Baby Silvertooth (1992) is a Japan-only release from Belly. It has two tracks from Star plus seven B-sides. It starts with a remix of Gepetto that's faithful to the original. It's the best kind of rock remix- one that switches around certain elements of the song in a subtle way so that you almost wouldn't recognize it as a remix. This EP has a quite a few covers, the first of which is It's Not Unusual, an upbeat version of the Tom Jones song which features handclaps. Trust In Me is interesting- the original is from the Jungle Book soundtrack. Next is a slow song, Dream On Me which was a B-side on the Feed The Tree single. It's dreary, but catchy. Belly's cover of The Flying Burrito Brother's Hot Burrito #1 is beautiful and Julianna Hatfield sings backing vocals. Elvis Costello had covered the song on his album of country covers Almost Blue (under the title "I'm Your Toy")- Belly does a much better job. Sexy S is one of my all-time favorite Belly B-sides. It was track two on the Feed The Tree single along with Dream On Me and the full-band version of "Star". Sexy S is probably Belly's second-noisiest song after "Are You Experienced". Belly's first release Slow Dust featured early versions of the Star tracks "Dusted", "Slow Dog", and "Low Red Moon"; the only true non-album original was a slow song called Dancing Gold (by the way, this song was featured in the record store scene in the movie The Doom Generation). The closing track on the Gepetto single was Sweet Ride and that later became the title of the Best of Belly compilation. Baby Silvertooth closes with the LP version of Feed The Tree.
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