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Ever thought you heard something before, but just can't find it? Swore that a song was going to be released by an artist you liked before it quickly forgotten about? A live performance you once saw, but there's nothing about it? Feel free to share any lost media in music that you've found, what has been found, or what interests you in any lost music, no matter the genre.

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Into The New World - M.I.L.K

The song most famously sung by the group Girls' Generation was originally meant for M.I.L.K, a generation one kpop group. However due to the kpop industry crashing at the end of generation one, and Bae Yumi, one of the rappers, and vocalists left, the group disbanded. It has been confirmed to exist, but it has never been leaked. A member of Girls' Generation confirmed they trained to the original version's recording. However it has been rumored that the M.I.L.K version leaked on Soribada, before quickly being replaced with the Girls' Generation version. Unless a Korean who downloaded it from Soribada back then shares it, or SMtown gets hacked like YG did, this version will probably be lost forever. The former members besides Seo Hyunjin have vanished from public life, and it doesn't seem that she commented on it.

However it is confirmed that the remix of SNSD's Into The New World was supposed to be the original instrumentals of the M.I.L.K version. Considering how M.I.L.K was able to handle more intense choreography compared to the previous group, S.E.S, it's safe to assume the original version involved more dancing.

Carnival of Light - The Beatles

Supposed to be a more experimental song. It only aired publicly at the Million Volt Light and Sound Rave, but never was officially released. It's confirmed to exist. McCartney confirms to have the master tapes and wants to release Carnival of Light, but won't release it "until the time has come for it to get it's moment." McCartney mentions that it requires consent to be released by the group's estates (Yoko Ono, Olivia Harrison, an Ringo Starr). Until then, it's left whether or not they can come to an agreement to release the song, or if McCartney releases it anyways.
 
Boards of Canada. Their first albums were basically cassette tapes they gave to their friends as gifts. Acid Memories has some tracks found, the rest is lost forever. Some music from their website is lost too. Those tracks they played to select few in the end of Tomorrows Harvest ARG are basically history.

Here is a video about it:
 
Prince and Kanye West both have a lot of albums that were in development but never released. Though Ye takes the cake on that front. With Prince, The Flesh jazz album was lost until it leaked several years ago. Before that, there was only a 30 second clip available that was used in a scene of Under the Cherry Moon. When Christopher and Mary are racing each other at the horse track.

There's the song Wally. It was written after Prince broke up with his long time girlfriend at the time. He basically wrote and recorded it as an exercise. He then erased everything, damn his engineer's pleading to save it. He did record a second version of the track a few days later, but with less personal lyrics.

There's another track called The Divine. A song "so "mind-blowing" he doubts he’ll ever release it.".

If you want to talk about music vaporware, there's the Smashing Pumpkins "final" show. 12/02/2000. It was professionally recorded and everything. It was supposed to be released soon after, but its never been released. Two songs were released here and there. It just rots in a vault somewhere.
 
Paul probably doesn't want to release Carnival of Light while alive because it's either too weird or more likely sounds like crap.
Would it be cool to hear the sessions Pink Floyd did when attempting to make the album Household Objects? I guess but would it be good music? No. So in some respects I understand why living artists might not want some behind the scenes work like that released--maybe it's too embarrassing for them. Sony owns the Floyd's music now though so I won't be surprised if we hear more unreleased stuff soon.
 
David Bowie recorded a soundtrack for The Man Who Fell to Earth in 1976, but it was rejected by the director and never saw the light of day. I don't know if it was even finished or if it still exists, but it supposedly was a kind of bridge between Station to Station and Low, two of my favourite albums, so I would love to hear it one day.
 
Someone tried to piece together an unreleased/unfinished Julian Casablancas track/demo
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The, uh, "outsider musician" comedian Rappy McRapperson routinely deletes or privates all of his shit from YouTube. It really sucks, he's hilarious. There are a few dedicated fans who have archived a lot of it, but some seems to be gone forever.

There's are two versions of Beck tracks that I used to have (pirated the albums), and I can't find them again:
  • One was a version of Guess I'm Doing Fine from Sea Change that cuts to and back from a small section of Lonely Tears at about the 1:35 mark. I'm so used to it that the actual album track sounds wrong to me.
  • The other was a version of Mixed Bizness from Midnight Vultures that ends with the usual "robots fucking" sound effects, but they go on for twice as long as they do on the actual album. Again, the real track sounds too brief and "wrong: to me.
I don't know if they were prerelease versions or what.
 
TokiBun dijo:
Paul probably doesn't want to release Carnival of Light while alive because it's either too weird or more likely sounds like crap.
Would it be cool to hear the sessions Pink Floyd did when attempting to make the album Household Objects? I guess but would it be good music? No. So in some respects I understand why living artists might not want some behind the scenes work like that released--maybe it's too embarrassing for them. Sony owns the Floyd's music now though so I won't be surprised if we hear more unreleased stuff soon.
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Apparently, it sounds like early Frank Zappa. The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet from freak out.
 
tehpope dijo:
Apparently, it sounds like early Frank Zappa. The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet from freak out.
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Oh that's interesting! I'll try and hold back on my Beatles autism but John did own Captain Beefheart's album Safe as Milk so he was probably a Zappa fan. (I'm connecting the two since Zappa helped produce the Captain's albums despite the fact he was a total psycho.)

Anyways point being it would not surprise me for a more out there track to be made by the band. A lot of their "using the studio as an instrument" weird ideas tended to come from John.
Part of me wonders if the recording for Carnival is badly damaged. It took for audio technology to get better before Paul and Ringo agreed to release the last official Beatles release Now and Then. Before they refused because the recordings they had of John were damaged and didn't sound great.
 
tehpope dijo:
Apparently, it sounds like early Frank Zappa. The Return of the Son of Monster Magnet from freak out.
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The fake bootleg somewhat resembles it. I've never known if that's what people are talking about when they describe it.

John and especially Paul were Zappa fans, so it makes sense they'd try something like that. The conspicuously named Zapple Records was supposed to be their label devoted to releasing experimental stuff, but not much got done.

The story I heard: Paul bought the sound artist Ian Sommerville some recording equipment to get him started filling out the label catalog with sound poetry and electronic experiments. He made some great tapes with William Burroughs, most released years later. (Those were "lost media" for decades.) At the time Ian gave Paul the impression of never doing anything but drugs, so Paul told him to keep the gear and forget about it, and Paul's enthusiasm for the project ended there.

So there are only two Zapple records: Harrison's synth album that he got sued for stealing half of, and John and Yoko's Life with the Lions (kinda neat).
 
The master tapes of this obscure hardcore band called Ache Hour Credo’s discography were supposedly going to be released at some point but never surfaced and I’ve been thinking about it for a while
 
City Love - Yubin
It remains unreleased to this day and unlikely to see the light at all. It was claimed that JYPE plagiarized the famous Plastic Love by bringing in producers who were told to make ti sound similar to Plastic Love.

Tell Me (HyunA version) original recording + unreleased Wonder Girls songs with HyunA
There's only a behind the scenes video of the version with HyunA still in Wonder Girls before she unexpectedly left. The choreography was slightly different along with the clothes, and there doesn't seem to be a rap as Yubin was added last second. Many songs on the Wonder Years album have HyunA's vocals in the background, but many of her parts were cut out, or replaced with Sunmi singing them. More than likely we won't see Wonder Girls songs with HyunA released either.
 
I heard two songs back in 2018? On CBC Nightstream, where they kinda just play anything, that I've been unable to find since.

First one i did actually find at one point but i forgot the band and can't find it at all now. I swear the title was Italy and it was a softer song that had a simple, single-word-repeated-thrice refrain between the lyrics. I believe it had lyrics about cafes, the landscape, and biking. The main thing i remember is a part that (roughly) went:
Riding through the fields, riding through the trees
Bicycle, bicycle, bicycle.
I did successfully find it via google with those lyrics years ago but now? Just shits out stuff relating to Queen.

Other song was upbeat, jazzy, and had a black guy belting out lyrics about how he and his former bully were having an affair as adults.
what I remember:
"First you were calling me names, now you're callin' out my name
We went from schoolyard rivals to secret lovers"
I did find this song in my search that's pretty sweet, but the one i heard was about 1000% funkier.
 
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Any Dutch or Belgian person here who still has the song: Kale Vandale - Auschwitz is back for black?

Searching it for years now, and just cannot find it any where.
 
Soso dijo:
Ever thought you heard something before, but just can't find it? Swore that a song was going to be released by an artist you liked before it quickly forgotten about? A live performance you once saw, but there's nothing about it? Feel free to share any lost media in music that you've found, what has been found, or what interests you in any lost music, no matter the genre.
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i feel like this might be an easy one for some people to remember, but the one song that had an album photo that looked like a bowl, and had something to do with covid and was this woman shouting "CHING CHING CHONG" and shit like that. i cannot seem to find it anymore. it might've been an ip2 thing.
 
This is an old thread, but I want to revive it. I'm looking for the ISIS propaganda song "For the Sake of Allah." It's an English song; I remember seeing it in a meme and thinking it sounded good, but it got banned from YouTube. I asked AI, and it confirmed that the file was banned by YouTube because it came from the official ISIS media center, so they nuked any upload of it. But the problem is I can't find it anywhere. I tried looking on all the streaming platforms, but they all nuked it, so I figured Kiwifarms could find it. The song or phrase was also cited in the Supreme Court case "Gonzalez vs. Google." Here's a legal link from the case AI found that features tons of articles and other stuff and mentions the phrase "for the sake of Allah" and the role of ISIS propaganda and YouTube's so-called lack of moderation causing Gonzalez to become a terrorist, which I think is ridiculous, but this court case is one of many reasons the song got nuked from YouTube.
 
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