Alternate takes
When I was a lad of 18 or so, I started busting out of the classic rock ghetto that my older brother had initiated me into. My life was changed by Zoviet France's 'Misfits, Loony Tunes and Squalid Criminals,' Neubauten's 'Halber Mensch,' and, most of all, by SY's 'Bad Moon Rising.' The song structures, the sounds connecting one piece to the next, the totality and the stream-of-consciousness of the whole thing forced me to keep going back and listening to it, even before what it was doing made much sense to me. This item here has a pair of alternate takes of album tracks, essentially representing the album's beginning and end (tho here in reverse). To my ears, they sound like not-quite-as-good mixes as the full-length versions, but they're kind of interesting as a window into the process that yielded the whole thing. Either way, 'Bad Moon Rising' is a far better record than it has been given credit for. Don't pass it by.
