songs/albums by solo or side projects that are eventually absorbed into the main band's canon

I'm thinking of instances of someone from a popular band going off and doing a project outside the band that ends up being considered kind of unofficially part of the band's canon, i.e. songs included on the band's compilations, albums included in reissue campaigns of the band's albums, songs played in the band's concerts. also projects that are a different act in name only, like the Difford & Tilbrook album that fans consider for all intents and purposes a Squeeze album.

not counting people who go solo but keep performing their most successful band's songs, which is kind of something else, or stuff like The Police and Sting solo hits being packaged together.

examples that inspired this thread:

The Passengers' Original Soundtracks 1 ("Miss Sarajevo" played by U2 in concert often and included on a best-of)

David Byrne's The Catherine Wheel (4 songs from it played live on Talking Heads tours)

Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever is ostensibly a solo album, but features members of the Heartbreakers and its singles are on Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers Greatest Hits (and I'm pretty sure the band performs that stuff in concert)

Beyonce's "Check On It" appeared on a Destiny's Child greatest hits comp, and I think their later tours included some of her Crazy In Love solo material

Ciccone Youth's The Whitey Album was reissued alongside Sonic Youth's '80s albums in 1993, and tracks from it were included on the Screaming Fields Of Sonic Love comp

also on the Sonic Youth tip, they recently played the title track from Thurston Moore's solo album Psychic Hearts in concert

I have a Kinks compilation that includes a couple Dave Davies solo singles, but looking those up now apparently the Kinks played on those songs and they just happened to be released under his name

Jerry Garcia's "The Wheel" probably got some GD live play.

New Pornographers, for everyone involved.

Or, wait, maybe not, as far as their songs being kept separate from Bejar/Neko/etc.'s other work.

Tom Tom Club's "Genius of Love" showing up in Stop Making Sense, though.

Tom Petty's Full Moon Fever is ostensibly a solo album

Wildflowers was also, and I would assume the band plays 1 or 2 songs from this record.

For some reason Daryl Hall "Dreamtime" is the 1 example that comes to mind right now.

oh yeah "Genius Of Love" duh!

Fwiw that Destinys Child comp was literally two singles into Beyonces solo career, and it wasn't really known if she'd be even remotely as big as Destinys Child. P sure if they did a comp today, no one would be peeping Beyonce songs as "destiny child canon"

Mick Jagger's "Memo From Turner"

Van Halen played a couple Hagar songs in exchange for him singing a couple DLR songs during his whole tenure with the band.

Jordan Knight "Give It To You"

Fwiw that Destinys Child comp was literally two singles into Beyonces solo career, and it wasn't really known if she'd be even remotely as big as Destinys Child. P sure if they did a comp today, no one would be peeping Beyonce songs as "destiny child canon"

― Lil Boosie's on the Up (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, August 21, 2011 9:37 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

nah, Destiny's Child's #1's was released after 2005, after Crazy In Love (which outsold DC's last album).

nice try, though, Shasta

Genesis never performed any Phil Collins solo hits, did they? i imagine they might've gotten hassled by some audiences expecting to hear those songs at some point.

seems like roxy music incorporated some covers that ferry first covered solo, if that counts

surely some 'side project material' slipped into guided by voices

Norway June 2011 setlist:

Seven Bridges Road
How Long
Take It To The Limit
Hotel California
Easy Peaceful Feeling
I Can't Tell You Why
Witchy Woman
Lyin' Eyes
Long Road Out Of Eden
Walk Away
Boys of Summer
In The City
The Long Run
Life's Been Good
Dirty Laundry
Funk #49
Heartache Tonight
Life In The Fast Lane

(encore)
Take It Easy
Rocky Mountain Way
Desperado

wat? no Smuggler's Blues?

The H is not O.

fuck now i'm gonna have goddamned witchy woman in my head all night

correction: now i'm gonna have elaine benes singing goddamned witchy woman in my head all night

The Pharcyde:

Pretty much all the hits except Soul Flower, Bootie Brown did Dirty Harry, Fatlip did a cover of My Prerogative with the others throwing synchronised boy-band dance moves, they came back to do What’s Up Fatlip for the encore.

― I Was A Taoist Intellectual (sic), Tuesday, 17 February 2009 10:18 (2 years ago)

Buckingham nicks

you can bold rocky mountain way and funk 49 too xp

(X-post)Eazy--you missed the James Gang jam in that Eagles setlist.

and 'in the city'

sorta terrified by how much that setlist has me tempted to see an eagles gig

The Zombies recently have been playing a couple of Argent songs and a couple of songs from "One Year"

On their 1989 tour, the Who played 4-5 Townshend solo songs and, on occasion, one solo Entwistle song ("Too Late The Hero"), but it didn't take. On all subsequent tours, there was no solo Who material (one exception: Pete's "Sheraton Gibson" was played at the Who's 2000 Cleveland show).

xp "In The City" is the eagles iirc ... and also I don't think those songs are considered "Eagles-canon" .. theyre just trying to make their setlists interesting. Same thing goes for Zombies and The Who... it doesn't really answer the question IMO

"Music Sounds Better With You" will be an obvious consideration if Daft Punk releases a best-of.

the Layla LP is pretty widely considered "Eric Clapton canon"

"Music Sounds Better With You" will be an obvious consideration if Daft Punk releases a best-of.

the tracklist of the actual Daft Punk best-of that came out five years ago disagrees (though it does contain Scott Grooves, Gabrielle and Ian Pooley tracks)

well that was a singles collection, and i forgot it existed until this moment.

well that was a singles collection

obviously not since it included things that weren't Daft Punk singles!

you win.

but if most people don't consider that song part of "Daft punk canon" that's really weird to me.

Right about now, the Daft Punk canon.
Check it out now, the Daft Punk canon.

I've never considered "Music Sounds Better With You" part of Daft Punk canon; didn't Stardust involve other people besides the one Daft Punk member? Plus "MSBWY" sounds quite different from Daft Punk singles anyway, it's more straightforwardly house music.

Original album:
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Reissue:
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With proper formatting:
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"Music Sounds Better With You" loop showed up in 2007 Daft Punk shows and on subsequent live album.

some dude eventually absorbed into mouthbreathing bland alt-rock champions who gargled on my nuts.

Didn't Aerosmith record a Joe Perry Project song after he rejoined the band?

Together In Electric Dreams turns up on Human League Best Ofs.

Ferry/Roxy Music definitely - to the point where I have trouble distinguishing solo from band hits a lot of the time.

"Music Sounds Better With You" will be an obvious consideration if Daft Punk releases a best-of.

― billstevejim, Monday, 22 August 2011 06:27 (3 hours ago) Bookmark

Never ever thought of this as a Daft Punk song. "So Much Love To Give" though..

i think a few Becker/Fagen solo tracks have been played at Steely Dan shows, and Walter Becker definitely sang "Book of Liars" on Alive In America

As mentioned above, "Loser" off the first Garcia record ended up in Dead sets thereafter, but this happened with a buncha Dead side projects, both from Jerry's albums but also especially from Bob Weir's album Ace, also from 1972, which has the studio versions of e.g. "Playing in the Band", "One More Saturday Night", & other live Dead staples. Also see "Supplication" from the first Kingfish album (a Weir side-project) from 1976.

Four Seasons' version of "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right", orig. released under the artist name, the Wonder Who.

Van der Graaf Generator have performed a few songs since they reunited in 2005 which were originally on Peter Hammill solo albums, e.g. "{In The) Black Room" and "Gog".

The Imposter's Pills And Soap, released on an Elvis Costello & The Attractions album just three months later despite having no Attractions on it

whoops maybe Nieve was on it? still though

Ferry's solo 'Can't Let Go' definitely turned up in life performances and made it to the 'Hearts Still Beating' live album.

I believe there was a rift in the Happy Mondays when Shaun Ryder wanted to include Black Grape songs in the set, but don't know if this got anywhere.

he got away with it when he drove the rest of the band away with racist abuse and general assholery, and added a faux Kermit called Peanut.

Yes performed "Video Killed the Radio Star" live when the Buggles guys were in the band.

No, this is in the reformed Happy Mondays we're talking here, about Black Grape songs.

Black Grape ended due to racism? Really?

no, the reformed Happy Mondays, like you said.

He'd refused to let Mark Day or Knobhead in the band at all, out of general cnutery; on a ferry to some island festival or something, he allegedly called Rowetta an n-word b-word, and she, Bez and Paul Ryder all quit on the spot.

They still had an Australian leg of the tour to go, on a travelling festival. Bez was persuaded to do it on the grounds that it was a month's paid holiday in the sun and he needed the money. Rowetta got paid to record her vocals to be used as playback on the tour. Horse supposedly never spoke to his brother again.

This was the initial reunion tour, circa 2001, and all IIRC. I don't know if they had Peanut and the one or two Grape songs they did in the set before Australia or not.

my mistake: the Kermit replacement was called "Nuts," not Peanut. My apologies to Mr Nuts and his family.

i guess this is a different thing, but i'm thinking jackson family singles just before michael went solo, like 'can you feel it', 'blame it on the boogie', and 'shake your body down to the ground'. in retrospect they're just early m.j. stingles, show up on his compilations, etc.

wilco took on "laminated cat" from the loose fur tweedy/orourke/kotche side project.

The song "Gratitude" from Danny Elfman's solo album (appropriately titled So-Lo) was included on the Oingo Boingo greatest hits compilation, Best O'Boingo .

Easy Lover was on a Bill Bailey album but has been folded into the Phil Collins songbook.

I get points for having the least cool answer, right?

easy lover will always be cool

Easy Lover was on a Bill Bailey album

Erm, Philip Bailey, but yeah!

The Damned did "Happy Talk" a few times, live.

From what I remember, the first "Best Of" by Bon Jovi included one or two Jon Bon Jovi solo hits.

Genesis never performed any Phil Collins solo hits, did they?

From what I know, they always kept the two sides of the story strictly separated. Or they might have played "The Living Years" as well.

The Imposter's Pills And Soap, released on an Elvis Costello & The Attractions album just three months later despite having no Attractions on it

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i thought about bringing up the Attractions but there are too many examples of stuff like this and they don't really seem to fit, especially since they were formed initially to perform songs from his first album they didn't play on and have kind of remained an on-again-off-again backing band (as opposed to, say, Tom Petty's Heartbreakers, which have been pretty much his sole backing band since the beginning of his career).

although that reminds me, Springsteen is kind of in a similarly gray area, but if he counts the E Street band has played some of his solo stuff on tour (particularly "Atlantic City")

yeah I know what you mean - live they can just count as a backing band* for whatever, but that single going from side project to inappropriately absorbed on record so soon I thought was notable.

*especially given the change from the Attractions to the Imposters, and the latter's inconsistency re being credited or not

yeah i guess, i just thought the whole The Imposter thing was more of a one-off pseudonym than a side project proper, kind of the same way EC's version of "(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding" was initially released uncredited on the b-side of a Nick Lowe single. i do wonder how many songs from non-Attractions records (besides the obligatory My Aim Is True staples) have made it into Attractions/Imposters setlists.

btw can i just say the idea of hearing "Dirty Laundry" at an Eagles concert is kind of hilarious to me. the only way it could be funnier is if they did "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" too.

I'm sure it more than balances out with Attractions songs in Brodsky or Rude 5 or solo setlists

i'd like to hear the eagles do a set of joe walsh songs tbh.
i know the attractions/imposters do "veronica" -- don't know what others from that era are still showing up in setlists.

btw can i just say the idea of hearing "Dirty Laundry" at an Eagles concert is kind of hilarious to me. the only way it could be funnier is if they did "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" too.

They should do a medley/mash-up of "ASWTDID" & "Smuggler's Blues" ala this Monkees Clip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3CCk1gMTKM

BTW, didn't Nesmith rerecord "Listen To The Band" on one of his first solo albums?

"Music Sounds Better With You" loop showed up in 2007 Daft Punk shows and on subsequent live album.

forgot until now that it was in the same medley bit as Together, another Bangalter side project

Tons of Pollard solo stuff showed up in GBV shows.
Pop Zeus, by Pollard and Doug Gillard, was a staple of late-era GBV live sets.

The two Runt albums have officially been absorbed into Todd Rundgren's canon. Runt was originally supposed to be a band; note that the first s/t album in its original form had no mention of TR on the cover as it has for the last 20 years or so.

Wham! wouldn't last for long, but "Careless Whisper" definitely became a part of Wham!'s repertoire, and also "A Different Corner" for the very brief time Wham! would last afterwards.

pearl jam played have 'crown of thorns' by mother love bone and 'hunger strike' by temple of the dog live a number of times

i always thought "Careless Whisper" had always been credited to Wham! but yeah I guess that was only in the US

The song "Gratitude" from Danny Elfman's solo album (appropriately titled So-Lo) was included on the Oingo Boingo greatest hits compilation, Best O'Boingo .

Oingo Boing played "Gratitude" live pretty regularly too.

Roxy Music played Manzanera's "Impossible Guitar" all throughout the 1982-1983 tour.