The Throes – Demos

The Throes
Demos
1990? (no label)

Bill Campbell – Vocals, guitars
[others unknown]

1. Elisabeth [new version]
2. Dead End Street [new version]
3. Sea Song [demo]
4. World Weary
5. Just One Moment [demo]
6. Where is the Fire? [demo]

A bit of a rare tape mixed with a mystery. I’m not sure of the year on this one, other than it probably had to be in the 90s to have “new versions” of the first two songs that were originally released in 1989. I was able to figure out the new demo’s names from other releases. Two of them (“Sea Song” and Just One Moment”) are early versions of songs that ended up on All the Flowers Growing in Your Mother’s Eyes – so that is why I place this demo as being early 1990. “Where is the Fire?” is an early version of a song that ended up on Fall on Your World. “World Weary” appeared in the 1992 demos for Fall on Your World, but doesn’t seem like it was recorded for another album (even though I could swear I have heard it somewhere before now). The first two songs actually are newer versions of the 1989 songs, most notably in the guitar parts. The other four demos seem to mostly be acoustic-based songs recorded in one shot. This was probably a pre-production demo of some kind. This demo was taped over an interview that I originally thought to be The Throes, but when listening closer it was someone that was on Frontline Records that had a song called “Flower” and a long history in the music business. Not sure who that is – the demo songs were dubbed over the beginning, so the intros were lost.

Missing Information: year, who played on this.