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Welcome To Tally Hall started its life as an acoustic demo from Joe Hawley, which was released on [[Admittedly Incomplete Demos]] in 2015.<ref>[https://tallyhall.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-tally-hall-acoustic-demo Welcome To Tally Hall (Acoustic Demo). Bandcamp.]</ref> The demo has two sections: a chorus which was used for the final recording, and an instrumental guitar solo section used for the brass section in the final version. | Welcome To Tally Hall started its life as an acoustic demo from Joe Hawley, which was released on [[Admittedly Incomplete Demos]] in 2015.<ref>[https://tallyhall.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-tally-hall-acoustic-demo Welcome To Tally Hall (Acoustic Demo). Bandcamp.]</ref> The demo has two sections: a chorus which was used for the final recording, and an instrumental guitar solo section used for the brass section in the final version. | ||
It would later be recorded for the [[Welcome To Tally Hall (EP)]] with fleshed out lyrics | Before any official releases of the song, a rehearsal featuring different lyrics from the final version would appear on Limewire and other file-sharing platforms.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQE2CTjtXS0 "Tally Hall - Welcome To Tally Hall (Early Rehearsal, Pre-Ross)" YouTube video.]</ref><ref>[https://x.com/emceebois/status/1408582985952149506?s=20 "The only good thing Limewire was ever good for was the ONE TIME I searched for Tally Hall and somehow found a demo of Welcome to Tally Hall that was made when Steve was still their drummer." Tweet from @emceebois, June 26th 2021.]</ref> | ||
It would later be recorded for the [[Welcome To Tally Hall (EP)]] with fleshed out lyrics, the same recording being included on [[Complete Demos]]. When recorded for the 2005 and 2008 versions of [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Album)|Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum]], a new intro and outro were added, and there were some slight word changes like changing "homophonic" to "heterophonic" as well as tonal changes to the opening motif of the song, which was not chiptune-style originally. | |||
On April 15th 2022, a reprisal demo of the song, with a different melody was added to [[Admittedly Incomplete Demos]]. It is currently unknown when this demo was recorded, and there is speculation among the community that the track is a new recording of an old idea. It's possible that it was written to act as a closing track for [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Album)|Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum]]<ref>[https://tallyhall.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-tally-hall-reprise-demo Welcome To Tally Hall (Reprise) (Demo). Bandcamp. Uploaded 15th April 2022.]</ref>, but this is mostly speculation. | On April 15th 2022, a reprisal demo of the song, with a different melody was added to [[Admittedly Incomplete Demos]]. It is currently unknown when this demo was recorded, and there is speculation among the community that the track is a new recording of an old idea. It's possible that it was written to act as a closing track for [[Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum (Album)|Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum]]<ref>[https://tallyhall.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-tally-hall-reprise-demo Welcome To Tally Hall (Reprise) (Demo). Bandcamp. Uploaded 15th April 2022.]</ref>, but this is mostly speculation. | ||