Am I the only one who feels like the "weird timing" in this Not Anymore version just sounds like misaligned multitracks? Like... the claps and whatnot were just accidentally shoved a beat early and then it was exported just like that?

It also just feels like too strange of a change to have been made last-minute. That said, perhaps they were just unsure which rhythm to go with until the last minute and were trying around different things. This "early version" timing just sounds way too "off" to me, and non in a usual uncomfortable-but-good NIN way.

These sound very much to me like unmixed versions overall, like what the tracks sounded like before being sent off to Alan Moulder for mixing.