"... currently residing in the 'where are they now' category."

 No_Where_Man wrote: 
Agreed. This is from one of the lost albums of the late 80s. There are better tracks on this and the band ha a really organic Irish rock sound bridging the gap between Thin Lizzy and The Script.

Bill, please play more of Hothouse Flowers, you only have one song? Please HHF are so much deeper than one song,
Thank you

 DaveInVA wrote: 
Byrne does Springsteen.

Sounds like David Byrne with a bad cold..

Love this song so....

 lily34 wrote: 
Definite Bruceness.

sounds like elvis doing springsteen (the voice) or vice verse.

 andrewimft wrote: 

I was at that Denver show and completely agree with your assessment!  But even U2 has flop nights as a friend of mine who worked lights for two of their tours can attest to. 

To my mind though...Hothouse Flowers never were able to capture the excitement of their good live shows on album.  The production was too slick or something. Disappointing.

10+ for the fantastic song, and 100+ for that lovely reddish hair flying all over the place while he banged on the piano!

Saw these guys live at a free outdoor summer concert in downtown Denver after they came out with this record. They were absolutely awesome, spiritual, sensual, dance-a-riffic. Then a couple weeks later I saw them again as they were the opening band for a Midnight Oil concert I had tickets for. At that gig, they were terrible— flat, uninspired, sluggish, sloppy, dreary. I went from thinking they were an awesome folk version of U2 to a total dud. This album was good, but still can't compare to the memory of the good concert they did.

I read that one of the guys in this band is now in a band with Elvis Costello's ex-wife.

suddenchad wrote:

I thought they sunk into oblivion, but apparently not: (click here)

I give it 7 for the memories of the late eighties when I first came to Dublin, Ireland, which eventually would become my home. Saw the Flowers in Germany around 1990, as support for Stevie Ray Vaughan. After their set, I saw the singer Liam Ó Maonlaí wandering around the Stevie fans in the audience. Was funny, he clearly enjoyed not being recognised even after playing for an hour on stage!

Wikipedia states this album "was the most successful debut album in Irish history". They were promoted heavily by Bono of U2 after he saw them playing in 1986. Well they are still going strong, playing Glastonbury in 2007... must look out for them again!

Shit - i can only give it -5

Liked this album a lot. I think there were one or two more by them and they turned up on a few compilations, but then what happened to them?

boring and his voice bugs me.

Oh thankyou RP... not heard this in so long! :) Hothouse Flowers were the first band I went to see too - takes me back all those years (1988 I think) to Sheffield Leadmill! :)

Wow. Been a while since I've heard this one. Love little surprises from the vaults like this. Brings me back to a festival way back when, and these guys were playing with a shwack of other good acts. It rained the whole show, but we had a blast.

greg6494 wrote:

I used to think that was a naner dood on a pedestal, and the lemon dood was applauding reverently.


On an unrelated note, this song always seemed to me to be in the "songs with all chorus and no verses" category. Maybe it's just me?

Tayto wrote:
I got to see them a year or two ago at Bumbershoot. It was quite a good show, and yes, Liam had cut his hair.

jablan wrote:

A banana playing the piano! Yeah!!

jablan wrote:

Anyone remember how the Hothouse Flowers completely stole the show in the Eurovision song contest when they played this song in the intermission way back in 1988?

This piano rocks! They should add emoticon for it.

How nice to hear this! I was cooking in the kitchen and heard the opening and thought, No, it can't be, that would be too perfect, to hear these guys on RP!
Keep it varied, keep it rocking, Bill -- thanks!

another classic lost ditty--these guys never got enough play in the states, to my way of thinking. thanks rp. 9.

Oh! And right after Buffalo Tom! Two of my favorite "college rock" songs!
Well done!
7

So nice to hear this - thanks...

nice cover art at the website, and i like the keyboards. but i'm also listening on windows media player so it might be possible it's just derivative sloch of some sort. But I don't think so. But what makes something ne w under the sun? sounds like sounds like. Serendipity anyone?