Virgin Prunes - Sweethome Under White Clouds (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2022
- Virgin Prunes - Sweethome Under White Clouds (Official Audio)
Taken from 'If I Die, I Die' (2004 Remaster)
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If I Die, I Die was released only weeks before the Heresie box set. The two albums show very different faces of the Virgin Prunes - one that explored mythical worlds and another that showed their surrealistic interest in the creative power of insanity. They also highlight the ways in which the band enjoyed experimenting with different genres, sound forms and recording techniques. As Friday has commented recently, ‘The Virgin Prunes contained four different bands at the same time.’
The album was recorded at the Windmill Studios in Dublin in the summer of 1982 and produced by Wire’s Colin Newman. Rather than adopt an A/B format, the sides of the 1982 vinyl and album cover, which was designed by Steve Averill, were given brown and blue colours, signalling earth and sky respectively. The art work on each side of the sleeve was also inverted so that either side could be read as the front cover. Ursula Steiger’s photography captured, on the brown side, the band running through a forest like a nomadic tribe. On the blue side we then find them in different costumes, performing with fire and mannequins within a derelict building.
If I Die, I Die contains nine tracks. The brown side is evocative of distant mystical lands and brings to mind Iroquois culture. It features ‘Ulakanakulot’ (referring to ‘the imaginary land of the Kuli Bird from where the Beautifull People come’), ‘Decline and Fall’, ‘Sweethome Under White Clouds’ and ‘Bau-dachöng’ (meaning ‘secret inner wisdom’). The blue side showcases the slow and frenzied paces of their music, while highlighting the ways their highly visceral songs switch subjects and registers from the ancient and historical, to the social tensions and dysfunctions of a late twentieth-century present. It features ‘Baby Turns Blue’ (which was a very successful Indie single), ‘Ballad of the Man’, ‘Walls of Jericho’, ‘Caucasian Walk’ and ‘Theme for Thought’, which includes spoken passages of Oscar Wilde’s poem ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol.’
Jonathan Wood
Lyrics:
Sweet home under white clouds
A picture on the wall
It says it all, it says it all
I had a dream long time ago, imaginary
Like water, I had no color,
Running free, eternal beauty
And heaven, it was on earth,
The promised land of milk and honey
And I see it now,
The pain it lasts and all is wasted
Sweethome, sweethome,
Under white, white clouds.
And we, we slept happily ever after
We, we slept happily ever after
Sweethome, sweethome
Under white, white clouds
Home is where the heart is
Home is where the heart is
And we, we slept happily ever after
We, we slept happily ever after
(Home is where the heart is)
Sweethome,
Under white, under white clouds.
(Home is where the heart is)
Sweethome,
Under white, under white clouds.
(Home is where the heart is)
Sweethome
Under white, under white clouds.
(Home is where the heart is)
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One of the songs that best expresses our search for answers, Europe still had dreams, ingenuity and passion. A powerful song that reminds us that we are still in the cave looking for the exit.
If I'd known about this Band in 1983,I'd have Loved it.
I did. And I did!
"I had a dream long time ago, imaginary...
Like water, I had no color,
Running free, eternal beauty
And heaven, it was on earth,
The promised land of milk and honey"
Breathtaking
Where was this band in my life before?
Ireland.
This is sublime. Thank you 😊
I had this lp it was great and still
TDK -90.
Forgot what was on the other side.
Why would I listen to the "otherside".
Too I had this álbum,recorded in cassette.Until forget It.
Cositas! 😍
Boas memórias
Coptic Rain have covered this