Well, that's what I mean. I understand why a record label would make it more uniform. But "doledrum", for example, Lillywhite inserted backing vocals from the standard-tuning Leckie session so I figure he fucked with it to make it more complete. The Eden sessions - the album sessions - were played by the band in a half a step down tuning.
Here's a link to the Eden sessions, play along in standard, Doledrum for example, it isn't right, then you stick on the album version....
Overall, I'd say a ton of both recorded AND live La's IS in standard - or so close unless you have perfect pitch it won't matter. Eg, Kitchen tape. I don't think early (86-89) La's went outside tuning toooooo much.
Then, less common you have a layer of 432hz or close - like the Terry Christian sesh
And from 90 onward, it was half a step down.
By the Crescent, I think it's a full step down AND THEN 432hz - a guess, soz, haven't done this in years, don't like it THAT slack. There's some stuff a standard step down. I assume for his voice
I generally assume the 432hz is a tuning he found later to standardise the half-step-down vaguely-loose sound he was already aware of. And what's baffling is the 2005 gigs were in STANDARD.
Honestly if you're on PC and playing along with MP3s or Flacs get Winamp and Pacemaker. You can change the pitch incrementally and you can harmonise to songs you can play. I play along to live gigs more than anything, and they're a mess in terms of uniform tuning.
https://www.surina.net/pacemaker/#
0.5 pitch higher here is half a step without affecting the tempo