All things considered I'm glad things played out the way they did with those two songs.
The two versions of RARD are different enough to stand on their own merits.
A 1981 Meat RARD would as you say have just become a lost song I think, and a 1981 Jim/Rory Deadringer would have been a filler on Bad For Good and would possibly have never been recorded by Meat. Admittedly that latter possibility would also have resulted in Meat not leaning on it so heavily in his live shows now, perhaps we'd hear more of Peel Out or I'll Kill You If You Don't Come Back?
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