BobSimms wrote:
That “To Bring You My Love” demo is every bit as great as I expected it would be. The whole song was fully conceptualized right there, all she did was fine-tune her vocal performance and lose the “sleepy” affect heard on the first verse here. The main guitar is the same one on the album version, the other guitar parts are different.
Can’t wait to hear the rest of these. I might end up buying the vinyl release after all.
Totally agree, it's fascinating to see how fully realized these songs were before she went into the studio. It really highlights what a fantastic producer and visionary she is (as if we needed any convincing!); she knew exactly what she wanted for this album. It's been fun to hear, with this demo and "Down By The Water", what parts of the original demo were used in the final versions. I am very impressed that she achieved such a robust and vital guitar sound from an 8-Track recorder; to my ears it sounds like the organ from the demo was also used on the final version.
Very excited to hear the
Is This Desire? and
Stories From the City, Stories From the Sea demo albums now, especially since a lot of those songs were written around the same time.