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There's smell of fresh cut grass
and it's filling up my senses
And the sun is shining down on the blossoms in the avenue.
There's a buzzing fly hanging
around the bluebells and the daisies
And tAere's a lot more loving left in this world.
Don't go
don't leave me now
now
now
While the sun smiles
stick around and laugh a while
yeah.
And I lie on warm and soft sancly beaches
And my toes are submerged in the water
and it feels good.
Children playing building castles on the shoreline
Like a painted little love and lord
it feels so fine.
Don't go
don't leave me now
now
now
. ..
There's white horses and they're coming at me
and they face now
And there's a blue sirocco blowing worm into my foce.
The sun is shining on the other side of the bridges
The cars going by with smiles in the windows.
There's a black cat Iying in the shadow of the gate-post
And the black cat keeps telling me that love is on it's way.
Yeah
there's a black cat Iying in the shadow of the gate-post
And the black cat tells me thot loveis on it's way.
Don't go
don'f ieave me now
now
now
. . .
Stick around and laugh a while. - Don't go! -
Don't go
don't leave me now
now
now
. . .
Don't go
don't leave me now
now
now
. . .
Don't go
I can hear you coming now
now
now
Ah
no no no
don't go!
| daveesh (birthplace of the american revolution) | Posted: Apr 05, 2011 - 20:38 "... currently residing in the 'where are they now' category." |
| GuiltyFeat (Ra'anana) | Posted: Feb 02, 2011 - 04:02 No_Where_Man wrote: Bill, please play more of Hothouse Flowers, you only have one song? Please HHF are so much deeper than one song, Thank you 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. |
| No_Where_Man (Southern Ca.) | Posted: Feb 02, 2011 - 01:41 Bill, please play more of Hothouse Flowers, you only have one song? Please HHF are so much deeper than one song, Thank you |
| BlueHeronDruid | Posted: Jan 01, 2011 - 18:11 DaveInVA wrote: Sounds like David Byrne with a bad cold..  Byrne does Springsteen. |
| DaveInVA (In a hovel in effluent Damnville, VA) | Posted: Apr 22, 2010 - 09:13 Sounds like David Byrne with a bad cold.. |
| Jazbo (Beautiful Valparaiso IN.) | Posted: Mar 21, 2010 - 19:17 Love this song so.... |
| lmic (Harmless Little Bunny) | Posted: Jan 17, 2010 - 19:03 lily34 wrote: sounds like elvis doing springsteen (the voice) or vice verse. Definite Bruceness. |
| lily34 (lexvegas) | Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 12:24 sounds like elvis doing springsteen (the voice) or vice verse. |
| aajarrett (Athens, GA) | Posted: Oct 15, 2009 - 12:24 Oh my! I can't remember the last time I heard this song. I do have a wonderful memory of my sister coming back from a long trip to Ireland with their tape. They came to the Moore Theater in Seattle and we went to see them. I remember being so disappointed when the opening act came on stage, two chicks with acoustic guitars, because I wanted Hothouse Flowers to get on stage. Ended up liking the opening act, The Indigo Girls. |
| iscoot4peace | Posted: Aug 13, 2009 - 12:15 andrewimft wrote: 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. 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. |
| Bridieboo (Halifax, NS) | Posted: Feb 04, 2009 - 14:40 10+ for the fantastic song, and 100+ for that lovely reddish hair flying all over the place while he banged on the piano! |
| Kittee (NC) | Posted: Oct 01, 2008 - 07:27  |
| andrewimft (North Californie) | Posted: Jul 30, 2008 - 02:20 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. |
| pyxxel (Dublin, Ireland) | Posted: Jan 23, 2008 - 05:25 suddenchad wrote: 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?
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! |
| geordiezimmerman (Brighton U.K) | Posted: Sep 19, 2007 - 13:16 Shit - i can only give it -5 |
| suddenchad | Posted: Jul 18, 2007 - 15:35 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? |
| StickerSticker | Posted: Mar 21, 2007 - 06:08 boring and his voice bugs me. |
| nigenet (Yu-nited Kingdom) | Posted: Mar 21, 2007 - 06:06 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! :) |
| elvenwise (My own little world) | Posted: Mar 05, 2007 - 13:20 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. |
| MojoJojo (Indianapolis, IN USA) | Posted: Mar 05, 2007 - 13:20 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?  |
| soja (Seattle, WA) | Posted: Dec 06, 2006 - 13:26 Tayto wrote: I hope Liam has cut his hair!!!
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. |
| cayenne (in over my head) | Posted: Dec 06, 2006 - 13:26 jablan wrote: This piano rocks! They should add emoticon for it.
A banana playing the piano! Yeah!! |
| greg6494 (St. Louis) | Posted: Dec 06, 2006 - 13:26
jablan wrote: This piano rocks! They should add emoticon for it. |
| Darkmatter (Sweden) | Posted: Oct 09, 2006 - 01:54 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?  |
| jablan (Belgrade, Serbia) | Posted: Oct 09, 2006 - 01:50 This piano rocks! They should add emoticon for it. |
| coloradojohn (Setagaya-ku, Tokyo, Japan -- 15 min. west of Shinjuku, center of the freaking Universe) | Posted: Aug 26, 2006 - 03:40 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! |
| supergroverx (Los Angeles) | Posted: Aug 26, 2006 - 03:38 another classic lost ditty--these guys never got enough play in the states, to my way of thinking. thanks rp. 9. |
| SlamAdams (All American Skate Center) | Posted: Aug 11, 2006 - 13:19 Oh! And right after Buffalo Tom! Two of my favorite "college rock" songs! Well done! 7 |
| McB (British Columbia) | Posted: Aug 11, 2006 - 13:18 So nice to hear this - thanks... |
| - | Posted: Jul 27, 2006 - 21:09 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? |
| Tayto (London) | Posted: Jul 13, 2006 - 05:14 Just when you thought there were hardly any Irish artists online..............."don't leave me now, now, now...." I hope Liam has cut his hair!!! |
| dapower (Ireland-thar be no snakes here.) | Posted: May 30, 2006 - 08:05 great tune, defines a whole summer for me! Lovely rich instruments, great voice. |
| scozzie | Posted: May 01, 2006 - 06:18 Hear what you are saying but friends of ours saw them in Perth and were so disappointed because they spent so much of their stage time with obscure Gaelic lyrics instead of concentrating on the music which made them famous - and at $60 a ticket that was out of order |
| Mari (Broome, WA) | Posted: May 01, 2006 - 05:08 ... Might be no big deal if Hothouse Flowers came to your town when you have a choice of which band to go and see, but here in Broome, 2200 road Km's North of the capital Perth it is and was at the weekend when they appeared at the open air Oasis Bar at the Roebuck Bay Hotel and drew half the town, the other half were away on the last of the school hols. Big night for our wee town and they performed really well and our very own Pigram Brothers who have produced 3 CD's of quality local music of their own supported and later jammed with the Hothouse Flowers. So there, it does happen occasionally that someone who is played on RP actually is seen in the flesh here and heard and enjoyed. ...  ... |
| Vancouver | Posted: Feb 16, 2006 - 20:38 Ahh... that wasn't too bad. A little flashback... I didn't have to take my headphones off. |
| mongoose | Posted: Feb 16, 2006 - 20:31 God that was horrible. I had to get up from a nice cozy bed just to say how horrible that was. Please, please, please, don't play it again. I promise I'll contribute more, please don't torture us again. |
| RockinBlueVoodoo (Deep in the Blues) | Posted: Jan 18, 2006 - 12:41 This feels very much like Rusted Root!
That's the problem. Actually, Rusted Root feels like this. This album came out in 1988. Rusted Root didn't arrive until a few years later. No doubt after they heard the first couple of Hothouse Flowers albums and decided to come up with an 'original' sound |
| DBCinCA (California) | Posted: Jan 03, 2006 - 23:58 I wouldn't mind hearing this more often - great band back in the day. The Rusted Root comparisons hold up for this song and some others, but I also think Hothouse Flowers sounds a bit like The Waterboys, in terms of their tone, lyrics, and emotional intensity. Their lyrics go places you just can't get to with Rusted Root, although I'm a big fan of theirs too. |
| dtb | Posted: Dec 20, 2005 - 12:05 Great choice. Liam has a great voice! |
| dolfan (Kingsland, Ga./Hilliard, FL) | Posted: Dec 06, 2005 - 02:38 It's been so long since I heard this...I didn't realize how I had missed it until I was reminded of it. Nice choice. |
| Wisecrowe (State College, PA) | Posted: Nov 21, 2005 - 06:52 Delightful! |
| redeyespy (Sunny, FL) | Posted: Nov 06, 2005 - 15:26 ObsidianInfinity wrote: This feels very much like Rusted Root!
That's the problem. |
| flandersdog (the sunny Pac NW) | Posted: Sep 23, 2005 - 15:04 saw the HHF at Bumbershoot earlier this month. Liam O'Maonlai is like a crazed aerobics instructor onstage. |
| ChardRemains (Pepperland) | Posted: Sep 23, 2005 - 15:04 ObsidianInfinity wrote: This feels very much like Rusted Root! and smells like rotten springsteen boots. feh! |
| zjank (Netherlands) | Posted: Aug 25, 2005 - 01:48 JohnErle wrote: I hadn't heard this in years, but I still remember how disappointed I was when I bought the album and discovered that the album version of the song was different than the version in the video.
That's funny, I felt the very same disappointment when I listened to the album for the first time. The version of Don't Go that came out as a single was much better, much more energetic. |
| MrKite (An Isiltir) | Posted: Jul 11, 2005 - 13:39 wow so nice to hear |
| bbgun | Posted: Jul 11, 2005 - 13:06 London, Town & Country Club, 1990... sold out show, scapled a tic for just myself... what a show. They took the whole place to another level...Hearing this brings back the memories. Thanks RP... |
| ObsidianInfinity (upstate New York) | Posted: Jul 11, 2005 - 13:05 This feels very much like Rusted Root! |
| jobtl (Galt's Gulch) | Posted: Jul 11, 2005 - 13:05 
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| Theodoransky (Mexico) | Posted: Jul 11, 2005 - 13:04 now its an ecletic POP station. well 8O |