Virgin Prunes - Decline & Fall (Official Audio)
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2022
- Virgin Prunes - Decline & Fall (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:
See the children play by
Running try
To touch the sky
When one falls you hear a cry
You're dead, you're dead, you must die
Take a dream and fly away, take a dream and fly away she will call
They will wait for you not I, they will wait for you not I
See me crawl
And sometimes I feel so old
I never smile nor do cry
Shadows flicker from above
Seeker save your soul she said
She will fly, she will fly
He will wait far away
A golden key to open the door
Behind which the answer lies
You sinned in dreams
Now awake in deeper, deeper dreams
Take a dream and fly away, take a dream and fly away she will call
They won't wait for you not I, they will wait for you not I
See me crawl
She will fly, she will fly
Far away, far away
Decline and fallâ?
Never returnâ?
Dieâ?
Dieâ?
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This song has been in my life for almost 40 years, like the album. I bought it when it came out and I've been listening to it every week since, and every time it gets me higher than any dope. The Prunes are one of the most important part of the soundtrack of my life... I love you as if you were my brothers !!!🖤🖤🖤
Oh. Cool. Another me out there! Have heresie, art fuck and 1/2 of of original pressings of the 10" and the 12"
Funny. When Gavin recommends "take another toke to get your head together. Always drinking all night long... if you can
I was doing exactly that. It was like a bonding experience
If i die was my first take. It id ls fully capable of inducing astral projection and remote viewing
Maybe it was the late 70s acid before Owsley perfection finally ran out
One of the greatest records ever!
Eine der coolsten Bands der 80er. Sweet Home Under White clouds
Absolute classic, hard to believe it is almost 40 years old.
Still instant goosebumps.
This song is so beautiful. Blew my mind
Never gets old!
mon époque avec ma gang the Punk de Montreal Canada jai fais achat de l'album avec recuiel en Francais a la FNAC aParis
They have always seen in the future. They sang what's happening today...
This song is haunting, ephemeral, and absolutely gorgeous.