First up is Negative Approach. Easy but not necessarily a slam dunk. Three separate demos, under various names, have been circulating trading circles for years with a previously unknown 4th demo surfacing on the Ready To Fight CD.
1st Demo (5/81)
1. Pressure
2. No Doubt About It
3. Don’t Call Me Up
4. I Don’t Want It
5. Sick of Talk
6. Ready to Fight
7. Lost Cause
8. Chaos
9. Fashionable Idiots
10. Negative Approach
This “demo” is available on the Ready To Fight CD.
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Lost Cause Demo (8/81)
1. Ready to Fight
2. Pressure
3. Fashionable Idiots
4. Sick of Talk
5. Negative Approach
6. D.A.B.F.
7. Genocide
8. No Doubt About It
9. Lost Cause
Lost Cause from Process of Elimination came from this session. The Ready To Fight linear notes states that Lost Cause was recorded shortly after the 1st demo and the notes from the Total Recall CD says it was recorded 8/81. Listening to the Lost Cause track from this demo confirms it is the same as the one on Process of Elimination/Total Recall.
The name of track 8 has been a mystery all these years until the release of Ready To Fight. Listening to the 1st Demo shows that the unknown song is No Doubt About It.
Side B (except Pressure) of the You Die Now 7 inch is taken from this demo.
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EP Demo/First Version
1. Whatever I Do
2. Can't Tell No One
3. Sick of Talk
4. Pressure
5. Ready to Fight
6. Lead Song
7. Fair Warning
8. Nothing
9. Negative Approach
10. Why Be Something That You're Not?
11. D.A.B.F.
12. Chaos
There is a lot of misinformation floating around about what this session is and nothing will be clear until someone in the know clues us in. I have received this in trade listed as EP Demo, EP Original Mix, EP Test Pressing, etc. I do not know if this is in fact the rejected test press mix of the first EP since I’ve never heard it to know nor have I ever found a track listing for the rejected version. (Some say it’s the same 10 songs just a different mix, others say it’s 11 songs.) I do know that these 12 songs were released on the I Estimated Your Worth Today tape comp.
I could find no information as to when this was recorded. If this is not the rejected test press mix, then the tracks were recorded sometime between 4/82 and 8/83.
Side A (plus Pressure from side B) of the You Die Now 7 inch is taken from this demo.
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Tied Down Demo (6/83) [a.k.a. Rice City Club Demo]
1. Your Mistake
2. Friend or Foe
3. Live Your Life
4. Tied Down
5. Hypocrite
6. I’ll Survive
7. Nothing
8. Said and Done
9. Evacuate
10. Genocide
This demo has been circulated heavily and was officially released on Ready To Fight. The version on Ready To Fight only includes the first 8 songs list while the traded version lacks Live Your Life but includes two songs not on Ready To Fight (Evacuate and Genocide, both instrumentals).
Total Recall includes 3 songs from this demo (Your Mistake, Tied Down, & I’ll Survive) and labels them the Rice City Club Demo. The versions of these three songs are noisier on Total Recall than on Ready To Fight but they are the same versions.
This demo, particularly when it's referred to as the Rice City Demo, is sometime incorrectly attributed as being recorded in 1984.
Whatever I Do & Lead Song are both instrumentals.