"come back and stay" is a great song. so, why then did paul young turn to such shit?

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i'm sitting in a law library right now, and i am listening to a web radio station in headphones (thank heavens for small mercies). paul young's "come back and stay" came on, it was great ... and i'm left wondering, why did he suck so much afterwards?

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Sunday, 12 October 2003 04:11 (twenty years ago) link

alright, when i was 15 i had secret of association (or whatever the record was that had "everytime you go" on it). it was pretty good, too ... so include that one in "classic" PY too.

but anyway, "come back and stay" essentially did effortlessly what "greater" talents like Gary Numan and Martin Gore were trying to do circa the same time ... fretless bass, soulful singing, great synth arrangement, romantic torment. even 20 years after the fact, it's pretty singular. why did PY turn into yer standard-issue soul-belter for bored hausfraus?

― Little Big Macher (llamasfur), Sunday, 12 October 2003 04:14 (twenty years ago) link

Paul Young released the awful "Between Two Fires" album in 1986, and his career halted. Later on, he has been back on form on several excellent tracks, but nobody wanted to listen anymore.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Sunday, 12 October 2003 12:57 (twenty years ago) link

Tad, I think he might have been concurently great and shit - have you heard him covering Love Will Tear Us Apart? A boring criticism, I know, but still...

― Damian (Damian), Sunday, 12 October 2003 22:27 (twenty years ago) link

Answer to original question...

Because that was the last track to feature the Fabulous Wealthy tarts on backing vocals. They were 'let go' for financial reasons, and that was it baby. Not everything before it was wonderful, but everything afterwards was rrrrrrrrrrrghh. plop

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 October 2003 08:20 (twenty years ago) link

What did Maz and Kim do after that?

― Damian (Damian), Monday, 13 October 2003 10:16 (twenty years ago) link

four months pass...

Yeah, "Come Back and Stay" was a great tune. You guy's gotta remember though, during the 80's to early 90's, that caliber of music was expected and frequently delivered. Now, you've got nothing but a bunch of whinney bands, go figure. But that really was a moving song.

― Mark A, Wednesday, 3 March 2004 19:44 (twenty years ago) link

one year passes...

Please don't get wrong, "come back and stay" composer is not Paul Young but is Jack Lee, who composed the song for Young and played it in his album "That's Totaly Pop".

This in from Wikipedia.

Lee's most famous composition is "Hanging on the Telephone". Originally a Nerves number released to little notice in 1976, Blondie made the song famous through a UK top 5 single cover version from their hugely successful album Parallel Lines. The song remains a popular cover choice of bands today, even if many groups are unfamiliar with any version predating Blondie's. Lee also contributed another number to Parallel Lines, "Will Anything Happen?", and later wrote a hit for Paul Young, "Come Back and Stay".

Lee has also released a solo album entitled Greatest Hits, Vol. 1.

― Javier Provencio, Friday, 17 February 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link

every time you go away... you take a piece of meat.. with you.

― Kim (Kim), Saturday, 18 February 2006 02:53 (eighteen years ago) link

"Everytime You Go Away" is a song where I prefer Paul Young/Laurie Latham's arrangement while I am more into the way Daryl Hall sings the original. Thus, the perfect version is a combination of those two.

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Saturday, 18 February 2006 03:56 (eighteen years ago) link

The Nerves version of "Come Back and Stay" >>>>>>>> the Paul Young version.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 18 February 2006 03:57 (eighteen years ago) link

The Nerves' version of "Come Back and Stay":

http://s40.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=15RRMV8MEBALV1JSUPDWKU4WPO

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 18 February 2006 04:03 (eighteen years ago) link

Jack Lee was such a great songwriter. Did a lot of great work for others, but completely ignored on his own terms. Kinda reminds me of Jason Falkner in that regard.

― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 18 February 2006 13:37 (eighteen years ago) link

two months pass...

I think Kim Lesley (Wealthy Tarts) is some kind of religeous preacher/singer, known as Rev. Kim Lesley.
Of Maz Roberts, I know jack sh..
Paul Young is currently touring the UK as a member of Tex-Mex band Los Pacaminos.
Anyone know what the Royal Family members are doing now?

― Graham Pyle, Wednesday, 10 May 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago) link

two years pass...

Some people are saying I'm an early 80's whore. I already told that I don't care.

― Bimble Is Still More Goth Than Your MIDNITE POWERTOOLS (Bimble), Sunday, 21 December 2008 21:09 (fifteen years ago) link

five years pass...

Marcello gets to No Parlez.

― Bryan Fairy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 17 March 2014 00:54 (ten years ago) link

three months pass...

TPL gets to the difficult, hardly written about but arguably better follow-up.

― Here he is with the classic "Poème Électronique." Good track (Marcello Carlin), Sunday, 29 June 2014 04:17 (nine years ago) link

two months pass...

never heard this but the Then Play Long piece got me intrigued. well i mean it's amazing innit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwJOpW1u1xU

― piscesx, Saturday, 20 September 2014 20:36 (nine years ago) link

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