The Police Ghost in the Machine Demos 1981

 

The Police
Ghost in the Machine Demos
1981

The 'Ghost' Demos are nothing new to the general Police scene, but I noted that two primary versions existed:  One with an evidently complete 'ELTSDIM' tacked on the end, but without the 'Take 1' version of 'Don't Think We Could Ever Be Friends', from the collection generally known as 'Ghosts in the Studio'.  I have taken the first versions (which are superior), added the extra 'ELTSDIM' from the inferior 'Ghosts in the Studio collection, and arranged the tracks in a logical order (ie album running order for the first 6 tracks).

In short this is a complete 'Ghost Demos' compilation which is designed to replace the previous incomplete versions.

A note - on the 'Ghosts in the Studio' collection it should be noted that there is also an "alt version" of "too much information" and "one world".  These are NOT 'alternative' takes but dupe tracks simply taken from a slower (pitch low) tape source.

The present collection does not include these two fake 'alt' versions as they are infinitely inferior to the tracks they are otherwise duplicates of.



Source: Soundboard
Lineage: ?? -> CDR -> CDEx -> FLAC level 6 with verify -> FLAC

Tracklist:

Spirits In The Material World 3:12
Invisible Sun 3:05
Hungry For You 3:50
Too Much Information 3:33
One World (Not Three) 2:58
Secret Journey 3:53
Invisible Sun (Alt) 3:26
Secret Journey (Alt) 3:42
Don’t You Belive Me Baby 4:09
Don’t Think We Could Ever Be Friends 3:37
Don’t Think We Could Ever Be Friends, take 1 3:42
Don’t You Look At Me 4.51
It’s Newer Too Late 3:47
Don’t Give Up Your Daytime Job 4:44
ELTSDIM 4'06*


Total time 57'09

* This was tacked on to the end of "Ghosts in the Stdio" and is obviously from a different source to the other tracks.  It sounds like a complete version of "ELTSDIM" but you can distinctly hear a click track in the opening bars.  

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Compiled by tj7 in 2006.

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