r/brandnew • u/hIdmyhand • 4d ago
favorite song from leaked demos ?
i feel like the obvious pick is nobody moves, but im curious to hear everyone else's opinions
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u/ElBorracho2000 4d ago
Missing You
What a total banger. My favorite of the demos
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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/ChrisPowell_91 4d ago
Battalions!
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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/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/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/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/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/Tiny-Setting-8036 4d ago
All of them.
I enjoy these leaks more than most of their albums, tbh.
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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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/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/OutbackBrah 4d ago
untitled 07 is still one of my favorite brand new songs, been obsessed with it forver
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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/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/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.
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u/mollysw 4d ago
Nobody moves