Recurring Dream sessions with Paul Hester

As far as I know, only those four songs were recorded. I can only go by what was on the various DATs I came across, as I didn't have access to multi-tracks from this 10-day session.

Chris Bourke's book Something So Strong mentioned the sessions as including Instinct, Everything Is Good For You, Not The Girl You Think You Are and "a dark heavy song that wasn't working". My assumption is that was Loose Tongue. Neil and Nick probably would have told me if there were others...but there's always a possibility that something else was tried which they've forgotten.

Loose Tongue didn't really find its feet until the Seven Worlds version, imo. It needs the acoustic to give the song a bit of air alongside the riff.

@Thom Bullock posted:

Loose Tongue didn't really find its feet until the Seven Worlds version, imo. It needs the acoustic to give the song a bit of air alongside the riff.

I love the studio version on Try Whistling This and the live version on Encore. I quite like the Crowdies version too.

There is a feeling of menace bubbling beneath the surface of the Crowdies version of "Loose Tongue" that's missing from other versions.  It's a shame that the song wasn't quite finished at that point, but it's still a fascinating listen.

matt