PETER GABRIEL - i/o Full Moon Club subscription on Bandcamp

That is a nice surprise...both the unexpected early demo and the promise of at least a couple more during this lunar cycle.

I am not an expert in studio outtake bootlegs, but I don't believe I've ever heard anything like this when hearing early versions of Family Snapshot...let alone any PG3/Melt recordings from 1978. I'm very curious what else they come up with.

I also like that, between this and the Real World Notes EP on the New Moon, they are moving towards releasing multiple songs over both the New and Full Moon cycles. That's a trend I hope they continue to embrace until it's time for new music again.

The choice and phrasing of the release does dash (or at least delay) a couple dreams of mine. Since we've moved on to 1978 and PG3, I guess we aren't going to get official releases of the rest of the "Before The Flood" bootlegged songs from '74 and '75...let alone anything from the mythical 1976 demo recording session with Ant, Mike, and Phil.

Furthermore, since they primed this lunar cycle's releases as "demo songs that all became tracks you know well" from Melt, that means there won't be any cleaned-up version of the Tom Robinson co-written songs or the unreleased tracks recorded during '78 and '79 sessions (No. 1, Yesterday’s Song, and The One That Doesn’t Sound Like Genesis).

I'll keep my fingers crossed that such treasures could make their way to us sometime down the road -- and be happy to get fun demos of eventually-released songs/

It's quite a very nice surprise! It's more than a demo and sounds fantastic. Peter uses his punk voice, which I love.

What a version! You have to be a die hard fan to imagine how this could become "Family snapshot".

A great archive release - more of that, please!

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What a version! You have to be a die hard fan to imagine how this could become "Family snapshot".

A great archive release - more of that, please!

really looking forward for more demos from that period. Maybe on new moon, which is on Monday?

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Another early deamo was added yesterday, this time "Games Without Frontiers (Early Incarnation)"

https://www.genesis-news.com/n…emo-on-Bandcamp-n944.html

Another hidden gem. And almost unrecognizable from the final song.

Quoting myself, but...

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Furthermore, since they primed this lunar cycle's releases as "demo songs that all became tracks you know well" from Melt, that means there won't be any cleaned-up version of the Tom Robinson co-written songs or the unreleased tracks recorded during '78 and '79 sessions (No. 1, Yesterday’s Song, and The One That Doesn’t Sound Like Genesis).

I feel foolish that it took until someone else said it on Reddit, but it's possible the three future-Melt songs we are getting this cycle (Family Snapshot, Games Without Frontiers, and the unreleased third one) are these three songs bolded above...they just had different working title names than their released version.

For now, I'll tell myself that's the case so I feel like we are crossing off songs on the "never heard these before" list...

New track up on the Club today: the third and final early demo from 1978, this time Not One Of Us.

Strong agree, Christian -- I liked getting officially released and easy-to-download versions of stuff like Full Stretch and those two Gabriel/Hall demos. But this was the first time this year we got something that couldn't have been heard before...at least not these recordings.

Looking back at the 1978 recording compendium entry and seeing that the scant information available includes that they were recorded at Trident Studios...which, according to the Full Moon Club release artwork for the tracks, is where these "Early Incarnation" versions were recorded...I'm growing more and more convinced that these three releases are the three August 28th, 1978 demos from the compendium.

And that leads to the question...if that's right, which song is which?

No. 1

Yesterday's Song

The One That Doesn't Sound Like Genesis

I don't have an opinion, but my first guess will be the songs were released in the order they were recorded, and the listing on this site's page coincides with that order of notation. So No. 1 is Family Snapshot, Yesterday's Song is Games Without Frontiers, and The One...Genesis is Not One Of Us. Wild guesses tho! Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

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Strong agree, Christian -- I liked getting officially released and easy-to-download versions of stuff like Full Stretch and those two Gabriel/Hall demos. But this was the first time this year we got something that couldn't have been heard before...at least not these recordings.

Looking back at the 1978 recording compendium entry and seeing that the scant information available includes that they were recorded at Trident Studios...which, according to the Full Moon Club release artwork for the tracks, is where these "Early Incarnation" versions were recorded...I'm growing more and more convinced that these three releases are the three August 28th, 1978 demos from the compendium.

And that leads to the question...if that's right, which song is which?

No. 1

Yesterday's Song

The One That Doesn't Sound Like Genesis

I don't have an opinion, but my first guess will be the songs were released in the order they were recorded, and the listing on this site's page coincides with that order of notation. So No. 1 is Family Snapshot, Yesterday's Song is Games Without Frontiers, and The One...Genesis is Not One Of Us. Wild guesses tho! Anyone else have any thoughts on this?

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Thanks for this, I did ask myself similar questions and wondered why they haven't added this info to the band camp liner notes. In fact the images used for the tracks obviously have the original song title but eventually those were "renamed". Strange.

"Lunatics in the Ballroom" just released for Bandcamp subscribers, including the first two songs from a special set at Real World for fans in 2003. Looks like they plan to release this whole performance, as the moon shifts.