will sound compared to the rest of the album, or even if they will fit. But as it stands, Hawks and Doves sounds pretty good, now running close to 45 minutes, with the first side being more "hawkish" and the second side more "dove" sounding. If Neil Young had put out an album like that in 1981, and hadn't signed up with Geffen Records, perhaps things could've turned out differently for him in the 1980s; they were practically a wilderness decade for many artists who came of age in the 1960s to early 1970s. But what do you people think?

The Second Coming - Electric Light Orchestra Discography (1970-1971 + Retcons)

Here's another Second Coming post from me, this time focusing on the sons of the Beatles, the Electric Light Orchestra! This one is a bit more different as not only am I adding new albums, I'm also making some retcons from the first draft. We'll come back to that in a bit, but for now, here's the three new albums by ELO, beginning with...

The Electric Light Orchestra (December 4, 1970)

Side A (22:48)

1. Looking On - 7:48 (Looking On)

2. Turkish Tram Conductor Blues - 4:38 (Looking On)

3. What? - 6:42 (Looking On)

4. When Alice Comes Back to the Farm - 3:40 (Looking On)

Side B (22:13)

5. Open Up Said the World at the Door - 7:10 (Looking On)

6. Mr. Radio - 5:04

7. First Movement (Jumping Biz) - 3:00

8. 10538 Overture - 5:32

9. The Duke of Edinburgh’s Lettuce - 1:27 (Looking On)

This is actually the Move's third album Looking On, which is practically an ELO album in all but name, but with "Brontosaurus" and "Feel Too Good" removed and replaced with three tracks that ended up on ELO's debut album from OTL. I think it's reasonable as said album first began recording in 1970, around the same time as Looking On. For this scenario, ELO forms outright upon Jeff Lynne's entry into the Move, signing onto Apple Records at the same time, while the remaining members of the Move such as Carl Wayne and Rick Price carry on without Lynne, Roy Wood and Bev Bevan. Richard Tandy and Bill Hunt also become ELO members in 1971.

Message from the Country (June 4, 1971)

Side A (19:44)

1. Message from the Country - 4:45

2. Ella James - 3:11

3. No Time - 3:38

4. Don’t Mess Me Up - 3:07

5. Until Your Mama’s Gone - 5:03

Side B (20:21)

6. It Wasn’t My Idea to Dance - 5:28

7. The Minister - 4:27

8. Ben Crawley Steel Company - 3:02

9. The Words of Aaron - 5:25

10. My Marge - 1:59

Besides the change of band name on the cover, nothing about Message from the Country has changed whatsoever. ELO were on their way to stardom from this point on.

No Answer (December 3, 1971)

Side A (22:48)

1. Tonight - 3:15 (Message from the Country)

2. Look at Me Now - 3:17

3 Down on the Bay - 4:14 (Message from the Country)

4. Nellie Takes Her Bow - 5:59

5. The Battle of Marston Moor (July 2nd 1644) - 6:03

Side B (23:18)

6. Chinatown - 3:06 (Message from the Country)

7. Do Ya - 4:03 (Message from the Country)

8. California Man - 3:35 (Message from the Country)

9. Manhattan Rumble (49th Street Massacre) - 4:22

10. Queen of the Hours - 3:22

11. Whisper in the Night - 4:50

No Answer was the name of ELO's debut album in America after a bit of miscommunication regarding the album's name; I couldn't come up with another title for this album, so I decided to keep it as a placeholder for now. This album compiles the leftover tracks from their OTL debut along with five bonus tracks included on the reissue of Message from the Country, including the 1971 version of "Do Ya", which eventually ended up on A New World Record in 1976.

So those are the first three albums by ELO for The Second Coming. 1972's The Lost Planet and 1973's Hocus Pocus both remain unaltered from the original draft. The albums from 1974-1977, however...

The Falcons of Eldorado (September 28, 1974)

Side A (22:53)

1. Overture/Eddy’s Rock - 6:36 (Eldorado/Introducing Eddy and the Falcons; edit)

2. Can’t Get It Out of My Head - 4:21 (Eldorado)

3. Brand New 88 - 3:23 (Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

4. You Got Me Runnin’ - 3:15 (Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

5. Boy Blue - 5:18 (Eldorado)

Side B (22:32)

6. Are You Ready to Rock - 2:31 (Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

7. This is the Story of My Love (Baby) - 5:46 (Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

8. Laredo Tornado - 5:29 (Eldorado)

9. Poor Boy (The Greenwood) - 2:57 (Eldorado)

10. We’re Gonna Rock ‘n’ Roll Tonight - 5:49 (Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

Side C (20:52)

11. Dark City/Rock and Roll Winter - 5:51 (Eldorado/Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

12. Nobody’s Child - 3:40 (Eldorado)

13. Illusions in G Major - 2:36 (Eldorado)

14. Everyday I Wonder - 5:21 (Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

15. Crazy Jeans - 3:24 (Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

Side D (20:25)

16. Mister Kingdom - 5:50 (Eldorado)

17. I Dun Lotsa Cryin’ Over You - 3:23 (Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

18. Come Back Karen - 4:32 (Introducing Eddy and the Falcons)

19. Eldorado - 6:40 (Eldorado; edit)

And this is where the retcons begin to take place; in retrospect, I wasn't particularly happy with how both The Falcons of Eldorado and Face the Music ended up. The tracks that were included from Introducing Eddy and the Falcons were spread out over both of them, when really, they should all be a part of the same album. And so, I decided that the tracks from both Eldorado and Introducing Eddy and the Falcons would all be part of the same album, making The Falcons of Eldorado a double. In turn, this makes this the final album to feature Roy Wood as a member of ELO, afterward starting his own side projects, having previously done so while as a member, before fading into the background.

After that, 1975's Face the Music is released as it was per OTL, as is 1976's A New World Record, but with "Surrender" replacing "Do Ya" and having its position swapped around with "Above the Clouds". Likewise, 1977's Out of the Blue retains the original double album track listing.

Light Years (September 15, 1978)

Side A (23:38)

1. Ball Park Incident - 3:42 (Wizzard Brew)

2. Momma - 7:03 (ELO 2)

3. Roll Over Beethoven - 7:52 (ELO 2; edit)

4. See My Baby Jive - 5:01 (Wizzard Brew)

Side B (23:50)

5. Showdown - 4:09 (On the Third Day)

6. Daybreaker - 3:34 (On the Third Day)

7. Rattlesnake Roll - 4:02 (Mustard)

8. Indiana Rainbow - 3:53 (Mustard)

9. Latitude 88 North - 3:24 (Out of the Blue)

10. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - 4:48 (Wizzard Brew)

As several tracks have been moved back onto the regular albums, Light Years now becomes a single album featuring ten non-album tracks, ending with "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday". Afterward, ELO's discography happens as it did up to 1983 per the original draft, albeit the track listing to 1980's All Over the World is now as follows:

All Over the World (August 1, 1980)

Side A: Songs from Xanadu (22:46)

1. I'm Alive - 3:46 (Xanadu)

2. The Fall - 3:34 (Xanadu)

3. Don't Walk Away - 4:48 (Xanadu)

4. All Over the World - 4:04 (Xanadu)

5. Drum Dreams - 3:06 (Xanadu)

6. Xanadu [w/ Olivia Newton-John] - 3:28 (Xanadu)

Side B: 1972-1979 Outtakes (23:42)

7. Baby, I Apologize - 3:43 (ELO 2)

8. Bluebird is Dead - 4:24 (On the Third Day)

9. Everyone's Born to Die - 3:43 (On the Third Day)

10. Doin’ That Crazy Thing - 3:25 (non-album single)

11. Goin’ Down to Rio - 3:45 (non-album single)

12. The Quick and the Daft - 1:49 (Out of the Blue)

13. Little Town Flirt - 2:53 (Discovery)

So Side A now focuses on the tracks that were recorded for Xanadu, including the title track featuring the recently deceased Olivia Newton-John, and Side B features outtakes from 1972 to 1979, including a solo Jeff Lynne single from 1977.

What happens after 1983?

I could see ELO continuing past Secret Messages, and they still remain attached to Apple Records right into the 2010s. They would probably take a hiatus in the late 1980s due to Jeff Lynne's focus on the Traveling Wilburys, but they make a comeback in the early 1990s with Eric Troyer as their new keyboardist and joint lead vocalist, effectively butterflying away ELO Part II and The Orchestra. Songs from both projects, however, become official ELO songs. Their post-1983 albums are as follows:

Balance of Power (1986)

Armchair Theatre (1991)

Moment of Truth (1994)

Zoom (2001)

Light Years II (2006; compilation album)

No Rewind (2010)

2015's Alone in the Universe and 2019's From Out of Nowhere are unchanged from OTL, except they're now credited to ELO. This brings ELO's discography up to twenty albums, twenty-two if both Light Years albums are counted, compared to OTL's fourteen (fifteen if Xanadu is counted).

The Second Coming - Pink Floyd Discography + Roger Waters Solo (1967 - 2006)

Our next band to get an upgraded discography for The Second Coming is none other than Pink Floyd! In addition, there will also be upgrades to Roger Waters' initial solo career.

Originally, I had Syd Barrett stay with the band until 1972, before recording for The Dark Side of the Moon even started. After that, he started his own band with David Bowie, Kevin Ayers, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop and Robert Wyatt known as Hunky Dory. They were active until Syd Barrett's death in 1977, and broke up the following year after completing Wish You Were Here, a collaboration with Pink Floyd. That was very much influenced from Auran's Gummaumma timeline from 2019 when she did something similar with the concept, only the group formed in 1977, the same year of Barrett's death in that timeline. I liked the idea behind it for when I did the first Strawberry Peppers story, but in hindsight, a lot of things required plenty of suspension of disbelief and it came off as rather messy. Instead, I've decided to drop the Hunky Dory subplot altogether, but the concept will not go unused.

Projection (May 5, 1967)

Side A (20:28)

1. Lucy Leave - 2:53 (1965: Their First Recordings)

2. Arnold Layne - 2:57 (The Early Singles)

3. Double O Bo - 2:56 (1965: Their First Recordings)

4. Remember Me - 2:45 (1965: Their First Recordings)

5. Walk with Me Sydney - 3:11 (1965: Their First Recordings)

6. Butterfly - 2:59 (1965: Their First Recordings)

7. Candy and a Currant Bun - 2:47 (The Early Singles)

Side B (19:56)

8. Interstellar Overdrive - 16:49 (Tonite Lets All Make Love in London)

9. I’m a King Bee - 3:07 (1965: Their First Recordings)

This pre-Piper album, utilizing pre-Floyd recordings, was originally posted as part of chapter three in February 2019, albeit now with the inclusion of "Double O Bo" and "I'm a King Bee" to bring the album up to forty minutes. I moved the latter track to close out side B to mark a juxtaposition between the lengthy jam of "Interstellar Overdrive" and a three-minute cover, akin to "Revolution 9" and "Good Night" on the Beatles' White Album.

The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (October 27, 1967)

Side A (19:26)

1. See Emily Play - 2:54 (The Early Singles)

2. Lucifer Sam - 3:07

3. Matilda’s Mother - 3:08

4. Flaming - 2:46

5. Pow R. Toc H. - 4:26

6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk - 3:05

Side B (20:12)

7. Astronomy Domine - 4:12

8. Remember a Day - 4:33 (A Saucerful of Secrets)

9. The Gnome - 2:13

10. Chapter 24 - 3:42

11. The Scarecrow - 2:11

12. Bike - 3:21

Originally posted as part of chapter four in March 2019, nothing as changed about the track listing, other than reverting the album cover back to the original.

The Massed Gadgets of Hercules (July 12, 1968)

Side A (20:02)

1. Vegetable Man - 2:30 (The Syd Barrett Tapes)

2. Apples and Oranges - 3:08 (The Early Singles)

3. Corporal Clegg - 4:13 (A Saucerful of Secrets)

4. Golden Hair/Paintbox - 5:43 (The Madcap Laughs/The Early Singles; edit)

5. Scream Thy Last Scream - 4:28 (The Syd Barrett Tapes)

Side B (20:22)

6. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun - 5:28 (A Saucerful of Secrets)

7. In the Beechwoods - 4:43 (The Early Years 1965-1972)

8. Julia Dream - 2:35 (The Early Singles)

9. See-Saw - 4:36 (A Saucerful of Secrets)

10. Jugband Blues - 3:00 (A Saucerful of Secrets)

Originally titled Scream Thy Last Scream along with a different album cover and posted as part of chapter 10 in April 2019; once again, the track listing remains unaltered from three years ago. The new album title was the original name for A Saucerful of Secrets. This is Pink Floyd's only album with the lineup of Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, Nick Mason, Richard Wright and David Gilmour; as mentioned above, Barrett leaves the group just before the album comes out, and they will carry on as a quartet for almost a decade.

The Man and the Journey (June 13, 1969)

Side A (21:32)

1. Daybreak [Grantchester Meadows] - 7:26 (Ummagumma)

2. Work [Sysyphus Part 3] - 1:49 (Ummagumma)

3. Teatime [Sysyphus Part 4] - 6:59 (Ummagumma)

4. Afternoon [Biding My Time] - 5:18 (Relics)

Side B (22:55)

5. Doing It! [The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party Part 2] - 7:06 (Ummagumma)

6. Sleeping [Quicksilver] - 7:13 (More)

7. Nightmare [Cymbaline] - 4:50 (More)

8. Labyrinth [It Would Be So Nice] - 3:46 (The Early Singles)

Side C (20:10)

9. The Beginning [Green is the Color] - 2:58 (More)

10. Beset by Creatures of the Deep [Careful with That Axe, Eugene] - 5:54 (The Early Singles)

11. The Narrow Way [Part 3] - 5:51 (Ummagumma)

12. The Pink Jungle [Main Theme] - 5:27 (More)

Side D (22:14)

13. The Labyrinths of Auximines [Let There Be More Light] - 5:38 (A Saucerful of Secrets)

14. Footsteps/Doors [Embryo] - 4:39 (Works)

15. Behold the Temple of Light [Something Else/Syncopated Pandemonium] - 7:04 (A Saucerful of Secrets)

16. The End of the Beginning [Storm Signal/Celestial Voices] - 4:53 (A Saucerful of Secrets)

Originally posted as part of chapter 12 in May 2019, the original track listing contained a couple of Syd Barrett tracks based upon the assumption that he stayed with the Floyd until the early 1970s. Again, it's described in detail above. Sides A and B are The Man portion of the album and sides C and D make up The Journey; all tracks crossfade into one another to make four continuous sides of music.

Nothing changes about the 1970-1973 albums (Atom Heart Mother, Meddle, Obscured by Clouds, The Dark Side of the Moon), for they are released per OTL.

Paranoid Delusions (September 12, 1975)

Side A (25:36)

1. Four Notes [Parts I-III] - 8:42 (Wish You Were Here; edit)

2. You’ve Got to Be Crazy [Dogs] - 16:54 (Animals; edit)

Side B (26:21)

3. Shine On, You Crazy Diamond [Parts IV-VII] - 9:54 (Wish You Were Here; edit)

4. Raving and Drooling [Sheep] - 10:06 (Animals; edit)

5. The Farewell March [Parts VIII & IX] - 6:21 (Wish You Were Here; edit)

Now here's where things diverge from the original draft of Strawberry Peppers; the follow-up to The Dark Side of the Moon is based around the songs written and performed during 1974. This album was inspired from The Reconstructor's take on the concept as well as ChargedSpaceStation's 1975 and 1976 albums by Projection from the alternate Pink Floyd timeline of the same name. Akin to the latter, I've split the "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" suite into three sections and then inserted the two lengthy Animals tracks in between, using the official studio versions rather than the versions used from The Extraction Tapes. Regarding "Shine On", I've cross-faded parts V and VI into one another with a one minute overlap, meaning that the entire, uninterrupted suite runs at just below 25 minutes. This is quite possibly the most unique take on this approach I think anyone's ever done!

And for those of you who are curious, "Wish You Were Here" (the six-minute version from Experience) is released as a non-album single that November with a shortened version of "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond" as its B-side. The remaining tracks from both Wish You Were Here and Animals do eventually come out as Roger Waters solo tracks.

The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking (January 21, 1977)

Side A (19:37)

1. Apparently They Were Traveling Abroad - 3:12

2. Running Shoes - 4:08

3. Arabs with Knives and West German Skies - 2:17

4. For the First Time Today, Part 2 - 2:02

5. Sexual Revolution - 4:49

6. The Remains of Our Love - 3:09

Side B (22:32)

7. Go Fishing - 6:59

8. For the First Time Today, Part 1 - 1:38

9. Dunroamin, Duncarin, Dunlivin - 3:03

10. The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Part 10 - 4:36

11. Every Stranger’s Eyes - 4:48

12. The Moment of Clarity - 1:28

Originally posted as a part of chapter 51 in June 2020; nothing has changed about the album in terms of track listing, and once again, I envision the concept being developed earlier in 1976. This is also the last album in which Roger Waters is a member, as he quits following the In the Flesh Tour. How does the Floyd survive without him? Well...

Mihalis (November 30, 1979)

Side A (25:35)

1. Mihalis - 5:46 (David Gilmour)

2. Against the Odds - 3:57 (Wet Dream)

3. Cat Cruise - 5:14 (Wet Dream)

4. Siam - 4:48 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)

5. So Far Away - 5:50 (David Gilmour)

Side B (23:01)

6. Mediterranean C - 3:52 (Wet Dream)

7. Do Ya? - 4:36 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)

8. Raise My Rent - 5:33 (David Gilmour)

9. No Way - 5:32 (David Gilmour)

10. Pink’s Song - 3:28 (Wet Dream)

Originally posted as a part of chapter 63 in November 2020; again, this is where things diverge from the original Strawberry Peppers. Both the old track listing and the new one share six songs between them, and this one, along with the next three, take influence from another of ChargedSpaceStation's old Pink Floyd timelines, So You Think You Can Tell..., but each track listing is altered based upon the order of the solo albums from OTL. This is Pink Floyd's first album with Rick Wills on bass guitar and Snowy White on guitar, as well as Robert Wyatt providing drums, percussion and vocals on a few songs, adding more of a jazz-influenced sound to the band.

In addition to the album, Pink Floyd releases a cover of Unicorn's "There's No Way Out of Here" (the band associated with David Gilmour from 1973) as a non-album single in August 1979.

The Wall (Roger Waters and the Bleeding Hearts Band; May 9, 1980)

Side A (23:20)

1. When the Tigers Broke Free - 2:11 (Echoes)

2. In the Flesh (Behind These Cold Eyes) - 3:10

3. The Thin Ice - 2:23

4. Another Brick in the Wall (Reminiscing) - 2:01

5. Goodbye Blue Sky - 2:38

6. The Happiest Days of Our Lives - 1:21

7. Another Brick in the Wall (Education) - 4:02

8. Mother - 5:34

Side B (23:55)

9. Welcome to the Machine - 6:32 (Wish You Were Here)

10. Young Lust - 4:01 (album/single hybrid)

11. One of My Turns - 3:38

12. Don’t Leave Me Now - 4:00

13. What Shall We Do Now? - 3:17 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)

14. Another Brick in the Wall (Drugs) - 1:08

15. Goodbye Cruel World - 1:19

Side C (24:56)

16. Hey You - 4:55

17. Is There Anybody Out There? - 2:46

18. Nobody Home - 3:32

19. Vera - 1:17

20. Bring the Boys Back Home - 1:19

21. The Final Cut - 4:41 (The Final Cut)

22. Comfortably Numb - 6:26

Side D (24:18)

23. Who’s Sorry Now? (The Show Must Go On) - 2:10

24. In the Flesh (Isn’t This Where We Came In?) - 4:16

25. Run Like Hell - 4:24

26. Waiting for the Worms - 3:59

27. Stop - 0:35

28. The Trial by Puppet - 4:58

29. Outside the Wall (It’s Never Too Late) - 3:04

30. The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot (Postlude) - 0:52 (Vera Lynn single)

In general, the revised track listing follows that of what I had originally posted for chapter 63, as well as the original notes for my personal mix of The Wall, give or take a few seconds each song. Among some of the changes I've made include "What Shall We Do Now?" ending sooner, with the TV smashing sounds happening as soon as Roger Waters sings the word "wall", and "Outside the Wall" being a completely different mix; it's now the official album version transitioning into the original demo, giving The Wall a more hopeful yet bittersweet ending. As an addition, I've included a snippet of "The Little Boy That Santa Claus Forgot" as a postlude, a reference to the track "Vera" and the film adaptation. Imagine a wholly new recording with the Beach Boys providing vocals, and that's the new conclusion to The Wall.

Fictitious Sports (November 20, 1981)

Side A (22:44)

1. Short and Sweet - 5:30 (David Gilmour)

2. Mad Yannis Dance - 3:19 (Wet Dream)

3. I Was Wrong - 4:12 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)

4. It’s Deafinitely - 4:27 (David Gilmour)

5. Hot River - 5:16 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)

Side B (24:43)

6. Holiday - 6:11 (Wet Dream)

7. I’m a Mineralist - 6:16 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)

8. Summer Elegy - 4:53 (Wet Dream)

9. Waves - 4:19 (Wet Dream)

10. I Can’t Breathe Anymore - 3:04 (David Gilmour)

Originally posted as a part of chapter 70 in April 2021; in a sense, Mihalis and Fictitious Sports could be considered sister albums, almost like Pink Floyd's very own Rubber Soul and Revolver, given that all of the tracks come from the same three OTL albums. Again, some tracks - "Short and Sweet", "It's Deafinitely", "Summer Elegy" and "I'm a Mineralist" - were originally on Mihalis, before being replaced by "Raise My Rent", "No Way" and "Pink's Song", with "Do Ya?" being pulled from the original version of About Face. More on that in a bit, but first...

Spare Bricks (Roger Waters; July 16, 1982)

Side A (24:07)

1. In the Flesh [Movie Version] - 3:04 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)

2. When the Tigers Broke Free [Full Length] - 3:16 (The Final Cut)

3. Have a Cigar - 5:08 (Wish You Were Here)

4. Another Brick in the Wall (Drugs) [Movie Version] - 1:12 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)

5. The Last Few Bricks - 11:27 (The Complete Another Brick in The Wall suite)

Side B (22:48)

6. Three Different Ones - 11:28 (Animals)

7. Bring the Boys Back Home [Movie Version] - 1:19 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)

8. Mother [Movie Version] - 6:35 (The Wall Film Soundtrack)

9. Pigs on the Wing - 3:26 (Animals; 8-track version)

Originally posted as part of chapter 72 in May 2021 sans the Animals tracks; the idea behind Spare Bricks hasn't changed much. The movie versions of "Bring the Boys Back Home" and "Mother" ended up respectively swapping places with "Have a Cigar" and "The Last Few Bricks", and for side B, I included both "Three Different Ones" and the 8-track version of "Pigs on the Wing" to flesh out the track listing a little. As neither of those tracks ended up on Paranoid Delusions, I didn't want to waste them, so they ended up here instead. They fit pretty well lyrically if I do say so myself.

About Face (November 18, 1983)

Side A (24:43)

1. Born Again Cretin - 3:10 (Nothing Can Stop Us)

2. Love on the Air - 4:19 (About Face)

3. Private Person - 3:36 (Identity)

4. Cry from the Street - 5:13 (David Gilmour)

5. Eyes of a Gypsy - 4:13 (Identity)

6. Yolanda - 4:12 (Mid-Eighties)

Side B (23:53)

7. All Lovers are Deranged - 3:14 (About Face)

8. Boo to You Too - 3:26 (Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports)

9. Drop In from the Top - 3:25 (Wet Dream)

10. Cruise - 4:40 (About Face)

11. Amber and the Amberines - 4:11 (Mid-Eighties)

12. Funky Deux - 4:57 (Wet Dream)

Originally posted as a part of chapter 75 in July 2021; the new track listing has differs quite a lot from the original, and makes for quite possibly the album that's the most all over the place for Pink Floyd. I mean, seriously, you've got collaborations with Pete Townshend, Eric Stewart and Dave Harris, as well as Robert Wyatt contributing his only songs (that weren't by Nick Mason and Carla Bley) for the band. I wanted to go for songs that hadn't been released as part of an album by Robert Wyatt as I didn't want to interfere much with his solo discography. I see Robert leaving the band shortly following the album's release, likely as a response to some of the backlash it would've gotten at the time. This is also the last album to contain tracks that originated from the late 70s solo projects (Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports was recorded in 1979).

Nothing has changed about Roger Waters' The Post War Dream; you can read more about it in chapter 77, posted August 2021. After that point, beginning with 1987's Radio K.A.O.S., Waters' solo career carries on per OTL, save for one moment which we'll come to later.

Identity (April 8, 1985)

Side A (21:26)

1. Until We Sleep - 5:15 (About Face)

2. How Do You Do It - 4:45 (Identity)

3. Lie for a Lie - 3:16 (Profiles)

4. Blue Light - 4:35 (About Face)

5. Out of the Blue - 3:35 (About Face)

Side B (24:05)

6. Confusion - 4:17 (Identity)

7. You Know I'm Right - 5:06 (About Face)

8. Let's Get Metaphysical - 4:09 (About Face)

9. Seems We Were Dreaming - 4:57 (Identity)

10. Near the End - 5:36 (About Face)

Originally posted as a part of chapter 78 in August 2021; the track listing mostly follows that of David Gilmour's About Face solo album with the gaps being filled in for those that were included in the fictional About Face ("Murder" is never written as John Lennon didn't die in 1980). I could see this being Pink Floyd's most successful album of the decade, albeit still not without its critics at the time. And this was where Pink Floyd's story more or less concluded in the original Strawberry Peppers, but since then, they've put out three more albums, starting with...

Learning to Fly (September 7, 1987)

Side A (15:37)

1. Signs of Life - 4:24 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)

2. Learning to Fly - 4:52 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)

3. Voices - 6:21 (Identity)

Side B (12:46)

4. The Dogs of War - 6:10 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)

5. Strange Rhythm - 6:36 (Identity)

Side B (16:23)

6. Cuts Like a Diamond - 5:36 (Identity)

7. One Slip - 5:05 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)

8. On the Turning Away - 5:42 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)

Side D (14:26)

9. By Touching - 5:39 (Identity)

10. Sorrow - 8:47 (A Momentary Lapse of Reason)

This was perhaps the most difficult alternate album for me to put together for Pink Floyd, as I was unsure as to whether or not I wanted to cut any songs. Regrettably, I ended up having to remove the "Yet Another Movie/Round and Round" and "A New Machine/Terminal Frost" suites; from what I've read online in a few lists ranking every Pink Floyd song, they didn't rate particularly high, which influenced my decision to cut them. However, I could see them as being part of a David Gilmour extended play released around that time so nothing comes off as wasted. I'm also not too pleased with how short side B is; I'd like to include a Nick Mason/Rick Fenn track from that time period to bring it up to snuff. Maybe something from the White of the Eye soundtrack that sounds the most Floydish?

Nothing is different about The Division Bell from 1994, so we'll be doing a time skip to the next decade.

On an Island (March 6, 2006)

1. Castellorizon - 3:54

2. On an Island - 6:47

3. The Blue - 5:26

4. To Kill the Child - 3:31 (To Kill the Child/Leaving Beirut single)

5. Take a Breath - 5:46

6. Red Sky at Night - 2:51

7. This Heaven - 4:24

8. Then I Close My Eyes - 5:26

9. Flickering Flame - 6:45 (Flickering Flame: The Solo Years Volume 1)

10. Smile - 4:03

11. A Pocketful of Stones - 6:17

12. Hello (I Love You) - 6:16 (Soundtrack of The Last Mimzy)

13. Where We Start - 6:45

Total length: 68:11

So here it is, folks; the very last Pink Floyd album for The Second Coming. It also marks Roger Waters' return to the band after being separated from them for over twenty years, barring a brief reunion at Live Aid in 1985. I've looked at any solo recordings Roger did for the first half of the 2000s, and I included them onto the official On an Island track listing based upon a timeline made by Dan Martin had Roger Waters stayed following The Final Cut. In many ways, it's a pretty bittersweet album for Pink Floyd as it's the final time the classic lineup played together prior to Richard Wright's death in 2008. The Endless River becomes a solo album by Wright, completed posthumously by the rest of the band and released in 2009, and then the Floyd breaks up for good.

After that, the timeline for Pink Floyd more or less diverges back to how they were in OTL, albeit the band members are on much friendlier terms with one another, all thanks to Roger quitting in 1977 rather than staying and eventually forcing his concepts upon the others. That, and the others insisting upon compromising with Paranoid Delusions two years earlier. Still, one has to wonder what might have happened had Roger stayed on...

The Second Coming - Crosby, Stills and Nash Discography (1967-1980)

Another discography for The Second Coming approaches! This time, we're focusing on the supergroup Crosby, Stills and Nash... but no Neil Young, sadly. The idea of the supergroup remaining a trio and Neil not joining permanently (or at least semi-permanently) was inspired from The Reconstructor's take on Neil Young and Crazy Horse's second album that wasn't, as well as his original take on Neil's discography of the 1970s. (Since then, he's made three new albums, and I bet that one day, he'll post a re-revised discography of Shakey in the 70s... if Archives Vol. 3 ever comes out, given Neil's fickleness.) Consider this post the other side of the coin, if you will, as well as what might have happened if CSN had put out more albums in spite of their clashing egos.

(And for those who are wondering, yes, solo projects still happen, but that could be another post altogether. Maybe.)

Mind Gardens (July 3, 1967)

Side A (18:39)

1. For What It's Worth - 2:40 (Buffalo Springfield)

2. Stop Right There - 2:28 (Evolution)

3. Renaissance Fair - 1:51 (Younger Than Yesterday)

4. On a Carousel - 3:07 (Reflections)

5. Pretty Girl Why - 2:24 (Last Time Around)

6. Everybody's Been Burned - 3:05 (Younger Than Yesterday)

7. Lullaby to Tim - 3:04 (Evolution)

Side B (18:01)

8. Mind Gardens - 3:28 (Younger Than Yesterday)

9. Everydays - 2:38 (Buffalo Springfield Again)

10. Carrie Anne - 2:55 (Reflections)

11. Bluebird - 9:00 (Buffalo Springfield compilation album)

Originally posted back in March 2020, this is one of two albums that answer the question of what might have happened had Crosby, Stills and Nash formed earlier. Tensions break out in the Byrds and the Hollies earlier than OTL, and Buffalo Springfield barely holds together to record their only album, breaking up before it even comes out. Originally, "Pretty Girl Why" was track three, but I pushed it back as I didn't want an extensive gap between two Stephen Stills songs. The release of this album would feel rather timely for the summer of love, right up there with the Beatles' Merseyside and the Beach Boys' Smile.

Stampede (March 11, 1968)

Side A (16:08)

1. Lady Friend - 2:36 (The Original Singles: 1967-1969, Volume 2)

2. Special Care - 3:30 (Last Time Around)

3. Maker - 2:52 (Butterfly)

4. Four Days Gone - 2:53 (Last Time Around)

5. Postcard - 2:17 (Butterfly)

6. Dolphin's Smile - 2:00 (The Notorious Byrd Brothers)

Side B (15:26)

7. Hung Upside Down - 3:24 (Buffalo Springfield Again)

8. King Midas in Reverse - 3:07 (Reflections)

9. Rock and Roll Woman - 2:44 (Buffalo Springfield Again)

10. Triad - 3:29 (The Notorious Byrd Brothers)

11. Butterfly - 2:42 (Butterfly)

The other pre-1969 album by Crosby, Stills and Nash; I left the track listing as is from the original post. By then, the trio has polished up their sound enough to prepare for a one-two punch of great albums...

Crosby, Stills & Nash (May 29, 1969)

Side A (20:25)

1. Suite: Judy Blue Eyes - 7:25

2. Marrakesh Express - 2:39

3. Guinnevere - 4:40

4. You Don't Have to Cry - 2:45

5. Pre-Road Downs - 2:56

Side B (20:22)

6. Wooden Ships - 5:29

7. Lady of the Island - 2:39

8. Helplessly Hoping - 2:41

9. Long Time Gone - 4:17

10. 49 Bye-Byes - 5:16

Now the group's third album, and their first under Apple Records, it is their most successful up to this point. The track listing just simply can't be tampered with in any way.

Déjà Vu (March 11, 1970)

Side A (19:16)

1. Carry On - 4:26

2. Teach Your Children - 2:53

3. Almost Cut My Hair - 4:31

4. Horses Through a Rainstorm - 3:32 (outtake)

5. Woodstock - 3:54

Side B (17:41)

6. Déjà Vu - 4:12

7. Our House - 2:59

8. 4 + 20 - 2:06

9. The Lee Shore - 6:03 (outtake)

10. Everybody I Love You - 2:21

Neil Young's two songs, "Helpless" and "Country Girl", ended up being moved to After the Gold Rush along with the non-album track "Ohio". So instead, I replaced them with a track each from Nash ("Horses Through a Rainstorm") and Crosby ("The Lee Shore"), both of which can be found on disc three of the 50th anniversary edition. Overall, it feels more balanced as far as lead vocals are concerned, although it does make you wonder why Stills got four vocals while the others got two each. In addition to the altered track listing, I changed up the cover image to show one that features the trio during that time period.

3-Way Street (April 7, 1971)

Side A (21:08)

1. Love the One You're With - 3:04 (Stephen Stills)

2. Music is Love - 3:16 (If I Could Only Remember My Name)

3. Right Between the Eyes - 2:20 (4 Way Street)

4. We Are Not Helpless - 4:20 (Stephen Stills)

5. I Used to Be a King - 4:45 (Songs for Beginners)

6. Laughing - 3:23 (4 Way Street)

Side B (20:29)

7. Sit Yourself Down - 3:05 (Stephen Stills)

8. Man in the Mirror - 2:22 (CSN box set)

9. Traction in the Rain - 3:40 (If I Could Only Remember My Name)

10. Black Queen - 5:26 (Stephen Stills)*

11. Chicago (We Can Change the World) - 3:55 (Songs for Beginners)*

12. Find the Cost of Freedom - 2:01 (So Far)

Even when they weren't working as a group, Crosby, Stills and Nash still seemed to find the time to collaborate on each others' solo projects, most notably "Love the One You're With", which could've been a great single by the trio. Graham Nash's "Right Between the Eyes" was performed by CSNY for the live album 4 Way Street, but it remained unreleased in studio form until 2009's Reflections. Likewise, I'd chosen to use the live versions of "Laughing" from 4 Way Street and "Man in the Mirror" from the CSN box set from 1991, both with the audience noises removed, for variety's sake.

I know that there are live versions of "Black Queen" and "Chicago" from 4 Way Street, but they contain crowd noises during the performance, so I resorted to using the studio versions instead. Ideally, I'd like to use the vocals from the live versions with the instrumentation of the studio version to make a faux-CSN studio performance. But despite that issue, I really do like the configuration of this album, possibly one of my favorites I've ever done, and it almost sounds like it was meant to be. Try it out!

So Far (August 20, 1973)

Side A (21:06)

1. Blackbird - 2:33 (CSN box set)

2. Everybody's Talkin' - 3:14 (Crosby, Stills & Nash, 2006 bonus track)

3. How Have You Been - 3:44 (Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary, demo)

4. Question Why - 2:02 (Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary, demo)

5. Song With No Words (Tree With No Leaves) - 3:14 (Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary, demo)

6. Every Day We Live - 3:18 (Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary, outtake)

7. Sleep Song - 3:01 (Déjà Vu: 50th Anniversary, demo)

Side B (20:51)

8. What Are Their Names - 4:09 (If I Could Only Remember My Name)

9. Better Days - 3:47 (Songs for Beginners)

10. Go Back Home - 5:54 (Stephen Stills)

11. Orléans - 1:56 (If I Could Only Remember My Name)

12. I’d Swear There Was Somebody Here - 1:19 (If I Could Only Remember My Name)

13. Urge for Going - 3:46 (CSN box set)

A compilation of outtakes recorded between 1969 and 1971 that didn't make the previous three albums. Not much to say other than it serves as a stop-gap release before their next studio album. Speaking of which...

As I Come of Age (September 20, 1974)

Side A (19:13)

1. See the Changes - 2:44 (CSN box set)

2. Prison Song - 3:10 (Wild Tales)*

3. Tamalpais High - 3:29 (If I Could Only Remember My Name)

4. My Angel - 2:25 (Stills)*

5. Little Blind Fish - 2:37 (unreleased)

6. And So It Goes - 4:48 (Wild Tales)

Side B (19:06)

7. First Things First - 2:10 (Stills)

8. Military Madness - 2:50 (Songs for Beginners)*

9. As I Come of Age - 2:33 (Stills)

10. Homeward Through the Haze - 4:20 (CSN box set)

11. Grave Concern - 2:45 (Wild Tales)*

12. Myth of Sisyphus - 4:28 (Stills)*

The mythical Human Highway album, only it's performed by a trio instead. "Prison Song", "My Angel", "Military Madness" (let's assume it was a 1971 outtake revisited for the sessions; likewise with "Tamalpais High"), "Grave Concern" and "Myth of Sisyphus" were all performed by CSNY during the Doom Tour of 1974, so like I suggested with a couple of tracks on 3-Way Street, see if you can take the backing music of the studio tracks and mix them with the live vocals to make a faux full group performance in the studio. It's a pretty similar method that soniclovenoize used for his revisit of Human Highway.

Wind on the Water (June 25, 1976)

Side A (19:37)

1. Carry Me - 3:35 (Wind on the Water)*

2. Make Love to You - 5:10 (Long May You Run)

3. Time After Time - 2:32 (Whistling Down the Wire)*

4. Fieldworker - 2:47 (Wind on the Water)*

5. To the Last Whale - 5:33 (Wind on the Water)

Side B (20:10)

6. J.B.'s Blues - 2:41 (Whistling Down the Wire)

7. Black Coral - 4:26 (Carry On)

8. Taken at All - 2:54 (CSN box set)

9. Foolish Man - 4:29 (Whistling Down the Wire)

10. Guardian Angel - 5:40 (Long May You Run)

Based upon the third and final attempt at bringing Human Highway to record, Wind on the Water takes seven songs by Crosby and Nash that were auditioned for the project, as well as three of Stills' songs from Long May You Run to complete the transition to their "yacht rock" years. "Carry Me", "Time After Time" and "Fieldworker" were all performed live in 1974, but again, imagine the studio tracks with the live vocals each, and tracks like "To the Last Whale" and "Guardian Angel" were also tried out at the end of 1974, making them honorary CSN tracks.

Yacht Folks (June 17, 1977)

Side A (22:28)

1. Shadow Captain - 4:32

2. 12/8 Blues (All the Same) - 3:41 (Long May You Run)

3. Carried Away - 2:29

4. Fair Game - 3:30

5. Anything at All - 3:01

6. Cathedral - 5:15

Side B (22:07)

7. Dark Star - 4:43

8. Just a Song Before I Go - 2:12

9. Run from Tears - 4:09

10. Cold Rain - 2:32

11. In My Dreams - 5:10

12. I Give You Give Blind - 3:21

Besides replacing "See the Changes" (already featured on As I Come of Age) with the last remaining Stephen Stills track from Long May You Run, nothing about Yacht Folks has changed apart from the album title. From this point onward, albums are released on a far more sporadic basis.

Thoroughfare Gap (July 11, 1980)

Side A (20:30)

1. Drive My Car (Needed to Ride) - 3:50 (CSN box set)

2. Tomorrow is Another Day - 4:05 (Daylight Again)

3. Barrel of Pain (Half-Life) - 4:44 (CSN box set)

4. Thoroughfare Gap - 3:31 (Thoroughfare Gap)

5. Out on the Island - 4:20 (Earth & Sky)

Side B (21:22)

6. Feel Your Love (Tears in the Light) - 4:28 (Daylight Again)

7. Love Has Come - 3:27 (Earth & Sky)

8. Distances - 3:36 (Oh Yes I Can)

9. Helicopter Song - 2:47 (Earth & Sky)

10. Dear Mr. Fantasy - 7:04 (CSN box set)

Nothing's really changed about this album since it was first written about in November 2020. I don't know if I mentioned this, but I gave the opening track "Drive My Car" the subtitle "Needed to Ride" to avoid confusion with the Beatles song of the same name. Likewise, I did so with "Feel Your Love" as "Tears in the Light" so it wouldn't be confused for the song of the same name on American Dream.

Speaking of which, this is where I'll be stopping (for now) with the CSN album discography, barring 1982's Daylight Again, which is once again unchanged from OTL, as I don't know where to go next with them after said album. After that, in OTL, they put out four more albums between 1988 and 1999, two of which were with Neil Young, but they couldn't live up to the albums that had come out before, especially not Crosby, Stills & Nash and Déjà Vu. Much of this has to do with ego clashes and trying to sound "hip" with modern audiences, and it comes across as sad.

And what's the deciding factor in where to take the group next? David Crosby. In the 1980s, Crosby was in the middle of a crack addiction that nearly cost him his life and led to his arrest, eventually leading him to sober up as a promise to Neil Young, his ultimatum for rejoining the group to record American Dream (and we all know how well that went).

So the question now is, where should I go with Crosby, Stills and Nash after Daylight Again? Either they carry on into the 90s and break up in 2016 (the likely cut off date as they've not performed as a group since 2015), or Crosby dies in the 1980s due to his drug problem and Stills and Nash break up, unwilling to continue as a duo. No matter what, the trio would've broken up anyway as Crosby is known for being extremely difficult to work with, even without the drugs, and not to mention his rather vocal opinions on certain things. It'll be interesting to hear what you have to say about this matter at hand.

Denny Laine's "Time to Hide" - A Wings Compilation

I originally wasn't going to write this post up, but I was kind of struggling with what to do in order to fill up the monthly post quota, but suddenly, this idea had come to me and I knew I had to write about it. Hopefully this will do while I plan out the next Second Coming discography.

As many of us Beatlemaniacs know, Denny Laine is practically the guy in Wings that wasn't Paul McCartney, and after they broke up in 1981, he's pretty much faded into obscurity. Which is a shame, really, because he's put out some good music before (i.e. the Moody Blues), during and after Wings, which is pretty much part of the reason I made this album. The purpose behind this album is to highlight Denny Laine's vocals in Wings, as he usually had either one or two per album; he didn't have any in Wild Life, and his planned vocal spots for Red Rose Speedway ended up on the cutting room floor until 2018, although "I Lie Around" was released as the B-side to "Live and Let Die" in 1973.

Time to Hide: 1972-1978

Side A (25:22)

1. Say You Don't Mind - 3:08 (1972 live performance; unreleased)

2. I Lie Around - 5:01 (Red Rose Speedway)

3. The Note You Never Wrote - 4:21 (Wings at the Speed of Sound)

4. Send Me the Heart - 3:35 (Japanese Tears; 1974 outtake)

5. Again and Again and Again - 3:34 (Back to the Egg)

6. Children Children - 2:20 (London Town)

7. I Would Only Smile - 3:23 (Red Rose Speedway)

Side B (24:49)

8. Spirits of Ancient Egypt - 3:04 (Wings Over America; edit)

9. No Words - 2:35 (Band on the Run)

10. Time to Hide - 4:32 (Wings at the Speed of Sound)

11. Deliver Your Children - 4:17 (London Town)

12. Picasso's Last Words - 5:49 (Band on the Run)

13. Weep for Love - 4:32 (Japanese Tears; 1978 outtake)

The opening track, "Say You Don't Mind", was originally written in 1967 after quitting the Moody Blues and released as a single that same year, eventually being recorded by Colin Blunstone in 1972. Wings performed it live during 1972 and 1973, but it was never officially recorded by them or even included on Wings Over Europe in 2018, which is a great shame. My edit of a live recording that I found crossfades into the cold opening of "I Lie Around", which was originally started by Paul in 1970 during the Ram sessions. This makes for a great one-two punch of an opener, explaining a part of Denny's pre-Wings career and following that with one of the first songs recorded with him.

Following that is "The Note You Never Wrote", the second track written for Denny by Paul and Linda, and is known for being the track that follows from "Let 'Em In" off of Wings at the Speed of Sound. Next up is another outtake, "Send Me the Heart", recorded during the sessions for the "Junior's Farm" single, but seemingly left aside in favor of "Sally G", not even appearing as a bonus track on Venus and Mars. It was eventually released on Japanese Tears, Denny's solo album from 1980, as was his re-recording was "Say You Don't Mind". Track five is "Again and Again and Again", making for a nice little juxtaposition as a punk rocker following upon the country flavor of "Send Me the Heart".

The first side concludes with "Children and Children" from London Town and "I Would Only Smile", sourced from the 2018 remaster of Red Rose Speedway; the former being a co-write with Paul McCartney like "Send Me the Heart". Thus far, Denny's written (or co-written) five tracks, with two being given to him. The third McCartney-penned track, "Spirits of Ancient Egypt", kicks off the second side, and comes from Wings Over America, mainly as the Venus and Mars studio version crossfades out of the reprise, which is rather frustrating. Of course, the live version sounds pretty similar, possibly more atmospheric, and I cut the track down to a similar three-minute length.

Next on the track listing is "No Words", Denny's first official co-writing credit to an album, and is said to have been written prior to the Band on the Run sessions. Following that is the title track, "Time to Hide", which is possibly Denny's greatest song to date, and it fades out right at the end before the transition leading to "Must Do Something About It" from Speed of Sound. "Deliver Your Children", said to have started being written in 1975, comes next, followed by the penultimate track, "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)", the fourth and final track by Paul and Linda, as well as the third co-lead vocal between Paul and Denny, the other two being "I Lie Around" and "No Words". The album concludes with "Weep for Love", an outtake from Back to the Egg; why that was excluded, I'll never understand.

Overall, this makes for a great listen, painting a much stronger picture of Denny Laine's contributions to Wings, even though they were mostly a Paul McCartney project in all but name. I'd have put the songs in chronological order, but that felt rather boring and there would've been a three-minute difference between the two sides, so I arranged the tracks mostly based upon where they appeared on the albums, and then filling in the gaps with what was leftover. But if you'd rather play them in chronological order, you could probably cut "Say You Don't Mind" and still have a solid collection of songs. Try it out!