Hey, it's Alan, and I just wanted to let you know that you can now listen to the ongoing

history of new music early and ad-free on Amazon music, included with Prime.

Making an album is a straightforward thing, right? You write some songs, you go into a studio,

and a few months later, something gets released. And 99% of the time, that's exactly what happens.

But wait, you're thinking, 99% of the time? What's exactly what happens. But wait, you're thinking 99% of the time?

What about the other 1%?

Well, those are the times when someone goes into a studio, starts working on an album,

and then, for whatever reason, nothing gets released.

Time and money and energy is poured into a project, and out the other end comes

nothing. There are a surprising number of lost albums out there, records that were made,

or at least partially made, that apparently will never, ever see the light of day. And they

involve some pretty big names.

These are the lost albums of Alt Rock.

This is the ongoing history of new music podcast with Alan Cross.

Before we get started, this is Rivers Cuomo of Weezer with a track entitled Super Friend.

And don't worry, I'll explain where it comes from.

That's Rivers Cuomo, working by himself on a collection of demos called Alone, the Home Recordings. That song is Super Friend, and it's actually from a Weezer album that was never released. Hold that thought

because we'll come back to it. Welcome again, I'm Ellen Cross, and I'm going to do my best James

Cameron here and dive into the depths to find the greatest album shipwrecks in the history of

Alt Rock. These are the albums that were started but never finished. For if they were finished,

they were never released. They languish somewhere, hidden away like some ugly, freakish secret that

no one is ever supposed to hear about. But we do hear about them. Some of them

...