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Thanks for sharing that Paste interview! It answered some questions that I had - primarily, why the studio version of "Blue Flower" wasn't on the 30th anniv edition (which was originally a bonus track for the U.S. release). I didn't know Ian didn't want it on the album and didn't think it was that good (I like it - and the Slapp Happy original and the Mazzy Star cover too). I got the CD version of the 30th anniv edition and was frankly a little baffled, thinking "there is plenty of space on the CDs for more bonus tracks!" So that's addressed in the interview:

Paste: Is that part of the reason that that song and the other b-side from the “Throwing Back The Apple” single didn’t get included in this reissue?

Ian: I think it was more or less a decision to try and keep to the tracks that were on the original LP, demos of those and the brass band recordings because it would have been too expensive to have a double LP plus 7”. Those may get put on another compilation at some point.

Having the non-demo version of "Kinky Love" would have been nice, too - but if they end up putting out another compilation, as Ian mentions, that's cool too.

I also wish the 30th anniv edition booklet had a little more effort go into it - at least, more than just a few (small) photos and three quotes from band members.

Spoonfed Hybrid album being re-released for Record Store Day with album of demo versions.

Gonna have to dig out Hibernation Shock this weekend. Found it in a used bin a few years back and have only listened to it once, I think.

Enjoy!

Rotten news -- Graeme Naysmith has passed:

RIP! The other day I was just lolling at a silly picture of him someone posted on ig.

Good, honest post from Ian M. earlier today on FB:

I have a few words I'd like to write at this sad time. Comments are closed. Just read and digest, please.
It wasn't a secret that Graeme and I didn't speak after I left Pale Saints. Our musical paths had already diverged. There was no ill feeling between us. It was simply no longer necessary to say any more when music was the only thing that connected us.
Even after you stop making music with someone, and cease to know them, you have an unbreakable musical bond with them, because you set aside differences to make that music with them, and that music endures for a longer time.
So I'll always respect the bond, a bond which defies comprehension for me, that allowed the 3 of us collaborate to make the music that led to the 1st album, and then the 4 of us to make the 2nd album. Because neither of those albums could have occurred without each member's vital contributions, the unconscious channeling of each musical spirit. A chance meeting that changed our lives.
During the time I knew him, Graeme lived for music, and his enthusiasm for it neither wavered nor waned. A true music maniac and aficionado. I never heard him express a desire to do anything else.
I send my condolences to all who knew and loved him.

Thanks for that, Ned.