dressing to undress

mostly just a dumping ground for songs that didn’t have finished albums to call their homes just yet, though here is where we find some of my most demented parodies, along with the unforgettable durex sheik condom song and the first version of nosehair cancer from the WOHIS sessions (later appended to the LIFELINE/WOHIS release). there are a few interesting out-takes from SHOEBOX PARADISE as well. if you were mine is, frighteningly enough, a ballad played completely straight, which explains why it was never considered for the album proper. i mean, a papa ghostface love song? that could never be allowed to see the light of day. still, there’s some nice bass playing from gord, some meaty piano work from me, and a frenetic intro that is completely at odds with the rest of the song (intentionally so). you are me is pretty damn catchy, and these days i wonder why i didn’t throw it on the album. if i would have fixed up my harmony vocal a bit and added a little bit of polish to the song in general, it could have found a nice home on the second disc. then again, maybe it’s a little too accessible, and perhaps that’s why i left it on the cutting room floor. i considered resurrecting it in the later PG days, but gord and i never really got around to digging into it, though he seemed to like it well enough. i think there’s still hope for that song, though…

TRACKS:

sleep-deprived
i hate
innocence
durex sheik condom song
“my life” promo
“freedom” promo
if you were mine
you are me
you are me (duplicate)
about face
nosehair cancer (first version)
so much to show (fragment)
(three duplicates of above fragment)
mine (rough mix)