Shellac’s Peel Session performance of “Spoke” was unofficially released on 300 clear vinyl 7"s marked “NOT FOR SALE” and “PROMO USE ONLY” 12 years ahead of the song’s official release on 2007’s Excellent Italian Greyhound.
According to Steve Albini, the song was originally written for that session...
Hold your group together
With Rotosound Strings
Play the drums
[gibberish]
Spoke!
Spoke was written by Todd Trainer & Bob Weston & Steve Albini.
Spoke was produced by Todd Trainer & Bob Weston & Steve Albini.
Albini described how the song was completed at the Peel Session to Exclaim:
The song “Spoke” was originally done for the Peel session and then, for a very long time, we didn’t bother playing it anymore. We sort of wrote it ad-hoc on the airplane trip over to England, where we were gonna play some s...