this though, fucking hell - what a dream of a song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I_iIxd2qCg
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:24 (six years ago) link
there are some of his songs where you could conceive of him as kind of middlesbrough's answer to ned doheny. still plenty of dreck in the back catalogue though
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:29 (six years ago) link
The first CD my parents bought new in summer '89 was New Light Through Old Windows because a cousin, who to this day works for the Gloria Estefan org, recommended it after hearing it "non-stop" in Europe during the '88 Let it Loose tour.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:45 (six years ago) link
some solid jams on that
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:49 (six years ago) link
actually i'm just looking at the tracklisting and they left 'fool if you think it's over' off the US version, but otoh you were also spared the horror of 'driving home for christmas'
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Monday, 12 March 2018 23:51 (six years ago) link
"Fool (If You Think It's Over)" is an excellent, spare studio rock recording at the era's zenith that manages to avoid its commonplaces -- and isn't killed by American recurrent airplay.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 00:00 (six years ago) link
yeah it’s wonderful and quite underrated over here now I think
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUM88et2SZ0
This one is my shit, should make my eventual best songs of ‘98 list
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 01:36 (six years ago) link
deej, that's a beautiful song -- want to blast it from my balcony.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 02:06 (six years ago) link
nice, i hadn’t heard that before
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 05:47 (six years ago) link
When I was fourteen I listened to Chris Rea and only Chris Rea for about a year or so.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 08:14 (six years ago) link
im really curious if that song was somehow the uh inspiration for deepest blue by deepest bluehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpQ5UEz0HSM
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 09:11 (six years ago) link
Dead? No.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 09:53 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUY8wFaG1FE
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:03 (six years ago) link
that's what being 14 is all about imo - obsessive dedication to questionable aesthetics. what were your favourite tracks? do you still like them? any deep cuts / dubbed out weirdo b-sides that we're missing?
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 10:31 (six years ago) link
I'd have to revisit them actually, it's been a while. And this thread made me want to do just that. But from what I can remember it was the whole Water Sign - Wired To The Moon - Shamrock Diaries - On The Beach - Dancing With Strangers and then New Light... cycle, with shifting allegiances. They were originally my father's but I made them mine, then forgot about them when I left home and decided to find my own path, I guess. But the feeling of listening to them over and over again in my bedroom has remained, and since my father died a year ago I have been thinking about them more often. I'm going to try to dive in a bit over the next weeks. Will keep you updated.
― human and working on getting beer (longneck), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
please do!
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 12:27 (six years ago) link
"I can hear your heartbeat" was one of those tunes I waited by the radio all day so I could get a chance to tape it
I think Rea was huge in Ireland before anywhere else iirc?
― well bissogled trotters (Michael B), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 12:50 (six years ago) link
huge
― the clodding of the american mind (darraghmac), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 14:57 (six years ago) link
I think I used to get Chris Rea and Chris De Burgh confused.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:14 (six years ago) link
And then there's Stephen Rea. Never liked that guy.
― Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:15 (six years ago) link
Bob Mortimer talking about when Chris Rea was on Shooting Stars
― new noise, Tuesday, 13 March 2018 15:27 (six years ago) link
I've been playing the remix of "Josephine" around the new Grimes all afternoon.
― TikTok to the (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 24 February 2020 20:00 (four years ago) link
'crack that mould' is the best disco-not-disco track i have ever heard.
― mark e, Sunday, 22 March 2020 00:07 (four years ago) link
really enjoying this edit of “loving you again”https://storken.bandcamp.com/track/chris-rea-loving-you-again-storken-la-mer-baltique-edit
― donna rouge, Monday, 15 November 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
Used to be weirdly huge in France. Josephine still hits a sweet Balearic spot. I should check out more of his stuff
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Friday, 12 August 2022 20:02 (one year ago) link
“on the beach” (the song) rules
― brimstead, Friday, 12 August 2022 20:03 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqBCurSwK3k
Love this song so much. Brings back lots of fond memories of that era.
"She says 'what?'"
― the body of a spider... (scampering alpaca), Friday, 12 August 2022 20:21 (one year ago) link
lived my whole life til last month never hearing part 1 of road to hell
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, 22 May 2023 22:54 (eleven months ago) link
The title track!
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:08 (eleven months ago) link
it's Knopfler done right
― the dreaded dependent claus (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:09 (eleven months ago) link
its exactly that!
tho i hope by agreeing im not signing up unwittingly to knopfler slander generally
― Ár an broc a mhic (darraghmac), Monday, 22 May 2023 23:19 (eleven months ago) link