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 | Songs of Rememberance |
| Waiting For The Man (fragment) | solo demos, summer 70 |
| Hospital | solo demos, summer 70 |
| Astral Plane | solo demos, summer 70 |
| Ride The Highway | solo demos, summer 70 |
| Someone I Care About | Fall 71 Intermedia Sound |
| Hospital | Fall 71 Intermedia Sound/ML |
| Roadrunner | Fall 71 Intermedia Sound |
| Such Loneliness | Cale 72 |
| Modern World | Cale 72 |
| Song Of Rememberance | Fowley 72 |
| A Plea For Tenderness | Fowley 72 |
| Fly Into The Mystery | Fowley 73 |
| I'm Dropping My Friends | live Oct 72 |
| Someone I Care About (live) | live Mercers NYE72/3 |
| Dignified And Old (live) | live Mercers NYE72/3 |
| She Cracked (live) | live Mercers NYE72/3 |
| Astral Plane (live) | live Mercers NYE72/3 |
| Roadrunner (live) | live Cambridge 72 |
This is the most recent and most widely available the bootlegs and,
as far as I know, the only one released on CD. The Intermedia 'Hospital' is the
same take as the one on the LP. The mix is fuller and warmer but slightly clunky.
The rest of the CD is live. Starting with a recording of 'I'm Dropping My Friends..'
a short lived song that was never recorded properly to my knowledge. This recording is taken
from an October 72 show in Radcliffe. It's fully formed, jaunty with a fully worked out
arrangement, but slightly stilted and perhaps too much of a snapshot of a specific time to make it
into the set permanently. This is followed by four tracks from the New Years Eve '72 show with
the New York Dolls and Wayne County. The band play tight and hard and get a response that is a mix
of enthusiasm and disbelief ('he really means it!'). The CD closes with a fuzzy but epic
8 minute plus 'Roadrunner' from the Cambridge Boathouse in 72, showing that on a good night it really
was their 'Sister Ray'.
The sound is a bit fuzzy on the solo demos and the live tracks but the majority of the tacks are
pretty clear.
N.B. the sleeve notes date the first session at March '72, which may be correct, but Jonathan says Fall
'71. It also rather mouth watering says 'Songs..', 'A Plea..', and 'Fly..' are from the
Cale '73 LP session, when the first two are Fowley '72 and the 'Fly..' is Fowley '73.
This is just the latest and most widely available Modern Lovers bootleg and the only one to my knowledge
available on CD. With increased availability of CDR it has been re-booted, probably several times, so
it should be relatively easy to track down.
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Modern Lovers 7" EP |
| I Wanna Sleep In Your Arms | Fowley 73/OML |
| Modern World | Fowley 73 |
| Walk Up The Street | Fowley 72/OML |
| She Cracked | Fowley 73/OML |
| Blue vinyl 7" of Fowley demos. Duplicates three tracks from "The Original Modern Lovers"
but has the other version of "Modern World" that also appears on "For All The
Modern Lovers" and "Beantown Gems". The catalog number of MOD72 suggests the tracks are from 1972 but
all tracks are from the 1973 Goldstar sessions apart from "Walk
Up The Street" which is from 1972. |
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Regression CD |
| Hi Dear | Live in Sweden 1978 |
| Back In The USA | " " |
| South American Folk Song | " " |
| Roller Coaster By The Sea | " " |
| Pretty Little Girl | " " |
| My Love Is A Flower (Just Beginning To Bloom) | " " |
| New England | " " |
| Hey There Little Insect | " " |
| Government Center | " " |
| It Will Stand | " " |
| The New Teller | " " |
| Roadrunner | Beserkley Chartbusters |
| The New Teller | " " |
| It Will Stand | " " |
| Government Center | " " |
| Astral Plane | Fowley 72 |
| Hospital | Fowley 72 |
| Walk Up The Street | Precise / LB & more |
| | The Mixer (Men And Women Together) | Precise (?) |
| | 96 Tears | LB & more |
"Regression", a bootleg CDR came out on Pontiac records in 2000. A couple of demos
from the Fowley '72 session are included - 'Astral Plane' and 'Hospital'. 'Astral Plane'
is the version on 'The Original Modern Lovers', but 'Hospital' is a previously undocumented take. Also of
relevance are three of the Mercer Arts Center tracks that appeared on 'Songs of Rememberance'.
The bulk of the album is 11 of the 18 tracks from a June '78 show at a radio station in Tonkroft,
Sweden.
|
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For All The Modern Lovers LP |
| Modern World | Fowley '73 |
| I'm Gonna Walk On The Street (sic) | Harvard 71/72, Precise/LB&more? |
| She Cracked | Harvard 71/72? |
| Roadrunner | Pink Pop Festival, Rotterdam '78 |
| Route 66 | Paradiso, Amsterdam '78 |
| Back In The USA | Stockholm '78 |
| Pretty Little Girl | " " |
| My Love Is A Flower | " " |
| Rockin' Leprechauns | " " |
| Here Come The Martian Martians | " " |
| Lydia | Paradiso, Amsterdam '78 |
| Stop This Car | Main Post Philadelphia, 14th Feb '81 |
| You Are | Bottom Line, 27th Dec '81 |
This has recently been re-bootlegged on CDR, and a copy went for a massive $82 on eBay in March 2001. Another copy went up for sale the next day - be warned! The sleeve and track listing is taken off this issue, which may or may not be the same as the original.
Sleeve incorrectly lists 'Modern World' as Fowley '72 and 'She Cracked' as Harvard '74. 'I'm Gonna Walk On The Street' is, of course, 'Walk Up The Street'. The Swedish live tracks are probably from the June '78 show that appears on 'Regression'
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Route 128 Revisited LP |
| Cambridge Clown | Harvard 71/72? |
| Wake Up Sleepyhead | Harvard 71/72, LB/LB&more? |
| Dignified And Old | Harvard 71/72? |
| Womanhood | Harvard 71/72? |
| Such Lonliness | Cale 72/Songs |
| A Plea For Tenderness (grand piano version) | Fowley 73 |
| Song Of Rememberance | Fowley 72/Songs |
| Ride On Down The Highway | Autumn 71 Intermedia |
| + more? | |
"Route 128 Revisited" is a rare Italian vinyl bootleg from the late 80s.
According to the sleeve, only 300 individually numbered copies were made. The four
Harvard tracks are listed as being from a 1974 show in 'Velvets to the Voidoids', but
they are from the same 1971/72 Harvard show as the material on the official live albums. A sealed copy sold for over $200 at auction on eBay on early 2001.
Again, full details would be greatly appreciated.
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Beantown Gems LP |
| Modern World | Fowley 73 |
| She Cracked | Fowley 73/OML |
| Fly Into The Mystery | Fowley 73/Songs |
| Hospital | Fowley 73 |
| Winters Get Hard In New England | 'Living Room' demos |
| I'm Straight (6:26 - incomplete) | Harvard 71/2 /Precise |
| The Beach | Radio session '85 |
| Vincent Van Gogh | " " |
| Hey There Little Insect | " " |
| I Must Be King | " " |
| Better Than Before | Live on TV, '86 |
Italian bootleg from the late 80s (probably 1988). Can anyone provide a picture of the cover or any more details? |
(c) D Howard 2000.
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