Description
The Lost Tapes is a studio album by the American rock band The Call, independently released in March 2024.
The Call recorded «Beaten at Your Own Game», «Can’t Find Love», and «Christine» ca. 1978-1980, during a time in which the band called themselves Airtight and, later, Motion Pictures, and before the band cut their first deal with Polygram. «Welcome to My World» is an outtake from 1986’s Into the Woods sessions.
The band submitted the demo «Right Between the Eyes» for the soundtrack of the 1991 motion picture Point Break. The remaining six songs are ca. 1991-1993 after The Call recorded the Live under the Red Moon album (1990). «A Beautiful Lie» features Garth Hudson of The Band along with Danny Timms and the late Tommy Spurlock.
Nearly lost to the sands of time, all of these songs remained unfinished until Jim Goodwin, Tom Ferrier, Scott Musick, and Ralph Patlan returned to the studio in 2023 to add missing tracks. These fully completed versions of previously unreleased songs that you now hold in your hands feature Michael Been’s original lead vocals.
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CD tracklist:
01. Welcome To My World – 4:24
02. Only Love – 3:33
03. Beaten at Your Own Game – 3:43
04. I’m Yours – 5:39
05. Right Between The Eyes – 3:14
06. Can’t Find Love – 2:44
07. Amazed By You – 5:07
08. A Beautiful Lie – 4:52
09. Christine – 3:24
10. Time in a Beer Bottle – 2:24
11. What a Ride – 3:33
Note: Released on both CD and Limited Edition 12-inch vinyl LP. Available at Bandcamp: https://thecall.bandcamp.com/album/the-lost-tapes-new-studio-album
Even with champions like Peter Gabriel, U2, Jim Kerr, and others singing their praises, and songs like “The Walls Came Down,” “I Still Believe” and “Let The Day Begin” scratching out a presence on college and alternative radio, The Call never lived up to the commercial potential their fans knew they deserved. And when frontman, vocalist, and primary songwriter Michael Been passed away in 2010 while on the road with his son Robert Levon Been’s band Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, it became heartbreakingly clear that The Call was on 80s band we would not be hearing more music from. Or would we?
Recently the band found several previously unreleased – and in some cases unfinished songs. The surviving members regathered, adding fresh tracks to fill in the empty spaces, and giving them an incredible polish. They then reached out to fans via a new Kickstarter campaign to raise the funds necessary to release this LOST TAPES project – a campaign that closes in late February 2024. When the band reached out to us, to see if we would like to talk about this incredible project, we jumped at the chance. So on this special episode we sit down with keyboardist Jim Goodwin to hear not only about The Lost Tapes, but about what it was like to write songs, record, and perform with the band back in the day.
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