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The Pale Fountains - Unless (1984)
The cover of the Liverpool's Pale Fountain's first LP really confused me; it looked almost like an artsy hardcore band. Of course, the Pale Fountains were anything but hardcore with their sunny songs showing the influence of Love and Burt Bacharach. This one is on the more atmospheric side, but it rewards repeat listening.
Learning to love was like a game A game I could not win
6/16/25.
The Pale Fountains were a Liverpool, England band that formed in the early 80s. They fit nicely into the sophisti-pop movement that bands like Prefab Sprout, Aztec Camera, Friends Again, and Orange Juice championed. Michael Head was influenced by Burt Bacharach, Love (check out the 1982 live version of "Maybe the People Would Be the Times" (Live 1982)" and The Beatles.
Cherry Red Records is releasing a complete works set, and Les Disques du Crépuscule released this early retrospective back in 2013. I'd heard of The Pale Fountains, but probably listened at a time that this slick style of pop wasn't yet appreciated by me.
There are reissues of both their Virgin Records albums - "Pacific Street" and "...From Across The Kitchen Table".
A Blackbird Singing
by Francis Ledwidge
A blackbird singing
On a moss upholster'd stone,
Bluebells swinging,
Shadows wildly blown,
A song in the wood,
A ship on the sea,
The song was for you
and the ship was for me;
A blackbird singing,
I hear in my troubled mind,
Bluebells swinging
I see in a distant wind,
But sorrow and silence
are the wood's threnody,
the silence for you,
and the sorrow for me,
A blackbird singing
Michael Head in his Jaguar D-Type leads John Kvarnström’s Alfa Romeo Disco Volante at the Swedish Grand Prix, 1955.
Sketchbook Pages
Some sketchbook pages from a recent project working on a gig poster for Michael Head’s 1st show of 2018 at the Islington Assembly Halls London
Bassza meg, már azt hittem, hogy 2017-ben nem lesz kedvenc lemezem. Olyan, ami kibaszott zseniális elejétől végéig. Pont nemrég gondoltam végig, hogy még a végén kénytelen leszek egy 1993-as albumot az év lemezének nevezni (Slowdive). De most ezt megúsztam, az év lemeze 1965-1996-os.
