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Friday, May 22, 2026
This seemed unlikely but hey; Leonard Cohen’s favourite version of Paul Anka’s 'My Way’?!
Covered: Neil Young: Alternates, Volume 1: 1966-2001 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)!! | Albums That Should Exist
Covered: Neil Young: Alternates, Volume 1: 1966-2001 (A Fabio from Rio Guest Post)
Fabio found enough for four volumes of "Covered" alternates. Here's the first one. Across these four volumes, about half the songs are different versions of songs that were included on the previously posted ten Neil Young "Covered" volumes. But the other half are songs that didn't feature on those volumes at all.
Fabio has written some liner notes, which are included in the download zip. But since these volumes are more like an addendum to those earlier ten volumes, he wrote just one essay for all four volumes, without song-by-song explanations.
For some musical acts in the "Covered" series, they had a lot of hits, and the choices of which covers to pick is pretty straight forward - the hit versions. But with Neil Young, it was much more subjective, since there have been tons of covers, but very few hits. So one person's trash is another person's treasure. You may well like some of these better.
This album is an hour and two minutes long.
01 Flying on the Ground Is Wrong (Guess Who)
02 Down to the Wire (Yellow Hand)
03 Nowadays Clancy Can't Even Sing (Carpenters)
04 Down by the River (Buddy Miles)
05 Til the Morning Comes (Francoise Hardy)
06 I Believe in You (Linda Ronstadt)
07 Hold Back the Tears (Jessi Colter)
08 Revolution Blues (Band of Blacky Ranchette)
09 Already One (Aaron Springfield)
10 Human Highway (Jim Witter & Cassandra Vasik)
11 Borrowed Tune (Marc Jordan)
12 Pushed It Over the End (Rich Hand)
13 Big Time (Black Crowes)
14 The Old Laughing Lady (Stereophonics)
15 Motion Pictures (Mercury Rev)
16 Mellow My Mind (Hederos & Hellberg)
But is it ART!?
Zap Comix crew in the mid-1980s. Clay Wilson, Stanley Mouse, Victor Moscoso, Robert Crumb, Rick Griffin, Robert Williams, Kim Deitch, and Spain Rodriguez.
Little Feat - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-19-1973, Early Show | ALBUMS THAT SHOULD EXIST [ATSE]
Little Feat - Ebbets Field, Denver, CO, 7-19-1973, Early Show
I've already posted a couple of Little Feat albums, so I won't say much more about them here. But note that this was from relatively early in the band's history, before they became very famous. Near the start of 1973, they released their third album, "Dixie Chicken." It was their first album to go Gold in the U.S., which means sales of half a million. But I'm guessing most of those sales didn't happen until later, when the band's growing popularity caused some people to discover their earlier albums, because the album didn't make the charts at all.
Interestingly, you can hear by the emcee speaking at the end of this recording that the band was actually the opening act for Zephyr. (They probably were much less well know nationwide, but they were based in Denver and played there a lot, so they were local favorites.) Also, it seems only the late show sets of both Little Feat and Zephyr were actually broadcast on the radio. But somehow this recording survived too, probably due to Little Feat's later fame.
In fact, I'd say these early and late shows by Little Feat are some of the most popular of all the Ebbets Fields recordings. There are very few concert recordings of this sound quality from this early in the band's career. But the recordings, going under names like "American Cutie" and "Late Night Truck Stop," are grey market releases. That means they exploit a loophole in European copyright law allowing for their legal sale in Europe, but the musical act doesn't get any of the profits.
This album is 54 minutes long.
01 Hamburger Midnight
02 Got No Shadow
03 talk
04 On Your Way Down
05 talk
06 Walkin' All Night
07 talk
08 Two Trains
09 talk
10 Willin'
11 talk
12 Cold, Cold, Cold
13 Dixie Chicken
14 Tripe Face Boogie
15 talk
16 Fat Man in the Bathtub
17 talk
(all tracks Little Feat)
Have at it you groovy people!
The Five Du-Tones - Shake a Tail Feather
Gary [Lucas tha’ knows!] posted this beauty, the original as featured in the Blues Bros film! SUPERB!
The Velvet Underground and Nico play Andy Warhol’s Plastic Inevitable Sunset Strip
I wasn’t sure about this poster it smacked of AI to me! ? It looked to modern somehow, Newsweek with a Roy Lichtenstein Pop Art rip off !? But hey . . . .until I do more research I will leave it there. Certainly Andy called the band's events as The “Exploding” Plastic Inevitable Show at times with Light Shows and film showings and as to whether they ever played the Sunset Strip I remain unsure so . . . . . . watch this space!
SILVER APPLES “OSCILLATIONS” [Gary Lucas]
As eclectic as ever Gary (Lucas!) posted this one this morning . . . . . just as he says decades ahead of their time . . . .
SILVER APPLES “OSCILLATIONS”
Thursday, May 21, 2026
Uncut The Archive Collection - 500 greatest albums of the 1970s [April 2026] | A DIAMOND DAVE SPECIAL
Uncut The Archive Collection - 500 greatest albums of the 1970s [April 2026]


