Playing this a lot recently. Apparently it has never been officially released as Liz didn’t think it was up to muster. I disagree. Seriously apart from live tracks, are there many unreleased songs that are as good as this?
Unreleased songs
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I have the final recording session by The Bible, produced by Owen Morris, shortly before they split for the first time.
It remains unreleased yet is some of their best work, although you can now get it as mp3 files via Boo Hewerdine’s patreon account.
I tried for the best part of 20 years, on and off, to get him to release it.
Drop him a line and remind him that there are plenty of us out here who would welcome its emergence, and pay good cash to own a copy. 20 year anniversary anyone? Goodness knows there’s a lot of unholy crap getting the treatment – time for something with quality to celebrate.
There was a 25th anniversary edition of 1986’s debut album Walking The Ghost Back Home back in, um, 2012, and 1988’s Eureka was expanded to 2CD the same year.
The unreleased recordings from the 1993 comeback were eventually released as Dodo in 1999, available from Boo’s website shop.
1990’s ‘Anticlockwise’ session recordings recall ‘bad vibes in the studio’, apparently.
I agree with Liz – only in that it sounds like a demo, not a finished article. However, in the light of events since the recording was made, it really does deserve a place in the sun, as it’s also lovely in its slightly ramshackle brilliance.
To name but 3, Springsteen, Dylan and Morrison had some unbelievable unreleased tracks that did eventually surface on box sets or (in Van’s case) the superb double set The Philosopher’s Stone.
That’s a fantastic set, almost an alternative “best of” like the first three vols of The Bootleg Series that surely inspired it.
The original Wonderful Remark is miles better than the more famous version.
Depeche Mode played this Gerry & the Pacemakers song when I first saw them live.
Dave Gahan has never sounded more “Essex” than on this. They never committed it to record, but if they had, it might have rubbed shoulders with Shaddup Your Fave as a novelty hit of the day – you never know.
The trouble is, that is a terrible song.
Terrible songs can be hits though!
True enough
Ooh that’s interesting. Never heard that before even though I’m a big Cocteau Twins fan. Complicated band politics around this one I guess – but as a piece of music it’s really good but needs someone to mix it properly make the contrast work better between Jeff reaching for a CT thing with his vocal and Liz going full megablast.