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KATE BUSH - DELIUS (SONG OF SUMMER)

This week in 1980 saw the release of the album NEVER FOR EVER by KATE BUSH (Sep 1980)

The video here is DELIUS (SONG OF SUMMER), album track and B-side of the single 'Army Dreamer'.

The clip was shown on TV at least twice: during a Dr. Hook television special on 7 April 1980 and during the Russell Harty Show on 25 November 1980.

The setting is a quiet, lazy English riverbank filled with reeds and grass. By the bank is a wheelchair-ridden old man, his body covered by a throw-rug, his head obscured by a large yellow disk resembling a sun.

This figure presents an image of Delius much like the one which was depicted in the BBC television film by Ken Russell. Gliding along on the river is a young swan-girl, represented by Kate in a gossamer white gown with wings.

The clip has appeared on Youtube in poor quality for many years but now thanks to the Alfie Noakes Channel it is now available in far higher quality.

Thanks Alfie!

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSjD4BXBRunyhY4STXR2vPQ

The song was inspired by Ken Russell's film Song of Summer, made for the BBC's programme Omnibus, which Kate had watched when she was ten years old.
In his twenties, Delius contracted syphilis. When he became wheelchair bound as he became older, a young English admirer Eric Fenby volunteered his services as unpaid amanuensis.

Between 1928 and 1933 he took down his compositions from dictation, and helping him revise earlier works.
The song was released on the album Never For Ever and as the B-side of the single Army Dreamers.

"Built around the conga-esque rhythm track of a Roland drum machine and animated by Paddy Bush’s shimmering sitar, “Delius” is a spectral track with snatches of a lyric, which largely consists of Kate Bush and backing vocalists Paddy Bush and Ian Bairnson singing Delius’ name," wrote CHRISTINE ARTEMISIA KELLEY for the KateBushSongs blog.

"With its strident off-ness, embellished by such quirks as the outrageous rhyming of “syphilis” with “genius” and the peaceful harmony of a drum machine and sitar, “Delius” is an anomaly of Bush’s early career that sets a precedent for works like “Watching You Without Me” (to which its rhythm track bears similitude) or the entirety of A Sky of Honey.""

FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM - MOONCHILD (FIRST SEAL), (1988).

FIELDS OF THE NEPHILIM’s take on gothic rock courted those already absorbed by the sounds of The Mission and Sisters Of Mercy. Imbued with a rich seam of ‘Old Testament fundamentalism’, frontman Carl McCoy trawled books of the Old Testament to discover the Nephilim, the "giants of the earth."

“There are elements of scriptural exegesis that don't get screamed at you by garden-variety televangelists or even white picket fence Methodists,” wrote Spin magazine in 1988.

“Neph lyrics prove the Bible a dangerous and radical gnostic text, much weirder than anything Poe or Burroughs or Kafka ever scribbled.”

With Situation Two Records, the band scored six indie charters in the late 80s including two indie number ones, ‘Blue Water’ and ‘Moonchild’ (and three #2 placings with ‘Preacher Man’, ‘Burning the Field’ EP and ‘Psychonaut’). ‘Psychonaut’ would also go Top 40 in the UK singles chart and ‘Moonchild’ Top 30.

Their first album, Dawnrazor peaked at #62 in May 1987 and follow-up, 1988’s ‘The Nephilim’ went Top 20.
In October 1991, McCoy left the group, taking the 'Fields Of The Nephilim' name with him. The remaining members vowed to carry on. With the recruitment of a new vocalist, Andy Delaney, they began gigging under the name Rubicon in the summer of 1992, leaving McCoy to unveil his version of the Nephilim (renamed Nefilim).

“In the mid 1990s that which was Fields of the Nephilim underwent necessary transformations,” reads the band’s Facebook page. “With changes in the band's line-up - leaving Carl McCoy as its sole full time member - and a shortening of its name to, simply. 'The Nefilim', it now created an aural assault on the senses with the release in 1996 of its morphogenic offering entitled 'Zoon', a deep, dark industrial album tainted by the death metal genre of music. It was a statement of great intent, a transition, that enabled Carl to conquer oblivion, and pass beyond that world into the one that faces the band today.”

“The Nephilim continue to create their uncompromising form of visual and aural art. Prepare yourself to continue what has become a way of life to countless followers of the fallen faith with the scheduled release of new material, as well as announcements regarding a more adventurous audio-visual project.”

“With the advent of the official Nephilim website all those who aspire towards the magical potency of the band's uncompromising music can now feast on the knowledge and joy with which it comes. For it serves to spread the mission not only of its creative world in music, art and animation, but also that of its sources, inspirations and connections. For the Nephilim now look forward to a long reign that might take moments to experience but lifetimes to fulfill.”

DEPECHE MODE – NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN (Sep 1987)

'Never Let Me Down Again' was, in many ways, the most typical Depeche Mode song on Depeche Mode's sixth studio album ‘Music For The Masses’ with its instant melodic flow, lyrical simplicity and ambiguity.

Anton Corbijn's recruitment as the band's video director and official photographer delivered a stark black and white treatment of the song.

Despite video director Anton Corbijn's input, 'Never Let Me Down Again' only managed to reach #22 in the singles chart a fate which was reserved, too, for the new year's 'Behind The Wheel' single (#21).

Music For The Masses itself had struggled to reach the U.K. Top 10, despite a slew of collectible variations: a cassette release which paired the new album with Black Celebration, and a vinyl version which arrived with a free 12-inch of 'Strangelove' remixes.

The video here is live favourite NEVER LET ME DOWN AGAIN, a track labeled by NME music journalist Jane Solanas as a "masterpiece" that well conveys the feeling of "drug euphoria".

kic wrote:

Sjećam se svoje opčinjenosti zvukom rava kad sam šetajući europskim trgom u zg čula zvuk, ma predivno..

umro je omar little i kriminalci sa ulica baltimorea su napokon sigurni.

ebenica wrote:umro je omar little i kriminalci sa ulica baltimorea su napokon sigurni.

'Zicu' nisam nikada dosad pogledala, ali Lovecraft Country mi je na listi.

Tek 54 godine. :(

violator wrote:

'Zicu' nisam nikada dosad pogledala, ali Lovecraft Country mi je na listi.

Tek 54 godine. :(

pogledaj :) žica je najbolja serija ikad snimljena a omar najbolji lik svih vremena :D

Ebenica, izlizan lik..

mativka wrote:Ebenica, izlizan lik..

Dosadna si.

When the night has come
And the land is dark

And the moon is the only
light we'll see

No, I won't be afraid
Oh, I won't be afraid

Just as long as you
stand, stand by me

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If the sky that we look upon
Should tumble and fall

Or the mountains should
crumble to the sea

I won't cry, I won't cry
No, I won't shed a tear

Just as long as you
stand, stand by me

Venus wrote:

Rasplakala si me ovom...



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violator wrote:

Venus wrote:

Rasplakala si me ovom...

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I mene isto, svaki put me rasplače. Te se nadam da će jednom kod nekog novog slušanja u budućnosti kapnuti suza radosnica u znak zahvale za svu ljubav, podršku i zajedničke neprocjenjive trenutke.