TORA TORA – Miss B. Haven’; The Unreleased Wild America Recordings
To make it more complete the Bad Reputation Records remastered reissue of TORA TORA‘s Wild America featured here yesterday, here’s “Miss B. Haven’; The Unreleased Recordings”, comprising 13 tracks / demos that were written for the Wild America album.
While recorded during the pre-production stage of the LP, these songs did not make it into the final album track list.
To me, “Wild America” was a quantum leap ahead of their debut album Surprise Attack – the band really hit their stride here and was simply in the zone.
Not surprisingly, this batch of 13 tracks recorded during the “Wild America” sessions contain a lot of standouts. This is not a case of ‘leftovers’, any of these songs are on par in terms of quality with the ones that ended on the final release.
“Wild America” could have been a double record – in 1992, it seems Tora Tora could crank out endless radio-friendly rockers.
Despite being of demo quality (mostly very good), “Miss B. Haven'” is loaded with thunderous, infectious rockers, where the hooks and catchy riffs jump right out at you.
Highlights include “Take It As You Like It”, “Ain’t Nothin’ To It”, “Bite the Bullet”, and “Serious”, but all are really good.
“Miss B. Haven’; The Unreleased Wild America Recordings” is not only for ‘completists’; these songs are top notch and easily could have been considered for another official album from Tora Tora.
Seriously, ‘Wild America’ may have been a Double-Album, but it was 1992 and not an option for record company executives at the time.
Highly Recommended
01 – Take It As You Like It
02 – Ain’t Nothin To It
03 – b-song
04 – Bite The Bullet
05 – Ride The Wind
06 – Can You Take My Blues Away
07 – Mary Wants Some
08 – Time To Let You Go
09 – Serious
10 – Bad Attitude
11 – Who Am I To Blame (Bonus Track)
12 – Love And War (Bonus Track)
13 – Down On You (Bonus Track)
Anthony Corder – lead and backing vocals
Keith Douglas – guitars
Patrick Francis – bass
John Patterson – drums, percussion
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