Virgin Prunes - Love Lasts Forever (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 21 жов 2024
- Virgin Prunes - Love Lasts Forever (Official Audio)
Taken from 'The Moon Looked Down & Laughed' (2004 Remastered)
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‘Heaven, such a nice place…’ begins Gavin Friday in the Virgin Prunes’ brilliant fifth album - and the band’s swansong - The Moon Looked Down and Laughed (1986). It contains ten tracks and was produced by Soft Cells’ Dave Ball and recorded by Flood. It witnesses a turn from the Virgin Prunes’ earlier experimentation and improvisation, to more rhythmical, stylized and textured polyphonies and more narrativized lyrics.
The Virgin Prunes had toured widely across Europe in the mid-1980s and Friday had been exposed to all types of music, including the chansons of Jacques Brel, Edith Piaf and Charles Aznavour, as well as cabaret and Bertolt Brecht. This album gave him the opportunity to explore these interests, as he sings and snarls his way through tales of romance, love lost, betrayal, broken relationships, melancholy and guilt - with a sequence of extraordinary, black jewel encrusted lyrics. The album includes magical tracks such as ‘Love Lasts Forever’, ‘I Am God’, ‘Sons Find Devils’, ‘Alone’, ‘The Moon Looked Down and Laughed’ and ‘Betrayal’. The angry lament ‘Don’t Look Back’ (which might also bring to mind the horror film ‘Don’t Look Now’) ends with the powerfully simple line: ‘With you I could change the world, but you don’t see the world with eyes that see the world like me.’
The Moon Looked Down and Laughed has a different self-consciousness to their previous albums, a new musical choreography and theatricality. It also contains a sense of humour that only came out to play occasionally on previous albums. Tragedy, however, is never far away from comedy with the Virgin Prunes. ‘Uncle Arthur’s Lonely World’, a beautifully plodding melody with accompanying story-line by Dave-Id (who always had a magpie-like ability to work with pre-existing lyrics), is the Virgin Prunes’ ‘Eleanor Rigby.’ For all the sadness it contains, we might also see a tongue in its cheek. Uncle Arthur ‘Never had a television. Never had a radio. Never saw Dracula. Never saw Frankenstein…I don’t know what the world is coming to.’ The moon looked down and laughed, after all. The art work for this last Virgin Prunes album was created by Steve Averill who had designed a number of their previous albums. [Jonathan Wood]
Lyrics:
I know all your secrets
Please little girl
I like the way you frightened,
It makes me feel secure
Your eyes say something special
“We can run away”
Pushed against the wall
Never are we wrong
You can hold my hand
We can be strong
A thousand ways to show I care
I could give you anything
I could give you everything
I like the way you’re frightened…
Please close your eyes
So you cannot see
Go to sleep
Dream of happy things
Blue sky above
Hell waits below
Angels dancing
Angels falling
Devil looks at me
Spits into my eyes
Angels dead
Angels dead
Our love will last forever
Our love will last forever
Until the day it dies
Until the day it dies…
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Love this song
Love the band
hear the influence had with beggers banquet bands. though if I can still hear the fall there's something amiss. did he feature on coil music, this Gavin Friday...? Ummmmm..... copped it, Sir. or they should do....strsight in the mush....
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In according to Mr. Friday, the original version was the 12''
Interviewer: Why use the 12″ of Love Lasts Forever on the re-release of The Moon Looked Down And Laughed and put the 7″ single version, originally on this album, onto Over The Rainbow?
Gavin: ‘Our love will last forever until the day it dies’ was never a 12″ mix, it was the first and original mix Flood did for the album. It was how it was written. We loved it. Regards the ‘Moon’, this is the closest to how the whole album was to be before the band started to implode. I truly wanted the music to be as we as a band - a six piece band at that time - wanted the album to be. When we were finally putting the album out - and at that time not only Guggi had gone but also Dik - it was decided to put the edited version/more standard version on, for what fucked up reason I don’t know. Maybe the same fucked up reason that has me in a Butlins uniform on the cover. This was a very difficult time for the band. So ‘Our love will last forever until the day it dies’ is back where it really belongs, like Guggi on the cover - where he really belongs. And it sounds fantastic, don’t ya think? I put the single version on Rainbow in case anyone missed it.
@@antoniostrina82 Virgin Prunes - Love Lasts Forever (Official Audio) 2151pm 11.9.24 it's sad to point out that most folk will assume gavin friday was the back up singer for the fall for the craigness song............. flood? i think he worked for depeche mode and U2... this also has a reek of Coil. i expected him to start singing: kill to keep the world turning for a moment... no, i wasn't aware he starred in Coil. if he did. which is odd as i was playing Coil the other day - Hellriaser incidental music...
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In according to Mr. Friday, this is the original version.
nach diesem trACk wusste ich, dass es um die band geschehen war und sie nicht mehr meine war