Curious if you guys still come across this stuff because I only knew about these things when I was younger and didn't have a bazillion bands to check out and was more willing to dig deeper for articles and discussion of my very favourite bands.
Is it still common for bands to have these hidden gems floating around?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 23:10 (seven years ago) link
i think they are more accessible now because of deluxe editions/youtube/prince dying
― kurt schwitterz, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 23:20 (seven years ago) link
Beach Boys/Brian/Dennis stuff:
SMiLE of courseBig Sur It's Over NowStill I Dream Of ItSherry She Needs MeHELP Is On The Way(Wouldn't It be Nice To) Live AgainEcology
― kurt schwitterz
"guess i'm dumb" with brian vox
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 23:22 (seven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I7btG7ySJYU
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 23:24 (seven years ago) link
^no vox for Corgaphobes
yeah i mean it took me like ten years to track down those plant/page sessions in india after i heard about it. today it seems like every day "unreleased tracks" from bands are popping up, frequently from the bands themselves. the long tail is _really_ fucking long these days, and that applies to unreleased recordings as much as it does to anything else.
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 23:25 (seven years ago) link
I meant more modern and young bands. Maybe because they know the internet, they'll be more protective of demos?
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 23:29 (seven years ago) link
Mac DeMarco has put out the demos for all his albums shortly after their release. lots of young bands post demos to soundcloud, youtube, etc
― flappy bird, Thursday, 16 February 2017 00:23 (seven years ago) link
i know this isn't "rock music" per se, but lin-manuel miranda put a bunch of his "hamilton" demos up on soundcloud. for today's bands... i don't know, i feel like they tend to use "demo tapes" for their original purpose - to get people to listen to them! who are the big young-ish artists today? kendrick lamar? his last release was basically demo recordings. frank ocean? he put out "memrise".
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 February 2017 02:19 (seven years ago) link
Prince's version of his "Love...Thy Will Be Done"
― some sad trombone Twilight Zone shit (cryptosicko), Thursday, 16 February 2017 02:41 (seven years ago) link
the incomparable tim smith, and his incomparable dream dress
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBdJDG0abUY
― imago, Thursday, 16 February 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
bonus track: i really, really, really wish lapsus linguae would release their great lost album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eF30125KJTU
― imago, Thursday, 16 February 2017 02:47 (seven years ago) link
Black Walls by Pavement― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, February 15, 2017 7:18 AM (eleven hours ago)
― kornrulez6969, Wednesday, February 15, 2017 7:18 AM (eleven hours ago)
"Black Walls" is just "Spizzle Trunk" slowed down.
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 16 February 2017 03:05 (seven years ago) link
The five unreleased Nick Drake originals on the Family Tree album: They're Leaving Me Behind, Blossom, Bird Flew By, Rain, Come Into the Garden. Although the tape hiss and limited range does give them a particular distanced mystery.
― Hideous Lump, Thursday, 16 February 2017 03:58 (seven years ago) link
https://youtu.be/jVokN8kq8dQ
― earlnash, Thursday, 16 February 2017 04:03 (seven years ago) link
That's the demo of "Peking Spring" by Mission of Burma.
― earlnash, Thursday, 16 February 2017 04:04 (seven years ago) link
Also, "Mayfair" by Nick Drake - the version by Millie (of "My Boy Lollipop" fame) is interesting - arranged by Robert Kirby!
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 February 2017 08:09 (seven years ago) link
Cary Grant's Wedding by the Fall, though the live one is just fine
― Dr X O'Skeleton, Thursday, 16 February 2017 11:08 (seven years ago) link
Ferdinand the Imposter - The Band
and more Dylan - Minstrel Boy - exists only as a particularly ropey basement tape recording which hints at great possibilities for the song that the dull Isle of Wight live performance doesn't fulfil.
― Bongo Herbert (Ward Fowler), Thursday, 16 February 2017 11:25 (seven years ago) link
"Guess I'm Falling In Love" gets all the press, but I really love the Velvets song "Ride Into the Sun". That acetate with Lou's vox on the Australian box set is heaven, but even then I miss the modulation into the long "It's hard to live in the city" outro from the live versions. (That section is also present on Lou's solo version, but God that version is shit.)
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 February 2017 11:55 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, was gonna say that one. The acetate is clearly a studio version, clearly the original tape is long lost.
Search out MoeJadKateBarry for a version of "Guess I'm falling in love", as near as dammit what a VU studio version would have sounded like. Apart from its Jad Fair singing, but hey..
― Mark G, Thursday, 16 February 2017 13:02 (seven years ago) link
"Ariel" (Home Demo) from the Robert Smith solo album that never happened.
― LeRooLeRoo, Thursday, 16 February 2017 13:17 (seven years ago) link
I Know (We Could Be So Happy Baby) (If We Wanted To be) (or however the brackets go) by Jeff Buckley.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, 16 February 2017 13:50 (seven years ago) link
Radiohead's True Love Waits per the 1998 live version with Johnny playing the swirling keyboards. Just heartbreaking.
The Live Recordings 2001 version is just ok and the Moon Shaped Pool version is way too slow and moribund.
― LimbsKing, Thursday, 16 February 2017 14:06 (seven years ago) link
^ Yup. I think they ruined it.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Thursday, 16 February 2017 19:24 (seven years ago) link
The version with Doug Yule singing is nice, has the same structure as the Lou solo version, but drumless and keyboard based.
― Eats like Elvis, shits like De Niro (Tom D.), Thursday, 16 February 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
yeah that is a good version, though i miss the chiming guitars from the acetate version. and as much as i hate "hey jude" endings, the live version where they just jam on "it's hard to live in the city" for like ten minutes is tops!
― increasingly bonkers (rushomancy), Thursday, 16 February 2017 20:35 (seven years ago) link
The whole "From Pink They Fell Into Blue" EP by Melody's Echo Chamber (all demos).
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 17 February 2017 02:29 (seven years ago) link
i love threads like this!
― rip van wanko, Friday, 17 February 2017 02:38 (seven years ago) link
Feminine Complex - Hold Me
― Everything Moves Towards The Sun (Ross), Friday, 17 February 2017 02:40 (seven years ago) link
r.e.m.'s "bad day" was a good answer until they finally released it which they probably shouldn't have
― rip van wanko, Friday, 17 February 2017 02:45 (seven years ago) link
Look Blue Go Purple - Ralta
Joni Mitchell - Hunter
Stina Nordenstam - 'And the Winner Is...' Give Me More of Everything, and Common Miracle (she recorded the first two during the sessions for The World Is Saved sessions, but they didn't make it onto that album, though they were included in a documentary prior to its release)
Jackie DeShannon - Jackie DeShannon - Something in your Blood (she recorded several albums' worth of publisher demos, some of which were successfully peddled to other artists and some of which were left to rot)
Aztec Camera - Green Jacket Grey
Marshall Crenshaw - My Favourite Waste of Time
Nina Nastasia - the four Run to Ruin outtakes that make up her May 3, 2002 Peel Session
― schrute dwyte (unregistered), Friday, 17 February 2017 04:09 (seven years ago) link
Paul Westerburg - Men Without Ties
― it me, Friday, 17 February 2017 04:13 (seven years ago) link
This
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RPEhIoKeTg0
― M.C., Friday, 17 February 2017 18:18 (seven years ago) link
Jon Brion - "Citgo Sign"
His acoustic live versions promise power-pop rapture, but the demo did not deliver those particular goods.
― SlimAndSlam, Saturday, 18 February 2017 04:10 (seven years ago) link
A lot of Spiritalized songs were amazing in early live versions but we're completely rearranged on the albums (and not for the better). "Take Good Care of It" and "Goodnight Goodnight / Funeral Home" are the first two that come to mind.
― NoTimeBeforeTime, Saturday, 18 February 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link
Did "Solicitor in Studio" ever get a studio version?
Its not a lost Fall classic as such, but hey.
― Mark G, Saturday, 18 February 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
Canned Heat - "Pulling Hair Blues"
― timellison, Saturday, 18 February 2017 21:09 (seven years ago) link
The live version was at least released on an album and a best-of, but oh, for a studio version of Polyrock - Warm & Dry
― a passing spacecadet, Saturday, 18 February 2017 22:30 (seven years ago) link
Pavement -- For Sale, The Preston School of Industry
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 19 February 2017 14:21 (seven years ago) link