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Unreleased Trevor Horn Project
Hey, Lisa has just name checked a track on the unreleased Trevor Horn project.
She just mentioned a track called "A Wish for You" - which has been wrongly named as "I'm in love again"- track 3 on the Trevor Horn project which was bootlegged and titled under the "Friendly Fire" title.
(Hope I have got that right)
Anyway, if you read this Lisa (or Wendy) could you give us any other information on this project, a boot CD was available with the following tracklisting:
- The guise of love
- Drive all night
- I'm in love again
- Sample of unknown 4th song(Which we now know to be "Lower" but with vox)
- Viste
- Diggin' to China
- I wanna get on
- The give
- So high
- Madmen swim upstream
- If I were brave
- I've got a big bowl of cherries
Was this the correct tracklisting and was the project called "Friendly Fire"??
Dan (UK)
April 28th, 2009 at 5:26 pm
well, let me first say that this ISN'T the actual shelved Trevor album, entirely. This particular collection of tunes was a MIX tape used by GOLD MOUNTAIN ENTERTAINMENT (wendy & lisa's manager's at the time...which happens to be me, again, now) as a Wendy & Lisa primer for certain media outlets and music type peeps. Looks like someone was a fan and ripped the CASSETTE into mp3s. On the version that you have, the last 3 songs are from the demos that would become the GIRL BROS. album.
And, no, the album was not named "Friendly Fire." It never even evolved to a point of being named anything other than the inside joke name we had for it, which was "Costly Demos."
This is the REAL and true track listing for the lost Wendy & Lisa ZTT record:
SO HIGH
I HOPE THIS NITE
A WISH FOR YOU
1000 YEARS
THE GIVE
I WANNA GET ON
DIGGING TO CHINA
THE GUISE OF LOVE
THE VIGIL
LOWER
THE DEVIL
FRIENDLY FIRE
VISTE
WITHOUT LOVE (INSTRUMENTAL VERSION) **there is a version with vocals as well, but it appeared as an instrumental in the "original" demo of this album**
April 29th, 2009 at 2:22 am
Thanks for the info Renata!
Great to see the proper titles for these songs.
Do know if Wendy & Lisa intend to ever sell these thru the new site? (I'm first in the que BTW! lol)
as the circulating boot is of bad quality and I have not heard "1000 Years" "The Vigal" "The Devil"
or "Lower" (with full with vocals and in full!!)
cheerz
Dan
June 5th, 2009 at 12:57 am
RENATA IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD.
WENDY
April 30th, 2009 at 4:03 am
Thanks for posting that Renata. Am smirking at the "costly demos" name :-)
Interesting to hear Madmen Swim Upstream was never part of that project. I have the same CD as Dan it seems so assumed it was.
Hopefully we may get to hear the "unheard" tracks at some point too -)
April 30th, 2009 at 2:17 pm
tripfaller said:
Interesting to hear Madmen Swim Upstream was never part of that project. I have the same CD as Dan it seems so assumed it was.
Madmen Swim Upstream was a Girl Bros. album track that didn't make the final round.
April 30th, 2009 at 2:13 pm
unfortunately, the songs in this form will never ever see the light of day as ZTT are the owners of the masters. see kids, DON'T SIGN A RECORD DEAL UNLESS THE MASTERS REVERT BACK TO YOU! which never happens...and again, brings us full circle and why we set WFOWC up as a total and complete indie release.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:23 am
Hi Renata,
Both "Viste" and "Friendly Fire" got released as extras for the recent album downloads from this site - could that not happen with the other tracks?
May 14th, 2009 at 2:22 pm
eroica29 said:
May 14th, 2009 at 8:23 am
Hi Renata,
Both "Viste" and "Friendly Fire" got released as extras for the recent album downloads from this site - could that not happen with the other tracks?
HI -- good question. we were able to include VISTE because this version was actually the original version created as a birthday gift for our friend Maxine and pre-dates any Trevor Horn involvement. (at some point over the next couple of years, trevor horn heard that version, and wanted to re-do it for the "album.")
We didn't release any songs named "Friendly Fire" as a bonus track, so maybe you can clarify that part of your question.
It is unlikely that will happen again . the only way any of those other songs would ever see the light of day is if we found the original demos made in Wendy & Lisa's studio at the time (which were "lost" by ZTT) or we re-recorded them. I also think W&L have personally moved well past that material to even want to revisit it at this point.
June 3rd, 2009 at 1:27 am
Thats right and true for those songs. We had written and recorded them at home before or perhaps during our relationship with Trevor, but they were home ''demos'', not paid for by the label.
Ching Ching!
waaah......
June 12th, 2009 at 10:50 am
For an unreleased project it is certainly well known, and regarded, round here it seems.
If any Girl Brethren have yet to hear it, I'd be happy to help out. I wouldn't have offered "publicly" before but after the org interview it seems W & L have no problem with us all hearing it :-)
Feel free to send me sweet tweets @tripfaller or email alanhowie@aol.com and I'll sort out a downloadable format or can burn a CD and snail mail it.
Al
January 24th, 2010 at 2:35 am
Thanks to tripfaller I've now heard this infamous album!
I don't know what I expected but the instrumentation is fabulous, some excellent guitar work. Forgive my ignorance but I take it this was just the demos and not the recorded album? I ask as normally there tends to be a 'Trevor Horn sound' that comes across on any of his productions and I genuinely cannot hear any involvement from him here. If you go by 'Closing of the Year,' a superb song in its own right, you can tell he wrote and produced it.
I was intrigued that the bass seemed to be mixed quite highly on these songs, was this just the way they turned out or was that an actual choice? I initially thought that may have been Mr Horn, as I know he is a bass player himself.
The songs do fit into the jigsaw between Eroica and Girl Bros and haven't dated at all. I assume these were recorded around 1992/1993?
I have to admit - having known the project wasn't called 'Friendly Fires' or had any title at all, I did listen to the lyrics for any ideas what it could have been called, had it have been (or is ever) released. The best I came up with:
The Best Day in Hell (quite apt given the circumstances surrounding its creation)
States of Hell (variation on a theme)
Myra - it appeared in one of the lyrics and I don't know why, I quite liked that as an album name.
As much as I do like the songs, and not too much of a fan of modern urban/soul which they seem to fit into, I strangely cannot imagine them ever being released. It's great that I have been able to listen to them (curious soul that I am) but in the "canon" of Wendy and Lisa material, I wouldn't be concerned with them never seeing the light of day. Maybe the production would have to match that of White Flags for me to be interested. Like I say great songs, top notch musicianship, but time has passed.
Thanks Alan