I COME FROM NOWHERE
See Also: I Came From Nowhere
Greg Shaw continues in the liner notes for the Wild Love album: “But there were other songs, also endlessly rehearsed, that never seemed to get beyond the practice stage, though some have every bit as much potential as the ones taken on the road. Among these I would include ‘Wild Love’, ‘Pin Point Eyes’, ‘Hey Baby’, and ‘How it Hurts’. Most interesting of all is ‘I Come from Nowhere’, a fairly well developed song with impassioned vocals and very personal lyrics, and some magnificent instrumental parts. It’s a pity that they never played this one in their live show (that I know of). Though several rehearsal versions exist, this is the only one that is complete.”
Most of the 13 songs on Wild Love had never previously been released in the U.S. even as bootlegs; most of the Stooges bootleg albums and unofficial releases were made in Europe. According to the song listing, more than half of the songs – “Wild Love”, “I Come from Nowhere”, “Delta Blues Shuffle”, “Old King Live Forever”, “Look So Sweet”, “Mellow Down Easy”, and “Move Ass Baby” – are “never before released in any form, anywhere!” This is a bit over-stated; the album’s liner notes mention other versions of some of these songs that have been bootlegged elsewhere.
I should point out that many of the songs by the Stooges on Wild Love don’t have official names, so Greg Shaw was coming up with his own titles based on what he was hearing. The liner notes cite previous releases of some of the songs with very different names: “Wild Love” showed up on bootleg releases in both France and England as “My Girl Hates My Heroin”; a French bootleg referred to “I Come from Nowhere” as “Born in a Trailer”; and “Till the End of the Night” was on one previous release as “I Got a Problem”.
(December 2017)
