The Rolling Stones released Tattoo You on this day in 1981.  It was their last good album. Their last great album was probably Exile , maybe Some Girls . Sandwiched between the two,  Emotional Rescue   is almost as good. It wasn't even really recorded as an album. Its core is mostly comprised of outtakes stretching back to 1972.  The band needed a new album to tour, but the Twins weren't getting along, so associate producer, Chris Kimsey, went through the archives and found the best bits for the band to finish off in 1980-81.  "Little T&A" comes from a basic track cut during the  Emotional Rescue   sessions. "Start Me Up" originated during the  Some Girls . The band worked on "Hang Fire" during both.  It's a bit like  Physical Graffiti,  except that most of that album's tracks were new, whereas most of  Tattoo  consists of outtakes. It's a bit like  Odds & Sods  except that the tunes were worked on ...

It should have been a double album. That's what they recorded for Lifehouse , Pete's sci-fi rock opera follow up to Tommy . For some reason, he couldn't get the plot or libretto right and ended up paring it down to a single album. They didn't waste a track. Like Sticky Fingers , IV, and others, it is one of those 1971 albums that dominated AOR FM into the '80s and classic rock channels to this day. While I'll usually change stations when a couple of the tunes come on....again....I still listen to some of the tacks that don't get much play anymore.  Most of the other material came out as singles, Townshend solo tracks, cuts on the Odds & Sods compilation, or bonus tracks on one of the several expanded definitive deluxe reissues of Who's Next . The version of "Greyhound Girl" is a live track included on Endless Wire. Here is Pete's demo: The songs here are not all part of the  Lifehouse plot, but they either are from those sessions or ...