Rotten Apples (song)

"Rotten Apples" is a song from the box set The Aeroplane Flies High, originally released on the "Tonight, Tonight" single and later on Judas O and Rarities and B-Sides. A home demo that I just didn't have the heart or energy to go back and record. I like the lyrics a lot, and if I had spent more time on it it probably should have been on the album. It was written in the initial post-Lollapalooza batch ('33,' 'Jupiter's Lament,' 'Methusela,' 'Ugly') of acoustically tinged songs. It has double-tracked, finger picked guitar-all the better to hide those little mistakes-with a few choice keyboard overdubs bleeding through the vocal mikes.