Demos / studio outtakes & unreleased material collection

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What should be the most complete Sisters' unreleased material collection ?
Let's see

Floorshow (demo)
Lights (demo)
Adrenochrome (demo)
Body Electric (early demo w/ different lyrics) where to find it ?
Good Things (demo 1981) 7:31 version where to find it ?
Adrenochrome (demo)
Body Electric (demo)
Body Electric (instrumental)
Adrenochrome (instrumental)
Driver
Burn it down early demo of Burn
Burn (instrumental demo Portastudio)
Anaconda
Phantom studio outtakes
Good Things demo
Knocking on Heavens Door studio outtake
Jolene Portastudio demo
Fix (Craig Adams vocal demo)
Fix demo 2 aka "Body Politic"
Heartland demo 82/83
Temple Of Love demo 82/83 ?
Emma demo 1984/85
Red Skies Disappear Gary Marx vocals (the music will be used for FALAA and part of the lyrics used for Marian)
First and Last and Always alternative studio version
Dance on Glass (Black Planet music)
Black Planet (instrumental demo)
A Rock And A Hard Place alt version
A Rock And A Hard Place (instrumental version)
Marian instrumental
Dominion / Mother Russia demo
Flood I demo
Flood II demo
Lucretia demo
Neverland 7:31 version
Untitled unreleased instrumental demo from the Floodland era
Driver Like The Snow demo
This Corrosion early demo w/Alan Vega vocals Hull Fairview Studio
This Corrosion demo 1 James Ray vocals Hull Fairview Studio
This Corrosion demo 2 James Ray + Andrew Eldritch vocals Hull Fairview Studio
This Corrosion demo 3 James Ray vocals Hull Fairview Studio
This Corrosion demo 4 Lucas Fox + Andrew Eldritch + James Ray vocals Hull Fairview Studio
This Corrosion demo 5 Andrew Eldritch + James Ray vocals Hull Fairview Studio
This Corrosion demo 6 Andrew Eldritch vocals Hull Fairview Studio
1969 where to find it ?
Serpent's Kiss unreleased instrumental. Became a The m*****n song
Train (demo 1984)
Train (short) from Echoes Vol. IV
Valentine demo
Walk Away demo ??
Watch demo ??
Wide Receiver unreleased track - Andy demo (portastudio)
Afterhours demo 1983 or 84 ?
Alice demo ??
Damage Done demo ??
Garden of Delight (Hussey vocal)
Garden of Delight (Eldritch vocal)
Nrub (= Burn reverse) FAKE or not ?
The Poison Door (different vocals)

I've omitted to add the 2nd demo of Valentine as there is not difference between the 2 versions, imo. One is slower (pitched) , the other one is clearer with better sound.
I'm sure I've forgotten a few others tracks and mislabeled some.
So any add or correction is welcome :)

edit : I've got a CD of the famous FALAA WEA mixes too but without any informations on the contents (the different sessions and takes) ?
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You forgot to include the URL for easy download of the whole pack, preferrably in lossless flac encoding, of course.

Edit: you may omit Garden of Delight, 'k thanx.
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maybe we can all throw in some fileshares to allow everyone access to this fne collection. ;D
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which of these have new lyrics by the way?
I know of Good Things, Red Skies Disappear, Wide receiver, Driver, Burn It Down, Craig's Fix, Dance on Glass, Garden Of Delight...
But what about the rest (body electric demo? 7:31 Good Things? Phantom outtakes? Body Politic? FALAA/ARAAHP alternatives? Snowdriver? Poison Door different vocals?)
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Train (demo 1984)
Train (short) from Echoes Vol. IV
Watch demo ??
Afterhours demo 1983 or 84 ?
Damage Done demo ??
Nrub (= Burn reverse) FAKE or not ?

All fakes demos
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Never heard of a Watch demo. One must exist somewhere, but not for us.

I have an "Amsterdam Demos" tape. AFAIK, all the tracks are EQed versions of the final Body And Soul tracks, with a live track or two, maybe.
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edit : I've got a CD of the famous FALAA WEA mixes too but without any informations on the contents (the different sessions and takes) ?
The WEA mixes 1985 (the FALAA versions) must be like this

WEA in-house tapes 11/01/1985, Mac mix:
No Time to Cry (Mac mix)
First And Last And Always (Mac mix)
Walk Away (Mac mix)
A Rock And A Hard Place (Mac mix)

WEA in-house tapes 11/01/1985, Eldritch mix:
Walk Away (Eldritch mix)
A Rock And A Hard Place (Eldritch mix v1)
A Rock And A Hard Place (Eldritch mix v2)

WEA in-house tapes 31/01/1985:
First And Last And Always
No Time to Cry
A Rock And A Hard Place
Marian

WEA in-house tapes 04/02/1985:
No Time To Cry (edited)
No Time To Cry (unedited)
Black Planet (2nd mix) then what is the 1st one and where ?
First And Last And Always
Black Planet (3rd mix)
Black Planet (4th mix)
Thanks. It seems like it's an instrumental demo of Driver...
taylor wrote:Train (demo 1984)
Train (short) from Echoes Vol. IV
Watch demo ??
Afterhours demo 1983 or 84 ?
Damage Done demo ??
Nrub (= Burn reverse) FAKE or not ?

All fakes demos
Thanks for the infos. I'll edit my first post later

I notice that The Poison Door (different vocals) from WR boot has nothing to do with The Sisters (another band performing live, which band ?).
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Flood wrote:I notice that The Poison Door (different vocals) from WR boot has nothing to do with The Sisters (another band performing live, which band ?).
The mighty GHOST DANCE. 8) :notworthy:

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Dark wrote:I have an "Amsterdam Demos" tape. AFAIK, all the tracks are EQed versions of the final Body And Soul tracks
Yeah, I'm pretty sure they're fake.
There's also a bootleg album with one side Manchester Oct'84 and the other side is "demos", and they seem to be just EQ'd versions too.


Do we know what "Mack Mix" means? Those 4 songs seem to the vinyl rips of the "Last Magician of Rational Thought" boot, so Mack is probably just a bootleggers messed-up abbreviation of Magician and is probably meaningless.
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>Do we know what "Mack Mix" means? Those 4 songs seem to the vinyl rips >of the "Last Magician of Rational Thought" boot, so Mack is probably just a >bootleggers messed-up abbreviation of Magician and is probably >meaningless.

no the palazzograssi boys used take the tracks from the wea master tape in house, "mack mix" & "Eldritch mix" was wrote on the custom sleeve of the tape[/img]
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I saw the 2 WEA cassettes Pete had with custom sleeves and I don't remember seeing anything about mixes written after the song titles, although maybe I only saw one of the tapes not the other, it's too long ago.
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The ARAAHP "Mack Mix" is a hundred thousand times better than the "Eldritch Mix"es and the LP version. And even the "Mack Mix" of Walk Away is far superior, why did they lower that superb phaser-effected guitar lick to almost inaudible levels in the LP mix?
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Lotsa strange things seemed to have happened with the FALAA LP mixes, as subsequent history has indeed proven.

According to Wayne's sleevenotes for the First Chapter reissue, there should also be an instrumental (or different lyrics) version of Wake to be added to the list.
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I've been given these to post on the thread. I really hope nobody paid a lot of money for these!

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Are they the real deal or just bootlegs? It's a shame the first two don't have times on them, I wanted to see if my WEA Mixes CD is labelled correctly.
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150 % original copymaster wea in house tapes from wea insider
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Dan you are a Bible !

I've heard of a so-called "Floodland Mixes" tape including 2 versions of Flood I, Flood II and Driven Like The Snow.
I don't have yet a copy of this and I'd like to know if it's a fake :?:
Here is the attached text with the tape
I've had this tape sitting in a drawer since around 1990. It was just
labelled as "Floodland demos", and the recording was accompanied by a
loud whistle (this is caused by being copied using high-speed dubbing
when there's a TV set close to the machine). I removed as much of the
whistle as I could without affecting the quality of the recording, so
now it's not noticeable except during the quiet bits like at the start
and ends of some songs.

This is obviously another in-house mixes tape, or something of that
sort. The tracks are definitely different, for example the intro of
Driven Like The Snow #1 is longer, and the mix of Lucretia sounds
less busy than the finished version. Also, you can hear that some
tracks seem to be off vinyl, so some of them are probably from
acetates.

Is this rare? I really don't know, and couldn't give a toss, but I
haven't seen it on anyone's list so I suppose it could be.
I now release this to the masses, in the hope that some of the other
people selfishly hoarding the "rare" stuff will do something similar.
After all, we're all Sisters fans, and the net is all about sharing.
I think I'm probably wasting my time though, and Eldritch will release
3 new albums before I get to hear Deinze 1.6.84.

Floodland Mixes - 01 - Driven Like The Snow (#1)
Floodland Mixes - 02 - Flood I (#1)
Floodland Mixes - 03 - Flood II (#1)
Floodland Mixes - 04 - Dominion - Mother Russia
Floodland Mixes - 05 - 1959
Floodland Mixes - 06 - Lucretia My Reflection
Floodland Mixes - 07 - Flood I (#2)
Floodland Mixes - 08 - Driven Like The Snow (#2)
Floodland Mixes - 09 - This Corrosion
Floodland Mixes - 10 - Flood II (#2)
Floodland Mixes - 11 - Neverland (a fragment)

Total: 60 minutes
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Dan wrote: May'81, Sisters Demo Tape (aka Floorshow EP)
14 Floorshow (Demo)
15 Lights (Demo)
16 Teachers/Adrenochrome (Demo)

Basement Demos, 1981
1 Untitled demo (Body Electric diff lyrics)

Demo, late 1981
2 Good things (1st Demo)

Kenny Giles Studio, Bridlington, Feb'82
5 Adrenochrome (CNT Demo)
6 Body Electric (CNT Demo)
10 Adrenochrome (CNT Reverb Demo)
11 Body electric (instrumental)
12 Adrenochrome (instrumental)

(?)Kenny Giles Studio, Bridlington, Summer'82 (Seemed a more likely date, as this looks like a later session than the other one.)
3 1969 (Basement Demo)
9 Good Things (Unreleased Basement Demo)
4 Alice (psychedelic Intro. Demo)

7 Anaconda (Demo)
8 Phantom (Unfaded edit)

I'm not sure where the last 2 belong so I just bunged them on the end!
Have a look at this topic, very interesting!
http://www.myheartland.co.uk/viewtopic.php?p=68597
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^ Ah, that was from when I was trying to arrange them in chronological order.

taylor wrote:150 % original copymaster wea in house tapes from wea insider
That they may be, but they don't look like the same tapes I saw Pete with.
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