Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue (Official Audio)

Virgin Prunes - Baby Turns Blue (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:
Mary be so proud, things like that aren't allowed,
To take your own life, stab it with a knife.
They put you in a box, they send you to heaven, heaven.
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
Give me money, give me sex,
Give me food and cigarette.
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
What should we do if baby turns blue?
You broke my heart, it came in two.
The faculties of a broken heart.
I go out on Monday, looking for a Tuesday.
Nothing ever makes such sense.
You don't seem to make much sense.
Shooting out in someone's dream.
Shooting out in something else.
It was an accident, I didn't mean it.
It was an accident, I didn't mean it.
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
What should we do if baby turns blue?
John had a bomb and he lit his head,
Went to bed for seventeen weeks,
Took too many drugs, now he don't eat.
They put you in a box and send you up to heaven, heaven.
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
Give me money, give me sex,
Give me food and cigarette.
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
Oh what to do, not to feel and who are you?
What should we do if baby turns blue?
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[@bornflippy1]

1982 and I am a Freshman in High School in rural Colorado. Bought this record at Wax Trax and my world was completely turned upside down. Thank You Virgin Prunes for helping a lonely kid discover unique music and his own identity in a world of conform or be cast out, I did just the opposite.

[@scottrankin389]

As a struggling kid this band kept me sane through some dark times. Now a happy Father of 4 :)

[@SickTwistedQueen]

Felt! Goth subculture and post-punk music were my saving grace after my family moved to an extremely isolating suburban area. Suddenly I had no friends and couldn't seem to make any, but I made a new friend of a different kind. :)

[@bowieramone4523]

I missed this the first time around but I am enjoying this masterpiece 40 years later !!!

[@VladTepes_esti.un.bizonpu]

I'm 15, i just discovered this song a few days ago, IT'S WONDERFUL

[@damienf.7543]

I'm also 15 discovering this today through a friend

[@TheCyberSalvager]

I only found out about these guys last night while reading The Art of Darkness, a history of goth, by John Robb. I immediately sensed the goth vibe from hearing this.

[@prvt.harumi6821]

Got an ad for this

[@Breadbrowser]

Lucky, I found this from Amazon music

[@nostalgia41]

faz tempo que eu procurava por esta canção

[@russellmckenzie8616]

Think i first heard this in The Bat Cave... Carnaby Str ... happy days...

[@silenceblue82]

When I heard the song for the first time, I knew what an ingenious goth sound is...
forever the best song!!

[@cherylnightshade8518]

I never thought I'd hear it in such great quality... This feels wrong somehow XD

[@filomenatorgal8418]

Creme de la creme 🖤

[@stuartmorley3836]

I won a competition years ago,only 1 prize & I won! All their official albums on cd & ltd edition 12inch EP..
AN EXHIBITION signed by Gavin,Guggi & Dave--id

[@martinquarton184]

They played Nottingham Rock City, great gig Nov 1983.

[@nw8te62]

I was there too. I remember hot wax from that tray guggi had flying everywhere! ...what a gig!

[@nash3527]

I like this song & I like the album cover too

[@vegan4theanimals]

I love this song, the album art is also incredible. Great album as well.

[@carmenapolini6782]

❤

[@laura.m.w.]

Wooah! 🖤

[@slowblu.e9932]

[@Margottaful]

gimme

[@DEVOn.A.Skertic]

The FETISH. Los Angeles 1983-4
Cocaine smelled funny back then.
Xoxo, from this modern evening, fishnets, eyeliner, BLACK , gloom doom , Grave Wave.

[@spitsschouw]

❤