2009 Remastered Version. Death Valley '69 was originally released on a 1984 7" backed with Brave Men Run. Both songs were demo versions recorded in July '84. Death Valley is slightly slower than the Bad Moon Rising version released later. There also isn't as much lyrical interplay between Lydia and Thurston. This download is an ALAC file. The Apple Lossless Audio Codec is an audio format developed by Apple for lossless data compression of digital music. Apple Lossless data is stored within an MP4 container with the filename extension .m4a, either in desktop operating systems (Mac OS or Windows) or iOS devices. All current iDevices can play ALAC–encoded files.