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Post by americanscientist on Jul 28, 2020 14:28:51 GMT -5
I apologize if this has been covered before, but can anyone confirm which Astronaut songs were leaked/played back in 2003?
if memory serves, we heard the following before the release of the album:
Sunrise (both live and demo) Virus (live) What Happens Tomorrow (live and demo) Beautiful Colours (live and demo) Still Breathing (live) Pretty Ones (demo) TV vs Radio (demo) Salt in the Rainbow (demo) Taste the Summer (demo) Lonely Business (demo) Nice (demo as well as instrumental on website)
That’s basically an entire album’s worth of music (albeit in demo form) in the public domain. 5 made the final cut and 1 became a bonus track while another 7 new songs were added to the final album.
They wrote another 14 songs for Reportage and another 12 for Red Carpet Massacre. That’s over 40 songs from 2001-2007 alone. No wonder they sounded so burnt out on RCM and probably leaned so heavily on Nate Hills.
But I also wonder why the Astonaut tracks specifically have not been revisited given what a fertile creative period this was.
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Post by goldengun on Jul 28, 2020 14:58:55 GMT -5
Some songs were revisited musically (i.e. Pretty Ones morphed into Girl Panic).
The Astronaut sessions were quite productive, the reunion gave the band the shot in the arm they desperately needed after the previous album.
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Post by uraniumplayer on Jul 28, 2020 15:21:54 GMT -5
Some songs were revisited musically (i.e. Pretty Ones morphed into Girl Panic). The Astronaut sessions were quite productive, the reunion gave the band the shot in the arm they desperately needed after the previous album. I never noticed the similarities between the two...interesting...although I thought the band liked to start fresh (especially since Andy would be a co-writer on anything coming out of the Astronaut sessions)...
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Post by americanscientist on Jul 29, 2020 10:08:23 GMT -5
Some songs were revisited musically (i.e. Pretty Ones morphed into Girl Panic). The Astronaut sessions were quite productive, the reunion gave the band the shot in the arm they desperately needed after the previous album. Interesting....I hear a little of Pretty Ones in Last Night in the City. I would actually prefer that they revisit previously unreleased material with potential than sleeping on it.
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Post by errinella on Jul 30, 2020 11:16:29 GMT -5
Funnily enough I was listening to the demos yesterday. They’re so much better than the final versions - especially Still Breathing and What Happens Tomorrow; the over production and mixing on the album strangles the life out of those two in particular.
And how they could dump Salt In The Rainbow and Beautiful Colours for tripe like Bedroom Toys is beyond me. That whole writing/recording period feels like such a lost opportunity now.
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Post by americanscientist on Jul 30, 2020 15:09:35 GMT -5
Funnily enough I was listening to the demos yesterday. They’re so much better than the final versions - especially Still Breathing and What Happens Tomorrow; the over production and mixing on the album strangles the life out of those two in particular. And how they could dump Salt In The Rainbow and Beautiful Colours for tripe like Bedroom Toys is beyond me. That whole writing/recording period feels like such a lost opportunity now. TV vs Radio, Pretty Ones and Salt in the Rainbow sound amazing for demos but still needed quite a bit of work. All of them demonstrated tremendous potential and hinted an amazing album that sadly never came to fruition. It's still a 3/3.5 star album... but many of us throught we were getting a 5 star album based on the early demos and live tracks.
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Post by errinella on Jul 31, 2020 13:52:53 GMT -5
Funnily enough I was listening to the demos yesterday. They’re so much better than the final versions - especially Still Breathing and What Happens Tomorrow; the over production and mixing on the album strangles the life out of those two in particular. And how they could dump Salt In The Rainbow and Beautiful Colours for tripe like Bedroom Toys is beyond me. That whole writing/recording period feels like such a lost opportunity now. TV vs Radio, Pretty Ones and Salt in the Rainbow sound amazing for demos but still needed quite a bit of work. All of them demonstrated tremendous potential and hinted an amazing album that sadly never came to fruition. It's still a 3/3.5 star album... but many of us throught we were getting a 5 star album based on the early demos and live tracks. I don’t think they needed THAT much work. Duran’s problem for the last two decades is that they take a great idea and then suck the life out of it.
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Post by Dr Of The Revolution on Aug 1, 2020 6:08:05 GMT -5
Lonely Business wasn't leaked before the album was released. It belonged to the bunch of demo's that were leaked just a few days after the album was released.
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