Stockholm Monsters - Demo Tape

Some more Factory obscuria for you. This time from a demo tape featuring unreleased songs by FAC noisy pop stars Stockholm Monsters.
Soft Babies eventually featured on the b-side of the classic Happy Ever After single. The long and the short dubs featured here are superb unreleased recordings. Two other tracks, The Future and James were pre-Factory demos and have never been distributed before. I've also included an unknown live track, which is fairly tuneful Stockies fare, and I'm told it was from a gig in 1985 but the track was never recorded in the studio.
As these tracks are ROIO, I'm posting them as lossless FLAC tracks. If you're not too sure how to listen to or process these, just flick back through the posts for instructions.

1. Soft Babies (Long Dub)
2. Soft Babies (Short Dub
3. Future (1981 demo)
4. James (1981 demo)
5. Unknown live track


Enjoy
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7 comments:

  1. Anonymous4 January 2010 at 05:51

    Wow...the long dub of 'Soft Babies' and unreleased 'Future' are simply brilliant, both have this circular fairground quality...where on earth did you locate this, blogmeister, and how did LTM miss this in their reissue programme?

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  2. melly9 February 2010 at 07:48

    That Unknown track is "When I Smile", there's a really great live version sitting on LTM's release of Last One Back. Just lovely. "Future" got release on same 'demos and sundry' Last One Back album, but this is the first time I'd heard James, I believe.

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  3. Anonymous12 July 2011 at 17:31

    I did not get any sleep last night, why? because this blog sucked me in and I ended up downloading all the Durutti, Stockholm Monsters, Section 21 and Wake material.

    THANKS!!! :)

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  4. Anonymous29 January 2014 at 07:19

    Resuscitated.

    Stockholm Monsters - Demos:

    https://mega.co.nz/#!dQEnQABZ!oB3gYeJcxZGRgbMq1S3B2jOf1AEsgxdTVqUd-xuB980

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  5. Anonymous30 January 2014 at 06:29

    Mega link above is a Wooden Ships show.......

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  6. Anonymous30 January 2014 at 07:22

    (love it, Anonymous debating itself...)

    oops...Why, yes it is! It's for the show here BTW:

    http://nomorethanabigcrashingbeathappenings.blogspot.com/2014/01/wooden-shjips-soda-bar-san-diego-25th.html

    The proper link is here: https://mega.co.nz/#!Y94W1CKR!xzF48UvWoe8LRBaDPjs-UmYL_6FGnpHZVue37fItBUk

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  7. Anonymous30 January 2014 at 08:46

    and that's shJJJJJJJJJJips, 'nony-boy.

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