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Stone Of Sisyphus is the title of an unreleased concept album by the pop band Chicago.
Recorded and set for release in 1993, the album was to mark the return to the sound the band had established in their glory years of the 1970s. The songs on the album was to have built around the legend of the album's title--the myth evolving around a punished man named Sisyphus forced to climb upon a huge mountain with a rolling stone. Upon reaching the mountain successfully with the stone, he would be free of the curse. But the stone kept rolling down the mountain, thus he would have to start all over again.
Warner Bros. Records, their record company at the time of the album's original production, was displeased with the album, and thus dismissed Sisyphus as being "unreleasable".
Like The Beach Boys/Brian Wilson's SMiLE, Sisyphus has built a legend of its own. Tracks from the unreleased album have surfaced on bootleg recordings, and even through the Internet.
In 2003, the group finally allowed two tracks from Sisyphus, the title cut and "Bigger Than Elvis", to be officially released on their CD box set compilation CD by Rhino Records. As of 2004, the album as a whole remains officially unreleased to the public.
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