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3 |
3 |
6 |
9 |
Average: 7.1 |
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9 |
Average: 7.1 |
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All of these songs were recorded prior to the final recording of The Top.
Cats Like Cheese is an early version of Give Me It.
Throw Your Foot was a single released in May 1984 (vinyl)
with Caterpillar and Happy The Man. This CD is
awesome. It is for those of you (like me) who really enjoy slightly
different versions of these songs. Every song is more "raw" than
those final versions found on The Top. Caterpillar
is especially good. I have seen this CD with a few different covers,
although they were released by the same company (mine contains a
close-up face-shot drawing of Robert). The sound quality is
pretty good: 8+.
Submitted By: Chris Cowdell
Unfortuantely, I suspect this is highly rare in 1998. I had this in High School and made the now regrettable decision to sell it. These are demos done for The Top, and it's far too apparent that Robert Smith was out of his head on something when most of the vocals. Cats Like Cheese, a demo of Give Me It is stellar--it's almost entirely vocals and drums, and everything is just a little distorted (which is also the case with Shake Dog Shake here). The raw state of Give Me It adds energy to a song that in my opinion was slaughtered wholesale on the final LP. The Caterpillar is almost entirely piano and bongos, and is *brilliant*, aside from the too-inebriated vocals (it's as funny or embarrassing as that sort of thing is).
The versions of the two anthems, Wailing Wall and The Top on this are also vibrant in their nascent forms--I think this version of The Top exceeds the album cut in its murderous isolation.
I *highly* recommend this, for both its originality and infrequency.
Submitted by: Petrarch
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