Not familiar with that one, so it's possible the name got reused for a different song. What you know as POEM I definitely have as F#NY on a studio master. I have a box full of tapes run off of various mixing desks in my loft, so I went and dug it out.
It happens... Glyn Johns started to produce an abandoned version of Brave New World almost a year before working with us on Ghost of Cain, but again, the outcome of that session was not what we were looking for. Whirlwind wasn't always called Whirlwind. The first demo of the drum and bass idea recorded at the Sawmill in 1987 for T&C was titled Crazy Horses, after the Osmonds song. The 1988 demo we did in Wales before T&C was released was Let the Wild Winds Blow, which became Whirlwind after I'd left. By then, the original drum and bass parts had been hugely simplified, following another demo where, according to Robert and Nelson, Pat Collier said the song just didn't work. I think the final version has parts of the 1988 version, along with parts of London, another abandoned one recorded at the same December 1988 session. To be fair, the output from that session wasn't great, and played a small part in my decision to leave the band before we'd even started to tour T&C.
Higher Wall and Dead Eye went through similar development hell, the former being abandoned some time after I left, and the latter relegated to a B-side following numerous mixes and re-recordings. Justin and I had a fundamental disagreement on what I should be doing. I tried to come up with another bass part, but I felt the existing line worked, and I liked playing it. While I liked what I'd done, he didn't, and neither of us would budge, which is why the bass is quite low in the mix that was eventually used. Mike Gregovich's version (with the typewriter intro) that he and I did at a studio somewhere in West London when T&C was being put together is still my favourite. There's also a better Andy Wallace mix of I Love the World that wasn't used, and a version of 225 with a string arrangement at the end, which was also abandoned.
One day I might write all of this down. Anyway, I digress. I came looking for something else, but sometimes this forum drags me in.
