Complete Demos

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Complete Demos
Compilation album by
ReleasedNovember 11th, 2004
Length38:26
LabelIndependent release
ProducerTally Hall
Tally Hall chronology
Welcome to Tally Hall EP
(2004)
Complete Demos
(2004)
The Pingry EP
(2005)

Complete Demos is the compendium of Tally Hall's first two EP disks, Welcome to Tally Hall and Party Boobytrap, both of which were recorded in Joe Hawley's attic, along with the track "Banana Man", previously released as a single. "Good Day" won Andrew Horowitz $10,000 in the 2004 BMI Foundation's John Lennon Scholarship Competition. "Just Apathy" was named the Grand Prize Winners for Session II of the 2005 John Lennon Songwriting Contest in the pop music category.[1] In addition to Welcome to Tally Hall and Party Boobytrap, Tally Hall recorded the Pingry EP demo disk which primarily consisted of acoustic one-take demos. Several songs from the Pingry disk were re-recorded in addition to songs from Complete Demos and others to form Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum.

Track listing[edit]

All tracks are written by Rob Cantor, Joe Hawley, Andrew Horowitz, and Zubin Sedghi (respectively, as denoted)

No.TitleWriter(s)Lead vocalsLength
1."Good Day"HorowitzHawley, Cantor, Sedghi3:31
2."Greener"CantorCantor4:03
3."Welcome to Tally Hall"Hawley (music & lyrics), Cantor, Sedghi (lyrics)Cantor, Sedghi, Hawley4:02
4."Just Apathy"CantorCantor3:35
5."Two Wuv"HorowitzSedghi3:44
6."Stationary Love"CantorCantor3:53
7."Banana Man"HawleyHawley4:28
8."(I Know) It's Just the Same"HorowitzHawley3:54
9."Ruler of Everything"HawleyHawley, Sedghi4:08
10."Hidden in the Sand" (hidden track)HawleyHawley1:28
Total length:49:21

Personnel[edit]

Tally Hall[edit]

  • Rob Cantor – vocals, guitar, songwriting
  • Joe Hawley – vocals, guitar, songwriting
  • Zubin Sedghi – bass, vocals, co-songwriting (3)
  • Andrew Horowitz – keyboards, percussion, vocals, songwriting
  • Steve Gallagher – drums

Ross Federman, though credited as the drummer, does not play on this release, as he had joined after the songs were recorded.

Additional musicians[edit]

  • Brian Kaufman - tuba (3)
  • Alaina Alster - trombone (3)
  • Adam Dixon - trumpet (3)

Technical personnel[edit]

  • Tally Hall - producer
  • Joe Hawley - engineer (1, 2, 3, 7, 8, 9), album design, photography
  • Rob Cantor - engineer (4, 5, 6)
  • Zubin Sedghi - engineer (5)
  • Steve Gallagher - engineer (5)
  • Ashley Hurst - photography

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