Re: The Batson Sessions: DMB Studio Efforts from 2006 Leaked - News Discussion
I just discovered these this week. Before this summer, I haven't been really closely following DMB for about 6 years, so I completely missed this. Finding these has been incredible. The story of how these discs came into existence is amazing too. Thank you to whoever actually obtained and leaked these. And thank you to Butch's friend who kept these CDs in good condition for over a decade.
From what I've been able to backread, it looks like people are lukewarm on the drum machines on a lot of these. I absolutely love it. They're demos, but it's so fun to hear how these songs developed.
Both of these tapes remind me of Andy Partridge's (of XTC's) whole series of unreleased demos on the Fuzzy Warbles tapes. I really hope DMB does something similar at some point in time. Just throw together discs of unreleased, completely raw demos and put them out there. People would eat it up. Even if they're bad (and any XTC fans know there are plenty of god-awful songs on those albums).
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