nrb602 wrote:

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What I'm really wondering about is the whereabouts of the unreleased version of "Sink or Swim" as well as "Mr. Morality" from the It Sessions. I wonder why either of them didn't make it onto the reissue in 2012 (but I did hear that Sink or Swim was likely unmixed and I've also never heard the latter song so I wouldn't know if it was worth being on It.).

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I suspect they're long lost.

As both songs were left unmixed, it's highly likely the only place they ever existed was on the original multi-track tapes from the sessions. These probably wouldn't have been kept - usual practice in cheap 1980s recording studios would be for the studio to keep the multi-track tape and reuse it for something else once the final mix has been done.

Please Don't Worry and the early Blue Girls are different because they were mixed at the time, and have survived on pre-release cassettes that some of the band took home. Sink Or Swim is indeed the Spice demo version.

Time for another one of my big walls of text. I've gone through the list of unreleased pre-1982 Pulp songs, and made a list of what exists, what's likely to exist, and what has little or no chance of existing:

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Songs which have little or no chance of existing (as original recordings) anymore

Disco Baby (c.1980, very little information about it)
Don't Want to Know (c.1981, very little information about it)
I Wave You Goodbye (performed live at Crucible Theatre, 24 Oct 82, no known recordings exist)
I've Been Looking at the World Today (c.1979, written about in 'Truth & Beauty')
Life Is a Circle (snippet performed acoustically at City School in Sheffield in 2011 when Jarvis was there to talk about 'Mother, Brother, Lover')
Message to the Martians (later evolved into 'Refuse To Be Blind')
Mr Morality (left unmixed; the tape was likely to have been re-used)
Queen Poser (performed live in 1980, no known recordings)
Shakespeare Rock (played acoustically on Sky Arts programme 'Songbook')
She's a Disease (performed live in 1980/1981, no known recordings of those gigs exist)
Stay (performed live at Crucible Theatre, 24 Oct 82, no known recordings exist)
Test Of Affection (performed live in 1981, no known recordings exist)
The Condom Song (c.1979, played at rehearsals)
What You Gonna Do About It? (c.1980, played at rehearsals)
You're Too Cruel (c.1980, very little information about it)
You Should've Known (c.1979, written about in 'Truth & Beauty')

Songs which may possibly exist as a live recording, but have not been circulated

How Could You Leave Me? (16 Jan 82, Bath University)
Red Letter Day (13 Apr 82, The Limit)
Teen Angst (13 Apr 82, The Limit)
Thrash (16 Jan 82, Bath University)
Why Live? (16 Jan 82, Bath University)

Songs which definitely exist as demos

Barefoot in the Park (Rotherham demo)
How Could You Leave Me? (Rotherham demo)
Teen Angst (Rotherham demo)
The Heat of the Day (Spice demo)
Why Live? (Rotherham demo)

Songs which have been circulated as live recordings

Barefoot in the Park (13 Apr 82, The Limit)
How Could You? (28 Feb 82, Hallamshire Hotel) (13 Apr 82, The Limit)
I Scrubbed The Crabs That Killed Sheffield (16 Jan 82, Bath University)
Teen Angst (16 Feb 82, Bath University) (28 Feb 82, Hallamshire Hotel)
Thrash (28 Feb 82, Hallamshire Hotel)
(What's Wrong With) My Girl (28 Feb 82, Hallamshire Hotel)
You Go First (13 Apr 82, The Limit)
You've Got a Face (13 Apr 82, The Limit)
Zhivago (16 Jan 82, Bath University) (28 Feb 82, Hallamshire Hotel)

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This list doesn't take into account what may be in the Marples tape, as no set-list of that gig has appeared at this stage. You'd probably be looking at a similar set-list to Bath Uni or The Limit (23 Feb 82). So probably something like:

• Thrash
• Please Don't Worry
• What Do You Say?
• How Could You?
• Refuse To Be Blind
• Turkey Mambo Momma
• Teen Angst
• Why Live?

Maybe 'Zhivago', '(What's Wrong With) My Girl' or 'Crabs' as well; depends how long their set was. But I'd wager the set-list looked something like the above.