Songs included in part 2:

Fear Of The Sun º

Jumping Lorries Again

Nothing To Be Proud Of **

She's In Our Bed *

Viva Che

Over the years, the demo tape for Priceless Innuendo—which Cath kept after the recording sessions ended, and which lived for a while at the bottom of a suitcase after she relocated to Chicago in 1990—attained a kind of mythical status. Did it exist? What did the songs sound like? Would they ever come to light? Miaow fans were tantalized when “Carnal Drag” and “Fear of the Sun” appeared on the When It All Comes Down compilation. Those songs had been pulled from the aging, brittle tape and restored by Kerry Kelekovich, Cath’s husband and present-day collaborator. New technology has allowed him to rescue the rest of the material on the cassette as well.

How do the songs on Priceless Innuendo sound to Cath now?

“Some of them, lyrically—I want to stuff myself in a box. Others are quite funny. I’m surprised at how free we were to just start playing and actually have the audacity to put out whatever came out without considering what people would think of it. I wish that we had had the chance to elaborate on them and actually put them down properly.”

We can only conjecture as to what the finished version of the album would have sounded like had it come to fruition. But the blueprints that remain capture a band creating and performing at its peak. Nearly a quarter of a century later, Miaow’s debut sounds fresh and vital. It turns out that Priceless Innuendo was worth the wait. -Peter Terzian Feb. 2010 Read the entire essay here.