Quote Originally Posted by Jerry Oz View Post
I'm a huge fan of SOLAR records from back in the '80s. They had one year where they dumped a bunch of albums full of tracks that were obviously left off of the artists previous releases. The tracks were inconsistent in quality and many of them seemed like they were not final mixes. I bought albums by Lakeside, the Whispers, and Shalamar that had maybe one track each that was playable and I am a big fan of those outfits. What a shameless money grab.
That would be the year 1981 when they switched distribution from RCA to Elektra, right? Those albums had at least one good song on them, and the rest filler.