The mistake of drinking an iced mocha tonight seems to have put my brain on overdrive, and turned my thoughts to Gathering news of years gone by...
Namely the "lost songs" topic...
Alot of long-requested material showed up on the Accessories collection, and then later on, some more demo material with the Mandylion anniversary disc...
But I still wonder if there's more, in some shape or form...?
Re-reading some archived news (I wish I could find more) reminded me of titles that were anounced, but never saw the light of day...
Well, I'll do the best I can here, recalling them off the top of my head -
- something called "The Masters"?
- 2 titles from HTMAP, "Next End Cottage" and "Let's Float Forever"...
- a song called "if_then_else", from the album of the same name...
- 3 other cover songs during the "Life's What You Make It" sessions... I think I remember hearing that 4 were actually recorded, but they were only satisfied with releasing the 1 song...
- a few during Souvenirs that appeared on the studio documentary video shorts in early 2001... I don't know if the original version of "In-Between" called "Zion" was ever fully recorded as a demo, though in the video it sounds as if it was awfully close... and also "Mokaka" and a few other titles...
- I recall a topic about how "The May Song" and "Nighttime Birds" were also recorded during the Sleepy Buildings shows?
- And to step backwards a little, I even remember hearing that the song "How To Measure A Planet?" was originally considered for the NTB album... maybe there is an early version of this somewhere, as well?
I'd bet that somewhere, deep in this forum's archives, this has all possibly been discussed before...
but, I think it's worth talking about again, as I sure wouldn't mind seeing things like this turn up on another "Accessories" type of compilation
One can only wish...