LedZepNews has discovered details on more than 20 unreleased songs written and likely recorded by John Paul Jones.
Using publicly available information in the BMI Songview music publishing database and details from a rare 1990s promotional cassette tape of Jones’ work, LedZepNews has found listings for work written by Jones but never released.
Our findings shed new light on Jones’ solo projects dating back to the early 1990s. We found that Jones wrote and likely recorded five new songs with his band Snoweye that he formed in 2017.
The database also revealed that Jones has written a series of other songs including unreleased tracks named “Oblivion” and “Shine”. It also contains information on seven unreleased songs Jones likely recorded with Them Crooked Vultures.
The unreleased Snoweye album
Jones’ band Snoweye were formed in 2017 and have performed together a handful of times. LedZepNews revealed in 2022 that the band had written a soundtrack for the film “And Anne” which has been in production since 2019. Last year, we reported that the film has been cancelled.
It appears that Jones has written five songs with Snoweye dating back to 2017. Here are the songs by the band listed in the database:
- I See You
- Last Walk
- Mearavaibmu
- Rain
- Vaillahan
“Last Walk” was performed live by Snoweye in 2017 and referred to as a “ballad” by Norwegian newspaper Altaposten. “The trio’s self-written ballad ‘Last Walk’ was the most hair-raising and goosebump-inducing performance of the entire concert, and the song has the potential to become a real mega-ballad hit,” it said.
It’s possible that this 2017 video captures the band performing “Last Walk”:
Unreleased songs by Them Crooked Vultures
The database also contains track names for a collection of songs written by Jones when he recorded the 2009 self-titled album by Them Crooked Vultures alongside Dave Grohl and Josh Homme.
These tracks were previously mentioned on Reddit by user No_Interaction4027, who also found them listed on the database.
- Break Glass
- Bombs Away
- Dead Wrong
- HWY 1 (A live recording was released in 2010)
- I Should Have Let Them Go
- Orca
- You Can’t Possibly Begin To Imagine (Performed live by the band in 2010)
Memory Palace
In 1992, Jones wrote a series of songs as part of a project titled “Memory Palace” that combined music with animation, theatre and even lasers. The work was created by science fiction writer William Gibson and Spanish electronic artist Montxo Algora. Jones was the musical director of the project, which also included work by Peter Gabriel.
The database shows that Jones wrote and recorded several songs for “Memory Palace”. We even found that a rare promotional cassette tape containing recordings of the music was produced in the early 1990s.
- Intro-Pool
- Science & Progress
- Point Of Departure
- Cyber Space
A video of an animation used in the event containing a demo version of Gabriel’s song “Fourteen Black Paintings” featuring Jones on surdu, bass and keyboards surfaced on YouTube in 2019:
A possibly related song written by Jones called “Intro Loop” is also listed on the database.
‘Labyrinth (Postcards From Barcelona)’
Also in 1992, Jones wrote and recorded music for a computer animation about the city of Barcelona.
The music is listed as “Labyrinth” on the music publishing database and as “Labyrinth (Postcards From Barcelona)” in the early 1990s cassette tape of Jones’ work mentioned above.
The song can be heard from 1:39 to 4:12 in the below video:
Music from the 1993 film ‘Risk’
Jones wrote and recorded music for the little-known 1993 film “Risk”. One song is listed on the database as “Goodbye Park” but also has the alternative title “Risk, film cue ID #5”.
A separate song on the database written by Jones is simply called “Risk”.
The theme from ‘The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb’
John Paul Jones helped to fund and also wrote the theme tune for “The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb”, a 1993 stop-motion animated film.
A song by Jones titled “The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb” is registered on the database and was included on the early 1990s cassette tape.
Some mystery John Paul Jones songs
Along with the above songs which we’ve tracked down information on, the database includes some songs written by Jones that are mysteries.
- Les Guerres De L’Eau
- Oblivion
- Shine
- Who Are You
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