| Track |
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Comment
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| Red
Moon Rising |
4.69
|
Outstanding
track! 1978, November, Roundhouse studios, demo. A MUST for the
Movies fan. It's major! Not making a proper job of Red Moon was a
Big Mistake. Could have been a monster, not a hit, just something
totally Good. RMR goes straight into my top 10. Authentic tape hiss!
(Steady on, Hindsight old boy). |
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| Prima
Donna |
3.41
|
1978
demo. European without being hot pants and bom-bom-bom. |
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| Moscow |
5.03
|
1979
demo. Bangs along. Why o why didn't they just change a few words and
keep this instead of turning it into Clockwise into the Sun? O well,
another What Might Have Been ... |
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| Art |
3.07
|
1980.
Various versions exist. This is a demo before the last album recorded
at RCA New York. Viv Growler (aka C.Gibson) on vocal. |
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| You
love Ava |
4.70
|
IPS
studios, 1978. Over-long but melodious demo seemingly about a young
lady with a crush on a young gentleman of indeterminate gender. |
|
| Tear
me down |
4.21
|
1978
demo. The premise, that an atom bomb is capable of singing, strikes
me as particularly worrying. I'd have paid good money for that. Recorded
when Pete Townsend was briefly in the frame with his Propellor Records. |
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| More
Wages |
3.24
|
1980.
Perhaps more a rehearsal than a demo. Jools may have a better version.
Stonking harp solo on a track that recalls all sorts of Madness. |
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| If
I was made of glass |
4.76
|
1979
demo. Original casual version of 'See through me'. |
|
India,
the beginning
|
7.10
|
Rehearsal.
Wood Farm, Suffolk, April 1979. God,
they don't harf go on. How they all managed to stay alive through
that lot I do not know. |
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| Keeping
tabs on Israel |
5.13
|
From
Mick Parker. Twinkly demo of the saaad song of which there's a rehearsal
in the Rough section. 1976/7. |
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| Standing
on a piece of love |
3.01
|
Jools'
tune, demo, same era as Art etc. Actually, you know, I was in 2 minds
about putting this in, because it's for Jools to say, but you know,
why not? Hey, it's OK. |
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| White
boys on the town |
4.63
|
From
Mick Parker. Oddly eager Bernstein track that I remember from the
Nashville Rooms period. 76/7. Had no idea we'd actually done a demo.
Interestingly huge compression makes for a surreal quality. |
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| School
of Love |
2.44
|
From
Mick Parker. O, Youth. 76/7. Some fair clattering going on in the
basement. |
|
(From)
Casablanca*
|
4.81
|
Rehearsal.
Wood Farm, Suffolk, April 1979.
Not a complete rough, with the beginnings of Production. |
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| Last
Train (Whoops) |
4.34
|
Demo
of Last Train, 1979. Remarkable for its replacement of 'Pepsi' with
'Whoops' due to concerns over copyright. Hysterical! |
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| Smokeless
Zone |
4.98
|
1980,
demo done during recording of the last album at RCA New York. Original
was entitled Rock with your Radio, and was probably better but not
so antecedent of British '80s bands. |
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| And
then I kissed her |
1.94
|
1979-ish.
Taped in a rehearsal room. Strange attempt at a punk version. Viv
Growler (aka Colin Gibson) on vocal. Phil Spector would go puce. |
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| Release
it |
3.26
|
Early
'78 demo. ABBA moments in the backing track behind Jools' tune. |
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| Everybody
in America |
2.72
|
1980,
demo done during recording of the last album at RCA New York. Politically
daft - and not as good as I remembered it. |
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| Coronation
|
5.56
|
1978,
November, Roundhouse studios, demo. The singer had the flu. An optimistically
surreal track which was obviously an effort to become Band Laureate. |
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| Rollercoaster
Man |
3.79
|
Muddy,
difficult tape to restore. 1976/7. One of the tracks that didn't make
it to Double A. |
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| Hands
across the ocean |
4.51
|
As
above. |
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| Man
Worry |
2.60
|
1978,
recorded in the Bullets sessions. This is only a backing track. On
top of this Alexis Korner came in for a slide duet, and it was recorded.
Imagine my horror to find that this doesn't have him on it! If someone
has the cut with AK on it - gimme! Nice clean track, but no Alexis! |
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| Mafioso |
5.19
|
1977/8.
Daft track about wanting to be in the Mafia. Only gets fun when the
sound effects kick in. |
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| Arlene |
4.70
|
1978,
November, Roundhouse studios, demo. Gross, warts and all, flu-ridden
voice already worn out by RMR and Coronation. Musicologists will spot
the link with Horror Story. |
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