In 1992, while recording Poor Man's Copyright (what most people know as "The Rand and Adam Tape") we improvised a song called "Baby's Head," mostly because we had 15 songs, and wanted to put out a tape with an even number of songs on each side. This is not a song we were particularly proud of, but a certain segment of our fanbase really took a shine to it.

While many songs from this tape have been recorded "for real" in the subsequent years, this is one that we always swore we'd never rerecord -- mostly because of our belief that whatever charm the song had was due to its improvisational nature. This has caused the song to take on an unearned infamy, and we've spent the last 30 years amusingly flummoxed when people ask us to play this one live.

Over the last few months, we've been experimenting with creating live backing tracks -- using AI to strip the vocals from the songs -- and former Ookla member (and owner of Watchmen Studios) Doug White recently surprised us with this track. He went the other way, stripping our acoustic guitar from "Baby's Head" and adding new drums, bass, and electric guitars under our original vocals, maintaining the "integrity" of the original improvisation, while providing something much more listenable. So what you're listening to are vocals recorded in 1992 and instruments recorded in 2024.

Enjoy!