19 songs?

[PJ.]

Hey guys! I don't know if you remember this but a while back when this album was still in the works, it was said that 19 songs were being recorded...or at least brought into the studio. what happened to the last 3 songs? I'm pretty sure I remember one titled "Orange"...but i'm not sure. Here's a link to my source...

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Do you think that the missing 3 songs were recorded and just discarded from the album? and if so do you think we will ever get them in the future? if we do i'm sure we are gonna have to wait for them, kinda similar to "Your Love", "Together Again", and "If you don't Mind".

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Orange became Never Go Back, I believe... A lot of those rumored song titles eventually became songs on the final album. They were just working titles... Like Vanilla became Erase This, Kraken became Disappear, etc...

I would assume that if there were any songs not on the deluxe edition, then they just weren't in a complete enough state to release. They may not have even been properly recorded. I think she may have even said in an interview at one point that there's nothing left to release.

[DarkFlare89]

Nov 1, 2012 12:09:23 GMT -5 @melt said:

I would assume that if there were any songs not on the deluxe edition, then they just weren't in a complete enough state to release. They may not have even been properly recorded. I think she may have even said in an interview at one point that there's nothing left to release.

I agree. From what I understood, "[w]ith 19 tunes, the band reentered the studio this month" (SOURCE - Thanks Thomas & DoubleA) but they only ended up recording/mastering/finishing/polishing 16 of those songs - all of which were released.

And I remember what Melt remembers too. Someone asked Amy something along the lines of is there anything else from this era to release, and she said that everything is out there already. Of course, this implicitly implies that only everything that is finished and finalized is out there - obviously the Ev LP demos, all of the Ev LP instrumentals (we only have MHIB and WYW), whatever pieces of those three songs (Song 17/18/19) that may or may not have been recorded (we don't know really), and so forth, haven't been released yet.

[AeternusAmatorius]

Wll in the one interview, MTV, they only had 16 songs recorded.

So, recharged, Evanescence did just that, heading to Blackbird Studio in Nashville to work with producer Nick Raskulinecz on the follow-up to The Open Door. They've nearly finished — Lee said there are currently 16 songs at or near completion — and earlier this week, their longtime label, Wind-up Records announced that the album would be hitting stores October 4.

[DarkFlare89]

Nov 1, 2012 15:58:27 GMT -5 AeternusAmatorius said:

Wll in the one interview, MTV, they only had 16 songs recorded.

Indeed, this makes sense though. They entered the studio with Nick with 19 songs on paper and left with only 16 songs (fully) recorded. So either Song 17, 18, and 19 were left as they were on paper, or somehow during the recording process they were stuck (Amy didn't like her vocals? The instruments didn't mesh well) and said songs got stuck in a limbo. Of course, this is only an assumption that the Spin article was accurate in how many songs the band entered the studio to begin with.

[AeternusAmatorius]

I feel the other three were not recorded at all because of How the MTV article is worded; "at or near completion".

[hushedlullaby]

Semi off-topic, but hearing the first titles for the songs (like how Never Go Back was originally Orange, and Disappear was originally Kraken), I definitely prefer the original titles.

[AeternusAmatorius]

Since the initial question has been answered, I think I'll close this now. Unless another mod decides to reopen it or if someone thinks it should stay open for discussion, PM me.