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LIZ PHAIR - WCSE SESSIONS 1996-97

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LIZ PHAIR
WCSE Sessions 1996-97 [no label, 2CD]
Demos and session tracks. Very good soundboard.

Thanks to dbeamer407 for sharing the tracks at Dime.

dbeamer407 noted:

This demo set has been a holy grail item to track down in lossless quality. They circulate very widely and it appears that even early CD-R copies often had been burned from MP3 files. This copy comes from a CD-R that was sent out by the original compiler. At long last I have been able to find this fascinating material in lossless quality. Now if someone could turn up the 4th Album Roughs in lossless quality (even if only the few tracks that circulate among fans as MP3’s). The few tracks known were originally downloaded in .aif format but as far as I can tell that quality has been lost to time but hey I never thought I would track down this set in full quality either.

Lineage:
CD-R unknown lineage > Exact Audio Copy (secure mode) > Flac

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Disc 1
1996 Studio Recordings (taken from tape 7)
Track 101. Oh My God 0:54
Track 102. Headache 2:41
Track 103. Desperado Theme 2:19
Track 104. Ride 3:14
Track 105. Hurricane Cindy 2:26
Track 106. Rocket Boy 3:27
Track 107. Perfect World 2:15
Track 108. Fantasize 1:56
Track 109. Russian Girl 5:03
Track 110. Stuck On An Island 2:31
Track 111. Tell Me You Like Me 2:48
Track 112. Girls’ Room 1:47
Track 113. I’m Like That 2:35
Track 114. White Bird Of Texas 3:10
Track 115. Freak Of Nature 2:11

1997 Studio Recordings
Track 116. White Chocolate Space Egg 4:24
Track 117. Big Tall Man 3:49
Track 118. Tell Me You Like Me 2:40
Track 119. What Makes You Happy (Partial) 0:54
Track 120. Bars Of The Bed 3:34
Track 121. Blood Keeper 3:45
Track 122. What Makes You Happy 3:31
Track 123. Big Tall Man 3:28

1998 whitechocolatespaceegg Rough Mixes
Track 124. Johnny Feelgood (Rough Mix) 3:15
Track 125. What Makes You Happy (Rough Mix) 3:10
72 mins

Disc 2
1997 whitechocolatespaceegg Running Order (tape 6)
Track 201. White Chocolate Space Egg 4:28
Track 202. Fantasize 1:49
Track 203. Headache 2:44
Track 204. Big Tall Man 3:29
Track 205. Baby Got Going 1:56
Track 206. Only Son 4:58
Track 207. Bars Of The Bed 3:24
Track 208. Oh My God 0:54
Track 209. Ride 2:58
Track 210. White Bird Of Texas 3:11
Track 211. Perfect World 2:15
Track 212. Desperado Theme 1:31
Track 213. Tell Me You Like Me 2:41
Track 214. What Makes You Happy 3:26
Track 215. Freak Of Nature 2:06
Track 216. Girls’ Room 1:44
Track 217. Russian Girl 3:24

Bonus Track (tape 4 - same as disc 1 track 21)
Track 218. Blood Keeper 3:47
51 mins

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