NAC: Does anybody know where the full audio for songs like "Faces Like Mine" and "Willow" (the lyrical one) came from? I know that at least a snippet of the former came from one of EA's old sites, but I'm not sure whether or not it was the full song. Thanks!
Faces Like Mine and Willow were both released as a free digital download on the original forum site, I believe! You might want to check @shefightslikeagirl though, as my memory from way back when is rather fuzzy.
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Quick Answer: Battered Rose (RIP) had these up for download, which means that at some point they were both available on either the old EA website or on the forums.
Long Answer: Willow was originally written by EA as a duet for herself and Morrisey. Harkening back to forum days, I believe there was a journal entry where she said she threw a demo of the song up on the stage at one of his concerts, with hopes he would listen to it. I’d imagine that was where this song first popped up.
Faces Like Mine has a more vague story. It popped up as a song intended for The Jane Brooks Project (thanks, WayBack machine!), but I have absolutely no idea where the full file was posted online. It could have been online in the early days of the forum or Traitor Records had the full song up for preview. It lived on Battered Rose for a long time and in wingedzypher’s lyric videos on YouTube (deactivated). I’m 90% sure the demo is a live recording. It could have also popped upon the mythical forum-before-the-forum from the early Enchant days, but I haven’t ever been able to access the site.