Alfie

Girl In The Mirror

Perfect Stranger

Nicotine Girlfriend

In Your Closet

Morris

Looking Through A Window

Boy In The Car

Timeless Smiles had many line ups, but the final incarnation of Samuel T Barber on guitar, Kit Good on bass, Bruce H Renshaw on drums and Andrew Wood on vocals proved to be the difinitive, thanks to this selction of four track demos. The best four track demos this writer has ever heard.

Recorded circa 1993/94. The playing isn't always perfect (though is pretty good) but the songs are wonderful. Recorded with mastery by Samuel on equipment that needed nursing (he'd had lots of practice by then!) The levels are excellent and everything can be heard.

I've recorded the songs into Audacity, via an old cassete copy I had (I only have half the songs unfortunately). I've touched a couple of things up, primarily removing the tape hiss (easy to do on Audacity), bringing out the bass a touch and brightening the cymbals a little with some subtle EQ. I think the result is good!

Smiles trivia:

I'm proud to say I contributed by playing piano on "Nicotine Girlfriend". However, my piano part (played on Bruce's parent's piano) was a little sharper than Sam's temporary guitar backing track and Andrew's vocals. When the backing track was taken away the net result was Andrew's singing sounded flat. Hardly his fault! But nevermind.

Enjoy!

Andrew Ibbotson (No.1 fan)

Timeless Smiles

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