base talk How do you organize your unreleased music?

[Bussea]

I used to put everything in one unreleased folder, but ever since last year I’ve been organizing everything by year and era. I’ve seen people commonly do this and thought it was interesting and kept everything from being such a cluster ****

 

 

For example, with Kesha & Lana:

 

 

 

 

I look at the years an album was recorded and put them under one album or for an unnamed album (unless the unnamed album becomes another album) I just put it in an unreleased folder. I like to keep everything alphabetical and I separate demos/alt mixes by putting them on a “second disc”

[tost1]

I honestly just ignore the existence of unreleased music, I can't be bothered to download music when i have spotify

[Gelato]

I don't really listen to it unless I'm on my laptop and it's on YouTube. I don't even know how I would download it on my phone 

[Kayseri Mantisi]

[Kyoto]

I don't listen to unreleased music.

[khalyan]

The unreleased music I have I put into one album per artist regardless of the album session they came from.

[galomika]

nowadays I don't even listen to the official tracks more than once(cuz most of it is A.I. created filler) 

 

 

[Nightingale]

I only listen to it on YouTube. It bothers me so much to try to make it an album or organize it since it’ll never be a real album

[keshasfillers]

I gave up when I switched to Spotify 

[TakeYouToHell]

I just put "Unreleased" album will all tracks tacked cause I'm too lazy to have it organised by eras. 

But if it's a scrapped album with actual title, track list (and sometimes cover) I combine released tracks + with unreleased ones like that:

[nostalgic]

Generally - If it's unreleased, I don't really care about it.

[JoeAg]

for Kesha I do this, which is iconic of me LEGG WORLD!!!! YASSSSSSSSS (I just woke up and it's 5 pm here in Dnenvner Colormemineado and I just took my vuyvanse!)

tracklist:

1. Starvin

2. Uncensored

3. I Taste Like a Cherry

4. Microphone

5. Former Overexposed Blonde

6. Secret Weapon

7. Lost Weekend

8. Revenge

9. Tease Me

10. Boom Boom Bang

11. This Is Me Breaking Up with You

12. Lovers in the Deep End 

 

tracklist:

1. Way with Words

2. I'm the One

3. Chinatown

4. Fly Away

5. Lover

6. Vampire

7. Hallucination

8. Bad Dream

9. What the Hell Is Wrong with Me

10. Baby, It's You

11. Sunday Morning

 

tracklist:

1. Heart's on Fire

2. Dancing with the Devil

3. I Hate You, Don't Leave Me

4. Run Devil Run

5. Bullet with Your Name on It

6. Who Do You Love

7. U Better Know

8. Innocence & Pills

9. N-N-N-Neva Baby

10. Pretty Lady

11. Trashy Boy

12. Last Boyfriend

 

tracklist:

1. D.U.I.

2. Crazy Girl

3. My Best Friend's Boyfriend

4. Boy Like You

5. Chain Reaction

6. Aliens Invading

7. I Wrote It Down

8. RadioRadioRadio

9. Shots on the Hood of My Car

10. Mouth

11. Strange Love

12. True Love (feat. Katy Perry)

13. Heart Fall Out

14. Meet Me in Space

 

tracklist:

1. Back to Life

2. Child of the Moon

3. Wolf

4. Wild at Heart

5. Flowers in the Rain

6. Demons

7. All of My Heroes

8. Pageantry

9. Satan Is Waiting

10. Lost in LA

11. Happiness

 

as you can clearly see...

but yeah it was fun making those 5 compilation albums

 

the rest of my unreleased Kesha in my library is filed under "The Unreleased" and it's 89 more songs lol I have a LOT of unreleased Kesha 

[loveisdead9582]

Before I fully Committed to streaming, I’d either do a demos album or I’d attach it as an additional song to whatever album it was originally intended for. Nowadays, I don’t really listen to demos outside of YouTube. 

[Cruel Summer]

I typically glue it onto the album for which it was intended or pile it all into one “Unreleased” compilation per artist.

 

For Charli specifically, however, I do a lot more work. First, the solo version of Doing It is on my Sucker digital copy, and the duet version is completely deleted. Then, I have XCX World mocked up to as close to the real thing as we’ll ever get, with the one exception of including the original version of Summer Love (the most minimal version, not the overproduced mess from later) even though it probably wasn’t really intended for that album (I just can’t live without it and that feels like the best home for it). I have the 24 Hour Album project separately listed as well. Demos and tracks that we know were intended for a particular album usually go with that album, listed as a second disc. In the case of her self-titled album, though, there’s so much good material that she left on the cutting room floor that I split a lot of that off into a separate sixteen-track listing of The Charli Sessions. Crash is getting close to needing that treatment as well, but I don’t love it as much as I love Charli and the material from those sessions.

[Bussea]

2 hours ago, JoeAg said:

for Kesha I do this, which is iconic of me LEGG WORLD!!!! YASSSSSSSSS (I just woke up and it's 5 pm here in Dnenvner Colormemineado and I just took my vuyvanse!)

tracklist:

1. Starvin

2. Uncensored

3. I Taste Like a Cherry

4. Microphone

5. Former Overexposed Blonde

6. Secret Weapon

7. Lost Weekend

8. Revenge

9. Tease Me

10. Boom Boom Bang

11. This Is Me Breaking Up with You

12. Lovers in the Deep End 

 

tracklist:

1. Way with Words

2. I'm the One

3. Chinatown

4. Fly Away

5. Lover

6. Vampire

7. Hallucination

8. Bad Dream

9. What the Hell Is Wrong with Me

10. Baby, It's You

11. Sunday Morning

 

tracklist:

1. Heart's on Fire

2. Dancing with the Devil

3. I Hate You, Don't Leave Me

4. Run Devil Run

5. Bullet with Your Name on It

6. Who Do You Love

7. U Better Know

8. Innocence & Pills

9. N-N-N-Neva Baby

10. Pretty Lady

11. Trashy Boy

12. Last Boyfriend

 

tracklist:

1. D.U.I.

2. Crazy Girl

3. My Best Friend's Boyfriend

4. Boy Like You

5. Chain Reaction

6. Aliens Invading

7. I Wrote It Down

8. RadioRadioRadio

9. Shots on the Hood of My Car

10. Mouth

11. Strange Love

12. True Love (feat. Katy Perry)

13. Heart Fall Out

14. Meet Me in Space

 

tracklist:

1. Back to Life

2. Child of the Moon

3. Wolf

4. Wild at Heart

5. Flowers in the Rain

6. Demons

7. All of My Heroes

8. Pageantry

9. Satan Is Waiting

10. Lost in LA

11. Happiness

 

as you can clearly see...

but yeah it was fun making those 5 compilation albums

 

the rest of my unreleased Kesha in my library is filed under "The Unreleased" and it's 89 more songs lol I have a LOT of unreleased Kesha 

I remember I used to download her unreleased in compilation albums and they were separated in albums like this  good times!

[SLUTTVFTV]

for some reason i can't upload songs to spotify so I have a Lana Unreleased folder on Google Drive

[Jeremiah]

It also happened with me that I stopped listening to unreleased music when streaming came in, mainly because then I wouldn't have songs occupying space on my phone and then because I lost the habit of organizing my music library.

 

When I used to do it, I'd keep it all the unreleased songs by an artist in a same "album". I knew which eras they were most likely from but it wasn't very appealing for me to create separate "albums" sorted that way. Also it was much easier to just go to said "Unreleased" album if I wanted to listen to an unreleased song.

 

Unless it was a full-on project that wasn't ever released, like Lana's "Sirens" and such, I'd keep it that way like any other normal album.

Edited December 24, 2023 by Jeremiah

[PaloSanto]

well it depends I only use unreleased songs from my original main 3 faves even if I dont really listen to those artists as much nowadays.

I used to take the time to sort every song by era and group them as "Kylie Minogue - Fever Sessions" or whatever but these days I just have all her unreleased under one big "Unreleased" label and I just use disc number on the tags to keep it slightly more organized, so say: songs on Disc 1 on the "Unreleased" Kylie album are all outtakes from her 1994 self titled album. Disc 2 are Impossible Princess, Disc 3 is Light Years and so on.

 

I use the same method for Britney and Madonna the only other 2 artists I ever gave a **** enough to go through their unreleased wikipedia pages as a teenager. Tho I admit I still keep track when something new surfaces from them.

 

For my other more faves that I started stanning late in highschool or more recently, like Taylor, Beyoncé & Dua I havent bothered sorting the files so they're all with whatever label they came from