RIP Karl. Saw world party in '95. One guy shouted from the audience "play ship of fools , you crazy Welsh bastard" he laughed his head off...and played it. Brilliant live
Elizabeth Ashley Elizabeth Ashley ; Born. Elizabeth Ann Cole. (1939-08-30) August 30, 1939 (age 84). Ocala, Florida, U.S. ; Occupation, Actress ; Years active, 1960-present.
@@andrewlamb7012 2 major floods in 11 years here in Brisbane. “Rain Bomb” they called it. Then there’s the floods in Sydney and Lismore. Scott Morrison and his cronies are fools on the hill! Time is running out for climate change action!!
@@spello8191 ""the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams". Tim Flannery 2013 - Brisbane an Lismore are built on ancient flood plains and have been flooding like this for over 100,000,000 years.
Loved this song when I first heard it. Years later I understand what it truly means. Thank you Karl and band for your strength and bravery in releasing a song like this. RIP, you've done well.
RIP Karl Wallinger!! Passed away this Sunday, March 10th, at age 66. Loved him and loved this song. Can’t tell you how many times I played it over and over and over. Still a classic. Very sad…
I will sorely miss Karl Wallinger and his wonderful band World Party. He was a great songwriter and musician. I had the albums when they first came out in the late 1980s early 90s. I remember listening to the cassettes on my walkman all through Italy while traveling on the trains. Thank you Karl. You were beautiful.
Music and the brain is weird. I hadn’t heard this song for many many years, but just yesterday I was listening to a podcast that played this song in one of their interludes, and I instantly recognised it.
So good to see the outpouring of love in the wake of news of his passing. An extremely talented guy who seemed to always run into tough breaks in life and found far less success than he deserved. The prescience of this song is what makes it ever more relevant as time goes by and the time to "pay" for all these fools nears. RIP the great Karl Wallinger
RIP Karl. No hyperbole, but he really was something of a visionary and an astonishingly gifted musician and songwriter. Thank you for such a rich canon of brilliantly crafted songs that remain so fresh and imaginitive.
I've always found the song structure to be brilliant. I LOVE the way the bridge swells up and overlaps into the chorus. It's like a wave sweeping up and pushing you in.
He could see instrumental and lyrical song structure so clearly ,a true musical genius and now sadly missed but who has left us with some truly great songs
Ahhh, another one that's bought into the scare mongering of the neo marxists... I suggest you actually look into just how much the western world has done to alleviate environmental problems before you go thinking we're all doomed. BTW, in 1987 there was NO mention of climate change or global warming, the issue back then was 'holes in the ozone layer' which also turned out to be a nothing burger... but a lot of politicians made a lot of money ridding the western world of CFCs.
Infinity more relevant now than 87. Back then we had optimism and innocence. Look at what has happened in the 21st century starting with 9/11 and the e-comerce bubble bursting, followed by everything else that happened this century. Back in 1987 I would not have wanted to see what we have seen this century
This song is so underappreciated. The content is prophetic & the rhythm moves seamlessly. The flow is addicting & feels almost otherworldly. Fantastic song & definately not forgettable. If you aren't moved by this song you need to check your pulse!
This song had such a profound impact on me as an 8-year-old in 1987. It helped to set my sail on the path I am on - one where I think for myself, do right by others and not consume myself with all that glitters in this world. In the end, it all fades away anyway. There is only one thing that matters, and I try to live my life by that. It isn’t a path for the faint of heart. But the wealth that lies in the end is far greater than any treasure here on Earth. Whenever I feel myself letting go, I start singing this song to myself and it sets me right. Thank you for this wonderful song, Mr. Wallinger! I hope you found the peace you so richly deserve in the hereafter that we all strive for on this Earth. Your song is an anthem for those of us who know what is right and what is wrong and do our best to keep on the right side of the line between.
I'm late to the party, discovered this song a few months back, top 5 all time....incredible all these years listening to music there are still some unheard gems like this, shows how important it is to listen to a wide variety and whole albums....still lots to discover
This is one of music's greatest underrated songs of all time. Relevant always because the rich will rich and the poor will poor and that's been humanity forever. Musically, perfection. Layers upon layers of sound, voice, beat, instrumentation, rising, falling, lyrics... A perfect song. ❤️
@@angham3829 Chk out...9...11.....W T C. Twin towers truth....Aaron Dover's work....pls consider clicking on the li k below....The twin tower's were built without any floors apart from the mid level restaurant and ball room and top viewing tower...They were built for free energy harvesting Save me save me from tomorrow I don't want to sail with this ship of fools.....Don't want to sail with this ship of fools.....
One of the many classic 80s tracks you just don't hear anymore. As for the band many will scratch their head, who. Pure class, just like the 80s music. Never get that back!
Wow!! This will date me but I listened to this song when I was around 15 yo back in the 80s. I loved this song even tho I was all into gothic music back then. Totally different from what I normally liked but I just loved it first time I heard it. Glad you're enjoying it! So good!
Myself included on the part where I was a ripe old 17 years old when I used to spin this tune! Back then I was into the likes of Bob Segar and then types but World Party and this song just wormed into my ear and it was like my own little personality tune that seemed create meaning in my whirlwind lifestyle back then. Now I relate to others in the fact that when I hear the words and this rhythm that World Party creates I'm so glad I did and songs like these I can belt out word for word so easy!
Had a sudden urge to listen to this song this morning! God i love the internet lol no wonder it's addicitve! Instant dopamine hit with songs like these! 😍
This is a great song by an underrated band. Who knew that something written & recorded in 1987 would be even more relevant today. Forget the 80s clothes & the odd camera tricks & watch the film showing behind the band. It is absolutely spot on.
What's amazing is that, despite how it looks in the video, World Party isn't even a band. It's really just one guy, Karl Wallinger. The others come and go as needed. Amazing guy, Karl.
We're setting sail to the place on the map from which no one has ever returned Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool by the light of the crosses that burned. Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace and the gold and the cotton and pearls It's the place where they keep all the darkness you need. You sail away from the light of the world on this trip, baby. You will pay tomorrow You're gonna pay tomorrow You will pay tomorrow Save me. Save me from tomorrow I don't want to sail with this ship of fools. No, no Oh, save me. Save me from tomorrow I don't want to sail with this ship of fools I want to run and hide right now Avarice and greed are gonna drive you over the endless sea They will leave you drifting in the shallows or drowning in the oceans of history Traveling the world, you're in search of no good but I'm sure you'll build your Sodom like you knew you would Using all the good people for your galley slaves as you're little boat struggles through the warning waves, but you don't pay You will pay tomorrow You're gonna pay tomorrow You're gonna pay tomorrow Save me. Save me from tomorrow I don't want to sail with this ship of fools Save me. Save me from tomorrow I don't want to sail with this ship of fools Where's it comin' from? Where's it goin' to now? It's just a It's just a ship of fools
Slint❗🍀 ..a friend sent me this song link... lots said in this,song... thank you Slint👍 for the lyric... help a lot to understand this songwriter concerns
Thinking of you as November 2024 approaches. I feel understood with your prophetic song. R.I.P. beautiful Karl. Your talent transcends time. Thank you for Ship of Fools- one of the best songs of all time.
Exactly written TheTwintosser, this wasn't a hit in fact the odd time I'd catch it on radio here in Ontario Canada but every single time I played this cassette back then I cranked it and sang out loud!
I bought this on one of the first CD singles ever released as a double a-side with Private Revolution in 1986. In July I finished school and went to California for 6 months and one day while watching MTV saw this video for the first time and was blown away when I spotted our previous house and garden that we had moved from just months previously! It turned out that World Party had squatted in the house, turned my parents bedroom into a recording studio and filmed both videos there. Private revolution was filmed entirely in our garden under the ancient Cedar tree (that has now sadly been cut down), with Sinead O’Connor on keyboards
Hooked with water boys, caught in the Party. Heavens chorus will add to its harmony . My heart was broken when I heard the news and now my keyboard is stained with tears. This song was playing when I fell in love with my wife and they saved me from tomorrow( GBJ.)......
When this song was released it was widely criticized for its dark sentiments and imagery. I guess Jack Nicholson was right there are people out there who can't handle the truth
@@aegisgfx .....i get your point....most bury their heads in the sand....as they are much more part of the problem rather than a worthy part of the solution.
Stephen Rapson - Its not so much that they bury their heads in the sand, and more so they are having sand poured all over them by the lame stream media. As David Bowie said in Changes "Where's your shame? You've left us up to our necks in it"
Wow @@Weenybean.! Really? You think Angelica Huston is a "tranny"?! Umm, OK, guess if a lady is tall and not "traditionally" pretty with little, delicate facial features then she's a man? Even though she grew up in a famous family and her childhood, adolescence, adult career and legacy are very thoroughly documented? Since she was famous director John Huston's daughter. Have fun worrying about the "cabal" of baby sacrificers while the government destroys the environment to keep making big wealth off the planet. It's a shell game man, and they distracted you!
Karl Wallinger, you're a genius, and you wrote songs that have been such an important part of this journey for me. This song touched something deep inside my soul and possibly does so even more today, knowing that the world hasn't actually listened and done something about the plight the world faces today, possibly more so than it did back then in 1987, when I first heard it.
Karl Wallinger was a brilliant singer/songwriter since leaving the Waterboys. World Party would have to be one of the most underrated bands in their time. Still love a majority of their songs.
i was the MUSIC DIRECTOR and 89-WBSU-FM "Morning Man", 1984-85, and I remember when I first heard "WHOLE OF THE Moon" by the Waterboys.....Great music...Great Writers and Musicians
Still holds up. Class .... Never got the recognition they deserved.... Brilliant band. A fine anthem for our world today, perhaps even more so than it was in '87.
As a musician, and a New Orleanian, this song for some reason has a NOLA feel to it to me. World Party had such a creative chemistry and this song in particular was way ahead of it's time.
Karl, thank you so much for decades of pure-genius music. You are a brilliant musician and your songs never, ever get stale. They are all sparkling gems on each and every listen. You've enriched my life so much, I can't even tell you. Cheers.
More like the anthem of the legions of overconfident dopes who can't see that they're being led into chains under the cover of one obvious ruse after another. What will the dupes fall for next? Any lie their masters tell them.
Over the years each time I return to this song I realize how prescient Karl was. Feel so incredibly fortunate to have seen World Party a few times back in the day and wish life had turned out differently for Mr Wallinger so that he could have continued to provide the world with such incredible and moving music.
Brilliant lyrics and composition that hooks me in, I was eleven years Old when this song was released and it had always been appropriate. Now it's more relevant than then. But it's worthy of an Award.... Flipping awesome work.
I love me some heavy Metal "Iron Maiden, Metallica and many others" but, hey, people are many times multi - faceted, when a song is good, or a band is good, who cares if they are metal or a so called pop band, you like their songs or you don't, anyone who judges you on the music you like should just get the hell over it.
Man, what a totally epic song this is. Gotta be one of the best songs of the period. And how prescient are the lyrics ? A song thirty years ahead of its time. Well written, well performed. Brilliant.
When I first heard this song I was a young man of 27,naive and somewhat indifferent to the message. I must admit but after 35 more years of living I hear ya man I hear ya.
Ive heard this song a million times, ive been aware forever....and the talent this man brought, the meaning, the class of music, is amazing to me. I hope people keep listening to karls messages forever. R.i.p superstar. Rock em up there. ❤
I work at a little mom and pop diner and this song plays on the radio all the time there and it’s sooo good that I can’t help but hum along with it whenever it comes on, really gets your feet a’tapping
R.I.P. Karl. Thank you for the music.
💔
His passing really hurts 💔
@@cw1018 Yep.
Just heard of Karl's passing. R.I.P. Karl. Love this song.😢
So sad Karl is gone
This songs has been killing it for damn near 40 years. RIP, my man. Thank you for this gift.
RIP Karl. Saw world party in '95. One guy shouted from the audience "play ship of fools , you crazy Welsh bastard" he laughed his head off...and played it. Brilliant live
I would’ve loved to have seen that.
Sounds like an Australian said that 😂
Love this ❤
This song has gotten more and more relevant for about 4 decades now.
Elizabeth Ashley
Elizabeth Ashley ; Born. Elizabeth Ann Cole. (1939-08-30) August 30, 1939 (age 84). Ocala, Florida, U.S. ; Occupation, Actress ; Years active, 1960-present.
One of the most underrated songs from the 80s in my opinion.
Of all time
Agree
Me too matey from Australia ❤❤❤
Best voice ever!!
totalmente de acuerdo...
Man, as a 15 year old kid hearing this song in '87, I had no idea how relevant it would be in 2020. Thirty-two years later. Epic tune!
Man you’re into it completely
2022 here saying even more relevant.
@@andrewlamb7012 2 major floods in 11 years here in Brisbane. “Rain Bomb” they called it. Then there’s the floods in Sydney and Lismore. Scott Morrison and his cronies are fools on the hill! Time is running out for climate change action!!
@@spello8191 ""the rain that falls isn't actually going to fill our dams". Tim Flannery 2013 - Brisbane an Lismore are built on ancient flood plains and have been flooding like this for over 100,000,000 years.
Same here!
Loved this song when I first heard it. Years later I understand what it truly means. Thank you Karl and band for your strength and bravery in releasing a song like this. RIP, you've done well.
Absolutely gutted to hear about his passing...Rest in Peace, Karl Wallinger 🕊️🕊️🕊️💔💔💔
It's sad!
Rest in peace, Karl Wallinger. And thank you so much for the music.
Changed mine also friend.
Mine too!
Will not soon forget you Karl Wallinger. Thank you for the world class music and lyrics.
RIP Karl Wallinger!! Passed away this Sunday, March 10th, at age 66. Loved him and loved this song. Can’t tell you how many times I played it over and over and over. Still a classic. Very sad…
If I told my kids this was released last week, they wouldn’t flinch.
It’s a hit in every era in history.
Was well ahead of its time.
Very well put💜
RIP Karl, thank you for the music ❤
a timeless classic of prophetic lyrics delivered with soaring melodies
And I thought this song was the blue print for "Ship of fools" from Erasure (1987). It's not.
I will sorely miss Karl Wallinger and his wonderful band World Party. He was a great songwriter and musician. I had the albums when they first came out in the late 1980s early 90s. I remember listening to the cassettes on my walkman all through Italy while traveling on the trains. Thank you Karl. You were beautiful.
36 years on this song is unsettlingly relevant- I'm old enough to have the original vinyl,,,,
Music and the brain is weird. I hadn’t heard this song for many many years, but just yesterday I was listening to a podcast that played this song in one of their interludes, and I instantly recognised it.
So good to see the outpouring of love in the wake of news of his passing. An extremely talented guy who seemed to always run into tough breaks in life and found far less success than he deserved. The prescience of this song is what makes it ever more relevant as time goes by and the time to "pay" for all these fools nears. RIP the great Karl Wallinger
Just learned today of Karl's passing.
Rest in Peace, Karl, and many thanks for the great music.
RIP Karl. No hyperbole, but he really was something of a visionary and an astonishingly gifted musician and songwriter. Thank you for such a rich canon of brilliantly crafted songs that remain so fresh and imaginitive.
R I P to one of the most underrated musicians. Thank You for all the amazing songs.
I've always found the song structure to be brilliant. I LOVE the way the bridge swells up and overlaps into the chorus. It's like a wave sweeping up and pushing you in.
The keys and backing vocal always did it for me
Don't analyse just have a beer sit back and enjoy the magic
Good description. The structure does seem different than most.
Succinct description.👌👌.
It's soo bad lol
R.I.P. Karl. This was one of the greatest songs of the 80s and the message holds true today.
He could see instrumental and lyrical song structure so clearly ,a true musical genius and now sadly missed but who has left us with some truly great songs
Just hearing that Kurt died today aged 66. I was living in Sydney when I first heard this...great number.
RIP
KARL
I think you mean Karl❤
Guy is a LEGEND! Your music will live on forever! RIP dear man.
This is Absolute Genius.
A fine anthem for our world today, perhaps even more so than it was in '87.
Ahhh, another one that's bought into the scare mongering of the neo marxists... I suggest you actually look into just how much the western world has done to alleviate environmental problems before you go thinking we're all doomed.
BTW, in 1987 there was NO mention of climate change or global warming, the issue back then was 'holes in the ozone layer' which also turned out to be a nothing burger... but a lot of politicians made a lot of money ridding the western world of CFCs.
@@martyollier7536 Ahhh another loony who doesn't know what a Marxist is.
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Infinity more relevant now than 87. Back then we had optimism and innocence. Look at what has happened in the 21st century starting with 9/11 and the e-comerce bubble bursting, followed by everything else that happened this century. Back in 1987 I would not have wanted to see what we have seen this century
@@tcraigh1 ~ The song and adjoining album were released in '86. Indeed a landmark LP.
Karl's voice was perfect.. rip brother
RIP my brother, I will never 4get how your music changed my life as a teenager...
Your music makes me happy! R.i.p Karl!
This song stands the test of time! Truly an underrated band
Brings back great memories
@@danieltwells1346 , oh yessss ;-)
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This song is so underappreciated. The content is prophetic & the rhythm moves seamlessly. The flow is addicting & feels almost otherworldly. Fantastic song & definately not forgettable. If you aren't moved by this song you need to check your pulse!
I dance my ass off to this song. And if I'm driving and listening to this... holllyyyy crap. Then I dance and drive
This song was probably ahead of it’s time. Was not mainstream
I always thought he sounded like Mick here. I could imagine The Stones doing it too. Amazing song.
It's the official song of the pandemic.
subtle but timeless & beyond brilliant !!!
Who's listening in 2024?
Raises hand, I'm here!
It is much more relevant now than it ever was before.
🙋🏻♀️ It’s such a powerful, prophetic song.
Me
Yo!!! Siempre la escucho desde cuando salió ❤
Such an underrated classic. What a brilliant songwriter. Love you Karl.
I did not know he passed. RIP. This song is so appropriate for every era
Ahead of its time. Brilliant song.
The full song is even better than this version, which must be a shortened one for MTV -- was disappointed it was cut off early here.
Love it!!!
Cat Lover ahead of its time & planned ahead of its time by the Elite.
This is one of the reasons why aliens aren't making contact, we have much to learn.
Music clip is ahead of its time to!
This song had such a profound impact on me as an 8-year-old in 1987. It helped to set my sail on the path I am on - one where I think for myself, do right by others and not consume myself with all that glitters in this world. In the end, it all fades away anyway. There is only one thing that matters, and I try to live my life by that. It isn’t a path for the faint of heart. But the wealth that lies in the end is far greater than any treasure here on Earth. Whenever I feel myself letting go, I start singing this song to myself and it sets me right. Thank you for this wonderful song, Mr. Wallinger! I hope you found the peace you so richly deserve in the hereafter that we all strive for on this Earth. Your song is an anthem for those of us who know what is right and what is wrong and do our best to keep on the right side of the line between.
Gives me chills everytime I hear it. 30 years later still one of my all time favorites.
RIP Karl Wallinger. One of the great and most underrated songs from the 1980s
Rest in Peace, Mr. Wallinger! Thank you for all your great work.
Loved this song in '87 and love it today.
This guy's voice......wow, something unique about it and it totally suits the song. His voice is great!
☝️❤️📖✝️
Psalms 148:3
“Praise ye him, sun and moon: praise him, all ye stars of light.”
King James Version
All these years later,blows away so much "music" today.We need more new music!
I'm late to the party, discovered this song a few months back, top 5 all time....incredible all these years listening to music there are still some unheard gems like this, shows how important it is to listen to a wide variety and whole albums....still lots to discover
Discovery is an amazing thing... Better late to the party than never. Anyways keep on discovering.. Lots of good stuff out there.
Absolutely.
I just found this too through the legend Duane Peters!!! Hear of the US Bombs?!!
Revelation 18:1-24
Same happen to me! im 54
I was in my 30’s when this was on MTV - 70’s now and still LOVE it!
This is one of music's greatest underrated songs of all time.
Relevant always because the rich will rich and the poor will poor and that's been humanity forever.
Musically, perfection. Layers upon layers of sound, voice, beat, instrumentation, rising, falling, lyrics...
A perfect song. ❤️
Revelation 18:1-24
@@angham3829 Chk out...9...11.....W T C. Twin towers truth....Aaron Dover's work....pls consider clicking on the li k below....The twin tower's were built without any floors apart from the mid level restaurant and ball room and top viewing tower...They were built for free energy harvesting Save me save me from tomorrow I don't want to sail with this ship of fools.....Don't want to sail with this ship of fools.....
Killer hooks in this song, and the lyrics are spot-on, still applicable today
I keep coming back to this song. I'm getting old and am scared for my children. Who is going to save them and their children?
Who's going to save us?
I see this song in the shower weekly. For years.
@@cindy.j123 If you mean Jesus the anarchist,who preached love others,do unto them as ourselves: then a good start.
Save them from what, we have it better than our forefathers
The messiah will come to earth to save us from the ship of fools.
One of the many classic 80s tracks you just don't hear anymore. As for the band many will scratch their head, who. Pure class, just like the 80s music. Never get that back!
I've been listening to this song a lot since 11/2016 :-(
👍 and due credit
You have chosen the quality stuff
I hear you loud and clear and feel the same :(
LMAOOOO! You have a case of TDS huh
@@karenm6699TDS
I’ve been listening to this since 11/20! It’s 2/24 and it’s way too relevant today! We are in real trouble now!
Never heard this before....I'm blown away. Great song and performance!
Wow!! This will date me but I listened to this song when I was around 15 yo back in the 80s. I loved this song even tho I was all into gothic music back then. Totally different from what I normally liked but I just loved it first time I heard it. Glad you're enjoying it! So good!
Myself included on the part where I was a ripe old 17 years old when I used to spin this tune! Back then I was into the likes of Bob Segar and then types but World Party and this song just wormed into my ear and it was like my own little personality tune that seemed create meaning in my whirlwind lifestyle back then. Now I relate to others in the fact that when I hear the words and this rhythm that World Party creates I'm so glad I did and songs like these I can belt out word for word so easy!
Had a sudden urge to listen to this song this morning! God i love the internet lol no wonder it's addicitve! Instant dopamine hit with songs like these! 😍
Magenta Moon Try time waits for no one.
Once a year,, time to spin it again
Cool video and song. Way Down Now is another of theirs that holds up and seems to be right at home in this 2021 version of now.
A fantastic song. Love the way that the slightly discordant, funky verse melds into the sweetest of choruses. Can’t be beat.
Still sends a shiver up my spine every time I listen to the lyrics, classic.
Revelation 18:1-23
This is a great song by an underrated band. Who knew that something written & recorded in 1987 would be even more relevant today. Forget the 80s clothes & the odd camera tricks & watch the film showing behind the band. It is absolutely spot on.
Astreiner Song , große klasse , typisch 80er . Super !!!
What's amazing is that, despite how it looks in the video, World Party isn't even a band. It's really just one guy, Karl Wallinger. The others come and go as needed. Amazing guy, Karl.
The ship is really sinking in 2024. But this song still delivers as much as 1987 for me.
We're setting sail to the place on the map
from which no one has ever returned
Drawn by the promise of the joker and the fool
by the light of the crosses that burned.
Drawn by the promise of the women and the lace
and the gold and the cotton and pearls
It's the place where they keep all the darkness you need.
You sail away from the light of the world on this trip, baby.
You will pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow
You will pay tomorrow
Save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools. No, no
Oh, save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools
I want to run and hide right now
Avarice and greed are gonna drive you over the endless sea
They will leave you drifting in the shallows
or drowning in the oceans of history
Traveling the world, you're in search of no good
but I'm sure you'll build your Sodom like you knew you would
Using all the good people for your galley slaves
as you're little boat struggles through the warning waves, but you don't pay
You will pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow
You're gonna pay tomorrow
Save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools
Save me. Save me from tomorrow
I don't want to sail with this ship of fools
Where's it comin' from?
Where's it goin' to now?
It's just a It's just a ship of fools
A prophetic song for the current times as is lunatic fringe! From over 30 years ago. NOW TRUE!
pamela lynch Agreed. This song is deeply resonant on many levels and transcends it’s time. As long as there’s humans it will always be relevant
Slint❗🍀 ..a friend sent me this song link... lots said in this,song... thank you Slint👍 for the lyric... help a lot to understand this songwriter concerns
Even more relevant now in 2020.
@@pamelalynch3444 nailed it!
RIP Karl.. such a great song
great songs don't age
like whiskey and wine?
Thinking of you as November 2024 approaches. I feel understood with your prophetic song. R.I.P. beautiful Karl. Your talent transcends time. Thank you for Ship of Fools- one of the best songs of all time.
Heard this in the supermarket today and had to look it up, damn what a banger!
I don't recall it being a big hit or anything but man did I love this song - still do! Easily in my top 10 of 80s songs - so haunting!
Same for me. I was all into the Cura and Smiths but loved this song
@ We are the place on the map from which no one has ever returned.
Exactly written TheTwintosser, this wasn't a hit in fact the odd time I'd catch it on radio here in Ontario Canada but every single time I played this cassette back then I cranked it and sang out loud!
I bought this on one of the first CD singles ever released as a double a-side with Private Revolution in 1986. In July I finished school and went to California for 6 months and one day while watching MTV saw this video for the first time and was blown away when I spotted our previous house and garden that we had moved from just months previously! It turned out that World Party had squatted in the house, turned my parents bedroom into a recording studio and filmed both videos there. Private revolution was filmed entirely in our garden under the ancient Cedar tree (that has now sadly been cut down), with Sinead O’Connor on keyboards
Wow...no really...btw I have loved this since I was 12 ? I'm 49.
Isn't that the best!
So fabulous: what a story !( Shame about the cedar tree).
What a wild and cool story!
I too have this on CD. Greenpeace used this song for their ad campaign back in the 90s
Rest up Karl 🙏🏽 im glad this song came back into my algorithm I wouldn’t have known ❤
Hooked with water boys, caught in the Party. Heavens chorus will add to its harmony . My heart was broken when I heard the news and now my keyboard is stained with tears. This song was playing when I fell in love with my wife and they saved me from tomorrow( GBJ.)......
RIP Karl and thanks for the music :(
ONE OF MY FAVORITE SONGS OF ALL TIME... SINCE IT CAME OUT
I want to run and hide...right now.....back to the 80's!
R.I.P Karl. Thank you for the music
Such an underappreciated song ..it's one of my all time favourites from the 80s ...and so relevant today !!
Such an underrated band, the music, the words are amazing ! I loved them back in the 80's and still today !❤❤❤❤
When this song was released it was widely criticized for its dark sentiments and imagery. I guess Jack Nicholson was right there are people out there who can't handle the truth
yup, those people are called trump supporters
@@aegisgfx .....i get your point....most bury their heads in the sand....as they are much more part of the problem rather than a worthy part of the solution.
Stephen Rapson - Its not so much that they bury their heads in the sand, and more so they are having sand poured all over them by the lame stream media.
As David Bowie said in Changes "Where's your shame? You've left us up to our necks in it"
Even more relevant today. Great song!
Wow @@Weenybean.! Really? You think Angelica Huston is a "tranny"?! Umm, OK, guess if a lady is tall and not "traditionally" pretty with little, delicate facial features then she's a man? Even though she grew up in a famous family and her childhood, adolescence, adult career and legacy are very thoroughly documented? Since she was famous director John Huston's daughter. Have fun worrying about the "cabal" of baby sacrificers while the government destroys the environment to keep making big wealth off the planet. It's a shell game man, and they distracted you!
Killer song/video that nobody knows about. I agree, ahead of its time.
If nobody knows about it, then how can we be talking about it?
@@guitarslim56 coffee and tea party system won't cut the musTURD in the jwznitedStatesOfJwzMerikA CONgress is run by AIPAC ADL run s CONgress
Way ahead of it's time....
Mr. Greatness I had this casette in school in 80s they played it a lot I’m Hawaii
Joe Harris lol
One of the few songs, and bands, of this era who had a mission and message in their lyrics.
This is Absolute Genius.
It was big in Australia in 1987.
The video ended a few seconds too early!!! "All aboard"!!
Right, they cut off the "doot doot" part!
@@nthgth the greatest hook in the history of the earth..
@@doozerace I might not go that far lol but it is a good one
Karl Wallinger, you're a genius, and you wrote songs that have been such an important part of this journey for me. This song touched something deep inside my soul and possibly does so even more today, knowing that the world hasn't actually listened and done something about the plight the world faces today, possibly more so than it did back then in 1987, when I first heard it.
Hope you are ready for a World Party......it's not far away Bro.🎃🎈🎉🎊🎋🎍
@@kevinwindle8937 The NWO totalitarian digital dictatorship/imperial cult will be anything but a party, bro. 😕
@@beepmeepJ Oh my Goodness.......did you forget to set your Alarm Clock...?????💚💜❤💖💙💛🙌😁😃😂🤣
A superb song of foreboding and warning. Beautiful lyrics and stunning orchestration.
Karl Wallinger was a brilliant singer/songwriter since leaving the Waterboys. World Party would have to be one of the most underrated bands in their time. Still love a majority of their songs.
i was the MUSIC DIRECTOR and 89-WBSU-FM "Morning Man", 1984-85, and I remember when I first heard "WHOLE OF THE Moon" by the Waterboys.....Great music...Great Writers and Musicians
One of the best songs ever !!
I remember when MTv played music videos and not todays SHIT this was one of the 1st vids i had seen
Obligatory quote for every 80's video. Who needs MTV when we have you-tube?
@@33Luger how will you discover new music?
@@nimrodbong8173 There is plenty of new music on UA-cam. They remind me of new songs and artists every day.
@@33Luger but how could you possibly find them? MTV used to have allotted time space for different genres which is how nirvana broke mainstream
Aussieland right now
Ship of fools
More relevant than ever
Still holds up.
Class .... Never got the recognition they deserved.... Brilliant band.
A fine anthem for our world today, perhaps even more so than it was in '87.
But Beyonce has gotten her recognition. 🤯
As a musician, and a New Orleanian, this song for some reason has a NOLA feel to it to me. World Party had such a creative chemistry and this song in particular was way ahead of it's time.
Karl, thank you so much for decades of pure-genius music. You are a brilliant musician and your songs never, ever get stale. They are all sparkling gems on each and every listen. You've enriched my life so much, I can't even tell you. Cheers.
This will become the anthem for those who said "We're going on a cruise!" in the middle of a pandemic.
Try ball of confusion
And the ship is heading to DC. From where this voyage began.
Love this song
More like the anthem of the legions of overconfident dopes who can't see that they're being led into chains under the cover of one obvious ruse after another.
What will the dupes fall for next?
Any lie their masters tell them.
Hahaha, well done @Roland Matters, I just choked laughed on my coffee and it’s come out my nose... I needed a chuckle, thanks mate 👍
One of the most amazing songs. Thank you Karl for your talent to help bring this song together. My theme some for many years.
A long time favorite song of mine. I can't believe Karl is still at it all these years later even after suffering from an aneurysm.
I loved this song back in 1987 and I love it even more now. The lyrics have remained powerful.
Over the years each time I return to this song I realize how prescient Karl was. Feel so incredibly fortunate to have seen World Party a few times back in the day and wish life had turned out differently for Mr Wallinger so that he could have continued to provide the world with such incredible and moving music.
I bought this in 87 on single cd, one of the very first cd’s I bought, still have it
Brilliant lyrics and composition that hooks me in, I was eleven years Old when this song was released and it had always been appropriate.
Now it's more relevant than then.
But it's worthy of an Award.... Flipping awesome work.
I second that
💯
Loved this song. A song with actual meaningful lyrics.
I listen to death metal,but I've always loved this song.The lyrics are bound to be prophetic for mankind.
Me too. I spose most people would be surprised at what else dudes like us listen to besides Suffocation and Deicide.
I love me some heavy Metal "Iron Maiden, Metallica and many others" but, hey, people are many times multi - faceted, when a song is good, or a band is good, who cares if they are metal or a so called pop band, you like their songs or you don't, anyone who judges you on the music you like should just get the hell over it.
My thought exactly, almost Old Testament prophecy or Apostle John warning to the last generations living on this planet.
I listen to gg allin ,the hookers ,ANTiSEEN....Black Sabbath etc.,but also love this song it makes fucking sense especially now!...Patrick Santos
The lyrics are really just desperate edginess. The tune is fantastic though
Man, what a totally epic song this is. Gotta be one of the best songs of the period. And how prescient are the lyrics ? A song thirty years ahead of its time. Well written, well performed. Brilliant.
When I first heard this song I was a young man of 27,naive and somewhat indifferent to the message. I must admit but after 35 more years of living I hear ya man I hear ya.
I absolutely loved this song and World Party were so Underrated.
Give me more of these guys.
This is Absolute Genius.
Karl was a very talented songwriter and musician, very underrated sadly but a genius. Nearly 30 years later and this continues to endure as a classic.
Agreed
Who's that?
Still holds up.
A fine anthem for our world today, perhaps even more so than it was in '87.
It was big in Australia in 1987.
Too right mate.
Revelation 18:1-23
RIP. This track still resonates.
RIP and thanks for the great tunes!!
Ive heard this song a million times, ive been aware forever....and the talent this man brought, the meaning, the class of music, is amazing to me. I hope people keep listening to karls messages forever. R.i.p superstar. Rock em up there. ❤
I work at a little mom and pop diner and this song plays on the radio all the time there and it’s sooo good that I can’t help but hum along with it whenever it comes on, really gets your feet a’tapping