Date: 1992-xx-xx

Location: Fort Apache Studios

Tracks:

1. Someone to Die For
2. White Belly
3. Feed the Tree
4. Witch
5. Sad Dress
6. Angel
7. Star
8. Slow Dog
9. Dusted
10. Every Word

Personnel:

Tanya Donelly: guitars and vocals

Joe Harvard: lap steel

Kim Deal: additional guitar on White Belly and Feed the Tree

In Archive?: Yes

Notes:

Tanya Donelly:

“They were originally meant to be the second Breeders album, so Kim plays on a couple. She plays the high solo on White Belly and the counter-lead stuff on Feed the Tree. That’s what I recall. White Belly was co-written with Fred Abong, but for some reason he didn’t play on it. I think possibly because it was intended for the Breeders, and we weren’t planning to start a post-Muses band together at that time. It wasn’t long after these demos were recorded that I decided to start my own thing and form Belly, and Fred came along. To be honest, I’m very fuzzy on my own chronology and some details. Some of the vocals are oddly low — I think that was my taste at the time, which is too bad. And I was very self-conscious about my voice, sometimes justifiably. And it is all extremely spare, mostly just electric guitar and vocal. But I think in general, these are pretty good, and at least interesting if you liked Star.

Re: Slow Dog — Mariah Carey hadn’t surfaced yet when I wrote this song. This is a very old song that I sat on for a while. The first time I heard her name was when a couple of the Pavement guys (who got the demo from someone who worked at 4ad at the time) said they liked the song I wrote about Mariah Carey. So Mariah became Maria. I always missed Mariah.” “So there was a point where ‘the deal’ was that she would write the first album and then I would write the second. In fact, all of the demos for Star are all labeled ‘The Breeders’ and she [Kim] played them with me. Those songs were originally going to be the second Breeders album.”