Rare Seeds
by The Seeds
2001 album
Rare Seeds isn’t really a Seeds album per se. Rather, it’s the second half of a disc called Raw & Alive/Rare Seeds, issued by Edsel Records in 2001. It was the third in a series of three Seeds CDs from Edsel that gathered most of the band’s then-available sixties stuff together – this one featured the entire 1968 Raw & Alive album (with crowd noises) plus these disparate Seeds rarities. There was nothing new on Rare Seeds at the time of its release. (And this wasn’t actually everything available at the time – where, for example, is the original “Satan” version of "The Wind Blows Your Hair"?)
Rare Seeds is excellent, but not an album that was actually released on its own. It has since been superseded by the Big Beat reissues of The Seeds’ albums, although if you find a copy of Raw & Alive/Rare Seeds it may be worth picking up if the price is right.
About the songs on Rare Seeds
- "Daisy Mae"
1965 B-side - "The Other Place"
1966 B-side - "Lose Your Mind"
From The Seeds, but it didn’t fit on Edsel’s The Seeds/A Web Of Sound disc. Boo. - "She's Wrong"
Outtake, first released on Fallin' Off The Edge - "Chocolate River"
Outtake, first released on Fallin' Off The Edge - "Sad And Alone"
Outtake, first released on Travel With Your Mind - "The Wind Blows Your Hair"
1967 A-side - "Satisfy You"
Without crowd noise. First released on Travel With Your Mind - "900 Million People Daily (All Making Love)"
Complete and without crowd noise. First released on Travel With Your Mind - "Wild Blood"
1969 B-side - "Fallin' Off The Edge Of My Mind"
1969 A-side
