Favorite Resurrection Band Song - Music To Raise the Dead

I cannot believe I forgot to do this last Sunday! I thought about it on Saturday, but by Sunday ... woosh! Gone from my mind. I'm like that with birthdays and anniversaries too; I'll remember them up to the day before, then realize three or four days later that I forgot about them when it mattered. Oy vey!

So let's start this off, shall we?



Our first Favorite Resurrection Band Song poll consists of all the songs from the band's 1974 demo tape, Music to Raise the Dead. I remember when I first got this tape; I had a little trouble getting into it, because it was so much what I knew Resurrection Band to not be. And yet, if one looks at the band's entire history and includes all the songs they have done, it is actually exactly what they are: bluesy, gritty, thought-provoking, bare, and just plain good. Yea, the production stinks. But what do you expect? It was a demo tape given away at concerts and never officially released or distributed to the general public. In fact, you can't even get it from Grrr Records, the band's own distribution company, 40 years after it was made. Wow! Has it really been 40 years!!?? Suddenly I feel so old.



While all the songs on this tape are good, in their own 1970's folksy/bluesy way, my two favorites are "There Will Be Fire" and "Quite Enough", with the latter winning my vote in the poll.

If you are wondering about All Your Life, Resurrection Band's other demo tape from 1974, and why there's no poll for that one, check this thread out.

Although I said I would wait a week between each of these, since this is just a demo tape, and because I am so tardy in getting this one up, I will do the next one on Sunday as originally planned. Besides, based on the comments in the Favorite Resurrection Band Album thread, I am betting I am one of just a few that actually have this tape.

Yep, I've got it.  Down Baby is the song I keep remembering from this album, although isn't Quite Enough on something later too?  Maybe Live Bootleg?

^^ Yep. I remember when that record came out I didn't have MTRTD yet, and I thought it was strange that Glenn would say, "Here's a song a lot of people ask us to do," followed by a song that wasn't on any of their records.

I've heard this (but don't own it). I have to confess I wasn't a huge fan of it (not like their later output in the 80's and 90's)