And now you’re here trying to milk the “oh, you poor baby!” Life is tough. Grow a pair. Put your big boy pants on. The album is good. But, come on, 80% of it is meandering piano with birds chirping. A 2nd year piano student could ad lib this entire arrangement.
@@cjl310871 I'm glad you're enjoying it. VA is a balm for our troubled nerves! I still have my original vinyl from 1983 and kept cuttings of two of the glowing reviews! FGWWFS is in my top ten all-time favourites. Stay safe.
I heard a song from this record on BBC 3 late junction in a semi-dream-like state many years ago. I checked the playlist for the artist and then searched the records shops of Glasgow for it,. In the HMV shop, a young woman who I asked became very animated. We don't have it in stock but I will order it for you, it is beautiful! I picked up a copy a couple of weeks afterward and love it more with each listen. Thanks to Virginia Astley for making a record of transcendent beauty and late junction but most of all to the lovely woman I met who understood the importance of music, emotional connection, shared dreams, and memory.
One of the most beautiful and evocative albums - I first heard this when I was in my twenties ( in the 1980s) it conjures these images of innocence, childhood picture books, empty sunlit rooms, and dream like gardens. There is a poignant melancholy too which underlies these beautiful melodies. It’s a shame more people don’t know this unique and very special record.
I'm 21 and this was my first time listening to this record. I feel so moved by all the emotions that the music provoked. I feel fullness, peace, love, some kind of nostalgia and excitment to see whats next on my life. From now and then this is definitely one of my favorite records. It's amazing how touching ambient music can be.
@@velvetclaw2316 I bought the CD it in 90s. I haven't heard anything till then. It was a so wonderful surprise, one music after another each, as good as the previous one. What a sensation of happiness. I totally agree that not many have ever heard this. What a pity.
I was so affected by this record I bought both CDs, multiple vinyls of it before that when they were available, and later Virginia material which I also gave college radio airplay. I planned to give away extras of the vinyl to others.
This is one of my new favourite albums ever. Up there with Hiroshi Yoshimura for tones of pure healing magic, resplendent joy and playful serenity. I'm glad I'm alive.
Bliss! I come back to this every summer, since 1986….church bells ringing, sheep bleating, gates creaking, rowers rowing,birds singing, owls hooting and Lilac the donkey ….perfect summer day❤
Listened to this for the first time late last night and was treated to a Tawny Owl joining in, from a tree to my right also. Beautiful recording and a moment to treasure now as well. Thank you BBC radio 6.
Names, like 'From gardens where we fell secure' and 'Out in the lawn I lie in bed' says it all... calm and peace nature surrounding us. Just close your eyes...💎
If ever an album was crying out to be re-released it's this beautiful masterpiece. So evocative, so calming. I lost my copy many years ago and often search for a copy on line, always to no avail, why would anyone ever part with such a stunning LP.
Im sure you can find it online somewhere. Never searched cause..well i have all the copies of her i ever bought. Wishing you luck to find them. Dont give up
oh thankyou Will Dudarov. My old LP of this died over a decade ago and it was worn out by then. This album was a huge part of my teenage life, and beyond. Finally the whole thing on youtube without vinyl scratches and stuff. Beautiful.
I am old, I remember it came out on a LP record and I bought it. Than later, I bought all her vinyl records and some CD's. It is like a kind of healing music for me, healing my mind
@@miercat610 I bought it as quick as I could, because I'd loved Virginia's surprise Indie hit, 'Love's a Lonely Place to Be'. I still have my vinyl and both of the CD editions. From Gardens is in my top ten favourite albums. I'm glad you're enjoying it, a balm for our troubled minds and hearts!
Just fund out about this beautiful little gem of an album thanks to Rob Young's book "Electric Eden". Again, what a lovely lovely lovely album this is.
Same. I’ve read the book twice and skimmed through listening to almost every one of every artists mentioned in the books albums here on UA-cam. And none of them quite have this sound. I need to find more music like this. Come up short in the psych-folk range. Idk if I need to be getting into ambient or new age or library music or children’s soundtracks or what to do.
I'm down with COVID at the moment, so listening to this is a balm for my heart and mind. It's one of my top-ten favourite albums, blissful with soul. I have my original vinyl and both of the CD issues. I prefer the original mix - any comments welcome! How I wish Virginia would get back into the studio - hey Ginny, we miss you!
read my mind. I tested positive a few days ago, and I am currently spinning this in my little flat whilst I water the plants. All the best to you my friend!
Just listened to this for the first time on BBC 6 Music with Gideon Coe as part of the BBC's mental heath campaign. Just close your eyes and drift . Beautiful.
So glad for this. Thank you. I've wanted the full album on youtube for ages. I bought the vinyl LP when it came out early 80s. Remains an all time favourite. Sadly my vinyl got damaged. Thank you again.
Thanks to @FourTet on Twitter for pointing me here. I'm British but have not been to the UK for a number of years. This album made my heart ache for the smell of the British countryside.
It is painting with sound, but I really do think you have to be British born, maybe even English to remember the scenes you have never seen here. Never seen by which I mean it's a nostalgic vision.
Remarkable album crossing over so many styles and ulitmately so incredibly serene and uplifting - I had to confess a few years ago that it wa smy favourite album ever - and to find you cannot even play it through anything other than youtube is incredible...
Came here after learning that Caroline Polachek's a fan! Also, those bells at the beginning of track 2 sound exactly like the ones at the beginning of Sensual World by Kate Bush!
i had never heard of this album until today and i came to look for it as soon as i knew about its existence, so now i'm very glad to see that it happened to be uploaded just a month ago. thank you :)
I've been working on and off on an album called Birdsville, where every song has a lot of ambient bird song as an accompaniment to the music. But it looks like Virginia Astley beat me to it by decades! : D (I'll still put mine out... maybe.)
Peaceful, starry-eyed and enigmatic all at once. This sounds to me like a seminal slice of ambient in the vein of Discreet Music and Music For Airports. Magnificent stuff.
It’s everything I love about Britain. Thank you so much for this. Who ever you are that posted this, do you like Karen Dalton or Vashti Bunyan? Fever Ray? If you by chance are unaware of these. Do check it out. Diane Cluck and most of all, Cocteau Twins.
I love Virginia and Vashti. I'm going to check out those others, thank you. Although I know the country origin of this album, I associate it with visiting my grandparents' Vermont farm ("a summer long since passed"). I'm very involved with bunnies / rabbits; glad to see your logo!
I've just been asked by an old schoolfriend to post to FB one album a day for 20 days of music that changed my taste in music, or influenced it. Today I posted Rum, Sodomy and The Lash, tomorrow will be this
... anyone notice UA-cam's song recognition algorithm in description attributes this to the metal band Beyond the Dying Light, which has birds singing at the end of 'Over the Garden Wall', and that's enough similarity? Pretty funny joke, AI.
@@apossibleworld If you can find it, there is a CD issue with the original cover and mix. The different cover carries a remix - to be honest, I prefer the original. I hope you find one at a decent price!
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Aged eighteen, thirty-two years ago, I began to mend my broken heart to this.
Same here... ❤ The sound of the animals is amazing with piano and flute...💎
I thought I might find you here. Little golden moments here and there x
Hahaha... You always seem to, Howard. 😊
And now you’re here trying to milk the “oh, you poor baby!” Life is tough. Grow a pair. Put your big boy pants on. The album is good. But, come on, 80% of it is meandering piano with birds chirping. A 2nd year piano student could ad lib this entire arrangement.
Ge eK please send a link to your music, I would love to hear it.
Quarantine day 38: I discovered this record and life is a beautiful thing
It is
@@cjl310871 I'm glad you're enjoying it. VA is a balm for our troubled nerves! I still have my original vinyl from 1983 and kept cuttings of two of the glowing reviews! FGWWFS is in my top ten all-time favourites. Stay safe.
@@HaFannyHa me too. I might even slide it into my top 5
cheers my friend. it truly can be. thank you for reminding me.
Pastoral English ambient. Who knew I needed this?
from japan.
高校生の頃よく聴いてました。今聞いてもやっぱり良いですね。
私のルーツです。
“The Album Years” podcast sent me here. Thanks Steven and Tim for this pastoral, majestic recommendation🦋🌲🌞🦢
I heard a song from this record on BBC 3 late junction in a semi-dream-like state many years ago. I checked the playlist for the artist and then searched the records shops of Glasgow for it,. In the HMV shop, a young woman who I asked became very animated. We don't have it in stock but I will order it for you, it is beautiful! I picked up a copy a couple of weeks afterward and love it more with each listen. Thanks to Virginia Astley for making a record of transcendent beauty and late junction but most of all to the lovely woman I met who understood the importance of music, emotional connection, shared dreams, and memory.
One of the most beautiful and evocative albums - I first heard this when I was in my twenties ( in the 1980s) it conjures these images of innocence, childhood picture books, empty sunlit rooms, and dream like gardens. There is a poignant melancholy too which underlies these beautiful melodies. It’s a shame more people don’t know this unique and very special record.
I'm 21 and this was my first time listening to this record. I feel so moved by all the emotions that the music provoked. I feel fullness, peace, love, some kind of nostalgia and excitment to see whats next on my life. From now and then this is definitely one of my favorite records. It's amazing how touching ambient music can be.
@@abrahamherrera4573 and it’s wonderful that you are so open to this special record that so few people know about !
Well said. Agree!
@@velvetclaw2316 I bought the CD it in 90s. I haven't heard anything till then. It was a so wonderful surprise, one music after another each, as good as the previous one. What a sensation of happiness. I totally agree that not many have ever heard this. What a pity.
I was so affected by this record I bought both CDs, multiple vinyls of it before that when they were available, and later Virginia material which I also gave college radio airplay. I planned to give away extras of the vinyl to others.
This is one of my new favourite albums ever. Up there with Hiroshi Yoshimura for tones of pure healing magic, resplendent joy and playful serenity. I'm glad I'm alive.
and takashi kokubo, kenichiri Isoda
The first track sounds like the kind of music that would start off a really good film.
Bliss! I come back to this every summer, since 1986….church bells ringing, sheep bleating, gates creaking, rowers rowing,birds singing, owls hooting and Lilac the donkey ….perfect summer day❤
Listened to this for the first time late last night and was treated to a Tawny Owl joining in, from a tree to my right also.
Beautiful recording and a moment to treasure now as well. Thank you BBC radio 6.
Hearing this album for the first time today. Beautiful
I started this album and I automatically went into napping mode; it was the best nap of my life.
Names, like 'From gardens where we fell secure' and 'Out in the lawn I lie in bed' says it all... calm and peace nature surrounding us. Just close your eyes...💎
I met the love of my life and we listened t
o this, beautiful
Obsessed with this album in the summer
I listen to this album religiously, especially the third track.
If ever an album was crying out to be re-released it's this beautiful masterpiece. So evocative, so calming. I lost my copy many years ago and often search for a copy on line, always to no avail, why would anyone ever part with such a stunning LP.
Wishing upon a star that this comes true. 💖
Im sure you can find it online somewhere. Never searched cause..well i have all the copies of her i ever bought. Wishing you luck to find them. Dont give up
It’s on her bandcamp. $12 bucks for the CD
This album takes me to a safe comforting place of beauty, nature and tenderness. It's so special to me.
From start to end, one of the most beautiful, and certainly the loveliest, albums I've ever heard.
I found this album decades ago... I love it. Virginia played cello I think with Echo and The Bunnymen...
Thanks for posting this pastoral classic!
wonderful album!
oh thankyou Will Dudarov. My old LP of this died over a decade ago and it was worn out by then. This album was a huge part of my teenage life, and beyond. Finally the whole thing on youtube without vinyl scratches and stuff. Beautiful.
Purchase this album in 1983 and I love it still
I am old, I remember it came out on a LP record and I bought it. Than later, I bought all her vinyl records and some CD's. It is like a kind of healing music for me, healing my mind
Wow! Now you are rich. They became really expensive
@@miercat610 I bought it as quick as I could, because I'd loved Virginia's surprise Indie hit, 'Love's a Lonely Place to Be'. I still have my vinyl and both of the CD editions. From Gardens is in my top ten favourite albums. I'm glad you're enjoying it, a balm for our troubled minds and hearts!
pitchfork sent me here
and couldn’t find this on spotify
same
same (but didn't even searched on Spotify)
Same :)
there's some tracks on spotify now!
Why why why is this album not on Spotify ??
So glad to found this album. It takes me far away back to the early 80ies when I first heard it. It wakes up childhood memories so softly.
This is my hiding place in UA-cam
Perfectly put. Mine too.
BEAUTIFUL ….. thanks for posting this, extremely RARE , can’t replace my cd copy . 🙏🏽
Just fund out about this beautiful little gem of an album thanks to Rob Young's book "Electric Eden". Again, what a lovely lovely lovely album this is.
Fabulous book! I learned a lot from it too. I'm so glad he mentioned Virginia.
This album also gets a brief mention in the book “The Wichita Lineman” by Dylan Jones.
Same. I’ve read the book twice and skimmed through listening to almost every one of every artists mentioned in the books albums here on UA-cam. And none of them quite have this sound. I need to find more music like this. Come up short in the psych-folk range. Idk if I need to be getting into ambient or new age or library music or children’s soundtracks or what to do.
What beautiful music
One of my favourite LPs. I still have the vinyl from the 1980s.
I'm down with COVID at the moment, so listening to this is a balm for my heart and mind. It's one of my top-ten favourite albums, blissful with soul. I have my original vinyl and both of the CD issues. I prefer the original mix - any comments welcome! How I wish Virginia would get back into the studio - hey Ginny, we miss you!
read my mind. I tested positive a few days ago, and I am currently spinning this in my little flat whilst I water the plants. All the best to you my friend!
fucking brilliant, gorgeous enveloping and simply lovely
Enchanting my world. The way things ought to be.
This should be rereleased! I have the vinyl but would love it either on cd or as an mp3
Just listened to this for the first time on BBC 6 Music with Gideon Coe as part of the BBC's mental heath campaign. Just close your eyes and drift . Beautiful.
Sonic Heaven, isn't it!
So glad for this. Thank you. I've wanted the full album on youtube for ages. I bought the vinyl LP when it came out early 80s. Remains an all time favourite. Sadly my vinyl got damaged. Thank you again.
My brother bought it in the 80's as well and sadly it got lost, I think. But we now have this amazing musics here. Thank you.
リラックス出来ます。
♥♥♥
Thanks to @FourTet on Twitter for pointing me here. I'm British but have not been to the UK for a number of years. This album made my heart ache for the smell of the British countryside.
It is painting with sound, but I really do think you have to be British born, maybe even English to remember the scenes you have never seen here. Never seen by which I mean it's a nostalgic vision.
You'd be surprised at how famous this album is in Japan
@@LeviTate2000 nah, this album reminds me of Swedish summers. it's not Britain exclusive
Quite simply one of the finest British post-punk albums ever made.
that's an interesting take, to situate in post-punk. brilliant.
It wasn't post punk, it was an antidote to chaos.
It still holds well these days
Absolutely agree with you. Gives me goose pimples!
'A summer long since passed' reminds me of David Bowie's Sound and Vision in a way. Love this album!
Thank you so much for posting! Never heard the full album. It is such a gem.
a treasure this album , thank you for given here Will
Remarkable album crossing over so many styles and ulitmately so incredibly serene and uplifting - I had to confess a few years ago that it wa smy favourite album ever - and to find you cannot even play it through anything other than youtube is incredible...
You can buy it via Bandcamp. Download and CD is only £12.50 plus postage. The cover is different.
I was a great fan of her in my younger years.still pretty good🎶
Needed this today, thanks! So pretty.
Timeless beauty.
Came here after learning that Caroline Polachek's a fan! Also, those bells at the beginning of track 2 sound exactly like the ones at the beginning of Sensual World by Kate Bush!
i had never heard of this album until today and i came to look for it as soon as i knew about its existence, so now i'm very glad to see that it happened to be uploaded just a month ago. thank you :)
I have the album in vinyl. Now, thanks to you, I can listen it on my computer :)
really nice
zuhören, sich hineinhören, mitlaufen auf leichten Sohlen
sehr schöne Musik irgendwie anders ich fühle mich gut
I've been working on and off on an album called Birdsville, where every song has a lot of ambient bird song as an accompaniment to the music. But it looks like Virginia Astley beat me to it by decades! : D (I'll still put mine out... maybe.)
this is so wonderful ♥️
beautiful album
Glorious purpose.
Joy & happiness
I've been wanting to hear this for soooo long. I had the ep in the 80's.
Awesome, thanks!
I once bought one of her singles , I don't remember what it was , but she has a lovely voice !
Tender , that was the song !
@@MadderMel Or 'Love's a Lonely Place to Be'?
@@HaFannyHa I bought both singles, also 7 inch and 12 inch of the amazing "Darkness Has Reached Its End."
Happy memories
She is new for me, I'm in Love allready. Beautiful music.
Peaceful, starry-eyed and enigmatic all at once. This sounds to me like a seminal slice of ambient in the vein of Discreet Music and Music For Airports. Magnificent stuff.
It's not "ambient". It's post-punk.
@@TheSpikehere it's not post-punk. it's death metal
Thank you x
It’s everything I love about Britain. Thank you so much for this.
Who ever you are that posted this, do you like Karen Dalton or Vashti Bunyan? Fever Ray? If you by chance are unaware of these. Do check it out. Diane Cluck and most of all, Cocteau Twins.
I love Virginia and Vashti. I'm going to check out those others, thank you. Although I know the country origin of this album, I associate it with visiting my grandparents' Vermont farm ("a summer long since passed"). I'm very involved with bunnies / rabbits; glad to see your logo!
I only have the vynil Melt the Snow. Love all her albums!
I feel better now.
If you like this you may want to listen to Vashti Bunyan - Just Another Diamond Day (1970). Different, but coming from the same place.
Judee sill- heart food, Sibylle Baier-colour green, Linda perhacs- parallelograms, all nothing alike yet wind the same invisible gears of the soul
@@AliceYobby OH my god, I love Vashti, Judee and Linda Perhacs. All of their albums are gems!
@@HaFannyHa check out sibylle if you havent!
I'd like to think that Virginia Astley still owns the rights to this lovely album and could re-release it.
You can buy it on Bandcamp. Download and CD are available.
Ryuichi must have loved this beautiful album. No wonder why he worked with her in 1986.
I've just been asked by an old schoolfriend to post to FB one album a day for 20 days of music that changed my taste in music, or influenced it. Today I posted Rum, Sodomy and The Lash, tomorrow will be this
Moulsford Oxfordshire on a summers day.
このalbum探ちてる
まだ見つからにゃい
皆ちゃん何処で｡｡泣
The glass breaking towards the end of When the Fields were on Fire....
... anyone notice UA-cam's song recognition algorithm in description attributes this to the metal band Beyond the Dying Light, which has birds singing at the end of 'Over the Garden Wall', and that's enough similarity? Pretty funny joke, AI.
Every other album I ever bought sounded better when I turned the volume up.
Not this one...
I just turn the lights down instead.
28年ほど前、岡山の中古のＣＤ屋さんで280円で売られていたのを
見つけた。ラッキーと思いすぐに買う。
家宝になった。
Worth every Yen.
Ernesto Lombardo, Paulo Ramos e Gustavo... I see 4 portuguese fans in this comments (I'm also one). Nice👌
Eu também estou aqui. 58 anos e sempre adorei esta música.
How in the world did UA-cam decide this was "Over the Garden Wall" by Beyond the Dying Light? I looked it up and it couldn't be more different.
Why is this not available on cd?😢 I like the ritual of playing music from an object. Just not the same. Still great though.
it is on CD, but not easy to find. It has a different cover.
@@apossibleworld If you can find it, there is a CD issue with the original cover and mix. The different cover carries a remix - to be honest, I prefer the original. I hope you find one at a decent price!
Does sheet music exist for this beautiful arrangement?
Lol why could the first song be a morning alarm ringtone
290 views in 3 weeks
Found this via Gideon Coe
Radio 6 brought me here ☺
Same. I love my music but had never come across this. I absolutely love it
I've been ill for a while. Hearing this has actually helped me heal
anyone ever notice the original Metroid theme sounds a lot like Hiding in the Ha Ha
Did Pitchfork send you here?
No
No, Scaruffi sent me here
I honestly can't remember, might have been Trish or James from Broadcast who got me on to her, or one of the Ghost Box people.
It is similar to cat music, in parts.
Kate Bush heard this for Aeriel.
I am here because of Four Tet
but sects