After listening to From a Basement on the Hill and Nico back to back today, I was thinking it would be interesting to hear what some of the best posthumous releases were out there. So list your favourite albums released after the death of an artist or band member.

I'll start with:

Elliott Smith - From a Basement on the Hill
Blind Melon - Nico
Nirvana - Unplugged
George Harrison - Brainwashed

Sublime

tupac.

Pick one.

Yeah, I'd assume that Tupac has this whole category covered, simply due to sheer volume.

Two of the most stunning pieces of art I own.

j.

untouchable...

Nirvana - Unplugged/WTLO
Jimi Hendrix - First Rays Of The New Rising Sun/South Saturn Delta
Janis Joplin - Pearl
George Harrison - Brainwashed
Elliott Smith - From A Basement On The Hill

whygodeep

elliott smith - from a basement on the hill
jeff buckley - sketches.............
the doors - la woman
the doors (jim morrison) - an american prayer
nirvana - unplugged

Kurt Cobain - Hole's "Live Through This"

Since he basically wrote that album, then Courtney had him killed, took him off the credits (and out of a couple of the songs), and released it the week after he died to capitalize on the news.

But I digress.

I find most posthumous releases to be overrated simply because they are posthumous and people attach a kind of "Wow, this is really deeper now that he/she is dead!".

Not saying there isn't a lot of good work out there, but in too many cases these are pieces that are unfinished or unreleaseable in the artists eyes, but find their way to the masses through relatives (often greedy ones.)

See the Nirvana Box Set as a perfect example.

Joe Strummer - Streetcore

Elliott Smith-From the basement on a hill

End of story.

It was only a single, but "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" by Otis Redding owns anything else listed.

King of the Delta Blues - Robert Johnson.

Without that album being released in the mid-sixties, modern music would not exist in its current form. There would have been no blues-rock explosion and hense no Stones, Led Zep etc...

Fucking denfinitive album.

Easily my #1. There's so much emotion in every minute of that album, I can't imagine where Jeff's music would be if he were still alive. I'm sure the growth would be unbelievable.

Indeed. One of the greatest losses to the music world.

agreed.

Mark Lanegan's Bubblegum.....oh wait.... he's still alive! Damn! Maybe because it sounds like he died and went to hell and came back to tell us what it's like. That album is sick, especially the first track. Everytime I hear that song I feel like I'm in a morgue.

whatever b sides are laying around after i kick the bucket