The Throes – Fall on Your World Demos

The Throes
Fall on Your World Demos
1992 (no label)

Bill Campbell – Lead vocals, guitar
Others unknown

Side 1:

1. Say Hello
2. Tangerine Leaves
3. A Day in May
4. These Words
5. Pain of the Next
6. Blow out the Candle
7. Alaska
8. Sounds Like Heaven
9. Why Don’t You / Soul Dirge
10. Way Too Much
11. Where is the Fire?
12. Noose of Trust
13. World Weary

Side 2:

1. Book of Life
2. All the Flowers (unplugged)

These are demos for songs that eventually ended up on 1993’s Fall on Your World. These were on a tape with the Harold Evans solo demos (these songs were side 1 and the first two songs on side 2, followed by Evans’ demo). These are all demo versions, although some songs like “Tangerine Leaves” are pretty close to the album version. Others like “Say Hello” are noticeably different. “Way Too Much” starts off with someone in the band saying “God told me you should do some evangelical guitar-playin’” – and it comes off very hilariously. Nine of the these songs (“Say Hello,” “Tangerine Leaves,” “Pain of the Next,” “Blow out the Candle,” “Sounds Like Heaven,” “Way Too Much,” “Where is the Fire?,” and “Noose of Trust” along with Alaska” that was re-named “Jordan”) ended up on Fall on Your World. The last song is an acoustic version of the title track from their last full length. The other songs – I am not sure what happened to them. I feel like I have heard “World Weary” somewhere before… but I just can’t figure out where. I also don’t know who was in the band at this time – the entire line-up of The Throes changed between their first two albums (and they went from a 3-piece to a 5-piece), so who knows where they were in the process when these were recorded?

Missing Information: who played on this?