But it's more to the point comparing Emperor Machine with Bruce Haack's lost, early electronic masterpiece Haackula (it got lost back in 1978 on the way from recording to release, and stays unreleased because of record label problems. I burned my copy from a friend's who'd borrowed his from another friends and after that I lost the trace).
They did make some recordings that so far remain unreleased.
The new version included two previously unreleased songs: Farrar's "Stay True", Tweedy's "Wherever".
Take Drake, whose verse on "Stay Schemin" — the hook is borrowed from a unreleased Nas song, oddly enough — is phenomenally sinister, a quality he's not known for.
For each of his films there must surely be another, unreleased one with all the same characters, who stay in bed all day and stare at the wall.
Instead the album is made up of a series of bargain bin bangers, each song carrying all the staying power of an unreleased track on the never listened to album of a now forgotten girl-band.
It also contains a previously unreleased song called "State of Shock" and an acoustic version of "Stay the Night", from ¡Uno!
I have treasures: handwritten notes; autographs, my favorite one is signed "Stay Wet, Love, Prince" from 1982...he stopped signing them around 2001; advance CDs and cassettes for unreleased albums or maxi-singles; shoes, and a 1977 test pressing for "For You," which was released in 1978.
No hip-hop fan who wants to stay current can afford to ignore mixtapes: gray-market compilations (on CD's these days, despite the name) full of freestyles, remixes, unreleased tracks and sneak previews of forthcoming albums.
The collection also gathers up a number of unreleased songs Bell recorded that did not appear on I Am The Cosmos, including two songs by Icewater (a precursor to Big Star); collaborations with Memphis songwriter Keith Sykes ("Stay With Me") and singer Nancy Bryan ("In My Darkest Hour"); and "Clacton Rag," an instrumental recorded in 1976 that features Bell solo on guitar.
Be sure and pick up Chromatics Kill for Love today and stay tuned for three Chromatics tracks on the upcoming Italians Do It Better: After Dark 2 compilation, including an Iggy Pop cover and a mail-order only LP called "Running From The Sun," which has a few alternate mixes from the Kill for Love album along with 5 or 6 unreleased tracks all before the new year!
