Slips and Tangles is a rare early demo

Demo (music)

A demo version or demo of a song is one recorded for reference rather than for release. A demo is a way for a musician to approximate their ideas on tape or disc, and provide an example of those ideas to record labels, producers or other artists...

 cassette by John K. Samson

John K. Samson

John Kristjan Samson is a musician from Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. He is a singer-songwriter and currently the frontman of the Canadian folk punk band The Weakerthans...

, released in 1993 when he was a member of Propagandhi

Propagandhi

Propagandhi is a Canadian punk band formed in Portage la Prairie, Manitoba in 1986 by Chris Hannah and Jord Samolesky. The band is currently located in Winnipeg, Manitoba....

. The song "Greenest Eyes" appeared in a different form on Propagandhi's album How to Clean Everything

How to Clean Everything

How to Clean Everything is the first album by the punk rock band Propagandhi, released in 1993.In 2006, the album was ranked as the highest rated punk album of 1993 on Sputnikmusic. Vocalist Chris Hannah said about the album:...

, which was also released in 1993; there, it was entitled "Showdown (Greenest Eyes/Preamble)" in reference to how Samson and main vocalist/guitarist Chris Hannah traded verses of very similar melodies and lyrics that mirror each other in various places. The title track was later rerecorded by Samson's next and current band The Weakerthans

The Weakerthans

The Weakerthans are a four-piece Canadian indie rock band.-History:The band was formed in 1997 in Winnipeg, Manitoba by John K. Samson, after he left the punk band Propagandhi to start a publishing company. Samson joined forces with bassist John P...

 on their 2000 album Left and Leaving. Samson also rerecorded six tracks on his 1995 EP

Extended play

An EP is a musical recording which contains more music than a single, but is too short to qualify as a full album or LP. The term EP originally referred only to specific types of vinyl records other than 78 rpm standard play records and LP records, but it is now applied to mid-length Compact...

 Little Pictures

Little Pictures

Little Pictures is a solo record recorded between 1993 and 1994 by John K. Samson, then of Propagandhi. It was released in 1995 as a split album with Painted Thin's Small Acts of Love and Rebellion. It was one of G7 Welcoming Committee's first releases, in a PET film pouch. Samson later left...

, which was re-released in 2006.

The album can be found in MP3

MP3

MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...

 format on peer-to-peer file sharing

Peer-to-peer file sharing

P2P or Peer-to-peer file sharing allows users to download files such as music, movies, and games using a P2P software client that searches for other connected computers. The "peers" are computer systems connected to each other through internet. Thus, the only requirements for a computer to join...

networks, although as a cassette dub the sound quality of the files is not particularly good.

Track listing

1. "Slips and Tangles"
2. "Greenest Eyes"
3. "Airport Lounge"
4. "Unearthly Refrain"
5. "Happy Song"
6. "Sunday Afternoon"
7. "Summer Rain"
8. "Farewell Faded Memory"
9. "Velveteen"
10. "Maryland Bridge"
11. "Sympathetic Smile"
12. "Saint Cecilia"
13. "Little Pictures"
14. "A Story You Have Heard Before"
15. "Agonistes"