Max Steiner — The Caine Mutiny (1954)
For this particular album, Max Steiner used text from a popular novel called “The Caine Mutiny” and read it out loud into the microphone. Today, we would call that an audio book. Back then, it was fairly groundbreaking, but not for the reasons you might think. It turns out author Herman Wouk didn’t know about the project, so production was halted right away. A few vinyls made it out of press, and former record execs might be able to bag around $7000 for a copy now.
Max Steiner The Caine Mutiny
The Sex Pistols — God Save The Queen (1977)
It’s not always rainbows and butterflied between artists and their management. On the contrary, it is usually a bit of a struggle to match up the creative side with the commercial venture in the music industry. The Sex Pistols had a rocky history with A&M, which included the company instructing all warehouses to destroy their most popular album, ‘God Save The Queen’. The few surviving copies from that time are now worth over $8500, and a part of pop culture.
The Sex Pistols God Save The Queen
