Now with advanced AI, I fear these record companies will use future artists voice as an company asset/property so they can use artists voice forever after their death.
some have already developed their own AI model so they can at least have some legal control over the damn thing. it's real sad and dire. musicians gotta unionize.\
Lawyers are hard at work with companies to make up new terms of service and laws that involve art and artists, to replace them, and them being able to clone you, and your work with AI, then using that clone forever to enrich themselves and their future families etc That's exactly the plan.
Jimi Hendrix is also another example of an artist’s legacy being milked dry by greedy executives. He only released 3 studio records in a 4 year span and yet has over 80 posthumous releases.
It's kinda crazy how some of them are his best work. The Cry of Love, Blues, and the full Band of Gypsy Concerts are all amazing and his stuff I come back to the most. After that it feels incredibly disrespectful, it's cool we get to see these recordings; especially since Jimi's career was cut shortl right at a time he was drastically changing his style and branching out to insane heights. But they shouldn't be maximized as product they should just get put out there for free if anything at all.
@@randomguyontheinternet7940 I think it's different for concerts because those were recorded obviously when he was alive, that stuff is usually truly for fans only, and sometimes there's unearthed stuff that nobody knew even existed, like the 1967 Hollywood Bowl concert. It's more so for unfinished studio recordings where it gets pretty blantantly cash-grabby and gross in my opinion.
@doctorrobert1339 I think they're both interesting cases. Live albums can be really easy to slap together, but it's nice having film to look back on. Just depends on how it's released.
I'd say the first few posthumous Hendrix releases from the early '70s definitely had care put into them, since they had the benefit of being spearheaded by Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer and Mitch Mitchell of the Experience. They're largely comprised of Jimi's rough mixes (with a few exceptions), and other than some light overdubs, they largely stick to how Jimi had left the material when he passed. "The Cry Of Love" and "Rainbow Bridge" aren't perfect, but they still work as cohesive albums. Everything else after though definitely had some sort of meddling that those first few posthumous releases lacked.
I remember Prince saying that he didn’t want anything released after death, now anniversaries are fine I guess but a new album with new songs is going against what he wanted.
That’s why they barley do it tbh I want more material but they only release songs that he did for another artist and some vault songs but I rather they actually release his projects like Dream factory or roadhouse garden
Every year his estate releases a super deluxe edition of one of his albums or an unreleased project with a bunch of unreleased songs on them and i like them for doing that but I also feel so guilty for spending my money on it because I know that Prince kept those songs in his vault for a reason. 😭
they got away with the album Welcome 2 America specifically because it was fully completed, it was just shelved. the big boxed sets with all the Vault tracks are pushing it tho
Man I wish Circles was brought up anywhere but the end. By far the only posthumous album that was made purely with his family and collaborator's ideals in mind and it's an amazing project as a result. His estate handled the album extremely well and I think Circles or arguably By The Time I Get To Phoenix would've fit a lot better when trying to discuss good examples of posthumous albums.
"Made in Heaven" by Queen thankfully was a posthumous album done ethically. After finishing up Innuendo, Freddie Mercury basically sung as much of the vocals for the next album as he could and instructed the rest of the band to finish it up after he dies. Thankfully, we haven't gotten any posthumous Freddie Mercury releases after that (to my knowledge).
Alright to be fair, with 2pac's Makaveli album and Biggie's Life After Death album, they're barely posthumous because they were fully finished when they died.
The music industry put out a lot of posthumous Tupac albums featuring collaborations with other artists in the 2000s. Many of these projects were put together by Interscope Records after Tupac's death, despite the fact that he had already completed a lot of material. Unfortunately, instead of focusing on the quality of his original work, Interscope seemed more interested in maximizing profit. This often led to disjointed releases, like "Pac's Life," which many fans felt were not true to Tupac's vision and fueled speculation about his status.
@@C12omega Yeah obviously most of his posthumous albums suck and are uncompleted, I'm just saying Makaveli was fully finished when he died, and he was even promoting it.
@@furynvmI did not believe you when I first read that, but I did some research, turns out you’re right. Apparently X himself said “I want this album to be, like, a minute long”, which is crazy to me because this whole time I genuinely thought songs like “I don’t let go” and “whoa” were also unfinished
I think the single most respectful example of posthumous music was when Linkin Park released Lost. It was a singular song, that was completely finished, and was released on the anniversery of Meteora Edit: I made this take before I heard about the other stuff orbiting the band, thats mb. This aged like milk.
@@qhairullahrusyaidyApparently it was animated and they just used AI to replicate the art style for the footage they used. Not a fan of the AI aspect, but the non AI/animated parts was pretty nice ngl
@@qhairullahrusyaidy I always saw the AI usage as an extension of their Hybrid Theory/Reanimation/Meteora art direction. They've always been very heavily inspired by anime as well as mixing the grungy nu metal aesthetic with the mechanical nature of technology (i mean look at Breaking the Habit ffs, it's literally an AMV), so it made sense to expand on it via AI. Also Chester kinda is a sort of "ghost in the machine" these days with how much his legacy carries on.
i think nirvana after cobain's death is an interesting case as well cuz unplugged came out after his death but it's highly regarded as one of the best live albums of all time. there's also "you know you're right" which resulted in a legal battle between dave and krist and courtney regarding the release of that track.
To be fair I feel there's no shame in releasing a posthumous live album since it's not like you're trying to stitch together unfinished pieces of songs.
Falling Down has always pissed me off as a Peep fan. The original song (Sunlight On Your Skin) was a duet between Peep and his close friend ILoveMakonnen, and the label cut Makonnen out of the remix, replaced him with X (who Peep didn't even like) and it became Peep's biggest hit
xxxtentacion's posthomous music is not always bad according to his fans, but the sheer audacity to release a deluxe album with voice memos and recordings of him just fooling around in the studio is beyond comprehension. Grade A and juice's team have also been blueballing juice's fanbase for 3 years with an album that the fans would actually want, and which would show a different, yet very prevelent side of juice. The party never starts🥲
In my opinion a label releasing unfinished or unreleased songs as sort of a way to say “oh this is what they were working on” is fine, as long as they don’t try force together multiple different recordings and making a song that is 90% made by the record label, then a posthumous album could work for like a fundraiser for the artists funeral or smth
At least the MJ Estate finally got their heads out of their butts and removed the fake vocals off the Michael album, but they lost a lot if goodwill from fans.
That Xscape album that came out after though was a great true posthumous album sounds like something MJ would have made if he was still alive great producers great hits (But the Michael album should just be erased)
I actually like the songs on Michael (obviously aside from the ones that werent sung by him i dont even think ive listened to those) but by God the sheer fact that they had the audacity to promote songs that weren't even sung by him just makes the entire album an entire disgrace and just a piss on his grave. Michael Jackson was a perfectionist and he wouldve definitely hated it.
I think it's also a case of contractual obligations. The 3rd and ultimately posthumous Sublime album was intended to be the first of many in a new record contract.
This video specifically reminded of me of a very influential Portuguese artist who has many of his works being released posthumously but tbf it the majority of the time it was more of an homage by the artists who did it than a cashgrab by record labels like in the video. Loved the video keep up the great work!
im huge in the juice scene and used to be in the x so lemme break it down Juice WRLD - juice before he died was working on 3 projects Outsiders (3rd Studio Album), A Naruto Date in London (Love Mixtape about his GF) and a collab tape with young thug. Outsiders never released not cause it was leaked but cause the label didn’t know about it. the only people that knew about it were juice himself and his gf. The label would soon cut off his gf and juices main engineer from their inputs on lnd so it released how it did and fighting demons was meant to be “The Party Never Ends” but hbo made them scrap it as they wanted an album to release with the documentary X - as for X Ghostbusters and Arms around you were planned to release whether he died or not and skins was like 90% finished before he passed and the only song that wasn’t finished was 1 minute so they added the kanye feature as he was one of x’s biggest inspirations and the nature of Skins sounding unfinished is just cause X’s music always felt infinished as he was always known to have short songs like 17 and skins both clock in around 20 minutes but bvf and ? deluxe have no excuses and shouldn’t have ever been released
Thanks for making this video. It always pisses me off like crazy imagining an artist dying and their stuff getting ripped apart and sold, project incomplete, personal drafts, etc just ripped and labeled as done and sold. I've avoided any new juice wrld that isn't leaks because to hell with paying for his estate to auction off his 'diary' page by page, it's messed up and proof most only see you as dollar signs no matter what they say.
can we talk about elliott smith’s from a basement on the hill? a record filled with some of his best tracks and widely praised yet his estate and the label went against his wishes as to which songs could be used and in what order, not to mention remixing all of them (for someone like elliott who did a lot of his own production that definitely feels like an insult).
Seeing a posthumous rapper with a featuring BTS or Blink-182, is insanely bizarre and just plain frustrating and sad. No hate to these artists who are featured on this posthumous album though but imagine your own track got a bizarre feature with someone that is far from your own thing.
People knew about MJ’s shady stuff a long time before he died. And he wasn’t really regarded that high just before he died. Then when he died, he instantly received love from everyone again. At least that’s how I remember it.
@mat69420 He was still big but not really with young people. I was a teenager when he died and, while everyone my age knew of him and could name a few of his biggest songs, I don't feel like his core fanbase at the time were the youth. His primary fanbase were people born from like 1965-1980 who were young during his peak in the early 80s to the mid 90s.
@@volodymyrbilyk555yeah he was pretty naive, I guess that was one of his weaknesses, it’s unfortunate he realized that too late people were trying to leech off of him
The industry is so soulless but it becomes increasingly hard to go indie nowadays, which means it’s either you can have a (maybe) big important career, but the industry will treat you like a puppet and milk you dry after you die OR you can not get exploited, but it’ll almost impossible to break out to a big hit.
honestly it's a lot easier now to go indie, but it's just as hard (if not harder) to make a career off of music without a label or management (ex. a rapper Nettspend with over 500k monthly listeners has had countless songs DMCA striked falsely on Spotify)
@@SLATOLOGY223 it definitely doesn't fit the demographic of this guy's videos but it's the best case i can think of when it comes to why independent artists struggle w blowing up and maintaining that, labels simply have leverage and tools that independent artists dont
imo George Harrison is a really good example of an artists posthumous legacy, since after his death he basically left instructions on how to complete Brainwashed, his final album, and since then we've gotten two compilation albums (one just has a bunch of demos of already released songs and one was made for a documentary) a few boxsets and an anniversary edition of his All Things Must Pass album
I think the Look at me Album by X is the only good "posthumous" album since it's basically officially having the licenses of his early Soundcloud era songs, but now available to be streamed on Apple Music & Spotify; since it released with the documentary of him on Hulu in 2022
JuiceWRLD's label has also re-released his debut album 2 or 3 times under idiotic pretenses, adding 1 or 2 tracks each time. One time they even added Lucid Dreams remix with Lil Uzi just cause it had leaked the day before and they couldn't fanthom losing that piece of the pie.
I had a copy of it. Found it in a free bin. Read through it out of morbid curiosity... if he knew what was published he'd be spinning in his grave. There is no justifying the release of a mentally-unwell man's private and often intrusive thoughts, unless it's genuinely for some kind of psychological research, and even then it would still be sketchy as hell. I burned it shortly after.
@@jackpijjin4088 My parents got it for me one christmas because they knew i liked nirvana… and after flipping through it i just had a feeling its not something anyone should be reading , and thought about how i would feel if my old journals were sold at barnes and noble Lol
In minor defence of Fighting Demon's feature choices: Juice WRLD did in fact collab with BTS a few months before his passing, and that's pretty much it. That album is still a mess tho
Music is like any other product like a chair or corn. It doesnt matter if the maker is dead for it to be sold so long as people buy them. If customers gave 2 shits and didnt buy them then they wouldnt be aold.
Okay here is the thing behind juices album, his producer himself said that juice never finished outsiders and that all there was, was just 4 finished tracks with the rest being ideas, and as for the 26 tracks that leaked, supposedly this dude named googly (huge name in juice comm) had figured out they were gonna release the album, and leaked all songs off the album. Now the label saw this and had to push for the release like days after lnd leaked, they took some tracks off and added like 2 unheards, and also all the songs on lnd were finished, juice has around 3k finished songs or more in total, but there is a sloppy summary.
@liamanthonyfr no it's fine, stuff like this took awhile for us to get too, there was a strong time where juices group just didn't communicate with us.
Queen's Made in Heaven album is probably one of the few examples of a posthumous album done right. It was an effort that was contributed to by the entire band, including Freddie, and was made with the intent of being released posthumously
You should’ve mentioned the Stuart Sutcliffe “recording” of “Love Me Tender” released by his family in I believe 2011 which was touted as the only audio of Stuart Sutcliffe’s voice to ever exist. The song is basically universally agreed to be a hoax. The song was probably a recording of The Boston Show Band released like 5 or so years after Stuart’s untimely death. What a way to honor an artist who died more than a month before his 22nd birthday
To this day I will never forgive Bad Boy and P. Diddy for making those posthumous Biggie albums that completely reused his older verses. It’s extremely lazy and just screams cash grab
I honestly think Sublime’s release should count, the lead singer and guitarist isn’t even there, and his son who replaced him doesn’t even really seem to care about the music.
The fact that juice was really vocal about his next album being about hype and not sad stuff and even having the name for it being “Outsiders”. It really sucks that his label are using his death as a business opportunity to delve into everyone’s perspective of him and release music he didn’t even want to drop at the time of his death. He wasnt a corny emo drug addicted song artist, he was just a normal kid who fell into drugs because of his success at a young age and also the people around him such as his girlfriend literally being a drug dealer
Nah RIOT was actually an old song by X released on soundcloud before he died, but was put on streaming platforms after the fact (I guess you could say the promotion for the re-release was weird tho)
15:21 most of his songs r finished and LND got hella edits from fans to make it better so i dont think u can count it as greedy as Sony like label, how ever the FD album was only made to go with the documentary
Ngl a friend put on one minute from one of Xs posthumous albums and I had a moment of enjoyment from it until it ended abruptly and thought it a lazy track at literally one minute. Now I know why…
man, I hope the posthumous Sophie record is going to be good. they've already done it with Dilla, turning his previously perfect discography into one big joke. I wouldn't stand it if they did this exact thing to her
i think circles was an ethically released posthumous album because there was heavy family involvement and promotion, but also that the story and track list of the album was there. mac had planned it as the secondary part to swimming, so there is clear intent about what he wanted. the issue with a lot of posthumous albums is that it’s just a bunch of half finished demos and beats thrown together with no story or concept whatsoever.
I can't listen to Tupac, because some of his family members were involved in the murder of a close family friend. It sucks because I always hear how good he is, but I just. Can't listen to him. It upsets my family who knew the man.
To be clear on Michael Jackson's case, the songs are sung by him, there are just three which aren't. "Keep Your Head Up", "Monster" which features 50 Cent (that's sad) and "Breaking News". Apart from that, the rest of the album is sung by Michael. And another fun fact is that streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, and other services have since removed those three tracks off the album! Making it a fair 7-track album with a runtime of approx 27 minutes. (I'm not sure if they are also re-issuing CDs and vinyl pressings without those three songs!)
@@AprilSamurai because he was featured on a song which is not sung by Michael and a song with a bad reputation Had they used him on another one, I think 50 would’ve had more Justice
Both John Lennon and George Harrison had posthumous releases. John's (Milk and Honey) was essentially songs left over from the making of his previous record plus a bunch of new Yoko songs. It's not quite as good as Double Fantasy (the final album released in his lifetime). George's posthumous album was mostly finished before he died. At the time of his death, he had enough material for 3 albums in various stages of completion and so his estate, along with producer Jeff Lynne went through and compiled an album, finishing a few things off, adding string sections, things like that. The result was Brainwashed, it's a pretty good album but it's not the album that George wanted. George had stated that although he had worked with Jeff in the past, he didn't want him producing this album as he wanted it to be more raw and less polished. The result is somewhere in between and it doesn't always work but some of it is amazing. There is still another 2 albums worth of material that has been unheard outside of the Harrison estate though, but there doesn't seem to be any plans to do anything with that stuff which is a shame. I would like to see what George's son, Dhani, would do with some of those recordings as he's a talented musician and producer in his own right. Hendrix has more posthumous albums than albums that were released during his lifetime. Some were finished by his producer, Eddie Kramer, as well as musicians that he worked with on a regular basis, so they were able to take Hendrix's unfinished recordings (which he did leave a lot of) and make records that were decent enough. Not as good as his best work, obviously, but at least it was a project of love from the people who knew him best. Then, they started bringing in producers and musicians who never even met the man and so it lost something, plus they were running out of material and starting to recycle things that had already been released. I think by this point, every last scrap of recording that Hendrix did has been released. I think that as long as the aim is to make an album that the artist would have been happy with had they still been alive, then a posthumous album can be great...but more often than not, it's just a cash grab by greedy record labels.
This isn't exactly a posthumous record, as Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are still alive, but I'm a big fan of the album Everyday Chemistry. A really well-produced mashup album released as a free download in 2009, Everyday Chemistry combines the Beatles' solo work into a potential new Beatles album, and has the fun meta-narrative of the uploader stealing a tape from an alternate universe/timeline where the Beatles never broke up. Everyday Chemistry is an extremely creative fan tribute made out of love for the Beatles, converting their solo work into a vision of what could have been if they'd stayed together, and I very much approve.
Still a great video as usual, but kind of shocked you didn't mention Elliott Smith's "From A Basement on a Hill". The wildly complex situation regarding the recording of that album seems to be weirdly absent from a lot of discussions of Elliott's music (maybe because a lot of the discussion seems to come from the more conspiratorial side of Elliott's current fanbase). Before Elliott's suicide, his mental and emotional state was in a state of constant and very unhealthy flux, due to excessive use of drugs. One of the only common professional threads throughout the final few years of his life was the producer and engineer, David McConnell. The final release of the album relegated him to 'additional engineer', despite him being the one that helped Elliott record most (if not all) of the material that ended up on that record. From what I can gather, Elliott's estate basically tried to write him out of Elliott's legacy entirely, at least before his story came out awhile down the line. He wasn't payed for his time working with Elliott, nor offered a spot on the team working to create the final product that received so much acclaim. It's not exactly obvious from multiple accounts if McConnell was an enabler who pushed Elliott closer to the edge before their professional relationship ended, or if he was someone caught in a web that had grown far too large and far too complex to cleanly remove himself from. Elliott's family seems to favor the former, while other people around the Portland scene seem to lean towards the latter. Regardless, finding out about the entire situation really pushed me away from listening to the one and only, "true-blue" posthumous, non compilation record of Elliott's. It just doesn't seem like a proper exhibition of his artistic intent anymore. A very dedicated Elliott fan attempted to recreate the album from the remaining mixes, and a wildly exhaustive search for a proper tracklisting to coincide with the 20th anniversary of "Basement"'s release, and that seems much closer to what Elliott intended. Closer to Mac's "Circles" rather than any posthumous X or Juice record.
It may be a little bias from my part since they're my favorite band, but imo Queen's album "Made In Heaven" is a amazing example of how to pay respect for a artist. Before Freddie Mercury's death, he asked to record as many stuff as he could so the band could use them in finished songs after he died, it took 4 years for them to make the album, and it's clear how much care went while making it since they kept absolute respect with what they had, s great example imo is "A Winter's Tale", the last song ever written by Freddie and the video they made for it has his hand-written lyrics in screen I think that the only reason the posthumous album ended up being a great final chapter for Queen was that the ones in control of everything were the Queen members themselfs, which allowed them to actually make the album Freddie deserved
Kinda unrelated, but the song at 9:07 is “Girl A” by PowaPowaP/siinamota, but it’s a remix of it. His music is very good!!! I recommend “City Lights”, “Hello Strobe”, and “Goodbye Everyone” by him too :).
see now i will just write an album and gatekeep it for when i die and tell whatever person is in charge of my distribution post death that "this album is for when i die... i expect this to be the only thing you release and nothing else"
I'm surprised you didn't bring up Chester Bennington and the 2 posthumous songs that got dropped last year, cuz I feel like that's just the start of something much worse coming
I think nujabes had a pretty good posthumous release, uyama hiroto and other friends of nujabes worked on the album and they only released one album which in my opinion is a pretty good project.
an amazing posthumous album is 98.12.28 by fishmans, a live album of their final show together. not only does it show the state of the band and how things were closing up with members leaving, it also showed a lot of the sadness within shinji sato (the main man of the band), its an absolute beautiful goodbye album to wrap up the bands history. its a very bittersweet album, its so amazing in every aspect but you cant help but feel sad at moments like yurameki in the air, or the final moment in long season shinji sato sadly passed away 3 months later after this show which is why it strikes such a sad chord and because he was suffering with health, even during the show, requiring to take cans of oxygen constantly
1:47 marvin gaye - dream of a lifetime 4:22 honorable mentions 5:13 michael jackson - michael 8:23 jeff buckley - sketches for my sweetheart, the drunk 13:18 2pac & the notorious b.i.g 14:53 juice wrld - legends never die & fighting demons 16:24 xxxtentacion - various collabs. skins, bad vibes forever and look at me: the album
SOPHIE has exactly one album coming up after her passing 3 years ago. It's being released 3 weeks from now. Her brother took full charge of the project right after her passing; according to him, 90% of it was finished at that moment. Her engineer and closest studio confidant is engineering/producing it, and the two of them reached out to each guest artist she had already lined up to fill in the gaps from their own notes of what that artist and SOPHIE had planned for each track. SOPHIE's brother made it clear this is one and done, forever. But we're still all on alert because of just how bad posthumous albums really can be in this brazen era of exploiting dead people for profit. even i'm not very hopeful, and i'm someone that thinks her album OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES is one of the best albums ever made, cover-to-cover.
They’re not always bad, recently yes but you can’t say that joy division’s “closer” didn’t deserve release, and some of nirvana’s best music was released after Kurt’s death.
I’d say it was only a odd time to re-release it an put it up on streaming because they released it during the George Floyd riots. And imo they just did it for clout or more streams, sad if u think about it.
@@braidonwillard6202i learned everything ab this man when i was 12-14 but basically when riot originally came out on soundcloud it was because of another police brutality case and i guess it made sense for his team to do it because of a similar circumstance
A really good posthumous release cycle you could have mentioned would have been Led Zeppelin's album "Coda". It came out after their drummer, John Bonham, died and featured unreleased songs and I believe a couple new songs that were recorded before he passed. The band broke up after his death and has only reunited twice for charity reasons with one of the times the drummer they played with being John Bonham's son Jason. A thing to note with that situation is that Led Zeppelin has their own record label, Swan Song, and weren't in a position to be taken advantage of like a lot of these other artists. I personally believe that once Jimmy Pages passes a whole lot of unreleased material will come out, which will be incredibly bittersweet.
I'm happy Mac Miller's producer made possibly one of the best posthumous albums probably EVER with Circles because it had finished tracks, it was well-produced and it wasn't just a money cashgrab, it came from the heart and had soul into it, and they just left it at that, a great way to stabilize an artist's legacy, no extra albums, just at that.
You should have talked about by the time I get to phoenix it was so respectful to Groggs’ importance/legacy, and is one of my favorite albums ever as a result
Lmao color me surprised when I got on Spotify and in the homepage I get a notification saying hey check out this new Album from Jimi Hendrix. I was like damn even in the death they won’t let Jimi rest.
Now with advanced AI, I fear these record companies will use future artists voice as an company asset/property so they can use artists voice forever after their death.
No one wants to hear that when the artist is already passed away, no emotion, meaning or point behind any of the music
@canontheory unfortunately, some people act thoughtless and heartless, and do not care
some have already developed their own AI model so they can at least have some legal control over the damn thing. it's real sad and dire. musicians gotta unionize.\
Contracts going forth probably have some buried legal language about allowing it, without using the phrase "AI."
Lawyers are hard at work with companies to make up new terms of service and laws that involve art and artists, to replace them, and them being able to clone you, and your work with AI, then using that clone forever to enrich themselves and their future families etc
That's exactly the plan.
Jimi Hendrix is also another example of an artist’s legacy being milked dry by greedy executives. He only released 3 studio records in a 4 year span and yet has over 80 posthumous releases.
Yeah I’m starting to think Jimi actually works there or something
It's kinda crazy how some of them are his best work. The Cry of Love, Blues, and the full Band of Gypsy Concerts are all amazing and his stuff I come back to the most.
After that it feels incredibly disrespectful, it's cool we get to see these recordings; especially since Jimi's career was cut shortl right at a time he was drastically changing his style and branching out to insane heights. But they shouldn't be maximized as product they should just get put out there for free if anything at all.
@@randomguyontheinternet7940 I think it's different for concerts because those were recorded obviously when he was alive, that stuff is usually truly for fans only, and sometimes there's unearthed stuff that nobody knew even existed, like the 1967 Hollywood Bowl concert. It's more so for unfinished studio recordings where it gets pretty blantantly cash-grabby and gross in my opinion.
@doctorrobert1339 I think they're both interesting cases. Live albums can be really easy to slap together, but it's nice having film to look back on. Just depends on how it's released.
I'd say the first few posthumous Hendrix releases from the early '70s definitely had care put into them, since they had the benefit of being spearheaded by Hendrix's producer Eddie Kramer and Mitch Mitchell of the Experience. They're largely comprised of Jimi's rough mixes (with a few exceptions), and other than some light overdubs, they largely stick to how Jimi had left the material when he passed.
"The Cry Of Love" and "Rainbow Bridge" aren't perfect, but they still work as cohesive albums. Everything else after though definitely had some sort of meddling that those first few posthumous releases lacked.
I remember Prince saying that he didn’t want anything released after death, now anniversaries are fine I guess but a new album with new songs is going against what he wanted.
God that kinda sucks since he had literally THOUSANDS of songs left. But if anyone deserves the respect it's him.
He also said he never wanted any of his music on Spotify
and guess what the first thing they did after he died was….
That’s why they barley do it tbh I want more material but they only release songs that he did for another artist and some vault songs but I rather they actually release his projects like Dream factory or roadhouse garden
Every year his estate releases a super deluxe edition of one of his albums or an unreleased project with a bunch of unreleased songs on them and i like them for doing that but I also feel so guilty for spending my money on it because I know that Prince kept those songs in his vault for a reason. 😭
they got away with the album Welcome 2 America specifically because it was fully completed, it was just shelved.
the big boxed sets with all the Vault tracks are pushing it tho
The Michael album cover looks like a video essay thumbnail.
Man I wish Circles was brought up anywhere but the end. By far the only posthumous album that was made purely with his family and collaborator's ideals in mind and it's an amazing project as a result. His estate handled the album extremely well and I think Circles or arguably By The Time I Get To Phoenix would've fit a lot better when trying to discuss good examples of posthumous albums.
Faces too
@@tortoise3309 faces was made in 2014 dawg they just put it on streaming in 2021
@@tortoise3309 Faces isint a posthumos album it was fully made in 2014, it just got re issued in 2021 on spotify
The thing with circles was that it was basically a completed album
The Ape of Naples as well
"Made in Heaven" by Queen thankfully was a posthumous album done ethically. After finishing up Innuendo, Freddie Mercury basically sung as much of the vocals for the next album as he could and instructed the rest of the band to finish it up after he dies. Thankfully, we haven't gotten any posthumous Freddie Mercury releases after that (to my knowledge).
what about "face it alone", the unreleased song from the miracle sessions?
@@fknslayerFace it alone and Let me in your heart again are both good though.
They also remade a couple of Freddie's solo songs and put a dank ambient piece at the end because they were into lustmord back then
Alright to be fair, with 2pac's Makaveli album and Biggie's Life After Death album, they're barely posthumous because they were fully finished when they died.
The music industry put out a lot of posthumous Tupac albums featuring collaborations with other artists in the 2000s. Many of these projects were put together by Interscope Records after Tupac's death, despite the fact that he had already completed a lot of material. Unfortunately, instead of focusing on the quality of his original work, Interscope seemed more interested in maximizing profit. This often led to disjointed releases, like "Pac's Life," which many fans felt were not true to Tupac's vision and fueled speculation about his status.
@@C12omega Yeah obviously most of his posthumous albums suck and are uncompleted, I'm just saying Makaveli was fully finished when he died, and he was even promoting it.
Same with Skins by X. The only slapped in song there is One Minute with Ye but even that felt okay. That album was basically finished.
@@Justme-c9k no, it was 3 weeks after
@@furynvmI did not believe you when I first read that, but I did some research, turns out you’re right. Apparently X himself said “I want this album to be, like, a minute long”, which is crazy to me because this whole time I genuinely thought songs like “I don’t let go” and “whoa” were also unfinished
What's most crazy is that "the 3 fake songs" from MICHAEL were deleted from every platforms and even from the physical copies few years ago.
This shouldn’t have been a project in the first place
Sony was mad shady for that
@@redcr33perproductions I mean, they could do this as a "last goodbye", MAYBE. But def without the fake vocals 😅
I think the single most respectful example of posthumous music was when Linkin Park released Lost. It was a singular song, that was completely finished, and was released on the anniversery of Meteora
Edit: I made this take before I heard about the other stuff orbiting the band, thats mb. This aged like milk.
unfortunately .. the ai music video
@@snowerra5881an AI plastered with various Linkin Park footages. Meteora 20th was a good idea but damn, why they use AI for celebration.
@@qhairullahrusyaidyApparently it was animated and they just used AI to replicate the art style for the footage they used. Not a fan of the AI aspect, but the non AI/animated parts was pretty nice ngl
@@qhairullahrusyaidy I always saw the AI usage as an extension of their Hybrid Theory/Reanimation/Meteora art direction. They've always been very heavily inspired by anime as well as mixing the grungy nu metal aesthetic with the mechanical nature of technology (i mean look at Breaking the Habit ffs, it's literally an AMV), so it made sense to expand on it via AI. Also Chester kinda is a sort of "ghost in the machine" these days with how much his legacy carries on.
@@snowerra5881i think mike shinoda is with that stuff though, he promoted nfts on his lives often
10:51 "2010, that was a whole 15 years ago"
as someone born in the 2000s, this hurt my soul.
I’m glad it’s not just me
same dude 😔
as someone born in 2010 i laugh at your pain
It wasn't 15 years ago it was 14 years ago
The math ain’t mathing.
Mac millers family releasing one of if not the best posthumous album ever and a highlight of his career because they’re built like that
i think nirvana after cobain's death is an interesting case as well cuz unplugged came out after his death but it's highly regarded as one of the best live albums of all time. there's also "you know you're right" which resulted in a legal battle between dave and krist and courtney regarding the release of that track.
To be fair I feel there's no shame in releasing a posthumous live album since it's not like you're trying to stitch together unfinished pieces of songs.
I also liked Montage of Heck and With the Lights Out boxset. Both are pretty good compilations of old demos and such
Those were created before his death but released after his death.
Falling down by lil peep and X is probably the worst offered of this, a double posthumous track.
Falling Down has always pissed me off as a Peep fan. The original song (Sunlight On Your Skin) was a duet between Peep and his close friend ILoveMakonnen, and the label cut Makonnen out of the remix, replaced him with X (who Peep didn't even like) and it became Peep's biggest hit
Yeah I hear how scummy that song is but damn…I do like it sadly and I feel bad for it
@@JacobDuby Came here to say the same thing. It always annoyed me and unfortunately it's one of Peep's biggest songs
Song bangs but it's a bad story behind it
As an X fan so disrespectful cuz the two didnt like eachother
xxxtentacion's posthomous music is not always bad according to his fans, but the sheer audacity to release a deluxe album with voice memos and recordings of him just fooling around in the studio is beyond comprehension. Grade A and juice's team have also been blueballing juice's fanbase for 3 years with an album that the fans would actually want, and which would show a different, yet very prevelent side of juice. The party never starts🥲
Unrelated but loving the Craig pfp
I don’t mind the voice memos and all that. Shows the bts of different songs
homous
In my opinion a label releasing unfinished or unreleased songs as sort of a way to say “oh this is what they were working on” is fine, as long as they don’t try force together multiple different recordings and making a song that is 90% made by the record label, then a posthumous album could work for like a fundraiser for the artists funeral or smth
His new albums after death sucked ahs. They were only a select few that sounded finished and good.
At least the MJ Estate finally got their heads out of their butts and removed the fake vocals off the Michael album, but they lost a lot if goodwill from fans.
MJ Estates fumbled their own empire by selling their rights back to Sony Music Group
"They're like leeches."
- Michael Jackson
That Xscape album that came out after though was a great true posthumous album sounds like something MJ would have made if he was still alive great producers great hits (But the Michael album should just be erased)
I actually like the songs on Michael (obviously aside from the ones that werent sung by him i dont even think ive listened to those) but by God the sheer fact that they had the audacity to promote songs that weren't even sung by him just makes the entire album an entire disgrace and just a piss on his grave. Michael Jackson was a perfectionist and he wouldve definitely hated it.
Too bad none of them had Will I Am colabs and late 00s Teddy Riley sessions.
Jeff Buckley’s mom is the absolute goat for that
Thank you Mary Guibert, she also got Chris Cornell to help with the album aswell because Jeff and Chris were good friends.
just praying that sophie's posthumous album is gonna be good
LITERALLY WHAT I WAS GONNA SAYYY
i’ve heard that it was mostly finished before she died, so it should be fine
so far so good tho!
from what i've heard her brother is the one managing the project
@@turkeykorvid her brother, who may I add, was sophie’s creative partner and mixed and mastered all of sophies songs
It’s sad what happened to Sublime because after Bradley died they just kept releasing the same songs over and over again but in different EPs
no wonder the Spotify is so crowded. And technically Sublime with Rome counts as a different project
@@AleTitan yeah
@@wahtdookielabel be money hungry and wanted to make extra profits
@@AleTitanliterally it’s like 3 studio albums 25 compilation albums and 10 eps😭
I think it's also a case of contractual obligations. The 3rd and ultimately posthumous Sublime album was intended to be the first of many in a new record contract.
This video specifically reminded of me of a very influential Portuguese artist who has many of his works being released posthumously but tbf it the majority of the time it was more of an homage by the artists who did it than a cashgrab by record labels like in the video. Loved the video keep up the great work!
by chance, are you referring to Renato Russo?
@@solysteri I was talking about António Variações
@@solysteri he's Brazilian
I checked MJ last album thinking it was his last work before he died and I just didn’t like it… now I know why… this just be crazy
im huge in the juice scene and used to be in the x so lemme break it down
Juice WRLD - juice before he died was working on 3 projects Outsiders (3rd Studio Album), A Naruto Date in London (Love Mixtape about his GF) and a collab tape with young thug. Outsiders never released not cause it was leaked but cause the label didn’t know about it. the only people that knew about it were juice himself and his gf. The label would soon cut off his gf and juices main engineer from their inputs on lnd so it released how it did and fighting demons was meant to be “The Party Never Ends” but hbo made them scrap it as they wanted an album to release with the documentary
X - as for X Ghostbusters and Arms around you were planned to release whether he died or not and skins was like 90% finished before he passed and the only song that wasn’t finished was 1 minute so they added the kanye feature as he was one of x’s biggest inspirations and the nature of Skins sounding unfinished is just cause X’s music always felt infinished as he was always known to have short songs like 17 and skins both clock in around 20 minutes but bvf and ? deluxe have no excuses and shouldn’t have ever been released
Thanks for making this video. It always pisses me off like crazy imagining an artist dying and their stuff getting ripped apart and sold, project incomplete, personal drafts, etc just ripped and labeled as done and sold. I've avoided any new juice wrld that isn't leaks because to hell with paying for his estate to auction off his 'diary' page by page, it's messed up and proof most only see you as dollar signs no matter what they say.
can we talk about elliott smith’s from a basement on the hill? a record filled with some of his best tracks and widely praised yet his estate and the label went against his wishes as to which songs could be used and in what order, not to mention remixing all of them (for someone like elliott who did a lot of his own production that definitely feels like an insult).
Happy to see Elliott Smith mentioned ❤
Seeing a posthumous rapper with a featuring BTS or Blink-182, is insanely bizarre and just plain frustrating and sad. No hate to these artists who are featured on this posthumous album though but imagine your own track got a bizarre feature with someone that is far from your own thing.
Juice had already released a song with BTS before he died
They both collabed with the artists before???
Bro they made an xxxtentacion nft collection 💀
You know a lot of modern rappers like blink-182 right?
he micheal jackson thing is 10x worse than i thought it was my god thats evil
i hope they dont do this to doom
People knew about MJ’s shady stuff a long time before he died. And he wasn’t really regarded that high just before he died. Then when he died, he instantly received love from everyone again. At least that’s how I remember it.
He was declared innocent in the 2005 trial and when he announced his this is it comeback tour he broke the record for fastest sold out tickets.
@mat69420 He was still big but not really with young people. I was a teenager when he died and, while everyone my age knew of him and could name a few of his biggest songs, I don't feel like his core fanbase at the time were the youth. His primary fanbase were people born from like 1965-1980 who were young during his peak in the early 80s to the mid 90s.
@@jonathanhay3212 you're right, he hadn't released an album in 8 years and hadn't gone touring in over 12 years.
MJ's biggest mistake was to settle out of court back in 93 it started a shitshow that just can't stop
@@volodymyrbilyk555yeah he was pretty naive, I guess that was one of his weaknesses, it’s unfortunate he realized that too late people were trying to leech off of him
At this point they can just create AI models of these artists and make infinite amout of posthumous albums.
The industry is so soulless but it becomes increasingly hard to go indie nowadays, which means it’s either you can have a (maybe) big important career, but the industry will treat you like a puppet and milk you dry after you die OR you can not get exploited, but it’ll almost impossible to break out to a big hit.
it's hard to go indie still but don't say it's getting harder cause it was pretty much impossible before the internet
honestly it's a lot easier now to go indie, but it's just as hard (if not harder) to make a career off of music without a label or management (ex. a rapper Nettspend with over 500k monthly listeners has had countless songs DMCA striked falsely on Spotify)
@@pemdidn’t expect nettspend to be mentioned in a video like this lolll
@@SLATOLOGY223 it definitely doesn't fit the demographic of this guy's videos but it's the best case i can think of when it comes to why independent artists struggle w blowing up and maintaining that, labels simply have leverage and tools that independent artists dont
Exactly...this is why I kinda lost hope in humanity
imo George Harrison is a really good example of an artists posthumous legacy, since after his death he basically left instructions on how to complete Brainwashed, his final album, and since then we've gotten two compilation albums (one just has a bunch of demos of already released songs and one was made for a documentary) a few boxsets and an anniversary edition of his All Things Must Pass album
I think the Look at me Album by X is the only good "posthumous" album since it's basically officially having the licenses of his early Soundcloud era songs, but now available to be streamed on Apple Music & Spotify; since it released with the documentary of him on Hulu in 2022
It really isn’t an album
It’s just a bunch of x songs he already had combined and bundled as an album
Nothing new
i know that bad vibes forever is a bad album but i fucking love its all fading to black
such a banger
I like that one too honestly
And bad vibes forever off of the album is also good
But just listen to the album, what are these songs 😭
These are the worst songs he ever made
JuiceWRLD's label has also re-released his debut album 2 or 3 times under idiotic pretenses, adding 1 or 2 tracks each time. One time they even added Lucid Dreams remix with Lil Uzi just cause it had leaked the day before and they couldn't fanthom losing that piece of the pie.
Let’s talk about how they released kurt cobains personal diary for a profit!! I have always thought that is so messed up.
I had a copy of it. Found it in a free bin.
Read through it out of morbid curiosity... if he knew what was published he'd be spinning in his grave.
There is no justifying the release of a mentally-unwell man's private and often intrusive thoughts, unless it's genuinely for some kind of psychological research, and even then it would still be sketchy as hell.
I burned it shortly after.
@@jackpijjin4088 My parents got it for me one christmas because they knew i liked nirvana… and after flipping through it i just had a feeling its not something anyone should be reading , and thought about how i would feel if my old journals were sold at barnes and noble Lol
the 2010s era of hiphop is sadly something we will never experience again
Same for the 2020s
@@b2meb2meb2me nah never
@@blockwearingman Why? Some of the most exciting artists in a long time have been releasing stuff through the year
@@b2meb2meb2me mostly underground rappers the mainstream stuff don't really hit for me i can see why people like it though
In minor defence of Fighting Demon's feature choices: Juice WRLD did in fact collab with BTS a few months before his passing, and that's pretty much it. That album is still a mess tho
Music is like any other product like a chair or corn. It doesnt matter if the maker is dead for it to be sold so long as people buy them. If customers gave 2 shits and didnt buy them then they wouldnt be aold.
yeah fr
if the posthumous SOPHIE album is bad I will be throwing an egg at an amazon warehouse
Michael Jackson faced allegations all through the 90s and 00s. So you kinda missed the mark on that one.
Okay here is the thing behind juices album, his producer himself said that juice never finished outsiders and that all there was, was just 4 finished tracks with the rest being ideas, and as for the 26 tracks that leaked, supposedly this dude named googly (huge name in juice comm) had figured out they were gonna release the album, and leaked all songs off the album. Now the label saw this and had to push for the release like days after lnd leaked, they took some tracks off and added like 2 unheards, and also all the songs on lnd were finished, juice has around 3k finished songs or more in total, but there is a sloppy summary.
And as for fighting demons, we don't know what they were cooking with it😭
now i'm sad I didn't do more research on The Outsiders before writing that section, I guess lesson learned
@liamanthonyfr no it's fine, stuff like this took awhile for us to get too, there was a strong time where juices group just didn't communicate with us.
you said the Lil Wayne verse was offensive and at first i was like, "awh what, how bad could it possibly be"
but nah bro that shit is WILD LMAO
week gets 1000x better when liam uploads!
Queen's Made in Heaven album is probably one of the few examples of a posthumous album done right. It was an effort that was contributed to by the entire band, including Freddie, and was made with the intent of being released posthumously
You should’ve mentioned the Stuart Sutcliffe “recording” of “Love Me Tender” released by his family in I believe 2011 which was touted as the only audio of Stuart Sutcliffe’s voice to ever exist. The song is basically universally agreed to be a hoax. The song was probably a recording of The Boston Show Band released like 5 or so years after Stuart’s untimely death. What a way to honor an artist who died more than a month before his 22nd birthday
5:35 MJ has had accusations since the 90s
I know right. 😂
And he was declared non guilty in the trial.
Crazy thing is, it was by one of the writers behind Robin Hood Man in Tights
You skipped over by far the worst one - ? deluxe edition. Just look through the tracklist it's genuinely unbelievable
Jah Plays Drums is insane asf icl
Have have they managed to add almost an hour and a half of almost completely fluff
Real zeenoh
And look at me the album 😭
Really? Rereleasing hit songs and adding 3 unfinished ‘new’ songs? Such an obvious cash grab
Jah On Drums is his best song though ⁉️⁉️⁉️
To this day I will never forgive Bad Boy and P. Diddy for making those posthumous Biggie albums that completely reused his older verses. It’s extremely lazy and just screams cash grab
I think that might be the least bad thing P. Diddy has done…
@@noahadams2524 touché
god the sony records logo is so ugly
I honestly think Sublime’s release should count, the lead singer and guitarist isn’t even there, and his son who replaced him doesn’t even really seem to care about the music.
The only channel where I drop a like before I even full screen the video
I can't even finish this video. Hearing about this stuff genuinely disgusts me. I will stay Independent forever
The fact that juice was really vocal about his next album being about hype and not sad stuff and even having the name for it being “Outsiders”. It really sucks that his label are using his death as a business opportunity to delve into everyone’s perspective of him and release music he didn’t even want to drop at the time of his death. He wasnt a corny emo drug addicted song artist, he was just a normal kid who fell into drugs because of his success at a young age and also the people around him such as his girlfriend literally being a drug dealer
You’re so cool dude, keep the videos coming! 💜
Sad reality of it all
Nah RIOT was actually an old song by X released on soundcloud before he died, but was put on streaming platforms after the fact (I guess you could say the promotion for the re-release was weird tho)
The goat returns
Yo I love your videos and you are so underrated keep doing what you’re doing man❤
15:21 most of his songs r finished and LND got hella edits from fans to make it better so i dont think u can count it as greedy as Sony like label, how ever the FD album was only made to go with the documentary
Ngl a friend put on one minute from one of Xs posthumous albums and I had a moment of enjoyment from it until it ended abruptly and thought it a lazy track at literally one minute. Now I know why…
Hey, man. Just found your channel yesterday and I'm loving the videos. Keep up the great work.
13:38 to be fair this album was actually planned to be released no unfinished stuff there
Another hood classic video
man, I hope the posthumous Sophie record is going to be good. they've already done it with Dilla, turning his previously perfect discography into one big joke. I wouldn't stand it if they did this exact thing to her
The Big Picture by Big L was probably the best posthumous album I've ever heard and Life After Death is a dope album
Six dogs is a good post album cause it was in the works and from his family too like Mac miller
Love your stuff love all your videos keep it up
With how much money the industry makes of off these deaths, I can't help but wonder if they're all entirely natural
i think circles was an ethically released posthumous album because there was heavy family involvement and promotion, but also that the story and track list of the album was there. mac had planned it as the secondary part to swimming, so there is clear intent about what he wanted. the issue with a lot of posthumous albums is that it’s just a bunch of half finished demos and beats thrown together with no story or concept whatsoever.
I can't listen to Tupac, because some of his family members were involved in the murder of a close family friend. It sucks because I always hear how good he is, but I just. Can't listen to him. It upsets my family who knew the man.
To be clear on Michael Jackson's case, the songs are sung by him, there are just three which aren't. "Keep Your Head Up", "Monster" which features 50 Cent (that's sad) and "Breaking News". Apart from that, the rest of the album is sung by Michael. And another fun fact is that streaming services such as Apple Music, Spotify, and other services have since removed those three tracks off the album! Making it a fair 7-track album with a runtime of approx 27 minutes. (I'm not sure if they are also re-issuing CDs and vinyl pressings without those three songs!)
Why’s having 50 sad Michael loved 50
@@AprilSamurai because he was featured on a song which is not sung by Michael and a song with a bad reputation
Had they used him on another one, I think 50 would’ve had more Justice
Both John Lennon and George Harrison had posthumous releases. John's (Milk and Honey) was essentially songs left over from the making of his previous record plus a bunch of new Yoko songs. It's not quite as good as Double Fantasy (the final album released in his lifetime). George's posthumous album was mostly finished before he died. At the time of his death, he had enough material for 3 albums in various stages of completion and so his estate, along with producer Jeff Lynne went through and compiled an album, finishing a few things off, adding string sections, things like that. The result was Brainwashed, it's a pretty good album but it's not the album that George wanted. George had stated that although he had worked with Jeff in the past, he didn't want him producing this album as he wanted it to be more raw and less polished. The result is somewhere in between and it doesn't always work but some of it is amazing. There is still another 2 albums worth of material that has been unheard outside of the Harrison estate though, but there doesn't seem to be any plans to do anything with that stuff which is a shame. I would like to see what George's son, Dhani, would do with some of those recordings as he's a talented musician and producer in his own right.
Hendrix has more posthumous albums than albums that were released during his lifetime. Some were finished by his producer, Eddie Kramer, as well as musicians that he worked with on a regular basis, so they were able to take Hendrix's unfinished recordings (which he did leave a lot of) and make records that were decent enough. Not as good as his best work, obviously, but at least it was a project of love from the people who knew him best. Then, they started bringing in producers and musicians who never even met the man and so it lost something, plus they were running out of material and starting to recycle things that had already been released. I think by this point, every last scrap of recording that Hendrix did has been released.
I think that as long as the aim is to make an album that the artist would have been happy with had they still been alive, then a posthumous album can be great...but more often than not, it's just a cash grab by greedy record labels.
This isn't exactly a posthumous record, as Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr are still alive, but I'm a big fan of the album Everyday Chemistry. A really well-produced mashup album released as a free download in 2009, Everyday Chemistry combines the Beatles' solo work into a potential new Beatles album, and has the fun meta-narrative of the uploader stealing a tape from an alternate universe/timeline where the Beatles never broke up. Everyday Chemistry is an extremely creative fan tribute made out of love for the Beatles, converting their solo work into a vision of what could have been if they'd stayed together, and I very much approve.
Still a great video as usual, but kind of shocked you didn't mention Elliott Smith's "From A Basement on a Hill". The wildly complex situation regarding the recording of that album seems to be weirdly absent from a lot of discussions of Elliott's music (maybe because a lot of the discussion seems to come from the more conspiratorial side of Elliott's current fanbase).
Before Elliott's suicide, his mental and emotional state was in a state of constant and very unhealthy flux, due to excessive use of drugs. One of the only common professional threads throughout the final few years of his life was the producer and engineer, David McConnell. The final release of the album relegated him to 'additional engineer', despite him being the one that helped Elliott record most (if not all) of the material that ended up on that record. From what I can gather, Elliott's estate basically tried to write him out of Elliott's legacy entirely, at least before his story came out awhile down the line. He wasn't payed for his time working with Elliott, nor offered a spot on the team working to create the final product that received so much acclaim. It's not exactly obvious from multiple accounts if McConnell was an enabler who pushed Elliott closer to the edge before their professional relationship ended, or if he was someone caught in a web that had grown far too large and far too complex to cleanly remove himself from. Elliott's family seems to favor the former, while other people around the Portland scene seem to lean towards the latter.
Regardless, finding out about the entire situation really pushed me away from listening to the one and only, "true-blue" posthumous, non compilation record of Elliott's. It just doesn't seem like a proper exhibition of his artistic intent anymore. A very dedicated Elliott fan attempted to recreate the album from the remaining mixes, and a wildly exhaustive search for a proper tracklisting to coincide with the 20th anniversary of "Basement"'s release, and that seems much closer to what Elliott intended. Closer to Mac's "Circles" rather than any posthumous X or Juice record.
wow that’s one of my favorite albums, i had no idea it was posthumous
Yapping
It may be a little bias from my part since they're my favorite band, but imo Queen's album "Made In Heaven" is a amazing example of how to pay respect for a artist. Before Freddie Mercury's death, he asked to record as many stuff as he could so the band could use them in finished songs after he died, it took 4 years for them to make the album, and it's clear how much care went while making it since they kept absolute respect with what they had, s great example imo is "A Winter's Tale", the last song ever written by Freddie and the video they made for it has his hand-written lyrics in screen
I think that the only reason the posthumous album ended up being a great final chapter for Queen was that the ones in control of everything were the Queen members themselfs, which allowed them to actually make the album Freddie deserved
Kinda unrelated, but the song at 9:07 is “Girl A” by PowaPowaP/siinamota, but it’s a remix of it. His music is very good!!! I recommend “City Lights”, “Hello Strobe”, and “Goodbye Everyone” by him too :).
see now i will just write an album and gatekeep it for when i die and tell whatever person is in charge of my distribution post death that "this album is for when i die... i expect this to be the only thing you release and nothing else"
How do you not have 1 million subscribers? you are really great at this
I'm surprised you didn't bring up Chester Bennington and the 2 posthumous songs that got dropped last year, cuz I feel like that's just the start of something much worse coming
I think nujabes had a pretty good posthumous release, uyama hiroto and other friends of nujabes worked on the album and they only released one album which in my opinion is a pretty good project.
an amazing posthumous album is 98.12.28 by fishmans, a live album of their final show together. not only does it show the state of the band and how things were closing up with members leaving, it also showed a lot of the sadness within shinji sato (the main man of the band), its an absolute beautiful goodbye album to wrap up the bands history. its a very bittersweet album, its so amazing in every aspect but you cant help but feel sad at moments like yurameki in the air, or the final moment in long season
shinji sato sadly passed away 3 months later after this show which is why it strikes such a sad chord and because he was suffering with health, even during the show, requiring to take cans of oxygen constantly
"This isn't 1984"
Well actually...
1:47 marvin gaye - dream of a lifetime
4:22 honorable mentions
5:13 michael jackson - michael
8:23 jeff buckley - sketches for my sweetheart, the drunk
13:18 2pac & the notorious b.i.g
14:53 juice wrld - legends never die & fighting demons
16:24 xxxtentacion - various collabs. skins, bad vibes forever and look at me: the album
SOPHIE has exactly one album coming up after her passing 3 years ago. It's being released 3 weeks from now. Her brother took full charge of the project right after her passing; according to him, 90% of it was finished at that moment. Her engineer and closest studio confidant is engineering/producing it, and the two of them reached out to each guest artist she had already lined up to fill in the gaps from their own notes of what that artist and SOPHIE had planned for each track. SOPHIE's brother made it clear this is one and done, forever. But we're still all on alert because of just how bad posthumous albums really can be in this brazen era of exploiting dead people for profit. even i'm not very hopeful, and i'm someone that thinks her album OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES is one of the best albums ever made, cover-to-cover.
5:38 MJ Innocent
No shit Sherlock but there wasn’t a controversy over Micheal Jackson back when he died.
@@staringcorgi6475Wow, no need to be a douchebag about it.
Circles is a dope album...
Chet baker drops an album like every month and he’s been dead almost 40 years
And now they have AI.... xD brace yourselves
They’re not always bad, recently yes but you can’t say that joy division’s “closer” didn’t deserve release, and some of nirvana’s best music was released after Kurt’s death.
19:09 the only reason Riot is a good song is because X himself released it on SoundCloud back in 2014 lol
And made a music video for it when he was alive
I’d say it was only a odd time to re-release it an put it up on streaming because they released it during the George Floyd riots. And imo they just did it for clout or more streams, sad if u think about it.
@@braidonwillard6202i learned everything ab this man when i was 12-14 but basically when riot originally came out on soundcloud it was because of another police brutality case and i guess it made sense for his team to do it because of a similar circumstance
At this point, the music industry needs a full-on overhaul.
Great video! Subbed!
A really good posthumous release cycle you could have mentioned would have been Led Zeppelin's album "Coda". It came out after their drummer, John Bonham, died and featured unreleased songs and I believe a couple new songs that were recorded before he passed. The band broke up after his death and has only reunited twice for charity reasons with one of the times the drummer they played with being John Bonham's son Jason.
A thing to note with that situation is that Led Zeppelin has their own record label, Swan Song, and weren't in a position to be taken advantage of like a lot of these other artists. I personally believe that once Jimmy Pages passes a whole lot of unreleased material will come out, which will be incredibly bittersweet.
Jimi Hendrix has the MOST exploited dead artist out there. SO many posthumous releases over the years since his death
I'm happy Mac Miller's producer made possibly one of the best posthumous albums probably EVER with Circles because it had finished tracks, it was well-produced and it wasn't just a money cashgrab, it came from the heart and had soul into it, and they just left it at that, a great way to stabilize an artist's legacy, no extra albums, just at that.
Mac miller at the end gave me chills ngl
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*"Marvin Gay"*
jesus christ, there was not a single pause between sentences in this video :(
You should have talked about by the time I get to phoenix it was so respectful to Groggs’ importance/legacy, and is one of my favorite albums ever as a result
Lmao color me surprised when I got on Spotify and in the homepage I get a notification saying hey check out this new Album from Jimi Hendrix. I was like damn even in the death they won’t let Jimi rest.