Amnesiac wrote:
It's not the right speed. Her voice seems too sharp. There is a transfer problem on the demo tapes
No, it’s the correct speed. I compared the pitch on the song with the original release of the demos—the CD was uploaded to YouTube a year ago. You can compare the two Sheela demos, from the original 1992 Demonstration disc, to the new one released today. They are the same pitch, along with the full band version. I checked with my guitar, too, to try to detect any sharpness; there isn’t any. They’re all in the key of F, perfectly pitched, the way the song has always been. That goes for the demo, the album version, and all subsequent live versions.
What you’re hearing is the quality of her singing, which was very “young girl”-ish at the time. She just hadn’t developed her voice yet to what we hear on the finished album version. The pitch is exactly the same, however. This is one of the reasons why I could never prefer the demos for Dry over the finished album, as some people do.