Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers -- "Confusion Wheel" AND Tom Petty - "Wildflowers"

 

Took the Heartbreakers tracks from the Wildflowers sessions to make an imagined TP&TH album and then reconstructed Wildflowers.

CONFUSION WHEEL

1. You Don't Know How It Feels

2. You Wreck Me

3. It's Good to Be King

4. Honey Bee

5. Cabin Down Below

6. House in the Woods

7. Crawling Back to You

8. Leave Virginia Alone

9. Girl on LSD

10. Confusion Wheel

11. Hope You Never

12. Climb That Hill

WILDFLOWERS [reimagined]

1. Wildflowers

2. Something Could Happen

3. Time to Move On

4. Drivin' Down to Georgia

5. California

6. Only a Broken Heart

7. Harry Green

8. Don't Fade on Me

9. Hard on Me

10. Somewhere Under Heaven

11. To Find a Friend

12. A Higher Place

13. Hung Up and Overdue

14. You Saw Me Comin'

15. Wake Up Time

Other Albums - Fripp/Gabriel/Hall, David Bowie, Rolling Stones, Beatles

Well, I don't plan to really restart this blog, but the end of the blog hasn't ended my continued interest in creating interesting ideas for albums that could have been. So, here's what I've worked on lately, without the previous long explanations of past blog entries.

Fripp * Gabriel * Hall - "Exposure"

SIDE A

1. Preface

2. You Burn Me Up Like a Cigarette

3. Perspective

4. Disengage II

5. North Star

6. Chicago

7. New York, New York, New York

8. Urban Landscape

SIDE B

1. Exposure

2. White Shadow

3. NYCNY

4. Here Comes the Flood

5. Postscript

David Bowie - "The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars" [double album]

SIDE A

1. Five Years

2. Soul Love

3. Moonage Daydream

4. Round and Round

5. Amsterdam

SIDE B

1. Starman

2. It Ain't Easy

3. It's Gonna Rain Again

4. Star

5. Lady Stardust

SIDE C

1. Hang Onto Yourself

2. Looking for a Friend

3. Velvet Goldmine

4. Holy Holy

5. Sweet Head

SIDE D

1. Suffragette City

2. Shadow Men

3. The Supermen

4. Ziggy Stardust

5. Rock 'n' Roll Suicide

The Rolling Stones - "Ghost Town"

1. Living in a Ghost Town

2. One More Shot

3. Doom and Gloom

4. Keys to Your Love

5. Losing My Touch

6. Stealing My Heart

7. Don't Stop

8. Any Way You Look at It

The Rolling Stones - "Senseless Crimes"

1. I'm Gonna Drive

2. Jump on Top of Me

3. So Young

4. The Storm

5. Highwire

6. Fancy Man Blues

7. Sex Drive

8. I Wish I'd Never Met You

9. Cook Cook Blues

The Beatles - "Rainbows"

SIDE A

1. All I Want is You

2. A Pillow for Your Head

3. Window Window

4. Gimme Some Truth

5. Suicide

6. Madman

SIDE B

1. Sour Milk Sea

2. Heather

3. Brian Epstein Blues

4. Circles

5. Watching Rainbows

6. The Last [aka Paul's Piano Piece]

Triple Albums Made Single

Way back in the olden days of December 2018, I posted an entry on this blog where I took eight double studio albums and slimmed them down to a single disc.

This time around, I’m tackling four triple studio albums and slimming them down, not to a double, but also to a single disc. That’s a lot of whittling. You can be the judge of the outcomes.

 

Green Day – “¡Uno! ¡Dos! ¡Tré!”

Besides listening to all the tracks, I went in search of consensus among others as to what are the best songs from the three discs. And believe me, the more you search the topic online the more you realize that no one agrees on everything. But it did appear that a few songs showed up on most lists I found and helped me narrow it down. Two of the original discs have 12 tracks and one has 13, so I decided to keep it at no more than 13.

1.       Nuclear Family

2.       Brutal Love

3.       Stay the Night

4.       Stop When the Red Lights Flash

5.       Let Yourself Go

6.       X-Kid

7.       Stray Heart

8.       Troublemaker

9.       Dirty Rotten Bastards

10.   99 Revolutions

11.   The Forgotten

12.   Oh Love

13.   Amy

 

Smashing Pumpkins – “Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness”

Most people probably think of this as a two-CD, 28-track album, but it was also released as a three-disc, 30-track vinyl album. With 30 tracks to choose from, it’s a lot to wade through. And consider the fact that another 30 or so songs didn’t make the final cut of the actual album (they were included later in a box set). So, to get this down to a single vinyl album, I decided to only use 10 tracks in total. And if you check various “best of” lists on the interwebs you’ll find that four tracks make nearly everyone’s list, and then it's kind of a free-for-all.

SIDE A

1.       Tonight Tonight

2.       Jellybelly

3.       Zero

4.       Bullet with Butterfly Wings

5.       Galapogos

SIDE B

1.       Muzzle

2.       Thirty-Three

3.       1979

4.       Thru the Eyes of Ruby

5.       Stumbleine

 

The Clash – “Sandanista!”

Some songs from Sandanista were obvious keepers, and some tracks seemed to me like just filler. When it came to determining the final cuts, I again went to the interwebs for various opinions on the best/worst tracks. Finally, I settled on what’s below. It was only after I completed this that I discovered a 12-track promo album called Sandanista Now! had been released (I assume to radio stations), and it only differs from my tracklist by two songs: I included "Something About England" and "Charlie Don't Surf" while Sandanista Now! excludes those songs but includes instead "Ivan Meets G.I. Joe" and "Sound of Sinners." 

SIDE A

1.       The Magnificent Seven

2.       Hitsville UK

3.       Junco Partner

4.       The Leader

5.       Something About England

6.       Somebody Got Murdered

SIDE B

1.       One More Time

2.       Up in Heaven (Not Only Here)

3.       Police on My Back

4.       The Call Up

5.       Washington Bullets

6.       Charlie Don’t Surf

 

George Harrison – “All Things Must Pass”

For this album, the obvious choice for me was to first remove the third disc of jams. And then I assembled what I thought were the best nine tracks. The first side ended up being exactly the same as the released album, and the second side was a mix of the rest. The leftovers would have been a great start on a 1971 or 1972 follow-up album.

SIDE A

1.       I’d Have You Anytime

2.       My Sweet Lord

3.       Wah-Wah

4.       Isn’t It a Pity (v. 1)

SIDE B

1.       What is Life

2.       Run of the Mill

3.       Beware of Darkness

4.       The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll)

5.       All Things Must Pass

 

U2 - "Bersantai Honey"

 

It wasn't until recently that I discovered there were so many outtakes from U2's Achtung Baby -- which happens to be my favorite album by the band. Some of the extra tunes ended up being reworked into songs for the follow-up Zooropa or released elsewhere as B-sides, etc. 

I thought it might be interesting to take all the outtakes and assemble them into a theoretical follow-up to Achtung Baby instead or perhaps in addition to Zooropa.

1. Alex Descends into Hell for a Bottle of Milk - Korova 1

2. Blow Your House Down

3. Salomé

4. Everybody Loves a Winner

5. Oh Berlin

6. Lady with the Spinning Head (UV1)

7. Down All the Days

8. Near the Island

9. Where Did It All Go Wrong?

10. Heaven and Hell

I kicked off the album with the mostly instrumental "Alex Descends into Hell for a Bottle of Milk - Korova 1," which was originally released as a B-side of "The Fly" single. Both "Salomé" and "Where Did It All Go Wrong" were B-sides to the "Even Better than the Real Thing" single. The remaining tracks went unreleased until 2011.

The combined 10 tracks for this album come to just over 42 minutes, a very respectable length, even in the CD era. The result is an album that doesn't sound like a bunch of leftovers, but rather a complete album. I consider Achtung Baby U2's high point, and I think the quality of the songs left off the album just goes to show that U2 was on a roll during these sessions.

There were even more tracks recorded that I didn't use, but that's because they were cover tunes and I wanted this album to be made up of all originals.

When it came time to create the album's cover, I chose some random photos that reflected some of the song titles—some more obvious than others—and looked similar to the cover for Achtung Baby. I again took inspiration from Achtung Baby for the album's title. "Achtung" is German for "danger." "Bersantai" is Indonesian for "relax."

All tracks can be found on the "Super Deluxe" and "Uber Deluxe" versions of Achtung Baby.

Here's a YouTube Playlist of the album.

Uncle Tupelo - "Sinko"

Yet another "What if the band had stayed together" album. This time around I looked at what could have been Uncle Tupelo's fifth album had the main songwriters Jay Farrar and Jeff Tweedy managed to keep it together for one more recording.

In the real world, Jeff and Jay couldn't stand each other by the end of the promotional tour for Uncle Tupelo's final album, Anodyne. Jay formed a new band called Son Volt, and Jeff and the rest of Uncle Tupelo reformed as Wilco.

In creating a new Uncle Tupelo album, I used six tunes each from Son Volt's and Wilco's debut albums, Trace and A.M.

1. Windfall

2. I Must Be High

3. Casino Queen

4. Tear Stained Eye

5. Box Full of Letters

6. Route

7. Shouldn’t Be Ashamed

8. Pick Up the Change

9. Drown

10. Loose String

11. Out of the Picture

12. Passenger Side

From Trace, I included "Windfall," "Tear Stained Eye," "Route," "Drown," "Loose String" and "Out of the Picture" (all written by Farrar). From A.M. I included "I Must Be High," "Casino Queen," "Box Full of Letters," "Shouldn't be Ashamed," "Pick Up the Change" and "Passenger Side" (all written by Tweedy).

I think this actually flows together fairly well. Could this have been Uncle Tupelo's big breakthrough? We'll never know of course, but it's interesting to speculate. Trace charted higher than any Uncle Tupelo album, and A.M. was received highly by critics and fans while not selling as well when it was released.

I titled the album Sinko as a play on the word "cinco" and this being what could have been the band's fifth album, and the fact that the band was falling apart.

For an album cover, I found this picture online of the old clock in the town square of Belleville, Ill., where Uncle Tupelo was formed. Unfortunately, the photo was a bit small. Maybe I'll try to replace it later with something better.

Here's a YouTube playlist of the album.

Cheap Trick - "Cheap Flicks"

For this entry, I put together a compilation of Cheap Trick tracks that have appeared as part of various movie soundtracks over the years.

1. Everything Works If You Let It ["Roadie"]
2. Reach Out ["Heavy Metal"]
3. I Must be Dreamin' ["Heavy Metal"]
4. Spring Break ["Spring Break']
5. Born to Raise Hell ["Rock & Rule"]
6. I'm the Man ["Rock & Rule"]
7. Ohm Sweet Ohm ["Rock & Rule"]
8. Up the Creek ["Up the Creek"]
9. Mighty Wings ["Top Gun"]
10. Money (That's What I Want) ["Caddyshack II"]
11. You Want It ["Say Anything"]
12. I will Survive ["Gladiator"]
13. Wild Thing ["Encino Man"]
14. Surrender '99 ["Detroit Rock City"]
15. Transformers (The Fallen Remix) ["Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen"]

What I've included are Cheap Trick songs that were exclusive to the films, i.e. songs that didn't appear on the band's regular albums. So, although "Surrender" and "I Want You to Want Me" were used (along with a few other band tracks) in many films over the years, they are not included here (except for the rerecorded version in 1999).

I arranged the tracks chronologically, beginning with "Everything Works If You Let It" from 1980 and ending with "Transformers (The Fallen Remix)" from 2009. Since this would be a post-2009 release, I didn't divide the album into two sides like I usually do for a theoretical vinyl album. 

Most of the tracks can be found on the official soundtrack albums, and some can also be found on band compilation albums. There was never a soundtrack album released for the animated film "Rock & Rule" (aka "Ring of Power"), and Cheap Trick's three songs from the film were eventually released on the compilation Sex, America and Cheap Trick.

"Transformers (The Fallen Remix)" appears on the soundtrack for "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen," but is not actually used in the movie for some reason. I decided to only include songs from movie soundtracks, but you could also include "Out in the Streets" (aka "That '70s Song") from the TV show "That '70s Show."

For a cover, I used a movie marquee generator and then made some simple modifications.

The Honeydrippers -- "Volume Two"

In early 1981, Robert Plant made his first public return to the stage after the breakup of Led Zeppelin. Fronting a band called The Honeydrippers, Plant performed several R&B and early rock and roll numbers in front of small audiences at unbilled shows. Some may have wondered at the time whether this was going to be his new direction. But during the following two years he released all-new music with two albums and a tour.

Then in 1984, Plant surprised a lot of people when he released a Honeydrippers EP. The band lineup was completely different than the one that had performed at unpublicized gigs in 1981 and included Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck and Nile Rodgers among others. And perhaps to Plant's surprise, The Honeydrippers, Volume One was a hit – bigger, in fact, than his previous two solo albums had been. The "group" made one TV appearance, as the musical guest on "Saturday Night Live" with Brian Setzer on guitar.

Soon after the EP's success, Plant said in interviews that he planned to record a full Honeydrippers album. But so far, it hasn't materialized, and I'm guessing at this point it never will. 

However, I wondered if there might be some stray tracks that could, if not create a whole album, at least be a second EP.

SIDE A

1. Philadelphia Baby – (Porky's Revenge soundtrack, Crawling King Snakes, 1985)
2. Let’s Have a Party – (The Last Temptation of Elvis soundtrack, 1990)
3. Louie Louie – (Wayne's World 2 soundtrack, 1993)

SIDE B

1. Gonna Shoot You Right Down (Boom Boom) – (Blues Blues Blues, Jimmy Rogers All-Stars, 1998)
2. Let the Boogie Woogie Roll – (More Friends: Small World, Big Band, Vol. 2, Jools Holland and His Rhythm and Blues Orchestra, 2002)
3. My Bucket's Got a Hole in It -- (Good Rockin' Tonight: The Legacy of Sun Records, Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, 2003)
* BONUS: Santa Claus is Back in Town [live] – (Saturday Night Live, The Honeydrippers, 1984)

Since the 1981 band lineup wasn't the same as the one in 1984, and since not even all the same musicians performed on all the tracks of the original EP, it seems logical to think of The Honeydrippers as simply Robert Plant covering old songs with a rotating cast of band members.

Since it took three years from the original Honeydrippers conception until Volume One was released, I didn't mind a gap of a few years between songs for Volume Two. But I ended up having to really expand beyond a few years to find enough tracks for a simple five-song EP -- 17 years to be exact. Admittedly, it seems a bit far-fetched. Still, it's a nice companion to the original. 

"Philadelphia Baby" on the Porky's Revenge soundtrack was credited to The Crawling King Snakes. But considering that it came out in 1985, I wonder if it wasn't originally conceived as another Honeydrippers song. The song was written and originally recorded by Charlie Rich in 1958.

"Let's Have a Party" was written by Jessie Mae Robinson and first recorded by Elvis Presley in 1957 as simply "Party" for the film "Loving You." Wanda Jackson recorded her version the following year with the extended title (although it apparently wasn't released until 1960). Led Zeppelin actually performed this song often as part of a medley during shows.

"Louie Louie" was written and recorded by Richard Berry in 1955, although it's probably best known for the 1963 version by The Kingsman. "Gonna Shoot You Right Down (Boom Boom)" was written and recorded by John Lee Hooker in 1961. "Let the Boogie Woogie Roll" was written by Ahmet Ertegun and Jerry Wexler, and first recorded by Clyde McPhatter and The Drifters in 1960.

The most popular version of "My Bucket's Got a Hole in It" was recorded by Hank Williams in 1949.

I included the holiday song "Santa Claus is Back in Town" from the Honeydrippers' appearance on "SNL" as a bonus track. It was written by Jerry Lieber and Mike Stoller and originally recorded by Elvis Presley in 1957.
For the cover, I took a 1950s photo of a couple slow dancing, did some cosmetic work, and added the group name and logo.

Double Albums Made Single

This was a project I did after reading a lot about other people complaining that some double albums would have been better off as single albums, thus tightening up the album and leaving out the filler. Of course, there are those who will complain about favorite songs left off or songs they think are less worthy than I've included. Hey, start your own blog! :)

Fleetwood Mac – Tusk

SIDE A

1. Think About Me                   

2. The Ledge                          

3. Sisters of the Moon        

4. I Know I'm Not Wrong   

5. Brown Eyes                     

6. Sara                                    

SIDE B

1. Angel                                   

2. Not That Funny                 

3. Honey Hi                            

4. Storms                                 

5. Never Forget                   

6. Tusk   

NOTE: Each songwriter gets four songs. 

The Rolling Stones – Exile on Main St.

SIDE A

1. Rocks Off                       

2. Rip This Joint                                

3. Tumbling Dice                              

4. Torn and Frayed         

5. Sweet Black Angel     

6. Loving Cup                    

SIDE B

1. Happy                                             

2. Ventilator Blues                          

3. All Down the Line       

4. Stop Breaking Down 

5. Shine the Light                            

6. Soul Survivor 
NOTE: A lot of people consider this album to be the Stones' best. I rank it second behind Sticky Fingers because I think Exile contains a lot of filler.    

Guns ‘N Roses – Use Your Illusion

1. Right Next Door to Hell

2. Dust N Bones

3. Don’t Cry

4. You Ain’t the First

5. Bad Obsession

6. November Rain

7. Garden of Eden

8. Don’t Damn Me

9. Civil War

10. 14 Years

11. Yesterdays

12. Pretty Tied Up

13. Locomotive

14. So Fine

15. You Could Be Mine   

NOTE: CD era so in this case we're combining two discs.

Elton John – Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

SIDE A

1. Funeral for a Friend/Love Lies Bleeding

2. Candle in the Wind

3. Bennie and the Jets

SIDE B

1. Goodbye Yellow Brick Road

2. Grey Seal

3. All the Young Girls Love Alice

4. Saturday Night’s Alright (for Fighting)

5. Harmony 
NOTE: I've read posts by several people in the past who stated "It can't be done!" Well....      

Jimi Hendrix Experience – Electric Ladyland

SIDE A

1. …And the Gods Made Love

2. Have You Ever Been to Electric Ladyland

3. Crosstown Traffic

4. Long Hot Summer Night

5. Come On, Pt. 1

6. Gypsy Eyes

7. My Friend

SIDE B

1. Rainy Day, Dream Away

2. Still Raining, Still Dreaming

3. House Burning Down

4. All Along the Watchtower

5. Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)     

NOTE: I recreated the cover that Jimi wanted.

Pink Floyd – The Wall

SIDE A

1. In the Flesh?

2. The Thin Ice

3. Another Brick in the Wall

4. Mother           

5. Goodbye Blue Sky

6. Young Lust

7. One of My Turns

SIDE B

1. Hey You

2. Comfortably Numb

3. The Show Must Go On

4. In the Flesh

5. Run Like Hell

6. The Trial

7. Outside the Wall

NOTE: To make these all fit, I used the shorter single versions of “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2,” “Comfortably Numb” and “Run Like Hell.”

The Who – Tommy

SIDE A

1. It's a Boy                                        

2. Amazing Journey                        

3. Christmas                                      

4. Cousin Kevin                                                

5. The Acid Queen                          

6. Do You Think It's Alright           

7. Fiddle About                                                

SIDE B

1. Pinball Wizard                                              

2. Go to the Mirror                         

3. Tommy Can You Hear Me       

4. Sensation                                      

5. I'm Free                                          

6. Tommy's Holiday Camp           

7. We're Not Gonna Take It 
NOTE: I thought this was surprisingly easy, and I don't think it really loses much for the storyline.

The Who – Quadrophenia

SIDE A

1. The Real Me

2. The Punk and the Godfather

3. I’m One (At Least)

4. Helpless Dancer (Roger's Theme)

5. I’ve Had Enough

SIDE B

1. 5:15

2. Bell Boy (Keith's Theme)

3. Doctor Jimmy (John's Theme)

4. Love Reign O’er Me (Pete's Theme)
NOTE: I took my cue from the movie soundtrack version to determine what to cut. Also, I used the shorter single versions of "5:15" and "Love Reign O'er Me"  so all these tracks could fit on a single album.

That's all. How'd I do?
     

Los Lobos - Tributos

It seems that if you want to put together a tribute album, you should have Los Lobos on speed dial. 

This is a collection of songs the band Los Lobos has recorded for 15 different tribute albums over the years, ranging from a Disney movie tribute in 1988 to a Latin-flavored Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute in 2016. And truth be told, there may be other tribute albums out there that the band has contributed to that I haven't yet come across.

Below is a track list of songs, including the tribute album they come from:

1. Bootleg - Quiero Creedence (2016)
2. And It Didn't Even Bring Me Down - Keep Your Soul: A Tribute to Doug Sahm (2009).
3. A Man of Somebody's Dreams - A Man of Somebody's Dreams: A Tribute to Chris Caffney (2010)
4. The Fat Man - Goin' Home: A Tribute to Fats Domino (2007)
5. Pawn Shop - Look at All The Love We Found: Tribute to Sublime (2005)
6. Sleeping on the Sidewalk – Killer Queen – A Tribute to Queen (2005)
7. Never Take the Place of You - The Q People: A Tribute to NRBQ (2004)
8. Johnny 99 - Badlands - A Tribute to Bruce Springsteen's Nebraska (2000)
9. Are You Experienced? – Searching for Jimi Hendrix (1999)
10. Midnight Shift - Not Fade Away (Remembering Buddy Holly) (1996)
11. Lonely Avenue - Till the Night Is Gone - A Tribute to Doc Pomus (1995)
12. Down Where the Drunkards Roll - Beat the Retreat: Songs by Richard Thompson (1994)
13. Alone in the Crowd - I Only Wrote This Song for You - A Tribute to Johnny Thunders (1994)
14. Bertha - Deadicated: A Tribute to the Grateful Dead (1991)
15. I Wanna Be Like You (The Monkey Song) - Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films (1988)

What might strike you off the bat is the variety -- Fats Domino to Sublime, Queen to Grateful Dead. But after each song is put through the Los Lobos blender, they come out sounding as if the band itself wrote these. Each track manages to be respectful of the original recording, and true to the band's own unique sound.

In the end, this is a great collection of interpretations—and it really doesn't even scratch the surface. Los Lobos has also contributed cover songs to several soundtrack albums and even put out Ride This—The Covers EP, a CD of seven cover tunes. If you like this collection, there's plenty more where this came from.

For a cover, I took the artwork that was used for a Los Lobos tribute beer from Garage Project Brewery and altered it a bit.

The Traveling Wilburys -- Volume 2 and Volume 4

The Traveling Wilburys – a band that some believe is the last great “supergroup” – released two albums: Volume 1 and Volume 3. The title of the second album was a joke. During, between and after those albums, the five members recorded together on various projects.

In attempting to create a Volume 2, I realized there was enough material for a Volume 4 as well.

The first was easy to construct. I used two Traveling Wilburys outtakes:  “Maxine” and “Like a Ship.” I added three songs from Roy Orbison’s solo album, “You Got It” and “California Blue” (both featuring Tom Petty and Jeff Lynne) and “A Love So Beautiful” (featuring Lynne and George Harrison); two songs from Petty’s solo album, “I Won’t Back Down” (featuring Lynne and Harrison) and “Zombie Zoo” (featuring Lynne and Orbison); two songs from Lynne’s solo album, “Every Little Thing” and “Lift Me Up” (both featuring Harrison); one song from Bob Dylan, “Under the Red Sky” (featuring Harrison);  and one George Harrison song, “Cheer Down” from the Lethal Weapon 2 soundtrack (featuring Lynne).

I tacked on the holiday message from George Harrison (as Nelson Wilbury) from the Winter Warnersland album as a bonus track. For the album artwork of Volume 2, I only added the word/number "Volume 2" on a picture I found on the web. 

SIDE A

1. You Got It

2. Lift Me Up

3. Like a Ship

4. Every Little Thing

5. I Won’t Back Down

SIDE B

1. Cheer Down

2. A Love So Beautiful

3. Under the Red Sun

4. Maxine

5. California Blue

6. Zombie Zoo

Bonus: Holiday message from Nelson Wilbury

For Volume 4, I took a similar tack.

The tracks include two Traveling Wilburys outtakes: “Runaway” and “Nobody’s Child.” Other tracks include two Harrison songs he recorded for a “Best of” collection, “Poor Little Girl” and “Cockamamie Business” (both featuring Lynne); a Del Shannon song, “Walk Away” (featuring Lynne and Petty); three songs from Lynne, “Stormy Weather” and “September Song” (both featuring Harrison) and “Blown Away” (co-written by Petty and featuring Shannon); one song by Petty, “Runnin’ Down a Dream” (featuring Lynne, plus Shannon in the ending message), and one mostly instrumental song by Jim Horn, “Work It Out” (written by Lynne, and featuring Lynne, Harrison and Petty). I used the original version of “Runaway” and added the remix at the end as a bonus.

Roy Orbison died in 1988, and there were rumors that Del Shannon would take his place in the group. But Shannon committed suicide in 1990. Shannon ends up featuring as lead singer on “Walk Away,” backup vocals on “Blown Away” and “Runnin’ Down a Dream,” and his song “Runaway” is covered. Plus Petty name-checks him in “Runnin’ Down a Dream.” So Shannon ended up being kind of a de facto member of the group.

Dylan is mostly a no-show on this album except for sharing lead vocals on “Nobody’s Child.” Considering both Orbison’s and Shannon’s deaths (and now Harrison’s and Petty’s as well), I think the album cover of a train wreck is appropriate. I found the old photo online, added some sepia tone and changed the words.

All tracks are available on the various solo albums and the Traveling Wilburys' box set, The Traveling Wilburys Collection, except the original version of “Runaway,” which was a non-album B-side of the band’s “She’s My Baby” single.

SIDE A

1. Poor Little Girl

2. Runaway

3. Walk Away

4. Stormy Weather

5. Runnin’ Down a Dream

SIDE B

1. Nobody’s Child

2. September Song

3. Work It Out

4. Blown Away

5. Cockamamie Business

Bonus: “Runaway” (remix)