Can't stop listening to alt 'Come Pick Me Up'
If the original is right for a cloudy day, this demo version is perfect for a rainy day. Which it is, in this region. "It's a bummer," the local weather blog says. Weather aside, though, I've had this track up all week. The direct link is here, but the context is on This Mornin' I Am Born Again.
I thought at first … well, after the first several dozen plays … the demo had a slower pace, but finally switching to the finished take, only the chorus was slower. Then I thought it was the drums. The drums were so prominent on the finished version and not on the demo at all. But I switched back to the demo and there was a drumbeat. Obviously, the final cut had more, louder drums, but they weren't the real difference.
What was? The backing vocals. Kim Ritchey did the album's, random people live. Beyond sound, the song meant one thing when a second voice joined the chorus. The song meant another when no one did.
August 22nd, 2009 at 7:41 PM
Glorious. Reblogged.
August 23rd, 2009 at 10:21 PM
Thanks man. You might like keeping the Born Again blog in your feeds; it pulls out terrific Ryan demos and rarities every now and then.