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Suffer / No Control
One of the earliest sets of demo songs is commonly known as "Four-Track Synth Demos" and contains a mix of
Suffer and
No Control songs. It's not clear whether these 4 songs were recorded at the same time, which would mean that songs from No Control were already written prior to the release of Suffer. Songs:
- Anxiety (No Control)
- Change Of Ideas (No Control)
- No Control (No Control)
- Pessimistic Lines (Suffer)
Another set with
No Control songs contains 2 songs written by Brett Gurewitz and is commonly known as "Full Band Demo", even though the songs are not performed by the whole band. The drums on both songs are a drum computer and the guitar and bass parts are most likely played by Brett and Greg themselves. Songs:
Another three-song demo has 2 songs intended for
Suffer but also includes the song Time of Need, which was recorded together with Greg Hetson and, in contrary to another version of this song from ~1985, contains hardly any synthesizer. Songs:
- What Can You Do?
- Land Of Competition
- Time Of Need (unreleased)
Against The Grain
For
Against The Grain demos exist for 9 songs. Some of them are just Greg Graffin and others are recorded together with Brett. Especially 21st Century (Digital Boy) is significantly slower compared to the final version as it appeared on the album. Songs:
- Operation Rescue
- Modern Man
- Walk Away
- God Song
- 21st Century (Digital Boy)
- Quality Or Quantity
- Faith Alone
- Against The Grain
- Get Off
Generator
Several song demos for
Generator have been out there for years already. One set contains 2 songs, both sang by Brett. These 2 songs were also used for a bootleg 7" called "
Generator Demos":
For Generator also another set exists that contains 7 songs written and performed by Greg Graffin. It includes 1 unreleased song:
- Inner Dream (unreleased)
- Chimaera
- No Direction
- Fertile Crescent
- Only Entertainment
- Too Much To Ask
- The Answer
Recipe For Hate
A 3-song demo exists for
Recipe For Hate and includes 2 unreleased songs. All songs written and performed by Greg Graffin:
Stranger Than Fiction
Two sets of demos exists for
Stranger Than Fiction. The first set has been available for many years already and contains 4 songs written and performed by Brett. Songs:
- Hooray For Me & Fuck You
- Infected
- Marked
- Stranger Than Fiction
The other set contains 7 songs written and performed by Greg Graffin. It includes 3 unreleased songs:
The Gray Race
For
The Gray Race there are 14 song demos that have been worked out pretty well and almost sound like the songs as they ended up on the album. It also contains different versions of Tested and Strange Denial, which both eventually didn't end up on The Gray Race. Songs:
- Come Join Us
- This Is Just A Punk Rock Song
- Pity The Dead
- Empty Causes
- I'm Going For A walk
- Victory
- Ten in 2010
- Cease
- Tested (alternative version)
- Strange Denial (alternative version)
- The Dodo
- Drunk Sincerity
- Steets of America
- Them And Us
The New America
For The New America two sets of demos exist.
The first and earlier set consists of the following songs that were recorded by Greg at his home studio:
- Let It Burn
- A World Without Melody
- The Hopeless Housewife
- Lose As Directed (this exact same version was also released as a B-side on the German New America single)
- New America
- California (unreleased)
- The Fast Life
- It's a Long Way To The Promised Land
- There Will Be a Way
Also The second set of 12 songs was recorded at Greg's home studio, but this time with Brian, Bobby and Graffin (on bass).:
- The Fast Life
- Let It Burn
- A Streetkid named desire
- There Will Be a Way
- Don´t Sell Me Short
- 1000 Memories
- Whisper In Time
- You´ve Got a Chance
- The Hopeless Housewife
- Believe It
- New America
- It's a Long Way To The Promised Land