I will say that the 'Bizarre Love Triangle' demo sounds like a rehearsal to me, rather than a demo.
Also, I'm pretty sure the 'Sub-Culture' demo is just the Razormaid / 'Record Mirror' mix. Probably mislabelled (either deliberately or accidentally) by the original bootlegger.
The Technique ones are probably the most interesting (well, to me, anyway).
But other ones of note are:
- the Western Works demos (most of which will be on the Movement set);
- the original vocal version of 'Let's Go' ("Waiting For So Long") (probably recorded in preparation for Low Life, which I'm sure everyone has heard by now);
- 'Sunrise' (Instrumental Rough Mix) (released on the 'Discreet Campaigns' tape);
- 'As It Is When It Was' demo (an early version, probably again recorded for Low Life);
- The 'Salvation' demos, which include a early vocal take of Let's Go using the "Nothing For Me" lyrics); (***)
- 'Mission Impossible' theme (recorded during the '98 'The Beach' sessions, that 'Brutal', 'Crystal' and '60 miles an hour' came from);
- 'Shipwreck Of A Broken Man' ('Turn My Way', but without nasally Billy Corgan)
- 'Jet' ('Jetstream', without Ana Matronic - Yep, it does exist folks!)
(***) A little story about this one. Back in about 1994, I was trading with a fan and he had something labelled on his trade list as 'Salvation Demos'.
My curiosity piqued, I asked for a copy.
When I got them, they were labelled up as containing demos of 'Salvation Theme' (two versions), 'Touched...', 'Skullcrusher' and 'Let's Go'.
Naturally, I assumed that the 'Let's Go' demo would likely be an instrumental, just as the version released on the soundtrack was. I had assumed that a vocal version of the track had long been abandoned following the "Waiting For So Long" Low Life demo. (Remember, this was in 1994, so about 12 months before we all got to hear about the "Nothing For Me" version).
I put the tape in the player and almost shat myself when I heard a completely different vocal version of 'Let's Go'.
Obviously, the impact of this was lessened when, a year later, a refined version of this very demo was released on the '1963' CD single. But, to suddenly hear an almost completely 'new' track, including Barney vocals, was a little exciting.
You have to remember that this was directly following the (mostly) car wreck that was 'Republic' and worse mess that was the 'remix fest' that we were subjected to at the time (Sly & Robbie Bogle Mix, anyone? No, I didn't think so...).
So, yeah, new New Order sounded absolutely golden.
The demo is quite similar but there are a number of obvious variations, and it's definitely a different vocal take to the released version.
