some people say that sherwood had to do alot with twitch. tackhead tracks having same drum sounds, same samples here and there kind of prove it. maybe it was all joint effort with sherwood and jourgensen, after all it’s also been said that al gave “move” track (appears on ealy trax) to tackead (appears as m.o.v.e. on tackhead tape time).
then there’s twitched bootleg that supposedly has “original” track order, that announced two things. one was that al included all day on twich because of the sire/warner pressure. no proof of that though, especially in that twitch has different mix from original one on 12" and from the twelve inch singles one. not to mention that single from the album was over the shoulder, along with a video where all was all in new image.
two was that the original medley was “twitch-abortive” which is also kinda doubtful, because twitched has same lorah version of abortive, just cut a minute+ shorter. what is interesting however, is that tracks twitch and isle of man share the same beat. so maybe isle of man and twitch were supposed to be an ending medley, and it was replaced with wuan/c&b/twitch2 in the end, who knows.
i like whole 1984-1987 period very much, all those other songs like he’s angry, nature of love, they have that same “twitchy” sound to them. maybe not halloween, but what the hell. i consider it from the same “style” period.
what is interesting is that ministry used vox-less version of hizbollah on their 1984 shows. at least it got released on lorah, unlike some nice tracks like do you even like it and very very very awesome cover of ricky’s hand. oh, and eyes of christ!
there is a bootleg of twitch tour rehearsals in very very bad quality, that has track “i see red” which eventually became ptp’s my favourite things. the rehearsals also have ealy version of attack ships on fire.
while some folks said that working with revco guys on big sexy land influenced al towards harsher sound on twich. or was it sherwood? or both.
if anything, it’s a shame we still don’t get all the unreleased stuff from that period. early trax was ok, but main problems are that it being overcompressed dynamically and offering very little new stuff (4 tracks in total), while on time of release al said (exact quote) - “i have a wall full of tapes”.
well… release it! sorry for such long post. 
in fact, i’m gonna pop all those tracks and go listen to 'em!
