Somewhere between Candy and Electric Angels & Kill for Thrills lie the great lost Candy months. After Kyle Vincent, but before the split, Candy gave it one more go with Gilby Clarke moving to lead vocals and Ryan Roxie coming in on guitar. But the next record deal never came and all we were left with were some rough home demos of what would've been the second Candy record.
As with the Candy record, the Gilby demos featured classic Jonathan Daniel lyrics wrapped around some of the catchiest melodies put to tape. And there are even a few Gilby originals in there as well, which show how good a songwriter he is in his own right. The real jewel here for Candy fans is the early version of "True Love & Other Fairy Tales", which ended up on the Electric Angels record as a wonderful, string-laden ballad, but here it gets the power-pop treatment. Also, hidden in the lyrics of one of the songs is the future band name for some of the guys...can you find it? Leave me a comment if you did! Now, for possibly the first time on the internet, taken from an original first generation demo tape, here are one set of Candy demos for the second record....
Track Listing:
True Love & Other Fairy Tales
Johnny Was an Angel
Thunder
Red, White & Blue
My Favorite Star
You Only Go Around Once
Goodbye Goodtimes
Everyday is Saturday Night
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Many thanks for this rare stuff!
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The SRM
I haven't listened all the way through yet but I'm going to guess...is it Kill for Thrills? Anyhow, THANK YOU for sharing the memories and the CANDY. SO RAD! I'm really digging your blog and hope to see more in the near future!?!?!?
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