Post #2083151
2026-05-01 14:26 UTC
@chriskirknielsen Versioning is a nice framing. It’s not so much demos are better but that they open a window onto a song’s development. The Beatles Esher demos are a good example. There are several takes of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, where you hear the progression from a basic sketch as instruments are added and the arrangement changes before the final version. Fascinating, at least to me. I wonder if, as more stuff gets generated, artists might share demos as a kind of ‘proof of life’.
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@chriskirknielsen@front-end.social 2026-05-01 15:22
@damianwalsh Yeah it can be really cool to hear how an idea was iterated upon. I think some interesting ones that come to mind for me are Linkin Park's, where there's the core idea in there which evolved to become the classics we know today (sorry for juxtaposing the Beatles and Linkin Park 😂).