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This is the Rough Stuff.

These are early demos, 'Barnes demos', and rehearsal tapes. Straight from the tape. We have acres of this stuff, and hope we have recovered what was recoverable.

Dr Hindsight has tried to weed out the obvious duffers, but something absolutely dreadful may have slipped in, or something absolutely wonderful fallen out.

This is as rough as it gets.


Track
Size (MB)
Comment
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Keeping Tabs on Israel (rehearsal)
5.60
Rehearsal, Ritz rehearsal rooms. 1976/7. Double A period. Unique thing, slow and moody with a saaaddd story.
Keeping tabs
In The Deli
2.45
1979. What happens between tracks. Band gotta eat.
In the deli
I won't get drunk again
2.63
1978. A 'Barnes demo', the sort of thing devised in bulk by Jon in his Barnes flat with two Revoxes and a drum machine. Rather like this one. And he lied.
Won't get drunk again
Job City
4.43
This and the next five are 'Barnes demos' that never made it to a Movies recording (or anyone else's). Just for fun, 1978-9. This one eerily predicts the Hire/Fire mantra of The Apprentice. Cheeky.
Job City
Broadway Blues
3.57

This is one of those walking tunes that give the feeling of walking down a street, in this case Broadway and why not?

Broadway Blues
Dangerous
4.60
Perky little tune which meant more in 1978 than it does now...
Dangerous
Sayonara Tokyo
3.82
Unfinished (well, they all are) thing about loving & leaving etc etc
Sayonara Tokyo
Prisoner of the Boulevard
3.80
How did Peter Sarstedt get into this?
Prisoner of the Boulevard
These Express Desires
3.17
I do believe someone had a fixation on trains
These Express Desires
The Labrador Retriever
2.55
Wood Farm? I never realized matchboxes were so informative. I shall buy one today.
Labrador Retriever
Groove 1
8.70
Straight off the tape. Rehearsal tracks, 1979. A bit of India, a bit of blues, a bit of God Knows What. Some people seem to like this stuff. Very longggg, and the best stuff is not necessarily at the beginning.
Groove 1
Groove 2
8.37
As above. (See Through Me, Blues, India).
Groove 2
Groove 3
5.82
As above. (Bardot, India twice).
Groove 3
Groove Moscow
7.66
As above. Picks up where In The Deli left off.
Groove Moscow
Chasing Angels (rehearsal)
3.31
1976/7. People think that songs just spring up fully-formed. Here's a monster classic Movies track in embryo, a story rather different from the final cut.
Chasing Angels
Le Club Chaud (rehearsal)
3.05
1976/7. I feel woogie, must be the boogie. Jazz (?) time at the end of a rehearsal session.
Le Club Chaud
Rumour (rehearsal)
2.81
1976/7. These tracks are about Trying Songs Out, learning, and making mistakes. As it happens, this one turned out reasonably, eventually, when it had been reduced to essentials.
Rumour
True Love trouble (rehearsal)
2.45
1976/7. First go at Jools' monster tune. What, no brass?
True Love trouble
Yo Yo (rehearsal)
5.81
1976/7. Just love the way those timbales are warming up at the beginning. And the Sorry after knocking seven bells out of them is hilarious. Bravo!
Yo Yo
Jan Hammered (rehearsal)
10.00
Evidence that, in 76/77, the band could have slipped towards Weather Report (good) or Merv & the MagicTones (bad). As it happens, they did neither. Typical.
Jan Hammered
Buzzy Blues (rehearsal)
4.56
1977, blues jam. Buzzy because someone left their jack plug half in, half out.
Buzzy Blues
Batman (rehearsal)
2.49
Evidence from '77 of how they just sort-of slipped into things.
Batman
Heavenbound (rehearsal)
1.88
1976/7. Odd little thing that came from nowhere and went back the way it came. Nice organ.
Heavenbound
Dancing in space (rehearsal)
4.00
1979. Eerily like the final cut but without Production.
Dancing in space
Lubricate your dentures
5.12
1979. Mouth solo by Viv Growler over the backing track to Have Another Body.
Lubricate
India and CineCita
3.46
1977. A Barnes demo, very basic, heavily featuring the drum machine's more bizarre rhythms and no vocal. The first sign of 'India' plus a (God HowLongDoesThisGoOn) track that meant something to Jools, CineCita.
India Cinecita
I'll never get that truck on the road
2.77
A Barnes demo, whimsical. (Yee Haw). God knows when this one was done.
Truck


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