Saturday, November 1, 2008

Slowdive / Rarities, Live and Demos

Slowdive

One of my favorite of the original shoegaze bands, Slowdive had a gorgeous washed over distorted sound. For those fans of Slowdive, here are some unreleased tracks, demos and live recordings.



Slowdive / I Saw The Sun


A compilation of recordings from the Souvlaki Demos.

1 Summer Day 3:26
2 Bleed 3:31
3 Sleep 4:17
4 Silver Screen [demo] 5:31
5 Dagger [electric] 3:37
6 Untitled No. 3 3:49
7 Untitled No. 2 4:22
8 Joy 4:35
9 Instrumental Take One 3:46
10 Silver Screen 4:03
11 AB 2:55
12 Hide Yer Eyes 3:22
13 I Believe 3:44
14 Money 1:18
15 Painting 1:23
16 Like Up 5:43
17 Ports Theme #1 2:54
18 Nightmare 3:21
19 Ports Theme #2 2:09
20 I Saw the Sun 3:20
21 Richard 5:15


Slowdive/ Live in Oslo
Recorded October 18 1993


A decent sounding recording (though not great) from 93 with some great songs on it.

1. Machine Gun
2. Souvlaki Space Station
3. Slowdive
4. Avalyn
5. Catch The Breeze
6. Mellon Yellow
7. Morningrise
8. She Calls

Slowdive / Souvlaki Demos


A lot of these recordings are included on the I Saw the Sun.

01 - hide yer eyes (demo)
02 - silver screen (demo)
03 - ab (with brian eno)
04 - bleed
05 - dagger (electric)
06 - drunken nonsense
07 - hide yer eyes
08 - i saw the sun
09 - instrumental (take 1)
10 - jazz odeon (song 1)
11 - joy
12 - shine (splendiferous locust mix)
13 - silver screen (version 2)
14 - sleep (vocal)
15 - summer day
16 - Untitled No. 2
17 - untitled #3
18 - colours in spin (live)
19 - curtains and carpets (live)
20 - it's not for you
21 - song number one
22 - stars that shine
23 - i thought i saw

Slowdive / Live at Reading Festival
Recorded February 26 1991


Another decent recording of Slowdive. Some of my favorite songs... this one dates back to when they were releasing EP's (which in my opinion were better than any of the albums). This one sounds like a soundboard.

01. Shine
02. Catch the Breeze
03. Slowdive
04. Morningrise
05. Colours in Spin
06. She Calls
07. Avalyn

Slowdive / Pygmalion Demos


The demos from their final recording, Pygmalion. Not my favorite album, but some of the demos sound pretty interesting.

1. Miranda
2. Watch Me
3. Yesterday
4. To Watch
5. Option One (Instrumental #2)
6. Cargo
7. Sinewaves
8. Ambient Guitar
9. Crazy For You (Alternative Version)
10. Prautrock
11. Changes
12. Red Five

7 comments:

Nico said...

thanks!

Michael said...

Thank you very much. I've loved Slowdive ever since a friend gave me a tape with some of their recordings, sometime back in the 90's.

Awesomefest said...

Thank you so much for making these available. I have bought every one of their studio albums and have longed for more. This will keep me happy for a while.

-Nick

daxasia said...
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daxasia said...

thank you SO MUCH for posting these! a very long time ago i had these mp3's and then lost them somehow. :-( it's great to hear these again! you are a hero! :-D

Fermín said...

This is great stuff, thank you very much

chris said...

should add the unofficial release of the "I AM THE ELEPHANT - u are the mouse" soundtrack"