lexica wrote: 
Hard to believe there's something NOT on the internet, but I couldn't find the lyrics either.

This whole album is exceptional. Great music for driving across the western US desert.

Vini Reilly's guitar and lyrics are mesmerising, a right golden nugget of a track - nice find RP. Reminds me a bit of some of Roy Harper's hypnotic guitar work I heard him play live in the 80s.

Here is some very interesting stuff—

In late 2002 / 2003, Vini's mother died after an illness. The new album 'Someone Else's Party' featured sombre artwork and marked a near personal and critical high in terms of the music. Speaking on BBC Radio 6Music, Vini, in typically self-deprecating fashion, told Gideon Coe that the album was one of the first that he has been happy with. This was no faint praise because the album was a tour de force. 'Requiem for my Mother', written the night after her funeral, is the centrepiece and has become a highlight of the live set where it is also known as 'Mother' or 'My Mum'.

 

Everybody in my hotel room loves this song...

 

Very nice!  Can't believe I've never head it before.  Move this into heavier rotation Bill.

I love that Durutti guitar. So distinctive.

The lyrics don't seem to be available anywhere online (or maybe my Googlefu is failing badly). Anybody got them?

 warderblu wrote: 

Got all echo-ey in here all the sudden

 Limpopoking wrote: 
me too!

me likey

 westslope wrote: 
The sounds he knocks out are like those of Gerry Leonard, who can be heard on one or two Jonatha Brooke CDs, among many, many other places. He also has a solo CD out.

Check out his rig at spookyghost.com.

The Best of.... never heard of them... or is the cover a joke.

 Darlington wrote: 
You can buy it from Amazon or from http://www.townsend-records.co.uk/artist.php?artist=Durutti+Column
The Best Of is a good CD (not the tracks I would have picked for a Best Of, but that's the nature of the beast I suppose) and the CD it originally comes from Someone Else's Party is excellent - especially the track "Goodbye" which, for me, is even more effecting than "Requiem".

Strong song about something that has or will happen to us all

 bindi wrote: 

Its good but it can be hard to find as I don't think its in print any longer....

Speaking from a point of ignorance on many levels here, but this guy's voice and vibe remind me of Syd Barrett. Which is a good thing.

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And props to ryuujin23 — Psychic TV kicks ass

Nice guitar.   Beautiful ode.  Another unpreviously unknown performer.

 rickhoran wrote: 

     Thanks for playing a fave this morning!

Okay, my comment about the guy on the cover will not be as funny as some of the others below, but:
Eeeeeeew!

For a second there, I thought I was listening to a Psychic TV song I never heard of. Turned out to be a Durutti Column song I never heard before.

Looks like I'm going to have to blow a paycheck at Amazon to catch up on all the music I have been exposed to here on RP.

are iggy pop and vini reilly brothers?

Wow! Great stuff from a guy/band that I have never heard of before (thanks for the intro, Bill)

Does anyone know how the rest of the CD is? I want to hear this again - now!

Absolutely lovely, haunting. Thanks for playing, please play again soon.

i used to listen to RP everyday,had it on while tooling around on blah blah and sandwiches

one day, this, this song came on, the swirly sound hitting the back of my mind, then, the lyrics amidst all that hurting music, his voice so monochromatic, oh my and wow.

IT HIT me. i heard it, i knew his loss, my own mother not long gone, my friend, my pal, my mother, the one who always bleeved in me, loved me, unconditionally, no matter what be, and i , i cared for her, did what i could do, my father had already died, some how, as a stranger in this strange land, she made new fronds, built a new life, but i, 2000 miles away, with children by then, her love for them me us, the tug was too strong, she stooped, she moved to an even greater stange plonet, she joined us, immersed with the gilrs, and then, once again, that wicked word, C, she was leaving and then she left. oh f, oh yow, oh why oh how, mother il love you, i hear this song and i know, he knows.

a few years later, a frond writes to me ongoingly, 1st of the news of her mothers cancer, then the stages, i carefully dished out my love and expericnced acknowledgement for each part of her own experiecne. then when the inevitable became real, i waited some time and then sent her this song.

others i have known, who know, i often wish to send them this song, but hold back with caution, for it really does ripp the heart and the soul wide wide wide open, i cry and i cry and i cry and i will forever miss my frond, my m other and i thank him for the courage and vision to tuirn his pain into this agonizing gift to the rest of the rest of us alllll.

eventually we do all (unless we leave 1st) this loss, this great great loss.

write me: wayne@wayneleal.com

thank you

Bless you.Laurelia wrote:

fretman wrote:

really. I'm switching to one of the excellent CDs I bought because I heard it on RP.

I bought this one the first time I heard it here on RP..Such profound lyrics and beautiful strings.