1985 Demo Tape
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1985 Demo Tape
Hello Re-issue Cover
Artist: They Might Be Giants
Released: 1985
Tracks: 23
Label: They Might Be Giants Music
Re-released: 1993 - Hello
Track Listing
- Put Your Hand Inside the Puppet Head
- When It Rains It Snows
- Number Three
- Don't Let's Start
- You'll Miss Me
- Hope That I Get Old Before I Die
- Biggest One
- 32 Footsteps
- Boat Of Car
- Cowtown
- Chess Piece Face
- Rabid Child
- Youth Culture Killed My Dog
- Alienation's For The Rich
- The Day
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective
- Which Describes How You're Feeling
- Toddler Hiway
- Become A Robot
- I'm Def
- Hell Hotel
- They Might Be Giants
- Nothing's Going to Change My Clothes
Trivia
The 1985 Demo Tape was originally distributed by the Johns at TMBG concerts in 1985-86. The material was recorded onto standard store-bought audio cassettes, and the liner notes were black and white photocopy. The tape went out of print not long after the pink album came out, but was rereleased in 1993 as a promotion by the Hello CD of the Month Club. If subscribers added $5 to their subscription fee, they would receive a copy of the demo tape, which then had fancy-schmancy glossy liner notes and this message on the back:
- Hello Recording Club, PO Box 551, Palisades, New York 10694 - 1 year subscription send $41 check or money order (NY residents add 8.25% sales tax) or call 1-800-HELLO-41 for credit cards - For an additional $5 receive this cassette - All proceeds from the sale of this cassette go to the People With Aids Coalition - All songs written by They Might Be Giants, published by They Might Be Giants Music ASCAP, administered by WB Music Corp. - (P) & (C) 1985 They Might Be Giants Music. All Rights Reserved. HEL-T
Hell Hotel is the only song from this tape that has not been reworked and/or released elsewhere. It was rumored that the original tape had a different version of the song than the one on the Hello release, but this is not true.
