OFF: Porcupine Tree "Even Less" Demo version vs. "Stupid Dream" rewritten version

[Steve Freight]

and the third version on Ambulance Chasers bootleg of stupid dream demos -
different again.

Steve

On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:40 PM, Jonathan Jarrett <
jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 02:41:58AM +0000, Amphetamine Embalmer typed out:
> > PT interested folk, an off observation for BOC-l: the demo version of
> > this Porcupine Tree song is totally different in lyrics then what
> > appeared on "Stupid Dream" - its really cool how its totally opposite
> > meanings and last minute changes to totally diff. lyrics. Too tired to
> > type ALL them out but its really cool how they differ so much.- the
> > first is about innocent Jesus and praying to God and a killer striking
> > twice in a night, no mention of a Friend I cannot reach or being a
> > martyr, for the grace of god for even less. Great song both versions!
> > I enjoy how they are totally different. The demo is a must hear, its
> > very negative.
>
>        It's not quite as different as you think, in fact; the full
> version of the track on _Recordings_ has all the lyrics of the demo
> version, but the controversial ones are all shunted into the latter
> half, so that they don't make the _Stupid Dream_ edit version. The
> `killer' stanza is gone but pretty much everything else remains,
> including some angry flailing against the Bible I imagine you'd enjoy.
> The second half was also a B-side somewhere I think, I mean they milked
> those three albums so dry it hurt to squeeze them. That was about when I
> realised I was finished with being a PT Kollector.
>
> > I also love "Piano Lessons" lyrics.
>
>        The lyrics are all that stop `How Is Your Life Today?' being
> `Piano Lessons' take 2, in fact. Yours,
>                                         Jon
>
> --
> "When fortune wanes, of what assistance are quantities of elephants?"
>            (Juvaini, Afghan Muslim chronicler, c. 1206)
>  Jon Jarrett, Fitzwilliam Museum, jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
>



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