Cuauhtemoc wrote:
Yes. I was wondering if something just got mixed up and whoever put together the press release statement might have gotten it wrong. Since Dry has Demonstration and Rid of Me has 4-Track Demos (which is basically the demo version of the whole record) maybe they thought that was the standard for all of her records? Because from what I remember reading in interviews with her and various band members they just recorded the album versions of songs on top of her original demos. I'm pretty sure I remember an interviewer asking her about getting a demo version of TBYML and she shot that down because the demos didn't exist anymore as they had been turned into the actual record. Of course she could have always simply dubbed her demos and stashed them away.
I just hope we get some unreleased songs. Also, I've been waiting for clean, studio versions of "Primed and Ticking" and "Claudine, The Inflatable One" for literally decades now. I was so disappointed when they weren't included on the Peel Sessions record.
Yes, it gets very confusing when you get to Rid Of Me/4-Track Demos, because if they adhere to just releasing the demo versions of the Rid Of Me songs, while on the one hand it’ll be great to finally hear the demos for “Me-Jane”, “Highway”, and “Missed”, are they really not gonna re-release the rest of the non-Rid Of Me tracks from 4-Track Demos? Like “Reeling”, “Driving”, “Hardly Wait”, “Easy”, “M-Bike”, and “Goodnight”? Because on the UMC press release for the reissue campaign, the 4-Track Demos album is not listed as part of her discography (the John Parish collabs are, however).
As for TBYML, a lot of her 4-track cassette recordings did make it on to the album (“I Think I’m a Mother” is a really obvious one; you can hear both the tape hiss and metronome click) and they overdubbed the rest of the parts on top of those, but I don’t think that’s the case for all 10 tracks, and it will be interesting to hear her original, unfettered cassette demo recordings. But I’m even more interested in hearing “He’s Just My Type” and the others I mentioned.
I’m with you on “Claudine”, too. That track is gold. Really strange that she didn’t include it on the Peel Session compilation.