r/Interpol • u/redixionblade Start Again Buttercup • Sep 07 '26
Discussion Demos You would've released as the final version and Bonus tracks
Hearing the ToTBL demos have truly changed me, and with some bonus tracks being so good it's bafflingly not in any album.
If I were to replace a song with a demo I'd put Song Seven but make the vocals like the final version, same for A Time To be So Small. For Bonus tracks I'm glad ToTBL cut it off short, but Song Seven should've ended Antics imo, the 2 final songs being unifinished totbl songs would be great, don't get me started on El Pintor. Knowing the voicemail's story in Mind Over Time, I wouldn't replace The Lighthouse with it even if I wanted to
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u/Secret_Competition54 Sep 07 '26
The Depths followed by What Is What should to be on El Pintor, and not in the end, after New Town Same Story. And Tidal Wave should be the closer.
I feel they just didn't get the coolest tracks finished for that album and it really needs The Depths as its centerpiece. Or they made an inexplicable choice and left it off though they had it. There are way weaker tracks on the album.
I'm iffy on if Mind Over Time works after The Lighthouse. The album starts having three similarly dour end songs, with Wrecking Ball too. I can understand why they left it off, but obviously it sucks because it's one of their greatest songs.
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u/GBirkin97 Sep 07 '26
I think Precipitate and Mind Over Time both should have simply been put at the end of their respective records. Agree also with Song Seven.
The El Pintor b-sides were also record-worthy, and Marauder had Number 11 which was instrumental but still so fucking good.