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| BBoyes (Salt Lake City Utah) | Posted: Feb 23, 2013 - 15:54 This whole album is exceptional. Great music for driving across the western US desert. |
| drews (London, Blighty) | Posted: Nov 21, 2012 - 14:57 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. |
| 3Dave (Fort Wayne, IN) | Posted: Sep 19, 2012 - 18:04 By complete and total coincidence because I didn't know what either movie was actually about, I happened to watch “Control” and “24 Hour People" in the same week, it was quite the bookends of Manchester music quinky dink. I loved the last scene in "24 Hour People" where “God”(Steve Coogan) talking to Tony Wilson(Steve Coogan): |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Aug 07, 2012 - 20:34 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'. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: May 16, 2012 - 11:00 Everybody in my hotel room loves this song... |
| aspicer (Chicago, IL) | Posted: Jan 10, 2012 - 12:33 Very nice! Can't believe I've never head it before. Move this into heavier rotation Bill. |
| (former member) (hotel in Las Vegas) | Posted: Dec 09, 2011 - 17:06 I don't know why I didn't rate this before... this is awesome... |
| lexica (Oakland, CA) | Posted: Jan 28, 2011 - 18:17 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 | Posted: Aug 23, 2010 - 09:20 warderblu wrote: Vini Reilly is really talented. Thanks for playing. He wrote most of the music for Morrissey's first solo album "Viva Hate" which is brilliant.  |
| CamLwalk (Albany NY) | Posted: Mar 17, 2010 - 09:30 Got all echo-ey in here all the sudden |
| lattalo (Beartooths) | Posted: Jan 13, 2010 - 08:38 Limpopoking wrote: me likey me too! |
| Limpopoking (The Parish of St. Alfonzo) | Posted: Oct 11, 2009 - 01:34 me likey |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 12:57 westslope wrote: Nice guitar. Beautiful ode. Another unpreviously unknown performer. 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. |
| martinc (Ottawa Canada) | Posted: Sep 09, 2009 - 12:54 The Best of.... never heard of them... or is the cover a joke. |
| raelic | Posted: Apr 28, 2009 - 11:34 Darlington wrote: Its good but it can be hard to find as I don't think its in print any longer.... 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". |
| stkman (Texas) | Posted: Feb 16, 2009 - 06:49 Strong song about something that has or will happen to us all |
| Darlington (Columbia, South Carolina) | Posted: Feb 16, 2009 - 06:45 bindi wrote: 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! Its good but it can be hard to find as I don't think its in print any longer.... |
| vit | Posted: Jan 15, 2009 - 13:41 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. edit And props to ryuujin23 — Psychic TV kicks ass |
| westslope (BC coast) | Posted: Dec 14, 2008 - 23:18 Nice guitar. Beautiful ode. Another unpreviously unknown performer. |
| jagdriver (Tunin' in from the aptly-named Grass Valley, CA) | Posted: Nov 13, 2008 - 10:17 rickhoran wrote: are iggy pop and vini reilly brothers?   Thanks for playing a fave this morning! |
| musikalia (Somewhere (over the rainbow)) | Posted: Aug 10, 2008 - 13:31 Okay, my comment about the guy on the cover will not be as funny as some of the others below, but: Eeeeeeew! |
| ryuujin23 (North of the purple sage) | Posted: Jul 25, 2008 - 12:56 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. |
| rickhoran (Eastern PA) | Posted: Jul 25, 2008 - 12:54 are iggy pop and vini reilly brothers? |
| bindi (North Carolina) | Posted: Jun 08, 2008 - 10:18 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! |
| PurplePrincess (the mountains) | Posted: Mar 05, 2008 - 23:36 Absolutely lovely, haunting. Thanks for playing, please play again soon. |
| harold | Posted: Jan 31, 2008 - 01:10 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 |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Oct 16, 2007 - 10:41 Bless you.Laurelia wrote: Thanks for playing this, on my late mother's birthday, even if it did make me cry. Beautiful song. |
| aaehr (NYC) | Posted: Oct 16, 2007 - 10:36 fretman wrote: Not that all music has to be happy or upbeat, but this stuff is music to inhale exhaust fumes by, or just maybe leave the oven gas on to.
Yeah, its trying for that world-beat thing with the choro guitar style run through a chorus and 6/8 time signature, which are becoming hackneyed cliches of Narada or Windham Hill newage/world music, but it does not convey genuineness or sincerity. Thus, it will be relegated to my musical circular file. Nice try, Mr. Column. really. I'm switching to one of the excellent CDs I bought because I heard it on RP. |
| 1wolfy (Mission Viejo California) | Posted: Oct 16, 2007 - 10:34 I bought this one the first time I heard it here on RP..Such profound lyrics and beautiful strings. |
| out_to_lunch (Philly by way of CT) | Posted: Aug 14, 2007 - 14:27 horstman wrote: I don't know there Tex, I'd rather be a scrawny ass little fuck than the multitude of fat bastards crawlin all over the US in their SUVs eating up everything in sight (gas, food, real estate, air).  YES!!!     |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Jul 30, 2007 - 00:56 foothillfreak wrote: Wow, it's amazing songs like this that make me click the "support rp" button... Wow, I bet Bill loves to hear that Love this song too! |
| foothillfreak (Salt Lake City) | Posted: Jun 12, 2007 - 16:50 Wow, it's amazing songs like this that make me click the "support rp" button... |
| nigelr (Coffs Harbour, Australia) | Posted: May 28, 2007 - 03:33 Haunting, distictive, great guitar, can't help but love it. |
| Pazzat (Winchester, England) | Posted: Mar 26, 2007 - 04:26 brokemusician wrote: This is what Celine Dion will look like when she is seventy. . . naked.
 ...or how Iggy Pop might look if he went on a diet. |
| Darkmatter (Sweden) | Posted: Mar 26, 2007 - 04:00 horstman wrote: I don't know there Tex, I'd rather be a scrawny ass little fuck than the multitude of fat bastards crawlin all over the US in their SUVs eating up everything in sight (gas, food, real estate, air). |
| fretman | Posted: Mar 10, 2007 - 13:08 Not that all music has to be happy or upbeat, but this stuff is music to inhale exhaust fumes by, or just maybe leave the oven gas on to. Yeah, its trying for that world-beat thing with the choro guitar style run through a chorus and 6/8 time signature, which are becoming hackneyed cliches of Narada or Windham Hill newage/world music, but it does not convey genuineness or sincerity. Thus, it will be relegated to my musical circular file. Nice try, Mr. Column. |
| Cruithne3753 (Bristol, UK) | Posted: Feb 07, 2007 - 11:01 You say "Doo-rooty", I say "Duh-rutty", let's call the whole thing off...  |
| bokey (Filialville) | Posted: Feb 07, 2007 - 10:34 This is a really depressing set.I'm going to go romp in the snow for awhile. |
| kilroyjoe3 (Charlottesville VA is for lovers) | Posted: Sep 14, 2006 - 08:39 Somebody slit my wrists now!  |
| horstman | Posted: Aug 30, 2006 - 17:38 SigmaBetaTooth wrote: Rating quickly moved to an acceptable to a sucko barfo after seeing Mr. Scrawny Arse on the cover :puke:
I don't know there Tex, I'd rather be a scrawny ass little fuck than the multitude of fat bastards crawlin all over the US in their SUVs eating up everything in sight (gas, food, real estate, air). |
| Krispian (Vancouver, BC) | Posted: Aug 30, 2006 - 17:34 Beautiful guitar... |
| ahoylola (35° 37' N - 120° 85' W) | Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 11:36 brokemusician wrote: This is what Celine Dion will look like when she is seventy. . . naked.
i lost my mother in october and this song is so beautiful and reflective. i was blinking back tears - when i read this comment - and laughed so hard i blew tea through my nose. mom would have wanted it that way. thanks brokemusician. |
| Zweiblumen (Boston, MA [2,606 miles ENE of Paradise, CA]) | Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 11:34 SigmaBetaTooth wrote: Rating quickly moved to an acceptable to a sucko barfo after seeing Mr. Scrawny Arse on the cover :puke:
This is one of the least intelligent comments I've seen on RP. I'm happy to disagree with musical tastes, but what does this have to do with the song? We're not rating the cover art here... |
| Shesdifferent (Just visiting this planet) | Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 11:34 Haunting...both the song and the cover! |
| rapunzel210 (Florida Panhandle) | Posted: Aug 01, 2006 - 11:33 physicsgenius wrote: Pink Floyd you ain't.
non sequitor AND beside the point |
| fcatalao | Posted: May 17, 2006 - 08:38 physicsgenius wrote: Pink Floyd you ain't.
nobody is. except pink floyd |
| physicsgenius (90% of everything is crap) | Posted: May 17, 2006 - 08:36 Pink Floyd you ain't. |
| fcatalao | Posted: May 17, 2006 - 08:33 it´s been years since i have heard DC. i have one of their lp´s and haven´t played it for years.  |
| reverber | Posted: May 02, 2006 - 19:14 I knew it was DC as soon as I heard the opening notes. I have been a fan of Vini Reilly ever since I found a cassette of Live in New York in a cutout bin at the record store where I worked. Amazing guitarist. The new album (Keep Breathing) is quite good, too. Cody |
| Mari (Broome, WA) | Posted: May 02, 2006 - 19:11 mizgeee wrote: I love this song..but...let's hear some more from these guys! so far this is the only song I've heard on RP by them ... This is in fact the only song in RP's library ... Pity, I love them too? ...  ... |
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