Jay Reatard - You Get No Love / I Am Growing

Jay Reatard
You Get No Love / I Am Growing

Single US 2011 on Shattered Records label
Alternative (Punk)

Back cover reads; "Cover photo by Bullyrook Design by Nicholas Gazin Recorded by Jay at Jay's house on January 11th 2010 Mixed by Jeffrey Novak and Andrija Tokic" Recorded a few days before his death, this along with "You Get No Love" are the last songs Jay would write & record. These songs were only made available on a 7" in an edition of 500 copies for Shattered Records (Jay's label) record club members and family & friends. Included with that record was a note from Cheap Time's Jeffrey Novak (Jay's roommate). It reads as follows: These are the last songs Jay wrote at the beginning of 2010 and recorded on January 8 or 9. l was living with Jay at the time, and we were making plans to start a new band together where we would split the songwriting and vocal duties. Needless to say, we never got the chance to get our band going. For as much as we talked about it and what we wanted it to sound like, we were both too nervy to play the songs we were working on for each other. We were always too busy working on the house or goofing off to ever get around to practicing either. Plus Jay told me he had only written one song after recording Watch Me Fall, which is a lost song he recorded the previous summer. We had been hanging out a lot that whole year while he was working on his last album, and the whole experience of making Watch Me Fall seemed to have drained and stressed him to his limits. I think he was looking at our side project thing as something to get his creative juices ﬂowing again. An escape from his main priorities, like Neil Young's band The Ducks had been in the late 70's, just to have fun again. After the New Year's holiday while I was out of town, Jay recorded these demos on my old worn-out Tascam 488 8-track. He called me that night really excited to tell me about them, since these were the first new songs he'd worked on in months. He had stayed in all day with a cold, and laid around drinking Jameson and watching Fellini movies he rented from Black Lodge. There were no blank cassette tapes around the house, so Jay stuffed a piece a paper in the hole of the recently released Tire Fire tape and recorded over a portion of it, which you can still hear on the recording. I can’t overstate how very lucky and fortunate I feel to have known Jay for as long as I did. He was more than just an amazingly creative, hugely influential force on me and everyone else who understood him. He was something else that I don't know how to put into words. He was a one-of-a- kind person who lived his life the way he wanted ‘til the end. -Jeffrey Novak, November 2010 From JayReatard.com: Major Shattered Club Announcement We had promised an original 7″ exclusively for Shattered Club members. Two days before Jay passed away he recorded two songs at home: “You Get No Love” and “I Am Growing.” They were to be his final recordings. They have never been heard before now. We have pressed these songs onto a 7″ and it will be available only to you. It will not be for sale in any shops, not given to blogs for free download, and will not available digitally. Inside the 7″ you’ll find a personal note written by Jeffrey Novak. http://www.jayreatard.com/2011/01/major-shattered-club-announcement/