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Welcome To Tally Hall started 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 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 and the same recording was included on [[Complete Demos]]. When recorded for Marvin's Marvelous Mechanical Museum, there were some slight word changes like "homophonic" to "heterophonic." The intro and outro are newly added as well as the opening notes of the song, which were originally not chiptune.
It would later be recorded for the [[Welcome To Tally Hall (EP)]] with fleshed out lyrics and the same recording was 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, 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 was added to Admittedly Incomplete Demos. It is currently unknown when this was recorded but its possible this is either a new recording or if Joe figured it would fit well as a closing track.<ref>[https://tallyhall.bandcamp.com/track/welcome-to-tally-hall-reprise-demo Welcome To Tally Hall (Reprise) (Demo). Bandcamp.]</ref>
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 likely 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>


==Music Video==
==Music Video==
The music video for Welcome To Tally Hall features the band playing around in a photo booth. With the exception of the intro and outro, the entire video is comprised of many photographs. The photographs were seemingly all taken throughout the last week of September 2008, as evidence by the back of the photographs used in the video.<ref>[https://hiddeninthesand.com/wiki/File:WTTH_Frame_Back.jpg Photograph from the WTTH music video]</ref> With the [[Good & Evil]] deluxe package, most pre-orders would include a photograph from the music video as a bonus.
The music video for Welcome To Tally Hall features the band playing around in a photo booth. With the exception of the intro and outro, the entire video is comprised of many photographs. The photographs were seemingly all taken throughout the last week of September 2008, as evidence by the back of the photographs used in the video.<ref>[https://hiddeninthesand.com/wiki/File:WTTH_Frame_Back.jpg Photograph from the WTTH music video.]</ref> With the [[Good & Evil]] deluxe package, most pre-orders would include a photograph from the music video as a bonus.


The video is also notable as one of the earliest appearances of the vests, being made days after the vests first appearance at The Late Late show on September 16th.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YAYZiBvvw Tally Hall on The Late, Late Show (Welcome to Tally Hall). YouTube.]</ref><ref>[https://hiddeninthesand.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=65 Hidden in the Sand forum post about The Late Late Show]</ref>
The video is also notable as one of the earliest appearances of the vests, being made days after the vests first appearance at The Late Late show on September 16th.<ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2YAYZiBvvw Tally Hall on The Late, Late Show (Welcome to Tally Hall). YouTube. 16th September, 2008.]</ref><ref>[https://hiddeninthesand.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=65 Hidden in the Sand forum post about The Late Late Show. 5th September, 2008.]</ref>


==Trivia==  
==Trivia==