I’ve found myself once again (40+ years in) swimming in the earliest BN solo period. By which I mean the era of a possible second Red Noise album/Quit Dreaming, ahead of early harbingers of “The Love That Whirls,” like the “Eros Arriving” double single.
In the “Quit Dreaming” notes, BN indicates that the album contained about 1/3 of the songs/recordings logged during that brief episode.
That statement seems inclusive of both the mobile unit recordings that became “Quit Dreaming” and the entirely home recordings that went onto singles and ABM fan club releases.
The “Transcorder” notes indicate that everything on the ABM singles was a home recording, w/o mobile unit support. (I always wondered about the status of “World and His Wife/Dream Car Romantics/Dancing Music.”)
So… as a geek… I’m curious to know the full list of tracks that were recorded with Leckie and the mobile unit, as opposed to being unadulterated home recordings.
As far as I can discern, that list of mobile unit “outtakes” only includes three songs:
White Sound
Atom Man Loves Radium Girl
Mr. Magnetism Himself
Am I missing anything?
Would it be reasonable, in an open universe of BN sub-curation, to regard these tracks as the most appropriate “bonus tracks” for “Quit Dreaming?” Not suggesting they “fit” the album, but merely that they were recorded in the same situation.
I wish I had some facts to offer here because this is the kind of geeky conversation that I think we should be having more often!
I am a huge fan of the double CD set 'The Two-Fold Aspect of Everything' - expensive to come by these days but worth it. The set is probably very nearly complete in covering everything that wasn't on 'Quit Dreaming' or 'The Love That Whirls' or the fan club EPs (the Transcorder set). Most of what you seem to be trying to do is to separate the stuff from TTFAOE into groups that 'belong' in one place or another, I think.
Are there other recordings from that time that were in anyway released but aren't available as part of one of the four sets (QD, TLTW, TTFAOE and Transc)?