Luxury – Nude at Last

Luxury
Nude at Last
1996 (no label)

1. Honeymoon
2. I Don’t Hate Her Anymore
3. Velvet
4. Touch
5. Flaming Youth Flames On
6. When the Curtain Falls
7. From the Lion Within
8. Hell or Highwater

This tape was a compilation put together by Luxury after their first Tooth & Nail release Amazing and Thank You, but before their second release The Latest & The Greatest. It mostly contains songs off of previous (at that point) releases and two preview songs from the upcoming release. “Honeymoon” and ” I Don’t Hate Her Anymore” were the lead tracks from Tinsel by The Shroud (the first name for Luxury). “Velvet” and “Touch” were the first two tracks from Candy, Darling? by Shroud (the second name for Luxury). “Flaming Youth Flames On” is the original version of this song, originally released on the band’s split with Sunbrain (as well as their self-titled blue demo). This version is different from the version later on Amazing and Thank You. “When the Curtain Falls” is the version that was the closing track on Luxury’s demo It Might as Well Be Skin. The two new songs (as the time of this release) – “From the Lion Within” and ” Hell or Highwater” – were both later released on The Latest & The Greatest, and the versions here sound the same as the ones on the official release. So you can pretty much find all of these versions of these songs on their BandCamp page, with the exception of the early version of “Flaming Youth Flames On.” However, the final version of that song is on their page.