What is your favourite pre-GT song?

[Automatik]

Razorblade Beat for me.

[Borderliner]

Motown Junk. One of my favorite tracks from FD compilation.

[gracie]

Sorrow 16, always

[Automatik]

I consider Motown Junk to be GT era, and judging by the responses in the thread so far I thought we were discussing 'Turning Rebellion Into Money' tracks.

To be fair, Motown Junk and everything on New Art Riot are better than any of their earliest stuff.

[Geranium Terrorists]

New Art Riot!

[Suicide Aldi]

The original version of tenasea.

[circle-the-wagons]

James said he made a song called 'Jackboot Jonny'.....in his typical modest way he played the song down saying it was terrible and it never surfaced but i'd give a right arm to hear it now!! And there was another called 'Hairdressers Chair' or something!!

Does Spectators of Suicide (Heavenly version) count?? i'll pick that one!

[Automatik]

Originally Posted by circle-the-wagons

And there was another called 'Hairdressers Chair' or something!!

I thought The Hairdresser's Chair was one of James' first attempts at lyrics writing after Richey disappeared? I think it was mentioned in Simon Price's book.

James isn't a bad lyricist so it would be nice if Hairdresser's Chair eventually made it to a b-side or album track.

[circle-the-wagons]

i love James lyrics, i still hanker after another solo album to follow up TGW, happy that it still sounds fresh and criminally underrated and undiscovered to the mainstream after a decade but then thats a good thing i guess.

[jl45]

suicide alley, Tennessee - heavenly spring to mind straight away