THE “NOW” SOUND OF THE TELL-TALE HEARTS
Due to their dissatisfaction with the way the album The Tell-Tale Hearts sounded, the Tell-Tale Hearts recorded 6 songs in early 1985 at a San Diego studio for an EP sarcastically called The “Now” Sound of the Tell-Tale Hearts that also came out on Voxx Records.
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The retrospective album that I own by the Tell-Tale Hearts, High Tide (Big Noses & Pizza Faces) came out in 1994 on Voxx Records, collecting 6 songs from The Tell-Tale Hearts (after being remixed to recapture their original sound); 5 from The “Now” Sound of the Tell-Tale Hearts; the 1986 single mentioned above, “Promise” b/w “Too Many Lovers”; 5 demos dating from early 1984; and 3 live performances. Nine of the songs are previously unreleased. Among the demos is a particularly welcome version of “Crackin’ Up”; “Crackin’ Up” by the Wig is listed on the cover of both the Pebbles, Volume 1 LP and the Pebbles, Volume 1 CD but is not actually included on the album.
(September 2017)
