I quite like it, but feel like it was probably a pre-cursor to them writing It's My Life as it is the same kind of song (and, as you say, like others that followed) Also I think that it drags far too much towards the end. Even if it had been finished, I don't think that it would have worked on Crush - not unless they had made it a double album, given how many other good demos they had.

And I can't say as I hear the similarities with the Stereophonics track to be honest.