Great Lost Albums
b'I hate not finishing something I start\\u2026for example, if I pick up a novel, I\\u2019m determined to finish the thing even if I hate it\\u2026\\n\\nBut then I look around the house and I see all the jobs that I didn\\u2019t complete\\u2026organizing the basement\\u2026filing all CDs and records\\u2026that little project in the back corner of the garden that\\u2014well, I don\\u2019t even remember what I was trying to do there\\u2026\\n\\nThen there\\u2019s my novel\\u2026I\\u2019ve wrote two chapters in a flurry of creativity year ago\\u2014and I haven\\u2019t touched it since\\u2026it\\u2019s been so long that the file was written in WordPerfect\\u2026I hope I can still open it\\u2026I\\u2019ll get around to checking that\\u2026.\\n\\nAll this unfinished business really bothered me\\u2014until I saw something that made me feel so much better\\u2026\\n\\nIt was in china...north of Beijing is a giant amusement park that from the highway looks a lot like Disneyland\\u2026it\\u2019s called wonderland\\u2026it was supposed to attract millions of visitors from all across the country\\u2026\\n\\nBut then in 1998, investors pulled out\\u2026120 acres of half-finished, abandoned, fairytale-themed amusement park\\u2026it was so weird\\u2026all this time and money and labour put into something only to never see it actually work out\\u2026\\n\\nWhich brings me to this\\u2026just because you start on an album doesn\\u2019t mean you\\u2019ll ever finish it\\u2026and even if you do, it doesn\\u2019t mean it\\u2019ll ever get released\\u2026\\n\\nThere are dozens and dozens and dozens of \\u201clost\\u201d albums sitting in vaults and on hard drives all over the world\\u2026who made them?...and what happened?...let\\u2019s take a look\\u2014and maybe even a listen\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'