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The Modern Lovers - Songs Of Rememberance (Unique Tracks) (1973)

Track listing:
  1. I'm Waiting For The Man 0:27
  2. Hospital 3:38
  3. Astral Plane 2:54
  4. Ride The Highway 3:16
  5. Such Loneliness 1:59
  6. Song Of Rememberance 4:39
  7. A Plea For Tenderness 7:21
  8. Fly Into The Mystery 4:15
  9. I'm Dropping My Friends (One By One) 3:39
  10. Someone I Care About 3:42
  11. Dignified And Old 5:02
  12. She Cracked 3:03
  13. Astral Plane 3:56
  14. Roadrunner 7:45

Notes

1-4 jonathan richman's first demos 1970
according to http://www.modernlovers.com/ the following songs were also recorded at this session (in boston, sometimes referred to as the harvard square demos) but have yet to surface.
* cosmic plane of the arcane
* she's taking the pill for me
* sunshine your eyes
* someone i care about

5: demo with john cale, spring 1972
march or april 1972, demos for warner bros at whitney studios in la. evidently a further version of roadrunner was recorded.

6-8: aborted album sessions with john cale, autumn 1973 september (?) 1973 sessions for warner bros at elektra studios, la. according again to http://www.modernlovers.com/ these tracks were not the cale album session versions but earlier versions from a kim fowley session (10 & 11) at dinky dawsons studios in june 1972 and an august 1973 session also with kim fowley at gold star studios in la.

9: live 1972
live in radcliffe, october 1972. unknown venue.

10-13: mercer arts centre, nyc, new year's eve 1972-12-31.
evidently wayne county and the new york dolls were also on the bill.

14: cambridge boat house, ma, 1972