Compilation Walken Spindles On The Shelf  #
Friday, 16 Feb 2007 06:20PM
"Spindles on The Shelf" is an attempt to present "everything else" that my band Walken created in their time that didn't make it to their two CDs Glory and Current Melbourne Temperature as well as some nice oddities that I've always enjoyed.

  1. Mosquito
  2. Free Ride
  3. So Over It
  4. Pick Me Last
  5. Laundry (no vocals)
  6. Give It Up
  7. Post Mixed Coke
  8. Lovers' Lane
  9. Open Wounds (no vocals)
  10. Right Again (Pony 04 Nov 04)
  11. Blur (Green Room 08 Jan 04)
  12. Glory (Green Room 08 Jan 04)
  13. Laundry (Evelyn Hotel 18 Nov 04)
  14. Guess Again (Dan O'Connell 14 Aug 04)
  15. Blue Sky (97.9FM 11 Nov 04)
  16. One Of These Days (97.9FM 11 Nov 04)
  17. Lovers' Lane (Empress 11 Sep 04)
  18. Open Wounds (Pony 22 Aug 04)
  19. Lucy (Acoustic jam 08 Dec 02)
  20. Laundry (Approximate 23 Feb 03)
  21. Away (Approximate Sep 01)
  22. Lego Woman (Approximate Jan 00)
  23. I Like It (Heath Rebirth demo 2000)
  24. Right Again (Home demo 26 May 01)

Tracks 1-9: Home and studio recorded demos of songs that we played live a lot but never made it to a CD. All were recorded in parts during 2003.

Tracks 10-18: A hastily put together "best of" the live recordings from 2004 including anything that never got demo'd properly. I chose versions on the best available of performance and recording quality. Unfortunately I was usually restricted due to the crapiness of both.

Also includes a couple of nice acoustic versions that I've always liked of One Of These Days and Blue Sky recorded at 97.9FM. The ones that went live weren't as good.

Tracks 19-24: The archives. Stuff I've always liked and have always wanted people to hear. I love that acoustic version of Lucy, with Bruce helping out on second guitar. I think it's the best it'll ever be. The three "Approximate" demos are just me either demoing the songs for the first time by myself (in the case of Lego and Away) or trying to do something with stuff that came out of jams (in the case of Laundry).

I've always loved Heath's original version of I Like It banged out using the drum machine program Rebirth. From that version I created an acoustic version (just playing along to his version) and the song ballooned from there.

That version of Right Again was demoed at the same time we demoed Glory and Lucy before going into the studio with Bruce for the Glory single. We never got around to mixing it down. I salvaged the bits and created the demo as it is here in 2004 from the stuff we recorded way back in 2000. It's a weird trip back to where it all began.

Track 25: A semi-hidden track of Where Has She Gone played by Heath, Leigh and I show casing the lyrics Heath wrote for it but we never played live or recorded (properly). Leigh's drums are made up as Heath and I played. Daniel wasn't there. We never played it again.