1. Metropolis Part 2: Not even close
2. Speak to Me: Demonstration of how simply nailing the melody to perfection trumps everything in pop songcraft as the structure and accompaniment is pretty straightforward (yet supportive). Melody is king.
3. Cover My Eyes: Better structure and accompaniment. Even really great melody, but Speak to Me melody was perfection
4. The Way It Used to Be: Same attributes of Cover My Eyes, but slightly less so
5. Raise the Knife: The most DT (of that era) like, but weak tea DT. And sometimes it seems to meander.
6. Where are you Now: Way behind all the others. It is actually promising, but somehow not missing the mark and would probably take a major rewrite to compete with the others.
For all the (at the time) talk of how these songs should have been on FII instead of half the songs that made it to DT, that really was DT fanboyism. Heard the talk of being forced in a pop direction, but the ones left off were the most mainstream pop of FII+Demos.
Speak to Me could have replaced one of the other ballads. Especially with further embellishment (but not too much). Cover My Eyes might have replaced another ballad as well (FII was ballad heavy). Beyond that, FII was about right for the time.
Finally, I think being forced to really work on pop songcraft I think helped their future songwriting, so it wasn't all for not.