This is without a doubt my favorite track from this era, so I've always been sad that they never actually put it out. All versions I've found online of this song are almost unlistenable, and after the Long Promised Road soundtrack had some other Paley session tracks in their (mostly) original quality, I figured I'd upload this. I'm pretty sure everyone online is just using the same cassette rip of the original '93ish sessions, so I just found the highest quality and cleaned it up to the best of my ability.
List of things I couldn't fix:
- overall muddiness of the song, this is just down to the source file being a (very bad) cassette rip
- some top-end noise, this too is down to the source being an incredibly shoddy rip. If I had the original tape it's possible I could get a cleaner mixdown, but who knows where this bootleg originated.
- general stereo weirdness. Occasionally the channels will just get really wobbly, reason is the same. I did my best to mitigate this but it still isn't perfect.
Regarding the pitch, there seems to be two versions of these sessions available online, from both official sources and bootlegs, of one set of recordings seemingly sped up by about 10-12%. At first it seems perfectly simple, the slower ones usually sound more correct, so that's that. However, several bootlegs previously slowed down have since received official release, such as Some Sweet Day, Slightly American Music, and Must Be A Miracle, and these songs are all the faster speed and higher pitch. However, they all sound as intended without any question, so I'm willing to bet that the bootlegs we have available are just in such bad quality that it's impossible to know if the vocals are pitched up to sound weird, or if it's just tape warble distorting them. Either way, it varies wildly between tracks, since You're Still A Mystery ended up being the slower version, but Chain Reaction Of Love always sounded more similar in terms of instrumental and vocal performance to "This Song Wants To Sleep With You," a song that did release around the same time, and the faster version seemed to be a closer fit between the two. I compared the falsettos and they seemed to be a closer match, so I kept the faster of the two bootlegs. You're totally free to disagree on this one, but there are more examples of the faster songs being correct than the slower ones.
Anyway, sorry for the lengthy disclaimer, this crap gets complicated when the songwriters go silent like this lol. Hope you all like the restoration all the same!