I think they're a fantastic band, and underrated... probably best known for Dignity and Raintown, but this is one of my favourites, I love their lyrics and the girl's voice / harmonies are always awesome and haunting... (Uh hum... Scottish of course - all the best bands are )



Tired of chasing old dreams
Tired of wasting days
Tired of waking mornings
Just to wait for you till late
Tired of searching high
Tired of getting low
Tired of listening hard
Just to wait for you to know that
I want you

Only thing missing from that is a really good guitar solo in the middle, but when it kicks back in at around 4:20 ...
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Totally, 80's feelgood music, but with a message... LOVE it!!



You walk and you talk
And you sing and you shout
And you justify
About anything
And you rant and you rave and you hope and you say.....Nothing





Love the part around 2:40... is it a Scottish thing?
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Wow, I'd forgotten just how good this band really were, couldn't stop listening to them then, and can't seem to now either... class!

Jennikins, as usual, U R amazing!!

Luv Deacon Blue!!!!...I'm off up to Scotland for the grand tour this Wednesday; I'll stick this song on my Scottish compilation and will hum it all the way to Skye.

U R the best Jenn!!!!

eireboy34 said:

And U R funny!!

better than that get the album 'Raintown' you won't regret it, and enjoy all that majestic, magnificent scenery in my beautiful Scotland...

"Over the Sea to Skye"

Just to get you in the mood...






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Cool thread Jen! 80's are back!

Enjoy the highlands eireboy!

R

Rorywan said:

Thanks Rory!

Was never a big fan but i absolutely loved Fergus Sings The Blues. I know it didn't chart as high as some of their other tunes but this was their best single IMO.

Jeffiner said:

Thanks Rory!

WildheartXXX said:

Yeah, Fergus Sings The Blues was on their next album I think, I don't like it as much as others but appreciate it all the same. I wish I could find more vids to post but there only seems to be bootleg live versions of the songs on Youtube, which don't really do them justice.

I have always love the very ungrammatical line

""I'll do what I should've did"

from Real Gone Kid

Ah, found it, here we go.... amazing stuff..

eireboy34 said:

Yeah, I know...I love that too! Check out Raintown above... brilliant!
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This is from the same album as Fergus Sings The Blues I think, forgot about this one...beautiful, his lyrics are fantastic ...

Formed in 1985 once Ross moved from Dundee to Glasgow, Deacon Blue were one of the top-selling UK bands of the late 1980s and early 1990s. The group's members were Ricky Ross, Lorraine McIntosh, James Prime, Dougie Vipond, Ewen Vernal and Graeme Kelling.

Ross, a former school teacher originally from Dundee, was the group's frontman, penning the vast majority of Deacon Blue's songs. He married female vocalist Lorraine McIntosh in the later years of the band's career.

In 1986, the band contributed a track ("Take the Saints Away") to a compilation cassette entitled Honey at the Core, featuring then up-and-coming Glasgow bands, including Wet Wet Wet and Hue and Cry.

The band's debut album, Raintown, produced by Jon Kelly and released in 1987, is regarded by many as the band's finest effort, spawning the singles "Dignity", "Chocolate Girl" and "Loaded". Many consider Raintown to be a concept album, since nearly all the songs contribute to the overall theme of being stuck in a dead-end life in a deprived city, longing for something better. The city that the album's title refers to is Glasgow, and the memorable cover art of the album is a photograph (by the Scottish-Italian photographer Oscar Marzaroli) of the River Clyde's docks taken from Kelvingrove Park on a miserable day.

The second album, 1989's When the World Knows Your Name, was the band's most commercially successful, generating five UK top 30 hits, including "Real Gone Kid", "Wages Day", and "Fergus Sings the Blues" (all five singles from the album were top 10 hits in Ireland). However, music critics began to criticise the band for pursuing commercial success over artistic integrity, citing the earlier achievements with Raintown.

By this time, the band had gained a reputation as one of the best live acts in the UK. Ticket sales for shows in Glasgow's SECC in both May and December 1989 would break the world record at the time for the fastest sell-out. The following year saw the band play in front of an estimated 250,000 fans at the free concert on Glasgow Green "The Big Day", which was held to celebrate Glasgow being named that year's European City of Culture. The band also played Glastonbury and the Roskilde festivals that summer, as well as released Ooh Las Vegas, a double album of B-sides, extra tracks, film tracks, and sessions. This seemed to confirm the band's eminent status by reaching No. 3 in the UK album charts.

Oh the above is from Wikipedia
http://prince.org/msg/8/315938
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Hey Jeffiner!!
What a blast from the past this thread is
Every bag and jacket was plastered in Deacon Blue graffiti in my school, great band.

Jenn, you should start a "Deacon Blue versus Prince" thread

Hi Babs

Barbara07 said:

Hi Babs! Long time no hear! Oh, that's cool, I'd left school by then... but used to listen to them on my walkman... Yes, that's Walkman!!! all the time, didn't realise how popular they were, probably because I was working in Portugal for the next few years. Saw them at Brixton Academy one night though, was on my way home with a boyfriend and realised they were playing, and went into some kind of hysterical fit. Like "I've GOT to see them, NOW".. He looked a bit bemused, but went off in search of touts to get tix for the show. I was in heaven, lot of beer swilling going on though I remember! That was around the beginning of '93 I think. Good memories How's that bump coming along
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eireboy34 said:

Now THERE's an idea!! Can you imagine the response to that one? At that time, I probably would have gone for shhh.. whisper it, Deacon Blue!!

Jeffiner said:

Ahh, the beloved walkman, another blast from the past
Bump is grand thanks, severly hampering my partying ability tho... "Prince is playing in Monaco" can't go for lots of reasons, most importantly can't drink champagne, dress in something tiny and sparkly and dance all night long... also one of my favourite bands ever - a-ha (see the 80s trend you have started) are playing in Royal Albert Hall the day before baby is due...

Hi eireboy! You going to save a date sometime next year to get me trollied on champagne?

Barbara07 said:

Yes, but it'll all be worth it in the end, you'll see! Bit boring during the cooking part though I agree. And imagine how GOOD you'll feel when you finally get back into that small sparkly number Congratulations btw! A Ha.. oh yes! Going to look up Youtube. That's it, the 80's are officially BACK!

Oooh, I want to get trollied on champagne, can I come too?

Jeffiner said:

But of course! Champagne City Arizona!
FYI a-Ha have a fantastic new album out called 'Foot of the Mountain' and it's number 12 on the British album charts at the moment (it entered at number 5). It's very very good, and got album of the week from Radio 1 a few weeks ago.

Anyway, yes, Deacon Blue...
big thumbs up from me

Just done some research, they are still performing now and again. And, anyone watch 'Hope Spring' on TV recently? Lorraine McIntosh was acting in it! I thought she looked familiar!!

Barbara07 said:

Well, I think you should start a thread on it...!

Jeffiner said:

Nope Jeffiner, the org has a lot of negativity on it these days, I'll mention now and that's it. It's horrible if something you like gets torn apart verbally by some twit who just likes to argue online. Not worth it.

But seriously, check out Foot of the Mountain, it's pretty super.
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Barbara07 said:

Understood...Will do!

Nobody told me about the bump...can't believe it!!!!!



Congrats anyway!!!

Well, champagne for everyone, if Prince comes to Paris!!

Jennikins, I'd be upset if you didn't come!!!!

Anyway, back to Deacon Blue.....

eireboy34 said:

Sorry eireboy! I actually forgot I had told Jeffiner til yesterday
anyway... hope you forgive me

Must not stray from the subject...

So Jeffiner baby!! Any more little Deacon Blue gems you would like to share?

Barbara07 said:

I've still got the original Raintown cassette somewhere, probably in my garage, one of my most prized possessions at the time, one of my only possessions at the time!