Karl was World Party. He played all the instruments on this album. He played guitar, bass, drums, synths, mixed and produced the album and this song. He only had a few guest appearances from members of the Waterboys to play sax.
Karl, I grew up on the Beatles, Dylan, Jimi and I know you did, and you took your influences and crafted them into your own beautiful art of music. Intelligent, perceptive and true all qualities I deeply resonate with. RIP my brother, my muse at times and a soundtrack I loved listening to whenever travelling.
Super classy of you both to mark this sad occasion - this song is mega tuneful and has great meaning . It’s probably my fav 80’s song and thank you 🙏 👍🏴
Talk about an excess of talent ..Both him & Mike Scott in The Waterboys created " The Big Music " World Party was generally just Karl in the studio. Absolutely brilliant music. 🎸
@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering The Pan Within & Trumpets are my favourite tracks on This Is The Sea .. I didn't like the hit much The Whole Of The Moon. It was over the top literally having thunder ⛈️ in it ! 💥
@@davidellis5141 my fav Waterboys track David is Fisherman’s Blues , you could walk into a lot of Highland and Irish pubs n hear the like most weekends 😃 👍🏴
Rest in peace, Karl. Karl Wallinger, surely one of Britain’s greatest musicians and songwriters, certainly up there with the best, but criminally underrated. Okay, that’s not everyone’s fault. Just five albums in 35 years (and of course, several stunning B-sides) hard to keep your name going, but he certainly could write a tune. I mean, number one with "She’s the One". Still, nobody seems to realise it was written by him. It would’ve been nice of Robbie to have mentioned him at the BRITs when he won best song. Back in the 90s, me and my girl Jane saw World Party play live on several occasions. They were “our band” and our favourite song together was Love Street from the Goodbye Jumbo masterpiece. That’s one of many moments since we spoke about when I first met Karl in February 2021. He was on holiday in Suffolk. I was doing a bit of work at a holiday village there and I looked up, and there was Karl with his family. His wife, Suzie and children, Louis and Nancy. I’d only just seen World Party a few months before at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. It was certainly one of the best gigs I had seen him play. When Karl and the kids were out playing golf, Suzie and I chatted about Karl’s work and the Shepherd’s Bush concert and many other things. She also told me that Carl had recorded his version of the complete White album, using exactly the same microphones as the Beatles did. It was funny when Karl found out I was a World Party fan he said we should have you taken out and stuffed! Later that weekend on that very same holiday Karl famously suffered a massive brain aneurysm. I only found out several weeks later. We know that he disappeared, into more even obscurity, and spent a few years recovering. Still making music, but none of us were able to listen to it. Fast forward a few years to 2012, and on November 2, my friend Nick and I walked round the back of the Royal Albert Hall, where World Party were playing their reunion spectacle in front of the packed house and cameras. Who is the first person we bumped into smoking a quick fag by the back door? Yes, it was Mr. Wallinger. We had a good chat with him. He offered me a fag. I presume he was trying to calm his nerves before going on stage to such a large audience. Then bizarrely, the comedian and talk-show host Clive Anderson turned up, and we were all standing around having a chat. Wished him luck and said our goodbyes. The last time I saw Karl perform was in Cambridge at the Junction, I think it was the following year. Possibly April 2013. His son Louis was selling merchandise. Another stellar performance by his dad and the rest of the band, of course. And that was it. And I fell back alone. What a beautiful soul. Taken away from us too soon, but when you’ve written a great song, it’s been written forever, it cannot be unwritten. Just like a film star, you are now immortal. You’ve left your legacy imprinted and recorded. Thoughts go out to his friends and family. You’ll be greatly missed. You are a legend. Stephen Dawson
Thanks man, this is beautifully written. Never got to see him play live, but I lived through some rough times about 20 years ago, and those five World Party albums kept me sane. I sort of understood that this was a gentle soul by listening to his music. I heard about the aneurysm in 2001, yet I always harboured a hope that he would one day, once again, tap into that creative wellspring that was so strong and overflowing. During the lockdowns, I revisited all those albums again in pure desperation. Losing Karl Wallinger hurts, but I guess I'll do what I always do during hard times; take a deep dive into those five albums and swim there for a while. Take care Stephen, and thanks for sharing! Cheers 🍺
This is a bit of a shock! Goodnight Karl, with your magnificent afro. Both bands are well worth checking out, I think I requested a Waterboys song before now,....And A Bang On The Ear.
I was working as a burned out disc jockey in the mid-late 80's out in Melbourne (Australia) when one night the request line got busy. The one song the kids wanted to hear was the latest Countdown (pop show in Australia) video hit titled ''Ship Of Fools'' by a band called World Party. Understanding the usual taste of Countdown kids and the band's name sounding rather festive (''everybody have a world party tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight!''), I took the chance and played what was to be one of my favourite 80's songs by what would become one of my favourite artists. The previous year the same bunch of kids had asked me to play a song called ''The Whole Of The Moon'' by a band called Waterboys. That song is now one of my all-time favourites. Those kids had good judgement.
Hi Cynthia and Chris. Dave from London. So sorry about Karl, but I agree this is a terrific song from World Party - like others, I'd also recommend Put The Message In The Box. BTW, the pianist in the video is Guy Chambers, I believe, who was one of the UK's most successful and prolific songwriters in the 90s and beyond, working most famously with Robbie Williams (and also recommending Karl's song She's The One to Robbie, who had a number one hit with it). My favourite Guy Chambers song is Out of The Blue by Aussie singer/actor Delta Goodrem.
Glad you liked it. This was the first song I ever heard from World Party but I suspect that is true for most people. They hit it big time in 1993 with the album 'Bang!' which has theutterly lovely 'Is It Like Today?' - well worth a listen. But the most well known song is 'She's The One' as covered by Robbie Willams - caused a bit of a rumpus between them as Robbie sometimes claimed to have written it, and Karl was ill at the time - didn't go down well, he may have used strong language.
The “Goodbye Jumbo” album from 1990 is generally considered the best of the five he released as “World Party”, but they are all very, very good. I personally hold the 1993 album “BANG!” as his best, but that's because it played a role during a critical time of my life. It was a lifesaver. All the albums are filled with unique catchy pop euphoria, stunning choruses and beautiful arrangements. It is a mystery that only four of his songs were hits on the charts, as all albums are overflowing with gorgeous melodies. Karl Wallinger and his World Party band were big during the decade of the nineties but are sadly forgotten today. Thanks for paying respects to the unique pop genius Karl Wallinger. Cheers 🍺
Better late than never, but World Party should have been huge when they came out. Whenever I see his sly smile I just see a man of enormous light. The songwriting of KW is right there with Ray Davies.Heaven is even better now.
Always a favourite of mine. It’s a pity the video ended a little early. There’s a whole outro section that fades out later. Not sure why the person who uploaded that video left it out. Aside from The Waterboys this sort of social consciousness reminds me a bit of Style Council with songs like Big Boss Groove, Walls Come Tumbling Down, and Shout To The Top, which will no doubt lead to investing Paul Weller and also The Jam. Not exactly similar, but this song also makes me think of Julian Cope’s World Shut Your Mouth.
Hah! I too was going to suggest 'World Shut Your Mouth' by Julian Cope! 😀 Great song! 😊👍 The drummer in Cope's band at that time was Chris Whitten, who'd previously been in The Waterboys, together with Karl Wallinger 🙂
A song which has a similar, and equally powerful message is Gillan, Mutually assured destruction. Given the situation in todays world, a song that needs to be heard and understood.
.....the decade's DEFINING statement - ALONG with The Adventures' "Broken Land", YOUR countrymen Frozen Ghost's "Pauper In Paradise" and Love + Rockets' "No New Tale To Tell".....
'World Party' were quite a good band, who had a large number of albums and singles, if you want to check out 'The Waterboys' I suggest that you react to, "The Whole of The Moon", which was one of their biggest hits.
@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. Well, this is turning Into a really weird day, first Karl dies, then I find someone else on the planet that agrees that the fiddle version of Whole Of The Moon isn't necessarily the best one. Two incredible events that have never happened before!
Karl was a true multi instrumentalist, he did like half of what you are hearing here. I understand he got the money/studio time helping Sinead O'Conner with her first album (The sublime "The Lion and the Cobra"). He suffered an aneurysm in 2001 a few years back but enough of a recovery to record and do limited performances again.
Carole Bayer Sager isn't dead. Not Another Enigma got lost in the fake news forest, and needs to find his way out. Ha, ha.. I absolutely loved it in 1986. I remember singing it with my sister as we'd drive through Melbourne as two carefree young adults (the irony didn't go over our heads at the time). Karl Wallinger wrote other greats like ''Private Revolution'' and one of my personal favourites, ''Put The Message In The Box''. You can't live a life without hearing Waterboys ''Whole Of The Moon''. The song wasn't a big hit in the UK when originally released in 1985, but did do very well in Australia (# 12). The song would only get to be a bigger hit in the UK three years after its first release. RIP Karl Wallinger
Hi, as I said elsewhere, they have me on 1 am starts at the moment, I read a few articles about people. That have passed, and one about Carol Bayer Sager. Her article was about her 80th birthday, but half asleep, I posted wrong, for which I apologised. Nothing to do with fake news, just a simple mistake. Again, I'm sorry. Peace out, Rob.
On the " Bang" album there's a quick song that is basically the intro to the single " Give it All Away ", called " And God Said.." " and God said, look after the planet, look after......... But Man said " Fuck You "
My choice World Party cuts: World Party - Put The Message In The Box World Party - Thank You World World Party - Is It Like Today? World Party - Private Revolution My choice Waterboys cuts: The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon [Official HD Remastered Video] The Waterboys - A Girl Called Johnny (1983) ClassicVideos80s THE WATERBOYS - The Big Music (1984) ClassicVideos80s The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues (High Quality) ''Ship Of Fools'' was a massive hit in Australia in 1986.
It wasn't a Hit in Germany, but it had stuck out to _me_ at the time 😊 I never heard anything else from them until the original 'Is It Like Today' video clip was playing on the TV one night, 5 or 6 years later: Loved the song right away, went and bought the 'Bang!' album only days later - and then with disappointment found out I'd just bought my worst album so far 😅 Only topped by The New Radicals' album a couple of years or so later! 😆
@@mightyV444 It wasn't too difficult to follow the work of World Party in Australia. ''Ship Of Fools'' did its best chart performance in Australia, and I remember Goodbye Jumbo doing pretty well too. But I agree that ''Is It Like Today'' is a great song, and worthy of the Haniers' time. I never really took much notice of Bang!, but it is never too late. Now that The New Radicals album is apparently very good. I think ''Someday We'll Know'' is a much better song than ''You Get What You Give''. The New Radicals main guy has a pretty poor solo career before launching The NR's, but he did manage to write big hits in the 2000's (''Murder On The Dance Floor'' being one of them).
@@OnceWasRStrathfield - 'Get What You Give' and 'Someday We'll Know' (the two Singles) were the only two good songs on that album! 😅 But who knows, it's been 25 years or so since I'd last listened to it, so maybe I'd like it better today?! I may find out! 😄 I may also check out World Party's stuff prior to 'Bang!' at some stage and when I have the necessary time and mindset 😊 Gregg Alexander is the NR frontman's name, by the way. He also composed Ronan Keating's 'Life Is A Rollercoaster'. Hence its music sounds quite like 'Get What You Give'! 😊
@@mightyV444 That's him! He did write that Ronan Keating song too. Just check that album again. It still gets a lot of good reviews, and people believe that he wouldn't have been a one hit wonder if he kept at it. Check out World Party's ''Thank you World'' and ''Put The Message in The Box''. Great songs!
In 1985, Countdown played the video for ''The Whole Of The Moon'' by The Waterboys and the Countdown kids pushed it into the Australian Top 20. Australia was the only place that took notice of ''The Whole Of The Moon'' in 1985. Trust me on this one. Having some friends in the UK, I can confirm they barely knew the song prior to 1988 or 89. Edit: _The song reached # 26 in the UK upon initial release in 1985, so obviously I was giving my country a little too much credit. My bad._ Same thing happened for World Party's ''Ship Of Fools''. It got played on Countdown and the kids did what they had been doing for a decade at to that point. They begged stations to play it, and the song got to # 4 on the Australian charts. I honestly thought the entire world knew this song. I was waiting for you guys to show signs of recognition, but no.... Strange! Other bummer British songs of the 80's I would include with this one are Fine Young Cannibals 'Blue', and The Stranglers 'Always The Sun'. One song I would love to request is Black ''Wonderful Life''. I used to cry when listening to that song. I love me some sad songs.
I was aware of The Whole Of The Moon in 1985, but I don't think it was a UK hit until 1991. Black is a great choice for C&C to look into: not just Wonderful Life, but Sweetest Smile, Paradise and many other songs.
@@jonathancole833 I'm sure it was known to many British people before 1991, but I think it was known by more Aussies in 1985 by virtue of its chart success over here. A little strange that ''Whole Of The Moon'' should only begin charting in the UK in 1991.
@@jonathancole833 It made the top 30 here in the UK first time round, but really big in 91. As for Black, top choice. I always loved the melodrama of "Your a big Girl Now" and the Duet with Sam Brown (Fly up to the moon) is a good-un as well.
@VanessaSun-ls2kr A couple of late night bars in Liverpool used to play " Moon" on the stroke of midnight and people would go crazy this would be 1986-87 and in 1986 the Waterboys supported both U2 and Simple Minds on huge stadium/ arena tours of Britain and Ireland so the song was very well known in the UK at this time.
"Ship of Fools" reached #27 in America, #5 on the Mainstream Rock Chart, so it was somewhat popular here. I only remember one other song, "Way Down Now." When that came out, they played both of those songs on Saturday Night Live, even though "Ship of Fools" was 3 or 4 years old at that point. I remember being impressed with that performance.
'Is It Like Today' is also _my_ suggestion! I loved that song right away when I first heard it around '94, and went and bought the 'Bang!' album it's from soon after - and then felt rather disappointed by most of its other songs being in quite a different, more 'clubby' style. World Party's drummer also was in Robbie Williams' band 🙂
@@SPKdesign1 like you they werent my fav back in the day , FAR too many fair isle jerseys n they wee hats Parahandy used to wear in The Vital Spark fir my liking sir 😳 👍🏴
Just discovered this channel. It’s like you are in a nuclear bunker being fed songs from the outside world! (And isolated from The Waterboys) wait til you hear Whole of The Moon. Keep on rockin
Karl was World Party. He played all the instruments on this album. He played guitar, bass, drums, synths, mixed and produced the album and this song. He only had a few guest appearances from members of the Waterboys to play sax.
Waterboys and World Party are two of my favourite Bands.
Karl Wallinger was a member of both Bands.
Karl was World Party - he played all the instruments on Private Revolution (except a few sax parts).
One of the best songs of 1986. Loved Karl's work
You know it Brett ✊
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Karl, I grew up on the Beatles, Dylan, Jimi and I know you did, and you took your influences and crafted them into your own beautiful art of music. Intelligent, perceptive and true all qualities I deeply resonate with. RIP my brother, my muse at times and a soundtrack I loved listening to whenever travelling.
.....both "Ain't Gonna Come Till I'm Ready" and "Thank You World", "Here Comes The Future" evince UNMISTAKABLE Sly nods.....
Super classy of you both to mark this sad occasion - this song is mega tuneful and has great meaning . It’s probably my fav 80’s song and thank you 🙏
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You and I requested ''Mull of Kintyre'' by Wings, which became a tribute video for Denny Laine. And now this one. 😔
@@liveitup67 just shows that class n taste is a global attribute 👌
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering You know what they say about great minds.. ;-)
@@liveitup67 😀yes I do Gillian , have a great evening 🥂
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering You too.. 🙂
One of the greatest songs ever. Written about Thatchers Britain and pretty much about the lack of hope at that time. ✊
Wonderful to see such heartfelt appreciation of this classic, even if the outro was cut a bit short. Recommend the full version.
What a great chorus. So sad to see him go. 'Put the message in the box' is another great one by these guys.
💯 agreed
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RIP Karl
Talk about an excess of talent ..Both him & Mike Scott in The Waterboys created " The Big Music " World Party was generally just Karl in the studio. Absolutely brilliant music. 🎸
Aye that’s true David ✊
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@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering The Pan Within & Trumpets are my favourite tracks on This Is The Sea .. I didn't like the hit much The Whole Of The Moon. It was over the top literally having thunder ⛈️ in it ! 💥
@@davidellis5141 my fav Waterboys track David is Fisherman’s Blues , you could walk into a lot of Highland and Irish pubs n hear the like most weekends 😃
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I, too, have heard The Big Music, and I’ll never be the same ❤
@@mattleppard1970 Something so pure . has called my name ! 🎸
Rest in peace, Karl.
Karl Wallinger, surely one of Britain’s greatest musicians and songwriters, certainly up there with the best, but criminally underrated. Okay, that’s not everyone’s fault. Just five albums in 35 years (and of course, several stunning B-sides) hard to keep your name going, but he certainly could write a tune. I mean, number one with "She’s the One". Still, nobody seems to realise it was written by him. It would’ve been nice of Robbie to have mentioned him at the BRITs when he won best song.
Back in the 90s, me and my girl Jane saw World Party play live on several occasions. They were “our band” and our favourite song together was Love Street from the Goodbye Jumbo masterpiece.
That’s one of many moments since we spoke about when I first met Karl in February 2021. He was on holiday in Suffolk. I was doing a bit of work at a holiday village there and I looked up, and there was Karl with his family. His wife, Suzie and children, Louis and Nancy. I’d only just seen World Party a few months before at Shepherd’s Bush Empire. It was certainly one of the best gigs I had seen him play. When Karl and the kids were out playing golf, Suzie and I chatted about Karl’s work and the Shepherd’s Bush concert and many other things. She also told me that Carl had recorded his version of the complete White album, using exactly the same microphones as the Beatles did. It was funny when Karl found out I was a World Party fan he said we should have you taken out and stuffed! Later that weekend on that very same holiday Karl famously suffered a massive brain aneurysm. I only found out several weeks later.
We know that he disappeared, into more even obscurity, and spent a few years recovering. Still making music, but none of us were able to listen to it. Fast forward a few years to 2012, and on November 2, my friend Nick and I walked round the back of the Royal Albert Hall, where World Party were playing their reunion spectacle in front of the packed house and cameras. Who is the first person we bumped into smoking a quick fag by the back door? Yes, it was Mr. Wallinger. We had a good chat with him. He offered me a fag. I presume he was trying to calm his nerves before going on stage to such a large audience. Then bizarrely, the comedian and talk-show host Clive Anderson turned up, and we were all standing around having a chat. Wished him luck and said our goodbyes.
The last time I saw Karl perform was in Cambridge at the Junction, I think it was the following year. Possibly April 2013. His son Louis was selling merchandise. Another stellar performance by his dad and the rest of the band, of course. And that was it. And I fell back alone.
What a beautiful soul. Taken away from us too soon, but when you’ve written a great song, it’s been written forever, it cannot be unwritten. Just like a film star, you are now immortal. You’ve left your legacy imprinted and recorded.
Thoughts go out to his friends and family. You’ll be greatly missed. You are a legend.
Stephen Dawson
Thanks man, this is beautifully written. Never got to see him play live, but I lived through some rough times about 20 years ago, and those five World Party albums kept me sane. I sort of understood that this was a gentle soul by listening to his music. I heard about the aneurysm in 2001, yet I always harboured a hope that he would one day, once again, tap into that creative wellspring that was so strong and overflowing.
During the lockdowns, I revisited all those albums again in pure desperation. Losing Karl Wallinger hurts, but I guess I'll do what I always do during hard times; take a deep dive into those five albums and swim there for a while.
Take care Stephen, and thanks for sharing!
Cheers 🍺
This is a bit of a shock!
Goodnight Karl, with your magnificent afro.
Both bands are well worth checking out, I think I requested a Waterboys song before now,....And A Bang On The Ear.
I was working as a burned out disc jockey in the mid-late 80's out in Melbourne (Australia) when one night the request line got busy. The one song the kids wanted to hear was the latest Countdown (pop show in Australia) video hit titled ''Ship Of Fools'' by a band called World Party. Understanding the usual taste of Countdown kids and the band's name sounding rather festive (''everybody have a world party tonight, everybody Wang Chung tonight!''), I took the chance and played what was to be one of my favourite 80's songs by what would become one of my favourite artists.
The previous year the same bunch of kids had asked me to play a song called ''The Whole Of The Moon'' by a band called Waterboys. That song is now one of my all-time favourites.
Those kids had good judgement.
The Kids are alright.
GOODBYE JUMBO !
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this band was spot on ,also check out the waterboys who Karl played with before this , another band who created quality music & still do
A song of my youth. He is dead and it makes me feel my age.
Been one of my vavorate underground bands since the late 80s ..
Love World Party....
Summer Solstice 2014 - Old Guy. Listened to this when it was on college stations. Got it in my collection. Now the 2nd gen is hearing it. Good on you.
Hey Girl. Tell me about your chair.
Oh no!! This song was a hit in Australia back in the day🥲
Love this song! Still have the vinyl single. RIP Karl.
This was a top 10 hit in AUS back in 1987.
Hi Cynthia and Chris. Dave from London. So sorry about Karl, but I agree this is a terrific song from World Party - like others, I'd also recommend Put The Message In The Box. BTW, the pianist in the video is Guy Chambers, I believe, who was one of the UK's most successful and prolific songwriters in the 90s and beyond, working most famously with Robbie Williams (and also recommending Karl's song She's The One to Robbie, who had a number one hit with it). My favourite Guy Chambers song is Out of The Blue by Aussie singer/actor Delta Goodrem.
Glad you liked it. This was the first song I ever heard from World Party but I suspect that is true for most people. They hit it big time in 1993 with the album 'Bang!' which has theutterly lovely 'Is It Like Today?' - well worth a listen. But the most well known song is 'She's The One' as covered by Robbie Willams - caused a bit of a rumpus between them as Robbie sometimes claimed to have written it, and Karl was ill at the time - didn't go down well, he may have used strong language.
Great to see you enjoy one of the better 80’s bands! Their song “Put the Message in the Box” is another great song by them. Keep on truckin.’
Great choice!
Cheers 🍺
Way down now is another gem. Very Rolling Stones vibe.
The “Goodbye Jumbo” album from 1990 is generally considered the best of the five he released as “World Party”, but they are all very, very good. I personally hold the 1993 album “BANG!” as his best, but that's because it played a role during a critical time of my life. It was a lifesaver.
All the albums are filled with unique catchy pop euphoria, stunning choruses and beautiful arrangements. It is a mystery that only four of his songs were hits on the charts, as all albums are overflowing with gorgeous melodies. Karl Wallinger and his World Party band were big during the decade of the nineties but are sadly forgotten today.
Thanks for paying respects to the unique pop genius Karl Wallinger.
Cheers 🍺
you guys are so nice! Love you!
Massive talent, and prescient.
The Waterboys were a great band. Karl was an integral part of them.
More up-to-date than ever before
Yes, a very good song, loved it already when I first heard it, even got the single and on my iPod.
Carole Bayer Sager : "You're Moving Out Today" (1977) • Official/Unofficial Music Video • HQ Audio
Sounds like the real deal to me , not heard it before but I like it🏴✌️
RIP? This is the first I know about it 😢 I saw The Waterboys live in 1989.
I recommend trying their The Big Music and A Pagan Place albums ❤
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I was only playing this tune the other day!
he was a part of the first couple of waterboys albums i think. This is the sea is pretty great by them, also red army blues
One of my all time favourite songs. You must check out The Whole of the Moon by the Waterboys.
Better late than never, but World Party should have been huge when they came out. Whenever I see his sly smile I just see a man of enormous light. The songwriting of KW is right there with Ray Davies.Heaven is even better now.
I never heard of this before.
She gets it.
Always a favourite of mine. It’s a pity the video ended a little early. There’s a whole outro section that fades out later. Not sure why the person who uploaded that video left it out.
Aside from The Waterboys this sort of social consciousness reminds me a bit of Style Council with songs like Big Boss Groove, Walls Come Tumbling Down, and Shout To The Top, which will no doubt lead to investing Paul Weller and also The Jam.
Not exactly similar, but this song also makes me think of Julian Cope’s World Shut Your Mouth.
Hah! I too was going to suggest 'World Shut Your Mouth' by Julian Cope! 😀
Great song! 😊👍
The drummer in Cope's band at that time was Chris Whitten, who'd previously been in The Waterboys, together with Karl Wallinger 🙂
@@mightyV444 Also Teardrop Explodes in general.
@@jonathancole833 - 'Reward' is their only song I've heard to this day! 😅
@@mightyV444 There's also 'Passionate Friend' and 'Treason', among others.
@@jonathancole833 - I'll give those a listen. Thank you! 😀👍
A song which has a similar, and equally powerful message is Gillan, Mutually assured destruction. Given the situation in todays world, a song that needs to be heard and understood.
The last song Countdown kids forced into the Australian charts before Countdown (the TV show in Australia) shut them out and then called it a day
.....the decade's DEFINING statement - ALONG with The Adventures' "Broken Land", YOUR countrymen Frozen Ghost's "Pauper In Paradise" and Love + Rockets' "No New Tale To Tell".....
Check out She's the One... Robbie Williams covered it but WP version is the best for me
'World Party' were quite a good band, who had a large number of albums and singles, if you want to check out 'The Waterboys' I suggest that you react to, "The Whole of The Moon", which was one of their biggest hits.
Preferably the first version, the one without the fiddle! ;)
@@Sandy-dd4le Yes, very much so, the later version was ruined a bit by that.
@@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis. Well, this is turning Into a really weird day, first Karl dies, then I find someone else on the planet that agrees that the fiddle version of Whole Of The Moon isn't necessarily the best one. Two incredible events that have never happened before!
Karl was a true multi instrumentalist, he did like half of what you are hearing here.
I understand he got the money/studio time helping Sinead O'Conner with her first album (The sublime "The Lion and the Cobra").
He suffered an aneurysm in 2001 a few years back but enough of a recovery to record and do limited performances again.
He actually did all of what we are hearing with the exception of the sax part. He was amazing.
Carole Bayer Sager isn't dead. Not Another Enigma got lost in the fake news forest, and needs to find his way out. Ha, ha..
I absolutely loved it in 1986. I remember singing it with my sister as we'd drive through Melbourne as two carefree young adults (the irony didn't go over our heads at the time). Karl Wallinger wrote other greats like ''Private Revolution'' and one of my personal favourites, ''Put The Message In The Box''. You can't live a life without hearing Waterboys ''Whole Of The Moon''. The song wasn't a big hit in the UK when originally released in 1985, but did do very well in Australia (# 12). The song would only get to be a bigger hit in the UK three years after its first release.
RIP Karl Wallinger
Hi, as I said elsewhere, they have me on 1 am starts at the moment, I read a few articles about people. That have passed, and one about Carol Bayer Sager. Her article was about her 80th birthday, but half asleep, I posted wrong, for which I apologised. Nothing to do with fake news, just a simple mistake. Again, I'm sorry. Peace out, Rob.
always loved this song I thought world party would have the same success as Bob Dylan.
I'd never heard of him.
Karl Wallinger wrote many great tracks, including ‘ She’s the one’ made famous by Robbie Williams.
On the " Bang" album there's a quick song that is basically the intro to the single " Give it All Away ", called " And God Said.."
" and God said, look after the planet, look after.........
But Man said " Fuck You "
My choice World Party cuts:
World Party - Put The Message In The Box
World Party - Thank You World
World Party - Is It Like Today?
World Party - Private Revolution
My choice Waterboys cuts:
The Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon [Official HD Remastered Video]
The Waterboys - A Girl Called Johnny (1983) ClassicVideos80s
THE WATERBOYS - The Big Music (1984) ClassicVideos80s
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''Ship Of Fools'' was a massive hit in Australia in 1986.
It wasn't a Hit in Germany, but it had stuck out to _me_ at the time 😊
I never heard anything else from them until the original 'Is It Like Today' video clip was playing on the TV one night, 5 or 6 years later: Loved the song right away, went and bought the 'Bang!' album only days later - and then with disappointment found out I'd just bought my worst album so far 😅
Only topped by The New Radicals' album a couple of years or so later! 😆
@@mightyV444 It wasn't too difficult to follow the work of World Party in Australia. ''Ship Of Fools'' did its best chart performance in Australia, and I remember Goodbye Jumbo doing pretty well too.
But I agree that ''Is It Like Today'' is a great song, and worthy of the Haniers' time. I never really took much notice of Bang!, but it is never too late. Now that The New Radicals album is apparently very good. I think ''Someday We'll Know'' is a much better song than ''You Get What You Give''.
The New Radicals main guy has a pretty poor solo career before launching The NR's, but he did manage to write big hits in the 2000's (''Murder On The Dance Floor'' being one of them).
@@OnceWasRStrathfield - 'Get What You Give' and 'Someday We'll Know' (the two Singles) were the only two good songs on that album! 😅 But who knows, it's been 25 years or so since I'd last listened to it, so maybe I'd like it better today?! I may find out! 😄
I may also check out World Party's stuff prior to 'Bang!' at some stage and when I have the necessary time and mindset 😊
Gregg Alexander is the NR frontman's name, by the way. He also composed Ronan Keating's 'Life Is A Rollercoaster'. Hence its music sounds quite like 'Get What You Give'! 😊
@@mightyV444 That's him! He did write that Ronan Keating song too. Just check that album again. It still gets a lot of good reviews, and people believe that he wouldn't have been a one hit wonder if he kept at it.
Check out World Party's ''Thank you World'' and ''Put The Message in The Box''. Great songs!
@@OnceWasRStrathfield - Will do, mate! And thank you for the suggestions! 😀👍
Have a great day! 😊☀️
In 1985, Countdown played the video for ''The Whole Of The Moon'' by The Waterboys and the Countdown kids pushed it into the Australian Top 20.
Australia was the only place that took notice of ''The Whole Of The Moon'' in 1985. Trust me on this one. Having some friends in the UK, I can confirm they barely knew the song prior to 1988 or 89.
Edit: _The song reached # 26 in the UK upon initial release in 1985, so obviously I was giving my country a little too much credit. My bad._
Same thing happened for World Party's ''Ship Of Fools''. It got played on Countdown and the kids did what they had been doing for a decade at to that point. They begged stations to play it, and the song got to # 4 on the Australian charts.
I honestly thought the entire world knew this song. I was waiting for you guys to show signs of recognition, but no.... Strange!
Other bummer British songs of the 80's I would include with this one are Fine Young Cannibals 'Blue', and The Stranglers 'Always The Sun'.
One song I would love to request is Black ''Wonderful Life''. I used to cry when listening to that song. I love me some sad songs.
I was aware of The Whole Of The Moon in 1985, but I don't think it was a UK hit until 1991.
Black is a great choice for C&C to look into: not just Wonderful Life, but Sweetest Smile, Paradise and many other songs.
@@jonathancole833 I'm sure it was known to many British people before 1991, but I think it was known by more Aussies in 1985 by virtue of its chart success over here.
A little strange that ''Whole Of The Moon'' should only begin charting in the UK in 1991.
@@jonathancole833 It made the top 30 here in the UK first time round, but really big in 91.
As for Black, top choice. I always loved the melodrama of "Your a big Girl Now" and the Duet with Sam Brown (Fly up to the moon) is a good-un as well.
@VanessaSun-ls2kr A couple of late night bars in Liverpool used to play " Moon" on the stroke of midnight and people would go crazy this would be 1986-87 and in 1986 the Waterboys supported both U2 and Simple Minds on huge stadium/ arena tours of Britain and Ireland so the song was very well known in the UK at this time.
"Ship of Fools" reached #27 in America, #5 on the Mainstream Rock Chart, so it was somewhat popular here. I only remember one other song, "Way Down Now." When that came out, they played both of those songs on Saturday Night Live, even though "Ship of Fools" was 3 or 4 years old at that point. I remember being impressed with that performance.
Ok I got one for you! Another under rated band - Mike Doman and Broken Homes
Mike is singer songwriter, the guitarist went to Lenny Kravitz
their music go supressed somehow ?
You need to listen to nthe album THIS IS THE SEA by The Waterboys.
One of my fav gigs was seeing The Waterboys at Glastonbury in '86
"Is it like today"? Is great and he also did the original of Robbie Williams hit "she's the one"
'Is It Like Today' is also _my_ suggestion! I loved that song right away when I first heard it around '94, and went and bought the 'Bang!' album it's from soon after - and then felt rather disappointed by most of its other songs being in quite a different, more 'clubby' style.
World Party's drummer also was in Robbie Williams' band 🙂
I wonder if that song's about when European settlers were coming to America
I'm sure you will like the Waterboys. They aren't for me but they were quite big over here.
I quite like The Whole Of The Moon, but that's all I've heard of them.
@@notanotherenigma7759 There are a few Scottish Folk Rock bands that are a bit less Mehish.
@@SPKdesign1wasn’t a fan of Whole of the moon but I adored Fisherman’s Blues by the Waterboys and formally request it C n C ..👀
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering They had the odd Tune.?
@@SPKdesign1 like you they werent my fav back in the day , FAR too many fair isle jerseys n they wee hats Parahandy used to wear in The Vital Spark fir my liking sir 😳
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Just discovered this channel. It’s like you are in a nuclear bunker being fed songs from the outside world! (And isolated from The Waterboys) wait til you hear Whole of The Moon. Keep on rockin
That video cut the song short..
The extended version, lasting around 6 minutes, is well worth a listen.