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The Modern Lovers - Demos 1971-1973 & Harvard 1971

Track listing:
  1. Demos 1971-1973 - Girlfriend 3:43
  2. Demos 1971-1973 - Modern World 3:25
  3. Demos 1971-1973 - Ride On Down The Highway 3:06
  4. Demos 1971-1973 - A Plea For Tenderness 9:30
  5. Demos 1971-1973 - Hospital 4:13
  6. Harvard 1971 - She Cracked 3:58
  7. Harvard 1971 - Astral Plane 2:18
  8. Harvard 1971 - Someone I Care About 3:05
  9. Harvard 1971 - Hospital 5:46
  10. Harvard 1971 - I'm Straight 6:42
  11. Harvard 1971 - Cambridge Clown 6:02
  12. Harvard 1971 - Fly Into The Mystery 5:36
  13. Harvard 1971 - Such Loneliness 1:56
  14. Harvard 1971 - Womanhood 3:22
  15. Harvard 1971 - Dignified & Old 3:24
  16. Harvard 1971 - Unknown Instrumental 2:23

Notes

The tapes were of demos recorded at a variety of sessions in Boston & Los Angeles in 1972 and 1973, together with live recordings from the same 1971 or 1972 Harvard University shows that were used for the filler tracks on the three Longbranch Saloon derived official releases:
Live At The Longbranch Saloon
Precise Modern Lovers Order &
Live At The Longbranch And More.

'71-'73 Demos - Boston, MA & Los Angeles, CA, USA:

1. Girlfriend (unknown, but presumably the John Cale produced April '72 demo)
2. Modern World (unknown, but most likely from the Kim Fowley '73 sessions)
3. Ride On Down The Highway (unknown, but presumably from the '71 Intermedia session)
4. A Plea For Tenderness (Kim Fowley,'73, but not the version on SoR)
5. Hospital (unknown, but shorter and quite different to the version on ML)

Live - Harvard University 1971, Cambridge, MA, USA

The demos are all excellent or very good quality (with some tape hiss), while the live songs range from average quality to sonicly distressed (particularly from Cambridge Clown onwards).