I came across a torrent entitled "The Beatles - 2017 ...Lost Album", consisting of 6 "CD" folders of what appears to be mostly alternate mixes and other unreleased material. I can't find this documented anywhere, so I don't know if it was ever an official release (like the Anthology series). It mostly seemed only vaguely interesting...
...but then I noticed that the 6th "CD" consists of 4 tracks of over 10 minutes each, so I had to listen...
...and they seem to be sort of stream-of-consciousness pastiches, sort of like the Love album (which I've never listened to all the way through) and apparently having a lot of overlap with the material therein but also not the same; there were lots of shorter bits, incomplete songs, mistakes, and so on...
...and it made me think that maybe this is a better way to approach putting my material together. I have a lot of unfinished bits, songlets, whatnot...
...oh, and let's add "The Mind Electric" into the mix, where bits of the song are played both forwards and backwards (at least in some versions), and TMBG's "stelluB", and the fact that on one of my very earliest recordings I started out with a reversed version of the chorus...
...because there's really no substantial pressure anymore, artistically or commercially, to package music into "songs" anymore, really, is there?
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