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Invent Yourself a Shortcake / Beauty / Demos

Pretty challenging lo-fi demos and crap. Some clicks and pops but sound like they came from the original!

Invent Yourself a Shortcake
1. Digestion Machine - 6:12
2. Calypso Part One - 3:28
3. My Dreamgirl Don't Exist - 2:10
4. Calypso Part Two - 1:31
5. Chocolate Coffin - 3:41
6. Sinking Ship - 4:45
7. Random Noise - 1:54
8. Jaw Harp 1:42
9. A&E Melody - 2:13
10. Prank Call - 4:01
11. More Noise - 1:15
12. Synthetic Flying Machine - 2:16
13. Charlotte - 4:14
14. Love You On A Tuesday - 1:37
15. Spooky Sounds - 2:01
16. Preacherman - 3:47
Beauty
17. Engine - 4:22
18. Circle of Friends - 3:28

Disc 2
1. Wishful Eyes - 6:00
2. Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone - 5:47
3. Sailing Through - 4:36
4. Bucket - 3:10
5. Noisy Racket - 3:55
6. Conversation with Robert Schneider - 6:15
7. Someone Is Waiting - 1:45
8. Hypnotic Sounds - 6:13
Demos
9. Sweet Marie - 5:21
10. Love You More Than Life - 3:33
11. Candy Coated Dream - 3:38
12. Through My Tears - 3:49
13. I Hear You Breathe - 3:33
14. Bucket - 2:58 ["Organ Version".. this is a different version than the Beauty demo]
15. Random Noise II - 1:45

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Side Door, St. Louis, MO  5 May 1997

One of the band members couldn't make it, so Jeff explains that they will be doing "a more acoustic set".

01. intro
02. She Takes A Lot of Acid
03. Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone
04. Naomi
05. Engine
06. King of Carrot Flowers pt. 3
07. Song Against Sex
08. The Fool
09. Oh Comely
10. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

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Cat's Cradle, Carrboro, NC  4 March 1998

1. Oh Comely
2. The Fool
3. A Baby For Pree
4. Everything Is
5. Naomi
6. Ghost
7. Song For Che
8. Engine
9. King Of Carrot Flowers pt. 2 & 3
10. Holland 1945
11. Song Against Sex
12. Rubby Bulbs
13. Snow Song

Bottom of the Hill, San Francisco, CA   12 April 1998

A good recording, this. Audience minidisc.

1. Sailing Through>Two Headed Boy Pt. 2
2. Holland 1945
3. Gardenhead>Leave Me Alone
4. worms>King of Carrot Flowers Pts. 2&3
5. Song Against Sex
6. Rubby Bulbs>Snow Song Pt. 1
7. Naomi
8. I Will Bury You in Time
9. Ghost>Untitled
10. Oh Comely
11. King of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
12. Two Headed Boy

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Terrastock II Festival, Custer Avenue Stages, San Francisco  18 April 1998

Broadcast on KFJC FM.

01. Two-Headed Boy (5:58)
02. The Fool (2:29)
03. Worms in the Wind (1:03)
04. King of Carrot Flowers, Pt. 1 & 2 (3:10)
05. Holland, 1945 (3:20)
06. A Baby for Pree (2:31)
07. Ferris Wheel on Fire (5:53)
08. In the Aeroplane Over the Sea (4:13)
09. Gardenhead / Leave Me Alone (3:23)
10. Song Against Sex (3:37)
11. Rubby Bulbs (3:06)
12. Snow Song, Pt. 1 (2:29)
13. Ghost (4:01)
14. Untitled (2:08)

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Lounge Ax, Chicago IL  25 Apr 1998

1 intro
2 king of carrot flowers pt1
3 king of carrot flowers pt2
4 two headed boy pt2
5 holland 1945
6 naomi
7 gardenhead/leave me alone
8 in the aeroplane over the sea
9 song against sex
10 ruby bulbs
11 snow song pt1
12 two headed boy
13 the fool
14 ghost
15 untitled
16 a baby for pree/ferris wheel on fire

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XFM Radio Session, London, England 21-24 June 1998

1. interview
2. Gardenhead/Leave Me Alone
3. Engine
4. Up and Over Again
5. Oh Comely
Capital Radio Session
6 interview
7 Naomi
8 (contest)

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The Garage, London UK  19 August  1998

1 oh comely
2 the fool
3 a baby for pree
4 holland 1945
5 jesus christ/up & over we go
6 everything is
7 the king of carrot flowers
8 in the aeroplane over the sea
9 song against sex
10 rubby bulbs
11 ghost
12 a penny arcade in california

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