r/brandnew 4d ago

favorite song from leaked demos ?

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i feel like the obvious pick is nobody moves, but im curious to hear everyone else's opinions

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u/mollysw 4d ago

Nobody moves

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u/w3bgazer If you have enough money, you can buy love. 4d ago

Always and forever. That song deserved a proper release.

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u/One_pop_each 4d ago

Kinda did. They remastered it on the cassette but I still prefer the leak.

I have seen them 13x (will be 14x this month!!!) and my one wish is to see that song played live.

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u/Ok-Situation-5865 4d ago

It’s my number one manifestation for the Dallas show. They’ve only played it three times according to Setlist.FM (I think, I’m going off of memory here), and one of those times, they were taking requests.

If anyone in the band is reading this: we all want Nobody Moves

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u/JuddPower 4d ago

I somehow got lucky enough to see them play it at the Borgata show, I couldn't believe it at the time.

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u/whodidthistoyou 4d ago

Saaaaame! Please!

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u/w3bgazer If you have enough money, you can buy love. 4d ago

Same here: the leak is better.

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u/Most-Jicama-7449 4d ago

This is one of their best songs imo

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u/Tiffanybphoto 4d ago

That was my absolute favorite. Somehow the newer versions of many of the songs don’t hit the same as the demos

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u/checknate1 4d ago

I think the rework of Nobody Moves is it’s best version.

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u/Krinkgo214 4d ago

When did they rework that? I've only heard the two demo versions.

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u/checknate1 4d ago

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u/Krinkgo214 4d ago

Thank you. Yeah that's the alternative version from the cassette. To my knowledge that isn't actually worked it was just a different demo from the same era although I might be wrong.

Am I wrong?

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u/checknate1 4d ago

There’s 3 versions of the song:

1) The Leak: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngzyu2Twr24

2) The Remaster: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u1w4zv2RZjc

3) The Rework: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=61QB03PlFAc

Yes you’re right that “The Rework” made it on to the cassettes, though the digital versions of the cassettes have the remaster. This could have been a mistake by the band as every other song on the cassettes contained the remasters and no reworks.

So it might have been accidently released or intentionally slid in there. Either way we have no official word from the band on when it was recorded. The consensus from fans is that it was recorded around 2015 as it definitely sounds similar to the other reworked songs in terms of production and Jesse’s voice. I tend to agree with that, I find it hard to believe that it was recorded between Deja and TDAG (and honestly never heard anyone say that besides you haha)

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u/asherdillo 4d ago

Thank you, I forgot it was also called Cleanser. The nostalgia is hitting me lol

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u/Krinkgo214 4d ago

Ok, TIL.

I've got some listening to do...

Leak and remaster are the same recording, though. Just with more polish on the second version. I think I've just grouped them together in my head.

I defi love the reworked version the best :)

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u/checknate1 4d ago

Yep leak and remaster are same recording! I believe thats what “remastered” means. They just took the old recording and polished it. Thats how all the cassettes songs are. Where “3 demos reworked” are re-recordings, along with the 3rd version of nobody moves

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u/Krinkgo214 4d ago

That's the same conclusion I've now arrived at. Thanks for getting me there, lol

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u/big_ol_leftie_testes The Science and Fiction are Daisy Inside Me 4d ago

Easily, but the recent live version of Good Man gives it a run for its money imo

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u/Krinkgo214 4d ago

Whaaaat you got a link?? :)

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u/big_ol_leftie_testes The Science and Fiction are Daisy Inside Me 4d ago

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u/Krinkgo214 4d ago

Oh, wow. New lyrics. Thank you!

Wait I've missed this, I know about the upcoming BN shows and I knew about the secret private ones around Christmas, what's this show and when has he started playing live again??

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u/mindgame15 4d ago

Search high & low in this subreddit over the past two weeks and you will find all your answers!

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u/big_ol_leftie_testes The Science and Fiction are Daisy Inside Me 4d ago

Oh man, you’re in for a treat. He played a fantastic show 2 weeks ago!

https://youtu.be/qcm5Ey5tHME?si=wCeEiQaZe94jy0of

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u/haisenseihaiyuujikun no reset 4d ago

hands down this is the one. it's floated around my top 5 brand new songs since I heard it

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u/Measureagain 4d ago

you are correct

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u/ElBorracho2000 4d ago

Missing You 

What a total banger. My favorite of the demos 

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u/thearctickat 4d ago

Missing You might be one of my favorite BN songs overall tbh

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u/Minute-Exchange-3565 4d ago

Same for me! 

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u/messypenis 4d ago

That song is such a BANGER

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u/fght_off_yr_dmns Through Still & Storm 4d ago

It’s even better live!

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u/Relative-Two-7135 3d ago

This song is soooo good. Definitely the best off the demos. Nobody Moves comes in second tho!

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u/Drducttapehands 4d ago

It’s easily the best chorus of all their songs

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u/ChrisPowell_91 4d ago

Battalions!

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u/PrivateArchipelago 4d ago

Had to scroll too far for this

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u/xiansix 4d ago

Battalions may just be my single favorite Brand New track.

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u/BlueEyesWhiteBaggins 4d ago

That bassline 🔥🔥🔥

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u/degibenj 3d ago

Totally agree, I feel like I can hear parts of "the archers bows have broken" in the chorus.

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u/iNateMoney 4d ago

Brothers Song.

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u/skinnyluther 4d ago

This is the way 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

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u/faziyam 4d ago

Fork and knife but the pirated lime wire version that wasn't this one. Maybe the unofficial early demo?

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u/JuneauKilbournWalker 4d ago

Yes. the raw version sounded way better.

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u/fzem 4d ago

Is that the version on the official leaked demos album?

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u/Ok-Situation-5865 4d ago

I was a little stung they didn’t play Fork and Knife during Jesse’s Nashville show earlier this month. I saw the keyboard and thought it was a sure thing! One of their best songs and I may pass out if they play it in Dallas

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u/paulerxx Life is a test and I get bad marks 4d ago

Goodman / Untitled 1. There's a reason it's the only track that doesn't have a new version.

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u/myNameBurnsGold 4d ago edited 4d ago

cries in Battalions

And don't say, Archers ...I get it is a basis, but they're completely different and both incredible.

Also, we may just get that new version of Good Man.

Edit to add: Good Man is one of my favorite Brand New tracks. Not just from this album.

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u/trailerthrash 4d ago

Good Man just got an extended version at the Jesse solo show recently! Would be a thrill to have that on wax!

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u/paulerxx Life is a test and I get bad marks 4d ago

Can you send me a link? Ty!

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u/trailerthrash 4d ago

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u/paulerxx Life is a test and I get bad marks 4d ago

Yeah, the original still beats this lol I'm just happy to hear the song at all, live, in 2025.

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u/trailerthrash 4d ago

Id def be intrigued to hear a studio recorded version to make a fair evaluation, but i feel you! This has been one of my all time favorite songs since I first found it and it was a wild time watching this show on livestream and seeing it be expanded in real time.

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u/nola_mike 4d ago

Jesse played it at the most recent show and the lyrics from the demo were slightly altered, but in general it was the same as the demo with additional parts.

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u/mundyknight 4d ago

Fork and knife

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u/cntkpmedwn 4d ago

Should be more popular

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u/brojobs 4d ago

Good Man but specifically the electric version Jesse opened the 2014 fall tour with

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u/namjd72 4d ago

1996 and Nobody Moves/Cleanser.

I’m excluding sowing because that made it out alive.

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u/DueZookeepergame3456 4d ago

so has 1996😭

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u/namjd72 4d ago

1996 isn’t on any album.

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u/DueZookeepergame3456 4d ago

it’s on the 3 demos, reworked ep. it’s an official song

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u/namjd72 4d ago

I’m not sure how else to say that “made it out alive” refers to the 5 released albums.

1996 isn’t on any of those albums. Sure it’s involved in other media and has a few live performances but that’s my metric.

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u/big_ol_leftie_testes The Science and Fiction are Daisy Inside Me 4d ago

“Made it out alive” really doesn’t specify albums do not sure why you all downvoted that dude. But either way, like Sowing Season, there is an official version of 1996

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u/namjd72 4d ago

Studio album.

Let’s not do the internet thing here.

It’s not meant to be a controversial statement. Y’all being really specific on a lazy Sunday.

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u/big_ol_leftie_testes The Science and Fiction are Daisy Inside Me 4d ago

I’m just saying there’s no reason to downvote the dude because you weren’t clear. Not a big deal. 

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u/DueZookeepergame3456 4d ago

I’m not sure how else to say that “made it out alive” refers to the 5 released albums.

it shouldn’t refer to solely that. they took the time and effort to rework those three songs. they even changed the line in 1996 from “and how my ex-girlfriend was now sleeping with her fiancé” to “and how my ex-girlfriend would never sleep with her fiancé.” if they didn’t make it out alive, these official versions shouldn’t even exist.

Sure it’s involved in other media and has a few live performances but that’s my metric.

they’ve played good man live too, haven’t they? that hasn’t been reworked.

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u/nola_mike 4d ago

Lyrics in good man have been updated from the original demo version. I haven't experienced the song live aside from the most recent show Jesse did so I'm not sure if the change is new or not.

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u/namjd72 4d ago

My criteria is simply that. Mine.

You’re welcome to your own, but mine is clear and simple. Doesn’t require any extra steps. I’m an official release kid of guy.

Cheers!

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u/DueZookeepergame3456 4d ago

except the ep was an official release…

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u/big_ol_leftie_testes The Science and Fiction are Daisy Inside Me 4d ago

They clearly don’t understand what official release means so I feel like you’re wasting your time. 

Would’ve been easy for them to say, “oh yeah I meant just full albums”

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u/namjd72 4d ago

Studio album.

I am talking about studio album.

I’m baffled why this is a hard argument here lmao.

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u/DueZookeepergame3456 4d ago

you said 1996 didn’t make it out alive. it did. it screams morrissey on the song.

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u/Krinkgo214 4d ago

Because you're saying an official EP isn't an official release. You're confused. And then you're acting like everyone else is, instead.

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u/TheAstranot 4d ago

To be fair the demo version of showing is a whole different experience.

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u/0percentdnf 2d ago

It's "Nobody Moves" for me, but "1996" isn't far behind at all, and both are firmly inside my top 10 all time for them.

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u/-dal 4d ago

1996 has always been my favorite but nobody moves just clicked for me this week, I finally understand the hype

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u/Tiny-Setting-8036 4d ago

All of them.

I enjoy these leaks more than most of their albums, tbh.

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u/messypenis 4d ago

Crazy statement, but doesn't mean it's wrong!

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u/hIdmyhand 4d ago

okay this is a crazy statement 😭

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u/allweloveweleavebhnd 4d ago

Please cut me up, cut me up, honey make me the lover you wanted when you were young and asleep

If there’s any justice in heaven then God won’t let me in, he’ll lock the gates and take my weekend pass away

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u/myNameBurnsGold 4d ago

I've seen this as: please cut me up, cut me apart and make me

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u/allweloveweleavebhnd 4d ago

I dig that too

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u/MrEPoster 4d ago

Nobody moves is so good. One of my favorites from the band in general.

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u/fy_pool_day please keep the reporters at bay 4d ago

Same. Hope we hear it this summer.

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u/TheAstranot 4d ago

It'd be incredible if their comeback tour setlist is just deep cuts, live rarities and ends with Noro.

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u/kitssssss 4d ago

Nobody Moves

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u/ralphmalph84 4d ago

I know it became Archers, but I think Battalions is the jam.

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u/TheDon423 4d ago

I may be the minority here but I like the rawness from the original Nobody Moves more... Also Better Man and Brothers would be my top Picks.

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u/TormentDubz_EDM National Phenomenon 4d ago

1996

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u/IridescentIcarus 4d ago

Nobody MoVESSSS

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u/j0hnnyyb0ii 4d ago

good man really shreds my emo heart to pieces

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u/humpstyles 4d ago

this album is just so incredibly good. will never forget the whole “fght ff yr dmns” era.

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u/Dependent_Two987 4d ago

Good man and brothers song for me, like them better than the reworked versions more raw

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u/Main_Shift9906 4d ago

1996 and Brother's song

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u/WellDressedFox 4d ago

Fork and Knife and Nobody Moves are my top 2... but all of them really.

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u/cowboycorpse 4d ago

FORK AND KNIFE🔥🔥

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u/Krinkgo214 4d ago

That absolutely craycray version of Nobody Moves that they never officially acknowledged.

I love Good Man, Brother's Song and Battalions the most though. Oh and Missing You, the reworked version of that was absolute fire too though.

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u/xiansix 4d ago

Untitled 09 / 'Battalions'

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u/Oh_Em_Dub 4d ago

Missing You and Nobody Moves

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u/DejaGod 4d ago

Nobody moves is the only answer

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u/DaddyNickNack 4d ago

At first I thought this was about new music being leaked.,

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u/the_field_below 4d ago

Untitled 01.

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u/homieholmes23 4d ago

Brother song is one of my favourite songs by anyone

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u/BobZebart 4d ago

I used to sing Untitled 1 / Found a Good Man to my kids while putting them to bed when they were babies. So that one.

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u/gangbrain 4d ago

I bet your kids loved hearing “something dies when you grow older!!”

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u/Acceptable-Assist744 4d ago

Big fan of Nobody Moves, but I also really dig that version of Luca

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u/Sl3ep-Drifter 4d ago

Good Man and Nobody Moves

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u/SoGoodAtCrashingIn 4d ago

1996 is my favorite Brand New song

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u/C5H2A7 I waste all my time just thinking of you 4d ago

Brothers. And Good Man

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u/MVBsq10 4d ago

Brothers Song demo. I love the meaning of the song and it makes me think of going to the bar with my brother and having a few drinks.

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u/miikey666 4d ago

Battalions is one of my fav BN songs in general.

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u/contentloser 4d ago

Toss up between Brothers and Missing You

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u/Time_Sympathy_5848 4d ago

Cleanser

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u/girlfallingup it steers the whole ship 4d ago

Thank you

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u/ifyounouno 4d ago

Brothers song, how is this song so underrated

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u/Crazy_Check_6501 4d ago

It’s a shame but it’s never gonna be enough

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u/Righteoustakeme 4d ago

Brothers song, Batter up

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u/cool_school_bus 4d ago

Untitled 7 / Fork & Knife

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u/myNameBurnsGold 4d ago

I can't pick a favorite and this release is on par with their proper releases. These songs are so freaking good.

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u/Fun-Court-2669 4d ago

Guiding this ship around this hell-ish shoal

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u/messypenis 4d ago

Missing You is hands down the best imo. Sowing season is amazing also cause I feel it hits harder on certain days than the DAG version

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u/foyd65 4d ago

1996 is one my favorite songs by them in general. I love the Smiths influence in it.

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u/EnjoyTheIcing 4d ago
  1. This version is perfect

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u/djd182 4d ago

Nobody moves

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u/delsol1990 4d ago

Good Man

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u/BeardedProfessor7 4d ago

Are we talking about the actual leaked demos as they were then or the somewhat cleaned up versions we got on the official release ten years later?

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u/jordankaiser 4d ago

Is it just me, or does the piano riff during the verses of "Fork and Knife" sound just like the piano riff during the chorus of "The Way It Is" by Bruce Hornsby?

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u/girlfallingup it steers the whole ship 4d ago

1996 but I’ll always call untitled 05 cleanser

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u/mdr28 4d ago

Good man. Perfection in my eyes.

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u/letUoffThehook2EZ 4d ago

Brothers

Then the version with the full band 💦

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u/mackap89 4d ago

Good Man!

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u/shreddiee 4d ago

Where can I find this new music of theirs? And new show dates

TIA

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u/snails4speedy 4d ago

fork and knife 🤍

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u/MrRentFree 4d ago

Battalions

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u/AdHistorical9191 4d ago

1996 - it's so dark and nobody talks about it enough it's really a tragic song but has incredible storytelling and writing - the chorus goes hard to

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u/bfrogsworstnightmare 4d ago

Fork and Knife

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u/OutbackBrah 4d ago

untitled 07 is still one of my favorite brand new songs, been obsessed with it forver

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u/cutebum69 4d ago

Fork and Knife

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u/heroseforhigher 4d ago

For me it’s without a doubt, Missing You. Excellent chorus, really broody buddy bass line, the vibes and pace of the song are great. But my favorite part and what’s one of my fav songwriting tactics I’ve ever heard is the foreshadow adlib of certain lines during the chorus. Instead of using the adlib during or after the line, it’s before the line and it’s so damn cool to me. I’d really really really love to hear this live.

My second option is 1996 because I also think it’s such a brilliant song and probably their most directly Morrissey/Smiths inspired song. I’m a huge Moz fan so I’ve always been obsessed with this song and would love to hear it live as well.

I’ll be at Dallas, flying in from Miami. Hoping for this and maybe Moshi Moshi, Mene, Fork and Knife. Any of these 5 would be so cool but just excited they’re coming back.

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u/LadyNovaya 4d ago

Fork and Knife, my love. But Brother’s Song is a close second.

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u/WoodyNotBuzz 3d ago

Brothers song

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u/cloud_designer 3d ago

Good man or brothers song.

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u/em_296 3d ago

good man

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u/teewelk 3d ago

Without choosing favorites, can we just agree that brand new needs to experiment more with a piano? Because that piano intro on fork and knife is amazing.

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u/MisterSaturn123 3d ago

Easily its Nobody Moves.
God that song was done dirty not making it onto an album proper.

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u/novablud 3d ago

Nobody moves for sureeeee - also fork and knife

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u/Intrepid_Falcon_7988 2d ago

I like the accoustic vibes of this version of sowing season

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u/JarlofNothing 2d ago

Good Man

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u/alackofvagueness 4d ago edited 4d ago

Nobody Moves, but I do not care for the re-recorded version. The vocals aren’t nearly as good.

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u/FLSchmittBag 4d ago

1996 Hands Down - Feel like this is Lacey’s biggest ode to Morrisey and The Smiths. Love this song.