Jim wrote the songs and started to produce the album but quit when he couldn't get any good vocal tracks out of Meat. Nocturnal Pleasure was originally recorded as "Shadows on the Freeway" for an LA Radio compilation in 1979. Don't know where you can grab a legit copy of the sheet music, but some decent quality scans are on Carpe Jugulum.
> I believe a quick flick through the liner notes shows that
> Jim himself and Jimmy Iovine co-produced basic tracks
> (instrumentation) for the album, so it's reasonable to
> claim
> that Nocturnal Pleasures was recorded when this
> occurred...?
>
> As to sheet music, I'd say 'probably' although I know of
> no 'official' release for this, as was with the two Bat
> albums.
>
> > What can be said about the album? Did Jim write original
> > sheet music for it? We know he wrote the words. And the
> > third track MTYD was for a musical Jim was on board for.
> > But he must have spent some time in the studio. Or else
> > how did "Nocturnal Pleasure" make it on the LP.
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