Box Set Revisited

Yep.

Also we can't use quality of vocal tracks to differentiate years. Some of these demos are guide tracks and some sound much more polished.

You mean you don't prefer Arting all over again?

Afraid of the Night could have also become We Rule The Night. The box set version sounds like a really really early version (drum machine is a dead giveaway). If Jon didn't play bass on that I'd be shocked.

True, but I'm talking about the quality of the singing!

Why Jon? Why?!?!?

I seem to recall them saying thay re-did it on the Box Set Bonus DVD. But it's been years since I watched it, so my memory is a bit clouded here.
It just seems to me that Jon is pushing himself almost over the edge to sing those raspy vocals in that key whereas it sounded so natural on the KTF outtake. That's why I have a hard time believing that it's just a different vocal take from the same session. Furthermore, Jon's guide vocals on the rehearsals for An Evening With BJ or on Does Anybody Fall In Love Anymore (Sons of Beaches version) are much more lazy, so I can't see why he would've pushed that hard if this wasn't the final take.

That could very well be true! Maybe it was Alec - remember that we're used to Hugh on the studio records and Alec was playing on 7800° Fahrenheit

Yeah, never understood that as well. The KTF bonus version is perfect, that other version (as you said, I believe it's just another vocal take) is horrible by comparison...

I like that idea.
During all those years I always found it hard to believe, that songs like The End, When She Comes, Prostitute, even Lonely At The Top and also the Box Set songs like Open All Night, Flesh and Bone or I Just Wanna Be Your Man were written for These Days. They all sound waaaaay to different than the songs that made the album.
So I really think it might be true that there was the idea for "Open All Night" but that it's been completely rejected.

There absolutely were. I remember some footage (I don't know if it was on the Box Set DVD or somewhere else) where Jon recorded some acoustic guitar parts for I Get A Rush. So they definitely worked on some of those songs prior to their release.