8th Night of Chanukah: The Pursuit of Happiness - Love Junk demos and more!

Can't believe the final eve of the Festival of Lights is upon us already!  I'm going out with a bang, with one of my most substantial finds in recent years.  You might say this one is for the dedicated, and given the popularity of my previous TPOH entries, I know there will be no shortage of you downloading this robust 90-minute collection of demos (well, mostly demos) that were cut before Todd Rundgren got his hands on Moe Berg and his esteemed co-ed crew.  Not only do you get to revel in prototypes of the majority of the devastatingly phenomenal Love Junk, but there's a startling array of true-blue outtakes that have never seen the light of day in any incarnation ("If You Feel That Way," "One Milkshake, Two Straws" etc).  Fairly revelatory stuff too, with the occasional alternate lyrics, not-quite-solidified arrangements, and the like.  Even before they got signed, the group's telltale harmonies and backups were already baked into the cake, and not so much an invention of Rundgren as I mistakenly long assumed.   
The fact that there are so damn many songs here is the icing in the cake.  There are two live covers: "Last Kiss" (yes, the one Pearl Jam would later to the bank), and an homage to Runt himself with a version of "Couldn't I Just Tell You," though sadly that one is an incomplete recording that I gracefully faded out (sorry).  Tracks 22-25 were culled from TPOH's independently released I'm An Adult Now ep, which I made available here way back when.  If you're looking for a little dessert, may I point you to some of Moe's pre-TPOH endeavors, Modern Minds and Facecrime as well.  As for the main course, do enjoy.

01. I'm An Adult Now
02. Revolutionary
03. If You Feel That Way
04. All I Want (live)
05. Handsomest Man, Prettiest Girl
06. Shave Your Legs
07. Talk and Talk
08. Filling in the Spaces
09. Make It Through the Summer
10. When The Sky Comes Falling
11. Hard to Laugh
12. Looking For Girls
13. Last Kiss (live)
14. Killed By Love
15. Take You With Me
16. Wake Up and Smell Cathy
17. Walking in the Woods
18. One Milkshake, Two Straws
19. Ten Fingers
20. Man's Best Friend
21. Down On Him
22. I'm An Adult Now (radio mix)
23. She's So Young
24. All I Want
25. Killed By Love
26. Couldn't I Just Tell You (live) (cuts)

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