It is currently Thu Mar 28, 2024 9:59 pm

All times are UTC




Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 317 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 ... 22  Next
Author Message
PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 8:05 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:36 pm
Posts: 219
Location: Saint Marys, Georgia
Are these Is This Desire & Stories demos like the TBYML demos? Are they almost identical to the finalized versions on the records? But with less instruments? The TBYML demos sounded almost exactly the same as the finalized versions.

_________________
Owen! Food! Don't you in-a-minute momma me! Get off your fat little ass or I'll break it for you! I want two soft-boiled eggs, white toast, and some of that grape jelly, God Damnit! And don't burn the toast! Move it, fat boy!


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:16 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:36 pm
Posts: 219
Location: Saint Marys, Georgia
GerriSferrazza wrote:
Are these Is This Desire & Stories demos like the TBYML demos? Are they almost identical to the finalized versions on the records? But with less instruments? The TBYML demos sounded almost exactly the same as the finalized versions.


Never mind. I checked the track listing times against the Is This Desire finalized versions and they’re all identical lengths. So, it’s another case of the demos being the versions that went onto becoming the finalized versions. Polly just had the band work on top on them. Just like the TBYML demos. Too bad. I guess the Dry & Rid of Me demos were the only ones that were completely different from the finalized versions.

_________________
Owen! Food! Don't you in-a-minute momma me! Get off your fat little ass or I'll break it for you! I want two soft-boiled eggs, white toast, and some of that grape jelly, God Damnit! And don't burn the toast! Move it, fat boy!


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Jan 23, 2021 10:19 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:18 am
Posts: 212
I think only tracks 1, 3, 5, and 7 on TBYML used tracks from the demos, no? The rest sound like they were built using new foundational tracks.

Only 3 of the ITD? demos have been heard so far, so no one knows the answer yet, I’m afraid. January 29 the whole thing’ll be released.

Edited to add: I guess “C’Mon Billy” used the same acoustic guitar as on the demo. But the rest are all completely different.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sun Jan 24, 2021 11:24 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:23 pm
Posts: 468
The snippet of "The Garden" demo sounds very different to the album version. She definitely used some demo recordings in the final versions of TBYML and ITD but I wouldn't go as far as saying they sound 'almost exactly the same'.

I also think some of her later albums (for sure LES and Hope Six) were recorded with the band from scratch and not worked on top of home recordings. Maybe Stories too? The demo records for these ones will for sure sound different to the final product.

Uh Huh Her was a home recording to start with, sans the drums, so I wonder how different the 'demos' will be - probably not much. No idea about White Chalk, possibly a mix of home and studio recordings, like TBYML and ITD?


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Mon Jan 25, 2021 9:11 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Mon Aug 10, 2009 10:49 am
Posts: 539


Last edited by bruise on Mon Feb 01, 2021 11:11 am, edited 1 time in total.

Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Tue Jan 26, 2021 3:24 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sun Aug 09, 2009 1:36 pm
Posts: 219
Location: Saint Marys, Georgia
TheNightingale wrote:
The snippet of "The Garden" demo sounds very different to the album version. She definitely used some demo recordings in the final versions of TBYML and ITD but I wouldn't go as far as saying they sound 'almost exactly the same'.

I also think some of her later albums (for sure LES and Hope Six) were recorded with the band from scratch and not worked on top of home recordings. Maybe Stories too? The demo records for these ones will for sure sound different to the final product.

Uh Huh Her was a home recording to start with, sans the drums, so I wonder how different the 'demos' will be - probably not much. No idea about White Chalk, possibly a mix of home and studio recordings, like TBYML and ITD?


I never listened to all of the TBYML demos. I only heard DBTW and it sounded like the finalized version. The vocals. I just assumed they were all like that. I’m listening to I Think I’m A Mother right now and I think it is different. Maybe I’ll buy the record now. I’m glad I was wrong. I’m also pleasantly surprised that This Mess We’re In demo is entirely different from finalized version. Like the version that was labeled Polly Vox on the Album Mixes CDR promo of Stories. I’m definitely buying Stories demos next month.

_________________
Owen! Food! Don't you in-a-minute momma me! Get off your fat little ass or I'll break it for you! I want two soft-boiled eggs, white toast, and some of that grape jelly, God Damnit! And don't burn the toast! Move it, fat boy!


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 3:32 am 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:58 am
Posts: 22
:grin: :grin: :grin: :grin: :grin:
Spoiler! :























_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 1:57 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Thu Jul 07, 2016 10:18 pm
Posts: 421
GerriSferrazza wrote:
...The TBYML demos sounded almost exactly the same ...

The only demo track of the lot I've bought so far is 'The Dancer', which is wildly different from the album version: it's virtually a pastiche, completely tongue-in-cheek pseudo-flamenco. Or so it seems to me!

As apparently the only person in the world who likes the album version of 'Joy', I'm very pleased to hear how close the demo is to the final version! Even I began to think it might possibly have been some kind of accident, an aberration produced by mucking about in a studio, but it clearly wasn't.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 4:22 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Fri Mar 22, 2019 12:58 am
Posts: 22
AineteEkaterini wrote:
As apparently the only person in the world who likes the album version of 'Joy', I'm very pleased to hear how close the demo is to the final version! Even I began to think it might possibly have been some kind of accident, an aberration produced by mucking about in a studio, but it clearly wasn't.


I was also surprised when I heard "Joy" demonstration. I like this track exactly as it is. I know some people expected the demo to be an acoustic version or something like that, but it seems that the idea has always been for her to have this electronic beat.

_________________
Image


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 5:35 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:23 pm
Posts: 468
I like the album version, too! But for some reason I assumed the '98 live version was based on a demo (like, for instance, the 2008 live version of The Garden was) so I didn't expect something so similar to the final track. I wonder what she used to make the beats for this and "No Girl So Sweet" - perhaps the QY20 sequencer as well?

I'm probably repeating myself but the TBYML and ITD demos, while actually way less exciting to listen to than I had initially expected, really reflect how complete her vision was for these two albums. It's amazing that "Down by the Water" or "Joy" or "Monsta" were basically 100% arranged at the demoing stage, and that so many vocal takes, guitar and keyboard parts were directly lifted from Polly's home recordings.

Having said that, I'm also really looking forward to hearing the demo version of her later albums (like LES) that were later re-recorded in live sessions with a band.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Fri Jan 29, 2021 10:01 pm 
Offline

Joined: Mon Feb 22, 2010 8:25 am
Posts: 42
I’ve never been a big fan of the studio version of Joy. I never skip it when I’m listening to the album, but I also never put it on just to listen to it. But I do love the live version. My problem with it is that industrial music was my first love so by 1998 it just sounded very dated. That’s, of course, just my opinion. But something I find really fascinating, like TheNightengale said, is how much of a completed vision she had for these records in demo form when she was working on them by herself. She’s such a fantastic artist.


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 2:06 am 
Offline

Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:18 am
Posts: 212
Yeah, almost all of the album and its demos sound dated to me because of the drum machine and the industrial fixation, but that’s just a matter of taste—people who love that kind of music or just love the album, period, aren’t going to care if it’s dated, and I don’t blame them. I’ve never liked any of it. However I’m pleasantly surprised by the very organic “Sky Lit Up”—what a great demo that is!

Would the moderator or whoever please update the thread title to reflect the next release’s date?


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 5:21 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:23 pm
Posts: 468
^ Edited the original post, done!


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sat Jan 30, 2021 6:57 pm 
Offline

Joined: Fri Jan 18, 2019 2:18 am
Posts: 212
Thank you, Nightingale! Onward to the next single track release: the “Good Fortune” demo on Monday, Feb. 1. Two more days!


Top
 Profile  
 
PostPosted: Sun Jan 31, 2021 7:01 pm 
Offline
User avatar

Joined: Sat Apr 09, 2016 2:23 pm
Posts: 468
Out of curiosity, where do you get those single release schedules, Bob? Are they posted by her label somewhere?


Top
 Profile  
 
Display posts from previous:  Sort by  
Post new topic Reply to topic  [ 317 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1 ... 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15 ... 22  Next

All times are UTC


Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 67 guests


You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum

Search for:
Jump to:  
cron