10 Rock Albums That You Were Never Supposed To Hear
Really...do we have to?
The art of crafting an album is often looked at as a labor of love for most bands. While many people relish in the grind of touring across the world playing your music, the studio is where you can kick back and let your imagination run wild across every single track you put to tape. Though many albums are the byproduct of years of hard work, there are also some that were born out of great pain.
For one reason or another, many records get spat out by artists that were never supposed to be made in the first place. Why wouldn't these artists want us to hear these though? Well...more often than not it just comes down to the wrong time. Aside from the usual greatest hits album, a lot of albums get released just because the record label needs some sort of product, leaving the artist to just take the scraps of their old work and mold it into something decent.
On the other hand, some of these albums also offer a unique insight into the mind of these artists, whether it's some of their more introspective material or just their ability to cobble together some of the most streamlined music of their career. Even if some of these records were half-heartedly thrown together, the sound of these artists not giving 100% still gives us plenty of stuff to talk about.
10. Father of All...-Green Day
Ok, so maybe this is cheating, but y'all can see this coming from a mile away right? Coming out this past February, Green Day's Father of All has been garnering a mixed reception at best from fans and critics alike, with some calling it an interesting experiment and others calling it one of the blandest excuses for rock music in recent memory. While the debate has certainly been contentious, it makes more sense once you start to put the pieces together.
Granted, it's not like Green Day did a complete 180 on this album, with a lot of these songs sounding like they would work much better if they were released under their alias Foxboro Hottubs. At the same time, no other release from these pop punk brats has been this underwhelming and surprisingly short. With all the elements stacked against this record, it all starts to make a lot more sense when you realize this is one of their final releases under Warner Bros..
Even though the band might be promoting this one, there's something that reeks of contractual obligation on this record, as if they are itching to make the music they want to make outside of the label they have dealt with for years. Considering this works as a Foxboro Hottubs release, this is most likely a goofy side project meant to just get out of their record contract.